⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

Penn Jillette (Penn and Teller): "The question I get asked by religious people all the time is, without God, what’s to stop me from raping all I want? And my answer is: I do rape all I want. And the amount I want is zero. And I do murder all I want, and the amount I want is zero. The fact that these people think that if they didn’t have this person watching over them that they would go on killing, raping ram[pages is the most self-damning thing I can imagine." #atheism

EU Tries To Slip In New Powers To Intercept Encrypted Web Traffic Without Anyone Noticing - https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/03/eu-tries-to-slip-in-new-powers-to-intercept-encrypted-web-traffic-without-anyone-noticing/ outrageous move, done in secret; it must be stopped... #certificates #encryption

There's an ongoing cloudflare outage, if you're seeing low-level weirdness out there today.

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/hm7491k53ppg

Has anyone posted this as a "UX fail" recently or is it my turn?

Hilariously, Apple tried to claim with a straight face to the EU, that it offers not one, but three distinct web browsers all coincidentally named Safari.

Lucky for us the team at the EC dismissed this ludicrous gambit and painstakingly ripped Apple's argument to shreds. It is baffling to us why Apple's legal team is willing to sacrifice their credibility on something that has such a low chance of success.

An excellent overview of the hardware developer ecosystem around Framework Laptops by FairywrenTech on hackaday

https://hackaday.com/2023/10/30/how-framework-laptop-broke-the-hacker-ceiling/

People go to Stack Overflow because the docs and error messages are garbage. TLDR exists because the docs and error messages are garbage. People ask ChatGPT for help because the docs and error messages are garbage. We are going to lose a generation of competence and turn programming into call-and-response glyph-engine supplicancy because we let a personality cult that formed around the PDP-11 in the 1970s convince us that it was pure and good that docs and error messages are garbage.

Anyway I wrote up my ACPI stuff in a slightly more structured form: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/68350.html

This is hilarious! “I saved my company half a million dollars in about five minutes. This is more money than I've made for my employers over the course of my entire career because this industry is a sham. I clicked about five buttons.” https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-accidentally-saved-half-a-million-dollars/

If any of you have a date in London next Sunday and you aren't planning to take them on a pub crawl via vintage bus, what even is the point of your budding romance.

Testing HTTP based adaptive bitrate systems such as MPEG DASH and HLS needs test content.

We offer a set of streams for this - and we've just updated them to include live, low latency, audio description and alternative language and webcast versions:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-10-streaming-media-testing-dash-hls

#MPEG #DASH #HLS #streaming #video

Wiktor_Tomanek is building a Joystick Expansion Card: https://community.frame.work/t/framework-joystick-modules-turning-your-frame-work-13-into-an-handheld-coming-soon/39011

"Focusing on doomsday scenarios in artificial intelligence is a distraction that plays down immediate risks such as the large-scale generation of misinformation, according to a senior industry figure attending this week’s AI safety summit."

Yeah - it is frustrating that there's so much focus on silly sci-fi threats when *right now*, LLMs are being used to fill the web with spam.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/29/ai-doomsday-warnings-a-distraction-from-the-danger-it-already-poses-warns-expert

my halloween costume is spooky af

I don’t know the answer to many of the world’s great problems. But have they tried diverting all power to the forward array? That worked for us often.

@neil @me @decodedlegal @aaisp for us the fediverse is great. Almost all our customers come from personal recommendations and in the fediverse there's no advertising to drown those recommendations out. We suspect a professional marketeer would be terrified of joining, their worst fear is discovering they're boring and they can't cover that up by buying adverts.

just me or SNS slowly turning into SQS

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/10/amazon-sns-in-place-message-archiving-replay-fifo-topics/

#aws #preinvent