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• Post #3518279

  @badsamurai I would caution anyone "politically exposed" that Eventbrite's founders are very deeply linked to Thiel and Palantir. And there is a significant likelihood they are 'volunteering' data to Palantir and the regime.

• Post #2792719

  @MedeaVanamonde @pndc @cstross and because people continually ask: The only thing keeping '08 from being a total implosion was underlying assets. Houses are an underlying asset that got turned into predatory rentals. '01, you had offices, IP, businesses that COULD work, and hardware to recover with. With much smaller holes to fill. This time? It's a literal Ponzi scheme. Basically all of the hardware is ewaste. There's no trillions in IP - not even millions. Ju...

• Post #2792718

  @anne_twain @devsimsek a better equivalence explanation. Here is a 'smart hammer.' It promises to never smash your thumb. And between 20 and 60% of the time, it works! The other 80 to 40% of the time it explodes and takes off your entire arm and sets the nearest three houses on fire. The question is not "why are people not stopping when it explodes" or "how do we filter the explosions." The question is "WHY THE FUCK ARE PEOPLE STILL...

• Post #2792717

  Keep following me in hopes I return, stop following me and toast the good riddance, I truly don't care. I know where I stand and I know that nobody cares if I live or die, except people who want me to die. Just don't fucking bother me with bullshit pretending you care.

• Post #2792716

  Where'd you go? - Away, hopefully to an early grave Why? - Because I'm tired of every fucking day being a fight to achieve nothing So you'll be back, right? - No, and it's insulting that you act like you give a shit Why not delete the account then? - Impersonators. This is the only actual RootWyrm, period. Signal's in the profile. I won't hold my breath.

• Post #2036837

  So hang on, let me see if I can get this correct. The United States is currently at war-but-not-actually-war with: - Venezuela, but not if "that bitch" falls in line - Iran, specifically the civilians - Various groups in Ecuador - The enitre state of Minnesota - Spain but not if they capitulate - Canada if they don't buy broken F35s - Denmark because of Estee Lauder - Anyone who hurts Pete Kegbro's feelings - All forms of education and science - Facts and reali...

• Post #2023306

  So now apparently it takes a force greater than the one that took Iwo Jima to escort a single merchant ship. Crewed by soldiers who are so terrified, they demanded helicopters and attack boats and spent thousands of rounds of ammunition firing at absolutely fucking nothing and hitting even less.

• Post #1604979

  Perhaps the most offensive thing to me of all, is that these LLM-loving AI-boosting idiots who perpetuate falsehoods like 'AI can read minds with fMRI' and 'AI can magically find vulnerabilities' and 'AI will cure cancer' is that we have known this is bullshit for years. Years. IBM Watson was launched as a magical cure-all in 2013. By 2022 it had been pulled from everything because despite years of 'refining' and 'training...

• Post #1530895

  Boy I really love how the Linux kiddies have decided that the best way to improve things is to actively make them worse by removing basic functionality and features. Who would ever want to change the font on their terminal, right? (What a bunch of absolute fucking idiots.)

• Post #955673

  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@SocketSecurity/116275498711560605 This is going to be a fun one, as everyone picked Trivy as the golden child for their base scans and SBOMs. We really learned so well from left-pad, yep. Things have really improved. </sarcasm>

• Post #897893

  REMINDER: The people who insist that AI is inevitable are the people who insisted the Metaverse is inevitable are the people who insisted NFTs are inevitable who insisted that cryptoscams replacing currency were inevitable. Do not be the fucking idiot that parrots them.

• Post #827041

  #PennedPossibilities 968 — What’s the current word count for your WIP? One: 294,291 Two: 197,221 Three: 32,915 (the one I'm actively working on)

• Post #661961

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116234495704645651 Data centers can't consume water and power if the switchyard and the pumps are on fire. Just saying.

• Post #278049

  VERY important: do NOT give Discord this information. DO NOT. It goes to multiple third-parties, who link it to a lot of sensitive personal information, and more than one of has already leaked people's PII. They also have lied multiple times about selfie verification not leaving your computer and deleting images of sensitive IDs. https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out

• Post #125634

  @iinavpov@mastodon.online @cstross@wandering.shop one of the reasons I basically don't accept follows from mastodon.[social|online] is because both of those places are utterly *infested* with a whole variety of influence campaigns from state actors, scummy marketing firms, and medical quacks. Especially anti-vax and Covid deniers.

• Post #115906

  @jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com @cstross@wandering.shop let's be honest: the absolute majority of 'developers' these days can't read K&R and would burst into flames upon being presented with Perl. Brooks, Wirth, it doesn't matter, they'll refuse, fail to comprehend, and insist that it's too old and only they have the brilliance for modern programming.

• Post #111110

  #WritersCoffeeClub 1/4: Share a tool of your trade. Wikipedia. (Everyone else already said Scrivener.) A lot of my work requires a great deal of research. A lot more than people even begin to realize. Wikipedia is basically my one-stop shop for finding it. Especially with the search engines turned to pure fucking worthless slop. The paper I'm looking for won't show up there, but somebody cited it as a source, so it's right there on Wikipedia.