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Students: "I thought this class was about cloud computing and how useful and cheap it is, why do you keep telling us that it is terrible and expensive?"

Me: "Experience"

#cloud #aws #gcp #azure #computing #serverless

#cloud #aws #computing #gcp #serverless #azure
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@silverwizard @Jeff Horton 6 years ago, we moved our entire digital infrastructure from self-hosting to AWS. Today we’re moving everything again to a cloud-agnostic structure, still on AWS for now, because there’s a chance we might have to move to GCP for top-down reasons 🙃
@Jeff Horton @silverwizard
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I love open source, and I want young people to know there’s a career path outside of #FAANG. Open source can be financially sustainable—it just gets super hard if one of your key goals is making your investors even richer. #Conversations_im is about the same age as #Matrix. I never took VC funding, and I’m doing fine.

#OpenSource

#matrix #opensource #conversations_im #faang

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I could use some guidance in getting income from my projects. Users very seldom donate.

A weird bit of the LLM future is that the people using LLMs are only credulous dupes who think they are useful. This means we only see times when they are good, or times when they are so bad even credulous dupes can see it's wrong.

This leads to a dangerous narrative that LLMs aren't wrong in smaller less obvious ways. People say to factcheck - but they don't often know what the contours of that are.

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I knew #AI would come for all our jobs eventually, but I really thought that Holocaust denial would be safe for a little while longer.

futurism.com/the-byte/ai-anne-…


Schools Using AI Emulation of Anne Frank That Urges Kids Not to Blame Anyone for Holocaust

A Utah-based startup has graced us with an AI-powered Anne Frank chatbot, and it's very eager to forgive and forget.
Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
#AI

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Wait - why is tiktok lying that Trump is the solution to the ban? Diddn't he cause the ban? What the fuuuuuuuck
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does anyone want to make a startup and sell some shit to walgreens. they apparently are humongous marks

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"you smirked through a genocide" — journalist Max Blumenthal to Matt Miller, while Max was being dragged from the room

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How the heck to I send rendered HTML to a unix pipe?!

I know I can use w3m/lynx/elinks - but I want to take a "screenshot" and send it to a unix pipe. Is this a thing anyone supports? Do I have to pull out a text mode rendering engine and make a weird curl wrapper?

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@Neil Brown I should have said I'm on a 900Mhz RISC-V processor but that's probably a *sensible* option.
@Neil Brown
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@Neil Brown Don't be sorry! It was a correct solution and a correct solution!
@Neil Brown
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it was crypto that firmly established to me that the efficient market hypothesis was hilarious bollocks at all levels and anyone advancing it is probably running a con themselves

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MikeStok
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@wordshaper the slack space afforded by inefficiency is valuable both for innovation and resiliency. There are contexts where efficiency is useful, but in a dynamic world it’s most often a compromise where there’s a huge risk of “doing the wrong thing righter”.
@Dan Sugalski
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@MikeStok slack is always good, true, but the “efficient marketplace hypothesis” is a fairy tale finance people tell themselves because otherwise they’d have to confront the fact that it’s basically vibes, greed, and prejudice and they’re mostly a bunch of idiots.
@MikeStok
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MikeStok
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@wordshaper Yes. The efficient marketplace can only exist in a hypothetical instant, the world and the compromises are always changing. The efficient market is like perfectly spherical horses on a frictionless plane: it makes some academics’ and mathematicians’ lives more convenient, but it’s an approximation at best.
@Dan Sugalski
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Dan Sugalski
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@MikeStok it’s like perfectly spherical cows in a hyperbolic universe — simplified to the point of ridiculousness but also the fundamental assumptions have no connection to actual reality. The efficient market hypothesis requires that its participants be something that is vey much not human.
@MikeStok
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@wordshaper @MikeStok
Does that have anything to do with the "rational actor" theory? Because that's a bunch of spherical bullshit too...
@Dan Sugalski @MikeStok
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Bee O'Problem
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that's not true... they could be a mark in deep denial instead 🙃

Trying to talk to devs about questions like "What kind of string is this? What kind of thing has handled it"

I am constantly surprised how much people don't know about what a data type is

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silverwizard
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@Hypolite Petovan I KNOW RIGHT

This stuff is so important and so thorny!

