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Geek, Dyke, Brewer, Rider of Bikes, Archer, Quixotic, Generally Curious, Mostly Harmless, she/her

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golgaloth, to random
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Rich people are Like That.

crowgirl, to tech
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Today is the day that my new book Cloud Penetration Testing for Red Teamers, is now available everywhere new tech books are sold.

"Get to grips with cloud exploits, learn the fundamentals of cloud security, and secure your organization’s network by pentesting AWS, Azure, and GCP effectively."

Yes, I wrote two different books this year and they both ended up published at around the same time. 😅

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1803248483

historleans, to random
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Please understand that fascism never "creeps in." It is out in the open, blaring, guns blazing, using neon signs. Yet, too many people still do not care and tell you to stop overreacting, find comfort in complacency because they'll be fine, or welcome fascism with open arms because they support it.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Still think they're the only people manipulated by propaganda? 🤔 🙄

justafrog,
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@StillIRise1963 Lots of people don't get how propaganda is meant to work.

It's not like you see one ad and boom you're propagandized.

It's a slow wearing down of your beliefs by making them seem a little too far out there.

It's so slow you don't notice it happening.

That's what's so dangerous about it. That's why you need to choose what media you read/watch/listen to.

If you spend too much time each week with the wrong influence, you will start to slide.

quixoticgeek, to random
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Storm season is upon us, and with climate change bringing us more severe and more frequent storms. Flooding is happening more often. Everytime there's flooding someone talks about the insanity of building on a flood plane. Usually with a picture of a sign announcing a development of executive homes, sat in a field of water. The thing is. The problem isn't building in flood planes. The problem is building shitty buildings in flood planes. Naturally the Dutch have a thing or tow to say on this 1/n

tofugolem, to random
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The suffragettes burned down a pavilion. They burned down mansions. They killed people.

Unions gave and received a LOT of violence in the process of getting us the weekend and the 40-hr work week.

I want you to remember this the next time someone argues that African-Americans are "undermining their own cause" with violence and/or vandalism at BLM protests.

Should women give the right to vote back because they "undermined their own cause" with violence and vandalism?

1/2

pezmico, to Economics
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We tried Trickle Down economics and it didn't work.

Time to try a new approach.

Comrades, the era of Piñata Economics is upon us.

owen, to random
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Something that both the very rich and the very poor understand intuitively, that the middle tends to miss: ongoing cash flow has a far larger effect on wealth than an equivalent one-time payment does.

Something that costs money once is cheaper (for the customer) or less valuable (for the provider) than something that costs money over time, and conversely, even a small recurring charge matters.

Your subscription products are designed to capture your customers' wealth in this way.

thomas_kole, to random

a Portrait of Tenochtitlan, my 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire is released!

I've been looking forward to this for a long time, and I am really curious what all of you think.

Take a look:
http://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl

tixie, to random
@tixie@guerilla.studio avatar

You should try it, its fun!

darius, to random
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My paraphrase of the below article: "LLM-generated content tweaked by humans is a good data source for LLMs. By 'good' we mean 'not as good as human-generated data but it's cheaper and probably good enough'. We're running a damn business here, what do you expect us to do, feed them the best possible data? Lol. Lmao."

If you're an "ML is consciousness" type person, this is treating your AIs like factory farmed livestock, feeding them their own waste product to save money

https://www.ft.com/content/053ee253-820e-453a-a1d5-0f24985258de

mhoye,
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@darius The Singularity crowd are out here believing that they're going to create this superintelligent being on a healthy diet of its own excrement, what they're going to get is a fountain of unintelligible epistemological-shitpost word-slurry, and you have to know they're going to start drinking from their gibberish spigot and saying, I don't understand this at all it makes no sense, oh my god this machine must be too smart.

dancingdogs, to Canada
@dancingdogs@forall.social avatar

I spent over a decade working as a makeup assistant. My spouse, a musician. Both of us were in strong unions. We are lucky that we still enjoy those benefits after many years in the business. I am very thankful for the union support we receive.

