it’s the holidays, it’s okay: you don’t have to go near the c++ right now
I haven't really got enough information about that side of it, the details I have to go on are mostly about things particularly around the values CCC has tried to hold/build (and even there I am absolutely not intimately familiar, for reasons of distance and exposure and such)
yep, have made the same critique. the way people "overcommit" on this is a fascinating interplay of sunk cost fallacy combined with some other shit
why they even are there
(from observation over some years) congress orga more than occasionally fucks up on paradox of tolerance by letting shit like this through
it's been a thing I've noticed and have wanted to actually discuss with some folks, but never really gotten to yet on account of life stuff
there were also the much, much less grey-area instances a couple of years back where they were far too open to a number of abusers (this was around the time the appelbaum shit hit wide daylight), so there is a possibility that the issue runs deeper (in a structural sense, at best; personal sense, at worst) too but I possess insufficient information to know one way or the other what exactly may constitute the problem here
full service plagiarism! bet you we'll see whiteglove variant of it next
idle datapoint: the first “not a sketchy domain clearly trying to circumvent” site I’ve seen in quite a while that has an ad immediately visible despite my regular blocker config
revenue must be sparse!
(it takes specific pointed work to circumvent, so someone had to have reason to do it)
I was trying to remember at which point I unfollowed him, and I think it was exactly this nonsense
I'm guessing it's some kind of generic/wide property filter. it was a weird enough thing that I honestly did not think of it until I was literally poking at something else entirely then went "huh, hold on"
not helped by how fucking feedback-obtuse mobile devices have been made to be in their default state :||||
I'll contact the developer to see if they can maybe finetune it for lemmy instance frontends, since it's definitely a bit overt
tangentially: I've been getting reminded of a bunch of services existing, by way of pointless "your year in review" bullshit
fuck spotify for starting that misfeature, and fuck everyone else for falling over themselves to get On Trend
solution: comment visibility on ios-safari
some months ago I mentioned I couldn’t see comments in safari but could in fx (on ios). figured it out now: the 1Blocker “disable comments” filter sweepingly includes lemmy comment field types, but for some reason only on safari and not fx (despite apple forcing engine as they do)
the fix: add awful.systems as an allowed domain inside 1Blocker config
I've seen what effort goes into it at somewhere else, it's a lot
not sure I'd say it's unprofitable though, given just how goddamn much money google does make from its advertising monopoly. but I get what you meant with the conversion angle nonetheless
Oh yeah I forgot to mention that in my comment: drop PIA. Never touch anything owned by PIA or Kape. Ever.
GPUs: not even once
I am in the same boat, except all of the software I’ve ever written has been TeX
I'm sorry
giving contrived examples to undergrads to demonstrate why
dp[i][j]is a shit table name or why∞is better thanfloat('inf')orMAX_INTin pseudocode
that sound you can hear is my despairing screaming[0]
VPN client where ... jump through the hoops of learning a new shitty client
(not a pitch, but multiple commercial references) I really liked how simple tunnelbear made this for a lot, and also quite like how slick the wireguard desktop-style handling is (you can see this for example with fly.io's integration to that). I think there's long context here, and if you buy me a beer I could rant in detail
PS: There is Goldwarden
oh good, it's in Go, my other code allergy
shitposting aside, re the password manager thing: @self and I have co-ranted in dms, and about similar gripes.
so, by way of idea, loose laundry list for foundations/design: modern crypto (jfc why is so much still going "yeah gpg is fine"), crdt sync, a sane fucking language to build everything on, own-devices friendly (in the "you can sync device to device peer-wise" sense, vs the "there's a remote server broker" sense), and pretty okay(tm) interfaces for client building/extensibility
alas: my main workstation is (non-slate) macos, and it's unchangeable for the foreseeable future
good to know those (already) exist as options, though. if I can find some spoons I'll try look around and see if there's maybe something similar I can hack up/agglutinate from what's around
Their desktop app is a bit shit anyway
I haven't even tried it yet because I'm real "ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh" about even the idea of a js-/ts-based gui client for my password manager. largely because I've met too many js/ts devs and I outright don't trust their competence and processes. so your post is definite motivation for me to eyeball some of the other clients too
this is such a mess, holy shit
and only on .com? I have some very pointed questions about the maturity of the verification program/design
also, how are you liking bitwarden?
I really need to kill off my current password manager and bitwarden's looking like the least worst of current options (esp. when paired with something like vaultwarden instead of running a fucking nodejs sync server on the internet), but also some of it seems quite stunted[0]
it's gotten so bad that I've started pondering writing my own, because good god does basically every option out there depress me
[0] - no global hotkeys? the fuck
last time it came up, tuta was the least worst of the mail options. it's not the same offering as proton's in-garden encrypted, but nothing is afaik. rest of it is pretty okay (I have some (not all[0]) domains on there)
the rest of the things I don't have a direct recommendation in part because [0] and in part because I don't use computers entirely like how a lot of people do. that said
storage: backblaze storage pricing is not bad. they might have a desktop app thing? calendar: caldav is a dark art beyond my ken - I haven't even got that shit playing nice on my own things[3]. fuck knows who does this well. vpn: mullvad[1] (has quite recently had another full assessment published). maybe njalla[2]?
