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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 release....
That was 4 days after the domain was registered, and the day the phone was release....
Is Touch ID hacked yet?
An archive of the website istouchidhackedyet.com, where indeed it has beenweb.archive.org
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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
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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
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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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This blog post seemed very normal until I hit this bit
GITHUB ACCIDENTALLY POSTED THEIR PRIVATE KEYS TO GITHUB
THERE IS LITERALLY NO ONE ON EARTH ABLE TO USE THIS PROGRAM SAFELY
https://github.blog/2023-03-23-we-updated-our-rsa-ssh-host-key/
GITHUB ACCIDENTALLY POSTED THEIR PRIVATE KEYS TO GITHUB
THERE IS LITERALLY NO ONE ON EARTH ABLE TO USE THIS PROGRAM SAFELY
https://github.blog/2023-03-23-we-updated-our-rsa-ssh-host-key/
We updated our RSA SSH host key | The GitHub Blog
At approximately 05:00 UTC on March 24, out of an abundance of caution, we replaced our RSA SSH host key used to secure Git operations for GitHub.com.Mike Hanley (GitHub)
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it’s very telling that this career securitygeek no longer gets angry at such headlines, but simply sighs and rolls his eyes in muted resignation. :((((((
I’m baffled that git still doesn’t at least have some sensible defaults about what types of files maybe should have an extra confirm step before committing
@esther that's because git is a versioning system and follows unix-esque KISS principle.
It doesn't have any knowledge of what a file extension is.
Usually some [partly commercialized] version systems & management platforms like #GitLab and #gitea should have some options to do so - similar to branch protection...
It doesn't have any knowledge of what a file extension is.
Usually some [partly commercialized] version systems & management platforms like #GitLab and #gitea should have some options to do so - similar to branch protection...
I disagree with this characterization for several reasons, including the existence of .gitattributes, and also git's completely baffling, inappropriate, dangerous distinction between text and binary files
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would you mind elaborating a little on the text/binary thing? I remember a similar distinction from my earliest FTPing days and so I've just accepted it (and had issues with it, mainly CRLF ofc). Does git do it worse, or has it just always been inappropriate/dangerous?
@ChateauErin git makes a guess as to whether every file is text or binary. Like FTP, if it thinks it's in text mode it does newline conversion at point of upload/download. There's some sort of file attribute system for correcting it if it guesses wrong but I'm still vaguely terrified of a hash-based version control system where the file you have in disk might not be the true file and the hash you calculate from disk might not be the true hash
@Erin
@ChateauErin then can I introduce you to git’s wonderful clean and smudge filters?
They explicitly perform conversions between a canonical form in the repository and a displayed form in the tree!
They explicitly perform conversions between a canonical form in the repository and a displayed form in the tree!
@Erin
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Maybe 🙊just maybe 🙊🙊 this could be a suitable place for.... some AI? Have files checked for things that look like Private Keys (and other things the user probably doesn't want to upload), and highlight that before uploading so the user can confirm or refuse the upload as needed?
(And also education about how to design your system so there is less chance of uploading Private Keys in the first place?)
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Maybe 🙊just maybe 🙊🙊 this could be a suitable place for.... some AI? Have files checked for things that look like Private Keys (and other things the user probably doesn't want to upload), and highlight that before uploading so the user can confirm or refuse the upload as needed?
(And also education about how to design your system so there is less chance of uploading Private Keys in the first place?)
@esther @edaross yeah, that's a general issue in terms of #ITsec, #InfoSec, #ComSec and #OpSec.
That's why one should not manage sensitive stuff on publicly accessible servers.
In fact, every employer I worked for put their repos internally on their own servers and restricted access to only devs within corporate network/VPN to reduce the issue.
That's why one should not manage sensitive stuff on publicly accessible servers.
In fact, every employer I worked for put their repos internally on their own servers and restricted access to only devs within corporate network/VPN to reduce the issue.
