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

okay i've just slightly had my mind blown.

you know how plenty of people who weren't born in the 70s like 70s music and people who weren't born in the 80s like 80s music? well apparently that happened for at least some 90s music too.

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

New nails, who dis?

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

According to the journalist Ken Klippenstein, FEMA has a new mission: Domestic Terrorism.

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency, often criticized for its inadequate response to natural disasters like wildfires, floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes, has been assigned a new mission: “domestic terrorism.”

Now FEMA is shelling out grant money to state and local authorities to build up capacity to carry out pre-crime operations against “organized political violence,” as one FEMA information bulletin I obtained says.

The bulletin, dated July 9, instructs local authorities to prioritize “domestic terrorism” in their grant applications. Titled “Implementation of National Security Presidential Memorandum-7…,” the document echoes President Trump’s emphasis on rooting out suspected domestic terrorists before an attack takes place.

To head off these attacks, the bulletin tells states what to buy: training to spot “social media-based indicators,” analysts to monitor “online behaviors and digital footprints,” and teams for “managing persons of concern whose behavior indicates a potential trajectory toward domestic terrorism.”

The story says the White House is trying to get states and localities to buy into this "precrime surveillance" by tying funding to their compliance.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/femas-new-mission-domestic-terrorism?utm%5Fsource=post-email-title&publication%5Fid=7677&post%5Fid=208852828&utm%5Fcampaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2MjA1MTc2LCJwb3N0X2lkIjoyMDg4NTI4MjgsImlhdCI6MTc4NTI2NzQ3NSwiZXhwIjoxNzg3ODU5NDc1LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNzY3NyIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.JucxU7NE%5FKspkdGtnLlZRTSPbQSE1xgl34%5F8IYNi5dk&r=3ozy0&triedRedirect=true&utm%5Fmedium=email

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange ("Sophie Schmieg") wrote:

On the HAWK break: setting aside the LLM part of the narrative, this fits very well into my priors. I only had started looking at HAWK fairly recently and have not devoted much time to it, but even then I was not really convinced by the security argument. My main concern is that HAWK's public key is a global property, while any other module lattice based scheme only ever reveals local properties (Local/Global with respect to the number field order). Global properties contain much more usable information, so being able to reduce the problem to a smaller lattice is not too unexpected. I do not expect similar results to apply for MLWE or NTRU based schemes. Even though HAWK is a lattice algorithm, it's one that is much more deeply intertwined with the module structure, which gives it an Achilles heel.

The fact that this was done with heavy LLM assistance on the other hand is quite surprising. It's unclear how much of this is marketing hype, and there is no surpassing human capabilities there yet (except maybe in time spent), so I don't see a revolution in cryptanalysis per se, but certainly interesting new tools for researchers.

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

The only RLHF I need in my life is Real Life, Having Fun

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

I think I really want these puppies to get red before harvesting them

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glitchypixel@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Glitchy Pixel") wrote:

People who vibe code with AIs swear that they check the code, that they know what they are doing and that they verify tests and deployments.

Maybe at first. But in my experience, every single one eventually and invariably become the Simpsons drinking bird that keeps pressing Y on the keyboard, nothing more, no checking, no analysis, no mind, just pressing a button.

The saddest thing is that some are aware of this and they try to justify it to you. Up until it breaks.

#noai #genai #llm

Attachments:

• gifv: A scene from the Simpsons "King Sized Homer". Homer is working remotely and pressing Y on a remote computer. Eventually he leaves tobthr movies and leaves a drinking bird toy as his "cover" to just keep pressing Y. This is just an animation of the drinking bird. But you can guess what happens next, it breaks the nuclear plant, almost provoking a meltdown. A "mere thousand islands incident" according to Mr. burns.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
cidney@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Cidney") wrote:

Solo indie devs of fedi-- have any of you found a decent Discord alternative for keeping track of playtesters?

Mailing lists + IRC/Matrix? Forums?

I'm drawing a blank, but I hate using Discord. :(

#gamedev #community #indiedev

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

oh, i'll just make an exception there: only do that if you realise just how much work you're signing up for. which is a stonkingly large amount.

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

anyway, if any of you needed a boot up the arse to go and write that programming language you've been putting off, consider this it. i don't think you'll ever get such a good reception again.

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

it's kinda wild though. people are all ready to jump ship to something that doesn't even exist yet. i feel like the old order of programming languages is about to be overturned...

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

anyway, for once it appears my interests coincide with what a lot of people want, so it would be daft not to go with the flow.

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

oh, it's the slop thing isn't it? everyone's favourite programming language is full of asbestos, lead and spent nuclear fuel rods.

