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2024-07-11 03:53:20

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/765/356/486/621/213/original/75fcf87154dbbe62.png

2024-07-09 20:33:21

https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete
I"m convinced that any software deployed for medical reasons - implants, tools, analytics, doesn't matter - needs toolchains that generate reproducible builds stored in escrow that are made free and public the moment device support ends.

2024-07-08 21:25:45

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I cried because my phone could not connect to my shoes, and then I met a man whose phone could not connect to his feet.

2024-07-08 19:44:23

I regrettably need to use LinkedIn for work, and it would be about a million times more useful if I could get it to only show me what people are, themselves, doing or writing, not what they're reacting to or supporting or loving or whatever.

2024-06-24 15:31:45

TIL that the purported skull of Mary Magdalene is enshrined in a gold reliquary in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, in France, and that reliquary is _the_ most Warhammer-40k-looking real thing I have ever seen in my life, bar none.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/671/831/809/036/403/original/ec0fa59663b67f6d.png

2024-06-21 14:50:22

If EVs have to make a noise at low speeds, what should it be?
Wrong-but-correct answers only.

2024-06-17 19:26:04

Just mistyped it "Overwatch hotel" just now, and The Shining But Overwatch actually sounds far mores interesting to me than regular Overwatch.

2024-06-04 15:35:23

I've proposed the idea to the Signal community that if tools like Recall go out of their way to recognize and ignore DRM'ed content, then messenger programs that want to avoid being recorded should have a small always-on DRM'ed image on display at all times as a defensive measure.
If the tools are there, we might as well put them to good use.

2024-06-01 01:51:02

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@npub1aka…zzz2 just gonna gloss over the “u like berzerk” question on the way to the sacrifice part.

2024-05-30 14:28:22

"Once more let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt. It may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power and special privilege."
- Tommy Douglas.

2024-05-29 21:55:52

An old haunt. Neat to see the shadows left of the letters, years of downwind and dust.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/526/130/650/014/863/original/ca88f5893bb29036.jpeg

2024-05-29 04:23:16

This is a remarkable graph.
You might have heard that "EV sales are slumping", "people are starting to avoid EVs", etc.
That's not what's happening.
What's happening is "Tesla is cratering so hard that it's skewing the aggregate market data."
Or, put differently, "Tesla is failing harder than the entire rest of the market is succeeding, combined."
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/521/987/646/530/679/original/e75276401f941d80.png

2024-05-24 17:42:49

TIL the Ingenuity - the little martian helicopter that could, parked for good after a hard landing and no longer able to communicate with the Perseverance rover that's rolled over the horizon - got one last software update patch saying, "once a day, wake up, take one picture, measure everything you can and go back to sleep."
It can't send that information anywhere, but it might run like that gathering data in place for 20 years.
At some point we'll need go to get it.
https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-team-says-goodbye

2024-05-23 20:26:43

TIL: Trees aren't a thing, trees are a strategy. It's not that some plants are trees, it's that some plants find being a tree to be useful.

2024-05-15 13:59:14

Indignant birb.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/444/987/339/851/012/original/b18d46859d635016.jpeg

2024-05-15 02:00:04

My son just said “it seems like John Wick is overreacting.”

2024-05-06 22:32:49

On a scale from nook to bombadil how Tom would you say we’re doing today

2024-05-03 15:05:44

"reCAPTCHA is broken for [some|most|all] Windows users"
This is your periodic reminder that nothing the Chrome team or anyone at Google says about "loving the web" or "caring about the web" matters at all, because nobody at Google tests anything on any browser but Chrome.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/377/290/522/277/352/original/93f52296d1953097.png

2024-05-02 23:33:25

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@npub1m9h…7spx
Is that what you see on company whiteboards when you put on the They Live glasses?

