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larsmb@mastodon.online ("Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷") wrote:

We are more prone to anthromorphizing LLMs than to humanizing suffering humans

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ramin_hal9001@emacs.ch ("Ramin Honary") wrote:

> "There are plenty of things to legitimately criticize when it comes to current U.S. policy on Gaza, but don't make false equivalencies."

> "I'm frustrated with Biden oftentimes but he did say that he supports peaceful protests and that's free speech."

@reignstorm @JohannasGarden @argv_minus_one Even after the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) has stated clearly that there is more than enough evidence that the state of Israel is "plausibly" committing genocide, and the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague have stated that this evidence can be used to proceed with a criminal trial against Israel (Netanyahu), in spite of this overwhelming evidence Biden continues equate anti-genocide protests with antisemitism, while congress has passed a bill broadening the official definition of antisemitism to include any criticism "targeting the state of Israel conceived as Jewish collectively," which is likely to face more academics and students with more severe legal consequences for protesting against genocide, a bill most likely to sail through congress and be ratified by Biden. Further, the Biden administration responded to the Hague by issuing sanctions against the ICC.

• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-condemns-antisemitic-protests-palestine-columbia-university/
• https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/05/07/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-u-s-holocaust-memorial-museums-annual-days-of-remembrance-ceremony/
• https://www.commondreams.org/news/jewish-students-support-gaza

So it is not an exaggeration, nor is it a false equivalence between Democrats and Republicans, when I say as a matter of fact, cracking down on anit-genocide protesters, and generally flouting the rule of international law regarding crimes against humanity, has widespread bipartisan support, including from president Biden.

@pzmyers

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I am not accustomed to hard physical labor.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/26/work-2/

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• My mud-caked shoes! (remote)

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Bluey is the best kid's show. No contest.

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pmorinerie@mastodon.xyz wrote:

Repost with alt-text:

Attachments:

• Screenshot of a Bluesky thread: First post, by Joseph Fink: “It turns out this whole time that the Turing Test was the wrong way to think of it. Thinking a chatbot is alive is not a test of how good the chatbot is, but of your own ability to think of other human beings as real and complete people.” Second post, by Greg Stolze: “I heard some professor put googly eyes on a pencil and waved it at his class saying "HI! I'm Tim the pencil! I love helping children with their homework but my favorite is drawing pictures!" Then, without warning, he snapped the pencil in half. When half his college students gasped, he said "THAT'S where all this Al hype comes from. We're not good at programming consciousness. But we're GREAT at imagining non-concious things are people.” (remote)

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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:

"Embrace AI or be left behind" is a condescending and heartless ultimatum. A false dichotomy that reeks of debunked social darwinist horse-fuckery.

Tech should adapt to people's needs.

Not the reverse.

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john@sauropods.win ("John Conway") wrote:

A random artwork from my gallery:

"Velociraptor mongoliensis" — 2019

A reboot of a paiting I originally did in 1997, age 16. I think at the time I considered it my first sucessful oil painting. I have added all the stuff to it that I originally intended to, but chickened-out (painting over skies in oil painting is scary,... [more]:

https://johnconway.art/velociraptor_1997

#Art #Dinobirds #Dinosaurs #FeatheredDinosaurs #Mesozoic #Mongolia #Painting #Palaeo #PalaeoPortraits #Paleo #Theropods

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• 443cc90c2895cc18.jpeg (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I have a tendency to be attracted to drawing faces (as seen in the post above). So if I'm not actively working against it (or pursuing a specific goal), my brain drifts towards making a face. Normally they're exaggerated, comical faces (they're very easy I'm afraid). Sometimes I try to be more realistic. Sometimes I succeed. Sometimes I give up and draw a demon face.

#doodle #yaombaaa

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• Face of a woman who appears to be wearing heavy rouge. She has a somewhat languid look to her. (remote)
• Smol drawing of a woman's face. Her hair is pulled back tightly and she has a somewhat surprised expression. Kind of an exercise in economy of lines. (remote)
• Smol drawing a deomonic face. It's pleasantly round with sharp pointed ears, and rather large horns appearing from behind both cheeks. Heavy brows, and appears perhaps a little angry. Oh he also has a goatee. (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I'm still showing up for my daily ritual of drawing (except for when I was working on the Sonic poster). Some days are better than others. I have a growing dissatisfaction coupled with an inkling of maybe where I'd like to take things.