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

now i am not saying there are a lot of people dissatisfied with programming languages out there but god, what are most language designers up to?

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

in other news, i do cool stuff for years while avoiding writing a programming language and ~ nobody cares. i announce i'm doing the programming language i've been trying to avoid and suddenly everyone wants to know.

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

apple crumble was delicious

quarter apples, remove cores and slice into thin vertical strips. toss into a baking dish. drizzle on a generous amount of honey and toss well to coat all the apples. top with a crumble mix (butter, sugar, flour, maybe oats if you want). bake at 180C (fan) for 30 minutes.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Just a thought as I head out the door, I'll find the thread later

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

There is a long running thread on the grapheneOS forums about having the panic mode log you in to a segmented off partition that looks like a fully plausible OS, doesn't wipe, but doesn't unlock the main storage. The concerns about being charged for destroying evidence are raised there iirc. The maintainer raised some technical challenges and why they aren't pursuing this, but I wonder if that changes now

https://www.404media.co/the-government-hopes-to-set-a-precedent-an-interview-with-the-man-charged-for-allegedly-wiping-his-grapheneos-phone/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:

Tom Morello’s got a new solo album coming out at the end of September, “Everyone Gets Everything They Want”.

Rather than it following the sound of his previous solo albums, which were very earthy acoustic songs to bash fash by, this is a full-on rock album with electric guitars and shit to bash fash by.

The first single is “Date Night” which is about three Dutch teens that got out there and took out Nazis. Talking about the song, Tom said:

I make anti-racist songs for anti-racists. I make anti-fascist songs for anti-fascists. ‘Date Night’ is really a ‘which side are you on?’ song. If any of that offends you, do the math.

He’s playing Nashville in mid-September and I love the idea of going to catch the show, but honestly I’m exhausted just thinking about the logistics, nevermind the finances.

But anyway, here’s the lead single, “Date Night” for your enjoyment, comrades.

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

#nowPlaying

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

lol, just stumbled upon some old c++ talks in my videos directory. c++ talks have such lovely names. these two are called 'atomic weapons' and 'lock free programming (or, juggling razor blades)'

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

The man has the all staggering charisma of a damp paper towel smelling vaguely of dog retch, just what 60 Minutes needs to turn around its precipitate decent into a lifestyle magazine for the simpering class

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jswatz%5Ftx/post/DbWbLRoFkVA

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Looking for tech jobs right now is soul-deadening in a way that I don’t remember from the past ~30 years. My jokes about starting a tiki bar instead seem like more of a real Plan B (except that I can’t leave Florida for the time being, and don’t think I want to start one here).

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

- upgrade Emacs
- launch it for the first time
- really slow, laptop getting warm
- "oh, it's a system update, it must be Spotlight indexing"
- realize that that thought is insane
- look at CPU graph
- yup, it's Emacs???
- switch-to-buffer
- "*Async-native-compile-log*"
- oh, I guess this is just … everything, now

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
nullenvk@yourwalls.today ("nullenvk :blobcat2: ") wrote:

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Wandering around YouTube and on the videos I've been watching the comments for the software dev videos have been a cesspool of rightwing hate and nihilism while the comments on the rest are mostly just silly

Maybe I just got unlucky but it's not giving a good impression of the state of the field

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
katco@mstdn.social wrote:

@cwebber @fraggle @dthompson you're really onto something here. You've successfully peeled back the layers of complexity and gotten right at the heart of the matter by appealing to the wisdom of the crowd. 🤯

↗️ This proposal clearly lays out that the greatest common divisor of any two digits is negative 009.

💡 The proof comes from a little-known maths chef, D.T. Hompson, a recluse who is known to scheme about different things.

Would you like me t

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

oh yeah and i've also started prototyping in idris. i have already gone overboard on the types and am regretting my choices.

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

littlegem language progress today:

• came up with the new name
• set up a repo
• started the design process
• wrote fabulous LLM policy

https://codeberg.org/littlegem/design

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
2something@transfem.social wrote:

@pawv@tech.lgbt @cwebber@social.coop @bremner@mathstodon.xyz

STOP DOING SARCASM!

Words were never intended to mean the opposite of their usual meaning!
Thousands of years of speaking yet no real world use for not just saying what you mean!
Wanted to say something unclear just for laughs? We had a tool for that: it was called "puns!"

Look at what sarcasm-users have been demanding your respect for. These are REAL sarcasm made by REAL speakers!

* Devil's Advocate
* Shitposts
* "Stop Doing" memes

"Hi, I am lying but it's okay because I'm doing it sarcastically."

They are being completely truthful.

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

@dalias @ariadne @dthompson The context is https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2026-07/msg00232.html