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  Digital Asbestos.

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  "...Yo."

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  @benroyce@mastodon.social The full interview with Sir Ian is here on YouTube, in proper landscape format. (Prior to delivering the soliloquy, he goes on a tangent involving the tune "Some Enchanted Evening" by Rodgers & Hammerstein, which is also well worth watching.) https://youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag

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  RE: https://mastodon.world/@BrianJopek/116535953051712892 The South lost the Civil War for good and proper reasons.

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  2/2: Acto Microslop's LSP standards page, symbol "kind" is supposed to be an integer (0 == generic, 1 == read, 2 == write). So, I have no idea why I'm no longer seeing a distinction between reference kinds under Mason, nor can I explain why I'm seeing kinds as strings under CoC ("reference" and "writtenReference"). So far this only seem to affect Typescript (tsserver). Clangd and rust-analyzer appear to work as desired.

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  @dougmerritt @munificent After reading this, I started to wonder if there's a way to automatically defer promise/future resolution until the value is actually needed. Something along the lines of: buf = ReadFileIntoNewBuf (filename); // buf is of type Promise do_stuff(); do_more_stuff(); do_stuff_with_file_contents (buf); // buf is automatically resolved; possibly promoted to type uint8_t[], or ResolvedPromise. I'm almost certainly not the first to wonder about this...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@shoq/116473178344417223 The actual source of the Orwell-attributed quote is disputed. That aside, It's a legitimate point, one that should be put to every "journalist" who was present, and not let off until they provide something resembling a real answer. Once it was announced that slob would be attending, everyone else should have called in sick (to their stomach). Who would have suspected the mainstream media would descend so quickly pa...

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl/116479436083198399 Ho-lee crap. Read the whole thread. Have some Scotch near to hand; you'll need it.

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  Trump Derangement Syndrome: n. 1. A severe mental disorder whose sufferer believes Donald Trump is one or more of the following: - A successful businessman - Honest, truthful, and forthright - Innocent of fraud - Innocent of rape - Has never lost a lawsuit - The true winner of the 2020 election - Well-educated - Knowledgeable - An observant Christian - President by divine right - Infallible Sufferers are frequently a danger to themselves, others, and the integrity of democratic institutions.

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  @Graham_LRR : Something I was wondering about this morning. In some typefaces, the width of numerals is variable, "1" often the narrowest. Thus, if you're animating a counter with such a typeface, the full width of the number will jump around as it changes. In other, otherwise proportional typefaces, the numerals are all the same width such that, no matter which digits are displayed, the width of the full number will not vary. Is there a special term for typefaces t...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116521307476692073 Confirmed this was present on my desktop and laptop systems, both running Debian Sid, with the "release" version of Chrome installed. I run nightly backups, so I checked the backup logs. The file first showed up on my desktop on 27 April (the file's current date), and on 2 May on my laptop. Chrome is my backup browser for sites that won't behave in Firefox + nuMatrix. If turning off all of Chrome&#3...

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  Epilogue: Less than a day after reporting the bug to `npm`s maintainer, an update was pushed to Sid fixing the problem. Yay!

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  @stonykark @beyondmachines1 @blogdiva For the same reason a PDF reader needed a Flash Player. https://media.ccc.de/v/27c3-4221-en-omg_wtf_pdf

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  @shac IMHO, `scanf()` cannot be used "correctly," period. To handle all possible inputs robustly, you need to write your own parser.

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  RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116421159289416290 Y'know... I've been ruminating for a while that "AI" was always a scam. Previous scams were aimed at bilking the middle class. But the middle class has been almost completely hollowed out. So now they're defrauding the investor class. The first attempt was with cryptocurrency and NFTs, but it was too quickly obvious they were bore no tangible connection to reality. "AI" has fooled f...

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  RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@dougmerritt/116349163827428010 Dissent. The author's thesis makes a fundamental assumption: Code is now cheap. This assumption is false. When machine code was supplanted by assembly code, code did not suddenly become cheap. When assembly code gave way to compiled languages (COBOL, FORTRAN, Algol, Pascal, C, etc.), code again did not become cheap. If we assume LLMs are the next step in programming (and I don't), then we've simply moved anot...

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  RE: https://mastodon.online/@tomshardware/116365921116274137 If I were a manager at AAPL, I would have a rather sharp conversation with the engineer who checked this in, because it's such an obvious failure point: "Did you do the arithmetic? And if so, what made you think 49 days was long enough!?"

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  Obervation During Inebriation: Remember how Comcast whined and bitched that their peer points were being flooded with Netflix traffic (they weren't), and was making bank off of "their" subscribers? Remember how Comcast deliberately throttled Netflix until they agreed to the pay the ransom? ...Interesting that we haven't heard a peep out of ComXCastFinity, or indeed any of the CDNs, about the massive abusive traffic coming from the LLM companies.

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  @Viss Does anyone know if Blink cameras (also now part of Amazon) are similarly compromised? I have a couple of them watching my back yard.

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  1/2: First-World Kvetching: Now that Debian Sid is carrying modestly up-to-date packages for Hyprland, I'm looking to make my desktop prettier. To that end, I took a brief look at Quickshell, the basis for a fair bit of the prettiest examples out there. And then I looked at some of the "dotfiles" that are out there. Holy Crap... This screams "hodgepodge" far more than "coherent design." And while you *could* craft a package pul...

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  Stupid Random Thought from Someone Who Doesn't Know Anything About LLMs or Signal Processing: Can the neural network of an LLM be thought of as a multi-dimensional resonant cavity? If so, is it possible through prompting to inject a resonant signal into the cavity, swamping out all finer detail and effectively destroying the model?