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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Aug 06, 2026

Replying to @maxleibman@beige.party

@maxleibman@beige.party @GayDeceiver@mstdn.social There are only two Terminator movies

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Aug 06, 2026

Replying to @synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net

@synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net Silo had a very slow warmup but I thought it got really good by the second season. Good enough to overlook the horrible pitch-black cinematography in several episodes. They do a good job of ramping up the reveals.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Aug 06, 2026

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cultofmac/117045754026473790 Attempting to avoid spoilers for Silo and Peacemaker but 🤷, so don’t read further if you’re concerned. Some shows debut new seasons that undo a big chunk of what was accomplished in the previous season. This is when I check out of the show. #silo and #peacemaker are both shows I thought were great that did this recently. I didn’t make it past episode 1 of the newest season of either one.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Aug 03, 2026

Replying to @shac@ioc.exchange

Bonus, we managed to log you out of single-sign-on while you were using another SSO-based site.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Aug 03, 2026

We know you had two dozen browser windows open to internal sites while doing work, but we decided to timeout some of them and redirect them in a way that cannot recover the context if you manage to log in again. Hope that doesn’t disrupt your workflow

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Aug 02, 2026

Replying to @siguza@infosec.space

@siguza@infosec.space fsck because it didn’t unmount cleanly?

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Aug 02, 2026

Replying to @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange But microkernels are so much more cleaner…

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Aug 01, 2026

Replying to @doctorgoktor@mastodon.social

@doctorgoktor@mastodon.social @steve@discuss.systems Sounds like a good option if the latency doesn’t ruin playing videos and video conferencing. I will try it out

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Aug 01, 2026

Replying to @steve@discuss.systems

@steve@discuss.systems That works with an added amp. What I really want is a device that takes several usb / hdmi inputs, digitally mixes them, and has a DAC and stereo amplifier integrated. But with good quality sound.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Aug 01, 2026

What’s the sane way to pipe audio from three desktop computers into one pair of stereo speakers? Ideally mixed and low-ish latency. Don’t say Bluetooth.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 30, 2026

Guy from one of the big AI companies in a presentation was boasting about writing 90k lines of code in a week, none of it being reviewed, and it’s okay if it’s bad code because we all write bad code and anyway only LLMs will look at it. This is the epitome of coder versus software engineer, except now the coder has a firehose that sprays out code.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 30, 2026

Piano black plastic in cars continues to be a terrible idea.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 29, 2026

Replying to @harrymccracken@mastodon.social

@harrymccracken@mastodon.social EBay also strongly condemns what happened but needed 5 years of lawsuits to finally settle. So maybe they don’t feel that strongly about it.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 29, 2026

RE: https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/117004017011678594 It’s true that user reviews are mostly garbage. Some of this can be fixed by adding communication channels between users and developers. Ways to report bugs, get support, and request features would go a long way towards removing bad feedback reviews. Of course most developers are strongly opposed to these because it increases the load on them.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 29, 2026

The #Rivian R2 has insanely thick pillars. I have no idea why or how, but being inside one feels like being in a bunker. I haven’t seen any reviewer mention this.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 29, 2026

Replying to @arstechnica@mastodon.social

@arstechnica@mastodon.social the ugly giant grille does not say US in mind. It screams China.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 27, 2026

Panics on memory error detection is not memory safety. If your application is memory-safe then your users will never encounter the effects of memory errors.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 27, 2026

Replying to @vitaut@mastodon.social

@vitaut@mastodon.social or if it evaluates to a value

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 26, 2026

Replying to @carnage4life@mas.to

@carnage4life@mas.to AMD hardware performance is roughly on par with Nvidia. Underinvestment in software is their main problem.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 25, 2026

RE: https://mastodon.social/@buckfiftyseven/116982919777937543 Here you go: Nvidia’s open source driver that supports all current chipsets. https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 25, 2026

Replying to @shac@ioc.exchange

And yes, I know I’m probably missing some exciting chrome extensions that do that in some broken way. But this should be the default behavior.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 25, 2026

Replying to @shac@ioc.exchange

While we’re at it, middle clicking on the back and forward buttons should open those in new tabs, too.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 25, 2026

No website should ever be able to prevent a window from opening in a new tab and force it to the current tab. I don’t care how much JavaScript they throw at it, if i middle-click on something, render it in a new tab.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 24, 2026

Replying to @ewhac@mastodon.social

@ewhac@mastodon.social The protection is not absolute, it is a score. But more importantly, it’s not a graph where once you’re in, you are trusted. People would be scored (for you) relative to how many links get from you to them, and how strong those links are. If all your first hop friends know Alice, she will score high. If a set of people distant from you who have low scores are friends with Eve, she’s not going to have a very high score. And when you tag her as a bot, you’ll drag down the scores of all those who linked to her and their other links. At least in theory. I can’t say I put much thought into this and I’m sure it won’t be that simple.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 24, 2026

RE: https://mastodon.social/@appleinsider/116975524473168017 I suspect that in the age of AI, trusting that sources are real humans will be a based on a social verification graph. I can vouch that people I personally know are human. They can vouch for people they know. If there were a way to compute the social confidence score of any given poster, it could filter out a lot of bots. You’d think meta would be well-positioned to implement something like this. But instead they’re just going to do the idiotic face scanning thing.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 23, 2026

