@knoopx

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Recreational hacker, professional web developer
githubhttps://github.com/knoopx
personal websitehttps://knoopx.net/
Important lesson for social movements:
You don't need to use the brick, but you must have one

Couldn’t agree more with the sentiment and arguments here. The FSF is failing hard at making any impact on anything.

https://drewdevault.com/2023/04/11/2023-04-11-The-FSF-is-dying.html

The Free Software Foundation is dying

gpt-4 employment predictions: "looking for prompt engineers" kind in the same way as a "growth hacker". people that may even lack any technical background but manages to understand the overalls of how some platform works and delivers consistent and convincing results from it
gpt-4 unemployment predictions: first victims will be copywriters, marketers and the like. people who write bullshit for the mass-consumer. the more creative-thinking positions will remain and embrace ai. second ones will be therapists. being able to listen, remember and offer wise advice is something a properly fine-tuned LLM would shine at. it can become something as big as universally accessible mental health care.
ai project idea: deep neural network for personality disorder inference from tinder bio
Burning Down the House

Electric bike fires are a real issue. Let’s certify the batteries, let’s incentivize the right vehicle for the right trip and let’s get our cities moving in better harmony as we add tools, not subtract them, from our mobility toolset.

Micromobility
Rally against gender fascist Charlie Kirk in #Lincoln, #Nebraska.

#InfoSec FYI: There's a massive #typosquatting campaign targeting PyPI. Someone's clearly reached the automation section of "Black Hat Python" 🙄

This is the same actor as highlighted by Phylum yesterday - currently they're pushing a cryptostealer everywhere they can, but who knows what's next.

Recently, they've started typosquatting the following packages (& showing example typosquat):
* xlsxwriter (ex. xlsxwwriter)
* urllib3 (rllib3)
* simplejson (simplejsn)
* requests-toolbelt (requests-toollbelt)
* discord-webhook (disocrd-webhook)
* discord-py (discod-py)
* websocket-client (weebsocket-client)
* openpyxl (oepnpyxl)
* pillow (pilloow)
* click (clickk)
* pysocks (ysocks)
* psutil (psuil)
* gitpython (gitpythn)
* pycodestyle (pycodestye)
* prompt-toolkit (prompt-toolkiit)
* beautifulsoup (baeutifulsoup)

Edit: PyPI has removed the above!

If your company uses your own PyPI mirror, I'd recommend disallowing new packages released within the past ~week (as a general precaution, tbh).

Here’s some blunt truth — I haven't seen a single North American city with a stated policy goal of mobility "balance" that has actual street standards/designs, budgets, supporting land use decisions etc that would actually ACHIEVE mobility balance. Not yet at least. It’s usually code for some version of the status quo, only slightly better — still cars first.

#cities #cars #urbanism #streets #transport

Monty Python and the Search for #COVID19 Sanity.

Inspired by @penguinpete