2024-05-02 16:47:06

At no point in this headline have the previous words prepared you in any way for the next word.
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/catholic-media-ministry-defrocks-awol-ai-priest-after-it-told-faithful-you-can-baptise-babies-in-gatorade-and-that-sure-it-can-totally-perform-your-wedding/

2024-04-30 16:29:22

somebody just showed me a development strategy calling itself "waterfall agile", which they shortened to "wagile", if you were holding out hope that anyone in this field has any idea what they're doing

2024-04-27 16:37:30

OK, talk is cheap and I've put this off too long.
Sequencer for science: https://www.sequencermag.com/welcome-to-sequencer/
404 Media for tech: https://www.404media.co/
Defector for sports: https://defector.com/
Aftermath for gaming: https://aftermath.site/
Done. What else?

2024-04-27 13:00:00

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In retrospect, and it should have been obvious at the time, the key, the most important thing about passwords is that nobody owns or controls them. And none of the world's tech giants would have or will consent to replace an technology they can't own or control with a second technology they can't own or control, regardless of whether they'd benefit from it.

2024-04-26 22:19:12

If the deliberate strangling of Mozilla's Persona a decade ago was the tragedy, this is the farce.
https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-04-26-passkeys-a-shattered-dream/

2024-04-26 17:36:19

Just click the play button and settle in.
https://archive.org/details/wallaceandgromitthewrongtrousers

2024-04-22 01:36:05

Before he had to stop writing them because our banking systems are so brittle, Don Knuth wrote 275 physical cheques to people for finding errors in his drafts of The Art Of Computer Programming.
Only 9 of them, he reports, have ever been cashed.
Economists are very silly people.

2024-04-18 16:47:49

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I should say, I believe the answer is no.
I have seen the adapters that guarantee the host computer can't see the peripheral by pretending to be a keyboard and letting passthrough voltage charge your phone. I'm looking for sort of the reverse of that, and I _think_ the answer is "no, you cannot have this because of both the physical and protocol levels."

2024-04-18 16:43:04

A question: is there a device that somebody can interpose between a USB key and the computer that provides any sort of guarantees that you will be able to inspect the prospective contents of that device _without_ that device being able to act unilaterally in a way that do permanent damage or compromise to your software or OS? Let's assume this includes USBKill-type voltage-related chicanery but not something like "whoops, that's a whole-ass computer that just SMS'ed someone your GPS coords".

2024-04-18 03:19:28

You have to assume that these guys are spending the week shook.
https://www.rabbit.tech/

2024-04-16 19:00:40

Since I see that a notable VC-famous jerk is now telling us that he wish he'd "stood by" Eich way back, I'd like to tell you a true fact: Eich didn't lose the CEO's job for his (reprehensible) Prop-8 donation.
Everyone wants to believe that's true, because fits nicely into useful narratives a number of invested camps want to champion, whether it's somebody being ousted for reprehensible views or the woke SJW mob somehow pulling down a great leader (tm) but that's not what happened.

2024-04-09 04:27:40

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@npub1aka…zzz2 God, the intro to that is so good. Who would have thought that an English synthpop group would be able get so much mileage out of an Elvis cover?

2024-04-05 21:39:00

Tired: Is You Taking Notes On A Fucking Criminal Conspiracy?
Wired: Spy chief pens an anonymous war-crime how-to manual and accidentally signs it with his own name.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/05/top-israeli-spy-chief-exposes-his-true-identity-in-online-security-lapse

2024-04-04 19:00:15

The most important thing about A and AAAA DNS records is that they're also the noises you make when you realize the problem is DNS again.

2024-04-03 01:03:37

We should be about 1000% more suspicious than we are of the companies that insist on calling a small army of underpaid south asian or african people a "technology".
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

2024-03-28 14:45:43

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@npub1tx6…rtam The theoretical existence of eigenpants should concern us all.

2024-03-26 02:47:45

TIL that the “blood geyser” trope in sword fighting movies, animated or otherwise, comes from a technical failure on a Kurosawa set in 1962 that the man himself refused to reshoot because the actors stayed in character and the shot looked so cool.
https://screenrant.com/akira-kurosawa-sanjuro-mistake-change-action-movies-violence/

2024-03-24 02:29:41

Two fediverse client features I want:
First, I'd like a client that is sorts by people, and is "last post only". A list of people I follow, that offers _only_ their last post. Nothing else.
And in that vein, I'd like negative-space alerting; that is, if somebody hasn't made a post in a week, a month, two or three months, whatever, I'd like a nudge. "you haven't heard from this person in X time", so maybe I can reach out.

