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soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

A lot of security rituals you hear about from folks online are like this.

This is the kind of culture that leads to giving blanket paranoid security advice without threat modelling first.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/116274789062787020

Tangent, but this is one reason why I don't bother with "burner phones" at DEFCON.

If my day to day security practices are insufficient for DEFCON, they're insufficient for day to day life. I'm just as likely to get attacked in a random cafe.

I roll my eyes a bit at people who insist that burner phones are necessary.

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evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

Some tips on giving digital privacy/security advice: if you tell people they absolutely need to do a long list of difficult and expensive things before they travel, people will nod and smile and then not do it at all. This is why my advice focuses on harm reduction and understanding trade-offs.

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

Trump’s War is going to exacerbate this https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/business/middle-class-sell-their-plasma.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

Donald Trump is stuck between “a rock and a hard place”
after three weeks of war in Iran
and “sending a message of weakness” to the world
Leon Panetta, a former US defence secretary and Central Intelligence Agency director, has told the Guardian.

Panetta, who served in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama administrations,
recalled that national security officials were always keenly aware of Iran’s ability to create an energy crisis by blocking the strait of Hormuz.

That very scenario is now unfolding, leaving Trump with no exit strategy beyond wishful thinking.

“He tends to be naive about how things can happen,”
Panetta, 87, who supervised the operation to find and kill Osama bin Laden, said by phone.
“If he says it and keeps saying it there’s always a hope that what he says will come true.
But that’s what kids do.
It’s not what presidents do.”

Panetta said: “When [Trump] or those around him started publishing pictures of football games,
raising money by using pictures of our dead coming home at Dover [air force base], and doing the kind of tasteless things that he can do,
he’s basically sending a message of weakness, not a message of strength to the world.

“That, unfortunately, is what the world sees right now,
and I can see why he’s having problems trying to get allies to be able to respond when they’re not sure he knows what he’s doing"

“Any other president of the United States would have recognised the mistake and apologise for what happened,”
Panetta remarked.

“He doesn’t do that.
It sends an image of America that kind of fits the ugly American image that a lot of people once had of this country.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/22/trump-iran-leon-panetta?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

hmmm.

i've just watched a youtube video wherein someone was talking about getting generative AI to design compounds and then manufacture and test them doesn't suffer from hallucinations because they're testing it and like...

you do realise it's just hallucinating the compound in the first place, right?

jwz wrote:

A Gradle play in two acts.

Act 1:

WARNING: The property android.dependency.excludeLibraryComponentsFromConstraints improves project import performance for very large projects. It should be enabled to improve performance.

Act 2:

WARNING: The option setting 'android.dependency.excludeLibraryComponentsFromConstraints=true' is deprecated.

jwz wrote:

About 1 time in 3 when doing a build with Gradle I get:

A failure occurred while executing com.android.build.gradle.tasks.PackageAndroidArtifact$IncrementalSplitterRunnable
... a thousand lines later...
Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

And then the next time it works. So that's exactly the level of quality I've come to expect from Gradle in particular and everything about Android in general.

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Little Otis in his box

#CatsOfMastodon #catsoffediverse #cats #catstodon

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Compare all the major players to OpenAI, and you sort of get the sense that ChatGPT is the Hydrox of the AI market.

Even Meta who doesn't have a household name AI model is so much better positioned than OpenAI.

Meta has the most impressive cloud computing infrastructure and they keep dumping billions into it. Yeah, the Metaverse closed but the datacenters remain.

Hell, Zuck *just* announced a custom AI chip set. Altman, conversely, is jet-setting across the globe begging people for compute.

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ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Latest #Freebooters podcast with @uoou is up at https://freebooters.uk

https://freebooters.uk/media/20260320-freebooters.mp3

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rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

Found a legendary amount of daffodils yesterday whew

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rosie_108@toot.wales wrote:

Bonus, two beauties amongst the daffodils. Serene.

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Tried to uninstall Photoshop and got asked to sign in to Adobe Cloud to proceed.

Have you lost your fucking mind, Adobe?!

Nothing says "you don't own this software" like needing permission to delete it.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Like, what is Sam Altman's moat?

Sam signed a deal that made OpenAI much more dependent on Microsoft than Microsoft to OpenAI.