@oblomov @esther Checking… Github does. Github has this feature already. It's just opt-in, so (apparently) not even Github is using it https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/code-security/secret-scanning/protecting-pushes-with-secret-scanning
Protecting pushes with secret scanning - GitHub Enterprise Cloud Docs
You can use secret scanning to prevent supported secrets from being pushed into your enterprise, organization, or repository by enabling push protection.GitHub Docs
@esther @oblomov It's free for public repos as of recently. Maybe that's how they discovered it.
https://github.blog/2023-02-28-secret-scanning-alerts-are-now-available-and-free-for-all-public-repositories/
https://github.blog/2023-02-28-secret-scanning-alerts-are-now-available-and-free-for-all-public-repositories/
Secret scanning alerts are now available (and free) for all public repositories | The GitHub Blog
Secret scanning alerts are now generally available for all public repositories. Admins can now turn on the alert experience with one click.Zain Malik (GitHub)
@esther
ah, interesting. I'm not surprised (git has the infrastructure for this kind of things, as I mentioned), but yeah it being a paid feature is very chef kiss.
ah, interesting. I'm not surprised (git has the infrastructure for this kind of things, as I mentioned), but yeah it being a paid feature is very chef kiss.
@ed1conf @mattly @Tathar Sure, but then somebody whose native tongue is a Slavic language rather than English is inevitably gonna hear that, pronounce it with their pronunciation of “j”, suddenly everybody in Eastern Europe is pronouncing it “yif” and the furries win everything.
Is that really the future liberals want?
Is that really the future liberals want?
LITERALLY in the middle of writing a privacy impact assessment for a 3rd-party tool where the only risk I could identify was “someone might accidentlly commit sensitive data to the repo which [tool] would then pull into its local”
I was confused by the announcement saying sOmEoNe posted the private keys and I was just confused how they got them in the first place? "wait, who?" ugh.
As far as I can see after skimming over this, they just lost the SSH server key. Which is stored on first contact, and remembered (most admins don’t even save/backup them). It is not good to loose these, but mostly an inconvenience: now you have to talk to them again, make sure you get a warning, remove the old key, let SSH save the new key, on all your machines/accounts 😩, done. The important thing is you need to know you have to expect the error message.
Am I overlooking something?
Am I overlooking something?
the blog post doesn’t explain how they noticed that the key had been exposed. GitHub has automatic secret detection in repositories, and it’s not wild to assume that this is how the leak was discovered. In a way, I count this as a win: a mistake was quickly identified and corrective actions taken. It’s very hard to build systems that never accept a mistake, but it’s less hard to build ones that can cope with mistakes. (Unrelated: why can’t I add paragraphs in the mobile app? Apologies for the wall of text)
@thiagocsf Note they do not disclose when the breach occurred or how long the "brief" period of exposure was. We do not know for a fact that either the identification or the corrective action was performed quickly.
good point; I made optimistic assumptions. We are expanding on related capabilities at work, so at least it’s in the realm of short-term possibilities.
What, and I ask this will all due gravity, the candy-coated chocolate-dipped sprinkles-on-top F***?
I don't think there's any particular version control system you cannot commit arbitrary files to.
at this point "posting private keys to GitHub" is just something teenagers do on a dare
git is truly an awful software
the aim should never be too eliminate mistakes, the aim should be to recover and learn from them.
yup, nobody can be perfect all the time. It’s a problem when a system demands that all users perform their tasks carefully at all times — just too many opportunities for failure.
I'd argue the real issue is that someone had access to that key at all - why's it on someone's computer, in a repository, and not in some kind of encrypted vault with keys elsewhere, only accessible by the deployment infrastructure?
oh, is this what they meant by “how github uses github to build github?
Leaked signing keys are more common than you might think, and the cost of changing all the keys is so prohibitive that companies often just pretend it didn't happen. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/samsungs-android-app-signing-key-has-leaked-is-being-used-to-sign-malware/
Samsung’s Android app-signing key has leaked, is being used to sign malware
The cryptographic key proves an update is legit, assuming your OEM doesn't lose it.Ars Technica
for a minute I wondered which program can nobody use safely, git or SSH? Then I realized it works pretty well either way
so THAT'S why i got the known hosts warning! incredible. name a more iconic duo than programmers and checking sensitive data into source control.
I love that the article straight after this is about GitHub's secure code game!
Accidentally publishing the key is awful, calling its replacement an "abundance of caution" just tells me you have hardly any commitment to using and safeguarding it properly in the future, either.
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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.
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GANs (generative adversarial networks) have always been about deception. It’s a pair of models, one is learning to lie and the other is learning to detect those lies. I guess there’s a philosophical argument that something that cannot be proven to be a lie tends to resemble the truth, and that the better you can discern lies, the better you can perceive truth. But I don’t know if that’s true.
