Notices by FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social), page 2

@rakoo @mekkaokereke @jeromechoo
Bingo. 'I agree with' is just wrong - he factually doesn't agree with Musk. But he just endorsed Musk's whole deal.

@mekkaokereke @jeromechoo
If it were me, & I felt utterly compelled to champion spending cuts*, I'd start with something like "Musk is wrong about why and where government spending needs to be cut."
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*I probably wouldn't but just saying.

@cstross Fred Zimmerman's 1973 adaptation of Day of the Jackal was both a really faithful adaptation & a darn good thriller. But it's a major exception.
Also I'd put in a similar vote for The Ipcress File.

@dalias I am missing what it does, then. I don't get any of that from the website (not doubting it's there, I'm just not seeing it).

@dalias yeh I'm really just trying to highlight that there could be an OSS alternative that does what they're selling without any of the issues that go along with using them. (I know, nobody's gonna clean up Keepass like that.)

@dalias Improve the UX & you could get Keepass to do a lot of this. (I already use Keepass as a store for random info like license keys.)

@georgetakei bright side is the toddler knows "one thousand".

@molly0xfff wait a sec: if they contracts can't be owned, how can the assets be "theirs" to retrieve?

@GrahamDowns @carnage4life
The problem arises when less-experienced developers (or worse, people with no dev experience at all) are encouraged to use ChatGPT/Copilot for answers. They have no way of assessing quality.
That's the vision.
That's why it all needs to be rejected. Not moderated: Rejected.

@jonpsp @GrahamDowns @carnage4life
I see it as all part of the same assumption-set.

I started out in software training. People invested lots of money in training staff. Now, nobody does. They just assume everyone already knows it.

What happens is everyone looks it up with a search engine. Up to 2022-ish they could count on finding MOL-valid instructions.

When all the search engines are LLM-driven chatbots searching an LLM-generated web, they'll no longer find those answers.

@lzg I think it's fair to say & try to act on 'that's illegal and we should try to force the issue.' But yes, that should be a very different exercise from 'that's illegal, they can't do it.'

@cstross
Just curious about something: Do you remember getting wild light shows during & immediately after your reattachment surgery? With colors & patterns you hadn't ever previously seen as eye flashers?
I saw these cobalt-blue flashing lights in intricate patterns, almost a little like a throbbing cuttlefish. They persisted (with decreasign frequency) for around a day & a half after the surgery.
@jredlund

@inthehands @breadandcircuses
For me it's just a rationalist version of 'let go & let God', where 'God' is whatever vague thing Schmidt thinks he means when he says "AI".

Matt Mullenweg looking weirder by the day as WordPress.org now requiring anyone who logs in to certify that they are "not affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise."

(Also IANAL but couldn't this provide weight to a claim of 'actual malice' on Automattic's part?)
#WordPress #WPEngine

[h/t @da_667 @ https://infosec.exchange/@da_667/113277898755249499 in a much funnier way]

Without the ability in WordPress to easily specify an alternative plugin repository for automated updates, Matt Mullenweg is basically a living supply chain vulnerability in the WordPress ecosystem.

Put another way: if Matt & #Automattic turning off #WPEngine access to WordPress dot org demonstrates anything, it's that #WordPress has a fundamental supply-chain vuln in the form of its total reliance on WordPress dot org for automatic updates. & in Matt's autocratic control of the platform.

@carnage4life TBC Automattic has never even tried to offer a service that's truly comparable to what enterprise WP hosts offer.

@eaton Do you happen to recall if it was a Nuke derivative?

It would be interesting to see #WordPress fork hard in response to Automattic's clear desire to have their open source cake & copyright-restrict it, too.

I'd find it fascinating if someone did a database-compatible fork with a wholly new front end. That basically happened w/*Nuke in the early aughts. (Hell, when I first looked at the WP database schema I was like 'holy crap this is PostNuke!' I still think they basically took a *Nuke schema as a starting point & wrote a new front end.)

Oh my god, he took the bait on the rally question. Holy shit she's playing him like a fiddle.
#debate

donny gets this smirk when she's landing shots.
#debate