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If you're following someone who posts interesting stuff but boosts way too often, you can mute just their boosts:
1. Go to the account's profile page
2. Click the ⋯ button
3. Click "Hide Boosts"
Their own posts will continue appearing in your timeline as normal, but their boosts won't.
Really, it is bad. Other people build blocklists by going through the replies on my posts and just adding the people who are being jerks.
@evacide I'm sorry about this. This place has a reply-guy problem.
@thomasfuchs Sadly prophetic. I wonder if @sundogplanets has seen this...
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1960s: the computer when programmed correctly can perform trillions of operations without a single mistake:
Pentium fdiv bug era: in some rare cases excel may let a bug in the CPU slip past.
LLM era: we rolled 6x10E9 dice and days have 37 hours, finger count is random, your files were deleted lol.
Unnamed TNG skant beefcake
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guy whose opinion is always whatever the trendy new opinion is in tech: "heheh, bet you didn't expect that opinion did you? I'm pretty subversive ;)"
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Haha. CCS2 electrical vehicle chargers communicate by running powerline commnication (yes, a full IP networking stack) over the wires plugged in your vehicle. And yes, some charging stations have a ssh listening, with default credentials (root/root).
https://www.saiflow.com/blog/the-hidden-ccs2-attack-surface-on-ev-chargers
(thanks @faheus for pointing me to it)
Killing those children in Gaza has been difficult for all Americans!
*Such * a difficult time.
This got reported - to me, but whatever - as antisemetic. Where it not for the immense upside being an influencer I'd not bother.
Dane 🌎🖖✌️☮️⚛️☸️🕉️
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Scissor Tail on Steel
I spotted this scissor‑tailed flycatcher (Tyrannus forficatus) as we were leaving our hotel in Harrison, Arkansas. It was a first for me.
Step into a world where even the smallest moments—like the glint in a bird's eye—tell their own story.
https://swede1952-photographs.pixels.com
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #scissortailedflycatcher
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I keep thinking about upgrading the connection for infosec.exchange. Maybe some day…
Dane 🌎🖖✌️☮️⚛️☸️🕉️
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Monochrome Curiosity
Here is a tufted titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) perched on the edge of my birdbath, leaning forward as it looks curiously down toward the ground. I chose to capture the moment in black and white simply because it felt right.
The reason humans don’t want to generate personalized AI movies is the same reason humans don’t talk about their dreams:
Nobody else gives a shit
https://youtu.be/ZXJGYrlfi6A?si=H8m1uJQZ3kesYPpJ
@Daojoan Telling each other about our dreams is a way to maintain intimacy.
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One of our beloved Alberta activists, Mikayla Resists, came to a public event called the Premier's Pancake Breakfast, and asked Premier Danielle Smith why she used her position to platform the alt-right extremist and Alberta Separatist, Alberta Proud Dad. This line of questioning made the authoritarian Premier uncomfortable so Alberta Sheriffs were brought in to drag her away, leading her to scream out to the Premier, "Fuck your fascist pancakes!" This has now become the rallying call for progressive Albertans.
ICE wrongly got ahold of individuals' Medicaid information and then wrongly gave it to Palantir. The Trump regime is building an authoritarian infrastructure to have detailed private information on as many Americans as possible and give that to its favored corporate partners. https://www.npr.org/2026/07/17/nx-s1-5898504/ice-medicaid-palantir-data
Orbital AI datacentres come with latency issues. If they're in LEO, they will have moderately low latency to a moving point on Earth, but for a fixed client the latency will increase as more relays are needed to account for curvature, so the jitter is high. If you put them in geostationary orbit, the latency is fixed, but large.
The solution to this is to put not just the AI datacentres, but also the AI bros in orbit. If you put an AI bro and a small radio in LEO, in the same orbital trajectory as an AI datacenter, they will have very low latency - indeed, significantly lower latency than ground-based routing if both they and the datacentre are on the ground.
Importantly, AI bros have a lot less mass than datacentres. As such, they are much cheaper to launch. As a pilot programme, to assess feasibility, I recommend launching a test constellation of AI bros into LEO. Note that, unlike datacentres, AI bros are made out of non-toxic (at least, in the chemical sense) substances. The environmental impact of uncontrolled atmospheric reentry is significantly lower, making the risk from the failure of a pilot deployment significantly lower.
@david_chisnall also, as I recently suggested, send billionaires into space. No space suits or ships, just all billionaires. That would be much less space junk than super genius' satellites and we'd see the stars again.
The other day I accidentally discovered that I have the 31st most-followed account on Mastodon and this goes a long way toward explaining why my mentions/replies are so weird and terrible.
I know this doesn't help you at all, but I am very grateful to have you here. You were one of the best voices on Twitter, and I'm so glad we both chose the same venue after the nazis took over the old bar...
#Burnham's cabinet so far, rated in 🤮s out if 5 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
1/:John Healey named chancellor 🤮🤮🤮🤮. Warhawk rightwinger, but at least he's not Mahmood
2/ Shabana Mahmood to continue as home secretary 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮. Was Vlad the impaler unavailable?
3/ Ed Miliband named foreign secretary 🤮🤮. He will be OK, but would be ten times better in energy or Treasury. A fine talent wasted.
4/ Louise Haigh as chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Good call, so no pukes.
@2legged agree re 3, though good to have Cooper out
@evan @mattblaze
I wonder if the sheer number of decisions ends up hiding what functionally ends up being less actually agency, mostly in terms of a lack of diversity in the choice options.
i thought this said national scream day
It is open to interpretation. There have been lots of national scream days lately.