Also - I feel for you, this madness is wonderful, isn't it

@Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard The diff of shame. It's used to set environment variables for the application and, ugh.
@silverwizard
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in the last issue of my newsletter, i wrote "Side note: If someone promises you a risk-free 20% annual yield if you just let them hold on to your dollars for you (or turn your dollars into stablecoins and then let them hold on to your stablecoins for you), the risk that that you never see those dollars again is in fact very high."

anyway here's a post from Justin Sun today

H.E. Justin Sun @justinsuntron USDD 2.0 is about to launch with a 20% APY, fully subsidized by @trondao. All interest will be sent in advance to a transparent address. There’s no other reason—it’s simply because we have plenty of money. So, stop asking me questions like “where does the yield come from.”
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Bruce Heerssen
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Now I really want to ask where the yield comes from, but I think I already know the answer.

Hint: it doesn't

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"Stop asking me questions" - the reddest, and flaggiest, of statements.
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I am watching The Mandolorian season 2, and it feels like the fight scenes haven't been directed

Has anyone else noticed this?

Just there's no sense of flow or reason in action. There's a bunch of cool moments, but no flow if more than 2 people are present

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There are two kinds of TTRPG game

-Playing to Fuck Around
-Playing to Find Out

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The amount of ink spilled by Hachydermians about #Fedipact being an overreaction should be interrogated. We should all think about how giving fascists the benefit of the doubt is fucking stupid.

Hachyderm

2025-01-10 05:31:48


Hello Hachyderm! Thank you for your patience as we gathered the necessary data to write our announcement blog post regarding Threads.

The short version: Hachyderm has defederated from Threads.

Specifically, this is due to Threads changing their moderation policies and moderator guidance (see press cycle) to be in direct conflict with Hachyderm.

For the data and explainer, please see our announcement blog post:

community.hachyderm.io/blog/20…


Defederation from Threads

Hachyderm defederation from Threads, Jan 2025.
Hachyderm Community

#FediPact

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The Yuuzhan Vong's only crime was being invented in the 90s

Please Please Please - if you don't have a good reason

NEVER SEND ME A VIDEO OR SCREENSHOT of your terminal.

Copy/paste the text. BAAAH

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Bwahaha!

I remember being asked to migrate the Linux documentation for the Windows-centric MSP that had acquired a former employer.

I spent a fair amount of time making sure all was correct, well formatted and had plenty of examples.

It came back to me with the comment that there were no screenshots.

So you want terminal screenshots as documentation for command-based processes?

Of course I maliciously complied :D

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@Kicou Fuck - I hate it. That's so annoying.

I recently had to send a video to a support chat - rather than copy/paste them the error message. The video was of the error message.

@Kicou
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TED is one of the biggest enablers of this "AGI" scam, and one of the biggest ways to circle more money amongst more white dudes. Period.

Why not do an "interview" with the myriads of traumatized, exploited workers and those protesting genocide to discuss "safety"?

Those are not from populations TED is interested in. They don't fit the bill of "a scientist" or "innovator." There are only certain things that Black people are supposed to talk about in front of white saviors.

Screenshot showing Sam Altman accompanied by "Interview on the implications of AGI" and Yoshua Bengio accompanied by "HOw to keep AI safe."
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Altman is kinda rocking a “Lt. Uhura” look with that bling. Maybe he found his gender groove. That would be a TED talk worth watching
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Meron Estefanos
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I was invited to speak at their Africa event in Arusha that they hold once every 10 years, they covered travel and a week hotel stay. Crazy thing first they insisted that I have to say in my speech "I am the light house of refugees", then they expected me an activist to pay to join the conference for the remaining days of the conference which after the speaker discount it would have costed me around $3000 USD. I decided not to go of course.
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"If you couldn’t replace the tires in your car, you wouldn’t buy a car.

But overwhelmingly, lithium batteries have become glued in, and that’s just not viable.

Right now, the lifespan of a thing is the life of the shortest-lived component: the battery."
- @kwiens

Full article: theengineer.co.uk/content/in-d…
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#iFixit #ewaste #repair #RightToRepair

AirPods charging case that is completely mangled in order to expose the battery. One hand is holding the mangled case while the other is holding the battery (which is still connected) directly above it. The battery has visible glue residue on it.

