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gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

every single fastener assortment is like "1250pcs: 5 of the one you want, 45 of the ones you could maybe use in future, 1200 washers"

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iro_miya@mk.absturztau.be ("Ripperdoc. Miya Ironami") wrote:

I really appreciate when people spread the word about my body modding work. Sometimes folks reach out to me for body mods because someone told them I could help them with it. This actively helps me out in my career and finances so I'm really glad. 💖

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zvrt ("Piotr Walicki 📸 🦅") wrote:

A young European starling (Sturnus vulgaris, 🇩🇪 Star, 🇵🇱 szpak).

#birds #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #nature #naturephotography #vogelflausch #ptaki

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brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

@dotjayne @thomasfuchs The purpose of a system is what it does; the purpose of LLMs is to facilitate deception

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/117110120364932981

As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

Maybe my humanities-adjacent degree will serve me in the job market yet! 🙏

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rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117109449547518347

Cannot wait for the first zero-day traced back to Claude watermarking.

And the inevitable debate on whether that counts as an intentionally placed backdoor.

#InfoSec

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ainmosni@ainmosni.eu ("Daniël Franke :panheart:") wrote:

@tante I love how all these slopbros really don't want their slop to be identifiable despite them cheerleading the slop so much.

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tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"Claude watermarks your code now."

Dude. It's not yours, you didn't write it.

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brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org ("💙🩷💜 Brett [he/him/any]") wrote:

Job opening: Rust developer/software engineer at NLnet foundation

https://nlnet.nl/foundation/jobs/developer-rust.html

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rpgwaiter@based.zone wrote:

Wild how they ruined naming your kid "hey google" just because of the smart speaker thing

chris@fedi.freebooters.uk ("Chris Were") wrote:

Oh no

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

I'm a highly experienced software engineer with over 20 years of experience and thousands of FLOSS projects to my name, as well as some household names on my CV.

I've done most things software over the years at all levels of the stack. If you have a software-shaped problem, I'm your guy!

Available immediately. Contract or perm. Located in the netherlands but happy to remote to anywhere #FediHire #GetFediHired

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

oh goody, the thing i've been dreading for 5 or 6 months just happened.

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

The shame of un-assigning yourself from an issue you said you'd "get right it" on back in 2023 😓

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

tankies btw love the boot just as much as fascists love the boot. it's just not normal that they cross pollinate.

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

LOL, just read a tankie being upset that someone dared to question his claim "you couldn't build something like this in 3 months by hand".

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

I hope to get a bunch of pics at Megaplex

So I can show you all :3

And maybe even give some of you hugs??

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leematthewjackson ("Lee Matthew Jackson") wrote:

I am running out of room for #typewriters and I am not sure how I explain to my wife I accidentally purchased three more!

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

Not exactly winning any awards in wordsmithing there but gosh he's so handsome :3

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

As good as I sometimes am with words, how it feels to have my fursuit and be able to wear him whenever I want? Sooooo damm good.

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Bandie@yip.gay ("Bandie :therian_nonbinary:") wrote:

@soatok and maybe add an "Arf?" with that :3

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pq1r@tech.lgbt ("Arik") wrote:

@soatok

I emphasize active listening skills

Such an underrated ability. It doesn't really matter what you do in life, as long as you're not a total shut-in, being able to listen, understand and empathise is going to set you up for success. Dare I say even if you lack some of the technical skills.

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

If nothing else, remember this:

If you find yourself looking up to people, you're straining your neck in the wrong direction. Look laterally.

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

If anyone feels like they'd be more successful at decoding social rituals than I am, I implore you to try. You'll probably succeed where I do not, and that is certainly valuable on its own merits.

And for anyone else who's somewhat new to infosec:

Y'know that whole notion of hierarchy that schools try to instill into you your whole life? It's mostly bogus. If you measure enough independent attributes, we all tend towards mediocrity.

If you feel like "your technical depth must be this impressive to belong at the table", I promise you that's false.

Hell, most of the time I'm just glad to not be dealing with someone ignorant who thinks they know better because they just read a 1990s cryptography textbook.

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

Ultimately, these limitations (and many related ones with a similar shape) are probably what hold me back from excellence.

They're certainly going to stop me from ever becoming famous (though that might be a blessing, heh).

Like, I'm really quite bad with names. This can annoy the hell out of people.

I can remember "the person who was working on a potential novel attack that, if successful, threatens lattice cryptography" but don't ask me to remember their name unless I've worked with them for at least 6 months.

Ironically, the furry community is more amenable to me. With all the secret suits and alt sonas for the same people, I just have to remember "this lynx and that panda are the same person, and they have X, Y, and Z interests and A, B, and C kinks" which are all idea shaped factoids not social shaped, so I can remember them easily.

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

One might be tempted to counter, "OK, but why do you ____?" where the blank is something related to my furry fandom activities.

And that's a fair question. One I can answer at length, because I've thought a lot about such things over the years.

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

Of course, the most you can expect anyone to do is meet you halfway.

Consider the case of sports fans. Try as I might, I doubt I'll get much answer to, "So what exactly do you expect to accomplish by shouting instructions at your TV? The game is taking place halfway across the continent and is being played by athletes who live and breathe [sport], right?"

They just shake their head and call me some kind of insult.

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

I'm sure someone reading this will bristle a bit at how I feel about a large swath of humanity.

"Aren't you supposed to try to empathize with them and see where they're coning from?"

Probably, yeah, and I'm certainly failing them. The limitations of mere mortals like myself sure isn't helping with any of the myriad problems we face in the world.

But I'm not the entire tech industry. I'm just one guy.

Someone out there are folks who can get through to the parasocial-prone far better than I ever will.

(And infosec needs you, if you're reading this.)

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

At the core of the rift in the example I gave, some people are enticed by the allure of scandal.

"Did you know [Some Fucking Guy] did something that will let you trash talk him and feel morally superior the next time his name comes up in conversation?" just doesn't appeal to me.

I'm interested in ideas and how to use those ideas to help the people who are actually a part of my life.

I'm prone to, when confronted with "people talk", ask questions that none of them are usually prepared to answer. Like:

• Is this the most pressing matter to you right now?
• Why does her choice in romantic or sexual partners speak to you? How does it influence your self-perception? Your place in society?
• If you had the same opportunity, what choice would you have made?

Or the more pressing question: Who fucking cares what cosenting adults do behind closed doors?

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

I keep finding myself in situations where I explain my job to someone new to infosec and they look a bit disappointed that I emphasize active listening skills rather than increasingly difficult topics in mathematics or programming languages to study.

I sometimes joke that 50% of my job is "a weird form of group therapy", because I don't know how else to describe it to folks who never developed the requisite social skills.

Technical competence matters, but is not alone sufficient to carry you in most workplaces. Being an irritating asshole all the time is a net negative. Being an irritating asshole when you need to be is still useful, of course.

But I'm not exactly an extrovert, myself, either. And there are plenty of everyday social norms that frustrate the hell out of me.

For example: I cannot relate to people that routinely buy celebrity gossip magazines. No amount of communication skills will bridge this gulf. Y'all are a lost cause to me.