@PlanetWilson

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What are the chances of Labour thinking of the long term good of the country and implementing proportional representation?
Computers are like onions. Everything is layers built on layers, and every layer makes you cry. #sysadmin

Turns out that Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set.

This is opt-out, not opt-in so if you use Lightroom, for example, it defaults to adding all of your photos to the set.

If these are unpublished pictures, work-in-progress, etc. they'll still be analysed as soon as they're synced.

I've been using Lightroom to sync photos from my Windows desktop to my iPad. Now I need to reconsider that.

U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center says its Twitter account can no longer provide tsunami warnings in real time

I must not fear my Outlook inbox.

The inbox is the mind-killer.

The inbox is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my inbox.

I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, there will be nothing.

Only I will remain.

I kind of miss when I had to defrag the computer and I could just watch the little animation of how it was all getting less fragmented and pretend that my life was also coming together like that.
Full volume conversations. Clicky man behind me rhythmically crinkling an empty beer tin. Even ANC headphones can’t deal with everything. Train people are the worst.

CVE-2023-21036 / acropalypse is absolutely bonkers.

Apparently for 5+ years the cropping / editing tools for screenshots on Google Pixel phones was only overwriting the start of the screenshot PNG file, but not truncating.

All screenshots shared for the past 5+ years might have data recoverable from them. Demo available at https://acropalypse.app/

Google still hasn't communicated anything on this.

(h/t ItsSimonTime on Musk's site)

acropalypse screenshot recovery utility

If you drag an emoji family with a string size of 11 into an input with maxlength=10, one of the children will disappear.
PSA. Please choose your food *before* you go to the bar. #clowns