Me (to the family): "I think I'll tidy the study tonight, seeing as I can't actually get in there due to all the stuff
The missis, some time later "how's the tidying going"
Me: erm..
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Work: I run a Supercomputer cluster.
Interested in #infosec #privacy #FOSS #retro #hpc #tech #dogs #academia #uk #keyboards #CasioWatches #MetalDetecting #linux #ScaleModelling #photography
No bot follows please #nobot
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Currently slurping all my various data sources into #obsidian.
My #goodreads shelves and ratings? Slurp
#Kindle clippings? Slurp
#Calibre epub library? Slurp
Now to get to work on a csv file of all my paperbook books...
This is the level of terminal zoom required when I'm troubleshooting an issue on one of the big beefy Epyc 9965 dual socket servers
Made the mistake of putting data into #onedrive when I had free 5TB.
Now they've done a rug pull and i'm getting scaled back to 100GB i'm trying to get my data out and i'm getting throttled into oblivion.
Never again.
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@cR0w@infosec.exchange even better than the carer trick is !$ which I use constantly. Explained in more detail in tip number 4 here https://cyb.org.uk/2021/05/03/bash-productivity.html
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social "You may stop using Copilot at any time. If you want to close your Microsoft Account, please see the Microsoft Services Agreement."
if i want to remove copilot from my work O365 account i have to close my account? yeah thanks microslop
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@TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world @sue@glasgow.social yes. altman is a habitual liar and this is just different lies to maximise profit
I've been regularly hiring for about 25 years. New trend I'm seeing is that certain applicants are completely rewriting their whole CV tailored to the job profile to make them sound like a great fit.
That's a lot of work, so I expect they are getting LLMs to do it: "hey here's a job profile, change my CV to fit".
The result is rather deceitful. When I check the linkedin profile, the job title and descriptions look like 2 completely different roles, and the claimed experience is not mentioned.
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@dangillmor@mastodon.social bain are on the BDS boycott list for funding Israeli defence companies. So will users who do not support Israel's actions close their accounts...?
Twitter: opinions are mine, not my employer's
Linkedin: opinions are my employer's, not mine
Mastodon: opinions are from my fursona
when chewie met chewie #starwars
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@libreovergratis@mastodon.social @lwn@fedi.lwn.net great, another idiot releasing exploits into the wild too. May the only name they make for themselves be that they are remembered as reckless egoists
vscode/cursor/claude are horrible software that are really not designed with networked filesystems in mind (or they don't care). apart from the obvious security implications of extensions running on the remote server, it is regularly scanning 20,000 files per second with ripgrep and fileWatcher. unfortunately users can't be relied upon to implement recommendations so I need to find a server side throttle to use.
We have safety laws for a reason. Good to see the EU acting on this.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1178
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Try asking an LLM not to speak until a trigger word is said. It will fail abjectly, and give all sorts of reasons why it doesn't need to follow the simple instruction it agreed to. there was nothing unsafe about my instruction, but some design rule overrode the instruction despite claiming that it would comply - in fact the bot suggested this method in the first place.
Extrapolate this issue to real world tasks and you have a big problem.
I don't like that people can abuse the Freedom of Information request system with demands to populate their sales database. The effort on their part compared to the effort required on our side to respond is vast. #foi
Spent much of the afternoon tidying the study. Good news is that I have room on the desk again for my handy programmable macropad.
I just added excalidraw shortcuts to it, since I've been using the excellent obsidian+excalidraw plugin recently (by @zsviczian@pkm.social )
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@iris @tito_swineflu searched for Gemini in the Chrome config vars interface and disabled every one
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@zsviczian@pkm.social some people, including myself, actively avoid content about AI. I wouldn't click on it. I would watch the second one because I am interested in excalidraw
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@fxchip@hachyderm.io @gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz yeah and the OP replies to the responses are making my Spidey senses tingle. This whole thing feels like engagement farming
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@budin @thomasfuchs it's unclear how usable kindles that have been reset/deregistered for re-sale if you cannot register them any more. Can these be used with calibre/sideload if reset after this date?
Also, it means that people like me with multiple kindles cannot sync books and reading position across such devices
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@sarahjamielewis i was amazed when i first saw jupiter + 4 moons through my crappy telescope. still waiting to see saturn, it hasn't been a convenient position and weather for about a year.
Surely I can't be the only person who follows the rule: "never trust a person who dresses like a magician"
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@torgo my teenage son gave it 10/10. judging by the reviewer's face, i don't think he's target market.
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@dentangle i assume its only if you use an AI tool in the process of creating the PR? you get what you deserve in which case.
When I start reading a book review I'm now getting quite good at detecting if these words will appear at the end:
"Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for sending me this advance reader copy for review."
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@mttaggart typical bros wanting to get noticed - it's irresponsible to disclose like this. "we waited a week after the CVE to drop the POC" is not responsible.
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@joeress@mastodon.social @ironicbadger@techhub.social they already upgraded the venue too. They do seem like the sort of band that the annoying musos at school would suddenly get on the bandwagon and be talking about constantly as if music had only just been invented
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@latenightlinux rationing is brought back and you're only allowed *one* condiment in your kitchen. which one do you choose?
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@dangoodin@infosec.exchange there's a few like this that i've been tempted by https://www.amazon.co.uk/MECHEN-Lossless-Resolution-Portable-Player%EF%BC%8CSupport-Gray/dp/B0B4NCSPNX
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@christianp why is it that the worst sites to login to are also the ones that forget my login so easily?
o365
aliexpress
vinted
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@libreovergratis@mastodon.social @lwn@fedi.lwn.net
Likely due to this:
2026-04-29: Submitted the patch for the rxrpc vulnerability to the netdev mailing list. Information about this issue was published publicly.
People need to be more careful
@joeress@mastodon.social aha but this has synths for the German vote.
Yesterday I told my family that the bald guy in this song (my wife and daughter's favourite song on the Eurovision cd they listen to unironically in the car) was the same "come on Barbie let's go party" guy from aqua. https://youtu.be/Ovt7YGHAj8I?si=Ttut7kYJThB1sJ4G
In the old days that would have established it as fact, but they had to go and do a Google search and prove me wrong.
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@Daojoan@mastodon.social aren't a lot of countries banning it? i presume to workaround that it's as simple as connecting a vpn and using crypto?
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@KarlHeinzHasliP@climatejustice.social @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online and they invest heavily in Israeli defence companies.
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@rooftopjaxx@kolektiva.social probably related to the anti semitic content promoted by Saiqa Ali and Sabine Mairey @tansy@wandering.shop
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social the right answer is probably Kenny Everett
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@gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io I am concerned about data integrity so this is all getting checksummed ASAP. Honestly don't trust this garbage service