[0] - I'm one of those crotchety fuckers that still has a whole pile of self-hosted things that have been going 15~20y
[1] - seems okay and to have their head on straight. haven't used myself.
[2] - also haven't used it myself, comes from some of the folks of the TPB gang
[3] - admittedly I haven't tried that hard because I don't need it much, but it is extremely goddamn annoying to debug from clients
maybe that’s how the moon got mad - annoying goddamn chatbots flying in its view the whole time
new oscilloscope music from jerobeam and hansi3d out
the precision and clarity are astounding
by the time the hilbert curves got there my mouth was hanging open, and it still gets better
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hands up anyone else who wants one
What is a Turing machine?Depending on who you ask, it's either an abstract model of an algorithmic machine or an esoteric programming language. It's ...
'cuz I definitely do
fresh money in, and mira’s bouncing
OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati said Wednesday she is leaving the company after more than six years.
> “stepping away because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration.”
yeah I completely believe you, weird lady. I too want to vaguely step into the warm embrace of my piles of ill-gotten gold, forgetting about the stressors of how to sell something that doesn’t exist and that you helped claim would be here really soon now. ahhh, bliss..
one’s gotta wonder about the timing of this announcement, right? like come the fuck on
good news everyone, mariadb strain is now owned by PE
/PRNewswire/ -- K1 Investment Management, LLC ("K1"), one of the largest investors in small-cap enterprise software companies, today announced the completion...
I will say I'm not much of a fan of mysqls but uhhhhh this seems bad
ibm mainframes: now featuring AI
Mainframes still play a vital role in today, providing extremely high uptime and low latency for financial transactions. Telum II is IBM’s latest mainframe processor, and is designed unlike a…
saw this kicking around on the lobsters frontpage
> IBM also includes a DPU for accelerating IO, along with an on-board AI accelerator
ah yes. an AI accelerator. for a chip that goes into a system that'll quite possibly have a lifespan measured in decade-partials. in environments so extremely up to date with the bleeding edge of technology that they are absolutely not losing their programmers to retirement. an AI acceleator for that. makes total sense.
imagine being the poor engineers who had to spec that out, design it, and get it actually existing. nevermind even the awe-inspiringly stunning disregard to reality that it takes for some management fuckhead(s) to have "steered" this
> Funny enough, I asked why IBM had different terminology compared to the rest of the industry. They said IBM came up with the terminology first, and later on the industry adopted different terminology. It was all lighthearted and funny.
ah yes! funny! haha. not at all some weird insular shit from the same company that runs a worlds-apart platform with a control grip so strong it makes larry ellison check if they're infringing on anything actionable...
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accidental time capsules in winamp skins
I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes
found this kicking around on one of the feeder sites a few days ago and only got to read it now
kinda neat. it's the sort of thing that you used to find quite a lot with keygens and other things prone to easter eggs, and that I don't really know of being as prevalent in more recent gaming and such
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apparently it was Opposite Day at coindesk
There is an unavoidable tension between the aims of decentralization and onboarding everyday users.
there is some strong copium in the article, combined with a total description of having a massive gambling addiction without, y’know, actually realising it’s an addiction
remarkable stuff
hot off the presses: automatic wrong information without even going to the wrong-information deliveries store
People participate in online communities to share experiences and sympathy. AI chatbots that join the conversation can only pretend to offer either.
there are some remarkable instances of bad behaviour in there already, but imagine being the sort of product team that thinks users being gaslit by a chatbot that they couldn’t even consent to choose to use is totes something to deliver without any modification or remark
the loons are at it again
this time in open letter format! that'll sure do it!
there are "risks", which they are definite about - the risks are not hypothetical, the risks are real! it's totes even had some acknowledgement in other places! totes real defs for sure this time guize
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a blind man stumbles into the activitypub
since I haven't touched AP before (and figure other possible contributors may not have either), going to use this post as wayfarer bathroom graffiti
feel free to contribute your own learning and investigation as well
In which folks once again don’t learn the same lesson as the last few times
And perhaps sidestepping its own policy in the process.
It’s been a long couple of years with people going hard on building all their communications on the gamer chat company, disregarding all warnings and concerns because of shiny creature comforts
Soon: “we trusted you! We moved from slack to you! 😭”
Guess it’s only a handful of months before the tortured handwringing starts?
Quelle surprise
The surge in venture funding and public excitement has DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis thinking about crypto parallels.
Unfortunately I can’t snip from mobile easily now, but maybe someone else can archive it and comment with archive link?
History of (extremely predictable) failures catching up to you? Quick, write a book!
Kara Swisher made a career of dumbing down tech reporting and criticism. She’s a little sorry!
Too tired to sneer at the book myself right now but the article doesn’t pull punches either
Figured it’s worth posting since the book author has featured here more than once recently and has definitely been an enabler to The Shit
retrochat
retr0chat telnet server. Contribute to 9001/r0c development by creating an account on GitHub.
found via someone running a server at revision
retro fun. quite slick, too!