#doodle #yaombaaa

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• Break dancing unicorn (mostly anthropomorphic) inspired by a prompt of "breaking unicorn". (remote)
• Doodles of a couple of characters. One was "angry", and the other was "happy". I was supposed to stick to shapes, but my results are definitely little characters. Angry has a lot of sharp points. Happy is a little gremlin with a giant open mouth smile. So open mouth you're not so sure it is really smiling. (remote)
• Just a little dragon guy. Probably a variety better suited as a sorcerer's pet. (remote)
• A page of heads that all started life as circles. The last one is Kirby. (remote)

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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Trying to set a mood for my Sunday morning. Pleasant while it lasts. Hania Rani live at Invalides:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5oZ80Daduc

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I can't stop listening to this Cranberries cover by Royel Otis.

https://youtu.be/JGUVB19e13s

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Julie@social.coop ("Julie Goldberg") wrote:

Wow. Yes. #AI

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• bd61e469f56561f2.jpeg (remote)

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miclgael@hachyderm.io ("Michael Gale") wrote:

Saw this while looking for something else.

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• A venn diagram of: things people want, and things marketing emails have - overlapping with unsubscribe buttons. (remote)

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regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

I didn't know this is how isopods swim ❤️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfnHQPkta-Q

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tsturm@famichiki.jp ("Thomas Sturm") wrote:

To celebrate Towel Day, here is a special treat for fans of Douglas Adams.

Around 1994 I had a chance to see Adams live when he gave a reading in Munich. It was a fun evening with him being in a great mood.

Now several years ago I found a recording of that evening which was in a sub-folder of a totally different audio book. This recording seems to be completely unknown online with zero search results...
(1/2)

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skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

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• NOTHING IS NORMAL AND NO ONE IS OK YOU'RE DOING GREAT. (remote)

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Quote attribution: @davatron5000

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

More companies need to get more sued more often.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

In the garden.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/25/handsome-wolf/

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• wolf spider (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Anyway, I'm glad to be able to read and write. Perhaps I should use it more wisely. 😆

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

But does this also promote the "sacred text" world we live in? So many people arguing about the meaning of words written by people now dead. As though progress can only be made through reinterpretation (instead of just writing new agreements). The text is imbued with power it shouldn't have. The past binds the future with written agreements containing horrible ideas and thoughts, slowing progress. (I'll leave it to you to think of examples of those.)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

But invent paper (rice or papyrus etc.) and vellum, and now you start to have efficient tech to distribute writing. Printing and distributing text becomes cheaper. More variety of things get written which promotes and supports a desire to read.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

It just occurred to me that widespread literacy is likely dependent on having the right technologies for storing and distributing writing. You need cheap and transportable. Proclamations carved on mountainsides, clay tablet receipts, and wall frescoes are cool, but not necessarily practical nor efficient for transmitting the thoughts on them. And their existence won't necessarily motivate most people to want or need to read and write.

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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

It's clear that AI can't do even a tenth of what it promises, but they keep grasping that dream of not really needing to have smart people to work with... because the problem with smart people who are good at their jobs, who have bright ideas that make your project even better... the problem with such people is they see themselves as collaborators ... they won't just do the thing, then let you take the credit and then forget about it.

They want to shape the future with you. It's intolerable!

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liebach@bsd.network ("liebach 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Saw a pretty flower today.

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• Light pink flower with yellow center. (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I know people *exactly* like this. It's creepy and horrible.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/25/how-can-a-cartoon-be-so-true/

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• Conservatives, five minutes ago: "Academia has become too intolerant!" Conservatives, suddenly now: "Call in the riot police! Fire the university president!" (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

It's sad to see the result when brain worms are done with a guy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/25/it-shouldnt-take-so-long-to-recognize-a-fool/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWAyfr3gxMA

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

sucking down coffee in prep for usual Saturday AM dog walking shift 🐾🐾 at the #ROC City Pound

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xot@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

Sierra On-Line accidentally included the source code to their AGI adventure game engine on some copies of Space Quest II. Its presence is not obvious but with enough sector sleuthing it is possible to recover about 70% of it. The recovered source code is peppered with illuminating comments regarding its history and authors. It can be examined in a GitHub repo linked in the article.

