Notices by Cassander (drsbaitso@infosec.exchange)

@saraislet Unethical Amazon Manager Hiring Hack: Only hire lactose-intolerant workers.

@evan I have exactly the same hangup! But it's "okay" if I have at least one of the store's branded bags.

@sophieschmieg If LLMs are snake oil, this "AI RNG" is meta-snake oil. It's like expecting a homeopathy distillation of horse dewormer will cure Covid.

It's so obviously fake that I can't even find a good metaphor to explain how bad it is.

@skinnylatte And you stuck around after that, so clearly you're just a glutton for punishment

(😉)

@ariadne If you're in the US and it's not related to fraud or evading some form of justice, the only things stopping you are money (specifically, its absence and related court filing fees) and your tolerances for filling out forms and repeating "Yes, lower case 'R', two 'B's."

I'm all in favor.

@skinnylatte The flip side of that is "flavor maximalist" sounds kind of exhausting. Like only listening to music at max volume.

Sometimes you just want some background music.

@skinnylatte Nah, I get it. Sometimes you don't want to think about flavors and how they interact and what it'll do to the rest of your day. You want to just not be hungry or consume the sustenance your meat-prison requires.

@evan I'm not in a public-facing role, and wouldn't really want to be. If there was a stronger business/vendor presence in the fediverse, I might use it a little for strictly professional things.

If you mean for internal-only stuff, probably somewhat. That would overlap (and improve upon) some of the things we use Teams for right now.

@AnarchoNinaWrites There's a pretty good chance they become rich little Roganettes, and wonder why they didn't start pandering to the left-most wing of the fascists earlier.

@AnarchoNinaWrites "She has so many very innovative ways to invite me to fuck myself with various sharp and blunt tools, and I don't appreciate that attitude from someone without at least two commas in their net worth."

@lorenipsum Honestly, it would probably only take a few instances of people publicly doing it and gamifying it during their talks to catch on.

"And we all understand how critical little pieces are... Yup, that XKCD comic. I used it, so I'm going to donate $10 to $SomeProjectIUseOften. Everyone in the audience, I encourage you to do the same. CC $CustomEmailAddress your receipt, and we'll share the results at the end of the talk!"

@memory @mekkaokereke The "Being Glue" blog that Togdon and I both linked covers exactly that issue of doing glue work before you have a title where it's expected.

@mekkaokereke That immediately brought to mind related two blogs: [Being Glue by Tanya Reilly]((https://www.noidea.dog/glue) and (more tangentially) On Rake Collections and Software Engineering by FlameEyes.

And yea, knowing where all the bodies are buried is valuable, and folks that can quickly put together those random, unconnected puzzle pieces have honed an exceptionally-useful skill.

@AnarchoNinaWrites They really shoulda gotten the message from the Michigan (I think) primary effort over Gaza. Instead they wanted to attract any last GOP voters with a shred of decency.

If only there were some.

@futurebird

"Will this be on the test?"
"It is now."

So #HumbleBundle has most of #SirTerryPratchett's #Discworld library for $18 dollars.

You should not buy it.

(Of course, if you're not in the US, they've already made the choice for you. Thanks terrible international intellectual property laws!)

Until today, my experience buying #ebooks from Humble Bundle was they were always available unencumbered by #DRM. I have hundreds of #DRMFree #epubs built up over the past decade.

The #PratchettDiscworldHumbleBundle is through #Rakuten #Kobo's ebook shop, and all the books are encumbered by #Adobe and the #AdobeDigitalEdition DRM. There is zero indication that this DRM is included on the bundle page itself. and it explicitly says "Use on Any Device". On the #RakutenKobo page itself, the only indication the file has DRM is some small bottom-text that says "Download Options: EPUB 3 (Adobe DRM)".

Also, DRM Digital Editions will also "helpfully" install Norton for you as well. It's like the dogshit you just stepped in offered to stab you in the kidney, too.

This is shameful and disgusting from Humble Bundle. I know Humble Bundle got acquired years ago by IGN/Ziff Davis, but they'd avoided the levels of #enshittification to make me stop using them.

(Edit to add: if it's the kind of thing you care about, there's a lot of profanity in my replies. But frankly Adobe deserves every profane word I can direct at them and more)

@shanselman Yea, I'm honestly surprised QR codes have filled the niche I would have expected something like NFC stickers to. Obviously that doesn't work in videos, but QR codes strike me as a pain there too.