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date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045676-you-still-have-a-couple
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-19, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
We’ve found Lauren Kapp, the 25-year-old creative genius behind kamalahq. We need to get her back on the air, with her team, fully funded and supported. We need leadership on the social web. Thanks to Brian Puckett for the link.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/19.html#a200256
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/purple-isnt-real
date: 2024-11-19, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-18-2024-cc9
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Daring Fireball
https://airport.revolvertype.com/
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.androidauthority.com/chrome-os-becoming-android-3500661/
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045671-asheville-nc-has-lifted-i
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045675-emoji-rain-is-a-visualiza
date: 2024-11-19, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
@mekkaokereke was posting about black men and suicides, saying:
Black men have one of the lowest age adjusted suicide rates.👍🏿 White men? One of the highest. … Self imposed masculinity pressure isn’t the only reason so many men are depressed. But it’s a big one.
It reminded me of some numbers for Switzerland I seen a long time ago. I decided to go looking.
Here the suicide rate by gender in Switzerland. I knew it was bad, of course. Men here are often lonely, the emotional labour of maintaining relationships often falls on the shoulders of women so when men are alone, they don’t manage to build the kind of network required to stay well. And thus, where as the suicide rates are going down, men are still doing very badly.
And this is without assisted suicides.
Source: Suizidrate
nach Geschlecht - Todesfälle durch Suizid pro 100 000
Einwohner/innen
More specifically, the suicide rates go up, dramatically. The graph below is again without assisted suicides (which are legal in Switzerland).
Making friends and maintaining relationships requires emotional labour, trust, openness, vulnerability, and it can be hard. I know it’s hard for me and unfortunately I see myself in these statistics. We must learn to do better.
Patriarchy is not helping.
Source:
Spezifische
Todesursachen: Häufigste Todesursachen nach Alter und Geschlecht;
vorzeitige Sterblichkeit und verlorene potenzielle Lebensjahre
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-11-19-suicide
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/how-to-survive-our-authoritarian-post-truth-era
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.404media.co/graphic-design-for-isis-is-his-passion-fbi-alleges-in-filing/
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Daring Fireball
https://9to5mac.com/2024/11/07/apple-tv-ads-hey-siri/
date: 2024-11-19, from: David Rosenthal’s blog
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The fundamental problem of autonomous vehicles sharing roads is that until you get to Level 5, you have a hand-off problem. The closer you get to Level 5, the worse the hand-off problem.Three years earlier, Paul Vixie was more specific in Disciplining the Unoccupied Mind:
Simply put, if you give a human brain the option to perform other tasks than the one at hand, it will do so. No law, no amount of training, and no insistence by the manufacturer of an automobile will alter this fact. It’s human nature, immalleable. So until and unless Tesla can robustly and credibly promise an autopilot that will imagine every threat a human could imagine, and can use the same level of caution as the best human driver would use, then the world will be better off without this feature.Follow me below the fold for an update on the hand-off problem.
In testing performed in a simulator, Boeing test pilots recreated the conditions aboard Lion Air Flight 610 when it went down in the Java Sea in October, killing 189 people. The tests showed that the crew of the 737 MAX 8 would have only had 40 seconds to respond to the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System’s (MCAS’s) attempts to correct a stall that wasn’t happening before the aircraft went into an unrecoverable dive, according to a report by The New York Times.Christine Negroni’s What people don’t get about why planes crash stresses the hand-off problem:
While the test pilots were able to correct the issue with the flip of three switches, their training on the systems far exceeded that of the Lion Air crew—and that of the similarly doomed Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, which crashed earlier this month. The Lion Air crew was heard on cockpit voice recorders checking flight manuals in an attempt to diagnose what was going on moments before they died.
“In the crash of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 landing in San Francisco in 2013, investigators determined that a contributing factor was the pilots’ over-reliance on automated systems which led to an erosion in their flying skills. The investigation of the fatal flight of an Air France Airbus A330 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris in 2009 led to the conclusion that the complexity of the fly-by-wire airplane befuddled the pilots.
