Notices by Matt Boehm (bigolewannabe@hachyderm.io)

@hrefna
The whole point of poll aggregation assumes the "wisdom of crowds" thing where all the estimates are independent. Otherwise it's essentially just a poll of what the pollsters think the overall consensus is, right?

@inthehands
I repeat to people the story of a lecturer that put googley eyes on a pencil and gave it a name and then during the lecture broke it in half.
Some people gasped.
The lectured pointed out humans anthropomorphize anything including an incredibly complex auto-complete machine.

If anyone is worried they'll start to hear "#Linux isn't safe" because of the #xz hack, keep this bookmarked.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-exploited-windows-0-day-for-6-months-after-microsoft-knew-of-it/

@thomasfuchs
Just a sec. Writing a draft of a novel where the one galactic civilization that made it maintains their hegemony by secretly poisoning FTL drive AI models.
@lisamelton

@tcook
Hell, I'm surprised they didn't do it to SpaceX when dumbass tweeted that he'd talked to Putin.
@anildash

@lxo
I can see the FSF or similar orgs repeatedly and emphatically pointing out that open source software can't be enshittified unless there's a CLA allowing relicensing.
@pluralistic

@scalzi
Jim's not really a guy where discussing inappropriate sexual behavior really registers, you know?

@aral
Possibly one reason is to keep the version of the app in line. Linear increase of the DB schema means you basically need a decoder ring to figure out which app version uses which schema number.