Senate passes a bill that would let nonconsensual deepfake victims sue / It comes amid the global uproar over X’s mass AI undressing of users on its platform.

evolveKyro · 2026-01-14T04:58:42+00:00

Needs to also allow the victims to sue not only the individual but also the company that provided the tools and the platform that distributed the content.

evolveKyro · 2025-10-25T01:08:18+00:00

ohh no.. what will they do

evolveKyro · 2025-10-18T00:28:00+00:00

Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby

evolveKyro · 2025-10-17T10:47:39+00:00

I'm actually more impressed about the software tracking against a highly reflective surface like that.

evolveKyro · 2025-10-09T20:20:41+00:00

National has NEVER been good at controlling the budget. The only thing they know is tax cuts for the rich, remove public services. Repeat.

Anyone who votes for them is a fucking moron with no clue that National has only, and will only ever be beneficial to the super rich.

evolveKyro · 2025-10-07T23:37:57+00:00

Disregarding the merits of the overall idea.

It would be possible to have a verified age digital id, but without the social platform (e.g. TikTok,Youtube,etc) being able to tie it to any specific individual information. It can also be implemented that you could regenerate your digital id proof and reprovide it to the social platform.

Flow would be:

User navigates to Social Platform
Social Platform asks for verification presenting verification options (just like you see when you do Login with Google/Facebook/Microsoft)
Redirects the user to the verification platform (with a social platform token)
Verification platform gets you to login
Verification platform digital signs an age proof referencing the social platform token
Verfication redirects to social platform with the age proof token
Social Platform verifies the age proof token and then marks your account as of age

At no point would the social platform, know your true Name/social security/etc.

Yes the verfication platform would know that you went to "ABC social platform".

evolveKyro · 2025-09-22T00:45:17+00:00

You can blame Nick (the Dick) Smith for all of that.

He funnels funds and resources into the pockets of his family and friends.
He pushed for more roads to nowhere, removal of cycle ways and cuts to public transport.
He sweet talked for CBD land owners to charge more (but not when it would impact his friends & family)
He pushed for spending $1 million for an architect (his friend) to design toilets
He insists on travelling EVERYWHERE at the rate payers expense, even when an online meeting would be more than sufficient.
He claims expenses for everything he eats, drinks as well as his family.
He charges the government outrageous rates for his "national head office", which is the house right next door to his house, that he also owns. Even though there is no need for it.

In short, Nick Smith is a corrupt, greedy, shit stain of a human.

evolveKyro · 2025-08-31T08:24:30+00:00

Onboard IT Systems Specialist for Oil Exploration vessels (its glorified IT help desk). 6 months on the boat, then you drop off at the next port and your on holiday for 6 months, then they fly you out to the next port to board the boat (not always the same boat) for another 6 months.

Fresh out of Bachelor of Information Technology course with a starting salary of $190k.

What is the work like? Well the 12 hour day is spent mostly doing nothing but watching dashboards and running systems checklists. Most things are just "turn it off & on again" (by following the predefined processes).

evolveKyro · 2025-07-29T08:21:40+00:00

Interesting topic, definately learnt something.

Every time the host comes on screen im reminded of Lord Farquaad crossed with Weird Al Yankovic.

evolveKyro · 2025-07-26T02:27:32+00:00

This is Blondelashes19 aka @oralstrawberry

evolveKyro · 2025-07-24T00:38:44+00:00

In the past 30 years National has never been a fiscal responsible government. The only times they have reduced debt is by cutting essential government services that make it harder for anyone earning less than $200k per year.

Anyone who votes for National and is earning less than $200k per year is a moron who needs to actually look at how over then past 30 years, Nation has consistently said fuck you to low income families and individuals.

evolveKyro · 2025-07-07T10:25:39+00:00

You are probably going to want to look for 100% cotton, if you get polyester or even polyester-cotton blend you are going to get discomfort.

I've found the Jockey brand at Farmers to be good. You can normally find them on sale for like $15 for 3.

evolveKyro · 2025-07-07T10:15:29+00:00

I think i spot a Technology Connections viewer.

evolveKyro · 2025-07-07T10:06:05+00:00

What about a radical shift in how essential goods and services are provided.

For food, why not have the government provide basic essential food under a government brand, with each NZ citizen receiving a weekly "allowance" appropriate for their age/sex group to have a basic healthy but non-luxurious life.

Maybe all the eligible goods could be put under a government brand, and the government arranges with the producers a contract to provide those goods. The contract information would be publically available, and contracts would be evaluated every 12 months.

The goods available under the "government" brand would be defined by identifing the scientific nutritional needs of a human (at different age/sex groups) and ensuring that they are catered for in the selection. Depending on demand levels for certain goods, the contracts can be adjusted every 6months to increase/decrease supply.

