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“Incredibly mediocre” dude. Programmer. Bad with words. Enthusiastic cat-botherer.
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Seirdy, to random
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Apple apologizes for iPad ad

“Creativity is in our DNA at Apple, and it’s incredibly important to us to design products that empower creatives all over the world,” said Tor Myhren, the company’s VP of marketing communications. “Our goal is to always celebrate the myriad of ways users express themselves and bring their ideas to life through iPad. We missed the mark with this video, and we’re sorry.”

Interestingly, Google used the same language to conclude its apology for its generative AI’s historical depictions of race. It explained its intention with flowery language and then said “But it’s missing the mark here”.

I wonder if we’ll be seeing more of this type of response to corporate tone-deafness (a generous term) going forward. Big “I’m sorry you feel that way (but this isn’t indicative of any problems with me)” vibes.

c0dec0dec0de,
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@Seirdy Right on the mark here: “It reads like an apology to investors for making people unhappy, not an apology to the people who got angry.”

jenniferplusplus, to random
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I'm sure this is true for many people, but I'm having the opposite experience, tbh. Coding (mostly) for myself, and taking a lot of care to make it long term maintainable, has been incredibly restorative for me. Keeping a code base tidy is so much more relaxing than constant tip toeing around a bunch of hazardous piles of legacy junk that you're not allowed to fix.

https://digipres.club/@foone/112340266377188389

c0dec0dec0de,
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@jenniferplusplus I'm more like that too. I also really like the idea of solving problems for reasons other than profit motive.
I don't want to sell my code. I just want to make it and give it freely to anyone it might help.

Meyerweb, to random
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Google Vault out here reminding people to destroy evidence of their crimes, just in case they forgot.

c0dec0dec0de,
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@todrobbins @Meyerweb reminds me that automatically deleting emails is considered a corporate best practice. Reduces storage cost as well as cost of filtering and labeling data when you’re going through the discovery part of a legal case, and — not explicitly in the CISSP study material — reduces the likelihood of you being convicted for past crimes.

GeePawHill, to random
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Have you thought at all, for even a minute, about the business model of OpenAI?

In one sentence: "We will take every actual human-created content, the golden egg, from everyone, without permission, and then we will use it to sell plausible made-up shit, simultaneously choking out the creation of all new human-created content, the goose."

Ponzi was vastly more sophisticated than this.

I've long regarded extractive capitalism as corrupt, but I had no idea they were all so stupid.

c0dec0dec0de,
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@hazelweakly @GeePawHill apologists and evangelists keep saying things about emergent properties, but you’re starting with what is - to a first approximation - the sum total of human knowledge in the English language and you get… something that can do a passable shitpost poem about version control or spit out marketing drivel? Yes, that’s more than is obvious from the linear algebra and weights, but look where you started!

bagder, (edited ) to cisco
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I was reminded of the great security fix of 2019

c0dec0dec0de,
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@colin_mcmillen @bagder wait, you can dump the config without authentication of any kind, which includes the devices password hashes, and somehow you can just pass those hashes back to authenticate to the device?
No, that all tracks with the sophistication of this “fix”.

atomicpoet, to random
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Just bought the Middle-Earth Shadow Bundle on Steam. It includes:

  • Middle-Earth: Shadow of War
  • Middle-Earth: Shadow of War Expansion Pass
  • Middle-Earth: Shadow of Modor
  • Middle-Earth: Shadow of Modor GOTY Edition Upgrade

The price of each of these individual items is $112.96. But today, I’m paying C$8.99.

c0dec0dec0de,
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@atomicpoet I have the base games already, and they scratch the third-person brawler itch pretty well despite not being as fluid as the Arkham games. Also the Nemesis system was fairly amusing.

c0dec0dec0de,
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@j_bertolotti @atomicpoet I liked the added perks or feats that they got, it added a little variety (not that the Nemesis system is unique in doing this). Although over the course of a full play through the taunts get really old (again, pretty typical).

rysiek, (edited ) to random
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Here's a half-formed thought I need to mull a bit on:

Somehow, algorithmic (and especially "AI-driven") decision making tends to only be proposed in contexts where it can only — or mostly — affect those with the least power in the system.

Migrants and asylum seekers.
Prisoners.
Families using any form of state support (child benefits, foodstamps, etc).
Palestinians in Gaza.

It somehow never gets proposed for use-cases where it might affect the wealthy and powerful.

One wonders why. 🤔

🧵/1

c0dec0dec0de,
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@rysiek they migrate up the privilege gradient after they get some of the wrinkles ironed out, and build up the idea that it’s “okay” to inflict on people

FredKiesche, to random
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And there it is…the first novel-length installment appearance of the BOMB-PUMPED X-RAY LASER!