The 737 Max probes suggest another variation on the conundrum: Technology intended to protect against pilot error trapped the pilots. Helpless in the cockpit, they were unable to do as Captain Sully did and save the day.”
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The study was conducted on model year 2018–2022 vehicles, and focused on crashes between 2017 and 2022 that resulted in occupant fatalities. Tesla vehicles have a fatal crash rate of 5.6 per billion miles driven, according to the study; Kia is second with a rate of 5.5, and Buick rounds out the top three with a 4.8 rate. The average fatal crash rate for all cars in the United States is 2.8 per billion vehicle miles driven.How is this possible when “Autopilot” is standard on Teslas? The analyst behind the study explains:
So, why are Teslas — and many other ostensibly safe cars on the list — involved in so many fatal crashes? “The models on this list likely reflect a combination of driver behavior and driving conditions, leading to increased crashes and fatalities,” iSeeCars executive analyst Karl Brauer said in the report. “A focused, alert driver, traveling at a legal or prudent speed, without being under the influence of drugs or alcohol, is the most likely to arrive safely regardless of the vehicle they’re driving.”
Precisely. It seems very likely that, lulled by the experience of
being cocooned in high-tech safety systems, the drivers were not focused
or alert, ready to take over from the automation in a split second when
danger threatened.
https://blog.dshr.org/2024/11/driver-distraction-technology.html
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/weight-of-the-world
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045667-on-saturday-more-than-50
date: 2024-11-19, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
The fediverse is the network of social media instances that communicate via ActivityPub, mostly Mastodon but others exist as well. My own instance runs GoToSocial. The benefit is that nobody can force you to look at ads or sell your data.
Running such an instance means that you need the following:
But if you have a friend who runs one, or you’re a member of an association that runs one, and you trust their admins, you can hop on. Some friendly souls even run servers out of their own pockets, for free, relying on donations to keep their servers up and running.
What I want to say: it’s possible to be part of the independent web.
There are, unfortunately, also problems:
I think some people might prefer the bigger corporate players:
There are a lot more people on those networks, that’s for sure. Personally, I follow about 700 people with three accounts and I have about the same number of people following me, I think. This is plenty! I think it would be an illusion for me to think that in network with millions more people my reach and influence would reach new heights. On the contrary, the algorithm would probably bury my posts and even the people who do want to see my posts would have to dig for them, past ads, sponsored posts and posts with higher engagement metric.
My guess is that we often imagine our alternatives selectively. We imagine the grass to be greener and our prospects to be better, elsewhere.
If you’re looking to get started, I’d be happy to help.
Some more notes: The Mastodon Client protocol is wholly separate from the typical ActivityPub server-to-server protocol and not the same as the rarely implemented ActivityPub server-to-client protocol. It’s limited, but good enough for a large number of applications.
The two main uses I have seen:
The ability to do all that without a corporation forcing you to only use official apps so that they can spy on you or monetize you (forcing you to watch the ads) is a great boon. In addition to that, some servers have very different web front-ends and some servers (like the one I use, GoToSocial), have no web front-end for reading and posting. This has reduced the burden on developers considerably.
2024-11-19. Related:
So you’re considering self-hosting? You heard good things about GoToSocial? I like it. I use it. This post is about the problems you should be expecting at the moment. – 2024-08-25 GoToSocial problems
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-11-18-small-instance
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Interesting analysis:
Although much attention is given to sophisticated, zero-click spyware developed by companies like Israel’s NSO Group, the Italian spyware marketplace has been able to operate relatively under the radar by specializing in cheaper tools. According to an Italian Ministry of Justice document, as of December 2022 law enforcement in the country could rent spyware for €150 a day, regardless of which vendor they used, and without the large acquisition costs which would normally be prohibitive.
