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Leon P Smith
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Communications engineer and mathematician. Longtime functional programming and Haskell enthusiast, occasional Schemer. Inventor of corecursive queues, postgresql-simple, an aggregate theory of concrete mathematics, and self-documenting cryptography. Currently aspiring to become an Epistemic Frame Engineer.
VeeRatSigh.
New boss: “You’re good at writing notes.”
Me: “Thank you, it helps me to remember so I have been writing summaries for many years.”
New boss: “You should try CoPilot and see what it can do.”
Me: “Well I enjoy summarizing my notes, and it helps me to learn and remember.”
New boss: “Let me show you something I did in CoPilot.”
Ugh. Writing it myself helps me LEARN and REMEMBER. Why are these AI zombies so intent on changing a process that is helpful to me? Feeding notes through CoPilot won’t benefit me when it’s the act of writing that works for me.
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High intensity squirrel 🏳️⚧️Seriously what kind of mess has the tech industry made of 2FA?
I now have a tracking spreadsheet created to determine which services allow multiple 2FA apps to be enrolled, or whether you have to disable/reset 2FA to enroll a new device.
Some of my lesser used accounts that don’t allow multiple 2FA accounts I’ve moved over to the Pixel, but this is bloody cumbersome.
How do we expect regular non-techie people who got a new device or lost their device to be able to navigate this???
Colin Gordon@jeremysiek @krismicinski I'm moving all of my classes to required code walks. Has the nice side effect of the fact that once you convince your students that the code walk grade doesn't suffer when you find a bug during it, it often turns into a design discussion and talking about debugging strategies. I think the students also feel like their hard work is more appreciated after they actually get to chat with faculty about it.
Has worked wonderfully in undergrad compilers and grad distributed systems.
Hard to scale past 40 students though
Per VognsenTwo Attacks on Naive Tree Hashes, https://jacko.io/tree_hashing.html. Nice little article. While this boils down to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_separation, which you always need to do when hashing data types, I've definitely seen people mess this up with ad-hoc tree hashes in particular. I find the easiest way of avoiding this class of problems is to think of it as streaming serialization. Non-injective serialization is not reversible! Only the primitive compression function is allowed to be non-injective.
Low Quality FactsA lot of people are naming a lot of things that are computer.
Eleanor SaittaHuh. So Ronald Lauder, the billionaire who owns Estee Lauder, is apparently the guy who convinced Trump that he should destroy NATO by invading Greenland.
Maybe don't buy shit from them? Here's a convenient list of their brands: https://www.elcompanies.com/en/our-brands
And sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Lauder
http://web.archive.org/web/20251107131250/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/us/politics/trump-greenland.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/15/ronald-lauder-billionaire-donor-donald-trump-ukraine-greenland
Windy cityI've personally grown to hate the security theatre of rotating my bank passwords every six months, especially because of requirements like "must contain one uppercase, one symbol, one lowercase, one special case and the blood of a unicorn."
When mathematically, a simple, grammatically incorrect sentence of 25 characters is much harder for a machine to crack than a gibberish 8-character password with symbols.
Entropy loves length.
I love the idea that the most secure key to your digital life could just be a weird little poem or an inside joke that only you know. Security doesn't have to be painful.
#infosec #passwords #cybersecurity #UX #security #sysadmin #programming #foss #linux #privacy #enshittification #reading #finance
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/115967431998954575
Predictably, this film is also drawing negative reviews from people who would really prefer not to have the "AI" narrative challenged. It's informative (and entertaining) to see what the criticisms from such quarters are.
One review is headlined "‘Ghost in the Machine’ is Already Behind the Times" ... which is particularly hilarious because the film does an amazing job of tracing the historical roots of today's "AI" ideology.
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