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Monsters from the Id! Fish from the Wardrobe! Or something.

(TTRPG/Coding/Linux/Politics/Snark/Woo/ASD, in no particular order.)

Boosts are almost certainly an endorsement of something. Possibly not literally the post in question, though.

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fishidwardrobe, to random
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Fell over this issue with today at work AGAIN. So annoying.

If you add program foo.rb to the default branch (say) by merging it from another branch -- then ´hg log foo.rb´ will not show the merge commit. Finding the record of when (or if!) it was merged is rather hard.

fishidwardrobe, to random
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Does anyone know how I can find out the particular "infosec sins" (ie whether it reports your location, can be remotely hacked, etc) of a given car?

Edit: for complex reasons we may find ourselves with one of two new cars and I'd like to choose the one that's least sucky in that regard.

mcc, to random
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Pondering configuring a web server to set the EICAR antivirus test string as a cookie on all page loads and never bother reading it back

fishidwardrobe,
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@mcc GDPR does not require you to ask consent to set any cookie.

(It does require you to use collected data only for the purpose you collected it. So if you're collecting data at random, gotta declare a purpose of some kind, I suppose.)

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I'm going to start writing all my posts on old English, and daring people to correct my grammar and spelling.

fishidwardrobe,
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@RickiTarr interesting, the meaning appears to have changed too.

Am I right in thinking the older versions are closer to, "he shows me where the good pasture and the clean water is"?

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So we have it now. Rust solved a large number of the safety problems of the system language level. Not everything ofc, but still. Lot of them. And it is actually being adopted.

So I have a question for my cybersecurity/infosec crowd.

Have you introspected why 3 decades of yelling about that stuff got no results, 3 decades of sanitisers and fuzzers barely moved the needle, but Rust slam dunked it?

Where is the retrospective of what went wrong? Where are the learnings?

fishidwardrobe,
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@Di4na We should recognise the possibility that it may have simply been random factors that caused the adoption of Rust where other solutions didn't take off; that there wasn't something specific Rust did right or the others did wrong.

dgar, (edited ) to random
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Hashtag:
Hosted By: @MarkIngs
Subject: Unity
Submission: Love Is All
By: Roger Glover and Ronnie Dio
Submitted by: @dgar
Songwhip Link: https://songwhip.com/roger-glover/love-is-all
Context: https://mindly.social/@bborn/112136911862890289

fishidwardrobe,
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@dgar @MarkIngs as a kid watching this ... Over and over ... I didn't catch the references to Yellow Submarine in the animation...

mcc, to random
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In c#, sizeof(T) returns a int32, not a UIntPtr/nuint.

fishidwardrobe,
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@mcc If you get a negative size, I assume that would be bad

fishidwardrobe, to homeassistant
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Just lost 30 minutes of my life trying to pair a Zigbee bulb with … when it turns out they sent Bluetooth bulbs by mistake.

fishidwardrobe, to random
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A common inner dialogue:

"What's the correct term for X? I'm going to have to talk about X with people, and they need to know what I mean.

…Oh. Wait. I'm going to have to talk about it with people. Never mind the correct term; what would they call it? And, throw in some swears, that usually helps."

fishidwardrobe, to random
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Tom Gauld is always a highlight of the week for me, but this time, well. I would love to have this on my wall!

fishidwardrobe, to LLMs
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I'll admit I find fascinating, although not for the reason so many others seem to.

I'm not impressed by their answers -- you can quickly see how flaky they are. I'm impressed by their apparent ability to understand the question.

That word "apparent" is load-bearing. They can't, of course. Can't reason or understand. And yet this apparent ability is strong enough that you can instruct them in plain English to subvert their own design.

fishidwardrobe, to random
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Out of curiosity I searched the "bot" hashtag. I can only see half a dozen. I suppose it's harder to make a genuinely useful bot than you might at first think.

fishidwardrobe, to random
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This is probably just me being very autistic. But if a word has three meanings, A, B, anl C; and C is a slur; and something in IT is named that word because A — why do people go after that thing saying it's a slur?

There are two other meanings right there. If you see the slur, isn't that on you, just a little bit?

fishidwardrobe, to random
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Advert: "When you fill your skin with life, it feels…"

I'm sorry, what the fuck?

In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black (www.businessinsider.com)

Was this AI trained on an unbalanced data set? (Only black folks?) Or has it only been used to identify photos of black people? I have so many questions: some technical, some on media sensationalism

fishidwardrobe,
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@nieceandtows @lntl It can be both.

fishidwardrobe,
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@nieceandtows ::gestures at mankind's enormously long and complex history of systemic racism::

People are going to read your post and assume that you are apologising for the police because they are the police. You know, one of those "they must have done something wrong or the police wouldn't have arrested them" people.

I'm sure you're not one of those. Just saying how it looks.

fishidwardrobe,
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@nieceandtows The fact that there have been issues with sensors (which is true) does not disprove systemic racism (which exists). That's like saying that because I put vinegar in the dressing the lemon juice wasn't sour. It doesn't follow.

fishidwardrobe,
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@nieceandtows Plenty of proof of systemic racism in the police if you want to see it.

fishidwardrobe,
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@nieceandtows But we know that there is systemic racism in the police. There is vinegar in it.

fishidwardrobe, to random
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I'm afraid the context is private, but something you should know: all those cheap crime novels? The folks willing to do ridiculous, stupid, criminal things because they feel they're entitled to something someone else has right now? That shit happens. In the UK. Among "normal", affluent, middle-class people. I've personally rubbed up against it happening twice – although not to me directly, thankfully.

(I'm safe. My family are safe.)

fishidwardrobe, to random
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I've said this before, but I wish there was a way to "boost with added CW". Specifically I'd like to not be able to edit the CW text; It should be the hashtags in the OP, or failing that the first five words in it.

There's stuff on here I don't boost because I don't have the spoons tn work out how to do it while honouring my promise to CW doom, politics, etc.

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    fishidwardrobe,
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    @piratepost @lealternative @fediverse @fediversenews Elsewhere I hear that Lemmy's primary instance has a fairly serious moderation problem which the mods – the developers – refuse to address. So there's that.

    fishidwardrobe, to random
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    Just flicking through a popular "make it for yourself" magazine via my library's app. Every single project uses a Raspberry Pi.

    I suppose the age of amateur electronic engineers is gone. And the actions of rpi as a company have been questionable of late. Both of those things make me sad.

    But beyond that – where the hell are folks getting these Pis from? They're always out of stock?

    fishidwardrobe, to random
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    Had a reminder yesterday of what more seriously effected folks have to deal with all the time. I'm currently in a minor burnout, so I'm worse than usual. Trying to take it as a useful lesson. It helps I was assured by other staff that the little hitler who bumped up against me – I'll spare you the details – was in the wrong.

    But my first thought was a depressing one: folks behave like that because there are just too many people. And treating them as people uses up spoons?

    fishidwardrobe, to random
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    Had a little experiment for a couple of months. Set my default posting to "unlisted".

    • It doesn't do what I thought it did – posts still turn up in my followers' timelines.

    • I don't think it does what it's supposed to do: if someone boosts my toot, everyone can see it (or if not: it lets people boost a toot when that does nothing. Either way, that doesn't work.)

    I shall return to my belief that every one of these posting types is broken, except maybe – maybe – "global"

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