I think an awful lot of people are working very hard right now to make it about the affair because the thing it’s really about is treason and treason is a capital crime.

Pretty cool: it turns out port zero is disallowed by convention, but not strictly by the text of the protocol, so if you go looking there's ... a lot of stuff there that shouldn't be

https://acid.vegas/blog/the-port-that-does-not-exist/

The reason all of this continues to be interesting to me is that solar power fundamentally changes the power dynamics of the state.

The classic definition of The State is an organization with a monopoly on the use of violence within its borders. A societal dependency on supply chains - the power grid, the oil industry - that can be cut off at will is one of and maybe the foremost levers of that violence, more so than police or the military.

Solar+batteries changes that entire relationship.

People championing nuclear are also lost in the weeds of basic math. Nuclear energy costs between $0.0045 and $0.0060 /kWh, but that's only fuel costs; it doesn't include the $5b-$10b best case for a five-year-minimum reactor buildout.

If you want the $0.08 to $0.15 energy solar provides _including_ build costs, you can have huge installations for a few million in months, and home installations for thousands in weeks.

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-aspects/economics-of-nuclear-power

https://solarcalculatorcanada.org/solar-panel-cost-canada

https://liberalandlovingit.substack.com/p/cost-analysis-of-a-nuclear-power

"Carbon capture" is clearly nonsense. Solar is clearly not.

RE: https://scholar.social/@researchfairy/117532213787969321

"Nothing is ever, ever allowed to grab, alter or surrender focus until five seconds after I've stopped typing, ever" is the number one nonexistent, OS level feature I want from modern computing.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/117529241173270633

This is part of the larger realization that after software is in everything it makes sense to put software in, and there's no more hockey-stick-growth opportunities to be found... then... _all_ software is a cost center.

When they were good the good parts of the bird site were really good though.

"Hilariously, this results in the LLM giving their younger-brother an unplugged controller."

https://eliastaylor.com/noexploit/

Services have resumed chez me, to my significant satisfaction.

My position is: PHP is excellent, and has been excellent for a very long time.

Open, easy and accessible to not just learn and read but tinker with, it's not a ridiculous quasi-proprietary labor-arbitrage exercise disguised as a toolchain that you need a contraption of a CI/CD pipeline to deploy and it works.

There might be better choices for professionals with green-field pro needs, but "one small, discoverable step up from HTML you can deploy right out of your VCS or editor"... that's a lot.

(Me, whispering: Maybe the reason PHP is everywhere and in everything is that ease of use, ease of modification and ease of deployment are actually good things and making easy, fun things safe is way, way more important to real world practices and uptake than trying to graft ease of use and fun onto guarantees of safety that computing has never been willing, much less able, to really guarantee anyway.)

Maybe also setting aside some of the stranger questions this ad raises, like why is Kyle crying about a colleague being competent and who goes to a colleague’s office to delint a jacket they’re still wearing because they’re good at spreadsheets.

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@ketan/117480486889964027

I had a hard time believing "CoPilot, plagiarize my brown colleague's work so I get the credit" would be an ad they'd run but ... it's a real thing. Somebody made a pitch for this and somebody said yeah that's a great idea let's make that and then somebody did and then somebody looked at it and approved it and aired it.

You can tell who's not in the room, you know? You can tell who either isn't there, or doesn't feel like it's safe for them to speak up.

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/microsoft-copilot-competitive

I did not realize at all that Electron apps use their own internal cert store. I'd never have guessed, because what an insane design decision, but geez here we are I guess.

Seems like a good day to remind people that blaming tools that have been maintained by underpaid devs or volunteers or with little to no support for decades - or worse, blaming those underpaid devs or volunteers - without assigning any responsibility or culpability whatsoever to the negligence of companies that have made millions or billions or hundreds of billions of dollars off the backs of those underpaid devs or volunteers' work is picking a side.

It's Wednesday and I can't learn about the Monday infosec disaster because of the Tuesday infosec disaster so I assume the hat trick that lands Thursday is going to be pure cartoon violence.

Strongly dislike the fact that conference websites, like apparently everything else, are now a deepfake medium.

IMPORTANT: https://pyconf.org/ is a fake event, a scam.

Notes:

- Domain registered after CFP closed.

- Venue doesn't admit its existence: https://fortmason.org/events/

- AI gen headshots, and speakers who aren't, in 100% of the the companies my network can see into, employees at those companies and never have been. Those people don't exist.

A couple of the listed "sponsors'" corporate legal teams have already been advised and word is they're furious.

Avoid. But please share.

Edit: Nope... https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c6y93ne31gvvo

[Pic deleted, sorry all.]

Do I know anyone in LA who'd be willing to spend a day helping a complete stranger because I asked?