I am going to do some absolute Crimes with proxysql to deal with this nonsense

this weekend has included a bit of debugging of a client-deployed (open source) system that came up as a problem late on Friday and got me angry enough that I decided to weekend some of it

I have now gone through its mariadb table defs and it’s literally all myisam tables with most of them having a huge pile of varchars in schema. and I mean like 70~90% of fields in each table. you know, the thing the docs explicitly say not to do?

now even a bit more angry, but also, sigh

Still in bed.

#photography #SilentSunday

i see proton emails on flyers all the time. i see brave and mullvad on mfs' computers and their screenshots

i get it. navigating this shit is like playing wack-a-mole with a million apps every day all the time. it takes tremendous energy and diligence, so i don't blame people for nor knowing!

but there are better options! tuta hasn't fucked up yet. ivpn hasn't fucked up yet. tbf all the browsers are bad but librewolf is probably the closest thing to good for most of us

for those who haven't seen it:

https://tildes.net/~society/1uvd/mullvad_ceo_gives_452_000_to_the_%C3%B6rebro_party

mullvad ceo donated 450k euros to fascists. the thread includes good comments that expand on other shitty privacy companies' ceos like proton and brave

i strongly recommend other punks read these, and share this with our peers. your money is literally funding fascism by using them

@froztbyte @davidgerard a friend of mine once said of a frustrating introductory college playwriting workshop that it taught him "the danger of being in love with your own insights" and i feel like substack is an object lesson in this lol

@davidgerard (investing substack voice) People love tech that's *small.* Think *iPhone*. The fact it's smaller than old phones was *key* to the marketing. Pocketability. Portability. Ear buds -- thjink Apple Air Buds. Computer chips -- the secret to their success? *Made of small things.* *The smaller the better* for those actually. That's the *More Law.*

And here's the thing about quantum computers:

*It's literally the smallest a computer thing can get.*

the softbank presentation works great if you read it out loud like a children’s story

one does not simply devalue the goose

"It looks like you're using an unsupported browser"

No, sorry, what you meant to say was:

"It looks like we've written an unsupported website"

@troublewithwords

@yojimbo @davidgerard @oxy a thing I do enjoy about my job is once out in the world when someone tried an “ethics aside,” I nodded and “yeah I hear that sometimes at work from folks that have been there for decades.”

“Where do you work?”

“State prison.”

“[scoff] it’s not the same.”

“Yep they say that too. Have you been there already?”

Wow.

"We have completely virtually unwrapped and read PHerc. 1667 — the scroll the Vesuvius Challenge community knows as Scroll 4 — without ever touching its pages. It is the first Herculaneum papyrus to be digitally unrolled and read in full, end to end, and made available for sustained scholarly study."

https://scrollprize.org/firstscroll

#Vesuvius #Scrolls

In the past, you buy RAM and get several banks. Right now, you get several banks to buy RAM.

Q: What do you call a girl who fixes the mechanical linkages in engines and lathes?

A: Camgirl.

RT @misterjayem.bsky.social‬

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

This is actually my revised rule for issues coming from companies and systematised/sponsored efforts: if you get paid for doing security analysis, you are also on the hook for a fix. Shitting the bed and then leaving it to an unpaid maid is how sociopaths behave.

New rule: if you have the money to run an LLM as a glorified fuzzer with a markdown output generator in order to file security issues, then you're on the hook for everything: from scripts to logs, from requesting a CVE to providing *at least* a band-aid patch. Otherwise off into the bin you go, because you're just wasting people time.

Having a chronic illness brings a thousand small administrative tasks. One of the most frustrating new ones is having to go through every doctor's note, letter, pathology form, and consultation report and correct the little bits of fiction that their LLM note-taking app has added in.

I don't need this extra task! My illness is already a full-time job.

#LLM #fuckAI #chronicillness