Owned once again by #macOS Calendar’s broken #Exchange integration. Sitting around waiting for a meeting that was canceled but Calendar is still showing.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 23, 2026

Replying to @appleinsider@mastodon.social

@appleinsider@mastodon.social Dvorak made a career out of writing the dumbest takes on technology. Here are a couple of all-time classics.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 22, 2026

I’m declaring a global Snow Leopard year. No new software features, everyone just work on fixing all the AI-reported bugs in your code.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 21, 2026

In order to update the navigation software in my wife’s car, I have to connect the car to WiFi. No, not to download the update and install it, that would be silly. Instead it needs to register itself with the manufacturer so that their website allows me to download the update to a USB stick for installation.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 21, 2026

There is no yikes big enough

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 21, 2026

Replying to @shac@ioc.exchange

Some people think memory should be private, fenced in, hidden behind translations. They are taking away your freedom to share and collaborate.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 20, 2026

Replying to @shac@ioc.exchange

Pages don’t exist. It’s a scam by Big MMU

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 20, 2026

All memory is safe. Languages and operating systems want to constrain you. Don’t believe their lies.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 20, 2026

Replying to @electrek@mastodon.online

@electrek@mastodon.online that’s an enormous Corolla

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 20, 2026

Name your phone such that the person renting a car after you wonders what the hell

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 19, 2026

Replying to @lproven@social.vivaldi.net

@lproven@social.vivaldi.net The assumption here is that companies care about architecture and technical debt. Most care about getting a product out the door and keeping it working well enough that customers keep using it. Technical debt cleanup, good architecture, lack of duplication, etc are all things to enable human developers to function effectively. LLMs don’t complain about bad code, they just keep chugging through it. The context window problem will be overcome by summarizing and delegating to subtasks. It’s still cheaper than paying us to fix it.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 19, 2026

Replying to @thenewsdesk@flipboard.com

@thenewsdesk@flipboard.com @news-thenewsdesk I don’t know what happened at Flipboard, but the news curation quality has dropped precipitously in recent months. A horoscope isn’t news.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 18, 2026

RE: https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/technology-shjum1jiz/-/a-78dxe3uURz67Zpo-HZo8zQ%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0 We realize some of our customers are disappointed by increased hardware costs. So we’ve decided to raise prices on services too while they’re already mad.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 15, 2026

Replying to @never_released@mastodon.social

@never_released@mastodon.social This would never be a problem on a microkernel. There it would only lock up the Bluetooth server. This would hang the HID server, network server, and audio server. These in turn would cause the a cascade of failures and hangs that bring down all of userspace. But the good news is that the scheduler will remain alive.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 14, 2026

Replying to @jilleduffy@mastodon.social

@jilleduffy@mastodon.social I see many instances of running the same prompt to do a task repeatedly that would be much better served by having the AI produce a script once that would do the same task repeatedly. People use LLMs as the only tool when it is expensive and unpredictable, instead of using it to build cheap and reliable tools and processes.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 11, 2026

Replying to @adhdeanasl@beige.party

@adhdeanasl@beige.party It’s called a turbo boost but you can only use it once per episode

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 11, 2026

Replying to @nixCraft@mastodon.social

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I’m grateful we have linux to keep the latter users busy in their basements and away from society

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 08, 2026

Hotel architect: here it is, the standard room. The windows cannot be opened and the air conditioning recirculates the air from the room. Customer: how do guests get oxygen into their room? How do they get rid of carbon dioxide and other gasses? Architect: is that something people care about?

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 07, 2026

A fun part of needing to wake up insanely early is that I get to stay up all night anticipating my alarm instead of getting the small amount of sleep I could be

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 06, 2026

Replying to @steve@discuss.systems

@steve@discuss.systems it would be nice if someone could actually make some high quality Lego-compatible pieces. Doesn’t even have to be a set, just bricks and figures.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 06, 2026

Replying to @stiiin@infosec.space

@stiiin@infosec.space @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange waterlogged skin swells, not wrinkles. Dehydrated skin would wrinkle.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 04, 2026

Replying to @carnage4life@mas.to

@carnage4life@mas.to If the chart included stock-based compensation, Nvidia would be at the top right, at least until AI company employees can cash in their shares.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 03, 2026

Replying to @shac@ioc.exchange

@thenewsdesk@flipboard.com @technology-thenewsdesk Also, spoiler alert, it ends in a trench battle that blows up a planet by shooting a missile into a hole. Given that it’s starring Mark Hamill, it was an egregious Star Wars ripoff. The legend of Chris Roberts being a good game writer was bludgeoned by this game and put out of its misery by that ending.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 03, 2026

Replying to @thenewsdesk@flipboard.com

@thenewsdesk@flipboard.com @technology-thenewsdesk It was a pretty bad game compared to contemporary Tie Fighter, which was excellent. The video cutscenes were very cheesy, the writing and acting terrible, and the choices made by the player ultimately pointless. The game itself was mostly dogfights that just meant rotating and shooting, no real maneuvering.

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shac ron ₪‎ @shac@ioc.exchange · Jul 03, 2026

Replying to @asymco@mastodon.social

@asymco@mastodon.social Price hikes will hurt sales this quarter, but may boost market share as competitors are hit harder.

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