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

 “as soon as my wife answered the door they aggressively asked for me by my full name… announced themselves as the Pinkerton Agency (which I am very familiar with their reputation), and said they were there to recover ‘stolen goods’.” After his wife asked them to wait outside, Cannon says that they “forced themselves” at least partially through the door and prevented her from closing the door all the way. 

#pinkertonthugs #mtg #wotc

https://gizmodo.com/magic-the-gathering-leaks-wizards-wotc-pinkertons-1850374546

"I want," the man said to the art robot, and then described an image in some detail.
"Certainly," said the art robot. A printout came out of its chest.
"Thank y- Hey! What's this?"
"A list of artists who make images of the kind you describe, and who are accepting commissions."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Today I learned that llvm-mca exists. It's a tool that annotates assembly with instruction latency and throughput information, as well as estimated utilization of various CPU resources.

Today I also learned that the godbolt.org Compiler Explorer has support for llvm-mca.

This means, if one ever needs to micro-optimize some code snippet taking latency/throughput into account, one can simply do that directly in the browser. Amazing.

#gamedev #cpp #rustlang

You can, and I cannot stress this enough, have however many names and whatever names you like

Like, especially on fedi. You can say “hey, thinking about trying a new name, can someone call me <x>?” and people will climb in your replies helping you feel it out.

I enable #telemetry in projects I trust if it's opt-in.

I disable telemetry in *any* project, even trustworthy ones, if it's opt-out.

If you think my usage data is valuable for you, no matter how minimal and how anonymous, you could at least ask.

Like, that's just good manners.

HN comment thread about Mastodon: guy talking about the early 00's chats and forums as barely thriving and only being used by a few people until Facebook came and brought the mainstream online.

Another answers that the net was already thriving for him back then. He gets dismissed with "Many of us software devs are a different sort".

Dude. It was everyone from children to soccer moms to my grandma. The primary draw at the time was email and once they got that they also visited forums and set up terrible GeoCities homepages about their cat. Yahoo! was exploding, Amazon was starting, pets.com was collapsing and people wouldn't shut up about eBay.

Non-techies were very much online in the 00's and they didn't need a centralized social network to do it.

It's so weird go see recent history being rewritten like that, this is barely 20 years ago.

watching all these different folding ideas videos about rich grifters

like decentraland, the mikkelsen twins, NFT's...

all these huge fucking amounts of money that're talked about... like goddamn

rich motherfuckers really are swimming in opulence while the rest of us get the crumbs huh

Google has just updated its 2FA Authenticator app and added a much-needed feature: the ability to sync secrets across devices.

TL;DR: Don't turn it on.

The new update allows users to sign in with their Google Account and sync 2FA secrets across their iOS and Android devices.

We analyzed the network traffic when the app syncs the secrets, and it turns out the traffic is not end-to-end encrypted. As shown in the screenshots, this means that Google can see the secrets, likely even while they’re stored on their servers. There is no option to add a passphrase to protect the secrets, to make them accessible only by the user.

Why is this bad?

Every 2FA QR code contains a secret, or a seed, that’s used to generate the one-time codes. If someone else knows the secret, they can generate the same one-time codes and defeat 2FA protections. So, if there’s ever a data breach or if someone obtains access .... 🧵

#Privacy #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #2FA #Google #Security

Self-driving cars are not going to be designed for safety, regardless of whether it's technically possible. We're already seeing that in San Francisco.

Take Teslas for instance. They could use their "self-driving" technology to make sure the car yields to pedestrians, stops at stop signs and red lights, and drives below the speed limit.
They don't, though. Musk knows what cars are for: they are for using violence to put your convenience over other's safety. If Tesla made a car that followed the law, customers would be furious.

We're seeing autonomous vehicles become more aggressive and reckless as well, because cars don't work without the threat of violence.

hi all ✨
i'm monir (they/de/den), based in copenhagen, denmark.

i'm a techno-anthropologist who's researched how unfairness is embedded in social media platforms, machine learning algorithms and tech in general.

key words: queer activism, sustainable and fair tech, ngo work, anger towards the system(s)

i live for: (vegan) food, my partner and our cat, the community™, doing pottery, growing fruits and veggies, gaming and tv-shows, queer futures and ethical traveling

#introduction

Hard not to feel worn down towards earning your degree when it seems like every field you could be getting into seems to have bought into ChatGPT/machine learning evangelism at the expense of ethics or even basic quality control.