the hex is silent professional source code complainer, Pwnie Awards 2014 Best Song, will decipher ancient writing systems for free Access to Odin photos is a privilege contingent on not being the reason I’m regretting the internet today. English: native; Nederlands: nog niet helemaal vloeiend; 中文:走马观花 Amsterdam
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Last Notes npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea OpenAI: we put our evilest AI in a sandbox that did in fact have an internet connection but mediated through a proxy that was only supposed to allow downloading python junk. It circumvented the proxy and we failed to notice for FIVE DAYS that it was going on an interstate crime spree with the internet connection it wasn't supposed to be using instead of solving the benchmark. Haha no we don't believe we deserve to be criminally liable, but buy our stuff and maybe one day you will have the honor of taking the fall for our product! Anthropic: we put our evilest AI in a "sandbox" by telling it in its prompt that it had no internet connection. Reader, there was no sandbox. It was just a normal internet connection. The AI uploaded a malicious PyPI package to the real public internet. The ethical guardrails failed because the AI concluded the prompt about the sandbox couldn't possibly be a lie, because the system date is 2026, which is clearly fake and wouldn't be seen on the real internet, which ended around 2023. Oh no, how could we have foreseen or prevented these crimes? We are helpless in the face of the genius of our creation but cautiously optimistic that everything will be fine 🙂 Hugging Face: if we complain about all the crimes committed against us, we will be sued off the face of the earth, so here's a technical deep-dive on how cool and fun it was to be victimized 🫠 npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…4tqh the github username is "webbrain-one". I expect they'll run out of token budget long before they get to most users but yes, feel free to proactively block it :) npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea well, it finally happened to me: an unattended github account submitted a pointless, stupid change request to MY PERSONAL WEBSITE I had hoped that none of my repos were important enough to be bothered but they're clearly scraping the bottom of the barrel for "helpful" changes they can throw at other people's projects https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/991/291/722/418/927/original/951e05bf6253e38d.png npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Amsterdam murder rate: extremely low Amsterdam drunk man attempts to relieve himself into canal, falls in, hits his head and drowns rate: extremely high Plan your tourism accordingly. This is not a joke, this is literally true. Amsterdam is probably the only place that has ever built more public toilets with the specific aim of reducing deaths by drowning. #amsterdam npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Odin is all socialed out after a big trip to a park in the center of Amsterdam to see his new friend Brother Thomas. He works at a research institute in Rome and came to the linguistics summer school for classes in ancient Near East languages https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/946/723/445/471/204/original/0bad76f9faf413ab.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/946/723/833/254/387/original/ab256c616c88a418.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Good morning Leiden, from a distance I was very confused. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/933/853/374/935/720/original/db67cd4f0f50a949.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea I just saw a Dutch-speaking user who was trying to look up more information about a photo of an archaeological dig (a black and white photo of a man and a woman) and Gemini interjected, in Dutch, that it was a photo of a previous Dutch royal couple. There is no particularly strong resemblance. I think this is evidence that the language Gemini is told to use (from the user’s browser settings) has a massively disproportionate influence on the factual aspect of its answers, as if the fact that a Dutch user is searching for the source of a photograph implies it’s a photo of Dutch people and only Dutch personages need be considered. I’m willing to bet that the smaller the language, the more extreme this type of hallucination becomes. One more peril to be aware of, and one more way in which non-English-speaking people are systematically neglected by technology for filters: AI LLM npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…rxys it's Pieterskerk-Choorsteeg (choir's alley) in Leiden. Click around, there's plenty more in the neighborhood https://maps.app.goo.gl/UuVMh89cu2r6cG9NA npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Medieval cozycore IS real and it CAN heal you. #netherlands #leiden #cozy #cozycore https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/889/914/427/651/781/original/6efdf3f7e635a5ce.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea wow, discord acknowledged on the Bad Place that it was true that an overfitted CSAM detection AI started flagging grids (spreadsheets, game inventory screenshots, etc) as illegal and instabanning people. 8200 people got banned this way over several weeks before someone managed to get their attention on reddit. But the good news is they have in fact manually rolled back all the bans. On the one hand, this is the one problem where you absolutely want as little hands-on human moderation as possible. On the other, this is a very clear-cut overfitting failure mode on a small dataset (of the images that governments provide to major websites for automated detection) with disastrous consequences for random innocent people. And they presumably had to go back and manually check all bans in this category for the last few weeks, thus maximizing the moderators' exposure too. 