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@mike I don't even think that GANs are the issue. GANs can be tuned for anything. It's just really hard to make a series of neural nodes that contain like "this makes me feel like a hug" or "this is cozy"
We can make something look like a cozy piece, but it's going to be a little fucky. So as you make it more realistic, it's going to lose some of that cozy, but look more like a real image.
We can make something look like a cozy piece, but it's going to be a little fucky. So as you make it more realistic, it's going to lose some of that cozy, but look more like a real image.
@mike
Latent spaces don’t necessarily seem to have to work that way. I lean towards thinking generative AIs will be able to maintain many dimensions that don’t affect or attempt to compensate each other. “Realism” is ultimately just another parameter or artistic style; Dali’s surrealism is built on realism.
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Reporting posts to my instance admin because they're funny and I want them to see it
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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
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my use of the fediverse is the extent of my social media experience, so I'm not familiar with what you're referring to.
I remember people being up in arms about big name comedians in the early oughts stealing much of their material from unknown comics, and I (as a kid) was one of those.
I still somewhat stand by that, mostly because of the imbalance of power, but most of stand-up comedy is in the delivery.
Is this joke theft about memes?
I remember people being up in arms about big name comedians in the early oughts stealing much of their material from unknown comics, and I (as a kid) was one of those.
I still somewhat stand by that, mostly because of the imbalance of power, but most of stand-up comedy is in the delivery.
Is this joke theft about memes?
@Tony Bologna It's not really about memes.
I saw a post today where someone made a stupid joke along the lines of "I saw a programmer just typing into vi instead of using " and then a giant list of tools.
And someone else posted a screenshot of another similar joke and was like "if you steal a joke it's polite to credit the source".
And I get that comedians are selling jokes - and telling someone else's jokes has different consequences. But come on, we aren't getting paid here.
And I think the fact that a lot of social media people *are* getting paid for it, mixed amongst people who aren't makes it all pretty gross and weird.
I saw a post today where someone made a stupid joke along the lines of "I saw a programmer just typing into vi instead of using " and then a giant list of tools.
And someone else posted a screenshot of another similar joke and was like "if you steal a joke it's polite to credit the source".
And I get that comedians are selling jokes - and telling someone else's jokes has different consequences. But come on, we aren't getting paid here.
And I think the fact that a lot of social media people *are* getting paid for it, mixed amongst people who aren't makes it all pretty gross and weird.
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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
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If you have an SSH server and worry about disclosing your private key: OpenSSH has a server key rotation feature. Transparently change your server keys without requiring your users re-verify host keys.
It's documented in SSH Mastery, by the way. https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#ssh
Not that this has anything to do with github, of course. Pure coincidence.
It's documented in SSH Mastery, by the way. https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#ssh
Not that this has anything to do with github, of course. Pure coincidence.
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weirdly titled windmill is still spinning on the checkout page and book funnel has already delivered my books.
Also, mobile safari doesn’t provide a decimal in their numberpad. We’ll probably hidden under a long press.
Also, mobile safari doesn’t provide a decimal in their numberpad. We’ll probably hidden under a long press.
@doofus_canadensis that's weird.
I got the money and you got the books so I'm not terribly concerned, but that's definitely weird. Will poke at.
I got the money and you got the books so I'm not terribly concerned, but that's definitely weird. Will poke at.
TIL … silent rotation seems to make the impact of host key compromise potentially worse
@droe
There's other risks there, yes.
But it' s a tool, and folks should balance how they use it with their particular risk profile.
There's other risks there, yes.
But it' s a tool, and folks should balance how they use it with their particular risk profile.
@cfenollosa they briefly exposed the private half of their RSA hostkey and followed up by rotating it, per https://github.blog/2023-03-23-we-updated-our-rsa-ssh-host-key/
We updated our RSA SSH host key | The GitHub Blog
At approximately 05:00 UTC on March 24, out of an abundance of caution, we replaced our RSA SSH host key used to secure Git operations for GitHub.com.Mike Hanley (GitHub)
is there any great way to sign or distribute host keys over several clients?
I don't have DNS access...
I don't have DNS access...
@eingemaischt SSH Certificate Authorities. Same method used by Google and Yahoo. Also in the book.
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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
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@silverwizard But why?
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@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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Web of Trust For Content is going around, and uh, that feels way more fragile than the other WoT
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so as an anarchist I say "eject the offenders from the community"
as a person who lives under capitalism:
"I guess it's time to start a revolution or just accept the destruction of truth"
as a person who lives under capitalism:
"I guess it's time to start a revolution or just accept the destruction of truth"
wait, as in caching signed content so as to distribute it reliably? Or to actually say "I trust this person to speak truly"?
