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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 09:44:06 JST clacke

   I've never installed Line, so I don't know much about it. Nobody here uses it.

   In Taiwan I discovered they have Line Pay, almost every little shop accepts it there. I guess every chat app tries to expand until it becomes a bank.

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   Akseli :quake_verified:​ :kde: (aks@scalie.zone)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Apr-2025 17:29:23 JST Akseli :quake_verified:​ :kde:

   "AI" is here to monetize the human insecurity.

   Most of the time i see people using "AI" generated pictures, text, code, whatever.. they mention they are "not good enough" to make their own.

   You don't have to be "good."

   These tools are feeding on your insecurity. They're there to monetize your insecurity.

   Many people are insecure. That is normal. You should not rely on magic machinations to wave your insecurity away. That way relies addiction to these tools, which will make your life more difficult when you dont use them.

   So instead, make your own lil stick figure drawings. Make pixel art in 16x16 grid for icons. Write that text the best way you can. Iterate on things, ask for help.

   The hurry to get things done is artificial. You can do it without the addiction to chatbots. Allow yourself to take time, instead of producing just for productions sake.

   Trust yourself to find the answers and to make a thing.

   You're way better than what the scum behind generative "AI" hype think about you.

   Don't sell your insecurity and brush it off. Face the facts and work on it.

   In art, authenticity, being yourself, creating things from your brain, using your own intelligence, is the main point. Not the quality of the finished piece. But your piece.

   You're allowed to fail. To err is human. And that is what makes it art. The happy little mistakes.

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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 04:57:39 JST Rich Felker

   I just love how in C++, what looks like purely adding functionality to your library can actively break code that calls it.

   In particular, adding overloads to make an interface more flexible can make existing call points ambiguous and thereby errors.

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   David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) (david_chisnall@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 22:08:10 JST David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

   I really like capability systems, but 'capability' is a terrible name.

   In normal English, a capability is something intrinsic. If you have the capability to run a four-minute mile, it's something that you can do. You don't need some token to enable you to do it.

   In a capability system, holding a capability doesn't grant you the ability to do the thing implicitly, it requires you to present the authorising capability when you try the action. This is one of the core advantages of capability systems over other kinds of access control. They respect the principle of intentional use. It's not enough that you have a capability to do a thing, you must use the correct capability when you try to do the thing. This eliminates a whole set of possible confused-deputy attacks.

   Capabilities are more like inventory items in an adventure game. Just having them in the inventory doesn't let you solve a puzzle, you must use the correct inventory item on the correct object to solve the puzzle.

   I can't think of a better word. 'Tool' might work (except that it's almost as bad as that time some French people named a theorem prover). Saying 'I don't have the right tool to accomplish this task' makes sense in English as a 'I need to hold this thing and use it correctly', whereas 'I don't have the capability to accomplish this task' sounds like you're talking about ambient authority.

   Are there better words? Maybe something in another language?

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   Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓 (ogjester@stranger.social)'s status on Sunday, 16-Mar-2025 23:57:19 JST Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓

   Elon’s #Starship is a massive failure, and we should stop allowing it to launch.

   NASA’s Saturn V rocket from before I was born is beating SpaceX’s Starship by the metrics Elon promised Starship would excel. It could carry more, it was reliable, and it never experienced any “rapid disassemblies” or whatever he calls it.

   In 2022, #NASA sent Artemis 1 on a successful test flight around the MOON on its FIRST ATTEMPT. Starship has yet to complete a single orbit around the Earth in 8 attempts.

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   Dwight (DB) 🤔 🇨🇦 (dabertime@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 18:10:07 JST Dwight (DB) 🤔 🇨🇦

   The Paradox of Tolerance disappears
   if you look at tolerance, not as a moral standard, but as a social contract.

   If someone does not abide by terms of the contract, they're not covered by it.

   In other words: since the intolerant are not following the rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance, and have broken the terms of the contract, they are no longer covered by it, and their intolerance should NOT be tolerated.

   inspired by "Tolerance is not a moral precept" by Yonatan Zunger