Reporting posts to my instance admin because they're funny and I want them to see it
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Having #UnknownArmies thoughts - thinking about a data mining tech company run by a cabal of Cryptomancers - not selling the data or advertising, just collecting the secrets of millions and using it for charges
My RPG group needed to evoke a dive bar correctly, so I coined the phrase "greasy beer"
This is literally the worst concept for a dive bar
This is literally the worst concept for a dive bar
not a dive bar, but eons ago went to the El Macombo in the middle of the day and got a pitcher of beer that was at least 1/4 foam...and the beer was pretty brutal. Funny for a bar with such a good rating. Haven't been back since, then again it's been ages since I been in Toronto for more than a few hours.
@Chaslinux I was at a concert at the El Macombo in like ... 2007, but that was not my experience. Tragic.
As AI art gets better and better at photorealistic art, it gets worse at *art* and better at *deception*. But of course, as it gets worse, it gets worse at *art* and better at *making garbage*.
There is an obvious solution to this dilemma.
There is an obvious solution to this dilemma.
@mike No I agree
I was thinking about this image I saw of someone next to a TV with a person in the TV coming out to hug them.
If an AI made it, it would look bad and dumb
If a human made it, it means something weird and personal
I was thinking about this image I saw of someone next to a TV with a person in the TV coming out to hug them.
If an AI made it, it would look bad and dumb
If a human made it, it means something weird and personal
Kind of like how sometimes who the artist is matters. The context of a work’s creation changes its meaning. But, a human still made potentially thousands of creative choices in the creation of an AI generated image, in much the same way a photographer or director does. An AI didn’t decide that out of it’s quasi-infinite potential outputs, a certain one should be circulated on social media with a certain presentation.
…yet
…yet
Thinking about this again https://web.archive.org/web/20130923223622/http://istouchidhackedyet.com/
That was 4 days after the domain was registered, and the day the phone was released....
That was 4 days after the domain was registered, and the day the phone was released....
Is Touch ID hacked yet?
An archive of the website istouchidhackedyet.com, where indeed it has beenweb.archive.org
When I see people arguing over faceid ve touchid, I find myself considering suggesting that if biometrics are secure enough for their use case then just leaving the phone unlocked should also be up for consideration.
@⛅ w chance of bears I use fingerprint because I want to make sure I don't pocket dial.
But yeah - seriously - it's... upsetting to me
So much just weird security choices
But yeah - seriously - it's... upsetting to me
So much just weird security choices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiZhdpLXZ8Q
It's longrunning character Hat Dan! The Dan with a Hat
It's longrunning character Hat Dan! The Dan with a Hat
The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse
Clickbait Title: I spent three months living in the metaverse and now I'm starvingThe metaverse salespeople have a weird fixation with Animal Crossing, in sp...YouTube
I love the idea of Joke Theft and shit on social media.
Someone makes a joke, and then someone else riffs on it. Or tells a similar joke. And people get super up in arms about the joke being "stolen".
Copyright and Clout just rotting their brain until they ignore the idea of culture
Someone makes a joke, and then someone else riffs on it. Or tells a similar joke. And people get super up in arms about the joke being "stolen".
Copyright and Clout just rotting their brain until they ignore the idea of culture
I love how so often the "how dare you steal this joke" posts are about such low-hanging fruit, the most obvious riff a person could make about some current thing jokes. Maybe they saw that joke and reposted it, or maybe dozens of people came up with the same thing independently.
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@⛅ w chance of bears Yeah
And like, maybe someone sees a joke, and would prefer a slightly better one and riffs.
you don't need to cite your Joke Sources
MLA Style Joke Citations
And like, maybe someone sees a joke, and would prefer a slightly better one and riffs.
you don't need to cite your Joke Sources
MLA Style Joke Citations
It seems incredibly impossible to email a tailor and be like "can you tailor me a pair of baggy cargo pants?"
It just...
I'm sure they'd take the commission, but it just seems wrong
It just...
I'm sure they'd take the commission, but it just seems wrong
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yeah, that's a nonstarter on like every level.
