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@silvermoon82 I've heard of something similar being used as a pretext for scams, fwiw.

Today Google bricked my Chromebook by force-installing a hidden extension that trains a machine vision model on the contents of my screen without my consent, making the whole machine too hot to touch, and I am once again begging someone, anyone, to remove Chrome from Google by any means necessary.

research.google/blog/screenai-

Sowieso moet het eens klaar zijn met die visexpedities ("grote veiligheidscontroles") van politie. Het zal ongetwijfeld goed zijn voor het boetequotum, maar het doet nul komma niks voor de structurele veiligheid en fungeert vooral als manier voor agenten om eens even lekker los te gaan met hun macht.

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that may be your experience, but the stopped clock machine has been right or close enough in my personal testing and the benchmarks

My new hobby: when I see a white dude (yes, he's always white, and always a dude) whining about people being wrong for blocking people too much, I block him.
Block blockity.

Chard is a magical vegetable, it seems. Its leaves substitute spinach, its stems substitute asparagus and such, you can continuously harvest it and it just regrows, the planting is "whatever, as long as there's vaguely some sun somewhere", and in some cases it'll even continue growing through winter

"Zo'n honderd controleurs van de NS en politiemensen hebben donderdag meegedaan aan een grote veiligheidscontrole. [...] Hij stapt op de trein naar Vlissingen en komt bij controles van alles tegen. "Bedelaars, [...]"

Dit soort shit is dus wat mensen bedoelen met "criminaliseren van armoede". Of je ondersteunt die mensen eens, in plaats van ze als 'veiligheidsprobleem' te behandelen. Klootzakken.

omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/466521

@navi Right. The 'correct' way to handle this sort of thing would be to do 'rolling' migrations, in that upon auth, the password gets re-hashed with the currently-default algorithm and stored. But almost nobody actually implements that. It's annoying.

@navi The simpler solution would be to just use argon2id, tbh, which is a better option than bcrypt in basically every respect

@navi ... aha. Previously it was stored in plaintext.

@navi I'm really curious now what they are migrating *from*, exactly...

(The 72 character limit is actually a limit of bcrypt itself and I'm not really sure why they're migrating *to* bcrypt in 2025)

just saw the best sponsor segue ever on a youtube video. "and speaking of leaking highly classified military information, today's video is sponsored by Warthunder"

Any tech that 80% works, but is 15% meh, and 5% catastrophic will fill the air with overwhelmingly positive case studies, the "meh" crowd won't be motivated to say anything because they think they're the exception, and the rest will be too busy digging themselves out of the rubble to say much if anything

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Telling. Quantity of male versus female dialogue in best picture films of recent decades

(by @puddingviz)

Someone is trying to impersonate me on telegram reaching out to my followers who are interested in commissioning me.

🚨 please be aware this is not me! It’s a scam trying to get people to pay for commissions they’ll never receive.

I am not on telegram

if you're a student and you're not using LLMs just stick with it you are going to be running absolute mental circles around your peers by the time you graduate

heat kills magnets
electricity heats up the stuff it flows through
and it was today i finally figured out why electrical motors and speakers “burn out”

It occurs to me that 'meritocracy' is just the divine right, but for capitalists - if the system is currently the dominant one, then that must be "because god ordained it so" / "because it was the best system and therefore rose to the top", and therefore it is above criticism

surnames 

it's kind of amazing to see just how rigid the cultural assumption of "people always have a first and last name" really is…

like, buddy. you are trying to extract blood from a stone. there is no surname, only Tully.

if you insist that I enter a last name I will type a dot.

if you insist that it has to be a letter it will be T, for Tully.

if you insist that it needs to have more than one letter, I will enter my last name as Tully, because it is the last word of my name.

if you insist that the two need to be different then I will curse your fucking website to hell and choose not to spend money with you.

if for some reason I cannot avoid using your product or service, I will enter something absolutely baffling into your dataset like "Rev. Vismund Cygnus XVIII" and I will sneak nonprinting Unicode characters into as many weird places as possible to make you suffer.

I promise, your e-commerce site does not need separate first/last fields; you need a delivery address and a billing name.

that's it.
piss off.

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