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

Jennifer Pahlka (from ‘Code for America’) has some interesting things to say

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000677890883

jwz wrote:

Just so you know, the next fash flood is scheduled for Jan 20

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lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Leonard Ritter") wrote:

How it's going:

AWS will pay devs to verify Rust standard library because of 7,500 unsafe functions and enormity of task https://devclass.com/2024/11/21/aws-will-pay-devs-to-verify-rust-standard-library-because-of-7500-unsafe-functions-and-enormity-of-task/

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

I wrote a fully functioning SAT solver in Rust (been working on it on and off since March). It now works well enough to pass a few hundred tests, but probably needs more polish before I throw it on GitHub.

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

maybe I do need to implement 2 factor authentication at the get-go after all

https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/113529814475704255

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arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Spies hack Wi-Fi networks in far-off land to launch attack on target next door
“Nearest Neighbor Attack” finally lets Russia’s Fancy Bear into target’s Wi-Fi network.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/11/spies-hack-wi-fi-networks-in-far-off-land-to-launch-attack-on-target-next-door/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

Yikes!

"CloudNordic has told customers to consider all of their data lost following a ransomware infection that encrypted the large Danish cloud provider's servers and "paralyzed CloudNordic completely," according to the IT outfit's online confession.

"The intrusion happened in the early-morning hours of August 18 during which miscreants shut down all of CloudNordic's systems, wiping both company and customers' websites and email systems. Since then, the IT team and third-party responders have been working to restore punters' data — but as of Tuesday, it's not looking great."

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/23/ransomware_wipes_cloudnordic/

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

“OpenAI API > Anthropic API : r/LLMDevs”

an interesting post about comparative API utilities

https://www.reddit.com/r/LLMDevs/comments/1efzikx/openai_api_anthropic_api/?rdt=36398

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

that is a lotta zeros

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/amazon-invests-4b-in-anthropic-Y3ZOPzPzTxK0Q4d_MaTssw

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Alaska Republican senator Murkowski says she won't vote for Trump appointees if no FBI vetting.

Easy "brave" move since the Senate Republican majority doesn't need her vote.

I expect Sen. Concerned (Collins, Maine) to join this empty protest.

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

I laid out a strong critique, but let me end on a call to empathy.

Bluesky is built by good people, and the fediverse is built by good people. Neither reflect the designs I presently would like to see today, but ultimately these are built by humans trying their absolute hardest.

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

well worth reading:

“Bluesky is built by good people who care, and it is providing something that people desperately want and need. If you are looking for a Twitter replacement, you can find it in Bluesky today.

However, I stand by my assertions that Bluesky is not meaningfully decentralized and that it is certainly not federated according to any technical definition of federation we have had in a decentralized social network context previously.”

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

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aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

@mcc ignore the thing firefox calls profiles. profiles are a trap to catch wizards. "multi account containers" are where the real action is at. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

unless you've already been made aware of it by the drooling hoards and it's insufficient for some reason in which case disregard this message

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bodil@treehouse.systems ("Bodil") wrote:

Your regular ONI discount heads up: Steam is doing a bundle sale on Oxygen Not Included and Rimworld, which happen to be my two most obsessively played games on their platform. Warning: ONI is ADHD programmer brain bait in a very serious way, and Rimworld isn't far behind.

(Vegans beware, while I love ONI for not centering its gameplay around violence, it's hard to play it without a degree of animal domestication. Rimworld, on the other hand, is basically The Sims with war crimes; best avoided by the squeamish.)

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/46465/Terraform_Titans_Duo/

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clive@saturation.social ("Clive Thompson") wrote:

"Imagine if you and your partner discovered that the same lawyer was representing *both* of you in the divorce, while also serving as the judge, *and* trying to match with both of you on Tinder. Now imagine that when the divorce terms were finalized, lawyer got your family home."

@pluralistic on the loony and ruinous conflicts of interest that come from Google's monopoly position online

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/19/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do/

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

The 3D View panel in Edge Devtools just saved my bacon in an *wild* bug hunt.