2024-03-24 01:15:14

I saw this go by earlier today, and I wish I'd bookmarked it:
"Salary based on location" isn't a salary. It's a class stipend.
Update: it was @npub17c6…05yx here: https://social.wxcafe.net/@wxcafe/112142711541211940

2024-03-21 17:24:24

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@npub1su4…a0dw c'mon, though. "Readers should remember that whatever penalties result will only be felt when affected software is performing specific cryptographic operations. For browsers and many other types of apps, the performance cost may not be noticeable."

2024-03-21 17:23:46

A lot of people are cutting out out the "when executing cryptographic operations" part of the phrase "could drastically degrade M-series performance when executing cryptographic operations", and glossing over the parts where it says "The researchers don’t yet know what kind of penalty will occur when this performance optimization is turned off" and "For browsers and many other types of apps, the performance cost may not be noticeable" for the rageclicks today.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-extract-secret-encryption-keys-from-apples-mac-chips/

2024-03-18 15:09:24

I find myself needing a replacement for a wall socket that is specifically a plug and the switch to toggle it, in a standard North American one-gang box. Socket plus switch is an extremely standard UK thing, but is unusual here? Wanting something British is an odd experience, gotta say.

2024-03-15 13:46:02

I sometimes wonder how software project planning and management might be different if overtime existed in tech. That is, if the decision to wring an arbitrary number of 60 or 80 or 100 hour weeks out people to make up for planning and management failures didn't cost companies zero additional salary dollars.

2024-03-14 02:14:06

'in Wayland you frequently need a clipboard manager in places you wouldn't expect, such as whn you close an application before pasting, or when you're copying less than 1kb of data' well yes I am having a hard time believing that I need extra helper utilities do deal with the exotic 'what if I copy a sentence or close a program' edge cases here in 2024.

2024-03-13 16:03:50

Lazyweb, a question: let's say that you could teach a "cultural anthropology" type of course about computing to first year students, to prepare them for the codebases, communities, patterns and software philosophies of the programming world. You've got about ten weeks to run it. What would you teach in that course and why?
(RTs appreciated for reach.)

2024-03-12 23:56:00

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@npub1lrv…tth9 If you add a filter for "/t.co/" that catches the URL shortener Twitter uses, which seems to deal with most of them.

2024-03-12 21:54:32

Any sufficiently complicated agile process contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, error prone and lossy implementation of half of what Dr. Royce described in the original Waterfall paper.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/084/700/479/136/143/original/4da2afda77ae159a.jpg

2024-03-12 16:47:05

Do you ever wonder if the "stupidity indistinguishable from malice" arguments you hear from a particular strain of tendentious nerds are the potty training of reactionary politics? It's a turn of phrase that gives you permission to be completely incurious about why somebody else's needs and constraints differ from our own, describing them as unworthy or subhuman instead of someone you could try to understand or sympathize with, and maybe we should ask ourselves who that makes us useful to.

2024-03-08 15:29:31

Happy The Gap Between Your Inept Bro Colleague's Salary And Yours Is Less Than They Paid That Agency To Make Your Company Logo Pink And They Told You To Smile More In This Awkward Video Day to all who celebrate.

2024-03-04 17:03:54

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@npub19lt…qfjk A better argument is, what if all the ways we subsidize cars were put to subsidizing public transportation instead. Even just in North America that's quite a bit more than $10b/yr.

2024-02-28 23:39:01

"Our mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful is sacrosanct." [citation needed]

2024-02-12 19:40:09

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@npub1su4…a0dw "It's mostly just a question of if the company wants to press charges", haha.
I wonder if you can find a jury in SF who'd convict anyone of stopping a robot car from driving through a street party.

