kibiz0r @ kibiz0r @midwest.social

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It’s all part of it.

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.

When you complain about Big Balls at DOGE, it makes you sound ridiculous, which makes it easier to dismiss your concerns.

Arm could’ve just coasted off of unnecessary license fees for decades, but they’re over-extending and making themselves an unattractive business partner.

Bad timing with the EU ramp-up too — a RISC-V future has never looked more likely.

2004-era RealPlayer stream artifacts IRL

Vampires… Man, I dunno…

Fun fact:

The marshmallow test was an excellent predictor of future success. Not because it measures self-control, but because it measures family wealth.

The kids who “failed” the test had adults in their lives that made promises they couldn’t keep. They said “maybe we’ll get you that thing you want, when my next paycheck comes” and then the paycheck never came.

So when adults told them “you can eat this marshmallow in front of you — one that actually exists — or you can wait for two that you’ll just have to trust me on”, they understandably called bullshit on that.

It’s been 6 and a half years

Wind of change: did the CIA write the cold war’s biggest anthem?

This feels like one of those IQ bell curve memes.

Low end: Voting is important, cuz you pick who’s gonna fight for you

Middle: Voting is useless, cuz they’re gonna fight against you, not for you

High end: Voting is important, cuz you pick who’s gonna fight against you

Let’s Encrypt handles over half of the certificates on the web.

If there’s another Heartbleed-style attack, CAs need to be ready to do mass revocation of certificates. That will take a ton of resources.

Defunding them places the entire internet in a precarious position.

Do you just automatically get owned by Russia once you hit a certain level of fame/wealth/influence?

Or is this just like those people wearing ear bandages to emulate their Dear Leader?

Don't worry, if you can't afford a computer to manage your crypto, your employer can manage it for you (for a fee)

Xhrome and Stardroid, but yeah.

Lowest point in US history so far

Valid options are:

• What it looks like
• How it looks

Not:

• How it looks like

It currently is, but they are shipping a Linux version this year.

how it looks like

This phrase drives me crazy.

If you’re designing games for the male gaze, the gender select screen is basically “are you here for the ooh-ra, or the a-woo-ga?”

Meanwhile, AI vendors:

“AI will soon be the only way we access information and make decisions!”

Well, the harvesting isn’t illegal (yet), and I think it probably shouldn’t be.

It’s scraping, and it’s hard to make that part illegal without collateral damage.

But that doesn’t mean we should do nothing about these AI fuckers.

In the words of Cory Doctorow:

Web-scraping is good, actually.

Scraping against the wishes of the scraped is good, actually.

Scraping when the scrapee suffers as a result of your scraping is good, actually.

Scraping to train machine-learning models is good, actually.

Scraping to violate the public’s privacy is bad, actually.

Scraping to alienate creative workers’ labor is bad, actually.

We absolutely can have the benefits of scraping without letting AI companies destroy our jobs and our privacy. We just have to stop letting them define the debate.