So, I keep seeing people using LLMs to generate alt-text for images. From an accessibility standpoint, I guess this is better than no alt-text at all, but...
I notice that the descriptions they generate are... often technically accurate... I guess? It's just that they really seem to suck at infering from context what parts of the image are noteworthy and what aren't.
efivars partition is sitting at 98%. I should probably figure out why before that becomes a problem...
After some searching online about this, the solution seems to be to "remove outdated/unnecessary variables from storage"
...which begs the question: how the hell am I supposed to determine which ones are outdated/unnecessary? 🤬
More research is in order.
Par-ce que le message original ne tiends pas texte alternatif:
trois photos avec texte: le premier est d'un rottweiler avec la texte "J'attaque sur ordre de mon maître"; le deuxième est d'un bergier allemand avec la texte "J'attaque si mon maître est menacé"; le troisième est d'un chat avec la texte "J'attaque mon maître"
Because the original message lacks alt-text:
three photos with captions: the first is of a rottweiler captioned, "I attack on my master's orders"; the second is a german shepherd captioned, "I attack if my master is threatened"; the third is a cat captioned, "I attack my master"
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What is it about autonomy, agency, & personal sovereignty over your own devices that terrifies these fossil fuel funded technofascists?
Probably the same personal demons that outrages them about autonomy, agency, & personal sovereignty in women... and poors, black & brown voters, and immigrants.
Autonomy, agency, & personal sovereignty frees us from their control, and from the control of their investors & financiers.
The Moneyed talk up "freedom" while ending it every way they can.
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Greed is part of their motivation certainly.
However, I can't help feeling that techbros have adopted the mindset & ideology of their investors.
The Saudis and their "we track women" Absher tech.
Koch Network and their "we want a permanent underclass. Voiceless & Voteless."
Oil oligarchs and their megalomaniac aspirations.
Jeffrey Epstein, Trump, & Peter Thiel's predatory secret clubs.
Elon Musk & Kushner's whoring for Putin.
It is a contagious way of thinking.
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The sooner the AI bubble pops, the sooner our lives will go back to normal.
Gaming fans can go and build their next sweet rig And everyone else can go back to building a computer that suits their needs. And maybe one little silver lining out of all this, Is everyone ends up hating the big platforms? I won’t mention Adobe by name for instance, And people go back to owning their own coffee.
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell I really hope you're right that that's still possible
I miss normal, human mediocrity
I was surprised this year that there actually are services for running games over the internet, AND that they're in trouble due to AI companies buying all the RAM.
It's one thing that households are being outbid, but also players like the non-ai departments of Microsoft, Nvidia, etc.
What a bubble. The amount of money were sinking into it while the earth literally burns.
I prompted ChatGPT for a meme with Sam Altman as the cookie monster eating RAM and saying this.
OpenAI decided to add that watermark in the background. It kinda makes it look like he's at some kind of sporting competition eating RAM sticks now.
We wouldn't need 32 GB of RAM if operating systems hadn't preinstalled all this bloatware, and if people left so many tabs open to so many ad-riddled websites.
So the answer is a cleaner, more efficient OS, not giving your compute to a company bent on depriving you of independent compute.
Maybe, one of these days, more folks will realize that "cloud" computing is just timesharing systems of yesteryears in a trenchcoat and stop pretending that they aren't against the personal computer revolution of the last 50 years?
Alas, I think too few ever experienced systems such as the Amiga, which had an operating system which retained preemptive multi-tasking, yet jettisoned the multi-user timesharing paradigms of its predecessors (users exist outside of computers, user account abstractions? Are an attack surface, which UNIX and now Linux demonstrate, over and over again; with myriad privilege escalation attacks ad nauseam; long past their expiration date when most individuals tend to have a multiplicity of computing devices used at their sole discretion, not shared with anyone else.).
So they just pay for timesharing systems in "clouds" in virtual machines, shared resources, being divided up the wazoo by the hosting providers so as to recoup their capital investments in hardware of severely over-provisioned computational resources for any one individual, which if rationally distributed amongst the masses? Would presumably be more than sufficient for entire townships if not more.