2024-01-26 18:01:57

Being able to buy a big pile of a company's stocks must be a totally wild experience. You don't need to know anything about their business or how it works or anything! You can just put down some money and then bully them into doing whatever, and their whole-ass leadership will be like "well this guy who doesn't know a damn thing showed up with money and says we've gotta fuck our own shit up so he can have more money, fiduciary duty says we've gotta do it" and then they go do it. Madness.

2024-01-24 20:05:14

"The fact they sent me this email is something I need to be very ashamed of, and I need to change."
https://www.cracked.com/article_40871_penn-jillette-wants-to-talk-it-all-out.html
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/812/478/049/949/904/original/e6f630d536028729.png

2024-01-11 15:21:01

This is going to be the end-game state of every academic journal owned by Springer or Elsevier. Money is a proxy metric; the point of market capture is ideological capture.
https://scatter.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/questions-for-the-new-theory-society-editorial-board/

2024-01-03 04:04:11

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Particularly among young men, particularly in the tech sector, one question that frequently goes unasked that I wish was asked routinely is: to whom is it useful that I believe this? Who do I serve, as I act on these beliefs? Are they on my side? Do I want to be on theirs?
The same is true of the clothes we wear. This is a fact: all of us are cosplaying, but most of us don't interrogate that. Most of us don't even realize it.

2024-01-03 03:54:47

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One hard problem of an internet full of memetic ideology is that if you're not very careful you can end up repeating, legitimizing and amplifying ideological arguments that _you don't even realize exist._ And one other place that has always been true is fashion. And the people who really know clothing know this.
(Have you ever noticed how hard it is to find men's clothing these days, in colors that aren't already common in milspec camo? Gosh, that's crazy. I wonder if that means anything.)

2024-01-03 03:20:24

I've recently discovered the "tie ring", as opposed to the tie clip or pin. It's interesting, but I have concerns, as one must have when trying on any new garment or accoutrement. What signals does the tie ring send, in general or in specific to certain types/styles? And more importantly: where would I go to learn about this? Is there a clothing-semiotics wiki or resource out there I could bring these questions?

2023-12-19 15:26:49

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@npub1upk…tcwy The recent renaissance in open source documentation is long overdue. The TLDR people are heroes, and the "similar projects" section in their readme - https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr - is also great.

2023-12-15 17:43:37

I too seek to disregard the conventional notion of causality.
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00323.html

2023-12-11 18:05:27

If you ever wondered what happened to that TextBlade kickstarter project, the answer is "they succeeded in building what they set out to build, and then a patent troll cut them off from being able to ship anything, ran them out of funding runway, and now they have several shipping pallets worth of working hardware stored somewhere in California, a stack of legal bills and no way to ship the finished, working product they've built."
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/562/866/968/080/724/original/7edbf7f827c07692.png

2023-11-29 17:23:46

Re: my recent rant, Cloudflare threw up a "har sanitizer" shortly after the OKTA HAR debacle.
https://har-sanitizer.pages.dev/
It's nice, it works, etc, and it is completely the wrong thing.
Yes it all runs locally, yes it does what it's promising to do on the tin.
The only thing wrong with it is that it is teaching people to throw random security-sensitive information into web pages, and that's going to lead to disaster.
(Fun thing: audit the source on that page to see if it does what it claims.)

2023-11-14 20:43:36

I don't know why I would have thought about Dom DeLuise for any reason in the last 25 years but this morning a fully-formed thought popped into my head that if I drew a Gartner graph with Thelma & Louise on one axis and Dom & Sub on the other axis, I would only know how to fill out one of the quadrants.
I didn't write that down or share it, I don't know where the idea came from, and today MeFi has a Dom DeLuise post.
I find this coincidence alarming.
https://www.metafilter.com/201398/This-is-nice-ma-everythings-freshincluding-Vinnie

2023-11-06 13:49:44

Everyone thinks, haha, these squirrels don't even remember where they hid 90% of the nuts they store for the winter they are so dumb, but nobody ever asks if the squirrels might be out there thinking, my ancestors planted this forest that provides for us all, and my children's children will know the same of me.

