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@MichaelTBacon@social.coop @emilymbender@dair-community.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run She desperately reached out to grasp something, anything to fend off her attacker. She found something, a book. It wasn't particularly heavy. It's only real weight was the weight of it's words. She drew her arm in a whacked the robot as hard as she could, many times over. She lost count of how many times she hit that thing. When it was all over she pushed the revolting metal abomination off her and struggled to her feet.

@MichaelTBacon@social.coop @emilymbender@dair-community.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run Emily banged on the door with her fist. No answer. This was an emergency, she kicked in the door. "Elias?" No answer. The room was quiet except for the eerie crackle of radio static. Then she saw it. The Elias Thorne Light House Keeper™ AI robot lunged at her. It had sense her rowing in and had been lying in wait the whole time. It pinned her to the ground, it's curly metal shavings beard rough against her face.

@MichaelTBacon@social.coop @emilymbender@dair-community.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run She looked down at the book in her hands. Isaac Asimov, I, Robot. She allowed herself a slight smile, "I am the light house keeper now!", she exclaimed. The orphans were safe once more.

@MichaelTBacon@social.coop @emilymbender@dair-community.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run "The waves are too big, we have to get out of here!", shouted David Gerard over the roar of the storm. Prof. Emily M. Bender stood with one hand on the mast, looking out towards the lighthouse with a steely face, "No, we have to go back for Elias Throne, the lighthouse keeper!". "But the orphans!", exclaimed David. "You take them back to shore, I'll get Elias Thorne", reasoned Emily.

@MichaelTBacon@social.coop @emilymbender@dair-community.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run David and Emily grunted as they heaved and hoed as they lowered the wooden lifeboat down into the icey water. It would be hard work, but they both knew Emily could do it. "See you on the other side, captain", Emily stepped onto the lifeboat. Despite the chilly wind and driving rain, Emily was sweating as she stepped onto land. The little island was just big enough to hold the lighthouse, a rock and a bench out of the water.

@alice@lgbtqia.space I'm still waiting for someone to create OnlyFlans

@davidgerard@circumstances.run - Sun Tzu, the Art of Cyber War, 2025

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange "Let's fire everyone! Oh, also, everyone keep buying all our stuff. Oh, and we destroyed the planet, good luck!"

@rythur@mastodon.social @josephcox@infosec.exchange Everyone in the room who is opposed need to start a chant to show their opposition to it and their numbers. If most of the room is angrily chanting this stuff is hard for them to pull off.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social "Hello, police? I parked my stolen car in my drive way last night, and I went out this morning and someone had stolen it!!!" Like a drug dealer calling the police to report a burglary.

@ancoghlan@mastodon.social @benno@eigenmagic.net @daisy@cloudisland.nz If there was a radio station to listen to, evacuation coordinates, or instructions in the message then we would all be screwed right now. I'm not sure why it wasn't a "sticky" notification in Android at leastm I've seen other applications do stickier notifications. Just keep it around for at least 10 minutes, even if I dismiss it.

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange @TurnipCannon@mstdn.ca They probably paid tens of millions of dollars for it too. This isn't some 5 minute Electron job.

@vicfroh@mastodon.social Is that the real Threads logo? The 90's GE and Colgate companies want their logo and font back.

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt The cruelty, doublespeak, and gas lighting is the point.

@susankayequinn@wandering.shop With Trump as the president, no one is allowed to say that someone isn't smart enough for politics ever again.

@rq4c@mastodon.world @iamlayer8@mastodon.social @angusm@mastodon.social Soon: "Well we can't find any coders for this job, but every applicant sure knows how to use a VPN and how to create a fake ID"

@LukefromDC@kolektiva.social @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange There is a reason I like to stay anonymous. I don't spout hateful things, I dont do anything illegal, but I want to be able to walk away at any time if I screw up and get cancelled or something. The other benefit is that if the definition of terrorist behaviour is redefined to include, "Vague satire about eating the rich", then I don't want it to be linked back to me.

@jensorensen@mastodon.social I'm very pessimistic about plastic recycling, a given city can typically only recycle one or two of the plastic types on a good day, I assume most cities are burying or shipping most plastic away. My personal outlook is, "Sort the plastic so that all the plastic can be buried together, then in 50 years time there is a chance that it can be dug up and properly recycled when it is worth it". Worst case we have regular landfill and a slightly more expensive to create plastic landfill.

@Hex@kolektiva.social The one rule for being an oligarch. Dammit, now I want a Marie Antoinette movie where they play this in the last scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0IUR4gkPIE

@clickhere@mastodon.ie @Rycaut@mastodon.social @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social And if a woman adds "Mr." they'll accuse her of fraud when she shows up for the interview. I hate this world.

@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green @ClintonAnderson@universeodon.com "When we created a battery/motor for an EV we mine toxic metals once, at the creation of the car, then it barely gives off anything toxic for 20 years, then the car dies and we can salvage some of the metal from body, but 90%+ of the battery can be recycled to create a new battery to go into a new car." I paraphrased all this, but you get the idea. And fossil fuel mining isn't exactly going great either, fracking pollutes local water, oil spills kill penguins.