This sort of thing happens, time and time again. It is, I think, not coincidental, that airlines invented the delineations between "first class, economy class" (and now: business class and other delineations) right around the same time of the Civil Rights movement and Rosa Parks no longer being shoved to the back of the bus? You would think, particularly with a constrained resource (jet fuel) that a more even distribution of resources would be more equitable? What do I know though? Supposedly Taylor Swift has two private jets (as someone, who is now 50, and has never flown so much as "First Class" I question why someone, even of considerable wealth, couldn't "slum" it with such folks if their private jet [singular] happened to be in the shop on occasion? Doubtlessly, I am too poor to ever understand. At least, I know a lot more about computers, and what makes good ones, shared and otherwise.)
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Merci beaucoup 👍
C'est toujours utile.
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Accidentally boosted an image without alt-text, so I'll supply it myself:
Screenshot of a threads post. It reads:
I wonder how many beautiful things never got made because somebody's rent was due. How many inventions, films, and fucking masterpieces died in somebody's head while they were picking up an extra shift.
So Intel's down 100bn, Google's down 400bn.
Half a trillion dollars evaporated into nothing.
Well no, it was nothing to start with. But new we're acknowledging that its nothing.
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Binance (crypto) also took a 2.54billion hit (security issue)
Polymarket got hacked as well
Its been quite a day, hasnt it?
So... neither the physio place that accepts my benefits nor the ultrasound place are accepting new bookings until February.
That's fun. 🙃
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If you're one of the many therapists I'm seeing who was approached by an AI company offering six figures for "de-identified" notes, reports, etc, and you've abandoned your ethics enough to consider the offer, make sure when you negotiate your compensation that you factor in legal fees and the cost of losing your license.
I hate it here.
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"ethical" doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
If my encounters contribute to statistics, we're in trouble.
@NadiaPurge "Ethical" just means you follow a set of ethics. You can change the set of ethics. You can follow ethics that only a monster would follow and you're still "ethical". See every CEO on the fucking planet.
They've sufficiently altered the ethics of the situation that I doubt very much they'll be held to account for anything. "De-identified" info is used and shared quite regularly in medical research. Generally with permission but some fighting that as "too costly".
@crazyeddie @NadiaPurge
The main issue I find with "de-identified" info is that it's not.
No name. Ok, but we know where you live because we know what therapist you see. You mention a spouse, or kids, or work, or eating habits, or entertainment, or shopping habits. Every one of those things works together to identify you.
Not-Bob, who is stressed because his kid's school requires new uniforms every year.
Not-Mary, who is stressed because her company just got bought.
Not-Stefan, who is stressed because there was a shooting at their favourite movie theatre.
"De-identifying" in this day and age is a myth.
"Here's the collected works of Eric Berne and Claude Steiner"
"Now go hack people" /s
I'm in software. I share those feelings. based on my experience, you can count on large organizations to say "we're taking a cautious approach to AI (so go ahead and use this AI product! the company told us it's fine)"
I've had luck convincing non technical people of technical truths by appealing to their personal values. what do you value about being a therapist, that's put at risk by AI ingesting notes?
one deep truth we have learned is that ethics is a process. it is not a fixed set of rules. the rules are just the peace treaty that marks where the last round of fighting left off.
alas, yes, not everyone sees it that way ><
@sbrudenell One direct way to go about it may be to point out that AI companies have been relatively successful at de-anonymizing data, so just stripping away personally identifying information may not be sufficient to protect the confidentiality of patients.
Here's a reference, if you need one: doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2602.16…
We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles an…arXiv.org
@lrhodes @sbrudenell Out of curiosity, I went to see if I could find out who BetterHelp were getting their session transcripts processed by, and learned that they were prosecuted for handing customer health questionnaire responses to Facebook.
reframepractice.com/answers/be…
Anyway, their privacy policy doesn't say, but BetterHelp is owned by Teladoc, and Teladoc use Nuance Dragon for their transcripts, feeding into OpenAI via Microsoft.
teladochealth.com/newsroom/pre…
(I don't use BetterHelp, but their ads are everywhere so I figured it might be important who they hand data to. My therapist doesn't use any kind of AI and is horrified that others do.) #BetterHelp
Strategic efforts will help minimize administrative burden by automating clinical documentation during virtual and in-patient care PURCHASE, NY, July 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Teladoc Health (NYSE: TDOC), the global leader in whole-person virtual c…Teladoc Health
Holy. Smokes. That's horrible.
