Biggles @Biggles@social.cleverlibre.org
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Father of 4, Lasers and Computers and Physics, Oh My! Soon to be a major motion picture. My Pokemons, let me show them to you.
Joined Apr 2022
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To prove the point that users will continue to click links, regardless of how obvious it is that they shouldn't, I worked with the person in charge of the monthly phishing trainings at $dayjob last month. Historically, they have used the hated ruses like fake gift cards, and I wanted to try to get away from that, especially during the holidays. We ended up using something to the effect of the following:
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Hello <first name>,
Happy Holidays. This is the monthly phishing test. Yes, really. It's not a trick. Use the <phishing reporting function> to report this as phishing. If you do not know how to use <phishing reporting function>, feel free to ask a colleague. If you still have questions, search for <phishing reporting function> on <internal docs site>.
Do not click the following link as it is there for metrics and will cause you to be assigned phishing awareness training: <phishing training 'malicious' link>
Sincerely,
IT Security Team
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I don't know how well it was received by users, but I do know that we still had more clicks than two other months in 2023, despite being explicitly told not to click the link. Users will always click links with their link-clicking machines. Relying on their discretion is either ignorant, or I expect in some cases, malicious in that there will always be a scapegoat to blame for the inevitable breach.
Just because it wasn't visible to you doesn't mean it wasn't heavily used. I worked for Quarterdeck, supporting DesqView, for years. It was used in industrial process and business backend until amusingly recently. It was the Jack-in-the-Box order system for years past when it should have been obsolete, because it worked and was super-reliable. It was used in a ton of point-of-sale software as well. And it was used because the PC had an extensible bus you could add all sorts of hardware to - that never materialized for the Amiga.
I wouldn't be surprised if there aren't still industrial processes that run under it today, despite being horribly outdated, because it just worked, and replacing custom industrial hardware is expensive.
1985 saw both the Amiga and the 80386 PC, which with DesqView had fully preemptive multitasking, but wasn't a proprietary platform. The Amiga admittedly had superior graphics - but the PC was more "future proof" because of that openness.
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“I want to make it mean something to you. That you are in the cosmos. That you are of the cosmos.”
@AstroKatie has written (and spoken) how I experience the universe, how I want everyone to experience the universe.
…five years ago, so I’m late to the party. But thank you, Katie. It’s timeless.
https://sciences.ncsu.edu/news/disorientation-a-science-poem-by-katie-mack/
Choosing to delay or just not do maintenance is a still a choice.
The outage and expense will still happen, eventually. You just no longer get to choose when or how. The money and time saved will c0me due, with interest.
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Jim quietly smiled in response while looking away from the young software engineer, “You know what I did before this? Before coding?”
“No.”
“I was a chemical plant operator. You can’t just restart one of those. The fire, the spark, the pressurization, the catalyzation, it has to keep running. Has to be tended at all times. You walk the jungles of process lines at 4AM and feel their swirling and vibration and heat. They are a physical thing. An obligation. They are more a child than the thing back there will ever be, John. You drop them and they break forever. You talk about your fear of machines. But I know someone killed by a machine.”
John started to talk, but was gently preempted in a rumbly voice.
“A human decided that. Not the braided stainlessless steel hose rotting away. A human decided it could last longer, to save money. That machine was just a messenger for the choice of a man.”
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Three new TILs today:
Running Varnish on Fly: https://til.simonwillison.net/fly/varnish-on-fly
How to get Cloudflare to cache HTML: https://til.simonwillison.net/cloudflare/cloudflare-cache-html
Writing Playwright tests for a Datasette Plugin: https://til.simonwillison.net/datasette/playwright-tests-datasette-plugin
Teeth! If you do nothing else at all, take care of your teeth.
Actually, it was a Merlin handheld video game back in '79, assuming "mobile" means "you can play it in the back seat of the car" as opposed to "it's a phone, too!"
Until I meet a LLM that is capable of responding "I don't know" when asked about something missing in its training instead of "hallucinating". The word "intelligence" has certain foundational implications that are missing here. This isn't to say it can't be made into a useful tool, just that it looks so much like intelligence that *calling* it intelligence seems intentionally misleading.
I dip my foot back in every time a new model comes along - basic factual questions - and have yet to see an "I don't know".
The Thousand Oaks Library has an *impressive* collection of DVD and Blu-Ray videos; I frequently go there and check out entire seasons of shows that are either expensive or simply unavailable for streaming. I've been slowly churning thru old stand up comedy, that was simply unavailable elsewhere. Fir oldsters like me, it nicely fills the old video rental brain hole.
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"You forgot? Must not be important."
Listen bro, I can and have forgotten to eat, pee, sleep, cash cheques. I've lost my car by taking the bus home after driving there.
Importance is not a distinguishing factor here. The fact a commodore 64 has more RAM than I do is the issue
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Alan Moore: [appearing in a clap of thunder] who dares call upon the arch magus?
King: we need you to settle an argument
Moore: speak your question, mortal, and gain wisdom
King: who's the best superhero
Moore:
Moore: do you have any questions that aren't about that
About the most I can do is boost and favorite and think grimly "I'm glad I'm not the only one..."
For extra points, guess the novel. Because I have no clue, so - wrong answers only, please.
I almost can't blame the entertainers - a gig's a gig, and none of them likely have people beating down the door, gotta make that rent. Next week, same exact show at a 8 year old's birthday party.
Almost.
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Happy New Year everyone!
A wee #picotron update: I've updated the faq, roadmap & playground with a sound toy:
https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php?page=playground
Press ESC to get into the terminal, then "load /demos/bells.p64" and hit CTRL+R to run it.
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Father of 4, Lasers and Computers and Physics, Oh My! Soon to be a major motion picture. My Pokemons, let me show them to you.
Joined Apr 2022