As a result, thousands of spyware operations have been carried out by Italian authorities in recent years, according to a …
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/why-italy-sells-so-much-spyware.html
date: 2024-11-19, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Thoughts on our horrendous loss two weeks ago
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-hope-in-a-near-hopeless-time
date: 2024-11-19, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
On Friday, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo locked in a $6.6 billion deal with the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company for it to invest $65 billion in three state-of-the-art fabrication plants in Arizona.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-18-2024
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/can-a-bike-flip-on-a-train
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Daring Fireball
https://workos.com/?utm_source=daringfireball&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=q12024
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Daring Fireball
https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2024/11/18/ep-414
date: 2024-11-19, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
Trump turns the screws on the speaker
https://steady.substack.com/p/puppet-master-in-chief
date: 2024-11-19, updated: 2024-11-19, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-11-18, from: Om Malik blog
There seems to be an open season on books. It is such a shame that even the so-called educated people don’t see the bigger picture. Books, in a way, are a means to build on collective human history. Our new-fangled “AI” is the sum of all books, though even its purveyors are not able to grok this reality. If not …
https://om.co/2024/11/18/carl-sagan-on-books/
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045620-christian-right-lobbies-t
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045662-the-trailer-for-mission-i
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/less-uniform-social-media-experiences
date: 2024-11-18, from: Om Malik blog
If you can’t beat them, compromise them. The “them” being AI platforms such as ChatGPT and Claude. Ed Sussman, a former lawyer, and his company Citate.ai are pioneering ways to influence how AI chatbots perceive and present information. Their approach isn’t about hacking AI systems but rather systematically shaping the web content that feeds these …
https://om.co/2024/11/18/can-we-seo-ai/
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045663-90-seconds-of-miss-piggy
date: 2024-11-18, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-17-2024-31d
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045664-if-you-need-a-refresher
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/what-is-the-most-surprising-predator-prey-relationship
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045655-in-2018-nerds-products-br
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045661-roxane-gay-to-suggest-we
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/trumps-historically-small-victory
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Zero-day vulnerabilities are more commonly used, according to the Five Eyes:
Key Findings
In 2023, malicious cyber actors exploited more zero-day vulnerabilities to compromise enterprise networks compared to 2022, allowing them to conduct cyber operations against higher-priority targets. In 2023, the majority of the most frequently exploited vulnerabilities were initially exploited as a zero-day, which is an increase from 2022, when less than half of the top exploited vulnerabilities were exploited as a zero-day.
Malicious cyber actors continue to have the most success exploiting vulnerabilities within two years after public disclosure of the vulnerability. The utility of these vulnerabilities declines over time as more systems are patched or replaced. Malicious cyber actors find less utility from zero-day exploits when international cybersecurity efforts reduce the lifespan of zero-day vulnerabilities…
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/this-week
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045650-you-might-be-able-to
date: 2024-11-18, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
I posted a feature request on Bluesky that has gotten a lot of flow.
Discussion
Imagine
a Bluesky-like network that you could post to through any blogging tool
that can create an RSS feed. Imagine the new tools that could be
created. All of a sudden a whole world of writing tools opens up.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/18/142716.html?title=blueskyFeatureRequest
date: 2024-11-18, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
Why I haven’t created an account on sez.us yet.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/18/141735.html?title=feedbackOnSezusSignUp
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Julia Evans blog
https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/11/18/how-to-import-a-javascript-library/
date: 2024-11-18, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>The modular Framework laptop is moving outside the x86 world with a RISC-V main board now available.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/riscv_framework_main_board/
date: 2024-11-18, from: Robert Reich’s blog
History guarantees that Trump’s billionaires will overreach
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-billionaire-takeover-and-the
date: 2024-11-18, from: mrusme blog
“Yokohama is the second-largest city in Japan by population and by area, and the country’s most populous municipality. It is the capital and most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a population of 3.7 million in 2023. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu. Yokohama is also the major economic, cultural, and commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area along the Keihin Industrial Zone.”
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/travel/japan/yokohama/
date: 2024-11-18, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
When I try to log into the server using SSH it takes a long time. Why is
that? iotop doesn’t show anything suspicious. And yet,
since Saturday 18:00, munin shows that something is up.
I rebooted the server. “Have you tried turning it off and on again?” 🤷
And that seems to have worked. I wonder what I did back then.
I was clearly doing something!
