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2024-06-22 23:55:30

boeing can not and will not go out of business. the farce that they are not just an organ of the US military willl have to be dropped somewhat, however.

2024-06-19 18:43:30

we should have an XDA standard extension that specifies a path for downloaded ML models that multiple ML apps need access to so they don't each redownload them.

2024-06-16 14:00:04

it is only a matter of time before there are major motion pictures made by indie teams or even single people without the use of a camera.
some of these will go viral and will be insanely popular.
hollywood's capital-gated private club of big budget/costly production is about to be broken. within a few years $1000-5000 in compute rental will allow people to seriously compete with a multimilliondollar production.

2024-06-11 09:29:29

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@npub18dq…4zn2 the funny part is that if you actually built this app, entirely voluntary censorship by apple would prevent it from being published.

2024-06-11 09:27:44

btw yubikey 4s cannot do fido2/webauthn. they can only do u2f. most sites that migrated from u2f to fido2/webauthn did not maintain an upgrade path for users, so i got locked out of several accounts because i used mandatory fido(1)/u2f. now the websites support webauthn/fido2 only and i can't login with my yubikey 4s.
i've now ordered 3x yk5c-nano and 1x yk5c-nfc. time to do the key rotation dance.

2024-06-10 15:58:21

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@npub1v48…5xkw i like the idea that the firmware cannot ever be changed. if it can be changed by me or yubico, it can be changed by someone who forces yubico to make a special firmware that dumps my keys.

2024-06-10 15:57:02

chatgpt assumes all golang import paths will be on github, even when i've put in its memory that i don't use github and don't want the word "github" in my code

2024-06-10 15:21:32

nevermind, yubikey 5s with firmware version 5.7 or greater can hold 100 passkeys now.

2024-06-10 15:06:55

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@npub1gh2…la5f nope

2024-06-10 15:06:21

it really sucks that webauthn/passkeys decided to go stateful-token instead of the amazing design that was "server-held key pair, encrypted to usb device hardware key" that was the original u2f. this means that yubikey 5s can only hold 25 passkeys. i will hit this limit, i think.

2024-06-01 18:58:53

https://blog.plerion.com/things-you-wish-you-didnt-need-to-know-about-s3/

2024-05-23 11:11:02

can we stop and admire what a miracle it is from a regulatory standpoint that apple got to make and sell a phone that has *no letters or numbers or symbols on it* when it is powered off?
such an insanely great achievement

2024-05-22 16:13:55

it would be nice if i could at least review my chatgpt history even if the bot is down. i feel like running a webpage that lets me read my files stored on a server is within the capabilities of OAI.

2024-05-22 16:05:58

FYI codegpt.co steals your code when you use their service:
8.2 Limited License Grant to CodeGPT. By Posting User Content to or via the Service, you grant CodeGPT a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid right and license (with the right to sublicense through multiple tiers) to host, store, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform (including by means of a digital audio transmission), communicate to the public, reproduce, modify for the purpose of formatting for display....

2024-05-22 15:45:18

the extent to which the github.com domain (and, to a similar extent, docker.com) is trusted blindly within software is troubling. anyone who controls github.com can own your machine. same for docker.com. why do you allow this?

2024-05-21 21:54:29

apple doesn’t stock any of their max ram versions of their new products at low-tier retail mall stores, and still sell 8gb ram machines. the only cool looking cases in the store aren’t made by apple. there are too many ipads and too many iphones. the same thing happened to their product lines the first time steve left, too.

2024-05-21 03:27:42

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@npub1ffs…cxj7 and the article says he was arrested for *sending the images to minors*, the headline is a lie

2024-05-21 03:21:04

we don’t really talk about how covid tests are $1 in europe in quantity (at retail! quantity being 20, not 1000) and still $13-15 in the usa. this was the case during the main part of the pandemic. it was avoidable and preventable and thousands of people died because the FDA protects the profits of abbott laboratories. it is one of the biggest examples of criminal corruption in american history, with thousands of deaths sacrificed to corporate profits.