"The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder"
https://lanceewing.github.io/blog/sierra/agi/sq2/2024/05/22/do-you-own-this-space-quest-2-disk.html

Attachments:

• Raw sector data showing some C source code. (remote)
• The C source code shown reconstructed. (remote)
• In-game scene showing a status line produced by the source code. (remote)

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I'd missed this post, but it's a great encapsulation of why I spent so much time on web packaging, Isolated Web Apps, and PWAs. The web isn't worse, even for complex scenarios; in many cases all that's missing is understanding and a little bit of imagination:

https://emilymstark.com/2024/02/09/e2ee-on-the-web-is-the-web-really-that-bad.html

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benschwarz@front-end.social wrote:

Turns out you can use CSS `light-dark` for SVG element colours.

As long as the SVGs is inlined to the page, you can bake in both light and dark mode colour 🌄

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• 71aef6968450d389.png (remote)
• 2b5590b9229e4aba.png (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

There's an economic curse on Large Language Models — the crappiest ones will be the most widely used ones.

The highest-quality models are exponentially more expensive to run, and currently are too slow for instant answers or processing large amounts of data.

Only the older/smaller/cut-down models are cheap enough to run at scale, so the biggest deployments are also the sloppiest ones.

#llm

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angusm ("Angus McIntyre") wrote:

It's fashionable to criticize #LLMs, but can you think of another human invention that allows us to spend the energy budget of Tanzania to lift shitposts out of context and present them as if they were authoritative knowledge?

#AI

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BrianEnigma@xoxo.zone ("Brian Enigma") wrote:

It's almost time to rainbow-wash the corporate logos.

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• Logos from various evil sci-fi companies, such as Umbrella, Skynet, Aperture, Weyland-Yutani, etc. All of them have had rainbow coloring applied. (remote)

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Just walked into a Little Caesar's for a Hot 'n' Ready pizza. They said it would take 10–15 minutes, and I seriously was like, where is the misunderstanding here?

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uxmark@mstdn.ca ("Mark Connolly 🍻 🚴🏼‍♀️ (he, him, his)") wrote:

I finally got around to reading this today, after seeing many mentions of it, and it really is as good as everyone says.

“And beneath that anger were probably lots of other feelings as well, the ones that patriarchy socializes men to mask: hurt, loss, frustration, sadness, loneliness. It’s sad when someone you want to be close to does not want to be close to you. It’s frustrating when you don’t know how to get that closeness. And it’s lonely.”

https://bikepacking.com/plog/man-or-bear-debate/

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Greg@social.coop wrote:

It's Friday before a long weekend, time for some #Meute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMefxohehPQ&list=RDEMWfLiM0l4i4Y026y85aO0nQ&start_radio=1

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The Fabric preview site is here:

https://aka.ms/fabricux

And you can poke at the underlying FWCv3 components (which are compatible with the Fluent v2 design language) here:

https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui/tree/master/packages/web-components

They're marked as being in Beta, but we're rolling them out in Edge today. YMMV.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Teams that adopt these components in Angular and React apps get a lot of the runtime performance benefits of moving to Web Components: style isolation via Shadow DOM, shallower Light DOM, and cheaper styling via Constructable Stylesheets. At the size of our apps, this is a BFD.

This isn't the whole enchilada, perf-wise -- for that, teams need to move to an HTML-first approach + "raw" Web Components, like we're doing in Edge -- but one investment is now delivering wins for all consumers.

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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

the public perception of AI has been permanently damaged by shitposting in training models

…we all understand what needs to happen next, right

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This might be Peak $work Posting (complete with LI link!), but it really is exciting: Microsoft just launched the Fabric design system that works across Angular and React apps...because it's Web Components underneath!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jasonfalk_fabricux-microsoftfabric-designsystem-activity-7199802763717853185-nnTV

Fabric is building on Fluent Web Components v3, which is the same set of FAST-based web components that we're rebuilding Edge's WebUIs on too. Legacy React and Angular apps get many of the benefits and we all get to share. Hot damn!