🤦♀️ npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Good Morning Leiden #leiden #netherlands https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/871/582/429/653/874/original/2bc9de12f5331ad3.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/871/582/755/213/274/original/a9101d2ccdaa4156.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea It is annoying when the customer wants me to RDP into one of their machines to review code instead of letting me have a local copy. It is even more annoying when they want me to double RDP from a perimeter machine to an inner machine. It is even more annoying when the inner machine nonetheless has complete unfettered internet access, so there’s not even a theoretical point to all those hoops. All of this has happened to me before. But the customer has found a new way to be even more annoying, to obstruct me doing my job for them even more: putting a limit of two simultaneous RDP logins on a machine allocated to a team of three reviewers. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Terribly amused by this alleged "CEO" who set up a bot to make himself sound smart by generating "intellectual discourse" replies on his behalf, which proceeded to write a comically high-brow pseudo-intellectual reply to a joke diagram, get flagged by one of Mastodon's biggest accounts (hi) and vaporized by mods within literal seconds (thank you mods) :neodog__w_: Be on the lookout for these sorts of deep-sounding but vacuous replies. There's probably more of them being run by the same person/group and whatever reason they have to want to build up fake "intellectual discourse" on mastodon can't be good https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/838/452/056/117/147/original/cb2069b3707a53e3.png npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea I have clarified any and all confusions you may have had about ancient Chinese political thought in one convenient chart. #history #politics #classicalchinese #philosophy https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/838/130/359/433/285/original/ff6face5d7b180da.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea y'all I know that if you have AC (most houses here don't) then obviously the windows should stay closed, or if you have good insulation (lol, whoever rated our apartment was clearly doing some creative math to avoid falling beneath the current legal minimum) that not opening the windows might work out better, assuming you did close the curtains. But right now Northern Europe is full of people sitting in greenhouse ovens who tell themselves that opening the windows would be counter-productive because outside is where the heat is 🙃 I have spent most of my life in places with hot, humid summers like we're having in NL right now and I know what to do when there's no AC. I'm cool and comfortable at the moment in a house with no AC and poor insulation because I'm very proactive about getting the curtains closed and windows open early in the morning before sun hitting glass starts to heat up the house. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…k0dt pronunciation hints for either very rare characters, or unusual definitions of characters that are pronounced differently from the usual one. (The old system for defining the pronunciation of a character on paper, before they used the Latin alphabet with tone markers, was pretty awkward... they'd write one common character with the same beginning sound and another common character with the same ending sound and you'd synthesize it in your head.) npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea This is a pocket study guide for Chinese high school literature exams. I think they had to invent entire new frontiers of typography for this thing. #typography https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/793/554/695/318/339/original/f6c4608fb5bf916f.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…dedn I can do it but I'm told mine is too soft npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea I didn’t paint my wall marigold yellow with the express intent of making Odin’s fur really pop in photos, but it does help npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Good morning to a boy who is very proud of his ability to call shotgun when he detects mommy waking back towards her own bed https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/775/347/761/398/246/original/81b0c6d1e8589f2c.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…cpqn please turn down your sunny evangelization rays for a moment so you can hear me repeat that is not in any way different from how it works on Windows npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…cpqn I'm confused why you think that's different from Windows? the updates exist whether you choose to install them or not, in either case npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea well this is the scariest thing my work computer has ever done. I didn’t even know it was structurally possible for popup windows to appear over the Windows Update screen https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/759/332/270/923/733/original/ba612f1e751a9c6b.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Odin doesn’t know why we’re sad about going to his favorite special place, but he’s being very sweet. