Mastodawn

We're all watching someone lose $500 to an AI agent that trades 24/7 with the enthusiasm of a casino and taking notes on the flames. In eighteen months, this will be completely normal. Your CEO's already thinking about it.

https://blog.knowbe4.com/humans-will-give-ai-anything-if-you-make-it-sound-cool-enough

Humans Will Give AI Anything If You Make It Sound Cool Enough

There's a beautiful moment happening right now, and by 'beautiful' I mean 'horrifying in that can't-look-away-from-the-car-crash sense.'

bob Feb 11

solo Feb 11

WINDOWS NOTEPAD APP REMOTE CODE EXECUTION VULNERABILITY

bob Feb 10

Jennifer 🍄Feb 9

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.

this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

the usual password

new tech warcrime

ppl always complain that the clock on my microwave never shows the right time bcs i cant be assed to set it manually

so now i have an unfuck-microwave.sh cronjob which briefly kills its power every day at midnight

bob Dec 30

nixCraft 🐧Dec 30

User: Hi! I'd like a wake up call.

Hotel front desk: The entire modern web infrastructure you rely on is held together by a handful of volunteer run opensource projects, and if one lead maintainer decides to delete their repository today, the global economy would stall by noon.

bob Dec 29

Alex Rock Sep 26, 2023

Project manager: "What's technical debt? Explain it to me like I'm 6 years old"

Devs:

(source: "Richard Scarry's Storybook Dictionary" : https://archive.org/details/1scarryRichardStorybookDictionary/page/n56/mode/1up )

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Storybook Dictionary Richard Scarry's

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bob Dec 18

Accidental CISO Dec 18

Pro-Tip: You don’t have to wait until mid-life to have a crisis.

bob Dec 18

Koen van Hove Dec 17

Because I felt bad for all the DNS people having to miss out on the joy of working with rsync, I started on a DNS resolver over rsync. It should be mostly functional already.

Feel free to try it out. The records appear as files, and the time is set to when the TTL will expire.

bob Dec 14

Hailey Dec 11

the g in gobject stands for glib, and the g in glib stands for gtk, and the g in gtk stands for gimp, however the g in gimp stands for gnu, so really the g in glib stands for gnu, but you shouldn't confuse it with gnulib, which is developed by the gnu project, who shouldn't be confused as the developers of glib, which is the gnome project, in which the g also stands for gnu

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