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@davidgerard@circumstances.run Always makes me think of Armando Iannuci’s “Avenue 9” now. “Nuanced? Well I think you just nuanced them to death.”

@bobthomson70@mastodon.social @romabysen@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop Coincidentally 33% of the vote is what the NSDAP got in the last free and fair elections in pre-WW II Germany.

@tychotithonus@infosec.exchange @inthehands@hachyderm.io There was a young man from Japan Whose limericks didn't quite scan When told this was so He replied "Yes, I know, But I always try to squeeze as many words into the last line as I possibly can."

@FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange @codinghorror@infosec.exchange I refer people to https://leavesubstack.com which has a bunch of links. One of the recent detailed ones is https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters

@a2_4am@mastodon.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run @dysfun@social.treehouse.systems Doesn't surprise me. Fedora is IBM's way of getting unpaid volunteers (us) to beta test for them. I got fed up with the resulting regular breakages and switched.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run I love all the people saying “I’ll just use local models”, apparently not pausing to think about who’s going to pay to train those local models once the massive subsidies end.

@glennseto@mastodon.social @evert@indieweb.social @rl_dane@polymaths.social @thomasareed@infosec.exchange Mac OS X initially used PDF for a lot of icons, because its imaging layer came from NeXTSTEP, which was based on PDF. (Which in turn was because Steve didn't want to pay royalties to Adobe for Display PostScript.)

For example, /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources used to have the PDFs for the dock's icons, like poof.pdf for the cloud animation when you dragged something out of the dock. There are still quite a few PDFs for UI elements under /System, but the number has been going down as successive redesigns have taken place.

@mcc The jolly, candy-like button!

@samlitzinger@journa.host They're going to combine CNN and CBS to form CNNBS.

@hatter @sarae @douglasvb @SecureOwl Or: https://github.com/watsoncoders/png-decompression-bomb

@trkzn@mastodon.social @benjaoming@social.data.coop Wayland was rolled out before it could do everything that X11 could. Even now, the available remote desktop options are flaky.

@grepe@ieji.de @rolle@mementomori.social It takes a while. I've got quite a few followers at this point, but I've also been on the Fediverse since 2017. (This is a newer account, I migrated.)

@joannaholman@aus.social Not everyone loves lorikeets.

@guigsy@mstdn.social @geomannie@mastodon.scot The problem with limiting CarPlay is that if the screen locks people out because the car is moving, they pick up their phone to do whatever it is they're trying to do.

@cstross@wandering.shop @aral@mastodon.ar.al @s10n@mastodon.social @matt@oslo.town A church key is handy for punching a couple of holes in a can of condensed milk, so you can pour it from the can easily.

@Brett_E_Carlock@mastodon.online @noodle@aus.social I've been moving to Alpine from Debian, and the documentation could definitely use improvement. For example, the documentation for apk gives some example commands and says that tags are explained further below, but then tags aren't mentioned at all. I'm thinking of trying to write a more definitive packaging guide, it's a bit fragmented at the moment.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @fred@social.fthevenet.eu We got rid of so much stuff when we moved. A bit too much in the end, I was getting hysterical and ruthlessly culling anything I wasn’t sure we needed. A bit like when I emigrated and had to pay shipping for every item I wanted to keep, that really focused the mind. The stress was awful, my intention is that next time I move it’ll be to a pine casket. Anyway, good luck, and remember the 90/90 rule.

@MattMerk@mastodon.social @historyofpunkrock@sfba.social I really hope I'll have as much energy as Mark Mothersbaugh or Russell Mael when I'm their age.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run "If you think technology will solve your problems then you don’t understand technology — and you don’t understand your problems." — Laurie Anderson

@petrillic@hachyderm.io @Lana@beige.party And those messages asking for donations are scams. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/mothership-strategies-democratic-consultants-fundraising-pleas/

@szbalint@mastodon.social @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io I see that instead of recommending that customers restart GitLab once a day to free leaked memory, they now have a built in task to restart internal components periodically. Can't wait to see what the LLMs do to improve things. https://docs.gitlab.com/administration/sidekiq/sidekiq_memory_killer/

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Adding goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons to my list of fun variable names, along with trans, lgbt, and dei.

@Reinald@nrw.social @iFixit@mastodon.social They're Bluetooth headphones with an easily replaceable battery that isn't glued in, and the manufacturer supports use of replacement batteries. I'm not aware of any Sennheiser headphones meeting those goals.

@aidanskinner@mastodon.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run URL to bypass sign-in requirement: https://blueviewer.pages.dev/view?actor=gavmaclean.bsky.social&rkey=3mlb3p3lonk2s

@fanf@mendeddrum.org @pozorvlak@mathstodon.xyz Me too! Also the Professor Branestawm kids' books with Heath-Robinson style devices on the covers.

@monkeyborg @anne_twain @sashin I have a slop detection app, and it rates the article as slop with 90% confidence. It rates the article's image as slop with 78% confidence.