I would really love digital signatures to be on more fragments of content, like I feel like the possibility of digital signatures is severely underused. But the truth value isn't something we can ever fix technically.
I would really love digital signatures to be on more fragments of content, like I feel like the possibility of digital signatures is severely underused. But the truth value isn't something we can ever fix technically.
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@серафими многоꙮчитїи I dunno - I don't own enough technology that I trust to own a key longterm
I don't have a device I feel like my key wont be exfiltrated from, and I am terrible at keeping reliable hardware tokens.
I don't have a device I feel like my key wont be exfiltrated from, and I am terrible at keeping reliable hardware tokens.
I just wanna be an embedded dev so I can port Android Open Source to surplus Google Glass and mount it inside a pair of ski goggles
I am a simple man
I am a simple man
@Hypolite Petovan Face computer is honestly pretty cool! I am the kind of nerd that likes face computer and hates always on camera and mic
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Are you really playing RPGs properly if one of your players is concerned about going on an adventure but says "I wouldn't have my home bees"
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I am slowly going mad
I am trying to report to Simplii Financial that they don't have SSL on simplii.com and they just keep telling me that they have SSL on www.simplii.com
This is one of those "type it into SSL labs and see what pops out situations", incredibly boring, and it just breaks my HSTS and it's annoying and bad.
Their support team needs a screenshot of my browser not connecting , and a version number of a browser and the model number of my computer, and it needs to be running Windows or Mac in order to report this. But they did finally send me to BugCrowd.
BugCrowd tells me that it's a false positive, and that this means SSL is working fine https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=simplii.com
I am definitely moving my money, but also - is BugCrowd usually this dumb?! Is there anywhere where you can report a (admittedly incredibly minor) security issue to a Canadian bank where someone who knows what SSL is will read it?
I am trying to report to Simplii Financial that they don't have SSL on simplii.com and they just keep telling me that they have SSL on www.simplii.com
This is one of those "type it into SSL labs and see what pops out situations", incredibly boring, and it just breaks my HSTS and it's annoying and bad.
Their support team needs a screenshot of my browser not connecting , and a version number of a browser and the model number of my computer, and it needs to be running Windows or Mac in order to report this. But they did finally send me to BugCrowd.
BugCrowd tells me that it's a false positive, and that this means SSL is working fine https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=simplii.com
I am definitely moving my money, but also - is BugCrowd usually this dumb?! Is there anywhere where you can report a (admittedly incredibly minor) security issue to a Canadian bank where someone who knows what SSL is will read it?
This is their proof that the bareword domain has SSL on it. Whicjh uh, I am glad BugCrowd hires the best.
The hardest part of being the only Security person in my org is that it's really hard to document "this is common knowledge in my field, but arcane knowledge outside it", because everyone is really worried that they don't understand the context, but anyone in the intended audience would understand it without the documentation.
The theme of this week has been
"damn we made a mistake 2 years ago, I guess we can't ever fix it"
and then me stubbornly deciding to force people to fix it
fun fact: the security team can't get a ticket in the sprint. but they can get a high priority issue to override sprint priorities as part of an incident postmortem.
"damn we made a mistake 2 years ago, I guess we can't ever fix it"
and then me stubbornly deciding to force people to fix it
fun fact: the security team can't get a ticket in the sprint. but they can get a high priority issue to override sprint priorities as part of an incident postmortem.
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A couple years ago I was delighted to be in “code freeze” because the exception process was faster than the normal workflow, so we pushed more code than ever. 😀
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@silverwizard Microsoft went a step further and made sure of it: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/110018958213024544
MSFT lays off its responsible AI teamThe thing that strikes me most about this story from @zoeschiffer and @caseynewton is the way in which the MSFT execs describe the urgency to move "AI models into the hands of customers"
https://www.platformer.news/p/microsoft-just-laid-off-one-of-its
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Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams
As the company accelerates its push into AI products, the ethics and society team is goneZoë Schiffer (Platformer)
@Hypolite Petovan I was mostly thinking of people telling me to me empathetic to laid off Meta employees
But yeah - Microsoft and Google employees also don't seem very ethical.
