Notices by Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)

I kinda want a DM that just sets a timer on the table and calls it the Bullshit Timer set for 10 min. When the party devolves into bullshit, your timer starts. At the end of 10 min, Something is going to happen that forces the party to move on in some way (unless you've actually decided to be taking a break for bathroom or snacks or something). Whether a random encounter or the ambush you were trying to set up - a scout spots you and the alarm goes off, or the guards notice your wanted photo from the last town you murderhobo'd or whatever. Make wasting too much time on bullshittery have in game consequences.

@Polychrome I mean, they're nice boobs. I'd probably take some appreciative glances at them too. But some people have attractive faces that I stare a bit too long at, and I'm not going to make them wear a mask.

Stupid boob having thing of the nipple stigma. It's hot outside, I set my AC really high because I don't wanna bankrupt myself on utility bills, so I just wear a thin lightweight top because it's hot. But then before colleagues would see me, gotta go put on a stupid bra and have boob sweat or put on a second layer just because "nipples = lewd" 😞

Oh sure, my colleagues are very likely almost certainly not going to care. They're good people. But who knows ...

Nobody had a problem with my chest for my first 35 years. Stop giving me shit just because it's a little curvier and pointier.

A few weeks later get something from my boss of "well, some people have said something about your outfits, I don't have a problem with it, but you might want to think about it"...

💯 - like you can find married people who are really really "ugly" and poor and with absolutely awful personalities.

Other than the broadest strokes of "in general, most women are going to like men who treat them well", it's never out of the question that someone will find you acceptable.

Stop giving a shit about trying to chase after some imaginary ideal about "what women want", and work on making you your own best self that you like and are proud of, whatever that looks like for you.

@artemis

You just know that when one of these days the ICE Employee database gets leaked, it's going to be a serious Who's Who list of Proud Boys, Skinheads, Neo Nazis, Cops who were so dirty even police departments didn't want them anymore, and all sorts of other scum.

Het couples confuse me. Like which of you is the girl, and which is the other girl?

Please for the love of anything you hold holy, WE DON'T NEED A REBOOT/SEQUEL OF:
Toy Story
Indiana Jones
Another 15 Avatars
Jurassic Parkworld
Yet another Star Wars trilogy
The rest of the Disney movies
Star Trek (a hot take, I know)
Harry Potter (for more reasons than just stop retreading old shit)
James Bond
Matrix

I don't even know how many more.

I swear, half the new shit on TV and movie theaters is just retreading old bullshit

I will say, as a millennial, the idea of another $InsertBelovedChildhoodMediaFranchise movie/show may be a nice thought, but in practice, I don't think there's been a single one of these 20+ year later sequel/reboot/live action remakes that were any good at all, so I've stopped watching them entirely on general principle.

Just a random blast from the past memory that popped in my head with:

Don't. Talk. To. Cops.

An acquaintance of an acquaintance probably some 15+ years ago was caught cooking meth in his university chemistry lab. He was a legit brilliant chemist, able to synthesize it from precursors that since he ordered it via a lab didn't even raise flags. He still had a shitload sitting there still in solution, just needing to crash it out to make it into powder. Somehow the cops found out - I think they found him with some super high quality pure stuff at a traffic stop, so they knew it wasn't the normal street stuff, and found his setup in his lab.

Luckily for him, he shut up and got a lawyer.

Turns out, the cops fucked up the chain of evidence of the stuff they got from his car, and his lawyer got all their evidence thrown out, leaving the DA with nothing at all, so the charges were dropped and he walked.

Last I checked on LinkedIn, he's a senior research chemist at a big corp.

So even if you're guilty as sin, shut the fuck up and you still got decent odds that the cops will be bad at their jobs.

Not necessarily. Those are also traits of a great many of the most wealthy and powerful people in the world.
@argonaut @RickiTarr

An underappreciated aspect of the right's desire to ban transition for children is straight up pedophilia. Seriously, you can practically hear the drooling over trans boys' bodies being "mutilated" before these creepers "could have a chance".

Oh sure, we're overdue for an AI bubble burst soon. The hype and promises far outpace the technical capabilities of what this generation of tech can do. But given another decade or three of engineering, they might actually get to something resembling the hype and promises. But without regulation and wealth redistribution, everyone who isn't a billionaire is cooked.

The fundamental problem with AI isn't the hallucinations, the power usage, the security issues and software bugs. Hallucinations and software bugs are technical problems that given enough engineering are likely to get less bad over time. Even power usage could be mitigated to be LESS bad through enough renewable energy installations.

The fundamental problem is the whole point of AI is replacing human labor with the expressed point of continuing to concentrate wealth.

It would certainly be a possible post-scarcity future where we no longer need humans to run call centers and helpdesks and middle management and all sorts of other things. And the remaining trade workers and manufacturing and specialists could work more productively and efficiently. But without redistribution of wealth from the people amassing impossible hoards of wealth by owning and operating these AI corps to the people who no longer need to do shitty drudgery labor. Well, starving and homeless people don't quietly accept their fates peacefully forever.

Sometimes past me leaves now me little presents around the house. Namely half full cans of flat and room temperature soda that I forgot about and hopefully don't assume they're empty and spill it everywhere.

Every time I watch someone using LLMs to code, I'm struck yet again:

English is a really really REALLY awful programming language.

A colleague made the analogy that using an AI to assist your code basically means you're moving from a developer to doing code review of a junior developer all the time. But without any of the upsides of doing code review of a junior developer - like helping them improve their understanding of the project, improving their skills, building relationships.

Oh sure, they may be able to spit out "good enough" code when you can tightly contain the specs of what you want them to do, when you have a very good understanding of what you are wanting them to do, and how the solution should look.

But unlike when I work to improve my own skills in a language and codebase, where it's my own skills and knowledge getting better, and in a durable way I can carry from place to place, all I've really "learned" is how to instruct some SaaS tool how to do something at this moment in time. But next month, they might change the model to the point my prompts no longer work. Or they might run out of venture capital and shutter their products entirely. Or the company might decide to stop paying for the product so I can't use it anymore. Or government regulators could shut it down. When I know something, I know something.

Like seriously, Perl is 1000x better defined and typed

Okay hear me out:

3 tier wedding cakes are out

What girls REALLY want are

3 tier wedding lasagne