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Of course I will have different opinions of someone who understandably mistook it for hayfever vs. someone who consciously went to a superspreader party pre-vaccine, but at the end of the day we are being crushed by systems we can't meaningfully control.
Mastodon FeedThe products are hyped by too many people who ought to know better, mandates are present in way too many jobs, understanding the ramifications of its use are too difficult, and the technology itself is superficially appealing enough, that it is becoming functionally impossible to remain untainted.
Mastodon FeedThe difference between judicious moderation and cowardly centrism is the courage to state one's position clearly, so, I guess I should make this explicit: I have made the decision to treat "uses genAI for some things" with vaguely the same level of moral judgement as "has contracted COVID".
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Viss wrote:
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116297167530484991
apple is not your friend
apple does not have your back
Mastodon FeedBoosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:
In something you don't see everyday, Apple gave the FBI the real name and email address of one of its customers using Apple's 'Hide My Email' feature. This lets you generate random email addresses to protect your privacy https://www.404media.co/apple-gives-fbi-a-users-real-name-hidden-behind-hide-my-email-feature/
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@owa @pluralistic What's being proposed would sound entirely reasonable against a radically different set of underlying facts.
But we don't live in a world where Apple can be trusted. They've spun so many half-truths, lawyered reality into fiction so aggressively, and worked to duck compliance so hard that we can't help but notice. All to defend the App Store's rentier model, suppressing indigenous tech.
The CMA's credulity is not on the up-and-up:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
It's hard to overstate the scale of the UK CMA's planned capitulation to Apple.
Recall that Cupertino serially misled the regulator, used legal wrangling to delay, and stood up fake "developer" groups to astroturf on both sides of the pond. Now, with Parliament granting new powers to regulate, and a clear agenda *from their own groundbreaking reports*, the CMA proposes to roll over?!
A dereliction that undermines UK tech competitiveness:
/cc @owa @pluralistic
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
clojure: the documentary [official trailer] coming april 16th
let me get right on that 😬
Mastodon FeedCodspeed has launched a bunch of "AI" features. To disable them, navigate to https://codspeed.io/settings/organizations/%28your-org%29/capabilities and turn off "Wizard".
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:
reading: Applying accessibility fixes with stealth for the greater good
https://piccalil.li/blog/applying-accessibility-fixes-with-stealth-for-the-greater-good/☝️that's a keeper! bookmarked, pinned, gonna reading it twice, maybe thrice
Mastodon FeedAt this point, I consider it a red flag if she doesn't hate men at least a little.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
Stop making this mistake with claude code
using it? :blobcatangel:
Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy ("David Roberts") wrote:
If there's a central explanation for Dem unpopularity, it's that: they don't really seem to want anything, or be willing to fight for anything, they just want everyone to follow the rules & be proper & polite. No one outside of DC gives a shit about that stuff! Fight for good things. That's all.
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volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy ("David Roberts") wrote:
So when they want renewables, they don't just stomp in & force more renewables. It's all "tech-neutral tax credits" & "level playing field" & "all of the above." Reasonable! Fair! What do they get for this? Do they get a gold star? A Reasonable & Fair merit badge? No. They get *less renewables*.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
i am not "rolling my own" cryptography, i'm knitting my own cryptography
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timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:
Here's where you go to tell GitHub that it can’t train CoPilot on your code & interactions: https://github.com/settings/copilot/features
Just sayin’
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:
Found a delicious TUI for watching GIFs 😋
⏯️ **lpx** — Animated GIF viewer for the terminal
💯 Play, pause, scrub frames & loop ranges with full image protocol support
🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs
⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/lusingander/lpx
Mastodon FeedBoosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
geeknik@infosec.exchange wrote:
800,000 WordPress sites. One “subscriber” and a plugin bug = arbitrary file read.
The real lesson: most breaches don’t need genius, just one forgotten permission boundary.
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2026/03/800000-wordpress-sites-affected-by-arbitrary-file-read-vulnerability-in-smart-slider-3-wordpress-plugin/
Mastodon FeedThe Oberlin Luddite Club.
Oberlin Luddites Reject "Year of AI. Exploration" Adopted by School. Dear President Ambar, We are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old; this is a. machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words...
https://jwz.org/b/yk5M
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
token ring? that's just AI company financing
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Just a couple days left to nominate for the 2026 Hugo Awards if you're eligible and you've not already done so. Vote for the work you loved in 2025! For those of you who need a refresher on what I have that's eligible (two novels, two TV episodes, and a novelette), here's the whole list.
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/01/02/what-i-have-available-for-award-consideration-2026-edition/
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
anyway today i am implementing something which appears to require 16 XMM registers for maximum performance. that is to say the compiler could probably use fewer, but you'd lose at least a few cycles doing so.
with avvx2, you are upgraded to 32 XMM registers, which means we can actually do the second half of the algorithm on twice as much data at once and benefit from submit latency being lower than result latency. alas that isn't the most expensive half, but oh well.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
have i mentioned i'm not astonishingly fond of the way intel have just bolted shit on the side of x86 over the years without regard to how difficult it makes the lives of performance-conscious programmers?
Mastodon Feedsoatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
The most disgusting part of writing cryptography and security blogs is you inevitably get some truly heinous websites in your referrer logs :\
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RYStorm@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Robin-Yann Storm") wrote:
Me when someone is playtesting and they let out an exasperated sigh.
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Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
a bad day to use python
days ending in 'y'?