Notices by FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social)

RE: https://zirk.us/@interfluidity/116155014706965466

When the Saudis under-wrote Musk's Twitter takeover I figured the main thing they wanted was to influence the 2024 US election, & that they wouldn't care whether it was viable after that. It does still very much seem to be serving their interests, though.

@bruces I can see an argument embedded in there for even kleptocracies denying full anonymity: if the transactions are fully anonymous, the boss criminals have less leverage on upstarts.
That said, it's not necessarily the same kind of anonymity.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@millie/115719943870742405

This is one of those things that only sounds crazy if one goes at it with certain unstated assumptions.

@cwebber
dad used to sometimes say, on tasting something he REALLY liked: "This is not fit for human consumption. I'll have to eat it all."

@botvolution
@MLE_online
I can believe that's true now - I haven't tested it - but as of Fall 2022, a post shared by pasting the link into a new post would render at least the first part of the quoted post's text, on Mastodon. On other clients, it would often render the whole post.

@MLE_online
I came over from Twitter in earnest in Oct or Nov of 2022 & there was immediately a huge controversy over the fact that people were quote-posting. Folks were getting banned for it on some servers, widely blocked, because to most Masto old timers who had an opinion on the matter, quote posting was primarily a form of abuse: one would quote-post to belittle, or to leverage the original for clout.
Black Twitter norms around quote-tweeting OTOH used it for boosting & affirmation. ...

@MLE_online
Short answer is "manually." I've been quote-posting regularly since I started here by just pasting the URL into the post; the client treats it like a shared post.

AFAICS people didn't do it because it was against the norms, & I saw & even personally encountered old-timers blocking for the offense of doing it.

Anyway that's the history behind things like an original poster wanting to approve a quote-post. (Which has gotta be configurable, Eugen loves the idea of quote-posts.)

@cwebber 'We're done with that shit.' - 'Secretary of War' Pete Hegseth [quote]

@bruces 'More human than human' is one of those things people have a hard time understanding as a problem.

If we wanted an example of America doing something so batshit villainous that the rest of "Earth" can't help seeing us as evil, it's hard to top sending hundreds of people off to slave labor camps in another country with no hearing, no process & essentially no means of appeal.

@roadriverrail @RickiTarr
That string thing was really bugging me, not gonna lie. It does seem to me to argue that whoever took that photo was not good at photographing food.

@RickiTarr
it it weird that I'm hung up on the fact that the parsley is all dried out? & that's before I get to the long trailing big of dessicated parsley stem on the left side of the one second from bottom.
...also what is that sauce? It looks like some kind of dijon salad dressing.

This one really does look like trolling to me. Are we absolutely sure it's period & sincere?

@klausfiend @fifilamoura @mekkaokereke
she's basically a sniper, but for armour; there are these popular ideas about what makes a good sniper but some of the most effective ones have been quiet, unassuming people without a lot of macho, who are particularly good at not getting caught.

@klausfiend @fifilamoura @mekkaokereke
I remember a profile of her I read some time back; the hatchback works for her because it's low-cost, low-maintenance. IIRC she operates as part of a 2 person team. They park the car, camoflage it, then hike a short distance to a pre-scouted vantage point. Giving her a HiLux would be a waste because she doesn't need it. More than a couple of rockets is a waste because she might get two shots a day if she's lucky.

Today is "#LargeBoulderTheSizeOfASmallBoulder" day, for those who celebrate.

@aer
rsync from a git repo was devops before devops was devops.
@pluralistic

@profdc9 @slothrop @GossiTheDog @Gargron
I hear you & agree in general. I think context is important, though, & I think the really relevant context here isn't OpenAI - it's #Automattic & the #WordPress Foundation.

So, yes, devil will be in the details - but I expect those details to be informed by the actions of a particular devil. Naturally we will have to see how it's all written out.

@GossiTheDog weird nit I know but why did they need to use video of the charging stations to track progress? Wasn't the thing just logging through waypoints the whole time? Like, didn't they literally already know the exact path it took before they even looked at the video?
So why are they connecting the video to location finding? Is it some weird & stupid attempt to distract from the obvious fact that the thing is a two-ton mobile phone sheathed in steel plates?

@dalias @VulpineAmethyst
holy crap I totally did not know that. I never used it enough to see that in action, I suppose - it was always a pretty dead social network experience for me, extremely biz-focused.

@cstross somehow I can't see musk standing up to poison, gunfire & drowning.