hmm

damn I missed this call

Hey @Matt missed the live show. I've been working on an ml algorithm for fighting the Youtube Censors

Was wanting to talk to someone about it, see if I can find some YT creators to work with on this, mostly information.

Sure

thanks

.agree

Shadilay my brethren.

I'm new here, how is everything going?

Thanks @Broo TulsiGang 2024 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Blue

Well, it's fairly monochromatic

I mean, you're either blue or you're not.

So you're saying there's a spectrum of blueness?

Well, we can't let them mix, because that will promote violets

haha

well played.

... da ba dee da ba dye

So I've been mulling around an idea for political activism. Something more along the lines of the digital world

I was courted very briefly a few years back by the infosec world, a government contractor. They held a hack-a-thon here that introduced me to the idea of ontologies and ontological data structures and the ideas behind them

I'd like to start talking to the right people about how we can organize a disparate group of individuals who collect data in RDF format, sign it, share it, revolving around a web of trust.

so we can have honest, searchable data about things happening events, people and places - instead of people doing 100 hours of research on topics we can share data in ontological format

It is, and ... funny as it is, I mentioned block chain to a friend I said... "If we could reward people for honest pure factually data in accordance with a WoT that would be ideal" we can call them kekicoins.

lol but that's all tongue-in-cheek

my main goal is to start a discussion on what this would mean, how it could be done. And the creation of tools around the idea, allowing people who are computer illiterate to browse the data-sets, and derive information from them.

This is how I feel I should protect my second amendment, the right to bear arms, and in a modern age a firearm is almost anachronistic for the battles ahead. We need the tools that collect information, because those are the tools "they" use against us.

It's not about embarrassing information, it's about raw factual information, collected by concerned citizens

Well, any tools we currently are computer science tools, by engineers and graduate students. or software developers...

Emails and reports are factual corpus of information

anything really, it's part of the semantic web,

https://www.w3.org/RDF/

Okay, so an example. I was curious about what Facebook logs on most users, so I setup a proxy on my computer to collect all traffic between my computer and Facebook. after running that for over 3 month it was a huge number of JSON blobs. I had no idea what to do with that data, but I started to graph out every individual that I connected with over that period of time, it was about 60,000 individuals. After plotting the data over frequency of hit I was able to see that there are people outside of my friend group, outside of my knowledge of existence that I connected with many times. This suggests that I visit sites they comment on, or sites they visited or various other interactions.

To me, that tells me who Facebook thinks I am. while my friends were very high on that list, so high I removed them entirely, the fringe connections spoke volumes of the personality traits I may posses.

Or more to the point, the decisions people would make about that data.

I would propose the idea of people who are doing research, like ... as an example. Where is the public data on the ADL and their donors and their leadership and the business connections they all have. Every person I've watched talk about the ADL constantly starts at the top, only looking at data that is exposed superficially. There's more interesting data in layers below. Connections to people, companies and how they function and work.

Indeed, they seem to have overstepped - and what could be done about it "we all just leave" ... I mean, sure that works. But it doesn't hurt their business model.

If they sell data, the data is valuable. Data without us is less valuable, but data with horrible noise has even lesser value.

If people wanted to actually protest Facebook , they could. But without information it would be of little value.

haha, in order to affect your identity on their graph you'd ostensible have to associate more with people you'd never associate with. So... on my list there's an assload of people I supposedly only saw once. If I could increase my contact with them online, in passing my data is pointlessly invalid.

Since Dankula was convicted on specious logic, could that same logic be used to convict people who support him, as being white supremacists? It's exalting a known nazi sympathizer...

Looks like stack overflow is gearing up for some more inclusivity.

Blog post -> https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/04/26/stack-overflow-isnt-very-welcoming-its-time-for-that-to-change/?cb=1

They have a sign up form, I'm going to sign up for a video chat and an online chat room

!rank

Apologies, I only shit post on personal servers, these fancy bot-empowered ones confuse me.

Ha, I was minding my own, shit posting as one does - and realized there's a <#420834207590514690> channel, well crap.... Maybe you guys might have some advice, or flames.... friend has a 2004 Avalanche for sale, 160k, Z71 towing package ... decent shape over all .... What's the pro's cons of Avalanches? AFAIK he's never dealt with any major repairs.

@Fitzydog Thanks, Overall it looked in decent shape, nothing seems to be leaking, engine bay looked reasonable, (Not cleaned off to hide issues :P) Hell even the tires had plenty of wear left on them. I've been looking for something like it (silverado, z72 etc) and he mentioned this one. Decent Friend price as well.

@lordharry of nz not paranoid enough, I bet I could stretch out that side shot and still peal a number off there all VisualBasic CSI style 😉

er... shit Discord summoned the wrong user.

@LordCaledus

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I planted a tree once, is that green enough?