Edit: as in, we live in a currently horrible world and my horrible meter sensitivity has been adjusted accordingly, and I'm still horrified by this.
i guess the implication is that they're training a therapist-bot... even if this was ethically OK to do, what would it allow them to do? if they just see notes without observing what led to them they can't even *infer* the logic behind the notes. they can only learn to imitate the language and style.
what could possibly be the point of that? a machine that produces plausible-sounding notes and reports that aren't grounded in experience or judgment?
@aldimond
Oh my sweet summer child.
The implication is there's a huge gaping hole in their training set regarding people's deepest and most private thoughts and they want their interpolating autocompleters to be able to plagiarize those too.
That and gaining more personal info through deanonymization.
When they came for the coders, I did not speak out, because I was not a coder.
When they came for the maths, I did not speak out, because I was not a mathematician.
When they came for the doctors...
This just shook me.
This is bad.
This is big.
Is there something beyond 'predatory' for the scope of this sort of violent invasion? The effects this will have on people and the machines designed to kill us, I can't even figure yet.
Wow.
I'm crouched and ready for most of this, but hadn't considered this. And its potential is terrifying.
I hate Nazis.
Can you be my therapist?? 🤩
One of the bugbears I have at work is effective de-identification/anonymization of information for a small internal testing database. (We'd generate but ran into issues with THAT because older systems. Long story, much swearing, migraines and ulcers.)
Given how incredibly fucking hard it can be to anonymize basic records in many cases with no reports etc in them, I would suspect that it's near-impossible to do it with full reports.
To make matters worse, the therapists who even think about it are likely to be the ones out there who will happily write misleading/completely false reports for strong enough "considerations", or even just because they're confronted with someone who is outside their worldview. (I've run into at least three and two of them I wasn't even the client.)
It's already hard enough to get people to seek basic therapy. This? Oh hell no. I'm in favor of "everyone should get therapy" and shit like this makes me stop saying that, because I'm not going to advocate for anyone putting their mental or potentially physical health and safety at risk. Safe therapists are going to turn into a word-of-mouth-only thing at this rate.
@Dr. Amy, Psy.D. 🎃 Even if you were able to magically put the ethical nightmare aside...
You are literally helping them to put you out of a job.
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What a mess of ethics and everything else.
I could use simple models to determine who is who from the data,
Especially considering the existence of data brokers these days.
End of times grifts abound.
Privacy, what privacy???
Soon, we lose the pants.
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@me Yes, there are tidal turbines in some places, but limited applicability.
Geothermal is partly stored heat from the gravitational accretion of material to form the planet (and partly nuclear, from decay of radioactive isotopes)
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much safer this way tbh
We can even say we use a fusion reactor
@Laurent Cimon @Nikki Safer, yes, but seemingly not by as much as one might think.
Source: ourworldindata.org/grapher/dea…
So, one of my nieces told me a story today about how she went to the hospital in severe pain and they wouldn't even give her Advil.
I, on the other hand, went in—admittedly in pain, but it wasn't my primary concern—and was offered a morphine script (which I declined).
What??
I don't want to just jump to the conclusion that the difference is that I'm a white male, but...
The irony of this statistical issue in healthcare is women typically have higher tolerance for pain than men, yet the opposite solution happens. A woman in pain really means they are in pain.
My wife has had pharmacists accuse her of med seeking. Shut up and fill the rx, she has a rare, deadly, and painful medical condition most doctors don't even understand, let alone a pharmacist 🫠 #veds
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small and apologetic mutual aid request please:
could anyone help us a bit with the cost of a new car battery? it's going to be around 200€. rent is due, and thanks to the EU's ppwr + US absurdity and the increasing cost of everything, i've made precisely one sale in the past nearly 4 weeks, so the extra battery cost is a bit 
we live in the middle of nowhere, have one car, and i'm disabled and getting sicker, so it's very essential.
BUT please look after yourselves first! everyone's struggling these days.
thank you if you can help; no worries at all if you can't.
