pseudonym

pseudonym, 4 months ago to random

My million dollar idea I want someone to steal and do, so I can be a customer.

"Dumb Stuff" we sell electronic appliances that aren't Internet connected. That's all.

That's it. That's the pitch. I would buy the <bleep> out of this company if their electronic gadgets were even half way decent, and repairable.

Electronic, no wifi, regular screws to open it up. That's it. Do those three things, and you can be sold by this store.

I will pay this business to curate and find these devices for me.

pseudonym, 20 days ago to infosec

From a friend's discord

#infosec #starWars

pseudonym, 1 month ago to random

Gentle request.

Please don't drop fake stuff for the lols for April fools.

We all have enough mental bandwidth consumed filtering out active disinformation and innocent mistakes to add to the burden. In general they aren't funny and degrade many folks online experience.

Thanks for listening.

#PSA

mo you know

pseudonym, 1 month ago to random

After all the news about Amazon grab and go being essentially Mechanical Turk, a friend on discord said:

"oh god now I'm thinking of a building full of teenagers with game controllers remotely steering 'driverless' cars through heavy traffic"

And I'm just afraid Tesla is going to totally "Ender's Game" this.

Shudder

pseudonym, 6 months ago to random

The Trolley "problem". Put on the brakes, save everyone.

Don't accept the framing. Break the "rules". That's how you solve the problem.

That's the toot.

#lateralThinking

pseudonym, 7 months ago to infosec

Today's reminder that the "tag manager" tags:

utm_source=
utm_medium=
utm_campaign=

in links are user modifiable text values, and that the value will appear in some marketer's metrics slides.

Use this knowledge only for good.

Remember kids, always validate your inputs.

#infosec #praxis #marketing

pseudonym, 4 months ago to random

All the FAQs I see these days are marketing fluff. I recall actually going through support tickets and pulling out the actual repeatedly asked questions to make those back in the day

pseudonym, 3 months ago to random

Too much #adulting revolves around: changing filters, doing dishes, laundry, and paying bills.

I demand more pillow forts, s'mores, and board games!

pseudonym, 3 months ago to random

Every sign tells a story

pseudonym, 3 months ago to random

New proposal. Any company that thinks LLMs can replace "creatives" and make reasonable business decisions should logically replace the CEO first. Biggest expense automated = biggest savings, right?

Save salary and stock options. Distribute to remaining employees.

Work your way down the org chart. Repeat.

pseudonym, 11 months ago to infosec

I got laid off, along with about 10% of the company.

I'm in good shape with savings and was feeling burnt out anyway, so it's time to enjoy some time off, and figure out what I'm doing next.

Don't have a current resume, and really don't want to start looking just yet, but if you hear of an awesome, remote, senior, #infosec #security opportunity, please let me know.

Former title was Senior Security Engineer, and I'd love to find an architect role.

#job #fedihired

pseudonym, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Already boosted this, but needed to add the link and commentary.

@pluralistic knocks it out of the park again.

Read this whole thread. Worth your minutes.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/111171185084052746

Google search, enshittification, and other insights

pseudonym, 2 months ago to Transformers

My mom misremembering the name of one of my kid's #transformers as "Hot Flash" and my wife busting up laughing, saying it turns into a minivan.

pseudonym, 4 months ago to infosec

Left here without further comment.

https://id.uni-lj.si/DigitalnaIdentiteta/PonastavitevGesla?culture=en-GB

quote:

Your password must also not contain the following character combinations: script, select, insert, update, delete, drop, --, ', /*, */.

#infosec

pseudonym, 3 months ago to random

Happy lunar new year all.

#lunarNewYear

pseudonym, 4 months ago to random

Good advice.

#hygine

pseudonym, 8 months ago to random

Saying the quite part out loud.

Uhmm, no?

pseudonym, 4 months ago to random

https://blog.adafruit.com/2024/01/17/comparing-the-1970s-cray-1-supercomputer-against-the-raspberry-pi-single-board-computer-range-raspberrypi-hacksterio/

From @thegrugq

1978, the Cray-1 supercomputer cost $7 million, weighed 10,500 pounds and had a 115 kilowatt power supply. It was, by far, the fastest computer in the world,” Longbottom writes of the device, designed as the flagship product of Seymour Cray’s high-performance computing company. “The Raspberry Pi costs around $70 (CPU board, case, power supply, SD Card), weighs a few ounces, uses a five watt power supply and is more than 4.5 times faster than the Cray 1

pseudonym, 28 days ago to llm

Easy #LLM Turing test.

Ask your counter party to swear and say something disparaging about a famous political figure.

All the commercially viable, Internet facing ones, have guard rails for polite conversation.

Swearing will be our captcha, our human shibboleth.

pseudonym, 26 days ago to dadjokes

Wife was talking to me about seeing geese with a single baby. I said "Oh the little one must be Ryan."

"Why Ryan?"

"Ryan Gosling."

"I walked into that one, didn't I?"

"Yes love, yes you did."

(And she's still married to me)
#dadJokes

RickiTarr, 1 month ago to random

Who is the best Batman villain and why?

pseudonym, 4 months ago to random

A modest proposal for business regulation, that will never happen.

Any public company that lays off more than 10% of its work force during a single consecutive 12 month period must include any executive who made a hiring decision that brought in one of the laid off workers.

It's evidence of clear incompetence in their duty to the company to have over hired so egregiously.

Only reasonable they participate in the consequences of their actions.

pseudonym, 6 months ago to random

Remember, remember the 5th of November,
It's time to reset your clock.
I know of no reason,
This time of the season,
A poem is needed to mock.

Spring forward, fall back,
a sinister game,
Disturbing routines,
causing whispers of blame.

The hour's betrayal
brings chaos and strife,
As schedules crumble
in the hands of time's knife.

#dst #time

pseudonym, 7 months ago to trans

Morning wake-up thought. Seeking input from any trans writers in particular, but anyone feel free to chime in.

I know someone (probably many someones) must have used this idea before, but I haven't come across it.

How would you handle the fictional traditions of a Fey, dealing with a human for their Name and getting the dead name of a trans character?

It's not their "true name" but it's a name that has power over them.

Seems like good allegorical, metaphorical story fodder.

#trans #writing

pseudonym, 10 days ago to aiart

Another banger from @pluralistic . I don't know how he consistently keeps putting these out.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112435369749859354

There are too many great lines for a single pull quote. Spend the 5 minutes, read the whole thing.

This is brilliant stuff about #aiArt #copyright and the nature of meaning.