Microslop could ditch ChatGPT tomorrow for something made in house, and customers wouldn't even notice because OpenAI allowed MS to white label ChatGPT as Co-pilot. They don't even get a "powered by ChatGPT" tagline lol.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Digressing again—Funny that OpenAI issues a code red to pivot to business related applications in the same week Microsoft issues an apology to its business customers for shoving AI into all their business applications.

I suspect OpenAI is cooked and Sam Altman is terrible at making deals. OpenAI has nothing going for it but a viral product launch three years ago. They don't have physical infrastructure like Microslop, or even a software ecosystem like Office.

They barely have brand loyalty.

jwz wrote:

If someone has an explanation for who gets "Unsupported file type" and who gets "Download / Open / Pick wallet app", that would be nice. I assume it has something to do with "Play" [sic] having its claws in?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The irony of AI is that it makes building things more accessible to the layperson but it comes at a time when technical literacy is at an all-time low.

A former colleague hit me up six months ago very excited about creating an app using AI. Every once in a while, I'll text him and ask him where he is with the project. And slowly, I've watched that excitement turned into confusion and frustration.

He simply doesn't have the knowledge to move this project past the sandbox

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

After 20 years, I can confidently say that I am a pretty damn good project manager and information architect.

But sometimes I worry that AI makes my role obsolete. Then I talk to a client who doesn't know what a browser is, and still sends photos in Microsoft Word attachments, and that anxiety is quickly alleviated.

This is the irony of AI. (Sorry this is a digression from the thread).

Boosted by GuillaumeL@hachyderm.io ("BigSaur G"):
z_everson@journa.host ("Zach Everson") wrote:

Good morning!

Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates—

💰His net worth is up $1.9 billion, to $6.2 billion

💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million

💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million

💰20-year-old Barron is worth $150 million

And Jared became a billionaire last year.

Have a great day!

#news #uspol #trump

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I haven't been able to stop thinking about this thing I read (can't remember who wrote it ahhhh) about how AI will kill the outsourced coding market. And how project managers essentially assume that role.

As someone who considers themselves a project manager first, coder second, this is where AI affects my business the most.

Clients expect projects to be completed faster and cheaper.

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malison@soc.nochn.net ("Carsten Müller") wrote:

#vibecoding

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JustaJason007@beige.party ("JustaJason 🦜") wrote:

@fromjason sad part is the headline is true in so many ways. Most women I know would rather screw a robot anyhow. 🫠

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Deep sea cable connecting the states to India, South Africa, and Brazil. Meta has also spent billions on improving latency, which is one of remote robotics biggest hurdle.

I haven't harped on my "Meta is pivoting to the cloud" rant in a while lol but, it sounds an awful lot like Meta found a way to outsource our country's service industry.

We might get— Applebees: Now Powered by Meta Robotics 🤮

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-undersea-cables-internet-connectivity-india/

jwz wrote:

FYI, this is what it looks like on iOS. No intervening clicks needed besides "Add".

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

It's wild how so much of AI is just an abstraction layer for slavery.

It's a magic trick where the magic is just low-wage labor extracted from the global south.

Deep sea fiber optic cables across the world so that American's gain access to robot maids and robot sex workers operated by Africans.

What a silly future they want for us.

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

On the positive side, if you want to abolish ICE, I can’t think of a more efficient way to make that happen than forcing the business travel class to interact with ICE agents on a regular basis

#USPol

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

That's a long walk for a mediocre pun lol. But that should totally be Tubi's slogan.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

INT LIVING ROOM—A couple sits in front of a TV looking for a movie to watch. They watch the trailer for a Hamlet remake, then click "rent for 4.99"

The character in the trailer hops out of the TV, demands $5 from one of their wallets, then proceeds to light the money on fire.

CUT TO: product monologue for Tubi. "Don't light your money on fire by renting movies"

Character: "Tubi or not Tubi. There is no question."

BF: can I have my 5 bucks back?

End

jwz wrote:

If those of you using Android could click on this link and tell me whether it does anything even remotely useful, and if so, some detail about how horrible/stupid the whole experience is, that would be helpful: https://www.jwz.org/images/2026/test.pkpass

And tell me what version you're using, obviously. Possibly this requires some "Play" [sic] stuff to work.

UPDATE: Thanks! You can stop now.

(Unless you have read the dozens of replies and have had a materially different experience than those.)