As a kid I watched the PBS show Ghost Writer, but on TVO. Now my kid is starting to watch it, and, uh.

Wow it's better than I remember.

It is better at talking about race in America than any show I've seen, and it does *the fucking work* to make sure its kids feel like kids but also never once talk down to a kid.

I honestly wonder if, as a show, radicalized me into the person I am.

My wife who has never seen any episode is so fucking invested we've watched some episodes while the kids were asleep.

I should be flattred that when I make brownies my kids start chanting impatiently, shouldn't I?

it's just very stressful

At the park with my kids. A group of older kids (8-10ish?) are playing Among Us, which appears to be Mafia Tag, where you secretly make someone IT, they all play together, and people can die, then they vote like mafia. If they figure out who is It they play tag with a safety spot.

I am so fucking jealous of this group of kind accepting kids, who are stopping to help and play with my four year old and two year old, while also playing the coolest tag variant in history.

The Kids Are Doing Amazing

One of my groupchats has a channel called "Dystopic Chuckling" and it's just us making jokes about the horrors around us.

And... why

Why is this necessary.

Fuck KnowBe4.

Phishing Simulation training is so often just a way of making companies and employees feel bad.

But apparently insurance has read a KnowBe4 report and has made our insurance contingent on it.

Insurance companies need to keep up.

I didn't expect Title IIing to happen today. It's like... uh...

Title II of Internet Services out of nowhere (at least to me, a non-American) is giant. Whoa.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/25/24140157/fcc-vote-restore-net-neutrality-rosenworcel-biden

FCC votes to restore net neutrality

The Federal Communications Commission voted to reclassify internet service providers under Title II of the Communications Act but will forbear on rate regulation.

^{Lauren Feiner (The Verge)}

Coworkers often are confused why I maintain local copies of all our git repos.

The answer is:

grep -Ri "There was an error while loading announcements" .

My 4 year old has managed to find the UPnP endpoint for the Jellyfin server and added ska to his bedtime playlist...

I am going to need to put his tablet on a vlan before he watches Alien and can't sleep.

https://www.404media.co/we-must-never-forget-how-dumb-the-humane-ai-pin-is/ wrote:

I am now, of course, adding to this neverending discourse with this article. But I want to be clear: No one is under any obligation to be nice to the creators of the Humane pin or the product itself, which, even if it worked, is a gadget that relies on mass content theft and the scraping of huge amounts of human knowledge and creativity to make a product that is marketed as making us more “human.” The people making this argument are people who have a vested interest in the general public continuing to canonize, support, and spend money on a Silicon Valley vision of the future that involves the automation of everything, the displacement of huge numbers of workers, and a new, AI-led internet that has so far done little but flooded the web with low quality junk, been used to make fake porn to harass women, and has led eager beaver know nothing CEOs to prematurely lay off huge numbers of workers to replace them with AI tools built on the back of uncompensated human labor and training largely done by underpaid “ghost workers” in the developing world.

@404 Media is literally the single best tech media in the entire world. There are some other reporters out there who are amazing, but 404 Media has the full chain of support.

LLM answers are Mad Libs for Tech Bros

Prompt enginneering is the act of replacin "Adjective" with "A Colour" and then rerolling until you finally get one you like

Wait, fuck

I don't really eat hot sauce, but my uncle and I eat scorpion peppers he grows sometimes...

Should I be less worried about hot sauces?

@404 Media Hey! You require me to sign in to use your website! Cool! That's fine and good!

Can you give me the option to sign in with a password? My password manager is pretty easy for me to use, but I don't tend to have my personal email open on my work laptop and so your signin flow is really keeping me from using your stuff and is the biggest source of friction for me.

Also - holy shit - your journalism is amazing, thanks.

Holy Shit
Holy Shit
The show The Order got a second season.

I want to be clear - this show did not deserve a first season. And I will be watching the hell out of it. Hermetic Order of the Blue Rose is the name for your secret society that you use to say "I know enough to only step on occult rakes"

Dug out an old laptop I want to try to mod the screen on last night and started it up, and kicked off a freebsd-upgrade to 14 (last update was 2019, probably before the kids were born)

I stayed up til 1 am waiting for the upgrade to finish, but then crashed, I am now yawning through the Easter Eggs hunt and the laptop is still updating

This is literally the only coherent article I've ever read on selecting a tool as a business.

https://mwl.io/archives/23490

LLM generated text is fascinatingc because there's two groups managing it.
1) I am going to call the SpamAssassin side, now I know that you've likely not has email that wasn't Office365 or Gmail for a decade or more, and those are Category Two email services, but we scrappy underdogs filtering email with SpamAssassin have an effect where LLM generated text looks like garbage, and so if you generate your words or images with a GPT engine, it's gotta be scored as garbage
2) the Google/Facebook/Microsoft stance that you should allow all LLM text and diffusion images! They're great! It's the AI revolution!

The problem with Category 2 is that it rapidly makes all your stuff garbage (people only see spam), because if people can generate stuff no one wants to see, but gets past the filter, they will. Google will literally pay them to do that.

If you block that stuff, people who claim there are ethical uses for LLMs (a lie) will be caught, and those generating human supervised text carefully will be blocked.

The goals of people-who-make-money-on-clicks (read: everyone) are only served if:
We only use category 1 filters
The people making money on clicks create things that pass category 1 filters

And the whole "what is happening to facebook" is just the culmination of this obvious point