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@ThePiGuy24@meemu.org @bipolaron@scholar.social ah, power over Ethernet. I’ve heard of this.
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mastodon 4.7.3I like building robust, complex, useful systems out of bits, atoms, and/or people (with their consent). Unapologetically queer. 🏳️🌈 he/him/dad
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@cratermoon@zirk.us @bruces@mastodon.social Absolutely a factor. When I was responsible for such things in the past, I was told by HR and exec to keep many postings open. They are a critical signal to customers and partners of growth/health. You also might get an unsolicited “rockstar” resume of someone you must hire.
Those were the presented theories, at least. I don’t have quantitative data to support.
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@miffyhelen @cstross I have such a fridge from a very expensive manufacturer. A few months back one of the relays in the control board went off so it failed to keep temperature.
Do you suppose the app alerted me to this? Of course not; don’t be silly. I can adjust the temperature, but I can’t see the measured temp, nor do I get out-of-range alerts. Totally useless.
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@Blueteamsherpa@infosec.exchange (related article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/opinion/doge-elon-musk-usda-crops.html)
The weird thing about this story, of course, is that I thought Musk et al. were all about genetic purity...
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"20 Percent Say Al Has Taken Over Parts of Their Job"
"Al is the Boss at This Retail Store; What Could Go Wrong?"
"Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About Al?"
"More Americans Turn to Al for Financial Advice"
"Al and Drones Can Select the Most Resilient Wheat"
"Detectives Test Out a Potential Crime-Fighting Partner: Al"
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I am definitely a city boy and also recognize the extreme sustainability advantages of density (esp water and sewer, as well as offsite renewable energy) but this was very, very nice. Obviously the place it breaks down is the 2 hour drive to the hardware store.
I was reading my child a bedtime story and then my book decided it had to install a software update in the middle.
“I’m in this photo and I don’t like it.”
https://mastodon.social/@jwz/116359653177344810
Who could have guessed that allowing crypto-betting prediction markets would rapidly converge with Jim Bell’s “Assassination Politics”? 🤔
https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116239121117366190
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@BenHM3@saint-paul.us @octows@mastodon.social @joshsternberg.com @cstross@wandering.shop So, it’ll be kinda like Brexit at a global level?
There’s finally an iOS 0-click vulnerability so severe that Apple has released an update for those of us who don’t want the Liquid Ass UX! Huzzah!
https://tapbots.social/@paul/116330624484699048
I have a rude question: Is open source licensing dead?
Code assistants are trained on the universe of (variously licensed) source-available software in existence, and can recapitulate a vaguely compatible clone claiming “clean room”(ish) techniques. (See: chardet)
LLMs can be used to monetize others open source work even more trivially, as described below.
Where can we even go from here?
https://social.nouveau.community/@june/116189020908193236
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@cstross@wandering.shop @researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host although best paired with: “Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” - John Maynard Keynes
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@sc_griffith@mathstodon.xyz @funnelfiasco@hachyderm.io what do you call this act? Enterprise software!
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@alexjsp@mastodon.social it’s pretty simple. They offered you a lot of $$$ and you said “no”. So they went to a crypto-bro working at Meta and paid them instead.
There’s audit logging and you’re big enough now that they’ll get fired, but for most people there’s just no way to escalate to a human and they win.
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Bar coaster in the former British consulate in Chiang Mai… (not clear to me if there is any connection to Thailand, or Britain, for that matter)
Question: is it better to be in a sweatshop folding laundry, or in a VR headset sweatshop teleoperating a laundry folding robot? https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/12/laundry_folding_robot_8000_dollars_teleoperated/
When “Cat and Girl” hits, it really hits: https://catandgirl.com/monster-talk/
"The past is never dead. It's not even past.” (Faulkner)
https://digitalcourage.social/@Bonobo/116347204480585797
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@michael_w_busch@mastodon.online @codl@chitter.xyz @nyrath@spacey.space @vaurora@wandering.shop sadly, the widespread COVID anti-vaxx movement makes me think that cultural education about radiation threats will just lead to conspiracy theories about the Jews hiding treasures on those locations. Although I suppose such activities will be largely self-limiting.
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@jwz@mastodon.social seems to be a NASCAR thing? Not sure if that makes it worse. Lack of self-awareness is a hell of a drug.
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@canonicalisomorphism@mathstodon.xyz @gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz Who knows what basic math(s) education is like in the age the story takes place. There are people who manage to score higher than zero on the Putnam exam today…
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@gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz This is undoubtably the most Greg Egan of Greg Egan short stories (in a positive way).
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@cstross@wandering.shop @kottke@mastodon.social I was thinking more a grave misunderstanding of Darwinian "survival of the fittest", as if the "M&M duels" guy from he early days of USENET was serious, a sociopath, and now head of Health and Human Services.