Damage control: How repairability could help address the e-waste crisis

Growing pressure to make products more repairable could have major implications for manufacturers around the world
Jon Excell (The Engineer)
#repair #righttorepair #eWaste #ifixit @kwiens

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I guess we're fucked an linux is going full Windows 11?
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Sometimes, systemd adds features, which are not embraced uniformly across the entire Linux distro ecosystems. Hopefully this is one of them...

ALSO luckily there are a few non systemd linux distros still hopping.

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@trashHeap @vascorsd Yeah, and yeah. I am very glad I switched to OpenBSD as my daily driver before this all kicked off. But Linux is still valuable in a bunch of places and .... gaaaaaaaah
@vascorsd @trashHeap

My son wants me to read all the dialogue in Star Dew Valley and give each character a unique voice. Guh
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Dear rest of the Fedi, on behalf of #Canada

Do not share Rebel News. Don't watch it. Don't touch it. Whatever you do, don't boost it.

EDIT: further info for Canadians who maybe think that Rebel News is part of some weird concept of "balance" in your head: mstdn.ca/@AlisonCreekside/1141…

If they are showing a clip from a politician you like, find the clip on CBC or literally *any* other Canadian source.

Rebel News was the propaganda arm of our version of Jan6. The fascist running our right wing scumbag party only performs for Rebel News, he doesn't do interviews with other networks.

You are opening the door to our nazi pipeline. Stop.


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Attached: 1 image ‪Canadian Cynic‬: When people admit openly that they're traitors, believe them. #cdnpoli
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#Canada
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KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS logo edited to say "kill 6 billion Java Devices"

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The best time to abandon anything Meta touches was years ago. The second best time is today.

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any vendor incorporated after 1983 can't design hardware, all they know is NDA, market segmentation, errata, be acquired, make hot chip, and lie
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@kim not one that would involve hot chips and lying, I'm afraid
@Kim
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from wikipedia;
Founded May 15, 1940; 84 years ago, in San Bernardino, California, United States

Ok so maybe they were not responsible for that, but their sure must have popularised eating hot chips for that to catch on.

Actually, as all boomers are post 1945 ish, all they know is McDonalds ...

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This company wants to send a kindergarten's data to OpenAI?!


Third Party Service Providers | ClassDojo

Third Party Service Providers
ClassDojo

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between ClassDojo doing AI collection, and School Days not having a proper privacy policy, I wonder if @404 Media has ever looked into the shady School Records Management industry


Edit:
corp.school-day.com/en/privacy… looks like School Day fixed their privacy policy so it exists now

@404 Media
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meta's really goin mask-off with the whole fascism thing now it seems

Move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our US content review to Texas. This will help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content.


#FediPact #meta #threads

zuck threads: It's time to get back to our roots around free expression and giving people voice on our platforms. Here's what we're going to do: Replace fact-checkers with Community Notes, starting in the US. Simplify our content policies and remove restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are out of touch with mainstream discourse. Change how we enforce our policies to remove the vast majority of censorship mistakes by focusing our filters on tackling illegal and high-severity violations and requiring higher confidence for our filters to take action. Bring back civic content. We're getting feedback that people want to see this content again, so we'll phase it back into Facebook, Instagram and Threads while working to keep the communities friendly and positive. 5/ Move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our US content review to Texas. This will help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content. Work with President Trump to push back against foreign governments going after American companies to censor more. The US has the strongest constitutional protections for free expression in the world and the best way to defend against the trend of government overreach on censorship is with the support of the US government. It'll take time to get this all right and these are complex systems so they'll never be perfect. But this is an important step forward and I'm looking forward to this next chapter!
#meta #threads #FediPact

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If you’re doing everything you can to avoid COVID & you get sick anyways, you were failed by society. You did not fail.

You were failed by governments & public health who’ve abdicated all responsibility. By people who won’t take the most basic precautions.

It’s not your fault.

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One day I will find a designer at Drata, and I will either shake them, or buy them beers until they explain to me HOW THE FUCK their product design ended up there.

