Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

if the IA ever dies for good, there's gonna be a temptation to blame them for making mistakes that caused it (not having better infosec, taking off lending restrictions to try to help at the beginning of a global pandemic that shut down the world), but if they go down, they were taken down by deliberate actions by people (book publishers, hackers) not by forces of nature*

could they have played defense better? yes, could they have been less naive about how publishers would react during the pandemic, probably, but they were still deliberately targeted and we shouldn't misplace our anger

*(although there is a tendency to treat malicious hackers and corporations as forces of nature who have no choice but to do what they do, this is not true, these are human beings who make decisions)

here's your periodic holiday reminder that FUCK THE SALVATION ARMY

they're a queer hate organization. don't fucking donate to them. only shoplift from their stores. tell their solicitors to eat rocks

Me before starting ADHD meds: "but without being legally allowed to drive how will I live in this city 😭"

Me after starting ADHD meds: "wow I sure am walking a lot more lately"

Reminder: Users have _availability_ and _utility_ requirements in addition to their needs for privacy and security. If privacy and security were all they needed, they would just stay off the internet.

The "all the major journals are just letting blatantly LLM generated papers through" thing should be a way bigger wake up call that science is broken than the daryl bem 2011 ESP paper, but since the obvious prescription is "abolish the whole fucking racket" the response is tellingly tepid.

#OpenScience was all fun and games when it was purity tests and window dressing, but when it comes time to refuse to publish in prestige journals and rebuild anti-profitable human-led communication systems, there isn't much appetite for it.

ad copy talking about how company X must fight of 100000 cyberattacks every day are so funny like you can just tell that they count every instance of „someone tried to ssh in as root“ as a „cyberattack“ to make things sound dramatic

I made a histogram of wealth distribution in the United States, using the Forbes 400 list that just came out. Almost the entire US population is in the red line at the left, one pixel wide. To fit Elon Musk on the graph, each pixel is $500 million wide. In other words, from the perspective of the very rich, $0 and $500 million look the same.

I don't know why the internet is so full of sites that are happy to let you add alt-text to their images but don't understand that you should probably not put the textbox to enter that alt-text OVER THE FUCKING IMAGE.

I can't transcribe the image if I can't see it, guys!

For a company that has spent years talking about how important the "Open Web" is, this is some petty bullshit.

Two little business bros couldn't work their shit out like adults and now it's everybody's problem.

Pathetic.

https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/113277490070161595

is there a good (open source) tool for enumerating installed software on Windows?

there is a list in the Windows Registry but that only includes software installed in the "proper" way

it excludes portable software or just any random package cloned from GitHub

basically: any software that is in between the typical project SBoM and InstallShield™ installers.

Vlaanderen: We willen een B-Ticket.
Ook Vlaanderen: Er mag in het kader van een B-Ticket geen cent van elders naar Vlaanderen, of een cent vanuit Vlaanderen naar een andere regering of deelstaat vloeien.

Conclusie: Er komt geen B-Ticket.