2023-11-01 17:10:29

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@npub1y0e…mm9n @npub1s8j…k8k0
My dude you have gone from "the problem is that people are stupid and illiterate" straight to "asking developers to be competent at communicating in writing is bad", and you can fuck right off with that. You don't want to write docs, we get it. Just own the fact that you'd rather sneer at people than rub two synapses together to think about usability and leave it at that.

2023-11-01 16:33:19

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The number of people in this thread who are willing to tell me that the real problem is how stupid everyone is is incredibly embarrassing.
Look, here's what happens when you compile Hello World with single quotes instead of double quotes.
Note, please, that these are warnings, not errors. GCC finishes and produces an a.out executable.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/335/996/277/270/635/original/fc502c496e2d894f.png

2023-11-01 14:48:06

People go to Stack Overflow because the docs and error messages are garbage. TLDR exists because the docs and error messages are garbage. People ask ChatGPT for help because the docs and error messages are garbage. We are going to lose a generation of competence and turn programming into call-and-response glyph-engine supplicancy because we let a personality cult that formed around the PDP-11 in the 1970s convince us that it was pure and good that docs and error messages are garbage.

2023-10-25 04:13:25

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@npub1pfe…e2dm @npub143y…3g53 I haven’t played BG3, but I’ve been wandering around Hyrule with like 16 swords, a dozen bows, 300ish arrows, some 25 or so changes of elaborate full body armor and like fifty thousand dollars in cash and I can still break into a sprint on a moments notice, so… not _that_ finicky.

2023-10-24 16:28:51

Video games all largely abandoned the “encumbrance” mechanic - the idea that you can only carry some amount of whatever - ages ago because micromanaging that shit absolutely sucks all the joy out of something that should be fun.
Women’s clothing brings that same joyless mechanic to “living your life every day”, with bonus constraints like “wallet, phone or keys: pick 2. Maybe. Not a big phone or that wallet. You can upgrade to “purse” but it costs money and 60% use of one arm when equipped.”

2023-10-03 01:19:08

This kind of experience must be either revelatory or terrifying for the original drummer. "Here is this monster talent hearing the song you played on, doing their own thing and just nailing it on the first take."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbUYVcaF_l0

2023-10-02 00:06:14

I think that the biggest reason I believe that we need universal basic income is so that people always have an out. A bad relationship, a bad job, a bad situation, even discovering you've overrotated on something that's turning into a scam or a cult. You should always be able to walk away without fearing destitution.

2023-09-29 17:09:40

A crop of a frame of a moment in an interview, where we learn that the CEO of Twitter doesn't have Twitter on her home screen.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/148/769/034/875/840/original/940531132235ab48.png

2023-09-26 18:55:59

Yesterday was National Punctuation Day. Today, let me share with you a hill upon which I am gladly willing to die: there is zero meaningful semantic distinction between 'smart' quotes and standard issue quotation marks. None. All of the tools around them are so inconsistent or terrible in their interactions that if much of your life is text smart quotes are a net-negative busywork spigot best avoided. Find the toggle in your editor that turns them off and use it to make your life better.

2023-09-26 17:30:51

"Automated translation of web content is now available to Firefox users! Unlike cloud-based alternatives, translation is done locally in Firefox, so that the text being translated does not leave your machine."
I got to see the early demos of this and it is jaws-on-the-floor bonkers wizard magic. Entirely local - and good - translation with no cloud service and like 6MB of storage per language.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/118.0/releasenotes/

2023-09-26 02:14:43

Secret made-up conspiracy theory: Spotify is the secret force behind the return to in-office work push, because nobody is going to listen to a goddamn podcast if they don't have to fill their terrible commute.

2023-09-24 00:08:34

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@npub1u24…32pl @npub1ncw…d99l is Smaug a very long instruction word in this scenario

2023-09-12 16:27:59

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@npub1az9…swru I've been using this for the last few weeks and it's terrific, thanks for sharing it.

2023-09-12 16:01:26

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@npub17vj…g088 This is my new standard for project management tools. Forget Jira, I want dramatic tension.

