"I can't share a tech talk with my siblings because there's trans people in it" -- you definitely sound like part of the problem, esp. when so much of infosec research is done by trans people
I can share the tech talk with them, I'm just not going to bother because I already know what's going to happen. I know we're living in "modern times" or whatever but a man in a dress is not going to be taken seriously by most people.
There are probably more people intimidated from speaking out against it, or too confused to realize they will be brow beaten for doing so, than sincere believers within the tech conference itself.
Again, I CAN show this tech talk to my teenage younger brother and his friends, but I'm not going to bother because I already know one of them is going to turn it into "hacking conferences are for homos LoL"
Well, maybe next time just leave your siblings out of the discussion since it's you that can't jive with a speaker that does not correspond to your expectations of credibility (as your response to a sibling comment confirms to me)
Not that long ago, many people would protest and browbeat an asian person in any kind of authority position, and you surely don't need me to remind the kind of insults that were employed.
Finally, trans people are being denied basic healthcare, access to essential parts of life and society, when it's not their own life that's at risk; but it's you that feel "strong-armed" into just being indifferent to their existence and not bullying them against presenting themselves as they are.
Again, there are still many who believe your ethnicity should also be driven out of public view -- when you support the idea that some people should just remain hidden because a vocal part of society doesn't want to deal with something they don't understand, everyone loses. (and in this case, you and your family will be losing out on some great tech talks)
> maybe next time just leave your siblings out of the discussion
This is exactly already what I am doing, because I already know how his friends (mostly his friends) are going to all react.
> as your response to a sibling comment confirms to me
I didn't have a "response" to them, nor did I write that I did.
Did you even read my post before thinking to reply???
> it's you that can't jive with a speaker
I don't really have a problem with the speaker. My only real qualm is that sharing the video with others isn't going to go well, which makes it hard to introduce others to real hacker culture/mindset.
Perhaps you got confused with what I wrote earlier, that most people do not take a man in a dress seriously at all and perhaps in your own mind you conflated that with my own beliefs. I will be honest with you I also do not take a man in a dress seriously and I don't I am ever going to be convinced to do so.
The very best I can do is not write anything about it on Facebook so I don't get my Facebook account banned by the Chinese H1B holders (nationals of the communist government) working at Facebook.
The reality is that even with all the "progress" we have made, still today most people do not take a man in a dress seriously. I have an FTE role in Silicon Valley, we have leases on some higher floors in SF, and I can tell you even outside of the closet MAGA people (every Bay Area company has these) most of my very liberal coworkers, even though they are willing to "play along" they absolutely do not take a man in a dress seriously and never will. Even though these are folks were willing to hire one of the trans candidates we had in our interview pipeline while they were still in it.
> there are still many who believe your ethnicity should also be driven out of public view
If you are trying to tell me that here in the USA there are many who believe that Japanese people should be driven out of public view, this is some serious news and I would like to know where this is happening. I'm sure there is always SOMEONE out there who believes Japanese people should be kicked out, but I'm going to need to see something to back this theory up because I do not believe that even a fringe minority believes that anywhere in USA, not even the turbo nazis who actually call themselves nazis.
If you can show me an actual source for this claim, please do, because if that's happening I do want to know, but also I honestly do not believe it's even remotely realistic.
> trans people are being denied basic healthcare
No autogynephiliac anywhere is being denied healthcare. Unless if by "basic healthcare" you mean genital or breast mutilation in which case sorry you are not fooling anyone on this board, this is a hacker board.
Or perhaps you are fooling yourself in which case, no, I do not buy into your religion, and you are a fascist for trying to push it onto me.
> access to essential parts of life and society
If your autogynephilia fetish becomes so internalized that you display it in public and demand others change their behavior for it, yes you are going to have less access to essential parts of life and society. What the fuck else did you expect to happen?
> Again, there are still many who believe your ethnicity should also be driven out of public view
Being Japanese is something someone is born with. Autogynephilia is a choice.