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

A decade ago, Joyent accidentally rebooted an entire datacenter, an experience that I described in my 2017 GOTO Chicago talk, "Debugging Under Fire":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jNsCVLpAE

On the next Oxide and Friends, @ahl we will be joined by folks who were at Joyent a decade ago, both to recall the fateful outage and to reflect on its ramifications, both at Joyent and beyond. Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific:

https://discord.gg/dqUCRwsx?event=1243638578484088842

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Those little yellow baby orb weavers popping up everywhere today,

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/24/spiders-blooming-everywhere/

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• Tiny baby spider (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

1. See "weird AI true believers".
2. Get disappointed it's not about Weird Al.
3. Use inspect element to change font to monospace family for the duration of this session.

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ZachWeinersmith ("Zach Weinersmith") wrote:

Mathematics

The shocking bonus panel is available here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/mathematics-2

#smbc #hiveworks #comics #webcomics #math

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• 13770ff6f39a431a.png

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Jgbird@mas.to ("Jerome G") wrote:

Green heron

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• Green heron standing on a rock in a lake (remote)

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vga256@dialup.cafe wrote:

to the russian shithead who stole my #328747 account 20 years ago: icq is shutting down in one month

https://icq.com/desktop/en#windows

😆

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sblaydes@bsd.network ("Scott Blaydes") wrote:

Sharing this with the world.

Wife got diagnosed with fractured vertebra. While look at it, they found cancer. A lot of cancer. Cancer in her breast, spine, rib cage, sternum, and pelvis. Waiting for the diagnosis of what cancer (appointment is the 30th), but the doc already stated that it is sta

We don't have insurance and are already working hand to mouth. This really bothers me to ask for help, but this is bigger than me.

My wife runs/ran a Home School Resource Center. She provided classes for home school families and resources to help them find a teaching method that works with each child. She had classes for the littles (Tall Tales, Cinderella in different cultures), to computer programming with the teenagers (sratch/blockly) with robots to program. She provided a safe place for parents socialize while the kinds can play. She has many special needs students and treats adapts things to allow them to participate in the same classes. She does this at no cost to the families.

We also run a (low key) animal rescue. Felt our city was not doing a good job, so we put our money where our mouth was. We currently house around 40 cats (do you know how hard it is to count a cat colony that are not in a cage?) and 12 dogs. We house and feed them not matter the condition. Recently we got some feline pathogens in our colony, so we are not taking any new animals, but we are maintaining all the ones we currently housing. Essentially we are running a cat hospice now.

I could go on talking about how great Bambi (actual name) is and the things she does.

We are accepting donations for bills/medical and final expenses.

I would like to be able to say that I am handling this well and taking good care of my wife, but that isn't reality. She is my rock. Hate seeing her in pain. Hate what the pain meds do to her mind. I am filled with rage that I can't do anything to help her. Have turned into a Karen.

Anyways, If you will help, great. If not, I get it, everyone is asking for money. If you don't have the money, I understand. Take care of your own people first.

cash app: $srblaydes
venmo: @sblaydes
paypal: bambi.petrillo@gmail.com

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laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org ("LÆMEUR") wrote:

An article from a 1979 issue of Janus (a sci-fi fanzine) postulating on the future of electronic zine distribution; the marked section looks like a pretty good prediction of blogs and the blogosphere.

Man, I love crawlin' around the Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/Janus_15v05n01_1979-Spring/page/n41/mode/2up

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• A scanned fanzine page from 1979; the selected text reads: "Another solution to the personalzine-scheduling problem will be the diaryzine. The author just up- dates it as she feels like it, and when you call, you get the update-to-date. (It is easy enough for your machine or the author's to keep track of what you received before, so time-wasting duplication doesn't occur.) Fanzines with lettercols could get interesting, especially if the editors provided an open file for locs on the current issue, which later readers would get when they called up for that same issue. Apas could become very odd. Think a bit about an apa which truly does become an N--dimensional conversation without collation dates or horrendous time-lags...and with everyone's file open to every-one else. Hmmm." (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

You know what you miss if you're not subscribed to my Patreon? Photos of the half-eaten carcasses of my spiders' prey.

