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Coworker: Dude, wake up!. The deadline is here. We need to push change.

Me: Noop. Read-only Friday.

When Wizz Air wrecked the immigration stats

You’d think it would be hard to miss half a million people, but the Office for National Statistics (ONS) managed it nevertheless. Realisation of this problem dawned just over a decade ago, when the results of the 2011 census were published. The census revealed that there were nearly five million foreign nationals in the country — 464,000 more

timharford.com/2023/06/when-wi

#UndercoverEconomist

@Edent day to day security updates automatic. Major versions when prompted so typically on the ...1 releases

@PJ_Evans @Seruko @emilymbender and in this case, they've obfuscated to the user what the program is intended to do.

A human "asking a question" of an LLM is doing so with the expectation of an answer (a logical assumption, but wrong). An LLM doesn't treat that input as a question to answer, but as a prompt to generate text. No part of its programming cares whether the generated text correctly answers the question posed.

The Tor/Forge blog has the first chapter of my upcoming novel Start Villain, you know, in case such things excite you

torforgeblog.com/2023/06/12/ex

@pwaring our place has interconnected mains ones. Think now on last place that sells replacements as they need refreshing every 5y or so.urgh.

@Tusky just get 'network error' on trending hashtag page.
Pixel 6a, fully updated

#Tusky v22 has been released!

Changes in this release include:

✅ View trending hashtags from the side menu, or as a tab
✅ Edit image descriptions and focus points after posting
✅ Better ordering of languages when writing a post
✅ Mastodon v4 filters
✅ Show the differences between different versions of edited posts
✅ Accessibility improvements

Available in Google Play and F-Droid, the full release notes are other assets are at github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/rele

Now that #Tusky v22 is released I'll be doing a post a day on each new feature or user-visible bug fix you might see.

I'm not covering everything. Notably, I'm skipping over the amazing translation work that's done by volunteers at weblate.tusky.app/.

I'm linking to the initial authors of each change, and the change itself. Open source is a collaborative effort, and credit also belongs to everyone who provided feedback on the changes.

@Edent someone saw "no style, just class" in the coding standard and missed the point

WOW: Boris Johnson is to step down as an MP with immediate effect after receiving the Partygate report — bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-658

@mikeylikestech@infosec.exchange @kint @briankrebs depends. what custom automation might you have around the current products API for instance...

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