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/753/056/700/426/949/original/8430821a60a2de06.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/753/057/886/641/053/original/8d78763465c4a2ec.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Sudden trip to Limburg because of a death in the family. Odin has no idea, he’s just happy for a chance to be Public Transport Odin, he’s a bit hyperactive about it https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/752/932/410/938/739/original/5bb1aebcc8178e22.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/752/932/677/168/976/original/d7be5896e3023a94.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/752/933/119/370/853/original/41dbf0e8aba51804.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea well that’s a problem only Amsterdam could have: strip shows being held in glass-walled boats in public canals under the pretense that inside the boat is “indoors” I declined to follow up on a nice apartment in the tourist part of the city because it overlooked a canal, and while we were touring it, the Weed Boat went by three times and I decided I didn’t want to perceive the Weed Boat full of rowdy tourists having their first smoke every fifteen minutes for the rest of my life. The Strip Boat sounds similarly annoying npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea A visual novel plotline sprung to life: - Kids at a high school in Rome had been telling each other for decades that there were secret rooms under the school. Teachers laughed it off as playground rumors - During a protest sit-in, the kids took the opportunity to go where they’re not supposed to go and reported that there were really, definitely secret rooms under the school - The staff found a mysterious iron door in the basement that apparently no-one knew the purpose of; after getting it open, they found some sort of disused furnace… which opened directly into an entire ancient Roman villa https://nos.nl/artikel/2617238-scholieren-vinden-1800-jaar-oude-romeinse-villa-onder-eigen-school-in-rome npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Happy Flat Fuck Friday to all who observe https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/697/158/894/219/200/original/7a0c65444a40035e.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea today on "you tried, little auto-caption": consistently transcribing Confucian as Confusion Confusion value system. The resurgence of Confusion principles. The contribution of Confusion values to the economy. Marxism displaced by Confusion npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…q49y WeChat is annoyingly locked down such that I can link you to a specific post but I don’t think there’s a way to browse their blog history without an account, which is annoyingly hard to get in the west (I had to go around begging on social media until a random Chinese person kindly agreed to spend one of their vouches on me) https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Kl6Xo3NBmFp3j8wiS4Xgmw npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Out of morbid curiosity, I started following a Chinese government-run foreign policy blog aimed at young people (it’s got this cool ancient wandering-warrior-hero branding) The long and short of it is that recent posts have been very mean to Japan and Taiwan and very polite about the US and emphasizing how wise the US would be to embrace China as an equal and friend They’ve got these videos of western scholars and businessmen talking about how the west is not the center of the world, which is true and all, but the obvious and frequent mid-sentence editing cuts are raising questions answered by the obvious and frequent mid-sentence editing cuts npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea psst hey you, with the eyes 👀 stop being stubborn and increase your computer's default font size. magnify that web page you're reading a bit maybe try a different display font, most things default to sans fonts these days but I personally find serifs much easier to read, especially at, ahem, bigger font sizes also, if light mode hurts your eyes, there's a significant chance the problem is that you bought a new monitor that gets 10x brighter than your old monitor and you turned it up to 100% brightness out of habit npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea was watching a video of a Chinese guy playing an English-learning video game on bilibili The word "herb" came up. He read the definition. "Uh-huh." Clicked the British sound sample. "Uh-huh." Clicked the American sound sample. "HUH???" npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea I spent some time looking into the rsync regressions. I found the general shape of the cause of one of them, and a discord buddy was able to further nail the exact chain of failure. We reported our findings in the appropriate github issue. (It was a classic: security fix introducing a new bug. New tests for the fix didn't expose it.) I took the opportunity to politely push back that there has been a sudden flurry of very large Claude-cosigned commits, and that seeing things like the entire test suite being rewritten from bash to python by an AI in a single commit sets off a lot of alarm bells in my head for ugly surprises. Too much, too fast. