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vga256, (edited ) to retrogaming
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this illustration was commissioned for a type-in program called Islands for the commodore 64, in the august 1988 issue of RUN magazine.

i am in love with the line-art/woodcut style, painstakingly inked and coloured. it was a different age in which a work of art could be commissioned for a BASIC game that a handful of people in the world would bother to hand-code and play.

this is better art than 90% of the physical big box games i own

update: as it turns out, there is not merely emulating etching/woodcut with inked lines, it IS an etching by artist doug smith who was famous for this style.

more of his work here: https://richardsolomon.com/artists/douglas-smith/

#retrogaming #art

wrosecrans,
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@vga256 And in the 80's, the page layout to get it into the book was probably still being done laboriously by hand, despite the book being about computer stuff. I don't think stuff like PageMaker was practical for a whole book with full color art yet.

evacide, to random
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"...a would-be hacker would need to gain physical access to your device, unlock it and sign in before they could access saved screenshots."

I've got some news for Microsoft about how domestic abuse works.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwqp6nx14o

wrosecrans,
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@evacide

... as opposed to all the would-be hackers who have never thought to try to unlock a device and sign into it, or access data without proper credentials.

It's like Microsoft is just sort of taunting hackers to try and get it broken as quickly as possible for some reason. Is this feature being implemented because somebody lost a bet, or the NSA has compromat on Nadella, or what?

wrosecrans,
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@evacide I absolutely believe you there. But I still struggle to understand why it got implemented. There are a zillion other obvious reasons it's a bad feature that one would notice even if they weren't sensitive to that specific issue.

This is gonna have screenshots of HIPAA protected data. Trade secrets. API keys. Passwords. HR department PII. GDPR protected stuff. On and on and on.

wrosecrans,
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@MisuseCase If I had to guess, the feature is not compliant with Microsoft's own legal department's retention policy, and Microsoft's lawyers are about to scream about the fact that if MS gets sued, the blast radius for document discovery just exploded if they don't disable it internally.

wrosecrans,
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@azonenberg Sure, but the biggest risk is to people and orgs that aren't executing infosec perfectly. Ooops we had a bad password policy multiplied by ooops we left Recall's GPO default.

In a hypothetical perfect IT environment where all GPO's and such are perfectly managed, Recall probably poses little risk to start with. It's only dangerous in the real world.

wrosecrans, to writing
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I accidentally created the word "uncestors" from a typo. It now means all of the people in the past who aren't your ancestors. Go forth and talk about your uncestors from this day forth!

wrosecrans,
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@ValueSubtracted I definitely agree it was... fine. Which is a shame because there were some great bits and pieces for what felt like it could have been a great episode.

Unfortunately it was quite hampered by Disco's unfortunate habits. There were some real choices made to not let any of the positive elements shine.

rodhilton, to random
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YouTube is very slowly being overrun by AI-generated videos using popular search keywords. It's not a total epidemic yet, but it will be soon.

Any popular movie there's a video that's just like "John Wick in 1950's Panovision" & it's just AI stills of John Wick scenes using classic golden era Hollywood actors. They're everywhere and they're spread through different accounts so you can't block them, much like the Elsagate stuff from back in the day.

Hard to see how this won't spell doom for YT.

wrosecrans,
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@rodhilton And as far as I can tell externally, Google isn't acting like they are in some sort of panic crisis about any of this stuff.

Search is even more busted by AI junk content than YouTube. YT is falling off a cliff. And being able to find what you want is supposed to be Google's core competency underlying the whole business.

rodhilton, to random
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loser shit

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/3/24120602/x-free-premium-verified-blue-checkmark

wrosecrans,
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@rodhilton Too many people were doing math that Elon found embarrassing, so this is poisoning the data when people try to estimate his revenue by scraping and counting blue checks on the website. He'll have an easier time lying to advertisers and 'partners' about how ex-Twitter is doing.

futurebird, to random
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I wonder what would happen if one ran a LLM on data representing analog TV or radio signals for a type of video or music... then generated an analog signal and played it on a TV?

Would it make any difference in the texture, look sound of the resulting output?

wrosecrans,
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@futurebird My hunch is that anything like a current LLM would be terrible at "learning" analogue TV broadcast from raw sampled waveforms. The blanking interval between frames is something like a Megasample apart, and it would need many frames to notice the patterns. Adjacent pixels mostly don't tell you much, unlike adjacent words which are easy to see patterns with.

wrosecrans, to random
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Really loving how Biden never took structural reform of the Supreme Court seriously. He was afraid of what "court packing" would do in terms of establishing precedent.

The Supreme Court is wiping its ass with precedent and law and the Constitution. Biden accomplished nothing with his caution, and has cost so many people so much. The Texas ruling is terrible on its face. But it's also part of a larger trend of the Court absolutely shitting all over foundational principles.

lauren, to Youtube
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#YouTube suddenly surfaced the original "Annoying Orange" video to me, for the first time in, what, almost 15 years? The spacetime continuum may be permanently damaged.

wrosecrans,
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@lauren One thing I've noticed is that the YouTube watch history only seems to go back about five years. So anything you last watched 5+ years ago is considered fair game as "brand new" content recommendation on the front page.

rodhilton, (edited ) to random
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    wrosecrans,
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    @rodhilton OpenAI asserts it is altered enough to not violate copyright. But even that remains very contested, particularly by the people whose rights OpenAI insists aren't being violated.

    lauren, to random
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    Awww. Someone I accused of being pedantic in his replies regarding my suggestion that the 2024 Linux CLI experience is virtually identical to the circa 1970s UNIX CLI experience has blocked me. My day is ruined!

    wrosecrans,
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    @lauren An antique electromechanical teletype terminal is still a valid TERM setting according to termdb/termcap... OTOH, gnu ls does have some command line flags that weren't available in the 1970's.

    wrosecrans,
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    @lauren Finally, I know who to blame for everything wrong with terminals! :)

    lowqualityfacts, to random
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    Very cool of Amazon to put unnecessary ads in their shows just so they can charge us more money to get rid of the ads that don't need to be there in the first place.

