Notices by Jeff Atwood (codinghorror@infosec.exchange), page 2

@rolle @Technogourmet I have had to peel back the 5 layers of meta on this onion so many times now I'm probably going to cry again

w/r/t https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/114005957931267181 I should explain the joke, because it is very complex. This is a CUSTOM donation receipt email designed to look like a GENERIC donation email receipt, and it WAS sent to me via email by the internet archive intentionally to make a joke to celebrate the donation, and it even has another hidden layer for @textfiles involving the notes on the wire transfer that the archive played on HIM without his knowledge. Then there's the meta on top of that which we are doing together right now.

TL;DR unbelievably awesome. A++++ would donate again

(that's another joke)

Oh my god Internet Archive you magnificent bastards what did you do, and PLEASE KEEP DOING IT FOREVER

It has been zero days since the last accident

I am thinking YouTube has "AI upscaled" every video on their platform recently. It's wild https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJtiPRDIqtI

Leading edge independent internet journalism you should be subscribing to, immediately:

Garbage Day -- https://www.garbageday.email
Today in Tabs -- https://www.todayintabs.com
404 media -- https://www.404media.co

There are many, many more, but these are top of mind for me. Sorry for those of you doing good work on Substack; I can't support that platform. Actions have consequences.

@drahardja I think google is still trustable. Meta never has been.

the rarity of things is interesting, but so arbitrary https://info.xposuremusic.com/article/these-are-the-20-most-valuable-vinyl-records

I enjoy mental masturbation, I guess?

I'm giving away half my wealth over 5 years - not in my will, not after I die, right now. I’ve already sent $1M to eight organizations working to help Americans. There’s a lot more to come.

Let's talk about how we can build the American Dream. AMA!

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ifd3ys/im_giving_away_half_my_wealth_to_make_the/

A brief instructive video field guide: how to take down empires built on hate

Raster vs Vector -- FIGHT!

@jwz omg that Cat Pictures Please storyline looks amazing, how had I not heard of this until now?

I love that Teen Vogue is, and I do mean this quite literally -- there is zero irony or comedy in this statement -- on the cutting edge of journalism in the United States right now. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/billionaires-should-not-exist

I have a difficult time understanding Paul Graham's latest piece, which is (extremely!) long and meandering. What is the the point of all this, exactly? https://paulgraham.com/woke.html

This is a wild story. And well deserved. 🐕 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_you%27re_a_dog

"Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny" identifies "Do not obey in advance" as its first principle – a crucial observation about how democracies erode. People often begin accommodating autocracy before it's fully arrived, self-censoring and stepping back from civic life not because they must, but because they assume they'll have to eventually. This anticipatory obedience, multiplied across millions, can accelerate democratic decline." https://merchpac.org/inaugurationday

from my so-called friends still on the hellsite: "Why are you on Mastodon, it's just a bunch of furries and LBTQs" and I replied "and why, exactly, is that a 'problem'?" followed immediately by "And that's exactly why it works so well." (for, at least, a significantly higher value of "well". Distributed systems are difficult. Centralization is the easy but lazy route, and we can all see where that goes, far too often.)

the whole AI / LLM thing is really quite useful for summarization of long text / long discussions -- as long as you make sure it didn't hallucinate anything important. Depends on the text, I guess?

I finally embraced radical honesty