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• Post #3737637

  It's interesting that some people say "oh but you shouldn't use AC, it makes the outside even warmer" but they never say "you should never use shutters, if you don't let in the heat it makes the outside even warmer!" Modern heat-pumps typically move at least 8x as much existing heat than they generate by performing the work of moving that existing heat,, so that's only around 10% in addition. The two cases are roughly 90% the same.

• Post #2787075

  SLEEP IS FOR THE WE LL BALANCED MENTAL HEALTH

• Post #2787074

  The problem with the argumentation that letting Israel take part in Eurovision is just about artistic freedom, is that the format is explicitly about representing countries. Israeli artists and musicians are free to take part in events when it’s about them. For example I quite like Infected Mushroom and if they have a gig nearby I gladly take part. Eurovision is something else and Israel shouldn’t be allowed to take part.

• Post #2787073

  I like the italian roasted nero espresso. Nice burnt flavour

• Post #2787072

  I would like to welcome the newcomers to the infosec profession, who discovered that a tool called "fuzzing" exists and are now using them widely. (To be explicit: fuzzing-by-AI is an iterative, incremental improvement not a revolutionary change.)

• Post #2787071

  We need more cashew and fewer kaijus

• Post #2787070

  @renchap I quite often get 503s on mastodon.social these days (in the last few weeks?) when posting/replying to people compared to my relatively light usage it''s happening relatively frequently (eg twice today already, once in the morning, once just now). Is this a known issue?

• Post #2787069

  I wanted to tell the story of how I ended up cancelling my Der Standard subscription. Several years ago when I subscribed I've done so for a few different reasons: supporting quality journalism, getting more up-to-date on austrian public discourse, and to help with extending my german knowledge. For a longer time this was okay, but recently I've had the feeling that the journalistic aspect isn't so pronounced as it was even a few years ago.

• Post #2787068

  Critical reading: when someone writes “up to 97%” you really got to trust the integrity of that person. Because a person with integrity will only use this formulation for 96.x% figures when it makes sense to round up. A less principled person uses it with noisy data, eg success rates of 50% on one day, 70% on another and 97% on another day. So the longer-term average might be a coinflip but an outlier of a day can have 97%.

• Post #2787067

  Btw the counterfactual for the “AI is really good at finding vulnerabilities” is if all the attention related to “AI exploit finding” simply increased the attention to finding vulnerabilities, without AI significantly aiding in the process.

• Post #2150130

  There is an interesting microfiction opportunity. A lot of material revolves around The Purge in the US, but what it does not hilight is that on this day everyone has a day off. What if Labour Day originally evolved from The Purge in the US? We killed the capitalist class comrades and now we celebrate this day symbolically by giving everyone the day off!

• Post #1406914

  Bluesky is down but no worries, the 0.001% who are on another instance and know what atproto is can enjoy the network without the main instance hehehe

• Post #1405058

  What’s IRC? Wrong answers only