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Setting the time range on DuckDuckGo to before December 2022 kind of helps search results
This fails when articles were "updated" any time after 2022 or if they just lie about their publication date
I don't have this set as default, since it adds kind of a fingerprint
(Search URL format is below, not screen-reader friendly)
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@xgranade I’m this close to making myself a nametag with „Luddite“ as job title.
I used to have joke nametags with „Professional Scapegoat“ and „Master Sergeant Shooter Person“ on it but that one won’t be.
@jacqueline
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I get the impression that a lot of slop/vibe generated stuff is from people who aren't programmers at all, so they probably have no clue that going down to asm would be an improvement over higher level languages?
I had to stop using interpreted languages in elementary school because they were so inefficient, asm was the way back then; when I finally encountered C in college? It felt bloated. I do not think anyone using LLMs and vibing their way around, would have such insights; since I get the impression most of those lessons were lost on folks after CPUs transcended the 10MHz barrier, decades ago and kept getting faster and cheaper and nerds such as I were some of the only ones left who cared?
@Igigog I am certain that at some point LLMs will emit compiled code directly for "optimization". No one will be able to look at the source, since there will be no source.
Sounds like a reasonable point on the enshittification path.
when I was fresh out of university and starting my career I thought that everyone was like me and actually enjoys building elegant concise maintainable and extensible systems
but I guess some people just want to trot out slop and go home?
@zrb I think this is what happens when for the last 20 years or so it became common to tell students to get into this profession for the money. (Which makes sense - it's more money than most degrees.)
So we now have a large population of coders who really (more or less) _don't_ care that much. Getting a bigger paycheck was their primary motivation in the first place.
to this day i ruthlessly go through my projects looking for repeating boilerplate and try to find ways to eliminate it.
Sometimes it's easier than other times, but I always see it as an opportunity for improvement
omg yes. when "good" was the goal rather than "now?" When being asked to do things of questionable legal, ethical, or moral value was preposterous?
"This could kill all humans? Well obviously I gotta do it first!"
remember when people actually liked programming and helped each other learn?
@theorangetheme @wrl @ladytel I disagree on the second point, actually. When I look at the *kind* of people gloating that I'll be left behind, I don't feel lonely at all - they are not the types whose company I would enjoy anyway.
The internet weirdos who still enjoy coding, on the other hand, mostly seem like lovely people.
@theorangetheme @wrl @ladytel That's not to say I'm doing fine at all. I'm terrified of the future and I'm awfully, awfully depressed.
Just not lonely. The company of ghouls is worse than no company at all.
@datarama @theorangetheme @wrl @ladytel
I feel like im drifting aimlessly towards oblivion, it was hypothetical and now it feels all but assured.
I work and pretend as much as i can that shit isn’t breaking down when it very clearly is
@theorangetheme @cyberquixote @wrl @ladytel It is a flaw of my personality that I'm not prone to rage or anger, even when I ought to be. I just get sad instead.
At any rate: I've sort of come to terms with the fact that my job is going to go away, and that I will probably find myself below the relative poverty line - again. I've survived that before, though. If the AI ghouls don't manage to completely break down society, then I think I'll live.
However, I want to make weird computer art and as long as there are programmable computers that's what I'll do. Even if it turns out to be for an audience of 7 people.
@datarama @theorangetheme @wrl @ladytel
Im just gonna go before I depress you further, because my vision of the future doesn’t see that as possibility, because the ruling class sees our very autonomy as a threat.
They will not rest until we are all accounted for. I only hope im dead by then.
If im lucky i will die peacefully in my sleep one night.
@datarama @theorangetheme @wrl @ladytel
I live in America so put that away its not happening. Don’t give me false hope.
please
I remember when software engineering was a thing (like mechanical or civil engineering). I even moved far away from home specifically to study at a university that had developed a new program 3 years earlier. A bunch of the faculty had worked at nuclear plants, developed formal methods of verifiably correct software for safety critical systems.
It's been over 20 years. I wonder if that's still a thing now. Part of me still hopes so.
We’ve been Evicted. All the old keep the place going money needs are moot now.
Temporarily given sanctuary by a neighbor .
Anything.
Anything at all.
Would be a help at this point.
If you can give please do so.
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Forget fold up phones! I want one that unrolls from both edges like an old timey scroll!
