Notices by Erik Ableson (erik@mastodon.infrageeks.social)

@inthehands @hailey @dalias Ah, but who wrote the tests? 🤔

Just bringing this one back up again. On the nose.

Edit to add the original source: http://humoncomics.com/mother-gaia

@foxhkron I now have the song "one of these things is not like the others" bouncing around my head

@GreenSkyOverMe Do you have the raw numbers to do medians too?

@patrickcmiller can someone give me a link to the full article? I have a gut reaction that leads to a scathing rebuttal, but I want to make sure that I take into account what the actual experiments did and controlled for.

@inthehands All reasons why I don’t/can’t watch reality TV or any political coverage on TV.

Neil Postman was right.

@futurebird @ktoddbrown This falls into the false belief that digital natives will magically know everything about computers because they grew up surrounded by them. The number of things I have to go over with students in *IT* courses is astounding (not talking first year either)

@Sempf @tychotithonus @ryanc is that what happens when you hit the age of the port number? Remind me to die before I hit 80 years old...

@patrickcmiller there are some use cases that make sense. The one that drives me nuts these days are the blog posts with a headline AI image for no good reason. Most articles don’t need anything, but a norm has developed where people expect to see an image at the top of the page.

@patrickcmiller The opening line: “Need a good AI image generator?“

Answer: probably not

Granted they can be fun to play with - I wasted a ton of time with Kai’s Power Tools and Bryce back in the day

@fribbledom @lisamelton Heh - talking to someone spending too much time editing that automation to handle all of the edge cases that I didn’t run into on the first round…

@GossiTheDog Out of the gate qualifying question for these vendors: is your software written in a memory-safe language?

@thegrugq I believe that's the result of a limitation in the CVE categories. For some reason, nobody thought to include any of the following categories:
- 🤦 boneheaded default creds
- 🤞insufficiently obfuscated debug tool
- ☹️<insert state name> made us do this
- 🤨forgot to hook up auth mechanism

Who do we petition to get more granular CVE classification (with Emoji shortcuts)?

😁

@elizabeth @lanodan BBEdit? Or maybe just vi? On a file named index.html in the default place for nginx to server it up? Or just create a Github project and populate the readme file?

Sigh. When people aren’t taught the basics first they think everything requires a big complicated tech stack.

Odds on whether this page will end up hosted on K8S?

a new level of self-service: concrete on demand.

@agturcz @lanodan OK - Wankpanzer wins the word of the day contest

@inthehands @lanodan "the UI is obvious" Now the ultimate question here is whether the teapot is being used as designed or not...

@patrickcmiller Can you say “projection“?

@cosullivan @lanodan Oh wow. Just checked out sdf.org and had massive nostalgia hit back to my first dial-up terminal account.

And amazingly all of this tech still works and is useful.

@GossiTheDog OK - we have officially passed the line where at first and second glance I have no idea if this is:
- True
- The Onion that somehow got relinked on the BBC
- Some AI generated nonsense that got past human review
- A doctored screen shot