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c0dec0dec0de,
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@KarlSchroeder stealth being another difficult thing in space. Nothing to hide behind. @hendric @isaackuo @cstross @sudnadja @nyrath @FredKiesche

hannu_ikonen, to random
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Millenials having "little to no loyalty in the workplace" is a sign of progress, not concern, you fucking deliberately obtuse coercive capitalist fucks.

c0dec0dec0de,
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@peachfiend “Donate to our pro-business PAC/lobbying arm!”
🪿: hey, what’s the other end of that axis? Pro-business as opposed to what motherfucker?
@hannu_ikonen

c0dec0dec0de, to scifi
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“Something shared,
Something due,
Something secret,
Something you”
authenticator rhyme, Glasshouse, @cstross

c0dec0dec0de,
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@cstross Authentication in a world with on-demand atom-level reconstruction and memory editing is just a totally fucked problem. Also, any book that measures time in kilo-, mega-, and gigasecs is up my alley.

hazelweakly, to random
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One thing that's wild to me is that we've gotten fairly solid at building distributed systems that are resilient, workable, and fairly decently designed... As soon as they hit a certain amount of scale, and only then.

So much shit out there just gets slapped together with every single cloud scale mega-cluster service and tool like its a limited edition box of candies that's going out of stock

c0dec0dec0de,
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@hazelweakly if your service can’t be run on a laptop, what are your engineers doing for their innermost development loop?

hacks4pancakes, to random

Fun fact, my chosen nemeses for the last twenty years have been the Freemasons. Just because I’m put out they won’t let me join. I’ve devoted inordinate hours to finding and learning all their secrets people drunkenly admit to.

Yes, it’s all very boring. I just don’t care.

c0dec0dec0de,
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@hacks4pancakes start a rival organization like OpenMasonry or LibreStonecutters

futurebird, to random
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They don’t have jobs. They stay home all day and shop online spending my money. Between Them and Pica I am going broke!

c0dec0dec0de,
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@futurebird @michaelgemar TBF the threshold for “disturbing” on “number of books on nuclear physics” for all non-human lifeforms is currently set to 1

pluralistic, to london
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The City

c0dec0dec0de,
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@pluralistic “The Walkie Talkie”, the weird building with the white sides, looks more like a interior space heater to me. Which is just not the solution to the admittedly mild English winters…

cadey, to random
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"No way to prevent this" says users of only programming language where this regularly happens

c0dec0dec0de,
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@cadey it’s possible to write C safely like it’s possible for observable size objects to quantum tunnel (teleport spontaneously): the math allows for it, but the likelihood is insanely low and gets lower the larger the thing is.

pluralistic, to london
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Millennium dome

c0dec0dec0de,
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@pluralistic peak wifi router design

JessTheUnstill, to random

SWATting would no longer be a problem at all if we abolished SWAT teams.

Maybe having an on demand paramilitary strike force that can be deployed by anyone with a phone and a plausible sounding story was a bad idea to start with.

c0dec0dec0de,
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@JessTheUnstill you know this obviously, but I’d like to reiterate, even the “just send a couple officers to go ring the doorbell” option still has an appalling failure mode that crops up far too frequently.

rckenned, to random
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There should be job roles for burnt out Staff+ engineers to hang back, burn down the bug list, write tests, fix documentation, clean up alerts, and other assorted housekeeping. Stuff that’s impactful and soothing to engineers who’ve lost the motivation to lead from the front but still find satisfaction in those sorts of tasks.

c0dec0dec0de,
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@littlescraps @rckenned like this? I can’t share the video where I drop my kiddo and drily talk about the arrow of time and increasing entropy.

c0dec0dec0de, to random
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Just started reading @AstroKatie’s The End of Everything (Astronomically Speaking), and I’m loving the footnotes.

c0dec0dec0de, to random
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rm -fr is pronounced “remove for real”
docker system prune -af is pronounced “docker system prune as fuck”

c0dec0dec0de, to random
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Oh, look! The inch thick plate of body armor we ordered to send with our child to school came with a couple rolls of Sweet-Tarts.
I hate everything. What the fucking fuck!
I am no one, nothing. My child doubly so. Why the fuck do we feel like he should have an armor plate to hide behind/protect his vital organs with? He shouldn’t even know about these things?!

c0dec0dec0de, to random
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Just finished @MurHerself ‘s Station Eternity and loved it! Also, Mur’s on the Fediverse and I didn’t realize it.

c0dec0dec0de, to animals
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Been meaning to make this little clip for a while. It's Gatita! From Rosie's Rules, an adorable kids' show that my son likes (and I do too, honestly).
I think the show is cute, but Gatita, their "cutey-ball cat" is just adorable.

A white cartoon cat dances on a guitar plucking strings with her little feet. She spins in a circle on the guitar while an upbeat tune plays, her tail is held aloft in a happy/greeting pose for cats and her eyes are closed. That background is a splotched red-pink.

c0dec0dec0de, to random
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I guess we’ll start here with a statement of values.
Abortion should be not just legal, but free.
Trans rights are human rights.
Gay rights are human rights.
Black Lives Matter.

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