Bonus if you roll it back up by smacking it against your wrist.
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Hahaha different degrees of "old timey"
Just like different degrees of infinity 🤣
So since this morning I've been having this weird weakness in my arm. I figured it was possibly a result of the muscle relaxant I was prescribed last night, but I imagine that should be well out of my system by now. I called the telehealth system again and am currently waiting on a callback from a nurse—which should happen in the next couple hours.
It was suggested that I could use their online symptom assessment tool for faster advice, but after jumping through those hoops, all it tells me is "seek medical advice".
Umm... what exactly is it you think I've been doing all this time?
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Telehealth nurse: See a doctor within four hours.
ER nurse: Just so you know, we have an eight hour expected wait time.
Me: Neat. 🙃
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On call doctor wrote me a script for some muscle relaxants, but interestingly, during our consultation he seemed confused by the term "stimming".
The context was when he asked if I knew what brought it on, I said: "I do this thing when I get excited where I'll sort of tense all my muscles up for a second; it's kind of a stimming thing. I did that and there was a sudden sharp pain." I had to re explain this a couple times. I'm not quite sure he actually understood in the end.
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Me, I clap my hands rapidly for a few seconds, sometimes jumping from my seat.
When I say I clap my hands, I clap each of them, separately, though roughly in unison. My long fingers can flap nicely against my palms.
:-}
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if I could just hold my arm above my head 24/7, I wouldn't need to be dealing with any of this now. 🙃
I don't know why that makes the pain stop. 🤷♂️
Welp, I'm taking the first pill and calling it a night early. I held off as long as I could because I didn't want them to wear off in the middle of the night. The over over the counter stuff just isn't cutting it.
Goodnight, fedi.
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Awoken at 1:22AM by pain again.
Fuck.
Of course I would choose to clean my #FountainPens on the same day I cleaned the sink.
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Opened a brand new, factory sealed, bottle of metformin to immediately see a hair in the bottle.
How??
This does not instill confidence in their quality control process.
I don't normally get cereal but I got a free box of Cinnamon Crunch Special K. I just pour a little in a cup and eat them dry. Sometimes there's a weird nugget in the bottom. I spent 4-5 cups of this wondering if these manufacturing errors were safe to eat or just swept up of the floor before looking at the box to realize they're supposed to be there. They're the "crunch."
Low consumer confidence is not at all good for business. But they don't care because they know we don't have choices anymore.
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I don't know how many of us there are who straight up refuse to use Discord regardless of who wants us to and for what purpose. My biggest issue is the mystery meat navigation from one space to another powered by hastily created amateur icons with only tooltips for the NAME of the space. And no option to fix it.
To me a FOSS project on Discord is closed-development model. I will never participate, and everyone who is participating is a black box to me that outputs new free releases.
My biggest issue is simply that developers are demanding that I trust my security and privacy to a closed-source opaque Silicon Valley vendor who has a history of violating both. I must give this untrustworthy vendor unspecified access to my device via app APIs, my contact information, an unspecified amount of personal data, and… I may even be required to scan my government ID and send it to this company, depending on local legal jurisdiction and how the server is configured.
These are the requirements set by Discord before a user is allowed to READ (not even contribute or comment) the release notes, changelog, FAQs, closed support tickets, issue db, and any and all discussion surrounding your nominally open-source project.
“Oh, but a discord account is free” doesn’t even begin to cover the cost and friction you are imposing on your users by demanding they participate in this platform.
Seriously, why the F do even companies use Discord for support? There are just so many projects I can't in any way contact to inform them of bugs or etc for the sole simple reason they would require me to sign up for an enshittified network that steals my private info to sell without my permission and then jump through hoops to "join their server" (sometimes with specific requirements even to make a post.)
What the bleep happened to just having an e-mail account or one of those forms on a page? Why did everyone decide this was better? Heck, if you want constant live chat, why not use IRC? It has been around forever and has zero requirements. (You can even use a Javascript client on-page to connect to the right server and autojoin the right channel automatically.)
There's a notable privacy project that does all their dev discussion on Discord. I'm only interested in them because I won't go to Discord. It's pretty wild.