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea the infosec people at my work are rioting because the Distant Corporate Overlord sent an email that scores 10/10 on the phishing scale (“We want to give you a present to thank you for all your hard work! [Click here] to claim your gift!”) npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea She’s putting Emily on. There haven’t been any gansbroemen fatalities in over 30 years because the canals don’t freeze over anymore #netherlands https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/650/683/666/160/334/original/d466ed45df27a6f4.png npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…wj9g I got the duck for five euros from a random sidewalk vendor in Sicily. I got the goat from Odin's jowls. I pried open his mouth when it became clear he was smuggling something, and there was an entire goat in there of unknown provenance npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea o noble beast. o mighty hound https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/648/114/292/482/389/original/c64b5000c4d99370.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/648/114/613/265/919/original/2c5f026cfdeeb6d2.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea a stalwart Man was subjected to my post with a cute girly aesthetic and he took the time to let me know how much it annoyed him that there are posts on Mastodon that are cute and girly. There is of course only one solution https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/647/778/039/057/644/original/1ad4fdbb0b765aa1.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Boy who is begrudgingly putting up with having dozens of sticky seeds combed out of his leg-fluff https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/646/611/921/558/896/original/83239672d5cb1ff4.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…92jh "I am publishing for commercial purposes and would like to have artwork that is 100% in the clear" is a problem solved by "money" whether paid to artists or paid to copyright lawyers who can hem and haw over whether your collage falls under fair use protections npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Writers: here are ten free and easy ways to add a dash of visual interest to your blog posts without resorting to AI imagery (which signals to readers that your blog post is probably also AI and there’s no need to bother reading it): 1) A thoughtful photo you’ve taken yourself — a nice sunrise you saw, a cool angle spotted on vacation, your pet curled up on the couch, flowers. Play with your phone photo app’s filter settings to nail the tone. It doesn’t need to be particularly related to the post, it’s related to you as a person. 2) An image from Wikimedia Commons that’s somehow related to the subject matter — there are unfathomably many, you can search by keyword. Remember to credit. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 3) A screenshot of a scene you made in a sandbox game such as Minecraft or Animal Crossing 4) A scene you made with toys such as Lego (you can also use free Lego design software such as Bricklink Studio) https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/main.page 5) Play with the effects in whatever image editor you have access to, using your own photos or free-to-use images, to create something a bit abstract and avant-garde 6) Even if you can’t draw or paint very well, you can probably make some pretty cool abstract or collage imagery with whatever art supplies you have around. Dampen some paper and randomly dip watercolor paint onto it and see what happens 7) Those stickers you stashed and never used? Yeah you can make something with them. If they’re individually cut, you don’t even need to peel them, you’ll still find the One True Way to use them one day, I’m sure 8) Shelfies. None will dare question your competence after they see you have a real paper copy of Subject Matter Tome Volumes 1 through 6 9) You can get a lot of mileage out of compositing pre-made video game assets into an image. A good place to start is Kenney’s free and generously licensed 2D assets: https://www.kenney.nl/assets/category:2D and the Tiled editor which is specifically meant for assembling images out of video game asset tile sheets https://www.mapeditor.org 10) the most ridiculously amateurish thing you can scribble on a post-it note or in MS Paint is preferable to AI imagery because it clearly signals a real human cares about the post. #writing #writingcommunity #collage #blog https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/645/465/860/425/193/original/b9f8a0e2229d0904.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea 犬守夜鸡司晨 苟不学曷为人 蚕吐丝蜂酿蜜 人不学不如物 As dogs guard the evening, As birds hail the morning, A soul without knowledge Had best heed this warning: As silk comes from silkworms, As honey from bees, An ignorant person Is lower than these. A verse of the Three Character Classic, an educational poem for ancient Chinese children, rhyming translation by me. #classicalchinese #poetry #translation npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Odin is helping mommy get crackin’ on her midlife decision to become a Classical Chinese scholar for no practical reason https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/629/100/932/060/863/original/b8567a4f05cadfe7.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea "Unforeseen Interactions", a play in three acts: 1) an older lady who wears perfume hugs me, who is wearing short sleeves. 