2024-05-18 02:28:19

sometime when the whole web updated to WebAuthn, it broke all my FIDO2 logins and now I have to reenroll all my security keys. what a pain in the dick

2024-05-15 20:33:35

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@npub1pqp…e753 warez duh

2024-05-15 20:32:47

I've been actively using my laptop unplugged for an hour and it's at 97% battery.
any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

2024-05-14 17:46:09

if you have sda, sdb, sdc, ..., sdz, the next is sdaa. finally i have a box with more than 26 hard drives

2024-05-13 18:57:21

it is ridiculously astounding what chatgpt can do. if you told me such a thing existed and i hadn't actually seen/used it myself, i wouldn't believe you.

2024-05-11 17:52:49

it's insane, chatgpt now functions as a stand-in for my working memory of syntax and 3p library api shape, and i'm a 10x (or at least a 5-7x) programmer again.

2024-05-10 16:19:05

TIL the mac mini now has a 10G ethernet option (as a configurable option, not standard, and is only a $100 upgrade).
apple seems to be penny-pinching now

2024-04-29 21:02:02

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2024-03-28 03:55:17

looks like someone is crossposting my toots without authorization to nostr.
if you are reading this at https://iris.to/npub1s6u73hepwap3wpzvhw2g0dv80a72eqrv4jlcgn4rl3t22vk46v9qadatx9 then you're getting scammed; this account and data is posted only at @npub15u6…x2m7 on activitypub.

2024-02-29 23:45:14

this is your periodic reminder that you should:
a) turn off wifi
b) run an ethernet cable to your computer
c) get a WIRED headset with boom mic
d) use an external webcam
e) use a key light
for fuck's sake it's 2024 learn how to make phone calls

2024-02-05 21:36:46

so jwz blocked me (lol, big surprise) but mastodon the software is pathological and now hides all of his *public* posts from me *on my own instance*, even though i can go to the instance he uses and read them all there because they are public. clicking on the notifications of him replying to me now makes them display for a moment then flash away hidden, even though my instance received them. why does mastodon allow remote users to decide what i can read off of my own server? @npub1xzm…eykm

2024-01-02 14:34:36

what are the best mastodon accounts to follow?

2023-12-11 12:35:58

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@npub1gq3…srqt google already has their full name, phone number, credit card, emails, everything. this is meaningless advice for normal people.

2023-11-27 23:37:38

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@npub1cus…6789 no the fix to being poor is to start and run a business. then use programming periodically and intermittently to automate much of the business.

2023-08-19 08:53:20

if there's anything i have learned in my four decades on this planet, it's that you should never, ever mention having a medical problem to festival hippies.

2023-07-05 07:43:41

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@npub1pnp…52zw @npub12h8…mz5h i can't believe it's 2023 and i still have to explain to people that copying isn't stealing

2023-07-05 06:48:06

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@npub1pnp…52zw @npub12h8…mz5h who said anything about stealing?

2023-07-05 06:26:18

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@npub1pnp…52zw @npub12h8…mz5h what's dishonest?

2023-07-05 06:22:44

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@npub1pnp…52zw @npub12h8…mz5h i mean if i switch i'm switching to a cracked version obviously

2023-07-05 04:31:38

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@npub1pnp…52zw it's not easy, and i attempted to contribute to darktable but they are rude and uncooperative so i stopped. if you don't like my complaining, mute and/or unfollow. thank you, drive through.

2023-07-05 04:28:10

i fucking hate giving adobe money but i'm still not ready to use cracked lightroom because it has so much valuable shit stored in it. at least i downgraded from the $600/year full creative cloud to the $250/year lightroom-and-photoshop-only one. fuck adobe.
please someone replace lightroom with something usable (it isn't darktable, shhh)

2023-04-03 23:28:23

i just emailed about a hundred friends to invite them to my birthday party.
i'm guessing that the majority of them (gmail users) will not see the email because of gmail's aggressive spam filtering.
centralized email systems are censorship.

2023-04-02 21:45:26

so when you pair airpods to a mac, the mac immediately contacts 'gateway.icloud.com' from 'searchpartyuseragent'. i screenshotted this connection dialog.
i was viewing the screenshot in finder quick view preview. my first thought: thisisfine.jpg
https://s3.sneak.cloud/mastodon/media_attachments/files/003/366/236/original/0a576437e865633e.png

2023-03-26 22:33:00

i'm excited to go to a conference (Real World Crypto) where the first networking step will not be to have the other people install Signal