Why do I bring this up?

Folks, (especially you younger folk) unions are so very important. I can’t stress this enough. Get in one, and make it stronger. Now is that time.

quixoticgeek, to random
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When it rains after a prolonged period of dry weather, there is a smell created. It's called Petrichor. A wonderful word, and utterly useless trivia item. The smell is caused by something call Geosmin, which is produced by bacteria in the soil. Humans can smell it at 5 parts per TRILLION. In contrast Sharks can detect blood at concentrations of 1 part per million. On this one substance, we have a better sense of smell than sharks do for blood. Humans are amazing!

pauleggleston, to random
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I did a tweet about the Crewe to Holyhead train line once. It went via Rhyl.

cibomahto, to random
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Logging in to a site these days is simple. I just:

  1. Open password manager
  2. Type in master password
  3. Touch fingerprint sensor to authenticate myself with the password manager
  4. Search for the correct entry and copy the username and password into the browser
  5. Find Yubikey and connect it to the computer when prompted
  6. Touch the Yubikey to assert presence.

And I'm in!

evacide, to random
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I don't understand the people who told me I would get more conservative with age. The more powerful I become, the more angry I get at the people who abuse their power and the more aware I become of the ways in which systemic oppression functions.

CosmicTraveler,
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@evacide

niconiconi, to random

Q: Why did you need to wait in a long line at Radio Shack to buy a 6502 microprocessor?

A: Not enough registers.

inthehands, to random
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This is good (from @shriramk): https://mastodon.social/@shriramk/110040524796761802

The skill of recognizing and diagnosing broken code only becomes •more• important in the face of LLM code generators.

inthehands,
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@schrotie
The two hardest problems in computer science are yourself and other people.

ebel, to science
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“How the fuck can there be anti vaccine “witches?” If you disagree with binding an invisible malignant entity into a single drop of potion that seals a subject’s blood against the full force of that very same entity’s curse then you are not and can never be a witch you’re just a karen who buys rocks”
-- @bogleech

https://bogleech.tumblr.com/post/660718932690403328/how-the-fuck-can-there-be-anti-vaccine-witches

VPS_Reports, to random
@VPS_Reports@kolektiva.social avatar

Transgender and non-binary human beings have always existed and always will. A disagreement with this fact is a threat of annihilation and should be treated as such. Do not be polite with those who are so cavalier about eliminationist dogma.

If you can't get on board with what I just said, you're no ally. TERF ideology is inherently pro-genocide and pro-Nazi. It requires believers to deny an entire chapter of Nazi Germany's mass slaughters. Do not support those who traffic this hate in any capacity. Ever.

astrid, to random
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LEDs: light-emitting diodes
incandescents: light-emitting resistor
antenna: light-emitting inductor
electrical fire: light-emitting fuse

dbattistella, to random
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From now on when I read or watch news pieces and pundit discussions about “the economy” I’ll think of this…

_xhr_, to random
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Wow, after 25 years of Unix experience, I learned that you can filter output in .

Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.

Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.

sinituulia, to nature
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Anecdote about some bad planning and nobody checking with a water engineer restoring some habitat:

Close by to me they built a superfluous four lane road, with all requisite earthworks etc. They didn't take into account how the watershed and nearby water reservoir would react and unintentionally flooded a huge amount of desolate land. Land that had been swamp, but had been dried to make room for suburban development decades ago.
It rather quickly went from slightly soggy to perpetually wet and lush with every snowmelt, and now it's wetlands again!

Developers: we would like profit and more cars here, please
Water: you get a SWAMP

It brings me so much joy. I would assume it brings joy to all the native flora and fauna now living there. I hope it brings you joy, also

A photo of marsh shrub and plants having taken over a clearing with young saplings with lush green leaves sprouting. It is a profusion of green.

healyn, to random
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the best way to describe my generation is, old enough to remember waterbeds, but not old enough to have ever fucked on a waterbed

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