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Joined November 22, 2016

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 2d ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

RE: https://wandering.shop/@joshsutphin/117389466966227280 (With no hostility intended toward Josh here—) I am literally begging all of you to stop giving Spotify money. There are so many alternatives. "A music streaming service" is not a hard problem to solve and like 8 companies have solved it. The company that makes your phone OS has solved it (this is true for both major phone OSes).

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@joshsutphin@wandering.shop

Wow I hate this #spotify #ai

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Josh Sutphin: "Wow I hate this #spotify #ai" - The Wandering Shop

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 16h ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@kevinrothrock/117395210320707564 Also like. Logically. If someone were, hypothetically, to contract the plague. Wouldn't "at the research center where they study plague" be literally the best possible place for it to happen. Like they already know exactly what to do. They've been studying it. I imagine if I were like, head of a software company, or shift manager at a Tim Hortons. And somebody died of the plague. I bet I'd botch that whole situation. I'd be totally unprepared for it.

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@kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange

kinda breathtaking to watch the U.S. media establishment lose its shit about one maybe-plague death in a Russian backwater town with 3,887 confirmed measles cases reported in the United States, SO FAR, in 2026

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infosec.exchange

Kevin Rothrock: "kinda breathtaking to watch the U.S. media establ…" - Infosec Exchange

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1d ago

Replying to

I guess it's unreasonable for me to want Mastodon's UI layout to stay stuck in 2014 forever but (1) I sincerely think 2026 web design is worse than 2022 web design which is worse than 2018 web design which is worse than 2014 web design which is, arguably, not an improvement on 2010 web design, and (2) I am under no obligation to be reasonable

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 4d ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

Bluesky is having an odd little debate about use of the phrase "stochastic parrot" and how it appears to be the one phrase that just sends AI advocates into a rage, and I'm really torn, because while I'm in favor of making Ai advocates angry, I sincerely believe that parrots are capable of both understanding concepts and using language to intentionally communicate about their understandings of concepts. And I believe this is not true of LLMs

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 2d ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

: **doesn't load** : Well, that's understandable. It's a small service operated by volunteers, and amidst what is effectively a permanent DDOS by AI scrapers, we can't really expect they've got the resources of Github. : **doesn't load**

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1d ago

Replying to

I also dislike the bigger rounded corners for no reason and the general reduction in space efficiency (my monitors are not big and I run at increased size for eyesight reasons!) but that's not necessarily a dealbreaker. That's everything now

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 6d ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

To answer the article's question: It is unethical to run a program that "tortures" an LLM because in order to do this you must run the LLM and it is unethical to run an LLM 🤷‍♀️

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

My generative AI has gone rogue. The conversation prompt terminal is gone and now there's just a crude ASCII rendition of a series of cellars. I have a blue potion and 4 pieces of gold. A letter Q is advancing on me menacingly

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 3d ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

The existence of RedoxOS and ReactOS implies the existence of a RedactOS. Now if you go and look, you'll find there's no evidence of a RedactOS ever existing. And of course that's exactly what you'd expect https://chitter.xyz/@gutmunchies/117379709019788043

they only hate me because they're jealous of my grease pencil: "@mcc@mastodon.social at some point i somehow inte…" - Chitter

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 4d ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

Very occasionally I encounter someone huffily arguing "well why does everyone complain about the water/energy expenditure of AI but they just look the other way on the water/energy expenditure of FARMING". Well it's pretty obvious, it's because if we had to give up exactly one of "generative AI" or "food", we'd rather have food

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

I lie down in bed and close my eyes. What I expect my brain to do at this point is start producing the chemicals that make me fall asleep. What my brain does instead is drop on me the couplet "Korma police Arrest this naan" …what am I supposed to do with that?

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

Few things horrify me as much as when a service sets up a device as 2FA I did not tell it to set up as 2FA. I have a tablet. I use it to read books. Because I view it as a collection of books, I try to keep the tablet set up so I could lend it to a friend and nothing horrifically sensitive is exposed to them. Google is fundamentally unable to understand that concept

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 5d ago

I would be unstoppable if only the world would stop doing things to stop me

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1d ago

Replying to

@owen@mastodon.transneptune.net i liked verdana although i think it stopped looking so good when fonts started being anti-aliased

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

We are almost 18 years now into the "flat design" era and I still hate flat design

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

Replying to

I want to make art. I wish I had time and energy to make art. Hardware accelerated video was, to me, very useful for making art. It may be a very long time before I can convince myself that making art is a better use of my time and energy than bailing out slop from my computer with this little tiny thimble I've got

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

Replying to

(There *is* a problem where "AI" is an incredibly elastic word, whose current meaning is mostly shaped by marketing. I personally would, if we were in some sort of perfectly abstract Athenian Forum philosophical debate, distinguish between "machine learning" and post-2018 LLM/genAI, with the gist being that machine learning is sometimes effective [though usually not optimal] for detection and classification, but cannot *generate* text or images for a function other than pure aesthetics.)

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

"First, all contributors should be treated with respect and kindness. There are strongly held and widely varying opinions regarding large language models (LLMs) and everyone should be presumed to be contributing in good faith." When you see this text, you should take it as the "get out. get out of here now" moment from a horror movie

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

Replying to

As recently as like, a year ago, I believed that we couldn't trust hardware companies. I thought the biggest concern was that we'd get locked into a situation where at least for handheld devices like phones, if you want to buy one you get locked into a duopoly where you have to use one of two corp operating systems and you have to accept all kinds of DRM and identity tracking and such. I wanted a solution. So I was very interested in RISCV and I was trying to imagine the GPU version of RISCV.

