Marcus Müller

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So let me get this straight... rsync made a *security release* fixing a bunch of CVEs, it regressed some stuff, people looked at the commit log, saw Claude sign-offs, and started a mob on the sole maintainer?

Yeah, this stuff is what gives legitimate AI criticism a bad name.

I don't like it, you may not like it either, but when people are throwing LLMs at legacy codebases and finding CVEs by the dozen, and a sole maintainer is trying to keep the house from falling apart... if you're attacking them, you're firing at the wrong person.

You know what's a bigger cancer on this world than AI? People incapable of seeing any nuance in situations. And this applies to absolutely everything. I'm absolutely exhausted of extremist takes. From every single side and point of view, in every single debate, AI related and not.

You all seriously need to touch grass, and learn to stop being outraged all the time over every single thing in this world.

Wednesday!
Skunk Anansie's albums are great, but the first two albums are one banger after the other. Hard to pick exactly one song, so you get one from both.
I really like the raw, rude, angry and well-sung (Skin's voice is just amazing) opener from their 1995 debut album "Paranoid & Sunburnt", so I'll just go with: Selling Jesus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P0yUagEXBE
1996's stoosh is probably the most (commercial) hit-packed of the three, but on #MusicWomenWednesday:
She's my heroine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YxLOUeWb1k
Skunk Anansie - Selling Jesus

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Läuuuft

RE: https://social.bund.de/@DeutscherWetterdienst/116759364726619317

Oh shit.
(this post contains information on my place of residence.)

The UK government's plan to teach 10 million British children how to use VPNs may be one of the most ambitious IT education projects ever launched. Experts have praised the scheme, saying that a deft combination of incentives and peer education make it more likely to succeed than other, comparable initiatives.

"With the rise of autocratic governments worldwide, VPN-literacy is more essential than ever.” said one expert, “This bold project definitely comes at the right time.”

#UKSocialMediaBan

RE: https://mstdn.social/@osnews/116754486170458162

Saving you a click: EPUB3, which the author claims to produce perfectly valid documents, supports CSS text level 3. They use CSS 4, but because the validator they rely on doesn't actually check CSS, that's not caught.
This all is obviously Adobe's fault, smh.

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Saw a melanistic squirrel (specifically, Eurasian squirrel, sciurus vulgaris; far as I know the only squirrel species around) near my place yesterday; it was *surprisingly* dark, but showed every behaviour of the local squirrels (on being approached running up the trunk on the far side, then looking from above, and reacting in clicking chatter with abrupt tail movements when being chattered at).

#squirrel #melanism #localgothfauna

Saw a melanistic squirrel (specifically, Eurasian squirrel, sciurus vulgaris; far as I know the only squirrel species around) near my place yesterday; it was *surprisingly* dark, but showed every behaviour of the local squirrels (on being approached running up the trunk on the far side, then looking from above, and reacting in clicking chatter with abrupt tail movements when being chattered at).

#squirrel #melanism #localgothfauna