Pasting a huge AI generated explanation to a problem in an issue or pull-request is nothing but RUDE. Don't do it. You look stupid and the receivers of that feel insulted.

We are humans. We communicate like humans. Fine, use the tools you like, but don't insult us.

Ok, I've got a few friends who are epileptic and who I think would really enjoy algoraves except I daren't invite them because of the prevalence of flashing lights.

Visuals are live coded, so we can't just ask people not to make dramatic blinks, as live coding is inherently serendipitous, with unexpected results. Flashes are inevitable at the point of the HDMI output port.

However, I wonder if there might be additional options to increase accessibility. Our normal practice is to plug directly into a projector, but I think we could have an intermediate filter that detects the kind of value changes that are like to trigger a seizure and can fade them more slowly. Does something like this exist off the shelf?

Is there a way to add this kind of filter to web based languages so web pages can optionally operate in a safe mode?

I'm not saying "no strobes ever" but it would be extremely good of we could say "no strobes sometimes."

#algorave #livecode #accessibility

#Signalapp doesn't actually delete messages when they're deleted (either manually or by automation). The message deletion is written to Write-ahead Log, and the data is only truly deleted once Signal is restarted or threshold of 1000 pages is reached. For macOS Signal application, extra complication arises from the fact that the signal message database can be backed up before the database consolidation occurs. Large amount of the supposedly already deleted messages could be recovered from the device or backups.

This concerns use cases where deleting messages actually getting removed in timely manner is of high importance and recovery of the deleted messages could lead to grave consequences.

TL;DR: If you don't care about deleted messages being actually deleted you don't need to worry.

Full advisory at: https://sintonen.fi/advisories/signal-deleted-but-not-forgotten.txt

#fulldisclosure #infosec #cybersecurity

I think every one of the last dozen photoshops I’ve done has had some knob or another reply with “AI SLOP!!”.

Look. Skill issue. You may not be able to hallucinate absolute dorkarse nonsense by yourself, but some of us can.