🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@social.cleverlibre.org

I've been thinking about the saying that ends like "...true friends will help you hide a body". Why all y'all got killers for friends?

Very cool project: https://ncats.nih.gov/tissuechip/about
Apparently it's part of the ongoing mission including the #SpaceX flight taking place now (see https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/spacex-crew-1-science-iss).

They really could have been more explicit throughout the article that "facial verification" is literally the same thing as facial recognition.
More important though, I'm disturbed by the tacit acceptance of govt mass surveillance implied by the focus on how the products of surveillance will be used. How about not carrying out warrantless surveillance of people who aren't suspected of crime?
https://www.academia.sg/academic-views/governed-by-tech-citizens-and-the-making-of-the-smart-nation/

Neat little tool for web notifications
https://tests.peter.sh/notification-generator/

I was about to say something about
how Amazon's analytics and inference has a ways to go before they've got anything on me, but damn it, they've got my number with this one:
https://www.amazon.com/xchg-rax-xorpd/dp/1502958082

I had forgotten about #somafm . I think I first found it back in high school (a charmed time for me). Looking at the site now, I think I even copied their CSS for my own silly #icecast music radio's tracklist back then.

Really neat #blender video. It's too bad the conference could not be held in person this year, but I think exactly the right tone was struck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEjmbsiflMU

Finally got round to reading the [Wayland architecture] page. Don't fully grok the implications, but, in principle, #Wayland definitely sounds more straightforward than X.

[Wayland architecture]: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/architecture.html

Side note: the last 2-3 paragraphs get pretty jargon-y. Also, is KMS that big a deal that it's put in the foreground when talking about #wayland ? Seems like a more peripheral implementation detail

I was thinking about the controversy over the recent presidential election about alleged voter fraud. It seems pretty unlikely that people, in numbers large enough to sway the election, double-voted: consider maintaining residency in multiple states, somehow avoiding active voter list maintenance, and, at the end of the day, possibly committing a felony all for the nebulous benefit of adding one vote among thousands for your preferred candidate. The value proposition just doesn't work out (Besides it's hard enough to get people to vote *once* in this country).

That said, it's not clear to me that there aren't gaps that could allow for voting twice in a federal election (see links below). It would be good for states to plug those holes if they haven't and make it very clear how they're doing it. Though it wouldn't shut-up people who are willfully ignorant from claiming widespread voter fraud, it might at least lessen the noise from the intellectually lazy.

https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/double-voting.aspx
https://www.krem.com/article/news/verify/verify-voting-in-two-states-illegal/293-463f11bb-7ec9-4344-b2c0-cd7bcfe1561b

#uspol #election2020 #voting

#music #peggylee #mood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCRZZC-DH7M

...aaand it's back

youtube's broken apparently. unable to play video on arbitrary selection on two diff networks on two diff devices

new buzzwords to hate: "skilling" and "re-skilling".