Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦

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Software Developer, Photographer, Sailing Enthusiast. (he/him)

Victoria, BC, Canada

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okay, i watched a few episodes of 'history of the world part 2' and it is, predictably, stupid mel brooks humour for the most part, BUT...

it does feature an anti-leninist sr revolutionary, harmonizing boys group called 'bolsheviks2mensheviks' and the disciples call the the roman law enforcement centurions 'the ro ro', and that alone makes the first five episodes worth watching.

“to even claim LLMs “hallucinate” fictional publications misunderstands the threat they pose to our comprehension of the world, because the term “implies that it’s different from the normal, correct perception of reality.” But the chatbots are “always hallucinating,” he says. “It’s not a malfunction. A predictive model predicts some text, and maybe it’s accurate, maybe it isn’t, but the process is the same either way. To put it another way: LLMs are structurally indifferent to truth.”

I've also created a site that tells you whether we've got useful quantum computers or not:

https://arewequantumyet.taffer.ca

#quantum #cryptography #rsa #quantumcomputing

Are we Quantum yet?

Are we Quantum yet?
Also to be clear, someone advising you on privacy while also asking for your credit card info should raise massive red flags

Mago 1.0.0 - the first stable release of the Mago PHP toolchain

https://programming.dev/post/42658798

Mago 1.0.0 - the first stable release of the Mago PHP toolchain - programming.dev

Lemmy

One might be inclined to reply with some witticism about the measles outbreak in Ontario.

But keep in mind:

1) Measles is horrible, there's nothing funny about it.

2) Since RFKjr just ordered an immediate halt to all childhood immunizations in the USA, our number will probably dwarfed in short order by all manner of preventable diseases.

Uh, how about we close the border to plague states. Kthxbye.

Earlier today I started out a post about Mozilla by saying "I still don't understand why...", but in truth, the thing I was talking about is so frustrating to me that it would have been more far to say "I don't care to understand why ...", or "I'm frustrated that they are ignoring an opportunity to improve things, in order to pursue a course of action that personally irritates me ..."

So. My apologies to those who took me at face value as wanting to understand the decision-making involved.

Scoopy, new, by me:

Meet Rey, the Admin of 'Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters'

"A prolific cybercriminal group that calls itself "Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters" made headlines regularly this year by stealing data from and publicly mass extorting dozens of major corporations. But the tables seem to have turned somewhat for "Rey," the moniker chosen by the technical operator and public face of the hacker group: Earlier this week, Rey confirmed his real life identity and agreed to an interview after KrebsOnSecurity tracked him down and contacted his father."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/meet-rey-the-admin-of-scattered-lapsus-hunters/

I don't like to get too controversial but everything should stop sucking, falling apart and being bad.