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professional source code complainer, Pwnie Awards 2014 Best Song, will decipher ancient writing systems for free
Access to Odin photos is a privilege contingent on not being the reason I’m regretting the internet today.
English: native; Nederlands: nog niet helemaal vloeiend; 中文：走马观花
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Apple’s on-device translation doesn’t know it should ignore URLs, so you can hand it a post written entirely in Chinese with a URL at the end that is also mostly Chinese characters, which it sees as %20-type encoding, and it will be like “☹️ Sorry, I can’t automatically identify this language that’s 50% Chinese characters and 50% hexadecimal keysmash. … But my best guess is Polish.”
o noble beast. o mighty hound
when a corporation has been sending emails for 23 years, claims to be powered by cutting-edge AI, and still hasn't figured out how to automate the "a/an" distinction in email templates
Plant identification guide for caretakers of big fluffy dogs
by the way, the (genuinely very) nice ladies who taped me up assured me that there's no need to worry; the sensor taped to my throat that drew waveforms on their computer when I spoke wasn't recording my *voice*!, only *vibrations*
reader, the patch management system appears to have forcibly installed the vulnerable software in order to patch it.
thank gods! that was a close one
repost of an old sketch
@feld that *was* them installing the patch
Company wide email last week: there is an emergency patch for some software you’ve never heard of. Please update manually NOW; if it’s not patched by Tuesday, your machine will forcibly reboot.
Me: o software management portal of my work machine, is this software even installed, that I might update it?
portal: it’s not installed, no.
[Tuesday comes]
Your machine is going down NOW in the middle of the workday because you FAILED TO INSTALL THE PATCH, SINNER.
[repost from 2022]
them: so we’re an Italian restaurant
me: yes
them: in a Dutch city
me uh-huh
them: though a lot of people around here speak English
me: with you so far
them: that’s why it says “orange juice” in French
One thing that I like about Amsterdam is that our neighborhood has its own gardener — the same, specific guy, paid by the city to putter around and take care of all the trees, bushes and flowers on public land.
And most land is public land! A lot of green space that would legally be the private property of the nearest building in the US is public in Amsterdam.
#amsterdam
Dog. dog. I love my dog #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon
When I said that your discord clone doesn’t need e2ee, I got a lot of comments along the lines of “ then how would I use it to organize the revolution!” The answer is: you don’t. If you have more users than can comfortably share a Signal chat and hence want to use discord or something like it, you cannot POSSIBLY be vetting all of them to a high standard of trust. Your logs ARE leaking. End-to-end encryption between more people than can fit around a dinner table is pointless.
This article confirms what I already assumed, that “open source [information sense, not code sense] intelligence gathering on social media” includes, for the US government, asking for links to join groups that may *feel* private. My own discord has literally like a thousand idlers. It would be very *lucky* if none of them were logging for potentially nefarious purposes! And I remind the active users of this occasionally.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-ice-masks-up-in-more-ways
I can't stop thinking about the LLM-generated compiler that passes all the unit tests but emits inner loops that benchmark over 150,000x slower than a gcc debug build. I couldn't possibly have intentionally come up with such a funny demonstration of the point of genuine expertise https://harshanu.space/en/tech/ccc-vs-gcc/
The good news: this hospital does at-home sleep studies! They just wire you up with portable equipment and send you home
The bad news: an hour on public transportation looking like I’m wired to blow