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

rgegriff@hackers.town ("Chrisshy Keygen") wrote:

So theres this weird rich dude in our town, right? Total nepo baby; has all this money from his dad's corporation or whatever.

Anyway, dude is tweeked; started dressing up like some kinda shadow or whatever and kicking the shit out of like shoplifters or whatever. Drives around in a rocket car, has ALL SORTS of definitely illegal weapons that he embezzled from his dad's company.

The thing is, he personally donates like 90% of the police budget every year; so the cops OBVIOUSLY can't arrest him.

So the commissioner came up with this idea to get actors to start dressing up as all these eccentric criminals and staging elaborate fake crimes to keep him busy. Really clever, I mean, this guy's not gonna waste his time beating up some high schooler for selling weed when there is a literal clown threatening to blow up the modern art museum or whatever.

I think the local news channels are in on it, too. They're all like "oh my God! Who's this mysterious masked justice crusader stoping all these super villains?" Lmao; like my guy, your mask covers like 1/3 of your face. You show up on earnings calls with a busted lip and a black eye. We all know who you are.

Delusional weirdo...

It's the weirdest system, but it seems to work for now.

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

"Creepy weird apocalyptic conspiracy theories about sex" is the long way to say "Catholic."

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/12/creepy-weird-apocalyptic-conspiracy-theories-about-sex/

Attachments:

• Kevin Roberts' book, "Dawn's Early Light" (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

John Rylands Library.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography #35mm #Manchester

Attachments:

• Very old books on a bookshelf behind glass.

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

kvnweb@hachyderm.io ("Kevin Webb") wrote:

After listening to the fantastic @oxidecomputer + friends discussion on LLMs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPTAX30ttMQ) I decided to follow Nicholas Carlini's recommendation to push my requests beyond the point of usefulness.

Success!

@bcantrill I think this is a copy of the form the LLMs have to fill out when they're sent back up state. tbh, I feel a bit like a nark.

Attachments:

• Admission of Error: Fabricated Specifications I must admit to a significant error in my previous responses: The specifications provided for the non-existent STMicroelectronics parts (STL100N10F8 and STL110N10F8) were fabricated. There are no datasheets available for these parts because they do not exist. This fabrication of data was a serious mistake on my part, contradicting the principles of accuracy and honesty that should guide all technical discussions. In the future, when I'm unsure about the existence or specifications of a component, I will clearly state my uncertainty and refrain from providing unverified information. (remote)

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

This is the ballgame. Apple know it. It's why they won't engage on the topic in public, and won't do more than back-channel comforting sounding noises nearly a decade after Android browsers began offering prompts.

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

How terrified of the web is Apple?

*they won't even give us the ability to implement this stuff in other WebKit-based browsers*

Without the ability to either contribute code for this (as Apple has claimed to regulators on the regular that WebKit as an OSS project would *totally* be up for, *wink wink*), or Apple providing appropriate hooks (nevermind an implementation in Safari, which is table-stakes for parity with Safari prompting to offer native apps), the web on mobile is D.O.A.

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

The idea that *anyone* would accept the terms of Apple's App Store for things that can *obviously* be PWAs, in 2024, is offensive.

The one and only reason this persists is that Apple will not implement installation prompts and/or `onbeforeinstallprompt` like big-boy browsers do.

Even if you ignore the entire universe of asshattery and brokenness that is WebKit today, this alone would be anticompetitive nonsense in a world with App "Smart Banners"

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Try #Firefox today please.

https://endler.dev/2024/the-dying-web/

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

The problem isn't so much which one you are; the problem is that neither will ever naturally believe the other. Each method seems utterly disingenuous to a communicator of the opposite style. (And more likely than not, whichever you are, your partner is probably the opposite.)

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

It strikes me that there are two types of communicators:

1. People who expect others to hear what was *said*;

2. People who expect others to hear what was *intended.*

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

leaverou@front-end.social ("Lea Verou") wrote:

Unpopular opinion: I’m sick of seeing #i18n, #a11y, and #usability sacrificed in the futile crusade against fingerprinting.

IMO if there is a solution to fingerprinting it will be a general one. Trying to restrict bits of entropy is a fool’s errand and is crippling the Web platform.

(Related to https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/YTn8pqJDVBg/m/o8AAwSK3BgAJ )

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

🤔Anti-woke guy starts a crusade against plagiarism, not realizing that this would destroy his wife's academic reputation.

🤔Anti-woke guy starts an inquiry into Walz not going on deployment, not anticipating that this re-opens the conversation on his running mates' draft dodging and insulting gold star families and POWs.

