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  if you, a billionaire, are going to cheat on your wife with a corporate spy, at least find a spy who has a different last name from you and your wife. it really just makes the whole thing awkward

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  this meme pushed me down a rabbit hole because this school in Dayton, Ohio is 100% real exactly as depicted, and the more you look into it, the worse it gets Incredibly unsafe location. Absolute sadsack excuse for a playground. The pavement looks like it's been bombarded. The curbs are cracked, the sidewalk is choked with grass, the doors look like they go to a murder basement. Most of the pictures online are of kids doing litter pickup On The Edge Of The Fucking Freeway because all the fr...

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  I got a free magazine in the mail that says on the cover that “smart appliances” in the home will save the overburdened Dutch power grid. Or we could not authorize that new datacenter on the other side of town that everyone’s protesting, Femke

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  rare M-blep

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  Someone in my extended social circles has been having a very outwardly visible psychiatric episode, and I personally know like a dozen people trying to get through to them and help them. I think the saddest part is that they posted wondering if they even have any friends at all. An entire community desperately trying to get through to them and save them, comparing notes and trying to figure out a plan, but the psychosis is lying to them that they're all alone. I hope that talking about thi...

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  Lubach (Dutch talkshow comedian) has done a piece on how it turns out that, in terms of websites written in Dutch, there is an unseen iceberg under the water: a forum dedicated to horses that has, over 25 years, amassed over a hundred million posts from very dedicated and loyal users, making it... one of the main sources of Dutch language training data in LLMs. This has caused it to be massively upranked in google search results as a Ground Truth, and pretty much every subject has been brought...

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  Americans, if you wonder how the other countries feel about this, the European side of my family is cold-texting me congratulations like I graduated or something

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  Odin kept bonking his head against the back of my knees until I stopped, fished around in his under-fluff and found this

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  He Sleeps Like This

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  Wendy's puts in the very first sentence of their advergame's steam page that it's made by human artists. WENDY'S. Do you have at least as much praxis as a fast food corporation?

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  an American rando spitefully called me a "eurodork" for unclear reasons. this will look great on my inburgering application :neodog_glasses_3c:

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  RE: https://mastodon.nl/@at5RSSbot/117541581765280099 so, the Dutch news does an elaborate bit every year where, with a completely straight face, as if it’s literal factual news, they report on a last-second disaster that has befallen Sinterklaas on his journey to deliver presents to the children of the Netherlands, and the urgent hard work to overcome it and deliver the presents on time Headline: all the piet costumes were destroyed in a drycleaning fire. Everyone’s scrambling to replace the...

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/117433142286370236 you don't need to do something every day for it to count! you don't need to reach any special threshold for it to count! just find some time to learn a new skill any time in November, and you've won in the only way that will ever matter! #NewSkillNovember

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  weirded out by Microsoft's security blog being like "we confirmed with Anthropic that they did not develop the malicious package." And the Cursor blog also said something similar. Like, yeah, uh, normally we take it for granted that these things are done by criminals who broke into something. It's like confirming the jewelry store didn't smash their own windows But I guess when an industry has cultivated a reputation for suddenly committing crimes and shrugging and saying...

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  My boys :blobblush:

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  okay so, it is abundantly clear that the Cursor version of the Claude plugin was compromised (a fork of VS Code), but no-one seems to know for sure whether the vanilla VS Code version was as well what we can see is that Anthropic has recently been updating the vanilla VS Code plugin once every weekday(!!! what the hell are they doing in there), and yesterday's, version .313, is missing from that history But whether it existed and then was pulled, or never made it to this platform to begin...

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  buppy on my bed #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

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  okay, so here's what I'm thinking right now: 1) we, people who like things to have some reasonable baseline amount of safety in our everyday tools, have been complaining for years that VS Code's plugin model is absurdly unsafe and an absolute open sewer; Microsoft shrugs and says it's the user's responsibility to only install reliable plugins 2) as foretold by the prophecy, a major plugin from a major company is compromised and begins pushing shell scripts to automatically...

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  Whoever hacked AO3 so hard that they're forecasting being down for a month is not prepared for what happens when every random bored paper-pusher between you and being identified and arrested has her yaoi taken away

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  when ads get through my filters, they're often rather poorly targeted because I don't fit into typical interest buckets for my gender and age, but this ad that's clearly targeted at a Levite tribesman from 1200 BCE is perhaps the furthest from the mark yet

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  a breakdown of my Bad Replies, given that the worst-of-the-worst instances are of course blocked by my moderators: - 80% users from major mainstream servers, especially mastodon.social, who have poor netiquette or the stink of subconscious misogyny about them - 15% single-user instances owned by people who have already been banned from every open-signup server and sincerely believe that every single one was completely unfair and tyrannical - 5% kolektiva users openly planning war crimes in...

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  So, my previous apartment – it was in Leiden, on a narrow medieval street, and the buildings were all quite old so they weren't all built to the same standard floor-height, and the windows were all huge. As a result, I could look out my window and have a crystal clear view of the floor of the living room across from me, where some college girls lived. One day, they had some guy-friends over. And I happened to glance out the window and see one of these boys, mid-conversation, casually and s...

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  A young boy that I suspect was probably a Ukrainian refugee came up and asked in English if he could pet Odin "because this is my favorite breed of dog," and then clearly began arguing with his mother in their native language that see, it's fine, he's ready for the responsibility of a dog over twice his size then we ran into Ace; despite living in the same building, we hadn't seen him in weeks. He's grown enough to be more of a fun playmate for Odin, shown here being...

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  “It’s a poor worksman who blames his tools” has always been complete nonsense. No-one complains about imperfect tools faster and louder than a master. A master will yank a cheap or damaged tool out of your hand and yell at you for not blaming it yet Cheap, lousy tools come from middle managers who don’t know how to do your job. Blame the hell out of poor tools and those who demand you use them

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  RE: https://cloudisland.nz/@ehashman/117481992432596098 In the Netherlands, first we got a national news alert that all government websites were shutting down because of the PHP bug, and then our national comedian-newscaster Lubach did a bit about it. so yeah, containment was breached

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  ugh. the patch is massive 🫩 the bug is based on causing an OOM condition and no-one ever accused the php interpreter of being neatly and elegantly architected, so the fix touches everything 🫩 the bugs go back many years but backporting the fix to all those versions is wildly impractical 🫩 the exploit was developed with AI assistance but it was based on existing human research, including by my old nemesis Stefan Esser. I don't remember why he's my nemesis, I assume we got into a stupi...

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  Double ADHD marriage be like: realizing we both completely forgot about our anniversary weeks ago

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  last night: I take the time to watch a funny Skyrim challenge video instead of worrying about anything important. The number 4 breaks the internet this morning: I sleep like a functioning healthy human being. PHP breaks the internet

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  okay, I’m way too late to post xkcd “4” comic and still be funny, so instead I will have to write a serious post Could this disturbingly severe mistake be because someone asked The Cat for a certificate? Hypothetically, yes. But there’s absolutely no reason to jump to that conclusion with self-righteous confidence when all serious infosec experts have been screaming for THIRTY YEARS that our programming languages are designed to maximize the probability of catastrophic mistakes in cryptographi...

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  the most Public Transport Odins of All Time #publictransport #trains #tram