diff --git a/content/Essays/law-school.md b/content/Essays/law-school.md index 1a5684a91..adf198c8d 100755 --- a/content/Essays/law-school.md +++ b/content/Essays/law-school.md @@ -84,7 +84,9 @@ This section is admittedly short because I haven't had much genuine experience. ### Detour: Women in Law Disclaimer, I am not a woman (much less one in law), so my observations do not reflect lived experiences, and there are probably much more profound accounts elsewhere. -I’ve observed several women with established legal careers who don't act according to what I would expect someone who had a poor experience getting to their current position would. Often, they will not attempt to uplift other women, and will not provide support and wisdom about how practice looks for a woman. Instead, they are overly harsh and critical of young women attempting to enter the practice. For example, a female **federal judge** brushed off my mistakes when I owned up and stood my ground, but the female advocate for the opposing party had to remain completely composed while the same judge flew off the handle at her for taking too long to answer a question. I’ve seen this happen more times than I can count in academic (“speak up!”) and professional (“why aren’t you…”) contexts. This practice is unfair to students and advocates, it pressures them out of the career, and just plain hurts them personally. +Women in law are beset on all sides by resistance to their existence. The cultural barriers of the profession mean that it's usually senior men making decisions which disparately impact female attorneys. I'm not sure I can add a profound take on the male-dominated industry, so you should search for that elsewhere. + +But just as pressingly, I’ve observed several women with established legal careers who are overly harsh and critical of young women attempting to enter the practice. I would expect someone who had a poor experience getting to their current position to attempt to uplift other women, but these women will seldom even provide support and wisdom about how practice looks for a woman. For example, a female **federal judge** brushed off my mistakes when I owned up and stood my ground, but the female advocate for the opposing party had to remain completely composed while the same judge flew off the handle at her for taking too long to answer a question. I’ve seen this happen more times than I can count in academic (“speak up!”) and professional (“why aren’t you…”) contexts. This practice is unfair to students and advocates, it pressures them out of the career, and just plain hurts them personally. Literature on this subject (and complaints by female law students experiencing this in class) suggests that these attorneys, professors, and judges could be motivated by a subconscious desire to “prepare” young women for the misogynistic practice they’re going into. If that is the case, then it’s ironic that their behavior is pushing away the very people who could actually do something about how shitty the career is to women. ## Conclusion diff --git a/content/Essays/plagiarism.md b/content/Essays/plagiarism.md index 6b76e3f0b..822ad20c2 100755 --- a/content/Essays/plagiarism.md +++ b/content/Essays/plagiarism.md @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Some arguments in this paper specifically surrounding AI are related more to leg > [!warning] > CW: discussions of systemic/societal implicit bias and inequity in the AI section. Emotional accounts of exploited work product elsewhere. ## My Position -I think all works published that hold themselves out as informative or authoritative should properly inform the reader what they used to draw their conclusions. +I think all works published that hold themselves out as informative or authoritative should properly inform the reader what they used to draw their conclusions. Writing to inform comes with a certain respect for the reader, and should be done with the assumption that the reader will critically engage with your points and want to explore the backdrop on which your points are made. To comport with my own beliefs, on this website, I: - Provide links to webpages for programs/projects I discuss, including documentation as needed. @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ There are two institutions in my life that have most certainly contributed to my Coming from academia, my culture is very much "show your work." It was always beneficial to me personally to be able to point to someone much more decorated than myself and go "see? They share my conclusion." I'm not commenting on whether the academy's meritocracy is a good system (as I'm very much not qualified to do so), but following the rules of the institution and citing my sources allowed me to reach a broader audience without much effort on my part beyond what was necessary to create work product. The legal field is even more source-mandatory due to the system of precedent, that judges *must* follow the rules set by prior decisions binding on their court. The onus is almost entirely on the advocates to inform the judge what they must do (while arguing what they *should* do). The profession places very little value on original statements as a result. The expression inherent in how you arrange the statements of others, combined with your ability to find favorable statements, is what determines your skill level as