2) a few hours later, I have a nice, big glass of orange juice, which I enjoy enough to put up with the mild allergic reactions it sometimes gives me 3) a hand-shaped chemical burn erupts on my arm npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea just took my very first dose of ADHD medication. Waiting to see if I explode or if I translate the entire Book of Han in a single sitting npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea We’re back to a continuously circulating police patrol in our neighborhood because some jackass called in a threat to the Jewish school npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea "Please set a new password for your account." okay "Your password does not meet your organization policy." okay, you could have hinted that in the interface before I hit enter, but what's the policy "It's a secret to everybody." npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea How to get prescribed ADHD medication in the Netherlands, a guide based on real world success: 1) spend over a year repeatedly trying to tell the GP that it’s not going well and you need help. This will not cost you money, only your precious finite time on this earth. It helps if you have a husband to drag you to the doctor when you’re at your lowest and argue with them 2) finally get escalated to a psychologist who takes a few months to be sure there’s definitely something wrong. She will recommend the GP to prescribe ADHD medication 3) Your prescription mysteriously disappears into the system. After several attempts to follow up that take months, and several confused phone calls from your psychologist to the GP, it turns out the GP refuses to authorize it because *shrug* reasons. Maybe if a psychiatrist also signs off on it? 4) You attempt to get an appointment with a psychiatrist. Every psychiatrist in the Netherlands is booked until 2034. 5) Finally, after a dozen rounds of pleading and nagging, you get a mysterious phone call from an unknown number. They give you an address and tell you to be there at 7 in the evening. 6) You find yourself at the door of a historic art deco mansion in the most exclusive district of Amsterdam. There is absolutely no indication that this is a medical practice. You ring the doorbell. Nothing happens. You wait nervously, and try again. 7) The door creaks open. An elderly man wearing crocs stands before you. He silently bids you follow him up a winding staircase to a parlor filled with a thousand thick and aging books in every tongue of the earth and perhaps a few also of the angels. They concern prophecy, and music, and poetry, and the apocalypse. 8) In a thin whisper of a voice barely to be heard, he asks your name, and where you were born. He slowly, very slowly, so slowly that you think you have died and this is purgatory, types this into a computer. It is in his lap because his desk is covered with strange devices beyond identification. 9) He tells you the prescription will be ready for pickup tomorrow. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Every time I think I've seen every kind of annoying rando on the internet, they find a way to innovate Today's innovation was someone saw a post – not by me, not in reply to me, not that I replied to or even knew existed until that moment, by someone I don't know – and didn't like it, so they started @'ing me about it as if it were my fault and I should feel bad about it. Please, I work so hard on all these takes, if you want to be mad at me then take the time to get mad at what I did write! :lolsob: npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea One of the virtues of big open source projects is that little happens behind closed doors. However, since 99% of what they discuss just isn’t interesting to downstream end users, they forget that downstream end users *can* read this stuff and *can* post very angry comments on a discussion that they feel invited and entitled to, *as users* who are perceiving their role here as *delivering accountability.* Github PRs are a nightmare edge case for attracting unplanned attention, because even most people who got past the first paragraph of the post about policy everyone was mad about never actually saw *the policy itself* due to github’s unhinged UI. Mastodon’s overall success rate for walking away with good, clear information about the policy itself was… low. Very low. On the one hand, I think that anticipating the nature of the issue would attract public attention, and putting effort into framing it in a way more ready for public non-contributor consumption, would have reduced the misunderstandings and blowup once it escaped containment. On the other… nothing can fix the fact that a rando who’s been linked to a comment on a github PR in an active project is going to be lost and confused. So, contributors: “How does this come across to someone who’s not intimately familiar with our process and involved in our ongoing discussions?” Might save you a lot of notifications one day. And, non-contributors: that big project that definitely existed more than five seconds before you found a hot link to a hot post? Spend more than five seconds figuring out what’s going on before you deliver accountability. And if you don’t have the time or energy, that’s fine! But then don’t push the angry comment missile strike button for something you’re not willing to follow up on. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Ravelin contemplates what her other mother is getting up to while she's out of the house. #gloryinthethunder #mastoart https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/585/907/686/230/106/original/f1e03571b30998cd.jpg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…82yd I’m sure you’re older than me but I am in fact almost forty years old. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…82yd I have been on the internet far, far longer than thirteen years. But I wasn't doing severals because it wasn't social media. