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mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchIt’s me. Hi. I’m the problem, it’s me.
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Nothing I post represents the views of my employers, humanity at large or myself five minutes later.
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Joined November 16, 2022
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@wxcafe@tacobelllabs.net it’s worse than that. I am.
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves
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@benjamingeer@piaille.fr @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange and how strong the PTSD is from those memories 😁
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@icing@chaos.social back when we measured download speed in kbps (kitty bits per second)
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@davidaugust@mastodon.online if only Romeo and Juliet had had the good fortune to be born Taylor Swift song and not a Shakespeare play.
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@lolaodelola@mastodon.social do you know which AI provider they’re using? I’ve been researching these AI receptionist bots.
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Telltale line : “Anthropic said … that such risks can be overcome with more investment”
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@kluthulhu@infosec.exchange @icing@chaos.social better. I had a mental block on relevant B words.
RE: https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/117049627702166486
Things you don’t want to hear pilots say:
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@mahaloz@infosec.exchange how can you ever get “perfect” decompilation? It’s a lossy process. Compilers can optimise different source code down to the same object code. Different compiler options will turn the same source into different object code.
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@oxy@social.bsdlab.au @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io or mindlessness as I like to call it
New euphemism for breaking wind : "I'm sorry. My AI escaped confinement"
Claiming that an LLM can hack a website is like claiming that a dictionary can write a novel #ai #openai #anthropic
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@bloor@bloor.tw emails from folks wanting reservations for Max Quordlepleen’s end of the universe dinner show, hopefully.
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@davidallengreen@mastodon.green happy seasonal affective disorder day to all who celebrate
Seriously? Five blokes in balaclavas, three white vans and a bit of petrol is enough to get the USAF to withdraw? Snowflakes.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/04/us-bombers-sent-home-from-raf-fairford-base-after-suspected-bomb-plot?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Following the success of my book “Cups, Gravity and Hot Liquid : why actors can’t handle coffee mugs”, I’m now crowdfunding for the follow-up “That’s Not How Any of That Works: AI for non-tech journalists with a press release”
Is anybody on top of the recent #VLC CVEs? My employer has felt it necessary to disable VLC across all corporate devices. I'm usually fairly well-informed on newly-discovered vulns but I haven't heard anything that made me think it was *that* severe. Is there active exploitation going on?
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Obviously, this being Mastodon, I should acknowledge that many people are far worse off and would love the relative luxury of a safe, boring job that pays a regular salary.
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@mattround@crispsandwi.ch after several worthy but dull articles, 755x882 made me laugh for some reason
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Now that macOS 27 has been released I’ve finally relented and installed macOS 26. I didn’t want it but I feel weird being more than one major version behind.
The lifts in this hotel are like the opposite of hitchhikers guide. You press the button and one of them pings like it’s ready for you to enter but it’s actually about twenty floors away and approaching at a snail’s pace.
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run I got mad at a friend of mine twenty years ago for binning some books he didn’t have space for. Little did I know he’d invented a new VC racket like a tech pioneer.
Strange thing to happen just a week after attaining AGI.
Real headline in a normal, sane world would be “AI talks bollocks” but this is not a normal, sane world.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/15/syd-barrett-ai-chat-language-poetic-tech-bro-jargon-oversight