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

Send robots. People should stay home.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/22/whats-the-worst-job/

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• Astronauts find a dead body (remote)

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

I think this is the first time I've found out about a new book via it's "theme song". Dessa's "Starter Villain":

https://dessa.bandcamp.com/track/starter-villain

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

You kids and your fads 🙄

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• Screencap of Higurashi Ch 2, Watanagashi. Tomitake and Shion at dusk outside the Furude Shrine. Textbox says, "Tomitake: One of those dismemberment homicides. They were all the rage at one point."

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

Neuralink also doesn't have a very good record on post-operative patient care, in addition to stuffing a device with limited utility into your head.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/22/its-your-lucky-day/

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• Scene from "Spock's Brain." (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

The tragedy of the #CVE tracking system:

Usually it’s clogged with low-quality spam (costly regex? Critical DoS! integer overflow? anything could happen!)

This time there’s a real 0day exploited vulnerability, in almost everything that has pixels, and nobody’s getting notified, because the report buried the impact.

cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

Lol… #righttorepair #sony #rossmannrepairgroup

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• 7c6aa9f0c30729ca.png

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Love this headline from The Verge... "Mastodon 4.2 works more like it ought to". Good to hear! Via @ardent_handsaw

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/21/23884312/mastodon-search-onboarding-cross-server-interactions-4-2

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

My (stable-diffusion-generated) art work has been used in the ads of a multimillion (I think) dollar company.

I believe this means I can call myself a *Creative*

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saramg@fosstodon.org ("SaraMG") wrote:

Also, me this week:

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• A floppy disk drive labelled "Works, but makes sad noises." (remote)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Google goofed by misreporting libwebp vulnerability as only a Chrome vulnerability.

In case you don’t know, there’s a critical bug in a popular library for WebP images. Any application that displays images is potentially vulnerable. Email clients. Graphics software. Even file browsers that display thumbnails.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/incomplete-disclosures-by-apple-and-google-create-huge-blindspot-for-0-day-hunters/

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AmishSuperModel ("Amish Super Model") wrote:

Me: I’m here for the hookers and booze!

Librarian: Sir, this is a library.

Me: *whispers* I’m here for the hookers and booze.

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AmishSuperModel ("Amish Super Model") wrote:

I always get a little skeptical when someone tells me they literally died.

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

Task 1 for this afternoon/evening completed:

FT-991A shifted from Mac to to RaspberryPi 4, flrig & fldigi installed & configured & tested (pskreporter hears psk31 on 20m & CW modulates), JS8Call installed & configured & tested (pskreporter hears on 20m & 40m)

auto-start/auto-shutdown is sweet, and the magic of X-Window plus ssh tunneling means I can fire up and run that rig from *anywhere*

#HamRadio

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

If I pay $28B for a splunk I better die

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

catfood resupply box under inspection

Attachments:

• Oscar the housepanther sitting in the box his new kibble arrived in today (remote)

Mastodon wrote:

#Mastodon 4.2 is rolling out across the social web! On our quest to make Mastodon more delightful and easy to use, we've overhauled search, sign-ups, cross-server interactions and a whole lot more:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/09/mastodon-4.2/

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

I am going to have to get used to wearing distance glasses again 👓

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

Screw you, James O'Keefe.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/21/the-word-of-the-day-must-be-mismanagement/

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• James O'Keefe, loser (remote)

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

Saying your center is not mismanaged, then hastily firing 20 people, is not a good look.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/21/is-it-not-mismanaged/

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• Ibram X. Kendi (remote)

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thereisnocat@toot.cafe ("Ralph Brandi") wrote:

Petapixel has this article about Dall-E 3 and how it will let photographers opt out of having their images train it:

https://petapixel.com/2023/09/21/dall-e-3-announced-photographers-can-opt-out-of-its-image-training-data/

So I went and looked at the form.

https://share.hsforms.com/1_OuT5tfFSpic89PqN6r1CQ4sk30

You have to submit a different form for each image. In other words, don't opt out.

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

regret to report that the new top of the travel lodging power rankings is "booking a hotel at the very last minute"

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androcat@toot.cat ("Androcat") wrote:

@pzmyers Just in case anyone read Loeb's text and got confused:
Current LLMs do NOT have more nodes than we have synapses.
They have to the order of one billionth of the nodes we do, at very very best.

LLMs are running on vastly, vastly inferior hardware compared to our brains, and their "intelligence" even when constrained to a single domain (text) is dubious.

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scala_space@softwaremill.social ("Scala Space") wrote:

Announcing a new tapir project: Pickler! 🐗 🥒

Pickler is new way to derive JSON codecs, combining the derivation of uPickle encoders/decoders (for client/server side logic) with that of Schemas (for docs) into a single functionality!

More below 🧵

#Scala

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

"Why not just implement Feature Flags as #authorisation
^ has probably popped into someone's head more than once.

It's a fairly reasonable thought, but the devil is in the details. IMO it's like saying we should put up traffic lights instead of using traffic cones.

https://ntietz.com/blog/feature-flags-and-authorization/

#featureflags vs #authz #rbac

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

I made a stupid Smoke Room/Bonequest comic edit

Does this count as fan art

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• The Bonequest comic "Up Late" edited so that it takes place at The Hip. Panel 1: "Up Late, starring Clifford, Harlan" Panel 2: Clifford standing at the bar, smiling, hands clasped. He says, "WHAT ABOUT NUTS" Panel 2: Same location. Clifford blushing, Harlan looking stern. Cliff: "WHAT ABOUT BALLS" Harlan: "WHAT ABOUT THEM" Panel 3: Same location. Clifford screaming, Reed scowling, Sam looking shocked in the background. Cliff: "WHAT ABOUT FAT QUEER DICKS" Reed: "KEEP IT DOWN"

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

Oh, no. You mean I can't get rich by selling links to badly drawn monkeys?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/21/no-one-could-have-predicted-this/

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• Bored Ape NFT (remote)

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

Avi Loeb wants to find another speck because it'll make him feel good.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/09/21/loeb-sure-sounds-like-a-religious-kook/

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• We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere. (remote)

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jalefkowit@octodon.social ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Just me, a person who has been working on Unix machines for 25 years now, once again googling the difference between "adduser" and "useradd"

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

Scarlet/Violet have mostly been pretty well-behaved for me after a rocky launch period, but yesterday the game softlocked right after I started hosting an online raid. I finally had to force quit from the home menu. And of course the game got mad at me for ditching an online raid mid-battle even though they were at fault.

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lori@hackers.town wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnUvneNxoz8

There's a DIRECTORS CUT???