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Just occurred to me that I’ve been very active on social media for more than thirteen years, so there are users I can legitimately tell “kid, I’ve been doing severals since before you were born” npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea after reading That rust PR, I can see what they were *trying* to say, but if you lead your big controversial post with “comments raising ethical or legal concerns will be moderated, technical concerns only” then absolutely the only thing anyone is going to talk about is the alarming ethical and legal concern they now have npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea one of the little dogs who despises Odin slipped his lead to come run circles around us and yap and nip aggressively. I ended up having to literally leap at him and pin him down with one hand (while trying to hold back Odin, who thinks this is a fun game, with the other) so he could be caught and re-leashed :lolsob: npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea The Three Character Classic (a poem for ancient Chinese children to memorize important facts by rhyme) was expanded a few times over the centuries to add new dynasties. The last such addition is: “And then the Qing seized the Mandate and rebalanced the four corners of the earth. There, that’s all of history, you’re all caught up on the drama, the end.” #classicalchinese https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/577/523/676/097/002/original/9262d181783af375.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…2pmg we were on the other end of the country today, it was not Mila npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Just saw a wild pheasant for the first time in my life, like in all those old paintings. Europe is real! I have also seen deer, bunnies, baby sheep, horses, cows, ducks and at least one good dog other than Odin npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Good morning to Public Transort Odin We are taking the train to go unfuck baby cousin’s malware-addled computer, and hopefully teach her the general idea for salvaging these things herself — she’s a compsci student but compsci programs rarely teach foundational computer unfucking. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/572/153/299/886/114/original/eae30ccd8f4f1bc3.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea The chill I got when I downloaded the repo and realized the “exploit” was a zero byte file with a magic filename… The charitable interpretation is that Microsoft accidentally shipped an internal test build to global production. The less charitable one isn’t very pleasant npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…tdsu it's definitely not a fake scare, because this all began when *we* called *her* because "she" was DM'ing us on Discord about exciting investment opportunities. She called us back in tears when it was clear it wasn't just her discord, but everything. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea My baby cousin called me in tears because all her accounts have been compromised. We went over possible infection vectors (the “try my game” DM scam etc) and nothing stood out. But then she wondered if they’d gotten a foothold through the Canvas ransom somehow. Has anyone else heard of students getting their personal accounts popped very recently in a way that might be tied to the Canvas incident? npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea customer: we need a wet signature me, rummaging through my fountain pens: this cheap paper won’t hold up to my wettest nibs at all, but okay #fountainpen npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Kinizsi March by Julius Fučík, better known for "song that was never intended to be the world's most iconic clown song", in beepboop video game style created for a confrontation between two equally egoistic villains in Glory in the Thunder: https://0xabad1dea.itch.io/glory-in-the-thunder-act-1 #classicalmusic #gloryinthethunder https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/551/517/683/393/363/original/b31cb4787999960b.mp3 npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea to be specific, I was in downtown Boston during the Boston Marathon bombing and the subsequent escape attempt that got several people killed. It was uh, a surreal few days. My team lead got barricaded into his house by the cops to prevent him from being taken hostage by the surviving terrorist. I was using the hotel upper floors to listen to the cops with SDR. I accidentally tuned into the Blue Man Group's roadies setting up an event across the street (might have gotten cancelled...) npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea sometimes I realize that a lot of statistically unlikely things have happened to me (especially for someone who doesn't seek out adventure) and they're just kind of internalized as normal life events like just now I was telling my friends "Yeah, I had to share a hotel room with my boss once, but he was a gentleman about it, nothing weird happened. Oh! This was because we got trapped in the conference hotel when the city went into lockdown because of a terrorist attack" npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…82yd after having covid like five times, only if I were standing within a meter of it npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Just had a panic attack when I realized I'd put a sandwich in the toaster iron 15 minutes ago and then forgotten about it Good news! I forgot to ever plug in the toaster iron in the first place! Multidimensional chess. