👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt
once we have basic requirements, we proceed to design a minimally-viable architecture that will allow us to implement the capabilities we want with minimal hassle; in this stage it is critical to fight the urge to over-engineer. i had to roll back several too-ambitious plans here
(ftr using "meme" here to mean "funny internet picture")
i thought about using existing tools, but frankly nothing i considered met my needs exactly
what are these needs? great question; any project has to start with gathering requirements and brainstorming
i figured my "process" had quite a few inefficiencies, and that i already mentally sort memes into various non-exclusive overlapping categories; i'd also put some thought into how these categories can be abstracted and recombined to model the meme space
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RT @pee_zombie
@deepfates @vgr tldr by examining the components of many memes we can extract common elements, find useful abstractions around them, fit them into a taxonomic structu…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1440432195009597446
ya gotta, you know? how else can u show off how high ur power level is, u terminally-online degen? if u really wanna be a poaster u gotta be quick on the draw
one thing is like another hypocritically? pointing spidey
a humorously inaccurate comparison is being made? is this 🦋 x
been working on & off on this & in the interests of "building in public" may start sharing details as I go here, feel free to mute this thread if ur not interested in the boring technical stuff
this project started from a problem i have constantly; finding the best reaction meme
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RT @pee_zombie
@vgr building a meme (funny picture) cataloging system with hierarchical taxonomy, support for crowdsourced classification, for the purpose …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1440420947048108035
natural next step but also marks an inflection point, explicit acknowledgement of how Netflix's role has shifted from pipe to tastemaker over the years; most people are happy to be told what to consume, curation is difficult. they're prob selling prioritization in the queue too
furthermore, privacy is a subset of infosec, and should be treated as such, rather than trotted out by anxious young people trying to sound like they know what they're talking about
this is an important and underappreciated point; "privacy" is not an end goal but rather an instrumental one, just like "security", and both have no single definition, but rather are umbrella terms for adversarial optimization domains. what is it you mean when you say privacy?
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RT @JeffLadish
Something is off about privacy discourse. You're supposed to be upset that your data is being harvested without your consent, but the threat mo…
https://twitter.com/JeffLadish/status/1448043781509423104
a corollary is that Fast and Furious is the American version of Gundam
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RT @pee_zombie
wheelchair users and bicyclists are cyborgs, motorized wheelchairs are mechas, as are computer desks and cars
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1447712676243718146
guy whose mind is a wind-powered sculpture and requires movement to operate
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RT @Seraxiz
guy who's encrypted at rest. guy who can't access his thoughts unless moving
https://twitter.com/Seraxiz/status/1447862849154568193
this mentality is explained by the need to create new invariants (objective morality) after postmodernism destroyed the previous (objective reality)
most people can't function in an ideological vacuum & require intellectual grounding; new leftism provides one in binary morality
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RT @ded_ruckus
the mentality here is pretty revealing
you're expected to bear up under hostile attack from the left, and still hold allegiance to them
rea…
https://twitter.com/ded_ruckus/status/1447752396365385728
wheelchair users and bicyclists are cyborgs, motorized wheelchairs are mechas, as are computer desks and cars
also I'm in a city and don't have a car so activities which require one are discouraged
been finding myself with a lot more alone time on the weekends and many of my typical activity options are not as viable due to pandemic reasons; looking for suggestions on what yall do when you go out alone
pls don't suggest long walks, live music, art galleries, bars/pubs etc
I just hope both teams have fun
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RT @dril
Im glad we can discuss the news and the headlines of the day and have fun while doing it also.
https://twitter.com/dril/status/1447587637125021697
i would pay such an insane premium to get boring-looking computer parts rather than ones designed with the assumption that i'm a tweaker child
please, for the love of god, no LEDs. no weird triangular forms. no ALL CAPS L33T KILLER model names. i just want a fucking motherboard
