Notices by Viss (viss@mastodon.social)

https://pll.harvard.edu/subject/government

harvard has begun offering free courses on the constitution, how government works, elections, congress, how the court system works, pandemic prevention, drug regulation, civic engagement and tons more

okay NOW you can start worrying about quantum computers messing with cryptography.

also, im ready for the bottom to fall out of all these massive orgs hosting llms, because with this kind of hardware leap forward, you wont need datacenters that boil the oceans to get gpt4.5 levels of performance anymore

https://news.arizona.edu/news/u-researchers-developing-worlds-first-petahertz-speed-phototransistor-ambient-conditions

i had to watch this like three times

we've reached the point of metal gear 1 sneak techniques working

@gsuberland lower decks is so good!

uh, yeah
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/ai-use-damages-professional-reputation-study-suggests/

this has literally been like 20 years coming

holy shit, falling down is coming true

so um

ditch java.

i know i know, ive heard literally every excuse. they dont care. stop using java. get off it asap

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/09/users_advised_to_review_oracle_java_use/

@ryanc whoa - it was working literally 5 minutes ago. bizarre! i wonder if linking it here tipped it over?

whats the nuttiest thing you can find that runs doom?

i thought the airfryer was pretty nuts.

https://canitrundoom.org/

@aburka @ai6yr its gotta be rich people - filing a lawsuit like that isnt cheap, and lawyers that do that sort of thing range between 600-2k per hour. you cant 'just do that' unless you have several wheelbarrows full of money

@ai6yr wow thats just some straight up ferenghi shit

@ryanc whoa this is super fucking cool!

@skinnylatte i WANT a q3, but i dont wanna pay for a q3 :D

@gglockner @skinnylatte i have a handful of friends who have a q3 and i see what they post on instagram. the last proper camera i bought was a nikon d3s. years later i bought a cannon powershot point and shoot and it was ok. i have no idea how well the q3 does macro, but anything i'd buy would have to be able to do macro well

today, in the 'no fucking shit, sherlock' department:

fake it til you make it doesn't work in technology.

its like trying to fake it til you make it in medicine. eventually the pile of your victims is too great for anybody to spin it any other way: you have no fucking idea what youre doing and its killing people

celebrate cinco de mayo by going to your local immigrant owned nom establishment and exchange some currency units for the moose equivalent of a burrito and some double carnitas fries!

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@da_667 there are 'infosec people' that walk and talk like these folks, but hide behind a bunch of other attributes to asuage critique