an attorney. +- Non-plagiarism sidebar: an exercise for the reader that I like to throw at poor unsuspecting 1Ls is, **should legal briefs be copyrightable**? That is, if you file a brief and some attorney at another firm downloads the brief from the public record and changes names/signatures before filing it in their case, have they committed copyright infringement? As mentioned above, there's definitely a gap in my knowlege/views that broadens the more creative or traditionally-considered-artistic the subject matter gets. Copyright absolutely extends to the arts, but what place does attribution have when the purpose is to entertain? One can hardly document one's creative experience when working on a novel, a script, a painting, in the same way a legal brief can be. I do believe in the necessity of personal attribution for those who directly contributed to an artistic work (think the credits section of a movie) for professional reasons, but beyond that, I'm uncertain. ## Digital Gardening and Plagiarism diff --git a/content/Essays/write-something.md b/content/Essays/write-something.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..67635bcf7 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/Essays/write-something.md @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +--- +title: You should write on the internet! +tags: + - essay + - seedling + - writing + - difficulty-easy +date: 2024-10-13 +lastmod: 2024-10-13 +draft: false +--- +Writing: it's ~~quick~~, it's ~~easy~~, and it's free\*. +- \\* terms and conditions apply + +It's often said about AI content that you shouldn't be bothered to read what nobody could be bothered to write. But the reverse is true, and I have a deep respect for anyone that does take the time and conscious effort to express themselves in long- or medium-form. + +If you've been considering putting up a website, this is your sign to go and do it! The tools in the space are now incredibly mature, and there are many user-friendly options and tiers of tech involvement to choose between. But none of that is important. Your content is what's important. + +Here are some suggestions: +## Write to inform +You might want to generate awareness of your viewpoint or experiences for consideration. If you're already using a microblogging site for this, I'm certain your audience will appreciate making your thoughts available in multiple forms through your website. + +If you're interested in creating infotainment like I am, consider adopting the [academish voice](https://inkandswitch.notion.site/Academish-Voice-0d8126b3be5545d2a21705ceedb5dd45). I read quite a bit of content in this space, and it's much more comfortable to consume when using even a loose style guide along these lines. +## Write to collect +This is a large part of [[Essays/why-i-garden|why I garden]]. Digital gardening in particular promotes making your acquired knowledge accessible and searchable. I find it also makes me more organized when I talk about these concepts with other people. + +This merges well with ideas like [zettelkasten notetaking](https://zettelkasten.de/introduction/) or other atomic note processes, where your knowledge is already structured in a way that's easy to abstract over. +### Detour: The importance of control +As I said, your content is what's important. But that also means access to your content is important. Much like I don't have opinions on what style of writing you should adopt, I don't have opinions on what software/tool you use to publish it, **except**: make sure that you have some way to ensure continuing access to that content. This means being able to move it in the unfortunate event that you're no longer able to use your current solution, or if you just want to move it to a new platform for any other reason. + +> [!important] **Protect your content** +> You almost certainly don't want AI scraping your content for training. If you're able, you should: +> - configure robots.txt to tell AI scrapers to ignore your site +> - ban AI scrapers from seeing your site at all: [[Projects/Obsidian/digital-garden#Block the bot traffic!|here's how I do it]] +> - stop suspicious activity with [fail2ban](https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban) +> - if your domain is through CloudFlare, [block AI scrapers](https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-block-ai-bots-scrapers-and-crawlers-with-a-single-click/) + +## Resources +Large lists where you can find a bunch of projects to compare. +- [awesome-selfhosted: Blogging](https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?Tab=readme-ov-file#blogging-platforms) +- [awesome-static-generators](https://github.com/myles/awesome-static-generators?tab=readme-ov-file#blogs) + +And here's some top picks I've curated from the above, in order of increasing difficulty/involvement. Note that they're all above a threshold level of tech involvement, because I won't engage with riskier options like Notion, Obsidian Publish, Substack, or WordPress. You're welcome to explore those options if they fit your needs though! +- [Quartz (this site!)](https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/); TypeScript and Markdown ([[Projects/Obsidian/digital-garden|how I do it]]) + - Nicole van der Hoeven's [excellent video tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s6DT1yN4dw) +- [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/); Ruby and Markdown +- [Ghost](https://ghost.org/); professional Medium alternative with a focus on social media integration + - Here's how to migrate from WordPress to the much saner Ghost platform. [Guide](https://ghost.org/docs/migration/wordpress/) +- [capital-Small Web](https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/) tools like [Kitten](https://codeberg.org/kitten/app) and [Domain](https://codeberg.org/domain/app) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/Projects/nvidia-linux.md b/content/Projects/nvidia-linux.md index f22bc6d23..34425e4f6 100755 --- a/content/Projects/nvidia-linux.md +++ b/content/Projects/nvidia-linux.