@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green @ClintonAnderson@universeodon.com Mr Technology Connections mentions something like, "When you dig up and burn fossil fuels created millions of years ago, you get to burn it once and it creates toxic fumes, then on your next trip you need more fossil fuels which also give off toxic fumes, daily. When the car dies we can recycle some of the metal and the catalytic converter." https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

@Sea1Am@mastodon.social @newsguyusa@flipboard.social I just assume that all republican politicians and voters are sex offenders, it's easier. Why would you be in the republican party or vote for republicans if aren't?

@redsad@ohai.social Nope. It turns out that I didn't turn into a selfish, racist, transphobic conservative at 40. Maybe it was my extra brain cells because I wasn't lead poisoned for 40 years?

@anon_opin@mastodon.social Actually, it is: Barcelona, Amsterdam, Rome Runners up: Tokyo, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Melbourne, New York, Portland, Toronto, Marseilles

@JoBlakely@mastodon.social I propose painting it red until he gets voted out. Maybe keep it red afterwards to remind us, "No Republicans ever again, they destroy everything"

@benroyce@mastodon.social @chaucerburnt@aus.social And American defence forces and contractors keep selling military vehicle plans to Russia. Big corporations keep giving away location data of military personnel in the field by accident because they are addicted to collecting their customer data and America doesn't have the guts to legislate it away. America is following Russia in a few decades long decline.

@mcfly@milliways.social Sure, security updates are great, but so is running a car offline so that it can't be remotely unlocked or started by a hacker who gets into the company's cloud infrastructure, or just pays an employee like happens now with mobile company sim jacking.

@albertcardona@mathstodon.xyz "Hi Dell tech support? ChatGPT says that my computer has the ID10T virus"

@geekysteven@beige.party Saucy

@mdm@mcnamarii.town @wdormann@infosec.exchange Yes. That will reduce the blood loss. You still have to train it, but you can train it once for all users, you can even distribute the training for the next model among your users too. The problem is efficiency, cloud providers *could* get efficiency through scale, use renewable energy, reuse cooling water. They typically dont, they do whatever is cheapest which is usually to freeload on the local town's resources.

@anarchistquotes@todon.eu Freedom for me and not for thee

@mcfly@milliways.social My current car functionality is identical to when it rolled off the production line 14 years ago. What OTA updates is a modern car going to send me in the next 14 years that I am missing out on by not having a connect car? Anything critical to how the car functions that it didn't do off the production line? I doubt it. The only updates you really need are for recalls for safety or security, and manufacturers should be doing those in person for free. Or allow me to update it via USB drive.

@ZaneSelvans@social.coop I have a theory that Trump is secretly a greenie. It's either that or he's a fucking moron, but he couldn't possibly be that thick?

@hannah@hai.z0ne.social My teenage kids dropping into the kitchen to steal food and slink off back to their rooms.

@CppGuy@infosec.space @anon_opin@mastodon.social Dammit, I'm ashamed to admit that I knew what this would be in relation to before I clicked on it. Now we just need to find a Trump doppelganger and a Musk doppelganger...

@PhineasX@mastodon.art I'm telling my kids that this is Solid Snake

@skykiss@sfba.social It would be pretty funny if he tried to expose Democratic meddling and ended up just getting himself thrown in jail for treason.

@Leminski@tilde.zone @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social "But all my (racist) friends are there!"

@mcfly@milliways.social Also, I usually gets cars when they are at least 5 to 8 years old and take them to third party mechanics, so I don't have a warranty and I don't get software updates from the dealer and from a software point of view my car is basically unsupported at that point anyway. How much functionality are they going to change anyway? They probably aren't going to keep improving anything important over a decade, unless they can charge me for it like drift mode or something.

@blackpc@mastodon.social @FluentInFinance@mastodon.social And a major service, tyres, belts, at least checking the suspension, maybe a head gasket change.

@benroyce@mastodon.social @alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space The Iranian lego music videos were pretty awesome though.

@Scorpion8741@infosec.exchange @evacide@hachyderm.io Yep, Lockdown mode or GrapheneOS. If it happens again then I'd look at getting a second phone or portable hotspot which I don't tell anyone the phone number of, it is purely for the internet connection, then I connect to it over WiFi from my real phone to use Signal and Firefox, nothing else, no cellular network for my main phone.

@defcon@defcon.social Just makes sense. I'm not sure why shopping malls and work places still allow them, you're basically asking to be sued. Work places should be afraid of them, you don't want work place data getting leaked, especially I'd you have PII, banking data, customer data, etc. Let alone the worker on worker privacy issues.

@emmadavidson@aus.social So many businesses just have a Facebook page and no website too, especially trades. Unfortunately for them I don't have a Facebook account so I go with one that has a real web page.

They finally did an honest trailer for the documentary Idiocracy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSgBTb3wmMI

@infobeautiful@vis.social The weird thing is that the British then went back to the other continents to steal everything. If they invented steam trains beforehand then could have thrown the Egyptian obelisks on it and saved themselves a trip. They wouldn't have fit in the overhead luggage compartments though.