young man yells at the cloud

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- Security person who can't stand security people

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2025-08-22 12:54:15 UTC

In the Alaskan winter, it gets as cold as -40°!
Celsius or Fahrenheit?
Doesn't matter! -40 is where they cross. Now you know two new facts.

2025-08-10 03:22:50 UTC

Do Androids Dream of Electric Wizard?

2025-08-07 15:43:43 UTC

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luckily I haven't been given any mandates yet at my job. If I am given one, I'm torn between lying and outright refusing.

2025-08-07 13:53:36 UTC

Great rebuttal of the "embrace AI or get out" bullshit:
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/08/lets-properly-analyze-ai-article-for.html?m=1

2025-07-31 15:24:57 UTC

A lot of the discourse around the OSA and other age verification bullshit uses waffly language like "of course, we agree with the premise [pornography should require age verification], but it's going too far"
Full stop. I do not agree with the premise. You don't want your kids watching porn on the internet? Don't give them unrestricted, unattended access to the internet. That's the solution. The government has fuck all to do with this. Age verification is horseshit. I do not support it.

2025-07-12 04:03:31 UTC

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here is a link to the full paper if anyone is looking: https://metr.org/Early_2025_AI_Experienced_OS_Devs_Study.pdf

2025-07-06 18:07:09 UTC

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I highly doubt they're having an actual LLM do the content scraping, there's no reason to. It's probably just a link crawler.

2025-07-06 17:40:07 UTC

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you could also make sure the link says something like "this link is a trap for AI scrapers, ignore it if you're a human" when the page is read with a screen reader

2025-06-11 18:12:13 UTC

Carl Sagan wanted to put "Here Comes The Sun" on the Voyager golden records, but EMI said no on the grounds of copyright.
Right, that makes perfect sense, no notes

2025-03-28 02:50:56 UTC

Just realized they rebranded to "Reddit: the Heart of the Internet"
jesus, what a downgrade, front page of the internet always had such a nice ring to it. Oh well, it's been shit ever since the third party app purge

2024-12-11 22:04:16 UTC

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp down
good!

2024-12-10 16:40:34 UTC

It can't be said enough: we *could* have ads on the internet without spying on everybody in a dystopian cyberpunk surveillance state. Our current state of affairs is a choice. Continue to block everything.

2024-12-04 20:18:08 UTC

the difference between git and github is the exact same as the difference between porn and pornhub

2024-11-26 17:30:19 UTC

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"allegations"
better headline:
Microsoft continues to scrape user data, as it has done with 0 consequences for decades now.

2024-11-23 14:35:17 UTC

Azure certs are just knowing a million different technicalities about Microsoft's pricing models and which particular special offer scheme happens to be the most economically viable currently.
I like learning about computers -- that's not what this is. This is learning about how to pay Microsoft and never stop.

2024-11-19 15:21:46 UTC

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i've begun an experiment today where I've completely disabled notifications on my phone entirely. Let's see how this goes.

2024-11-19 15:15:31 UTC

Notifications are such an anti-pattern to me. The fact that Apple is trying to sell a feature to "summarize" your endless pile of notifications is insane to me. If I ever have enough notifications that I need them summarized something has gone horribly wrong and I've probably already given up.

2024-11-18 22:23:04 UTC

a lot of old school blues is just "i hate my wife *guitar noises* ohhhh yeah I hate my wife *guitar noises* mmmmmmmmmmm yeah mm women are the worst *guitar noises* awww yeah

2024-11-09 15:06:11 UTC

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did you know this meme is a fucking yugioh card?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/453/613/386/210/298/original/3f38b57ea5beff67.png

2024-11-07 16:24:03 UTC

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what fucking OS is that???

2024-11-02 02:53:30 UTC

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org-mode

2024-10-24 20:12:51 UTC

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you /want/ to deploy crowdstrike?

2024-10-22 15:59:03 UTC

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I'm pretty sure the "CO2 savings" per Tesla isn't even that high, as there's a massive Carbon cost in the manufacturing and shipping process, plus they still need energy which mostly comes from coal.
Edit: this is not entirely true. Please see replies for more nuance

2024-10-21 15:00:45 UTC

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I knew we'd figure out an actual use for this shit

2024-10-21 03:05:26 UTC

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Don't forget to get a new face every 4-6 months

2024-10-21 00:36:28 UTC

WOW I AM AT A LOSS FOR WORDS FUCKING WHAT STEAK N SHAKE
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2024-10-10 12:32:55 UTC

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BSDs conveniently left out of the conversation

2024-10-06 17:13:04 UTC

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you can find most popular audiobooks on the pirate bay and similar sites and won't be locked in to whatever silly DRM app they try to thrust upon you

2024-10-04 04:48:59 UTC

Can we the users of #firefox hold a vote of no confidence for #mozilla and get a new maintainer?

2024-10-01 17:51:04 UTC

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are you connected via your home ISP / mobile data / public wifi? They're probably just doing a geo lookup on your IP address if I had to guess.

2024-09-26 20:51:06 UTC

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logging in to a service like Mastodon kind of defeats the entire point of using Tails, doesn't it?

2024-09-08 14:02:29 UTC

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librewolf

2024-08-29 05:34:21 UTC

Where are other mastodon.social people migrating to? My initial, gut-driven, uninformed, largely disinterested choice is infosec.exchange because I'm mostly on here for infosec and my toots are often written for a somewhat technical audience. But I am really not attached in any way and am more interested in what people who *do* have an opinion about the instance metagame / hierarchy have to say.

2024-08-23 17:35:34 UTC

If a candidate says Windows is their preferred dev platform, is that a red flag for you? (even if it's a really minor red flag)
#Software
#Programming
#SoftwareEngineer

2024-08-16 17:02:12 UTC

I want to tell my boss that the developers at our company should get Linux laptops. What should I recommend? He will want a link to a website with a fancy sales pitch about security and reliability, so I can't really recommend buying old ThinkPads off eBay (although now that I say it out loud 🤔)
#Linux
#EnterpriseLinux
#RHEL
#RedHat
#Debian
#Fedora

2024-01-05 07:28:22 UTC

I hate the stupid "draft me an email" 'use case' that Microsoft, Google, OpenAI etc keep parroting over and over again. Draft me an email about what, motherfucker? To whom? With what tone? What information do you want to convey? How do you want to sign it? If you provide all of this *necessary* information to the LLM, you already wrote the goddamn email. The fact that these companies keep highlighting the same 3 or 4 nonexistent use cases is proof that this is all useless garbage. Fucking christ