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ tags: - difficulty-easy - foss date: 2024-03-26 -lastmod: 2024-09-01 +lastmod: 2024-10-06 draft: false --- The year is 2024. NVIDIA on linux is in a usable state! Of course, there are still many pitfalls and options required for a good experience. This page documents every configuration trick I've used and has all the resources that you need to use it yourself. @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Start by installing the nvidia driver that your distro bundles (or a community p I recommend adding `nvidia.NVreg_OpenRmEnableUnsupportedGpus=1 nvidia.NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1 nvidia_drm.modeset=1` to your kernel parameters. These help with hardware detection, sleep, and display configuration, respectively. - If you do add the third option, you will only be able to set the first two by kernel parameters. This is because **for modesetting drivers, options set in modprobe .conf files have no effect.** -You should also blacklist the Noveau video driver. You can do this with kernel parameters through `modprobe.blacklist=noveau` (effective immediately), or in your module config files (effective after rebuilding the initramfs). +You should also blacklist the Noveau video driver. You can do this with kernel parameters through `modprobe.blacklist=noveau` (effective next boot), or in your module config files (effective after rebuilding the initramfs). ## X11 In my opinion (and with my hardware), X11 is more usable right now with nvidia cards. @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ The options for the nvidia driver are documented [here](https://download.nvidia. > [!info] Full disclosure > Wayland is not yet usable on NVIDIA in my opinion, but it's so close now! -On both Gnome and Plasma, I've managed to get the display working on 6.x kernels and 5xx drivers as long as I've enabled `all-ways-egpu` and kernel modesetting. +On both Gnome and Plasma, I've managed to get the display working simultaneously with an Intel-driven internal display on 6.x kernels and 5xx drivers as long as I've enabled `all-ways-egpu` and kernel modesetting.all-ways-egpu is less necessary nowadays, and in my modern setup I elect to go without it. For more stable logins, ensure that your display manager (GDM for gnome, defaults to SDDM on Plasma) is using Wayland. @@ -79,6 +79,14 @@ XWayland will have degraded performance on NVIDIA cards. On Arch specifically, s August 2024 did not yield any new results. However, **September 2024**: Explicit sync is supported across Wayland, XWayland, Mutter, KWin, AND the graphics card drivers. The performance problems with NVIDIA are mostly gone. I was able to run games at X11 fidelity with maybe 10 less FPS, and it's no longer choppy or flickery. Input latency is the final issue, and I experienced it even while using LatencyFleX. I'm hopeful that once Mutter gets fullscreen tearing support in Wayland, I can finally make the switch. I haven't tested in Plasma again, but it's definitely possible that Plasma is now usable as a Wayland gaming DE. +### GTK apps not opening +GTK 4.16 (in conjunction with the release of GNOME 47) swapped to Vulkan renderer by default. Vulkan has issues creating surfaces across display devices on Wayland, which is called PRIME in the X11 world. You may experience crashes in GTK apps for this reason. **Fix:** + +```sh +# In /etc/environment +GSK_RENDERER=ngl +``` + ## More Resources Allow me to dump every other page that I've needed to comb through for a working nvidia card. - [Archwiki - NVIDIA](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA) (useful on more distros than Arch!) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/Updates/2024/oct.md b/content/Updates/2024/oct.md index b289db948..c39816c4d 100644 --- a/content/Updates/2024/oct.md +++ b/content/Updates/2024/oct.md @@ -8,8 +8,11 @@ lastmod: 2024-10-31 --- ## Housekeeping Happy spooky season! + +As of posting this, I've been on the fediverse/socialweb for a year. The amount of computer interested folks on there is just amazing for community and troubleshooting. It's not without severe problems by way of moderation and groups platforming abusers, but on an instance with superb moderation, you'll see much less of it. I can't applaud the quality of [Treehouse](https://social.treehouse.systems)'s moderation enough; our instance admin has decades of experience dating back to IRC and makes the experience so much nicer. ## Pages - New: [[Misc/ai-integrity|Academic Integrity and AI]]. A nice little preview before I drop the infringement page... +- New: [[Essays/write-something|You should write something!]] ## Status Updates - ## Helpful Links