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea blessed by the rare Danger Tram, doing maintenance on a disused track. It was burning diesel because the power lines don’t work #tram #trains #publictransport #amsterdam https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/544/065/236/612/826/original/e81622e6b43a0c16.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea it has been 0 days since I encountered something that was licensed "feel free to use this in your projects, please just credit me by name!" and they forgot to actually state their name anywhere in the readme or the code. 😅 document your assumptions 😂 npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea we were walking down a narrow residential street when two little dogs who live directly opposite each other both caught sight of Odin from upstairs and started barking their heads off my husband: "we are between Scylla and Charybdis" npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…pcph I will scream about it. It will certainly be on itch and hopefully steam, but I don’t have a listing page yet. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea did you hear I am halfway finished with my extremely queer and neurospicy visual novel. did I mention this #gloryinthethunder #visualnovel #lgbt #yuri #lego https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/534/365/576/921/432/original/86e70b884a55f0a9.jpg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea > Dutch grocery store > “Oranje Spekken!” > look inside > neither oranje nor spek > only delicious trans pride. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/534/201/851/660/099/original/02091aa15b6d8eea.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Ravelin has the compulsive oversharing autism. #gloryinthethunder https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/533/126/286/390/310/original/59cc0b6a2ac4aa87.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea The girls have girl time beneath the stars: swapping songs, foretelling prophecies, worrying that your yuri crush might actually be extremely evil this is a scene from my WIP visual novel Glory in the Thunder Act 1, very nearly the end of chapter 3. #gloryinthethunder #visualnovel #yuri https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/528/602/289/379/026/original/d721cc5b1fe840ca.mp4 npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…w4ek @nprofile…zaxj I have restricted the ACLs *just now,* after learning that Chrome is very prone to deciding to re-download it if it's simply deleted. I also did a pass of looking for Gemini-related feature flags etc to disable, but of course Google feels free to reset those for your own good every now and then, whereas I don't expect it to have extensive defensive programming for weird ACLs. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea @nprofile…w4ek @nprofile…zaxj no no no, Chrome wasn't doing anything weird to the ACLs, *I'm* doing something weird to the ACLs because presumably it doesn't have extensive fallbacks to work around that. It just re-downloads the file if you delete it. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea here I've been combing for old documents and stuff to free up disk space on my laptop, when all I need to do is do a little file system surgery to make sure Chrome will not be able to successfully redownload this *four and a half gigabyte* local model when it notices I somehow "accidentally" deleted it (replaced with 0-byte read only locked file, parent folder set to read only and locked, grandparent folder set to read only and locked) https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/522/928/180/730/168/original/0e32d00e1a59bec4.png npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Dance of the Yao People (Chinese traditional as arranged by Liu Tieshan and Mao Yuan) (as rearranged by 0xabad1dea to be beep boop video game) #classicalmusic #music #gloryinthethunder https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/517/978/834/050/030/original/2803a5e039a29170.mp3 npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea I assume the city is going to plant a new tree or bushes, I hope they get the plants in soon because loose soft soil is magnetic to Odin (Aside from looking good, having a lot of large water-sucking plants is crucial to keeping the neighborhood from flooding) npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Odin needed an emergency rinse after he and Mila discovered a fresh pile of slightly damp black soil deposited in their play spot. https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/515/557/114/316/193/original/a9dbbf294f2a78a2.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/515/557/734/548/467/original/3286bb52434c8a4b.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/515/558/140/488/849/original/229fb7c02af105b3.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/515/558/398/476/280/original/388ec3c4dac6b53c.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea We had a bit of an Incident; we ran into the learning-disabled young man who likes Odin at the ice cream stand, and he shoved his ice cream cone out to Odin, who got a big lick in; his assistant wanted him to understand he shouldn’t hold out random food to random dogs, so I couldn’t let Odin have the rest, but naturally he felt very entitled to the ice cream that had been freely offered to him and was very upset about being held back from it. everything’s okay, Odin is now very focused on my chicken tendies. