Notices by Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)

Seriously 😑 replacing single letters in triggering words with an * doesn't make it any less triggering. Survivors of sexual assault still know exactly what you're talking about even when you spell it r*pe.

@ryanc It's a floor fan if it's on the floor. At the point it's mounted on the ceiling, it's now a ceiling fan by definition.

I doubt that it's possible to get anything close to accurate estimates, but it sure would be interesting to figure out a "power/water used per token" based on which model someone uses. Most folks obviously wouldn't give a shit and just use whatever is the big number does goodest, but it'd still be interesting - is this model twice as bad? 4 times as bad? 10 times as bad?

Grindr but it's just to find other queers who are down to come play a board game.

I feel like my fear of cruise ships is justified in that it's an enclosed space, diseases can run rampant, and you can be effectively imprisoned there when something goes wrong.

The ship loses power. A disease outbreak. Fog closes the port. A bad storm. Whatever. At least (if)/when I go to a resort, I'm on land. I can go to a hospital. If there's some disease outbreak, I'm not stuck in my little tiny cabin for days on end. I can catch the next flight home if I have to.

I've always been a bit unclear. Are you supposed to alt text a video link? I mean it's not like I'm going to write a whole video transcript.

@ryanc The other week I was trying to get it to spit out a boilerplate REST API template, and the damn thing kept saying it was too similar to other people's code so it wouldn't do it. Like ... There's only so many different ways to write an API template. It's like "make a chocolate chip cookie recipe with flour, sugar, baking soda, chocolate chips and a pinch of salt". There's not really that many ways to switch up a chocolate chip cookie recipe.

I don't even know how one would do a good survey of this, but I'm always curious for trans people how much of our career "success" was from before or after our transition. Or vice versa.

Trans people are as close as you could really get to an A/B test on workplace misogyny. It's literally the same exact person presenting as different genders.

I gotta say, much respect to our trans journalists who report on all the awful day in day out, oftentimes for way less than minimum wage. I don't agree with every one of their takes. But I also can't imagine having to do their job of staring into the abyss of people who hate you, getting death threats, and seeing the worst of humanity all to at least try and get the word out to everyone else what the fuck is going on in the dark side.

And for an extra spicy take:

I've got better shit to waste bytes and breath on than scolding marginalized people for doing what they have to do in order to get their work in front of other people and make a living. That includes things like:

Publishing on Substack
Having Twitter accounts
Using Amazon to publish books
Having their podcasts on Spotify
Patreon

Whatever

Do what you gotta do to survive. Rent doesn't give a shit about moral purity in your tech stack.

The zionists and the Nazis fighting. Who could have ever seen that one coming... What's next? The pick-me Black people and the Nazis fighting? How about the cis gays and the Nazis. Or the Cis het women. Or the Catholics. Or ...

90 day password rotation...

Do you want (my password)1 because that's how you get (my password)1

The shitty secret nobody likes talking about is that humans are pretty fucking bad at writing code too.

The real AI death spiral isn't when we now have senior engineers needing a senior engineers salary worth of tokens to do a senior engineers work. It's when we only have junior engineers only able to do junior engineer quality work while also needing a senior engineers salary in tokens

For fucks sake ... "Guys" is not a gender neutral term ...

Bullying cat girls and puppy girls by refusing to give them any garlic in their food. Garlic is bad for dogs and cats after all.

@Viss @skinnylatte nah, it's just a nonverbal signal for wealth and status. Same as has been done since for forever.

We have a whole class of social media engagement addicted adults saying "well we know it's toxic, but it tastes soooooo good!" but rather than address the fact that it's toxic for everyone, let's just say "protect the children".

Maybe algorithms designed specifically for creating engagement addiction were a bad idea.

Let's be honest with ourselves. If social media content is too toxic for kids, it's probably too toxic for adults too.