How a typical mother from the Midwest became the most recognized ascii artist of all time and then completely disappeared is truly emblematic of the early web.
This is not how Mastodon works, the point is exactly that cross-instance communication can work smoothly, and it does. Replies show up on your notifications just like any other similar platform, whether they come from your instance or another.
I haven't used Mastodon much, but I have seen replies that weren't visible. There was a big thread with several generations, some visible to the original poster (who showed me this), some not.
Guessing… server blocking? Grandparent replies (the thread was big)?
Genuine question: why the need to make this point?
The "no one should be surprised" take baffles me: you clearly care about the progressive loss of privacy, and news like this are the only way to spread awareness of this problem. I cannot imagine someone running into this "news at 11" condemnation of laypeople's supposed lack of understanding, and actually becoming more interested in the issue.
This kind of comment is defeatist and demotivating, so I'm curious as to why you, as a proponent of fully open software, would be so intent in making this point.
> This kind of comment is defeatist and demotivating
I apologize if that was the impression, I didn't want to offend anyone nor discourage anyone from hoping to see one day more people becoming aware of the lack of privacy in closed devices; actually if there's someone who is becoming discouraged it's me. I often see people complaining on the lines of "hey, I was chatting about this the other day and now I receive advertising for the same thing", and every single time either they don't care or they're convinced that the next OS/app/contract/whatever version will magically solve every privacy/security problem. How can one hope to raise awareness about the benefits in adopting open platforms if so many users either don't give a damn or can be convinced that security and privacy are a product and not a process?
That doesn't mean I'm giving up, but I'm fully aware that today and in this world nobody would be insane enough to design, manufacture and distribute a fully open platform; there's just not enough incentive to do that.
How can one hope to raise awareness about the benefits in adopting open platforms if so many users either don't give a damn or can be convinced that security and privacy are a product and not a process?
this question can be read in two ways: raising awareness is hopeless because no one cares anyways, and: our attempts to raise awareness so far have not worked, so we need to ask how can we raise awareness in ways that people actually notice?
we need to focus on the latter and explore more effective methods to raise awareness.
today and in this world nobody would be insane enough to design, manufacture and distribute a fully open platform; there's just not enough incentive to do that.
this is simply not true. there is plenty of incentive, and the means to do so are becoming more and more approachable. see my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39165700
The Portuguese exemption only applies to copyrighted media where the person doing the copying is doing it from a copy that they already owned and obtained legally, it in no way permits you to stream or torrent content from the internet.
It's not that clear cut. Such restriction to self owned content is not in the law at all, but is frequently raised by pro-copyright proponents as an interpretation.
They have different aims. SuperCollider gives you outstanding timbral control, but patterning at the melodic or chord level is awkward. TidalCycles is a language for musical patterns, not for generating waveforms directly. If you want to mess with both, I'd recommend starting from the definitions of the synths in SuperDirt, the collection of SuperCollider synths that TidalCycles uses.
TidalCycles does offer a lot of ways to control the timbre -- there are a bunch of effects, including some magical granular stuff. And merely triggering samples at sufficiently high frequencies, particularly frequencies that vary over time, can generate some cool sounds. But SC will give you much more control over that kind of thing.
(this set is "from scratch", meaning that it opens with an empty file and starts from there, making it clearer to understand what is going on as it builds up)
As we sit into our booth and the environment closes around use we are greeted with soft, soothing music.
As we get into conversation, the body language, verbal language, laughter and even facial expressions we express inform the mood of the room - and the music that it produces. A certain, unique-to-our-meeting melody. All of this is encoded and played back as music in real time.
Later we can use the melody to replay the mood and dialogue of the night - as everything that was said was encoded into the music heard - but may be decoded to have a recording of the conversation...
(it goes at length into the algorithms, but the intro is well enough; in the end you can hear some examples too)
I second the other post recommending the Tidalcycles music livecoding language, as it uses euclidean rhythms as a base from which you can compose on. Livecoding combined with euclideans is such an interesting musical paradigm that I'd name it as one of the widest musical revelations I had.