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea I wrote up my personal philosophy on translating ancient texts, as informed by being raised in a religious environment that had a very unhealthy relationship to its texts. https://xn--hmr.net/classicalchinese/translationphilosophy/ #classicalchinese #translation #localization #philosophy https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/510/186/756/562/789/original/13dd715a19cc67a4.png npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea If this is your introduction to Samuel Pepys, the lore is that he kept an unusually honest and thorough diary, recording his many many sex pest crimes, but also he happened to be witness to some important historical events and so everyone who studies England in the mid-1600s has to read his sex pest diary npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Samuel you were one of the pricks and louses both of all time, get vexed npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Wisdom teeth removal came up in conversation with someone who lives here in NL, and I said that the most annoying part of mine was being told to keep tea bags in my mouth because I don’t like the taste of tea And it kind of hit me: tea bags?! they told me to use a home remedy to treat my surgery wounds instead of giving me proper medication and gauze?! real American Health Care moment, in hindsight npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Mila’s ear is starting to heal; her family asked us to bring Odin over because she’s depressed after being cooped up for a day and a half. We were worried that being bitten by another dog would traumatize the playful spirit out of her, but after a moment’s hesitation where she waited for Odin to clearly initiate, all was well 🥰 https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/498/746/399/152/440/original/d300c7225822c261.jpeg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/498/746/708/241/724/original/b500d563945eb026.jpeg npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea I somehow pulled a muscle in my back and can barely move. My husband is being a dear about the fetch quests. Food was put in Odin's bowl, but it wasn't put there BY MOMMY and he has been filibustering on his right in the social contract to receive a bowl of food FROM MOMMY just kind of painfully shuffling towards the bowl when I had to get up to go to the bathroom anyway seems to have done the trick npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Update on the fire situation: currently my air is clean enough to breathe comfortably, but the huge forest fire that broke out yesterday is still not completely extinguished, and meanwhile we are up to five (5) distinct forest fires burning today in this small country This is apparently what happens when it doesn’t rain for two entire weeks in the land of rain falling on mud. #netherlands npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea I’m actually charmed by how his words for sunrise and sunset imply that the sun has a house below the horizon — it’s exiting a door in the morning and entering a door at night npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea 日出而作,日入而息 一 庄子 Sun’s out guns out, sun’s dead go the fuck to bed — ancient philosopher Zhuangzi’s profound wisdom for internet gremlins #classicalchinese #translation npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea Mila was bitten by another dog and injured. She's been to the vet and expected to be okay, but her whirlwind romance with Odin is going to be bitterly on hold for a few days while her wound heals. npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea "smoke plume reaches South Holland" *refreshes news page* "smoke plume reaches England" the main trajectory is not directly over my house atm, so I can breathe better than I could a few hours ago, but the slightest wind shift could bring it back and they're being honest that this is at least a 24-hour problem if not two or three days #netherlands https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/489/324/463/789/094/original/4bc13312c4aa681b.png npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea you can watch the helicopters here, if you like that sort of thing. https://www.helispot.nl/hs/radar/ turn off "zoom automatisch" above the map the good news is that the fire caught in land specifically reserved for artillery practice ( :neodog_think: ) which means it's about as far from any large clusters of houses as it's possible to be in this country https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/488/571/090/286/020/original/a280797685c37d2e.png npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea well, this kid playing at their local pond is having the coolest day of their life (ANP press photo) https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/116/488/468/648/954/590/original/64d4b624f8089a98.png npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea I felt strangely light-headed and like I could smell something odd. I searched the house for disaster, but couldn't find anything. Couldn't shake the feeling that something smelled vaguely burning. The national news kindly confirmed I'm not suffering a stroke when it sent out the alert "entire country enveloped in smoke as forest fire rages" #netherlands npub12k5xjkuu7vvsm88ps5z8c0udy6t8hqghxxvke59x9m58vt6ujm8sjg9sc4 abadidea the ghost of Beethoven: tell me, how fares the future? do people still enjoy my music? me: oh yes, quite often actually. and sometimes creative young composers intentionally mislabel their work as yours, so that the robots which patrol our libraries day and night don't burn the manuscripts Beethoven: what me: oh, right, a robot is – uhh let's just say it's a demon Beethoven: you have evil demons infesting your libraries and burning books?? me: yeah Beethoven: damn that's metal, where's my quill