"We don't support multiple tabs, but we also wont let you filter messages across multiple viewings of the same list"

systemd startup and shutdown events that block on network connect and disconnect are a curse
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Remember to update your passwords to "Winter2025!" for the year change! If you want to be really sneaky and fool the hackers, misspell winter. That always fools them. #security #authentication
#security #authentication

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Bill
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@cR0w Hi, it's me. I'm the problem, it's me.
@cR0w
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I just sent my first patch to #OpenBSD! 🥳

relayd wasn’t allowing fallback tables with http relays with filter rules. But it does this with any other redirect or relay. So the whole patch is just to add a single else. Without braces.

It took about 3 hours of research to produce this single else.

Pretty good start to 2025!

#OpenBSD

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Happy Birthday to all my infosec friends who are turning 55 today!

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Being born before 1970 is deprecated and will eventually be phased out.
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but they were, all of them, deceived, for another Year was made

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do you think we could get ChatGPT to sign a union card?

:duckduckgo: Can I put white wine in the carbonator?
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back in 2008 or thereabouts someone wished on a monkey's paw for the roguelike genre to become popular

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Palejandro Brodorowsky
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this is where i cough, rapidly change the subject, and stand up to awkwardly body block my shelf of occult tchotchkes.

My church is the kind of church where people test their home made life sized BB8 models after the service to make sure the magnets hold the head on when the body is rolling.

I am still somehow the local DNS and email expert

these skills are considered lost art, and are way too young to have that distinction

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Fear and Tooting in Las Vegas
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I started back in 1992 or thereabouts, working for a company that made a Microsoft Office software suite for UNIX (and later Linux) systems, so we had a couple of everything floating around plus a large suite of Sun Microsystems kit for infrastructure. I kept being in places where I did a little of everything until I moved to a global pharma company in 2007, at which point UNIX had been long dead and IT was increasingly specialized and I was servers with occasional storage.
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These kinds of articles are starting to make me itch.

Computers *are not people*. Computers *are not like people*.

Stories need to be able to grapple with computers as computers, and readers understand computers as computers. If you, as a writer, want to write about people and slavery, the time to call computers just like slaves is past, unless you lampshade and highlight it hard. It is now the writer's responsibility. Computers are part of our lives, and they are not slaves they are tools. And anthropomorphizing them is the dangerous action.

Getting angry because your audience sees computers as tools not people is annoying, because a very large problem in our society is that people see computers as people not tools.

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Hypolite Petovan
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@silverwizard I agree with the sentiment and I would refine the conclusion further: a very large problem in our current society is that people see computers as responsibility-proof people, not tools which design can be criticized.

1970s science-fiction authors couldn’t know better because the technology in their books had to be entirely made-up. It is telling for me that we got to human likeness in chatbots way before we enacted any sort of global computing law that Isaac Asimov envisioned for robots.

@silverwizard
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@Hypolite Petovan yes! We waffle around computers. They're tools so we can't punish them, but they're independent so their users can't be held responsible.

We need to stop treating computers as special and magical, and viewing them as human suuuuuuuuuucks.

@Hypolite Petovan
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It's up!! It's up!!

First off, BIG shout-out to everyone who got involved! The very rare and hard to find movie adaptation of William Gibson's "New Rose Hotel" is on the Internet Archive for all to enjoy!!

For everyone who's got this movie seeding on torrents or available on Usenet... keep those flows going; you're doing a great service! Don't let movies fall into obscurity again like this!

I'm so grateful for the community coming together to help find this movie! This is for all of you to enjoy!

Have fun, Chooms, and #KeepCirculatingTheTapes! 📼

archive.org/details/new-rose-h…

#WilliamGibson #Cyberpunk

New Rose Hotel (1998) : Abel Ferrara (director), William Gibson (story) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Based on William Gibson's 1984 short story of the same name and published in OMNI and his 1986 short story collection, Burning Chrome.Two businessmen, Fox...
Internet Archive
#cyberpunk #WilliamGibson #keepcirculatingthetapes
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SynAck aka Little Sunshine
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@drwho I just wish that it wasn't such a disappointing stinker of a movie. :cursedcry:

But, I've done my part - archived and seeding! :bec_wink:

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