    It's the digital equivalent of the Coca-Cola Company putting rocks into cans of soda and then introducing "New and improved Rock-Free Coke, only one dollar more than the rock-filled original!".

    wrosecrans,
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    @lowqualityfacts There was a time when Coca Cola actually proposed stocking coke vending machines with blank spots, so there was a random chance you'd have to pay twice to get a beverage.

    Bafflingly, that's not a joke. It was genuinely proposed as a way to increase average selling price when vending machines coin slots could only take one nickel.

    dalias, to random
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    This is all horrifying and not how a vpn client should work, at all. https://infosec.exchange/@dazo/111806793643536439

    wrosecrans,
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    @dalias At a previous job, a coworker and I maintained a .so that you could LD_PRELOAD when running the corporate VPN client. It was a public repo on the internal git server. We never even got in trouble for the sort of open rebellion against the MDM junk because enough people understood working around the on-paper ironclad policy as simply necessary for doing any work.

    lauren, to random
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    We need a new word to describe the degradation of technology (and the aspects of society so affected).

    The word being tossed around in tech circles that includes a vulgar synonym for excrement is useless outside the echo chamber of entitled tech bros.

    I refuse to use it even in these tech venues. If your goal is to turn people off from your arguments, yeah, go ahead and use those words, arguing that people shouldn't be offended by them. Good luck with that.

    If you actually want to try to convince people to come over to your cause and, you know, like WIN on important issues, then not offending a large chunk of people who are the very ones you need to convince is a great starting point.

    I can't even use that word if I wanted to on my national network radio segments or other broadcast venues. It is unacceptable to most broadcast standards.

    So let's grow up and stop playing baby tech bros, and find words to describe these crucial situations that are useful everywhere for everyone. Sound like a plan? I think so.

    wrosecrans,
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    @lauren I have to admit I may be firmly in that echo chamber, but I think there's value in extremely blunt language. The social pressure on some manager is very different when some people on the Internet point out the product is experiencing "Decline in feature utility," vs the PR disaster of everybody screaming that the product is being enshittified by that person's decisions.

    lowqualityfacts, to random
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    Uh oh, I guess I should change mine.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    wrosecrans,
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    @lowqualityfacts This is because people start with just "yumyumpancakes" and give up with changing their password every 90 days by incrementing a number at the end after an average of just over 17 years.

    rodhilton, to random
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    wrosecrans,
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    @rodhilton When you have many speed runners, each doing thousands of runs, the speed running community eventually becomes a fairly thorough brute force search for RNG states, for the low entropy RNG's of 8 bit games.

    futurebird, to random
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    The insurrection act on New York and Chicago? For what? It's dead quiet here and so safe I wander around at night listening to audio books all the time.

    I don't even get the premise of this one.

    wrosecrans,
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    @futurebird Trump defines insurrection as "not supporting Trump." He doesn't have a concept of the state independent from his person, so he doesn't have a concept of loyalty to America independent of loyalty to Trump.

    lauren, to random
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    Big Tech routinely vastly overestimates the level of understanding that most of their users have of technology -- including websites, devices, security, reliability, and all the rest. Help forums are generally useless or worse. Help documents are typically written at levels beyond the understanding of most users. This is why so many users are being left behind, and why so many of them suffer catastrophic account lockouts and data losses, that Big Tech generally considers to be unimportant.

    wrosecrans,
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    @dalias @lauren All modern documentation has only two modes,

    "To implement a custom CFD solver, remember that Frob frobbles frobbables using the Omega Mu bistatic convention adopted by Klorzen [87]"

    And

    "The computer had a whoopsie, so try again later or ask someone for help."

    There is no middle ground, and all the technical writers got fired 30 years ago so it's all written by devs who know too much or interns who know nothing."

    lowqualityfacts, to random
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    That makes sense.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    wrosecrans,
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    @lowqualityfacts It's actually because it's a Level Eight danger warning.

    Triangle - Yield - Level Three Danger.
    Diamond - Warning - Level Four, be a bit more careful than a Yield sign.
    Pentagon - School Crossing - More dangerous than a Level Four because children are involved.
    (No standard for 6+7 sided signs)
    Octagon - Stop - Level Eight because you'll get hit by cross traffic if you don't stop.
    Circle - Trains - Worse than Level Eight because you'll get hit by a train instead of a car.

    futurebird, to random
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    In the 1980s did real people have offices that looked like this? Or was this just reserved for movie sets showing the office of the evil business man?

    wrosecrans,
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    @futurebird I think a handful of trend chasers in upper management really did want to be seen to have the latest trend in offices for their meetings. It would have been uncommon. Like, random accountants didn't have offices like that.

    But, think of the American Psycho business card scene, but about office furniture. "Nooo, Dave has a $40,000 marble top filing cabinet from Europe. I can't take serious meetings in an office with a three year old domestic filing cabinet now."

    rodhilton, to random
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    Hahaha oh my god is there any way to short-sell a movie release? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmXYz-5nFY4

    wrosecrans,
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    @rodhilton You could short sell the studio if you thought it was gonna be a big enough flop to impact them.

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