If that doesn't get people to sign up, I don't know what will.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/104856738?pr=true

Lyrilith@nitecrew.rip wrote:

Short vacation in the Ardeche valley. Placed our car in the next village so we could let ourselves drift down the river in these blown up water tubes. As Komoot said it was only 10 minutes back by bike, we rode back to camp to get changed and jump in the river. Yeah.. Komoot was unclear about how big the gravel on the road downhill was.

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• Open sketchbook and pens in my lap. The comic shows in 4 panels how I check Komoot on my phone, then start the ride and get stuck at a steep downhill path with huge rocks. (remote)

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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social wrote:

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• A screenshot of the original Elite game, with a low poly spaceship in fro... actually it's just a bloody cybertruck rendered in more polys than it deserves. (remote)

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PythonLinks ("Forth Computer") wrote:

I will be speaking about the obvious advantages of 16 bit stack machines over 32 bit RISC-V machines as FPGA soft core processors at the @yosyshq
user group meeting.

May 27th, 18:00 CEST

Join via this link:
https://meet.jit.si/yosys-users-group

Slides:
https://pythonlinks.info/presentations/forth/YUG27May2024.pdf

#uxn #forth #mecrisp #j1 #riscv #swic

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bontchev@infosec.exchange ("VessOnSecurity") wrote:

Oh, cool somebody finally figured it out...

As you probably know, the Microsoft Security Center has an API that lets you query which AV is installed and whether it is up-to-date.

What is less well-known, is that it also has another, not publicly known API, that lets you tell it "I'm installing another AV now, please disable Defender". This is what all other AV products use. Microsoft has provided to them documentation of this API but under NDA.

Many years ago, I made a proof-of-concept - a small VBScript script that would use this API via WMI to "install" an imaginary AV, thus turning off Defender - but since it was based on information learned under NDA, I obviously couldn't make it public.

Now somebody has reverse-engineered the API from AVAST and has done pretty much the same (albeit a bit over-complicated) in C++:

https://github.com/es3n1n/no-defender

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Happy Birthday to Robert Zimmerman, born this day in Duluth Minnesota, 1941

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Being tolerant & open-minded won't turn you gay, it'll just make you a progressive atheist like me.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/24/so-thats-what-theyre-afraid-of/

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• Two middle-aged guys explaining why they need "don't say gay" laws while fantasizing that kids learning what "gay" means will lead to them becoming gay and lesbian commie witches. (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Student evaluations are in. I guess I passed.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/24/they-like-me-they-really-like-me/

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• Sally Field saying, "you like me!" (remote)

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vga256@dialup.cafe wrote:

this illustration was commissioned for a type-in program called Islands for the commodore 64, in the august 1988 issue of RUN magazine.

i am in love with the line-art/woodcut style, painstakingly inked and coloured. it was a different age in which a work of art could be commissioned for a BASIC game that a handful of people in the world would bother to hand-code and play.

this is better art than 90% of the physical big box games i own

update: as it turns out, there is not merely emulating etching/woodcut with inked lines, it IS an etching by artist doug smith who was famous for this style.

more of his work here: https://richardsolomon.com/artists/douglas-smith/

#retrogaming #art

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• A woodcut style line art illustration of a soldier, bird and sailing vessel caught in a great gale on an island. Palm trees bend with the wind and everything is being blown away with tremendous force (remote)
• Islands Build a powerful Caribbean island empire while inciting unrest and revolution in your opponent's land. T he story goes that, on the orders of King George III, two aristocratic brothers left London in the spring of 1799 and set sail for the Leeward Islands in the West Indies. The king was determined to turn the newly appropriated islands of Key Antigua and St. Christopher into profitable colonies, and the brothers, as governors, were given five years in which to do the job. They arrived in the West Indies in early January of the following year and, each assuming control over one island, set about the task at hand. To all accounts, those early years were tough, with famine, hurricanes and rebel uprisings constantly threat- ening disaster. Whether or not the governors met the king's expectations remains unclear, because records are fragmented. However, today the islands of Key Antigua and St. Christopher are thriving members of the British Commonwealth. Welcome to Islands, an educational strategy game that puts you in the shoes of one of the governors, charged with building your island into a viable economic and military entity. This may be accomplished through treachery against the other island or honest hard work in nourishing your resources. Though Islands is meant to be played by two, you can also enjoy striving for a high score alone. Starting to Build Type in the following boot program: 10 IF A=0 THEN A = 1: LOAD" + ISLE ML ",8,1 20 SYS 32768 Then type in Listing 1 (remote)
• Two pages of BASIC code from a type-in program that make graphics for the Islands game. (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I've been using https://DuckDuckGo.com as my default search for years now. It's fine.

