I have shared your posts with so many people who absolutely adore your stories. I do too. I utterly admire your craft to paint such vivid picture sin so few words. ๐
This article gets simply to the heart of how the US government gets the techbros to collect your data as you go about your everyday life and then it purchases it to use it against you.
The US government is side stepping the Constitution and it wants you to think this is inevitable and right.
To augment information about you that it collects directly, the US Government is buying less-regulated information harvested by cameras, cellphones and apps and sold on the commercial data market.
Happy #FursuitFriday! Sorry I've missed the last few, my @azakir here and I were away travelling! But now we're back and ready to give out more fluffy hugs!
I shot this and the previous photo I posted earlier this week with my new 35mm prime lens I got a few months back. I bought it and then didn't have time to use it until a month ago when I took this photo.
Also this and the photo I posted earlier this week are the first two photos to use my new fox head logo in the watermark that I designed for my new website that I'm working on.
It's still based on the old logo, which is ultimately came from a sketch I drew on paper in a notebook in 2004 or something.
It looks fantastic!~๐ Clear and very minimalist without making it too basic or too cluttered.~ It looks perfect both up close and from afar so you did a great job with it.~โจWill you use it in your streaming interface on Twitch too?~๐บโโ
I love the tagline "In this future we will be animals"... I can't really put a paw on why, but it feels... hopeful? Validating? I just... really like it... ๐ฅฐ
i think the idea that you need to get stuff done every day without stopping has probably been the most harmful ideology to real productivity that takes advantage of highs and lets you rest at your lows
Oh heck yes. As someone who varies radically between โHeck yeah, Iโm happy working on this for sixteen hours straight!โ and /not/, Iโm on average pretty good if you accept the variability.
Targets and bean counters, forced upon us by the #ironWitch of Grantham, have smothered to death any sparks of service. People who previously cared about their jobs, now have to spend their days ticking boxes and satisfying statistics.
Customers suffer poor service while staff are miserable, and the counters always demand more beans.
If you do cool stuff, then over time you will gather a bunch of people who are interested in doing cool shit, and will quickly feel like the cool shit you're doing is inadequate because you're surrounded by people who can do cooler shit than you.
This is a desirable outcome. (It's related to the friendship paradox, too!)
Used to despair about this for years, but now with this framing it does help put into a more positive perspective being surrounded by friends who are better than me!
oh definitely! I'm mostly saying it in jest. I've been streaming casually for about 5-10 years now and I've gathered a small yet wonderful group of people so far so I have no real complaints!
huh. That really is a good perspective. I think I still need to internalise part of that. I think I have grown to enjoy meeting / being around awesome people doing cooler stuff. But I still know/think that I do very little cool stuff, or maybe not all of the stuff I want to be doing. Kinda plays into things like being shy around those people or potentially new onesโฆ But that is not really a problem when one thinks about it, and yes, truly desirableโฆ
This feels related to "jack of all trades, master of none", but not necessarily being a bad thing.
Even within a niche, say, VR, I'm tinkering with a variety of things (VR on Linux, DIY VR haptics, 3D modeling), which has led to meeting folks more competent at any of those things (e.g. reverse engineers, the haptics fox, folks who create 3D characters).
Ira Glass introduced me to a similar concept using taste as the metric. Your awareness of good work - your taste - improves faster than your skills, so you increasingly think youโre less and less good enough even though youโre getting better all the time.
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But the...
I don't desire the part of the outcome where I feel so inadequate that it dulls my interest.
Especially with a common ADHD trait of being interested in a broad range of things but rarely having the spoons to go deep in any one area, I end up feeling inadequate in many of my own areas of interest, let alone feeling the same thing in my actual day job
In this pre-paid self-own, I study security vulnerability through the lens of self-flagellation. I go through a lot of trouble to make life worse for me and ...
I thought I was going to be annoyed at his opinions at first (see https://doesmysiteneedhttps.com/), (and I kinda still was), but then I realised it's actually rather a good way to explain how the protocol works and show why lots of parts of it have to work certain way to maintain security.
The mountain doesnโt ask if youโre ready. It just waits for you to take the first step, to trust your balance, and to keep moving even when the ground feels uncertain. Ipa glides with grace while Nbowa stumbles his arms everywhere. Poor Nbowa! Sometimes we can be Ipa, sometimes we can be Nbowa (I love you, lion!) But both ways still mean the same thing, you are moving forward. BTW, I'm terrible at skiing, once I tried and I was very Nbowa, except I was wearing full clothes, who thinks is a good idea to ski only on shorts?
Digital. Procreate
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i feel like when you get to the point where you're buying an actual glare shield/AP control panel for a 737 sim, you should just automatically be given a commercial pilot's license and type certification for all aircraft
New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.
One of the main advantages of letting someone else wear your fursuit is that it lets you take lots of pics of yourself. Here we have @KandaBear wearing my Peaches around the hotel at Ainmhรญcon last weekend. #FursuitFriday
(Awhile backโฆ) โWait, is that โlegalโ to have more than one?โ โWhat are you talking about, Delta?โ โI mean wouldnโt that [having more than one fursonas] be the furry equivalent of having two different drivers licenses or passports?โ โNo! Thatโs acceptable.โ
If you are as annoyed as me about the fancy CVE-2026-31431 website not actually mentioning what Kernel versions to update to (only mentioning the commit rev), I translated this for you by looking through the releases manually and checking if they contain the fix.
The following upstream kernel tags contain the fix:
Once again, my professional recommendation in response to the latest Linux kernel vulnerability in the news is that you should gather up all your electronic devices, cast them into the sea, and retreat to the woods.
Each night, gather your children and tell them tales of the Before Times when the hubris of humanity grew so large that we made idols of sand and spoke to them as equals. Remind them that the sand, of course, did not speak or think, but we imagined it could, and let it guide us to folly.
Should a stranger ever come to your village with a glowing rectangle, encourage the youth to beat them with sticks.
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I wonder what they're going to do without Joan Rivers and John Candy. Regardless, I really hope this is as good as the first one. It's so hard to do that with sequels.
Content warning: bitching about openai/chatgpt/ai/llms
chatgpt isn't "just a tool". at best it's the worst social media website in the world; you only chat with one guy, yet everything is a click away from being publicly available to everyone. at worst it's the best way to rot your brain and lose all of your skills; you start to depend on the misinformation that it feeds you and you're stuck needing to pay Sam Altman $20 a month.
i just wanted the industry to give me a search engine that was slightly less ass, y'all. fuck me.
Content warning: bitching about openai/chatgpt/ai/llms
Couldn't agree more, tbqh. It's kind of frustrating because the concept of a natural language computing interface like that and the technology behind how it works is legitimately interesting, but in practice how it's been implemented and how it's been marketed to users is just straight up vomit inducing.
We are at or very very near peak AI bubble. I am pretty confident that it will pop no later than Q2 2027, and probably sooner. But, as always, itโs completely impossible to predict these timings exactly, so Iโm not gonna risk any money on it. โThe market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solventโ, as they say.
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It's been weird to watch online commentary on this -- lots of "this is because permits are getting cancelled due to public outcry" and "this is all expected - companies are putting out more plans than required in this race", etc, all to say that AI isn't a bubble.
Definitely worth understanding if youโre using โAIโ for pretty much any reason. The companies that make it all understand that it is generally bad and have all written as much into their TOS. You can not rely on this software. https://youtu.be/uMDwmg7i2_4
Have you ever actually read the TOS for any of the AI tools you use, well probably not but there's some fun little excerpts that you can find==========Suppor...
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