← Feed

Posts

• View post

  @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social It's a pity the color one isn't true 64x64. I'd have uses for that above and beyond...

• View post

  I know I'm opening up a can of worms here, but: Maybe, just maybe, a 200+ year old set of laws designed to give a short-term limited monopoly to book printers may not be suitable to apply to all forms of human expression? And maybe, just maybe, it's been extended and made all-encompassing and applied to other forms of expression not for the benefit of society, but for the benefit of large corporations that want to own everything, including artistic expression? It feels particularly prob...

• View post

  @1password@1password.social @darkuncle@infosec.exchange So - lunch rules apply. It does no good to complain - I'm not *not* using a password manager. If I'm going to switch, I need something at least semi-close to being on-par. What are the options? Protests have no teeth without an explicit, realistic alternative. The only one I am aware of that even begins to approach viable is keepass (many variants, but I like KeepassXC) - but it's not a great alternative because it lacks a...

• View post

  @darkuncle@infosec.exchange Unfortunately, practically speaking today if you don't have both email and a phone number, you can't participate in much of society; they are the de-facto standard for business comms and mfa, despite being entirely inadequate. But - I can't remember the last time I received or sent a "recreational" email or phone call. They've been entirely supplanted by better options.

• View post

  @georgetakei@universeodon.com My thoughts? This could have been avoided, but he likes to be a "bad boy", and he's done and is doing far worse things. If he is going to take credit for successes - he should be held accountable for failures, especially those he has intentionally caused (DOGE).

• View post

  People bitch about AI slop - but it's not the AI's fault. The AI just does what it does; it lacks the ability to reliably judge its own output. It's not a new problem - many or most humans also lack that ability. That's why we have editors and test audiences and standards committees and inspectors. The fault lies squarely on human laziness. If a farmer in a field plows a crooked row because they didn't bother steering the tractor - that's not on the tractor. Stop cal...

• View post

  Note to self: Alan Turing was wrong. But not for the reasons you may think. He proposed the "Turing test" - if a conversation with a machine cannot be differentiated from a conversation with a human, it is reasonable - Turing said - to attribute intelligence to it. Turns out we have machines you can talk to now, and humans *regularly* mistake them for reasoning, and they're not only not thinking, they're often wrong. But this isn't about them. It's about us. We se...

• View post

  @georgetakei@universeodon.com A weird public flex for someone running a business. That'd be enough to make me go elsewhere.

• View post

  I did a thing. Tell ME I gotta wait until next year for my Steam Machine!

• View post

  @digitalcortex@mastodon.social Yeah. Had a doctor once say "If you were younger I'd medicate you for ADHD" - and when I said "well why don't you?" He said - exact words: "You're high functioning and have developed coping mechanisms - if I medicated you now it'd ruin your life." Which, ok, maybe so. But it's exhausting.

• View post

  What's up?

• View post

  Well poop. I put in a reservation for literally any model of steam machine: take my money! Got this: "When we did the one-time randomization of the list, your place in line ended up beyond the number of units we'll have in this production run." Valve needs to stop making interesting things if they aren't going to make enough of them. They did it with the controller, they did it with the steam machine - what do you want to bet they did it with the frame? I waited 2 years for...

• View post

  Just a reminder - some of us seem to need it. When you are going to lunch with a group, and you don't like the venue - you don't just get to say "this sucks". It is on you to suggest a *superior* venue, not just shit on the choice. People who shit on the choice and do not provide better alternatives *don't get invited to lunch anymore*. And that's no fun. The above also applies to the rest of your life. Don't just shit on other people's ideas or preferences. S...

• View post

  @mattiem@mastodon.social Anything is better than nothing, but the size differential is tremendous, and apple has a long and storied history of disregarding their external developers. If you really want to make them feel it - port your software to another OS, don't put it in the apple mac app store, or get it into the alt stores on ios. Stop using apple proprietary software and APIs. Stop letting them profit off your labor. Apple needs to realize that their success rests on the happiness...

• View post

  @lcamtuf Genius. 5 stars, no notes. Stealing it.

• View post

  @jonathankoren @mhoye The problem is its inaccuracy for smaller input sets involving low-digit-count numbers. Trivially fixed by hardcoding the results for 3-digit and lower input. Ship it!