Here’s what I noticed: I uploaded a new version of the Norn bot, which had an error. I replaced it. Was systemd spawning it again and again, spamming the journal? Is that what caused the problem?
This is very strange.
But… rebooting helped!
2024-11-18. Or did it? The initial connect to the web server still seems to take a second or five. Once the initial handshake is done, the site serves quickly. So what could it be? The problem seen above really is gone.
2024-11-18. Around midnight, I was exchanging emails with @akkartik and everything seemed slow again. Nearly eight hours later, the problem seems to be gone. And the graph supports that. The question is: What does this mean? If I’m assuming that I installed a faulty bot on Saturday 18:00 and fixed it Sunday 18:00 (plus a reboot), what happened from midnight to 2:00?
Strangely enough, this spike in CPU usage was not accompanied in a spike in disk usage.
Another thing I noticed this morning: Not only is my SSH extremely sluggish – sometimes the command line takes half a minute or longer to update – but my IPv4 banlist also wasn’t around. I had to run ban-cidr again to reconstruct it. I’ve been banning some more networks, too (mostly Contabo and Hetzner in Germany). It doesn’t seem to be helping right now.
And while I’m snooping around: This hourly beat in Apache requests seems like a clear sign of bot activity, too. Fuckers.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-11-17-slow
date: 2024-11-18, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Highlights of the week: seeing my sister for the first time in a couple years, meeting internet friends in person Looking forward to: resting 😄 After our first real travel since the pandemic, I’m wiped! Dinners: sushi and veggie tempura — tried a new roll and wasn’t a fan tapas: kung pao Brussels sprouts, baked […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/11/17/weeknotes-nov-9-17-2024/
date: 2024-11-18, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Tonight is a break from the craziness of the news.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-17-2024
date: 2024-11-18, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-16-2024-987
date: 2024-11-18, from: John Naughton’s online diary
The Editor Paul Webster is retiring as the Editor of the Observer after a long spell in the hot seat. There was a nice party for him in London on Thursday evening, which included quite a few witty speeches and, … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-18-november-2024/40083/
date: 2024-11-17, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Daring Fireball
https://getupgraded.com/home-vp1/?utm_source=daringfireball
date: 2024-11-17, updated: 2024-11-18, from: Daring Fireball
https://deadline.com/2024/11/tyson-paul-fight-glitches-netflix-1236178632/
date: 2024-11-17, from: Robert Reich’s blog
If you’re advising a president-elect, you don’t publicly push him to do what you want. That’s true of any president-elect. It’s even truer of Trump.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-first-buddy-is-in-deep-shit
date: 2024-11-17, updated: 2024-11-17, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/downhill-skateboarding
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-17, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Joe
Trippi posted a
video
to his new sez.us service where
Pete
Buttigieg explains what the Russians have done to the US. I see it
that way too. When
Brian
Lehrer asked a few weeks ago how the US got so divided of his guest
Bob Woodward (a fascinating time capsule, recorded before the election)
they both missed it. We were divided by an enemy that is on the cusp of
destroying the US without launching a single nuke. Putin didn’t have to
invade Ukraine. I guess even he didn’t think his plan would succeed so
spectacularly. BTW, I don’t think Trippi’s network is the answer, but
maybe it is. I wish I had had a chance to create the system he was
using, we would make a good team. Anyway we need to be further along
than his offering is. The right system would allow me to control my
presence with only
RSS, in and out.
Maybe not for everyone, to start, but it would allow us to start
building. It’s why I have been lobbying for inbound and outbound RSS as
a back-end for all these networks. With the rise of Bluesky in the last
couple of weeks (things are happening that fast now) we may have a new
shot at it because Masto and Threads are certainly feeling it, and when
people feel competed-with they are more open to new thinking.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/17.html#a152212
date: 2024-11-17, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
A Reason To Smile
https://steady.substack.com/p/when-truth-is-funnier-than-fiction
date: 2024-11-17, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And last week’s winner
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-caption-contest-the-takeover
date: 2024-11-17, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
One of President-elect Trump’s campaign pledges was to eliminate the Department of Education.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-16-2024