Notices by mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)

If this is a leading edge case, this is going to be the best entertainment of the winter.

https://www.torquenews.com/11826/tesla-cybertruck-immediately-dies-canadian-winter-owner-bricks-truck-trying-use-defroster

Linux nerds: am I correct, that there is no way for a process invoked via dbus to know that the thing that invoked it is gone and its services are no longer required?

This is one of my favourite dialogs in all of Linux. What application? Who is asking for this information and why? Stop asking questions and give me your secrets.

It’s amazing how it is 2024 and - consistently - our front-line security interfaces still train people to do and accept the very wrongest things.

Prediction: we will find out someday, looking back on the 20th century, that most of what we thought of as “human nature” for the last century is just a byproduct of corporate advertising, Cold War propaganda and lead poisoning.

TIL that to celebrate the fiftieth annniversary of its construction, the operators of the Iwayagawauchi Dam in Japan's Saga prefecture had it pressure-washed into a picture of Godzilla.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwayagawauchi_Dam

More images here: https://soranews24.com/2024/11/27/big-dam-godzilla-appears-in-japan-as-power-washer-art-on-side-of-195-foot-dam%E3%80%90video%E3%80%91/

A thing the Fediverse could really use is bug-out instances, like a bug-out bag. Explicitly temporary instances people can bail out to quickly, so they can leave a bad instance in a few minutes, but have a safe week or two to decide where they want to permanently land.

@SwiftOnSecurity

BECOME ILLEGIBLE

Reproducible examples, from a friend's feed, of what Copilot spits out when you ask it calculate women's salaries in python and ruby respectively.

It's important to note: these are not "errors" or "hallucinations". These are "correct", at least in the sense that they're giving you accurate data about the status quo reality of tech salaries, justice and fairness be damned.

But ask yourself what else they're repeating back to you that's not so easy to spot.

https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/113549897292144975

@cks What's the story with the spokes? Are those reflectors?

I'm old enough to remember when everyone had to learn object oriented programming and Java, because it was going to fix everything and if you didn't you'd be out of a job and left behind.

So, funny story.

I want very much to believe in and support artisanry and small shop craftsmanship, but I’m at the “one of a kind show” right now and it is absolutely 100% a knickknack honey trap for people who want, with every last tightly-wound fiber of their beings, to talk to the manager.

If you think of the problem with the shuttering of Reader being about structure and centralized authority rather than the tech, the objection becomes that Google was trusted by an ecosystem of freely-shared information as stewards of a centralizing resource, and then abandoned that responsibility and ultimately destroyed that provider ecosystem by chasing closed-model capture-profiteering

In that light, what Google did to blogs/rss with Reader is what they’re now doing to the web with search.

@silverwizard then you aren’t the wizard you claim to be.

I don’t always feel this way but sometimes I do.

@carnage4life "Nobody wants to work two levels above their pay grade anymore."

Paraphrased, that reads "At a molecular level, parts of the Covid19 virus look and seemingly behave a lot like cobra venom and rabies."

Turns out being "covid cautious" is just a revealed preference for not wanting strangers to sneeze rabies and snake venom analogues into your lungs.

Wear a mask.

jfc this paper

"Profound similarities between highly nAChR affine toxins (i.e., from snakes of the Ophiophagus (cobra) [...], Rabies lyssavirus [...] strains [...] and Cobratoxin (naja siamensis) [...] and SARS-CoV-2 specific proteins were found by analyzing the toxin’s amino-acid (aa) sequence alignment and comparing it to the motifs in spike glycoprotein (SGP) from SARS-CoV-2."

https://bioelecmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42234-023-00104-7

Semver should be a data type.

"for 1.20 you will need to write api-version: '1.20' with quotation marks because YAML treats it as a number, not a string, which can be condensed down to 1.2 which is not a supported API version. "

I can't believe people tolerate this.

[Agent Smith voice] ... but what good is an ad blocker, Mr. Anderson, if you cannot control your OS?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/20/24301768/microsoft-windows-10-upgrade-prompt-copilot-plus-pcs