Signal's "Safety Number" is an important feature that generates a pop-up which allows you to "mark as verified" a man-in-the-middle attacker. This way the attacker is verified and we can all feel better about the whole messy business.

@ellenor2000 In the states, a "sheltered workshop" is a place where people who cannot have ordinary jobs, typically, people who are "handicapped" in one way or another, are subsidized to provide employment.

I used it for a smile, but what I meant was that the math pages are mostly written by people who would not have gainful employment if it involved interaction with the rest of us.

(Except for the math pages. Never *ever* consult a wikipedia math page. They're the furthest thing from "general knowledge". Post-grads writing a language that does not resemble English in any way. They are why math departments are so often characterized as sheltered workshops.)

welcome to 2025 global politics, we got the

girlboss mussolini (meloni)
girlboss pétain (le pen)
girlboss hirohito (takaichi)
girlboss hitler (weidel)
girlboss...

fascism has updated, folks! it's now as international as capitalism is, nowadays even inclusive to gay people and women ❤️

most weaponized words in our time:

• terrorism
• empathy
• hate
• violence
• freedom
• peace
• female / woman
• antisemitism
• solidarity
• real world
• common sense
• cancel culture
• woke
• left / communist / socialist
• activist
• DEI
• law and order
• fake news

did I miss any?

…I wonder if the era of digital computing will last much more than 100 years?

It requires electrical power. And that will be around for a very long time, even as we increasingly struggle to exist.

But computing requires incredibly precise manufacturing, and when that goes – because we have created the environmental conditions where it is no longer economically feasible – every device up to that point is on borrowed time.

I’ll be gone by then, so the cursor will have outlived me at least

still think about the fact that Linus from Linus Tech Tips once said “i dropped my fair share of hard r's back then”. he meant the r-slur, and thought “saying it with the hard r” meant saying the r-slur. the entire staff was shocked.

I know what "bussy" means so what does the "h" in "hussy" mean

here’s the thing, folks: if you go “all in on AI” with an open source project you’re a contributor to, I will never again have any faith in any open source project you’re involved with. that’s the signal you’re sending. just in case you didn’t realize.

now you know.

I'm told by some respondents that "alligator auschwitz" is better.

1) Why are you fucking meme-ing concentration camps?

2) Why you think everybody knows what Auschwitz was?

3) Why I spozed to think you know the difference between Auschwitz and, say, Theresienstadt? Why I spozed to think you know who even invented concentration camps?

I ain't lookin' to be clever and cool, and I am definitely not looking to be funny. I'm lookin' to tell the simple and plain truth.

there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.

it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. "you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster."

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn't mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face.

— Joles, May 5th 2025

Imagine what computing would be like if it were still highly networked but datacenters weren't involved