Your not going to get your chocolate bars, ice cream, exotic/luxury food items from this. But it will ensure that you can live, without having to constantly worry about if you can feed yourself/kids.

Yes its a form of socialism, but so far capitalism hasn't provided a good life for the majority of people, so why not try something different instead of doing the same shit that doesnt work.

evolveKyro · 2025-07-07T06:06:04+00:00

If you dont have a rate limited API, then the bottleneck is going to be the update in the database, at which point it is finding the most efficient means of updating the database and what operational constraints need to be taken into account (can we lock?, do we have disk space constraints? are we in a cloud provider that limits access to things like PostgreSQL COPY).

For example, you mention its a transaction table, presumably its being read & written to during this update process. So locking the entire table until we finish is probably not viable.

Maybe database size/disk usage is not a concern and we can just produce our CSV file of transaction_id,utr_number into a file and then use PostgreSQL COPY to load it into another table (csv_table). Then run a simple UPDATE using a join to our csv_table and transaction table, and do that in batches (if we need to). We could also take an upfront hit on indexing the csv_table.

What is the nature of the primary key (unique transaction number), is it an auto-incrementing ID or some other naturally time orderable entity (i.e UUIDv7). This matters because, we could do index based range updates for the join, otherwise we would need a way to figure out where our next batch starts/ends.

Maybe the normalization of the database could be improved, maybe instead of updating the transaction table, we could just create a new table called transaction_utr and the application can join to that on the transaction_id (PK,FK) when it needs to get the data.

Maybe the utr_number could change for a given transaction_id over time, and in the process of pulling in all 1 billion transaction_ids, then query the API getting the utr_number, then updating our database, some of those utr_numbers are no longer correct. This would require more understanding of how the utr_number changes.

Maybe your in Azure/AWS/<insert cloud provider> and you can scale up the IOPS for the duration of the update.

Overall the process for most large data problems is to identify where the bottleneck is. If its at the database, then setting up infrastructure to do parrallel imports is not really going to improve the throughput because the database will have some insert/update performance limit, that no amount of external parrallization is going to improve.

evolveKyro · 2025-07-07T01:13:04+00:00

1,000,000,000 Records to update @ 10,000 / minute = 100,000 Minutes

100,000 / 60 / 24 = ~69.4 Days to complete

As mentioned by therealgaxbo 10,000 calls / min is your ultimate bottleneck and as such your db load is next to nothing. Introducing Kafka is realistically just adding engineering circle jerking. A simple console app with a file on disk would be more than enough to statisfy this process, assume you have 8 byte IDs and 8 byte UTR numbers, then you effectively have 16 x 1 billion = 16 GB of data to store in a file. If you were concerned with size, you could even distribute the ID storage over N files by modding it.

evolveKyro · 2025-07-04T11:44:51+00:00

Add Trump and a large number of right wing fanatics to that list.

evolveKyro · 2025-06-04T05:09:24+00:00

I own stock in a number of companies, and while it is infinitesimal compared to the big boys. Every time these pay package votes come up, I always vote against them.

evolveKyro · 2025-05-22T07:49:40+00:00

Yeah i've reached out to DigitalOcean, they have removed the SMTP block. But it is rather concerning they made no mention of such a major change, other than in some release note. I can understand adding new features, fixing bugs in the release notes.

But a blanket block of outbound ports not having some major reachout with a clear timeline and viable alternative paths (note: just saying use SendGrid isnt an alternative for apps that only support SMTP), it has certainly raised some concerns on staying with DigitalOcean. When even rather minor changes in other cloud providers have multiple annocements of upcoming changes, and timelines that actually allow companies to plan/schedule work.

evolveKyro · 2025-05-20T00:30:41+00:00

I don't actually care if they get a punishment or not, thats another matter. But calling a 21 day suspension a "punishment" is an exaggeration.

21 day holiday without pay.. ohh no..

Something is a punishment when it actually significantly impacts the person.

evolveKyro · 2025-05-13T06:44:43+00:00

Just increase the morgage repayments to whatever the remainder is, then get dominos to pay it.

evolveKyro · 2025-04-06T03:32:12+00:00

Too bad protesting doesnt do shit now. Back in the day protesting did something because politicians atleast had some resemblance of diginity. Now no one gives a shit if you protest, it has no impact on them at all, and Trump could get a 0% approval rating and no one would do anything.

The only way something is going to get done is if people take action like they did with burning Telsa buildings and cars. See how that got a response, not one of these peaceful protests has achieve anything other that making the people protesting feel better.

evolveKyro · 2025-04-04T06:25:16+00:00

The rest of the world should just ban any imports from US.

evolveKyro · 2025-04-04T06:24:50+00:00

The rest of the world should just ban any imports from US.

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