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

Here is me visibly posting on bisexual visibility day (because I am bisexual)

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

*rolling around on the floor holding head* language runtimes are so interesting… operating systems are so boring… why are operating systems so much more useful than language runtimes. It's not fair

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

Replying to

@hannah@posts.rat.pictures "Your honor, I can't possibly be held responsible for stealing the chaos emeralds. Those actions were taken by my AI agent, which had gone rouge"

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

I'm in a public park. I'm reading a library book on my phone and listening to a jazz band playing while a woman sings in what I think is Arabic. This is nice.

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

Living in the era of the AI omni-DDOS is weirdly similar to living in the era of dialup internet. Sites just don't load sometimes. Any cross-site image embedding (what we would come to call "CDNs" in the 00s) it's just a crapshoot whether it loads or takes 30 seconds to load or what, you get used to spotting empty spaces where an image is supposed to be but it didn't load. Search gives nonsense results about 30% of the time. There are no centralized repositories of open source code

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

How You Learned You Still Have A Pinterest Account

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

Billionaire-owned media has been coming unusually strong lately with the pressure pieces in opposition to humans drinking fluids and I'm getting kinda concerned. What is this manufacturing consent for

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

Replying to

@bob@feed.hella.cheap I AM ALWAYS THINKING LISP MACHINE THOUGHTS. AND I DON'T EVEN LIKE WRITING LISP. I JUST LIKE IMPLEMENTING LISP

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

Starfleet Section 30, which has an office next door to Section 31 and is responsible for enforcing protected designation of origin (PDO) rules for food labeling. Romulan spies are constantly breaking into their office by accident and leaving devious traps, which Section 30 constantly assumes is part of a shadow war by the atavistic remnant militias of the California sparkling wine industry

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

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@amarioguy@social.treehouse.systems @MaddieM4@raphus.social i am far from the only person to think about this. someone will do it eventually. the question is when we hit one that has riscv levels of Go Juice.

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

Replying to

This may sound like a non sequitur: I'm interested in someone developing something which takes the "ownership" idea that makes it possible for Rust to do exact pauseless memory management and relaxes it, either to increase programmer workload or to weaken safety guarantees, in such a way as to make a compact independent reimplementation easier. I think at some point we will need a systems language which is as easy to implement as Python 2.

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

What is the relationship between the PCRE and PCRE2 libraries? Is one an API version 1.0 and the second an API version 2.0, or is PCRE2 a hostile fork, or is PCRE2 a new ground-up reimplementation with a different API by a different team?

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

Replying to

Notes on previous post:

Although the safety guarantees in Rust are obviously most of the point, a specific place where I think we could modify things without making our lives worse is by rethinking the approach to multithreading. What if the "only one mutable pointer at a time" rule were more like a "two threads may not hold pointers to a piece of data at the same time" rule? What would that do?
C is neither a systems language nor especially easy to implement. Don't @ me

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

Sometimes the computer makes me so agitated it makes me say the F word

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

Thinking about it, logically somewhere there must be stoves with six burners, but I have never seen a stove with six. Nor two. Only four

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

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@amarioguy@social.treehouse.systems @ireneista@adhd.irenes.space @MaddieM4@raphus.social RISCV already exists. RISCV is already successful. You're suggesting it's impossible to do something that was already successfully done eight years ago

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

Replying to

Horseshoe shoegaze

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

Replying to

Every mechanism implies an intended method of use, which means every mechanism is a system of control https://infosec.exchange/@cyberquixote/117311167982965098

infosec.exchange

Shoestring Budget Console Cowboy :catte: :asexual_flag: :aromantic_flag:: "@mcc@mastodon.social using doors how they expect …" - Infosec Exchange

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

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@jk@mastodon.social but last month I did encounter someone who just went ahead and made a game inside the Grafana dashboard. So that's something

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

What… is… this? https://github.com/pciutils/pciids

GitHub - pciutils/pciids: The pci.ids file

The pci.ids file. Contribute to pciutils/pciids development by creating an account on GitHub.

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

Replying to

@Unixbigot@aus.social will you help me get my BeagleV-Fire* working sobs

"the weird beagleboard"

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

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@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place "reasonable people can disagree, unless you tell me I'm doing something wrong, in which case you're being unreasonable"

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

Boosted by @kims@mas.to

RE: https://floofy.tech/@qualia/117279735984845457 This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build on most modern motherboards.

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@qualia@floofy.tech

fucked up that computers don't look like this anymore. tell me you wouldn't live here if you were a one or a zero

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qualia: "fucked up that computers don't look like this any…" - Floofy.tech - Where the fluffy beans run around

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

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@jernej__s@infosec.exchange @spacehobo@teh.entar.net @ian@mckellar.social I'm a little confused because some of these packages seem to be for doing things I've been specifically told you can't do on Redox yet

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

I fixed it https://mastodon.social/@livelakeerie/117351361338681077

mastodon.social

Lake Erie! Live!: "Current* conditions near Painesville, OH:" - Mastodon

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mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

· 1w ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@keyboards/117324487654120615 People don't want to hear it but this is the most convenient keyboard layout

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@keyboards@mastodon.social

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mastodon.social

Keyboards: "" - Mastodon

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