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@rowat_c@mastodon.social @emf@social.emfcamp.org "we have two founders that your money goes directly to, one of which does this"
yeah uhhhh about that. maybe I don't want my money going there, even transitively?
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I have done a ton of Go and Python and Java through 15 years of work, and a bit of Rust for fun, really enjoy distributed systems and concurrency and I have Opinions™ and Ideas™ but I'll refrain from shouting them into the void.
I'm pretty sparse with toots and boosts, and I promise not to flood your feed because I'm not fond of it myself. (Corollary: if I unfollow you, it doesn't mean I don't like your posts! I just read literally everything, and can't handle volume)
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After fighting off and on for over a month to get a series of `apt install`s cached for testing...
#TIL that while every single thing I've seen for "how to download all stuff apt will install" suggests stuff like "apt install --download-only" (does not download dependencies), "try apt-rdepends" (does not match apt-install list), or "try apt-cache depends" (also does not match apt-install, in different ways) or "lol no"...
...there actually IS a simple solution!
`apt satisfy --download-only pkg`
Which gives me *exactly* the same list of .deb files to download as `apt install pkg` says it needs to install.
No grep or awk or "WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface" concerns needed.
Of course this is not documented anywhere that I can see. This is apt after all. I just tried it because `apt satisfy pkg` output looked remarkably like `apt install pkg`.
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@kkarhan@mastodon.social @silberfuchs@social.edist.ro @Hex@kolektiva.social yea, just don't connect them to internet and most work fine. annoyingly slower than the previous year's model, every year, due to the bloat still running... but it's nerfed. and they sold it to you at a loss.
and return the ones that don't work fine, obviously. let them eat the fees.
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@ricci@discuss.systems I honestly like the non-global-ness. it means my server acts as a soft filter for the firehose - I chose it because I like their sense of taste!
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@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social *four hundred thousand lines* for the new tab page??? HOW?
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@gwen@tech.lgbt @petersuber@fediscience.org and without being dramatically ominous at every chance. I have no idea why so many people are sharing this.
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@iFixit@mastodon.social I'm under the impression that studies generally show these very-coarse-sponge filters to be almost completely useless? all it does is spread the smoke through the air.
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@prahou@merveilles.town @draken@masto.nyc I hosted a Browser Install Party (the Windows 7 party was such a huge success, I simply *had* to do an encore: https://youtu.be/1cX4t5-YpHQ ) and Vivaldi never RSVP'd. Very suspicious.
HostingYourParty
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@arno_in_sing@mastodon.online @rgulick@social.coop if you can control text that goes into an LLM, the answer is literally always "yes". not in the way that someone always eventually screws up and leaves a gap you can use, I mean *literally always*, there is no reliable defense at all.
the only safety tactics that work are hard limits on what the LLM and its harness together can do. e.g. only output text that only humans will read -> your attack can't convince it to upload data elsewhere... but it might be able to trick someone into doing that for it, which sometimes happens with executable code snippets.
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@annika@xoxo.zone @cwebber@social.coop I swear I see a new 100k LoC "safe agentic coding sandbox" every day, complete with shiny emoji-encrusted readme. All of them either abandoned a couple weeks later, or with thousands of issues that are mostly regressions that get fixed and reoccur over and over and over.
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@flpvsk@mastodon.social @jwz@mastodon.social agreed - it's largely just saying "we need a policy either way. constructive comments welcome, broader discussion belongs elsewhere" and that seems... fine? Github is hardly an ideal (or even good) place for heavily threading discussions. And they're correct that they need a policy, as many treat "no comment" as permission.
That said, the Zulip they link to is not publicly visible, which is rather concerning. Private discussions are fine, but they're not evidence, and they don't provide a place to go to contribute.
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange iirc it costs more to get to geostationary orbits than to simply escape earth's orbit entirely and go into interplanetary space. so if they really need their toys, we can still save some money
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@FinchHaven@sfba.social @atrupar@journa.host wait but they're farming wind. doesn't that mean they're growing more???
what you're describing sounds more like a windmine.
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@rmondello@hachyderm.io soulver is such a convincing example of "calculators can be better"
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@henrik @mastodonmigration @joshsutphin yah, honestly I think they're net-destructive. they're trying to Maximize Engagement™ just like the big (consistently evil) players do: a faster feed means more doom-scrolling means more addiction.
I understand the empty-feed problems and how it can be good to find your crowd. but celebrities and addiction are not what I want to see pushed here.
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@epicdemiologist@wandering.shop @yvanspijk@toot.community it is at least very common, so it's definitely not just you.
