kemuri 🦀 @kemuri@social.cleverlibre.org
Joined Nov 2022
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I didn’t realise how important the server you’re on is so I’ve just moved to mastodon.scot. I think that means my posts have disappeared so by way of re-introduction here’s my #dog, Taco, and my #cat, Bopper, who between them are likely to account for a good half of everything I contribute to this site.
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# Critiques on theories of cyber.
Any theory or framework of cyber conflict that is unable to incorporate the full range of offensive cyber actions is inherently flawed. Here are examples of cyber operations that meet any reasonable criteria for offensive cyber attacks.
- kpop vs ACAB
- Teens vs Trump (Tulsa, 2020)
- Lazarus vs Sony
- Belarusian cyber partisans vs. rail network
Many theories work poorly when forced to model these offensive cyber events. Like “cyber is an intelligence contest.” So explain the k-pop stans disabling police snitch apps for reporting BLM protestors by flooding them with loads of pictures of k-pop artists.
* a non state actor (just a community ot people)
* Attacking state security forces
* To support non state actors
* With the intent of causing political change
This breaks so many theories of cyber. They typically just ignore it instead, but you can’t. If for no other reason than this type of activity is will become more and more relevant as cyber infrastructure becomes increasingly embedded into society.
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I wrote an entire book about the commercial content moderation of online spaces. It’s called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media. The paperback edition came out on Yale University Press last year and has a new preface.
This could be a good time to read it. Just saying.
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Greetings to all. Looking forward, eventually, to following news and debate in DC/Warsaw/Kyiv/London/Berlin on this site as I have done on other social media in the past....
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cap-std is now at 1.0!
The main change in this release is the update to io-lifetimes 1.0, which marks the update to use the I/O safety features in the standard library when available.
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As of Python 3.10, all the binary search helpers in the bisect module now accept a key argument.
Read the full article: What's great about Python 3.10?
▸ https://trey.io/ci2i5f
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I spoke about this a few days ago, but since there are so many new folks here: Mastodon has lists. And they're useful. You need to already be following people but you can put them into lists and then just call up that list. So, I have a list for journalists, and for tech law people. And it's super useful for me.
Unfortunately, lists are not currently public or shareable, though.
But test out the list feature to make Mastodon more useful.
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For the first time the @IEA@twitter.com predicts fossil fuel demand to fall based on stated policies analysed in the World Energy Outlook 2022.
The downward trend is welcome but not happening fast enough to meet climate goals.
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Hey everyone, I'm building a list of congressional offices on Mastodon -- members of the House and Senate, committees, leadership offices, and non-partisan offices.
If you know of a member of congress that is on mastodon, please add them to the list, here: bit.ly/CongMastoForm
If you want to see who we have found so far, check out bit.ly/CongMasto
Thank you! Please help amplify to crowdsource the list.
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📣🥁 We’re #hiring for two positions here at Open Rights Group 🎊🎉
👉 Head of Comms & Campaigns (permanent)
We are looking for an exceptional and inspiring #Communications and #Campaigns strategist, but above all, an empowering leader who cares about #humanrights with a determination to succeed and ability to thrive in a fast moving and dynamic environment.
👉 Comms Consultant.
✅ Contract duration: 6 months
✅ Interviews on a rolling basis
✅ Start Date: ASAP
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@kemuri The subscribe feature is a Qoto-specific feature, not a general Mastodon thing.
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Later this week, I'll look at other aspects relating to #Python #functions that can confuse those beginners moving on to more intermediate levels, including:
• _positional and named arguments_
• _optional arguments_ (by defining default values)
• the "obscure" _args and kwargs_
• forcing _positional-only_ or _keyword-only_ arguments using the "rogue" forward slash `/` and asterisk `*` in the function signature
• _type-hinting_ when defining functions
• some best practices when defining and using functions
Some of these topics I've written about a while ago in this Real Python article: https://realpython.com/python-optional-arguments/
TIL on #mastodon
You can both subscribe to and follow someone. Sometimes your follow needs to be approved by them.
Subscribing to someone would make their Public (and Unlisted? not sure) posts show up in your Home feed.
Following someone would make their Followers-only posts show up in your Home feed.
Keep in mind where your post would appear when you press the Publish button!
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Curation Algorithms are Important, We Should Control It
> Should not the individual user control his own algorithms?
To the extent a user is capable of using different curation algorithms, the meaningful practical control they have over every one of those algorithms is in terms of how well they can understand the learned parameters and query the algorithm. I mentioned improvement in granularity; replacing one algorithm with entire another is too coarse a control for my ideal.
Case in point, Twitter allows two options: "top tweets" and "latest tweets". We probably agree that's not a lot of control. How many algorithms is enough control? How much should the algorithms differ each other? How do you describe those differences? You end up with the same problem.
Learning based algorithms are costly to train, in all of labor, money and time. I prefer one big algorithm which can produce different feeds by complex queries, than many algorithms which you still have to pick which one by complex queries.
To that end, for example, I consider the "Topic" feature of Twitter a step towards more complex query. You can choose to subscribe to a topic, you can also choose to exclude a topic. I agree with complaints that the topics are not precise or not granular enough.
Curation Algorithms are Important, We Should Control It
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Note to followers: this is Not Ian Dunt, I have checked and he is not yet on here in any form despite the account lifting his pictures and bio directly from the Bird site.
Joined Nov 2022