@серафими многоꙮчитїи Wait - why didn't my post post earlier?!
It's "I trust this person to speak truly" so trusted people can sign websites. Which feels bad
It's "I trust this person to speak truly" so trusted people can sign websites. Which feels bad
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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.
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New emoji idea: FACE WITH USB-C MOUTH AND USB-B 3.0 EYES
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I'm once again annoyed about how half-arsed the 3.0 version of my favourite USB connector (full-size B) is
@SigmaOne USB 3.0 connectors are either "let's glue some more bits on" or "let's see if we can shove more connectors in here... they'll fit, right?"
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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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Expanding on my own thoughts a bit here, there used to be limited epistemological value to even search engines that returned disinfo and misinfo. In particular, they generally would still deliver reliable statements of the form "x claims to believe y," which has some value even if y is false.
LL.s give up even that limited epistemology by disconnecting factual claims from their sources.
https://mathstodon.xyz/@cgranade/110068299080244929
LL.s give up even that limited epistemology by disconnecting factual claims from their sources.
https://mathstodon.xyz/@cgranade/110068299080244929
100%. I'm also struck by the entirely strange epistemology of "we see search as a way to discover information, not as a truth provider." Like..... what is the epistemological value of information that *isn't* true, or at least probably approximately true?
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If I ask a search engine how old the earth is, and I get a link to Answers in Genesis saying "6,000 years," then I've learned a true and correct fact: namely, that AiG claims to believe that the Earth is 6,000 years old.
That's in essence the promise that search engines make when you ask factual questions, that they will deliver you relevant evidence to support "x claims to believe y." Thus, I always learn something from searching even if it's of limited utility.
If I ask an LLM how old the Earth is and get back 6,000 years, I've learned jack shit. In that hypothetical, it just spat back nonsense without providing me any information at all. That also means that I don't learn anything when an LLM is correct, either — there's no distinction I can use to separate those two cases, making LLMs useless to any sort of epistemology.
That's in essence the promise that search engines make when you ask factual questions, that they will deliver you relevant evidence to support "x claims to believe y." Thus, I always learn something from searching even if it's of limited utility.
If I ask an LLM how old the Earth is and get back 6,000 years, I've learned jack shit. In that hypothetical, it just spat back nonsense without providing me any information at all. That also means that I don't learn anything when an LLM is correct, either — there's no distinction I can use to separate those two cases, making LLMs useless to any sort of epistemology.
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On its own, that's fine! Plenty of useful things aren't useful in an epistemological sense. It does make it very weird to see LLMs used as a source of truth, though, even if a only as a secondary or tertiary one.
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In a strict sense, you have learned what the LLM "believes", which is really about as useful as knowing what AiG claims to believe.
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because it's making statements in a vacuum and detached from any sources it's also a classic epistemic paradox.
Like Socrates's Meno, unless you know the answer to a question already (or perhaps you are a convinced Bayesian and firmly trust your credences), you cannot recognize a correct answer with 100% certainty based on what stochastic model spits out
Like Socrates's Meno, unless you know the answer to a question already (or perhaps you are a convinced Bayesian and firmly trust your credences), you cannot recognize a correct answer with 100% certainty based on what stochastic model spits out
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The biggest problem with Star Trek Strange New Worlds is that I hear it's really good - but it's related to Discovery and therefore I can't believe it
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Introducing my new organic, all-natural intelligence search engine: Mark.
It's just this guy Mark. He'll do his best to answer your question, and he'll make up a reasonable-sounding answer real quick if he doesn't have one.
How will we scale? We'll hire more guys named Mark as demand ramps up.
It's just this guy Mark. He'll do his best to answer your question, and he'll make up a reasonable-sounding answer real quick if he doesn't have one.
How will we scale? We'll hire more guys named Mark as demand ramps up.
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@aparrish
Being an Artist in a post-Mark world might have challenges, as well as new opportunities:
I've been to a number of art museums, and own at least a few arty coffee table books. I also still have my dorm posters from college somewhere. Therefore, I'm capable of to sketching out a piece of art in whatever style at your request.
What you, the Artist, do with after is up to you. Will you use it as a source of inspiration and then make your own masterpiece? Will you paste it on to your canvas and paint over it? Or perhaps simply sign your name to it?
All good by me, I'm just a guy named Mark!