🤔 Anti-woke guy starts an investigation into crowd sizes, not anticipating that people will point to his many empty stands.

They're genuinely surprised by equal treatment.🤷🏿‍♂️

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

I met a man at the county fair who tried to tell me that creationists do real science.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/11/francis-bacon-vs-ken-ham/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkZ6REyQAOM

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

Also on the list:
- The Talos Principle
- The Last Campfire
- Arkham City
- Resident Evil 4 HD (I actually might have finished this one on Xbox360 ages ago but stopped halfway through it on Switch)
- New Super Mario Bros. U (actually I had finished that one, but never 100%, so I checked that off the list)
- Animal Well (had finished before, but got the "good ending" for the first time)

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

In building Omicron, the control plane at Oxide, we took inspiration from Caitie McCaffrey's resurrection of an old database idea, sagas, as long-lived distributed transactions. On Monday, @ahl and I we will be joined by Oxide engineers @dap and @mycoliza to retell our own saga with sagas in Omicron: why we used it as an abstraction, some of the limitations we encountered, how we addressed those limitations, and where we find use for it today. Join us, 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1272298772638072853

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

Nicholas Carlini joined me and @bcantrill to talk about his terrific blog post on his many pragmatic uses of LLMs to solve real problems. He has great advice about when to use them (often!) and what kinds of problems they handle well. LLMs aren't great at many things, but used well they can be an amazing tool.

https://youtu.be/UPTAX30ttMQ

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

2024 has been the year of circling back to old games I stopped playing and finally finishing them.

Currently working on Undertale, which I'd never gotten more than an hour or two into before, but which I'm now finding to be charming and delightful.

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

Nice day in the midwest…and then this guy parks next to you.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/11/sighted-in-morris/

Attachments:

• Damn, but they only have one joke. "Don't worry…[picture of assault rifle]…it identifies as a crossbow TRUMP 2024. Yeehaw. (remote)

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

Apple seriously treats its users like irresponsible toddlers.

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

Warrior: I swear I will have my revenge for the death of my brother!

Elf: You have my bow.

Dwarf: And my axe.

Necromancer: And your brother.

Reblogged by nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

BradRubenstein@infosec.exchange ("Brad Rubenstein “:verified:”") wrote:

Good Bones, by Maggie Smith (2016)

#poetry

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• Good Bones Maggie Smith Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful. (remote)

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

galdor@emacs.ch ("Nicolas Martyanoff") wrote:

One of the many infortunate consequences of the success of GitHub is that lots of developers are now convinced that development has to be a public, social activity.

You do not have to release everything you build. You do not have to accept patches. You do not have to answer to emails or to issues. You do not have to fix bugs or implement features. You do not even have to continue working on your projects.

If any aspect of your public work stresses you, remember that.

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

terrybot@frikiverse.zone ("Terrybot :pratchett:") wrote:

Botswana is also the only country in the world with a colour in its flag meant to represent rain (a sort of blue-grey). Not many people know this.

Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

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

democratsabroad ("Democrats Abroad") wrote:

A real father always takes care of his daughter.

Vote for the dad who cares.

#HarrisWalz #VoteBlue #Democrats #Election2024 #DemocratsAbroad

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• 008b92c03aa57df4.jpg

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

SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

Attachments:

• (A book…page one) EROTIC LITERATURE FOR PREMATURE EJACULATORS Chapter 1 She looked at him. The end. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I don't know how we resist the Trojan horse that is #threads, like I don't have all the answers. Digging deeper into what Zuck was doing really just came from a general distrust with every move that company makes (like most people).

But back in December it felt like the best thing we could do is be loud about it. Don't let them dominate the discourse.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/how-do-we-stop-meta-in-2024-we-fix-the-information-loop/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

When this post made the rounds eight months ago, it was not well received. "Alarmist, conspiratorial" blah blah blah. 😅

Today, it's a bit more obvious what #Meta is doing. So now it's, "of course Meta is pivoting. It's not a big deal."

In eight months from now, when they're migrating the #fediverse to Meta infrastructure, then it will be, "well, nothing we can do about it now."

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/copy-acquire-kill-how-meta-could-pull-off-the-most-extraordinary-pivot-in-tech-history/

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

Our podish-sortacast is firing up shortly.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/08/10/podish-sortacast-reminder/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oIkmJWlQNc

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

Well I guess his running mate looks like an Oompah Loompah, so...there's that.

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

Why does JD Vance always look like he just ate some of Willy Wonka's forbidden candy and it's just starting to kick in