DDG supports a special !g keyword that redirects the search to Google, so I can easily get a second opinion when DDG isn't finding what I want.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Late-stage tech sorted a basket of equally talented nerds by who could talk to people with money, not people with real problems, and that's why it has the soul of a mid-range hotel room.

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senj@cyberspace.club ("let's regular posting") wrote:

The notion that a text generator would reliably spit out facts if you trained it on enough internet posts is mostly an admission of how unfamiliar these dweebs are with Posting

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Had the first school concert for the kiddo. Their cohort finished their set with Louis Armstrong's "Wonderful World". Seems like a nice way to end the evening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q68PsBSRO_M

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

the American Promise is to everyone, not just for the few. that we still struggle towards realizing our noble potential as a society does not invalidate the goal. the Constitution which embodies this Promise is what four generations of my family have sworn to preserve, protect, and defend against all enemies foreign & domestic. that Oath had no must-use-by date, nor any exceptions in favor of any particular Party nor Fearless Leader.

that was part of the Promise.

https://www.threads.net/@potus/post/C7VShlFgN7l

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potus@threads.net ("President Joe Biden") wrote:

Like President Ruto, I believe the future will be won by countries that unleash the full potential of their populations – including civil society, women, and young people.

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knittingknots2@mstdn.social ("Sue Stone") wrote:

RFK Jr. Is Even Crazier Than You Might Think – Mother Jones

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/robert-kennedy-jr-conspiracy-theory-covid-pandemic-event-201/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I loved playing with PHP when it first emerged, and then like so many other nice things it was destroyed by “just one more feature” love… die Barney, die die die

(talk to John Resig about what jQuery has become some day)

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Smalljones@triangletoot.party ("Smalljones aka Paul Jones") wrote:

The Waking
-Theodore Roethke

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.   
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.   
I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?   
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.   
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?   
God bless the Ground!   I shall walk softly there,   
And learn by going where I have to go.
[...]

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43333/the-waking-56d2220f25315

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lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz ("Dave Lane 🇳🇿") wrote:

So chuffed I found Aegis https://getaegis.app/ (I install via F-Droid, not Google Play) as a TOTP (replacing Google Authenticator on my phone)... it allows encrypted export of configuration so I can rebuild my phone (LineageOS 21 dontchaknow) and recreate all my auth stuff without missing a beat. Used to be really painful, and hated depending on Google.

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croyle@wandering.shop ("David Croyle") wrote:

That's a long list of ships that will be on the air next weekend... Including a lot of old battleships! https://www.nj2bb.org/museum/

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croyle@wandering.shop ("David Croyle") wrote:

@AE4WX As I said, NEXT weekend, not THIS weekend! :) "0000Z 01 Jun 2024 - 2359Z 02 Jun 2024" (freaking English language can be so confusing lol)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I was fresh back in the States & just of the Army when this exploded in my ears in 1971. Olivia, a proud Mestiza (“the border crossed my family, we didn’t cross the border”) & my very first lover, poured this vinyl into my brain in 1971.

https://music.apple.com/us/album/tapestry/747087657

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Hmm. #bluesky

https://bsky.social/about/blog/05-22-2024-direct-messages

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cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

The first 3 letters of 'Sweden' and 'Denmark' spell out 'Sweden.'

The remaining letters spell out 'Denmark.'

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bpreneel@infosec.exchange ("Bart Preneel") wrote:

The Belgian presidency has drafted yet another tweaked #chatcontrol proposal. In summary, the proposal remains completely unacceptable.