Being an Artist in a post-Mark world might have challenges, as well as new opportunities:
I've been to a number of art museums, and own at least a few arty coffee table books. I also still have my dorm posters from college somewhere. Therefore, I'm capable of to sketching out a piece of art in whatever style at your request.
What you, the Artist, do with after is up to you. Will you use it as a source of inspiration and then make your own masterpiece? Will you paste it on to your canvas and paint over it? Or perhaps simply sign your name to it?
All good by me, I'm just a guy named Mark!
every good AI business loves a mark! Why, when they look at their users, they see a bunch of potential marks looking back at them.
I think this is actually how my company has gotten by with all the other Dans we’ve had over the years
also announcing our financial pricing service add-on: Mark-to-market
Here at Dan Co. we understand nuance. That's why we've locked three advanced Mark's we call Dan's in a room. Need an answer? Ask the Dan's, and they'll each come up with an answer, and then give you the ones that overlap! It's out patent pending Degrees-of-Dan as an indicator for the confidence of your answer!
Big Monty Python Australian philosophy department feels here
This immediately reminds me of a sketch from a now mostly-forgotten comedy show called "Almost Live!" that just happened to be Bill Nye's first TV show.
They had a parody commercial for "Apple Keith". It's a new product from Apple. In addition to a top of the line Mac LC II, they'll also sell you...Keith! Keith will use your Mac for you so you don't have to waste your time. You can upgrade to Apple Leonard. Leonard buys his own granola.
They had a parody commercial for "Apple Keith". It's a new product from Apple. In addition to a top of the line Mac LC II, they'll also sell you...Keith! Keith will use your Mac for you so you don't have to waste your time. You can upgrade to Apple Leonard. Leonard buys his own granola.
@roadriverrail I actually remember that show and I had no idea about the Nye connection!
Indeed, here he is in his recurring character of Speed Walker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYyLSzPNgg0
And doing sciencey-stuff in a prototype of his later show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9QwCVBENHM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYyLSzPNgg0
And doing sciencey-stuff in a prototype of his later show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9QwCVBENHM
Bill Nye - Almost live 1990
Bill Nye performs various experiments with balloons on stage of Almost Live 1990.YouTube
I'm not investing till I see your no-Wahlberg policy in writing.
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Looking forward to the voice assistant version, so I can switch from "hey google" to "oh hi mark."
if you get enough marks in a room with some reference material, maybe they can convincingly simulate the communications of a dude also named mark but he speaks a second language.
I know more guys named mark than questions I have. This could work.
@janellecshane one time i was collaborating with our head of design about chatbot interfaces. and we decided to set aside implementation and learn how folks would interact with a chatbot when it was maximally human. so i was the chatbot for the day. i would field any movie question that my coworkers had.
it occurs to me i never asked the head of design if she wrote up any findings from that 🤔 but it was fun!
it occurs to me i never asked the head of design if she wrote up any findings from that 🤔 but it was fun!
every time I get mad about issues with our library catalog, I’m like “shut it all down, people can call me if they need to know about a book”
/cc @smitty here’s an additional career path you may not have considered
@Dr_Bombay Couldn’t we call it Dave instead?
@dagon I have rarely seen you so well described. Perhaps a new opportunity! Your ability to make up something on the fly which sounds plausible is one of your more suspect superpowers. The primary source of the side eye.
will you branch out to Marcs? How about offshoots like Marcus or Marquis? Maybe Marcys?
back in the nineties when people didn't understand search engines yet, I briefly maintained a domain called Surf4Me.com ... not very succesfully. 'Where can I get a 50inch tv" was about the only question I remember.
@stufromoz I AM AVAILABLE FOR THIS WORK AT MY USUAL RATESES
@noplasticshower brilliant! people love that personal touch. I want to invest in your new business venture!
"Too many essays are being handed in generated by Marks. They will not be given a mark and asked to resubmit. To get a mark you must not mark unless you are mark in which case it is acceptable to mark and receive a mark"
@anildash I think anyone with Male Answer Syndrome can qualify for this job
it’s simple, they hate “socialists” more than they hate “conservatives “
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you joke but a manually curated non profit search engine would probably be better than google today. Algorithms work great until you add advertising and profit. This is why wikipedia is still useful but google search is not.
Careful, that might be patent infringement if you copy the modern AI language model "plausible bullshit" algorithm.
I think you've got something there! Mark my words - it'll be huge! 😈
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