I mostly say it (I grew up around it), but it always strikes me as weird because it's not like "mfterbl" is an easier or more common sequence of sounds to make 
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@jwz@mastodon.social @flpvsk@mastodon.social with a large group of people, how you do get a policy written down and agreed on when both sides feel very strongly?
I would much prefer they ban LLMs entirely, but many clearly disagree and you still need enough of them to sign off on it for it to be adopted. How do you reach that point when both are brigading heavily?
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@PhilSalkie@mindly.social @eliocamp@mastodon.social @Danpiker@mathstodon.xyz yea, I can't find the blog post I vaguely remember from long ago that had samples of all channels, but https://calebkruse.com/10-projects/seeing-blue/ looks like a decent demo near the bottom. it's kinda crazy.
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@PhilSalkie@mindly.social @eliocamp@mastodon.social @Danpiker@mathstodon.xyz rgb565 is a somewhat common color mode for this reason - we see green with the most detail, so when you're looking to reduce bits per pixel it makes sense to cut the other two slightly
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@yvanspijk@toot.community "Probly" seems inevitable to me. There's nothing phonetically competing with it.
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@odoruhako@mastodon.social @aburka@hachyderm.io if your keys aren't wheel-gapped from your server, you're not taking security seriously
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@AzulCrescent@tech.lgbt "hold the fuck up": we do this kind of thing every chance we get :blobfoxblushmore:
if I notice first, she'd be happy but mildly confused for a couple seconds, then smack me and plot her revenge 
happily married for 15 years! long-term romance is very much stuff like this.
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@andrewnez
I really don't understand how *anyone* could take even a brief look at it and not immediately recoil in disgust, at any point in its existence. it's a stunning pile of nope that for some incomprehensible reason people keep mimicking.
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@nash I'm gunkmaxxing, clogging all my drains and looking for new ones.
did you know there are drains right outside, along the street??? gunkchat told me they cause cancer if they're not gunked. so I started a cryptocurrency to fund my gofundme to fill all 53 billion drains in my neighborhood
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@ticky ™ vs ™️ enrages me greatly. nobody wants a full-size non-font-matching "TM". ever. just why
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@CarlWatkins@mastodon.social @Cloudslave@aus.social yep. this is I think my main complaint about Twitter clones. non-centralized ones avoid the "always encourage more follows because it feeds addiction" somewhat better, but centralized ones always fall into that trap, and it encourages worse-for-everyone behaviors because nothing else works at all
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@ticky agreed, this is one of the reasons I like a bit of friction in joining and adding people to follow (and thus oppose "starter packs"). slower and more careful (and more varied!) is best, and produces more lasting communities.
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@carlrichell a rare sufficiently-blurred glass UI sighting, wow. looks great!
how well does it handle low contrast setups? does it need like dynamic light dark shifting or is it clear enough without / the base color is strong enough to not need it?
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@Nickiquote @TheBreadmonkey 9/10 periodontists know this one weird trick to getting valuable patients
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io I'm quite fond of the "come sit on my couch and do what you were going to do anyway but it's like we're cohabitating and we could talk about it at some point if we feel like it" kind of plan with friends
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@jwz@mastodon.social @flpvsk@mastodon.social the conversations have been happening and will continue to happen, yes? Or is there a sign that it has been stopped everywhere?
And on the ethical side, it really does seem to me that it's largely a brick wall between the two, and few cross over. The kind of unproductive fights that leads to are obvious, and happening all over. So you're kinda left with: A) fight and go nowhere (which we agree is not what they need), B) fork and the associated costs (either you leave or you kick them out), or C) moderate to try to make progress. I'm not really seeing any other options.
(I'm not deeply active in the community, maybe there are signs it's just being shut down everywhere? If there are, then I entirely agree with you)
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@carrot_c4k3@mastodon.social
>... we knew that there was going to be this big push for safety, and we were worried that that safety might infringe on civil liberties...
"... so we built the most detailed and invasive surveillance system we possibly could, and sold access to it to literally anyone" is obviously the most reasonable next step there
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@WEATHERISHAPPENING there NEEDS to be a "sexy spirit airlines" costume in there this year.
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@tranquillity@mastodon.minionflo.net @catsalad@infosec.exchange saladness approaches infinity as zoomies continue
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io near boiling! mamma mia that's some spicy spring water.
I suppose it's not too surprising since geysers are just boiling water. but definitely neat that there's a steady enough source to heat an entire river worth *that much* :blobfoxsweating: