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Justin Fitzsimmons
@smn@l3ib.org
mastodon 4.7.2He/Him - Toronto 🇨🇦 - Software developer
Big into nerd shit of all kinds, but especially vidya games. 🤓🕹
“I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I’m not kidding” 😎
Obsessed with the #FermiParadox 👽🛸🔭
#VideoGames #BoardGames #TTRPG
🎶 🤘#Metal 💿🌐 #Vapourwave 🪩 #Disco
🧠 #Neurodiverse #Accessibility #Disability
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Joined November 28, 2022
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@evacide@hachyderm.io @tehfishman@ioc.exchange the guy was under duress in a situation where he was not entitled to legal representation so the opinion of lawyers is somewhat less significant
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@dalias@hachyderm.io would be good to propose an alternative terminology, if you know of one
So I set up a XMPP server in my homelab this weekend to see how the ecosystem has evolved since the last time I used it. Only took me a few hours.
It seems like it has pretty much everything we'd expect from IM these days? E2EE with forward secrecy, group chats, message archives, reactions, file uploads, audio messages, voice and video calling, location sharing, etc. etc. It's even federated!
Why are we sleeping on this tech? Is there some unmitigated downside I haven't discovered yet?
A fascinating thing about being on the inside of a software company that wanted to become "AI Native" is that I get to watch the bubble pop from the inside.
We're staring down the barrel of a 1000x price increase for the LLM cost of servicing this critical path workflow that we've had in production for 2 years. That's a napkin math estimate but even if I screwed it up, the smallest unit of capacity that the vendor will sell us is still 100x more than what we used to pay.
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@QasimRashid@mastodon.social I learned recently via wikipedia that Mitch McConnel also did a gender-affirming procedure on his name
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@randahl@mastodon.social I'm not saying they would, of course, but it's interesting to think about how Ireland is within range of the Flamingo missiles that Ukraine has been using to knock out war-supporting industrial facilities in Russia.
And also worth mention are the long range drones that have been disrupting Russia's shipping in the Baltic Sea.
Even while fighting for their right to exist, Ukraine shows a lot of restraint.
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@alice @lunareclipse @chirpbirb they were already able to do that the whole time, now the toxic harassers can deal with their own toxic harassers instead 🤷♂️
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@TTimo@mastodon.social I've been keeping an eye on this: https://codeberg.org/ChiPass
It's an explicitly anti-slop fork of keepassxc and I've been following their pull requests since they forked. As their own page says, they haven't made a formal release yet, but I'll consider switching to it from keepassxc when they do.
I acknowledge that this does not fall into the definition of "better" for a lot of people, though.
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@BillMcGuire @Nonilex does it do anything to the host nations, really? Those troops are there to support US force projection. Removing them just makes it harder for the US to conduct overseas operations...
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@jerry@infosec.exchange @nyanbinary@infosec.exchange the rate at which the Agile manifesto was "creatively" "reinterpreted" to mean the opposite of its original intent gives me a lot of skepticism about religious texts that are thousands of years old
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@thomasfuchs I agree with you completely. However, also in this case:
🏴☠️ "Oh, no! Anyway..."
@MrMurphy@mstdn.social @verge@mastodon.social isn't that the status quo on X already
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@latelesley@mastodon.scot @Viss@mastodon.social does this mean you can make a HDMI cable with malware embedded in it?
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@twipped I do agree with a lot of the earlier parts of this comment but I think it failed to stick the landing on its conclusion. There is still an enormous amount of innovation space left in tech that would keep plenty of software developers occupied for decades. However, those innovations don't have a simple way to be exploited by venture capitalists and turned into a quick profit, therefore as far as ycombinator is concerned, they might as well not exist.
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@TransTina@social.translunar.academy @winter@social.translunar.academy this is making me want to read the books after god emperor because I'm pretty sure that's where Herbert went with it but I haven't actually read the books so I don't know for sure 🤔
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@merill@infosec.exchange what exactly is the threat model that makes a rooted device risky for an authenticator app?
If you want an idea of how the economy's doing, my wife and are going out to dinner to celebrate that we got cold feet at the same time and decided NOT to buy a house. Even though we found one that we really like and ostensibly could afford.
Everything that's going on in the world makes it feel too risky to gamble our life savings when it feels like a major collapse is right around the corner.
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@mmiasma@mastodon.sdf.org @jalefkowit@vmst.io Bad acting?! This is seriously good stunt work
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@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social same, there's a direct link to my participation on the gentoo forums as a teenager to the skills that I employ every day in my professional and personal life some 20 years later
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@jalefkowit@vmst.io I've never heard the phrase "beer-and-pretzel", what does it mean in this context?
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@superviviansunshine in the same sense that you burn down your own house with yourself and your family inside it in order to kill a spider, sure
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@peterdutoit it's okay, Iran is doing more to end our dependence on fossil fuels in one month than 50 years of g6/7/8 meetings, I don't think missing this one will change much
has there been a reason given as to why Iran's propaganda videos about US are all Lego?
@andymoose@fedi.aiga.rocks I think the most diplomatic way I could put it is that it "accelerates an already terminal condition of sacrificing code quality to meet arbitrary deadlines"
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@sysop408 @twipped all of these things are possible with existing hardware, computer science, and human interface concepts. But we absolutely do not need to stop research and improvement in any of those fields!
Things can get so much better in software once we're not constrained by the VC mindset! Even a modest capitalist profit motive would produce much better software than what we have now. We don't even need a space communist post-scarcity utopia to make some really meaningful improvements.
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@sysop408 @twipped when I say there's plenty of work to do I mean that every piece of software can be tested. It can be implemented in languages that fundamentally eliminate certain classes of security vulnerabilities. It can reliably provide a wide range of accessibility affordances. It can make all electronic communication secure and private. It can consume minimal resources, making it available to lower-income audiences on lower-powered devices.
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@FeloniousPunk note that the founder of TMZ is personal friends with Trump and the company is owned by Fox
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@Undercat asked my queer friend who lives in Victoria, he says:
Victoria is trying to become bikeable. It's fairly progressive, but it's expensive to live here. Victoria is also touristy so it's walkable, but the rest of the island is very car-centric. Victoria is pretty gay friendly.
He also says that the only time he's encountered overt homophobia is in Vancouver. He'd probably also try to stay out of the boonies; Nanaimo is "boonie-adjacent" apparently.
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@sinbad yeah, the "nothing happened" results are a vestigial relic of D&D wargaming ancestry. But D&D's combat has evolved so far away from those roots that it would benefit from abandoning more of its wargaming mechanics.
Hasbro's management of the IP is utterly uninterested in the details of things like mechanical consistency in their game though, so I think people are going to end up migrating to systems that better suit their tastes as D&D stagnates for a generation.
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@gabrielesvelto@mas.to I'm still confused about why the layoff stock pump trick worked for everyone except cloudflare
@mikemccaffrey@wandering.shop sincere question: what's to stop you from asking your financial planner to avoid doing that?
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@glyph they also act as a conduit for Clod's confident fabrication of plausible-sounding factoids into the mortal realm. They persist in doing this despite the repeated times I've had to abruptly interrupt and correct them. Which sounds like an asshole thing to do, but who is actually being the asshole here? If I politely wait my turn before correcting objective falsehoods, this entire will be off course and everyone's time will have been wasted on a """hallucination"""
@rmondello@hachyderm.io my parents are starting to get old and they want to make sure their children and/or people they've granted power of attorney to can access their online accounts in case they're incapacitated or infirm. How can we do this with passkeys?
hypothetical: someone uses the clanker to nag you, unsolicited. how do you react?
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@sunny@gotosocial.sny.sh pretty sure both of them are gonna result in malicious code running on my computer
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@0x00string@infosec.exchange oh no! you're sending oil tankers through the strait of hormuz?