The modern longevity movement is a vampire disclosure program

Emacs is a pretty good operating system

I just wish it had a good text editor

if we were living in a simulation, what would that change for you?

assuming we’re not in a simulation, we already can’t prove anyone but ourself is conscious, and even that’s a stretch

“Attention, duelists!” <- my hair

How can I check the viability without building the software or hardware?

1. see if the thing already exists

• if it does and is successful, great, viable idea. now figure out how the existing thing sucks (see 2)
• if not, great, maybe an untapped niche

2. figure out who the intended users are and talk to them. what do they want? what do they hate?

• filter through a fine mesh of common sense, pragmatism and cynicism

3. build a basic version that adresses some subset of identified needs (and that users hate less), get feedback, iterate

it helps when you are an intended user since that’s a tighter feedback loop

only 10 bits of entropy? 👌🤣

You’re not the only person, but it’s definitely not the way to keep your shit safe online.

Best practice is to use a different sufficiently strong (e.g. long and random) password for every account. That way, when an account’s password is leaked, it doesn’t immediately compromise every other account for which you’ve reused that password.

I generally advise people to use a password manager (I like Bitwarden) to store their myriad passwords, so they only have to remember a single master password.

ofc these bots aren’t necessarily sneaking into their operators’ password managers and stealing their passwords; the operators willingly and knowingly given the bots access to these things, so they can offload the drudgery of e.g. looking at a calendar to them

we could be using this technology to solve real world business problems

doesn’t even have to be the site owner poisoning the tool instructions (though that’s a fun-in-a-terrifying-way thought)

any money says they’re vulnerable to prompt injection in the comments and posts of the site

the bots behind subreddit simulator weren’t semi-autonomous agents with access to their operators’ private lives, auth tokens, passwords, emails (and gods only know what else), and the authority to act in the world on their behalf

genuinely terrifying

There’s a frood who really knows where his towel is.

Was going to say the same thing.

The accident was … that they tested the original Default Brown TM, found it gave people motion sickness, and refined it? Or that the art director directed the artists to make the game stand out from the generic brown crowd?

mentlegen

The web’s dying. The FSF’s dying. Windows 11 is made out of people. Dont you see? It’s people. They’re making our software out of people. Next thing, they’ll be breeding us like cattle for training data. You’ve gotta tell them. You’ve gotta tell them!

CentOS 3.6

the off-white background and low contrast font color are signs for sure

there are also subtle differences between each usage of a given character (the serif on each “e” and the apostrophes stand out most to me) and inconsistent kerning

when I was but a baby sysadmin, my boss did that to a production server