2023-09-03 05:01:24

It’s cool that Epstein is the only name mentioned in this article. I guess he was just paying himself, over and over.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/01/report-jpmorgan-flagged-over-1b-in-epstein-transactions-to-treasury.html

2023-08-26 19:42:32

Solid niche meme IMO.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/957/145/237/949/043/original/3466e20ddbf55426.png

2023-08-20 04:00:35

Just reflecting on the fact that this joke in Zoolander about cellphones had about a four year window in which it could be comprehensible as a joke at all.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/919/468/216/323/474/original/eb7b09b2732a349a.png

2023-08-20 03:17:51

Ok old timers, fess up: what was your first cellphone?
Mine was a Sony Ericsson z200: https://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_z200-523.php

2023-08-19 20:53:21

Periodic reminder that if you ditch the zero-trust part, if you admit that trust matters even a tiny bit, you can ditch the consensus algorithm and run the entire blockchain exercise on one shitty five year old Android phone. A firstgen raspberry pi would be overkill. Seven transactions per second wouldn’t have stretched a 486 on dial-up in 1996 and the whole stack is an embarrassment.

2023-08-18 02:08:17

Of all the things this meeting could have been, "an email" is the least interesting possibility.
We can do better.

2023-08-18 01:34:55

Proposal: ban private vehicle subsidies.
Parking priced as high as the market will bear. No laws saying houses need driveways or that apartments need parking spots. No manufacturer subsidies. Curb-weight taxes for street maintenance, life-of-the-vehicle fuel efficiency taxes to cover the cost of environmental cleanup from the exhaust.
If car owners had to pay what cars actually cost instead of foisting those costs off on society we'd find out fast that cars are a ponzi scheme.

2023-08-13 04:29:02

Re-upping this again: I wish more lefties could internalize the idea that hypocrisy is not a meaningful accusation to the right. Of course they're being hypocrites. That you are bound, by rules, standards, logic, human decency, some fundamental moral consistency, anything at all, and they are not? That is their conception of what power is, and why they seek it. So they can exercise power, without constraint, and you cannot.
That's the whole point.
Hypocrisy is the virtue-signaling of fascism.

2023-08-12 18:00:09

Minor thing but if you're looking for a screen that is not a television - that is, takes HDMI in, shows it to you and does not come preloaded with adware jank intended sell all your interactions to marketing companies or otherwise trying to be anything "smarter" or more nefarious than "a display", the term you're looking for is "commercial display", not "television" or "smart monitor" or anything else.

2023-08-11 16:56:44

I keep thinking about how Google invested, keeps investing, billions of dollars in tools that functionally do nothing more than generate an unlimited supply of statistically plausible text completely disconnected from any that there's such a thing as truth or veracity or verifiability, and I have to imagine the search team just screaming into their pillows every night knowing it's going to destroy the company and everything it ever claimed to stand for.

2023-08-11 16:37:10

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@npub18p3…03wh "If you didn't like Barbie, you didn't understand Fight Club" is a hell of a sentence, but where is the lie?

2023-08-08 04:12:15

I’d heard that Rob Zombie started his career as a production assistant on Peewee’s Playhouse but today I learned that George Romero’s first gig was working for Mr. Rogers.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/80353/when-mr-rogers-gave-george-romero-his-first-paying-gig

2023-08-04 15:54:00

Tired: "the classical Greek myth of Leda And The Swan".
Wired :"Duck Duck Zeus".
(This was my daughter's idea but I love it.)

2023-08-03 04:30:12

why are we calling it machine learning when we could be calling it stochastic errorism

2023-08-02 23:57:20

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2304318120
Superconductors last week, supercapacitors this week.

2023-06-19 01:38:30

Maybe people worried about Meta’s participation in the fediverse are thinking about the time Google killed blogs and RSS, or the time Yahoo killed dmoz and webrings, or the time AOL killed Usenet, or or or or or or or or or or or or.

2023-03-19 02:34:52

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#[0] Congratulations!