9bananas

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9bananas ,

least that's supposed to deliver explosive surprises!

9bananas ,

maybe read the dark profit saga then!

kinda terry prathett vibe with a more modern style, first one is called "Orconomics"

amazing trilogy, highly recommended!

9bananas ,

because the class system is built into capitalism.

you can't have unchecked capitalism without an exploited underclass.

and you said it has nothing to do with the economic system, which is false, hence the downvotes...

Notes from a year of reading science fiction and fantasy [potentially minor spoilers]

Below are books I've read over the last year, with notes about on what I thought of them. I started this list just to remind me what the books were about and if I thought they were worth reading. As the year went on, my notes became a little more substantial. The list was for me, but I thought I'd share in case it's useful to...

9bananas ,

thank you for posting!

I've been looking for something like this, and judging by the inclusions on this list I've already read, I'm guessing I'll enjoy most of the others as well!

now I'll be busy for the foreseeable future, which is nice :)

9bananas ,

pluto has more than one moon ;)

9bananas ,

Tell me if those companies that experienced more productivity, why did they not continue to implement it?

they did. 80% of them did exactly that!

it works exactly as expected, and the companies that did switch to a 32h-week model did see increased productivity, and 80% chose to keep the 32h-week model.

read the study.

9bananas ,

got curious, googled it, here's something interesting:

https://news.usask.ca/articles/research/2018/u-of-s-study-hones-in-on-causes-of-ms-disability.php

seems genetic. which makes sense.

apparently that region just got unlucky with its gene pool, though, as the news release states: more research is necessary in order to be certain.

being caused by environmental chemicals hasn't been definitively ruled out, but it's not looking likely

(btw, bravo on an actually readable press release by a university!)

9bananas , (edited )

gerrymandering is rendered obsolete by points 1 and 2 on the list...so that's already included in the OP ;)

the reason gerrymandering is a thing, is because of the first-past-the-post/winner-takes-all voting system, which ranked choice replaces.

ranked choice allows propotional representation, which also fixes the 2 party problem!

edit, also fixes your point 2, because under ranked choice there is only a popular vote (also just known as "a vote", because there isn't any other one left)

nvm, got something mixed up...shouldn't comment when half asleep...

9bananas ,

oh, damn, you're right!

i got that mixed up; i thought ranked choice also includes proportional representation, because it frees up your secondary vote to be for whoever you want it to be, without pressure to vote for a canditate that "has a chance of winning", thus alleviating the issue of strategic voting...but that's pretty much the only thing it does.

but the proportional representation is tied to the way mandates/seats are distributed, which isn't tied to the how the vote works.

so if the senate still had the same number of seats per state, it wouldn't fix representation, because the weight of the votes still wouldn't be equal...

yeah, sorry for the confusion...long day...but thanks for the polite correction!

9bananas ,

so you're basically saying it talked itself squarely into uncanny valley?

i honestly didn't consider that would be an issue for LLMs, but in hindsight...yeah, that's gonna be a problem...

9bananas ,

crocodiles actually get much bigger than that...think record is somewhere about 7m and about 1.1 metric tonnes!

9bananas ,

pretty sure ATM9 recommended minimum RAM is 10GB...i have it at 12GB.

but i also run it at about 100fps and view distance set around 16 with shaders...

9bananas ,

actually, that's not what the law says.

the law says that "overcoming" security measures is a crime. nothing was "overcome".

plaintext is simply not a "security measure" and the law was applied wrong.

there may have been some form of infringement in regards to privacy or sensitive data or whatever, but it definitely wasn't "hacking" of any kind.

just like it isn't "hacking" to browse someone's computer files when they leave a device unlocked and accessible to anyone. invasion of privacy? sure. but not hacking.

and the law as written (§202a StGB) definitely states that security measures have to be circumvented in order to be applied.

that's the problem with the case!

not that the guy overstepped his bounds, but that the law was applied blatantly wrong and no due diligence was used in determining the outcome of the case.

9bananas ,

actually, the law leaves remarkably little room for interpretation in this case.

here's the law in full, emphasis mine:

Strafgesetzbuch (StGB)
§ 202a Ausspähen von Daten
(1) Wer unbefugt sich oder einem anderen Zugang zu Daten, die nicht für ihn bestimmt und die gegen unberechtigten Zugang besonders gesichert sind, unter Überwindung der Zugangssicherung verschafft, wird mit Freiheitsstrafe bis zu drei Jahren oder mit Geldstrafe bestraft.
(2) Daten im Sinne des Absatzes 1 sind nur solche, die elektronisch, magnetisch oder sonst nicht unmittelbar wahrnehmbar gespeichert sind oder übermittelt werden.

the text is crystal clear, that security measures need to be "overcome" in order for a crime to have been committed.

it is also obvious that cleartext passwords are NOT a "security measure" in any sense of the word, but especially in this case, where the law specifically says that the data in question has to have been "specially secured". this was not the case, as evident by the fact that the defendant had easy access to the data in question.

this is blatant misuse of the law.

the data law makes no attempt to take into account the intent of the person, quite differently from when it comes to physical theft, which is immediately and obviously ridiculous.

you mentioned snooping around in a strangers car, and that's a good comparison!

you know what you definitely couldn't be charged with in the example you gave? breaking and entering!

because breaking and entering requires (in germany at least) that you gained access through illegal means (i.e.: literally broke in, as opposed to finding the key already in the lock).

but that's essentially what is happening in this case, and that is what's wrong with this case!

most people agree he shouldn't have tried to enter the PW.

what has large parts of the professional IT world up in arms is the way the law was applied, not that there was a violation of the law. (though most in IT, like i am, think this sort of "hacking" shouldn't be punishable, if it is solely for the purpose of finding and reporting vulnerabilities, which makes a lot of sense)

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