There are three LLM-isms just in the first paragraph:

1. "In examining A it is crucial to B"
2. "they are not just A but B"
3. "draw on X, Y and Z" (rule of 3)

@hungryjoe @ehproque @davidgerard The feelings seem to be reciprocated. https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Contributing#use-of-ai

@feld @Retreival9096 The weak link will likely be in their client software. (I've noticed the quality of Bitwarden degrading recently.)

@feld @Retreival9096 Systems are only as secure as the most insecure piece. It doesn't matter how secure and well-written your encryption is if there's a gaping security hole in the rest of the code. Example from two weeks ago: https://cybersecuritynews.com/windows-bitlocker-security-vulnerability/

@aaronkurz@mastodon.online @wdormann@infosec.exchange A current trend among people really into AI is that they try to compensate for the inaccuracy by running the same text through multiple AI products, then asking one of them to combine and summarize the results. It seems plausible to me that resource waste will expand to compensate for technological advances, just like it has with RAM and disk space. e.g. https://github.com/karpathy/llm-council

@FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange @mathowie@xoxo.zone @seanwbruno@infosec.exchange I remember those documentaries https://youtu.be/U4MTgjNkfyI

@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net If you’re interested in a current option, PCalc lets you drag and drop buttons to make your own calculator layout.

@paul@notnull.space @mhoye@cosocial.ca Could it be made to work? Well, there's UEFI secure boot. Microsoft already controls who can get their bootloader loaded by the Microsoft-signed shim. Imagine: government mandates secure boot "for the children", Microsoft makes shims require an approved systemd Linux.

@kirtai@tech.lgbt @cwebber@social.coop The US copyright office has issued guidance that you can’t copyright work unless you declare which parts are AI generated and hence not subject to copyright, which already seems like it’s going to cause carnage.

@CodingItWrong@oldbytes.space @nicolas17@social.treehouse.systems @rmondello@hachyderm.io I tried using passkeys with Google about a year ago, and failed half a dozen times to log in with them. If I can't get them to work, there's no way my parents should be using them.

@BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange Every time a new programming language becomes trendy, fans of the language go out looking for things to rewrite in it. When Java first got big, people tried to rewrite everything in it. IBM rewrote the Notes client in Java, Netscape started rebuilding their browser in Java, and… https://github.com/tools4j/unix4j

@ChrisHutchinson@aus.social @inthehands@hachyderm.io …anyway, I think part of the problem I have with Apple, Target, Instant Pot and the other suck-ups is that it doesn't seem like groveling actually gets you anything unless you're an insider like Elon getting government contracts. Apple still racked up $1 billion in tariff bills each quarter. Mr Toyoda went full MAGA, whereas Subaru kept their DEI programs and continued to support the LGBTQIA+ community — and both of them have been equally impacted by tariffs.

@minotaurs_at_work@mastodon.social @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io @Felis_Catus_Domesticus@mstdn.party Many of the APIs that people complain about Apple not implementing aren't core web APIs, they're stuff Google is trying to push that has serious negative privacy and/or security implications. USB, Bluetooth, serial port and NFC APIs in the browser were all blocked for those reasons, including by Mozilla. (Web NFC might happen, but currently privacy and security issues are still in the process of being ironed out. https://w3c-cg.github.io/web-nfc/archive/security-privacy.html )

@tante@tldr.nettime.org The article makes me wonder if it might not be useful to think of LLM-generated code as "deepfake software". It looks convincing, and might even function, but it's fake because it's written without any understanding.

@f4grx@chaos.social @hailey@hails.org Yeah. I always viewed Andrew Tridgell as one of the real heroes, and thought if I ever met him I'd definitely buy him a beer.

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io The Data Cemetary is next door to the Google Graveyard.

@w @Doomed_Daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net Try https://curlie.org

@tsturm@famichiki.jp @owen@mastodon.transneptune.net They won't review it. "We're rewiring internal processes with AI agents, automating the reviews, approvals, and handoffs to speed us up…"

@ChrisHutchinson@aus.social @inthehands@hachyderm.io It's readable with Bypass Paywalls Clean installed in my ad blocker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_Paywalls_Clean

@wyatt_h_knott @eniko Bill Gates was a $1m trust fund baby who got his big break because his mother was friends with an IBM exec. Not really upward social mobility.

@whbboyd@infosec.exchange @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange I've always used that as an interview question. What are your favorite things about programming language X, and what are your least favorite things about it? Another good one is to ask about their favorite recent changes to the tech, it can show up whether they actually keep up-to-date or not.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run I used to think the term “AI psychosis” was overblown, but he needs serious professional help.

@cwebber@social.coop @kirtai@tech.lgbt « In March 2023, the Copyright Office released Copyright Registration Guidance regarding “works containing material generated by [AI]” (the AI Guidance). […] The AI Guidance states that authors may claim copyright protection only “for their own contributions” to such works, and they must identify and disclaim AI-generated parts of the works when applying to register their copyright. » It may get overturned, but for now that's the guidance from the Copyright Office. https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/PDF/LSB10922/LSB10922.8.pdf