TLDR: All the problems pointed our in our earlier open letters are still there
https://nce.mpi-sp.org/index.php/s/eqjiKaAw9yYQF87
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Aeex72MtFBjKhExRTooVMWN9TC-pbH-5LEaAbMF91Y/

a) the risk of abuse of the solution for other applications (including political purposes)
b) the huge number of false positives (no waiting for 2 alerts does not work)
c) the fact that the real targets will use other technologies (e.g. sharing links to encrypted files).
d) chilling effect on teenagers.

Summary of latest proposal:

1. Detection of known CSAM and of new CSAM using AI (2 hits before you are reported) remain fully unacceptable because it just does not work for technical reasons pointed out earlier.
2. Grooming detection in text and audio is abandoned; information is pseudonymized before it is reported (presumably identity of the user is known)
3. User has to give consent before the client side scanning; details are not known but it is unclear what happens if consent is not given – is the message not sent? Why do policy makes believe that popups solve problems (cookies anyone)?

Source (in German):
https://netzpolitik.org/2024/internes-protokoll-belgien-will-nutzer-verpflichten-chatkontrolle-zuzustimmen/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@owa Please, nobody tell Cupertino that acting like smug, entitled, dissembling, legalistic pricks to every developer and regulator has consequences.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Tremendous news out of the UK!

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/23/pro-competition-rules-for-big-tech-make-it-through-uks-pre-election-wash-up/

Wouldn't have happened if not for the continuing efforts of @owa and in-kind contributions from Apple's legal team. Nothing pulls people together like a megacorp acting like an absolute bully:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-loses-on-appeal/

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

(Also, please note this is not to condone any other statements made by the group, especially during the time frame in question.)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Where party is defined as do things that bring you joy and do not harm others.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

In my old age, I finally realized the Beastie Boys were correct when they said, "You gotta fight for your right to party."

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jswright61@ruby.social ("Scott Wright 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

@sam is starting a bike repair business in Smyrna, GA serving the Atlanta metro area. My wife just went on a 25 mile ride on her 15 year old Jamis road bike after Sam tuned it up and replaced the drive train. She said it road like new!

Great knowledge, superior workmanship, friendly service, and fair prices. I cannot give a higher recommendation.

The Fedi community is large, but sparse. I’d really appreciate boosts so that cyclists near me have the best chance to see this.

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conservancy@sfconservancy.org ("Software Freedom Conservancy") wrote:

FOSSY CFP and ticket sales are now open! Be sure to submit your talk to one of our many incredible tracks before June 14th!

Join us at 19:00 UTC in our XMPP/ IRC room for office hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays if you have any questions. Or you can email conference@sfconservancy.org

You can find more information here as well: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/may/23/fossy-2024-cfp-announcement/

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wingo ("Andy Wingo") wrote:

much respect to people who triage crasher reports in widely-used software like browsers. requires an iron belief that things happens for reasons and that you can find them out, all the while knowing the reason might be "the sun is particularly spicy at the moment"

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akkartik@merveilles.town ("Kartik Agaram") wrote:

@slightlyoff "A library you're ignorant of is a risk you're exposed to, a now-quiet frontier that may suddenly face assault from some bug when you're on a deadline and can least afford the distraction." -- https://akkartik.name/post/libraries (2012)

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MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social wrote:

Today in Labor History May 23, 1903: Thousands of children went on strike in the textile mills of Philadelphia. On July 7, Mother Jones began the March of the Mill Children from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt’s Long Island summer home in Oyster Bay, New York, to publicize the deplorable conditions for child laborers. He refused to see them.

During this march, she delivered the “The Wail of the Children” speech in which she said: “In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills, they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?” It was also during that speech when she said, “I asked a man in prison once how he happened to get there. He had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him that if he had stolen a railroad he could be a United States Senator. One hour of justice is worth an age of praying.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #strike #children #motherjones #childlabor #philadelphia #longisland

Attachments:

• Mother Jones surrounded by striking child mill workers. Source: Library of Congress (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

sign of Summer

Attachments:

• Vietnamese-style iced coffee dripping slowly into an insulated cup filled with ice & milk (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

One of these days, they won't be able to turn it back on again.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Whenever there's a service outage at Large Tech Corp™, I think (perhaps hopefully), "Maybe the machine stopped for good this time."

