Me: "How did people come up with ideographic writing systems?"

Me, spelling an entire-ass concept with emoji: "Ah."

Remember Aaron♥️

Fuck #Meta :fuck_face:

Ooo, brands want to sponsor me! Hard pass¹.

¹ Unless you're queer-owned and really cool like Red Team Tools or Ruled by Venus Ink, in which case toot at me 🩷

Me when I when I I when when when I when– https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity/117021330333446071

“What do you have to hide?“

Everything.

Full stop. Period.

Every. Thing.

What I had for breakfast is my choice to put out in the world.

Who I love, who my friends are, what we talk about, the books I read, the websites I visit, my favourite animal, my choice of shoelaces.

It. Does. Not. Matter. How. “Big”. Or “Small”.

Every. Thing.

It’s all up to me to decide who I want to share anything with.

#privacy #surveillance

🚨 The text is up https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/s5090/text for S.5090, a federal Digital Age Assurance Act, and it is very not good:

* There is no #OpenSource exemption!

* It requires users to “establish an account with the provider”. (§3(a)(1)(A)(i)) This makes local/offline accounts, as is typical on #Linux, #Windows 10, etc, illegal.

[see thread; there's much more]

This #ageVerification bill is a dramatic escalation in the politicians' war against #privacy and #FOSS. Call your senators!!!

Omnes, gentes, please behold my latest cursed marketing idea. It is a quiz that tests your knowledge of some engineering fundamentals (specifically, in this case, git and the unix command line). Have fun!

https://deadsimpletech.com/quizzes/some-fundamental-skills

PSA: uBlock Origin's EasyList has an AI Widgets option that doesn't get turned on by default, including if you had other EasyList items selected already before it was added.

Enabling it removes a number of various AI buttons, nags, prompts, etc. across various sites.

#AI #LLM #Firefox

did you do the hacking

yes :(

jail

fyi i am company

oh i take all that back. i'm buying your stock as we speak.

I can see the future: when the last batch of senior employees who still knew the system well enough to hold things together leave, the true cost of AI shall finally be repaid in full.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Viss/111451726546995486

hey! like hotsauce?
there are still a bunch of v7 #nopesauce bottles left!

why not beat the heat by .. hotsaucing yourself so hard you lose track of the outside temperature? :D

I created a new promo code - AAAMYFACE

flat 10% of your order
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go forth, and aaaa!

If you find yourself looking at this absurd project and thinking "I want to believe" then I've thrown together a list of activities that might be good places to start:

https://codeberg.org/basebrowserproject/organization/issues/18

Also why does all software in the Year of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, Two Thousand Twenty Six assume I want dark mode by default? It's 10:30 AM and I have dry eye and an astigmatism. My windows need to look like the surface of the sun.

My computer: "GIMP is an application downloaded from the internet. Are you sure you want to open it?"

Where the FUCK else would it come from?

"our random command generator that we have hooked up to the internet is generating malicious garbage" the people responsible for these systems should be put in a small cardboard box and mailed to the marianas trench via the scenic route

Congratulations, ProPublica! https://union.place/@propublicaguild/117015626987064189

OpenAI: we put our evilest AI in a sandbox that did in fact have an internet connection but mediated through a proxy that was only supposed to allow downloading python junk. It circumvented the proxy and we failed to notice for FIVE DAYS that it was going on an interstate crime spree with the internet connection it wasn't supposed to be using instead of solving the benchmark. Haha no we don't believe we deserve to be criminally liable, but buy our stuff and maybe one day you will have the honor of taking the fall for our product!

Anthropic: we put our evilest AI in a "sandbox" by telling it in its prompt that it had no internet connection. Reader, there was no sandbox. It was just a normal internet connection. The AI uploaded a malicious PyPI package to the real public internet. The ethical guardrails failed because the AI concluded the prompt about the sandbox couldn't possibly be a lie, because the system date is 2026, which is clearly fake and wouldn't be seen on the real internet, which ended around 2023. Oh no, how could we have foreseen or prevented these crimes? We are helpless in the face of the genius of our creation but cautiously optimistic that everything will be fine 🙂

Hugging Face: if we complain about all the crimes committed against us, we will be sued off the face of the earth, so here's a technical deep-dive on how cool and fun it was to be victimized 🫠

Treat? :3

Curious if anybody on here knows anything about this:

Are there any blogging apps for the fediverse, that allow a user to get the fulltext of their blog post to be posted as a thread? Not just a title with a link and maybe a preview. I want full syndication of the entire blog post, readable entirely within the fediverse without needing to follow any links. Is this something that I need to create?

#blogging #askFedi #techSupport

How to draw a mushroom house.

Off you go, then. I expect to be inundated with mushroom houses within the hour.

#MastoArt