And at least Microsoft seems to be doing it because they outsource all their AI (hopefully they are thinking this) and because they have decided it's layoff season. But at least they aren't Google who fired their best AI ethics person because she was like "Maybe we should not burn the environment for bad AI?"
But yeah - Microsoft and Google employees also don't seem very ethical.
And at least Microsoft seems to be doing it because they outsource all their AI (hopefully they are thinking this) and because they have decided it's layoff season. But at least they aren't Google who fired their best AI ethics person because she was like "Maybe we should not burn the environment for bad AI?"
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I wish the RSS Aggregator Without Delusions of Grandeur had a less embarrassing name so I could recommend it to more people
@Spencer The thing is, it's just a really good way to make a stupid simple HTML page out of an RSS feeds group and get a very boring RSS
I just realized that the thing I want most in terms of clothes is "bondage pants designed by Rob Liefeld"
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My son has decided he wants to make balloons so wants:
Liquid latex and paraffin for the balloon
A star for the helium
I... Am bad at 3 year olds
Liquid latex and paraffin for the balloon
A star for the helium
I... Am bad at 3 year olds
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People often talk about the barriers to entry of the fediverse and IRC
and uh - what if we called those barriers to entry "culture"
and uh - what if we called those barriers to entry "culture"
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it's true. the mastodon onboarding problem had basically no technical hurdles and one big "ah shit, what room full of strangers do I walk into?"
(I still don't understand why people act like gambling on which interoperable fediverse instance to join is worse than gambling on which of several mutually incompatible services to join)
(I still don't understand why people act like gambling on which interoperable fediverse instance to join is worse than gambling on which of several mutually incompatible services to join)
I mean - i get that the problem is:
If I go to Post.News I am done making choices
If I go to the Fediverse, now I need to make a second choice
And I mean - from my end it's a question of wanting to give up on the model (which I've wanted to do for as long as the model has existed)
I also have a weird relationship with the "room full of strangers" question, as I started with "I want a single panel for all my social stuff which can also use the federated stuff" rather than "I want to join this network" (I already had a disused GNUSocial, and a Diaspora account)
If I go to Post.News I am done making choices
If I go to the Fediverse, now I need to make a second choice
And I mean - from my end it's a question of wanting to give up on the model (which I've wanted to do for as long as the model has existed)
I also have a weird relationship with the "room full of strangers" question, as I started with "I want a single panel for all my social stuff which can also use the federated stuff" rather than "I want to join this network" (I already had a disused GNUSocial, and a Diaspora account)
No like, new hardware - switched from MySQL to Amazon Aurora MySQL
my life choices that lead me here are bad and mercenary - but it feels way more impressive
my life choices that lead me here are bad and mercenary - but it feels way more impressive
Trying to go sledding with the cousins
3L of hot chocolate, bag of marshmallows, little thing of butter, couple knives, and candied orange buns
I am bad at sledding but a good companion
3L of hot chocolate, bag of marshmallows, little thing of butter, couple knives, and candied orange buns
I am bad at sledding but a good companion
My nephew made a North American Ticket To Ride that he calls North North America rather than Canadian and added an Airport mechanic
Proud of him (he's 9)
Proud of him (he's 9)
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My brain just thought "Castlevania Burning Wheel" and that sounds great
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Set it in one of the cities ravaged by Night Beasts, whole army of monsters, some leftover. Wolves, both were and mortal roam the town, fresh water must be secured, alliances, the old government and new social structures. Room to flesh out literally hundreds of NPCs if you wish, while still focusing on a band.
Lots of available combat, but with it considered a horrible idea.
Lots of available combat, but with it considered a horrible idea.
Ok, my motto that "JavaScript is excel for webdevs" can now be extended to "WASM is the JVM for JavaScript"
This is 100% shade at Zellij
If you wanna use WASM as a compilation target, why not use Excel? It's used in more places and serious workflows!
If you wanna use WASM as a compilation target, why not use Excel? It's used in more places and serious workflows!
I am Jack's Lost 404
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