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cwebber@octodon.social ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

I mean Emacs has a lot of things but... a mouse-driven point and click vector tool?! That's a category of program I haven't seen before... https://github.com/misohena/el-easydraw

Attachments:

• Edraw being shown in use. A user embeds an edraw interface into org-mode and then draws some diagrams (remote)

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

You remember when you got to be an adult, and you suddenly realized nobody knew what they were doing, and everyone was just a bumbling idiot making it up as they go along?

That's the same with founders and CEOs and everybody else above you in your workplace, too, just so you know.

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zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

A blog post about what is likely the biggest @eleventy news in our project’s history — and we need your help!

https://www.zachleat.com/web/independent-sustainable-11ty/

#11ty

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metin@graphics.social ("Metin Seven 🎨") wrote:

Atarobot. 🕹️🤖

Modeled and rendered in MagicaCSG, post-processed in PhotoScape X.
Inspired by a Jim Rowden concept.

#design #artwork #sculpture #3DModeling #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #atari #Atari2600 #bot #robot #mecha #retro #gaming #gamer #illustration #illustrator #art #arte #artist #DigitalArt #ArtMatters #GraphicDesign #3D #MagicaCSG #CreativeToots #FediArt #MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon

Attachments:

• 3D rendering of an Atari 2600 joystick robot model. (remote)

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amydiehl@mstdn.social ("Amy Diehl, Ph.D.") wrote:

Women tend to be more 'underconfident' than men & it starts early. Using data of UK twins born 1994-96, age 9 boys & their parents report boys math skill higher than girls when they have the same performance. The diff was even more pronounced for twins.
https://www.ft.com/content/1e8a8908-5462-40cf-bf9f-3c12eb2c0c30

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

a group of crows is having a confab, up there about 150 feet above me here in the cemetery 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

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gvy_dvpont ("Guy Dupont") wrote:

We've got this cheap egg cooker that plays the loudest, most terrifying alarm you've ever heard when it's done cooking. My wife requested that I make it "less aggressive" so I hacked it into the most gentle egg cooker of ALL TIME

(warning: probably loud)

Attachments:

• Before shot: egg cooker finishing an egg before modification. Jarring alarm goes off, I say "fuck!" After shot: egg cooker finishes. A few moments later, a small mechanical music box next to the cooker starts playing Pachelbel's Canon

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

New Blog: A Grand Unified Theory of the AI Hype Cycle https://blog.glyph.im/2024/05/grand-unified-ai-hype.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

This morning #Slack sent me a warning that my mobile OS will not be supported any more from Sep 1. This seems to me a big 🖕 to users (also: we are paying users!).

Stopping supporting desktop OS is tolerable because the browser version works well and you are still notified etc, but on mobile is a totally different matter.

My Android phone is everything but old, I don't waste money changing it every 6 months.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Descent to the coast. San Francisco.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.4 S.S.C.

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #SFBA

Attachments:

• Concrete stairs leading down a steep green mountainside towards the sea.

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changelog@changelog.social ("Changelog") wrote:

🕺 New Changelog interview!

@bcantrill takes @adam on his journey from Sun to @oxidecomputer…

🎧 https://changelog.fm/592

#opensource #software #hardware #podcast

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I'd offer my own definitions, but:

1.) I'm horrible at language. Others will do a better, punchier job.
2.) nobody really wants to hear from "an old" telling the kids these days about how much better HTML used to be (it wasn't)
3.) any nascent movement for quality will need someone more thoughtful and engaged

Hey @nomadtechie, any thoughts?

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

A lot is going around right now about how we can achieve a better web, and I'm here for all of it.

What the optimists are not doing is enunciating how we got to the Bad Place. In addition to calls for thoughtful folks to rededicate themselves to fundamentals, I think we need a lexicon to describe, identify, and eliminate the shysterism of the JS-industrial-complex decade.

We're lacking in language for what failed, which makes me fear that what works will be co-opted all over again.