High CPU load iff:

• logged in
• wide monitor
• clear cache

...masked by hard to spot `!important` in "utility" CSS class.

Phew.

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anatudor ("Ana Tudor 🐯") wrote:

Please, use the `for` attribute on labels so input value can be changed by clicking on label as well: https://codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/XejRbo/

#html #a11y #accessibility

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hsivonen ("Henri Sivonen") wrote:

Not a safety paper, but just to get an idea of what things are like: More than zero committee participants voted against 8-bit bytes: https://github.com/cplusplus/papers/issues/2131

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GrimmReality@beige.party ("Grimm :bc:") wrote:

THE FIRST "REALITY TV" PITCH

TV EXEC: OK it's cheap garbage that saves us money on talent and writing, but what do we do for "drama"?

PRODUCER: We'll cast assholes.

EXEC: And this WON'T destroy America?

PRODUCER: lol probably not

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tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

Since I saw a report about 1984 (because of a new audio version done for motherfucking Audible!) with the same talking points, here's the usual correction:

1984 is not a book about total surveillance. It's a book about how to ensure the middle class will never stand with the lower classes against power. It's about how to destroy solidarity. In 1984 only the middle class is surveilled, the lower classes (proles) and the upper class (inner party) are not. It's a book about power and class politics that is more relevant than ever - but not "because our phones surveil us".

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MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social wrote:

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jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein it's our birthday
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2024/11/22.html

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mheadd ("Mark Headd") wrote:

This important guidance from OIRA will help federal agencies take steps to learn and understand how people make use of government websites and online forms. It's a watershed moment, and a lot of people in the world of #CivicTech are really excited about this. I am too. 1/3

https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2024/11/21/ensuring-effective-and-timely-usability-research/

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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

Breaking, CMA Provisional Report Just Released:

"Apple’s rules appear to be holding back a category of apps known as ‘progressive web apps’ (PWAs) that are lower cost and easier for developers to build since they can run on any operating system"

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/673f2d334ebce30ac7baf035/Summary_of_provisional_decision.pdf

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taylorlorenz ("Taylor Lorenz") wrote:

These anti trans bills are huge threats to civil liberties and we should do everything in our power to fight them https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/nancy-maces-federal-trans-bathroom

jwz wrote:

"A defense secretary with a tenuous grip on reality, who can’t differentiate foreign enemies from domestic political opponents, and who seems to exist in a state of permanent hysteria is a problem that the US has never had to survive. The main question I was looking to answer when I started reading Hegseth’s collected works was whether he would follow a Trump command to shoot peaceful protesters. After having read them, I don’t think he would even wait for the order." https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/pete-hegseth-books-trump/680744/

jwz wrote:

Traffic Sign Liberation.

Boulder: "We don't right now have any information about who put them up," department spokesperson Dionne Waugh said Thursday. "We do know that they're very professionally designed signs. They're very large. They're very well...
https://jwz.org/b/ykdW

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jwz wrote:

Every time I see someone Well Actually that Dorsey isn't involved in Bluesky any more I just hear: "Pfffff Hitler fired Goebbels *months* ago."

Yes this is a subtwit.

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

A remarkable moment: I started a new chat with ChatGPT after clearing my history. Its memory allowed it to remember which brand of instant camera I had bought, and then when I shared a photo, it immediately recognized my dog by name. Technology has become oddly intimate.

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edsu@social.coop ("Ed Summers") wrote:

Along with everyone else (bah AI) we've been experimenting with Whisper for transcribing media that lack transcripts. The thinking being that any transcript is probably better for accessibility? (we'll see)

We noticed that when you tell Whisper to generate word timestamps the JSON file it generates also includes confidence levels for each word [0-1].

I thought it might be useful/fun to be able to view the JSON transcript with confidence levels colored, so here is https://edsu.github.io/whisper-transcript/