Not tagging them in because I did that and had a brief exchange with their Fedi account about it, which was highly unsatisfying and not worth repeating.
But I feels ya.
+ stop suggesting {Discord, Matrix, Fluxer, Stoat, basically any chat app} as a wiki/docs for your project.
Wikis and docs are one thing, your chats and forums should be a separate thing.
Well then.... How about Reddit?
/S
"we're open source"
"ok cool, i have a problem"
"oh just search the discord, there's a fix there"
open source done on the dark web is not open source, it's published source and a big fuck you to users
Stop
suggesting
Discord.
(was enough) ;)
Literally what advantage does Discord have over a good old Forum?
I have developed an appreciation for Forums because they are usually just hosted by the service provider, so there's no need to worry about corporations and making unnecessary accounts.
Company I work for spent half a million dollars on specialized printers. Two of them....
And the company official does support via mod tickets in discord....
also: stop using commercial and corporate social media as your only presence on the internet.
Since all these social medias will and definitely block your accounts if your behaviour isn't following their "guidelines" (read: "stay in line or we'll ruin your digital life")
💯🙏 
People keep doing the "when all you have is a hammer, you treat everything like a nail" thing, except that there are other tools, they just only want to use one.
Our apartment building does not have assigned parking. It's just kind of a free-for-all. Anyhow, some time between when we parked two days ago and just now, the spot we were parked in became one that requires an accessible parking permit.
Fortunately, we didn't get a ticket. That would've been an interesting one to fight.
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Oh... This is... clever...
ok i'm now addicted to this website
Become one of the babies being born right now and live their whole life inside the real statistics of 172 countries. Where will you be born?1 in 8 Billion
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Yep. That's pretty cool.
I'm going to play with it more later.
What's the shortest your baby has lived and the longest you've had it live?
Curse you, I am crying now after fast forwarding through my guy's life.
I outlived my wife AND one of my twin daughters. Got to have three grandkids. Was broke almost the entire time, no complaints.
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@Jim P.hantom I woke up to the PHP thing this morning. All I'd heard at that point was "immediately shut down all PHP servers until a patch is available" and so, down went my fedi services until I could get a handle on what the hell was going on. Fortunately, patches were already available at that point.
0/10—would not recommend
Anyhow, back to running my daily backups/updates...
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McDonald’s USA
— Employee: $15/hr, no benefits
— Big Mac: $5.90
McDonald’s Denmark
— Employee: $22/hr, 6 weeks vacation, 1 year paid maternity leave, life insurance, pension
— Big Mac: $5.66
Tell us more about how raising the minimum wage would affect the cost of hamburgers.
Also Denmark has a functioning free healthcare system.
Damn commie bastards!
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me: "I think my opsec could be better, i'm probably below average"
the industrial accident of a certificate authority: "our private key is 4"
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but do you do YOLO-Ops like this?
“The CRL's were signed with the original private keys (which were supposed to be the correct keys with appropriate entropy) but given that this resulted in incorrect signatures, they were resigned with flawed keys.”
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
NEW (nobody) in CA Program - CA Certificate Compliance. Last updated 2026-10-20.bugzilla.mozilla.org
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A+ on trolling 😂 I love it.
These keys are not even things that live in a space where factoring is an operation that makes sense, and it's (RSA) public keys you'd factor, not private keys.
But yes, a QC might be able to factor 4=2*2 on a good day, if you tell it in advance to expect 4 as input. 🤡
Tell them to ask a dog for help:
someweekendreading.blog/dog-fa…
Prime factoring is one of the key algorithms to modern encryption security. Does it help if you use a dog?www.someweekendreading.blog
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The phrase "false peace" broke the light of day across my mind when I first heard it. It's white people's favorite thing.
Don't punish them. Don't hold them accountable. Don't ask for reparations. Don't fight them. Don't make them fight each other! Just let them hold power in perpetuity, which is the natural order of things in their minds, and if you have a grievance, you must convince them peacefully or not at all, at their leisure, when they deign to receive you.
People love to talk about MLK but nobody wants to talk about the Black Panthers anymore. They’re two sides of the same coin.
With that said, everyone needs to go vote!
Just in case anyone was unclear on the difference:
Compilers 👏 Don't 👏 Hallucinate 👏
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