You all don’t know how much I panic struggle as a #nonbinary person about how to dress for formal occasions . It’s like a constant cycle of gender and body dysphoria mixed with societal expectations and second guessing. When I literally don’t want to be tied to expectations. It’s not just you, if you ever feel like this.
Why is it so hard to find friends in the US who can afford to do fun things during the weekday and actually want to? Everyone either has a full time job, or has the financial freedom to do whatever they want and then 'whatever they want' just constitutes spending every waking hour trying to make even more money.
Like, I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna be on my deathbed telling my family that my greatest regret in life is not having more money to die with...
I am gonna take the, “did we even watch the same show as the ultra conservative and fascist people saying ‘Trek/Wars/Who has gone ‘woke’” even further, and go with there are pretty much three kinds of successful sci-fi serials:
~dystopian or subversive ones making pretty obvious commentary about fascism
-ones with some slight hope for the human future that have always made at least a little social commentary about how we could make things more egalitarian and open for POC, women, gay people, etc
~shitty space marines with generally poor writing that made ad revenue
And the first two flew over way too many chuckleheads’ noggins.
My favorite thing about tech is every few years there's some new overhyped technology that results in a bunch of people picking $thing and founding a company that does $thing with $technology, without any understanding of either, or a single clue what problem they're trying to solve.
They'll literally be like "we're disrupting the dog food industry with ChatGPT" and their product will be like a $99/month subscription service for a LLM that reminds you to remind your dog to eat.
@malwaretech VSCode can't even correctly auto complete () and {} without me having to manually arrow over or delete ) and } over and over because it wants to automatically "help" me. I hate when my tech tries to assume what I want because it almost always just means I have to do more work. AI just seems like that but on a global scale.
In response to Microsoft's announcement of a "copilot" key to launch their AI engine*, I am working on a line of keyboards that includes a DF key, which when pressed, will insert a context appropriate image of a dumpster fire into whatever you are working on. If you are working on code, it will do nothing, since it's probably already a dumpster fire.
*if it really were truly AI, wouldn't it already know that you needed its help?
I am a huge humanist and feminist, and have devoted a lot of my life to expanding and advocating for diversity in technology and yet if I ever receive another email with the term “she-curity” in it again it will be way too soon, and I may shrivel into a corncob.
@i0null I'm still waiting for the world
to find out about yishing. That's when youtube tutorial video says "just download the files in the description" and you mindlessly just download random bit'ly links because a youtube video told you to.
@i0null I didn't know that was being checked by YT thats interesting. I wonder if they have an automated system that checks all links for malicious files or hashes. I mean if they did you could probably get past that by just having it be a graphic on your video the user had to manually type in, but that's good that YT tries at least.
@malwaretech I'm too mountain to actually know but I'm assuming those are more than 1-2 feet? lol, I wonder if there is a minimum height required for it to break like that.
A reminder that if you are looking for my help in cybersecurity resume updates or career counseling, all my available free time is on my Calendly at https://calendly.com/lesleycarhart - I unfortunately tend to fill up months in advance because of the poor job market right now, but I do get cancellations, check back regularly. I do not have any availability outside this. If you sign up, please show up because a lot of folks are waiting for someone to help.
Someone (programmer) stands in front of you (user) with a knife. They go to stab you. An angel (CPU designer) dilates space-time so the knife is still traveling but requiring infinite force to accelerate. They overcome this and stab you anyway.
That’s why your computer is slow.
@SwiftOnSecurity now multiply that by 20 and call them agents. That's why I have to turn on my work laptop and then get coffee, eat breakfast, take a shower, get dressed, drive 10 hours to vegas, drive 10 hours back, walk the dog, and then I can finally load Outlook.
My tiktok account is locked in a rather Schrodinger state of simultaneous suspended existence and nonexistence, absolutely nobody in support can figure out how to recover it, and IDK man, I think the PRC hates me too. EDIT can one of you secret-not-admitting-it tiktok people please fix my account I want to watch rat videos
I'm still LOLing at how many people have congratulated me for making untold millions in my recent acquisition. Just for clarity once again, I AM NOT CHRIS KREBS! That said, Chris calls me "his brother from another mother," which is nice but may not help on the clarity front.