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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Yeah, the CIA weren’t openly involved (Cameron, the one who did the experiments claimed to be unaware of CIA involvement but who knows), McGill claimed to be unaware but they went on for 9 years, so even if that’s true, it could be considered negligence. And the Canadian government funded it.

    And when it came out, there was an investigation that concluded they didn’t act irresponsibly.



  • Also frustrating that it isn’t even the same people because the ones that did that shit already retired and/or died before it was declassified. There isn’t really much to do about it, even if the government is willing. Any apology isn’t from those who actually did it. Any reparations are paid for with taxes. Any promise to do better could be a lie and probably won’t be known for sure until the ones making it are dead and their documents are declassified.



  • When they leave the foundry in Taiwan, they aren’t ready to be just used. I’m not sure if TSMC even cuts the dies out of the wafers, then they need to be packaged and binned (not necessarily in that order… Being packaged makes binning easier but it’s a waste to package a junk chip). Packaging might happen in Malaysia, Singapore, or China (or elsewhere, I just know those countries have packaging facilities).

    Packaging is when they put the chip(s) on the little PCB that has the pins or pads (for CPUs), though GPUs generally go on a board of some sort, though I can only guess how this one was packaged. Imagining Jensen Huang on an assembly line, licking the backs of GPUs and sticking them on missiles as they pass by and causually get dumped in a steel bin at the end of the conveyor, but that’s probably not what’s happening with them.





  • Haha I have also done an interview where the person had a friend in the room feeding them answers, though this one must have assumed his mic was worse than it was and didn’t mute at all, so we could hear the mumbling of answers. To make it even funnier, though, their friend wouldn’t have gotten hired either because none of their answers were good.

    I kinda wanted to tell them they should find a smarter friend to help them cheat at interviews but instead just thanked them for their time and ended the interview.

    Though tbh, I wasn’t really impressed by any of the new grads from the schools we were looking at. Some of them made me wonder if they learned anything at all about software development during their time at school.



  • MK Ultra on its own could count for several.

    Was the experiment where they released some “harmless pathogen” (assuming your immune system is all good!) in major cities to see how they spread, resulting in some deaths/complications part of MK Ultra? Can’t remember if it was under that project or part of a different one leading up to it.

    The Iran/contras were CIA.

    Oh also the Iranian revolution, or at least the instability that led to it.

    Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden both started as CIA assets that got tired of being used.

    A lot of attempts on Fidel Castro’s life.

    That’s off the top of my head. There’s also a bunch of fuckery in central and south America, though if I had to guess, I would guess that there has been fuckery in every single country on this planet, including countries some would have called allies. Iirc they targeted some Canadian cities for that “release the pathogen” experiment, too.



  • Do you know the reverse grip trick that lets you use rightie scissors with your left hand anyways?

    It’s mostly useful for small cuts because it’s also awkward, but it will cut instead of bend.

    It works because your thumb and fingers apply sideways force that pushes the cutting blades together if the scissors match the hand or apart if they don’t, but reversing the grip (as in having the blades on your palm side instead of pointing away from you) reverses the forces they apply.




  • Yeah, I gotta say that while shit is looking pretty bad on the corporate producer side of things, this society/system has bred a ton of entitled consumers that think their desires are important to anyone that can make or do things.

    Even if you’re paying someone for something, that doesn’t mean you can dictate what they do or how they do it. Or even that they need to offer you what they willingly offer others. There’s some people where no amount of money would make dealing with them worthwhile, let alone what they are willing to pay for special treatment.

    But with FOSS, there isn’t even the incentive of money greasing the interaction. It’s just pure entitlement. No one owes you anything just because you’re interested in their project or skills.