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Drikanis
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@palin@mastodon.social this is from 2023. London installed cameras to ticket people with vehicles that don't comply with emissions standards in certain "Ultra Low Emission Zones". protestors naturally started destroying them.
my greatest weakness is not being able to read any date format that isn't iso8601
someone sent me a table of "security issues" for me to review, despite not being in security
i didn't recognize the report format, and it had some nonsense like a "high security" issue where ubuntu is downloading from our internal deb mirror over http instead of https (which is completely normal for debian/ubuntu since the packages and indices are all signed with a private key)
so of course i ask where it came from, and they tell me it came from copilot
i swear, if someone sends me another bit of slop for me to review for them, i'm burning this place down
LLMs are not useful as an informational tool since the only way to know they are correct is if you already know the information you are looking for
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@cmccullough@polymaths.social mines off but only because they bundle translations into it... i've got the rest turned off under it
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lol. ms teams broke something dumb and their feedback site doesn't load at all
gods everything is such trash now. :<
depression resurfacing again, probably because i can't seem to get anything done or do anything right lately :<
part of it is from being stuck in impossible positions at work, but most of it is from the encroaching fascism and capitalist rot that's become the background radiation of life.
still poking around alternative editors to neovim and helix feels really good. it's using vim keybindings for the most part so very little learning curve, and supports all the features i need out of a terminal ide, with no shady external dependencies or plugins.
there is at least one commit in it that was co-authored by claude, but there are positive discussions that they may be incorporating an acceptable (to me) ai contribution policy.
i still have emacs in my back pocket if it doesn't work out, but i might roll with helix for a while.
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@geerlingguy@mastodon.social nvidia's only means of growth for the past decade has been to invent less efficient technologies nobody needs, and make users and developers think it's required.
our current decade has really perfected a specific feeling of hopelessness i really hoped would have stayed in dystopian sci-fi
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@kkarhan doubtful. the whole industry is propped up by the hype, and even the ones captitulating to shareholder demand aren hiring anyone.
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@catsalad@infosec.exchange Sometimes when people file tickets or ask for my help, they send me Word docs that were generated by Copilot with "instructions" on how to do my own job.
every time microsoft releases a new "copilot" i die a little more inside.
now they have "github copilot app" which isn't to be confused with any of the other copilots...
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@soatok@furry.engineer i get stuff like this too for my registered domains for my blogs i barely use, and i'm a nobody. they think i want to improve my SEO or whatever.
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@Artists_Ali@sunny.garden it's like the whole "we only use 10% of our brain, we should unlock using 100% of it" crap that used to circulate. using 100% of your brain is called a seizure.
long time vim user taking the dive into emacs and i'm just completely baffled, but making slow progress
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@gintoxicating somewhat embarrassingly, I'm using AWS. my previous registrar gave me basically zero control over the DNS, and AWS was the only one i knew at the time that would give me total control over everything.
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@lethalbit@vt.social thank the gods that rss still works on channels so i never have to look at the youtube homepage ever again
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i assumed they must have been overhead but after checking their flight path, they were almost 20km away when they sent it!
ph+?
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it's about palworld too i guess, but i never played that one.
i would love for some devs to rediscover art direction.
i must have had a power surge or something over night. server tripped and got stuck in an unbootable state, one of my monitors died, and one of my keyboards is randomly not registering certain keys.
fixed the first two with a power cycle and replacing capacitors respectively, but the keyboard is still being annoying. :/
whyyyyy does this terraform plan+apply take 60 hours of cpu wtf
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@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social "your AI went rogue and committed crimes? well ours did it three times!"
these AI researchers are deeply unserious people
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@olivvybee@beehive.city someone told me it was pronounced "wifey" and now that's all I hear in my head any time I see it
i want to retire (read: become a cat)
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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange at what point do they just give up and make the next "Windows" release a linux distro?
i think i might try painting my nails
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apparently our local dns pods support a serve_stale option, so that should help on our cluster workloads at least...
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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange some of our devs are using the caveman skill for this but like... llms aren't trained on "caveman" they're trained on "english". they're just making it even worse.
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not much improvement with new antennas, and still can't figure out the issue with gps not working anymore. internal connections all seem solid and the tty reports it can find and initialize the gps module, it just doesn't report anything after the initial "no sats" message.
kinda discouraged by the whole thing, tbh...
great article about the top-down push for AI
https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/
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mobile unit is a rak wismesh pocket v2 based on the RAK19026 board. can't find any information about my issue, so it might just be a bad chip or something. really don't want to go through the hassle of returning it though.
art hard :<
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@ryanc@infosec.exchange had this happen. it went offline and we thought someone accidentally decommissioned it because we couldn't find it, but after a power outage it came back online on its own. don't know if we ever actually found it.
stuck in that triple-point of needing to vent, not having the words, and not wanting to worry or bother people