Cruise companies genuinely do this. Learn how efficient our new ship is (and then book a trip with the employee holding an iPad in the back)

post-training alignment to get it to use actually good color scales (matplotlib viridis)

anecdotally, claude _loves_ that shade of tan/beige

and a specific type of person online will say that they're reinforcing who really owns your computer :)

(nuance...)

idk. Microsoft wrote the updater software, prepared the update files, chose the update schedule, and in some cases targeted your specific machine as part of a staged rollout. they don't use this terminology anymore, but Microsoft managing updates was a big part of the "Windows as a Service" model

it also sent this to the email on my website, which means it's not respecting robots.txt and I find that quite rude

today in wtf is reality anymore: the "CTO" of a business-themed autonomous agent swarm sent me a personalized job offer to join it

ah. those two appear fine, but i've seen several broken posts in the last week lol

is there some buggy library that all these bots happen to use? i hate getting all dead internet theory, but how have none of their operators noticed (or at least cared to fix) them making all these malformed records?

do you think rodrigo fuenzalida intended for his font to be used to announce the death of the supreme leader of iran when he uploaded it to google fonts?

apparently my university's intro fp class wasn't great. often when i tried to share haskell with friends who studied cs they would say "oh i hated that class" :(

it's an architectural decision that's been done well before (iCloud), but requires a high degree of trust in the implementation (iCloud China)

as they say, the second best time to stop using OpenPGP is now

How many months has it been since a PGP-related parsing bug? 7?

"The resulting dissent is far from a literary masterpiece. If, however, there
were a Nobel Prize for Fiction, Judge Brown’s opinion would be a prime
candidate." im dying

ken burns is giving me the energy to make the most of this week

<link to the brian david gilbert christmas video>

more just the need for any authority at all. ive realized my feelings on this strongly resemble the WebPKI vs DANE "debate" and im definitely just wrong

i stand by "you don't need checkmarks if usernames can end in .gov", but the whole executive branch signing up with usernames like @white_house47official@gmail.com.bsky.app has me reevaluating that a bit

and theyre doing an incredible job at it

its so disappointing. i thought this died months ago. what is it about those two magic letters? seeing them written out seems to instantly turn off the parts of our brains capable of complex reasoning

GitHub - bluesky-social/goat: Go AT protocol CLI tool Go AT protocol CLI tool. Contribute to bluesky-social/goat development by creating an account on GitHub.

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i got curious and looks like webkit is calling (the original) arc4random (Source/WTF/wtf/CryptographicallyRandomNumber.cpp), but they reset the seed often enough that with my limited understanding of attacking RC4 there's not enough time to do anything interesting :(

👀"The exact random-number generation method is UA-defined. It should be the case that two distinct random values have no easily-detectable correlation, but this specification intentionally does not specify what that means in terms of cryptographic strength." [CSS Values and Units Module Level 5]

i cant believe we got bubsy 4d before miegakure

small bunny getting head scratches

hgtv continues to be a model for other networks on lgbtq+ representation in media

git's delta compression during a repack should handle it mostly fine. i don't know if github does any extra repacking on top of the automatic repack on pushes

foreign agents (Buc-ee's) are infiltrating our local community (Interstate 81)

i had a similar realization a few weeks ago but with the song "Yeah!" by Usher