Heads-up for published authors:

The deadline to join the Anthropic class-action copyright settlement is March 30. If you have published a book, you may be eligible to receive ~$1,500 per book, so it’s worth your time to check it out.

I had been putting it off and finally completed my forms last week.

Learn more at the Authors Guild: https://authorsguild.org/advocacy/artificial-intelligence/what-authors-need-to-know-about-the-anthropic-settlement/

Start the process: https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/

The CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and failed miserably.

https://www.404media.co/ceo-ignores-lawyers-asks-chatgpt-how-to-void-250-million-contract-loses-terribly-in-court/

I have a black belt in FAFO

📸 of Strange Æons (Teya)

Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar

https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-matrix-homeserver-workers/

Maintaining an interstellar community is extraordinarily hard. Even within the human worlds, it is difficult.

The hardest part is disease.

Not so much massive plagues - they are easy to quarantine. The tricky thing is the endemic bugs of each world. The things that could run riot in other biospheres.

Smoothing the spread of such bacteria and virii is initially handled by the scout service, who introduce the most common microflora and fauna to new worlds in a well controlled way. They also manage the outward spread of the new world's biome to neighbouring worlds.

But what about after that? How do you maintain a biome that is not going to kill travellers across tens, let alone hundreds or thousands of worlds?

The answer lies in one of the least formal parts of any major interstellar community.

The tramp trade network.

Small independent traders that move from world to world in small ships, moving relatively slowly, and almost always visiting the surface. Picking up the latest mutations in the local microflora and fauna as an incidental, and releasing the latest from the nearest neighbours.

Keeping the local group more-or-less in sync. And the trade routes overlap, and operate in overlapping spheres.

Yes, if you were to catch a fast ship from one end of a large polity and travel to the other end, you might well get very sick. But if you did it slowly, you would get gradually adapted.

The downside is that most travellers over large distances tend to spend much of their time vaguely unwell.

"Space Flu" they call it, and it is something that affects many long-distance tourists. People discuss solutions for it on the news boards almost constantly, and new treatments are always being touted.

What only a few very well informed people know is that this travelling malaise is a sign that things are working as expected. There will never be a complete cure for it, and it would be a disaster if one were found.

#SF #SFF #SciFi #SpaceOpera #microfiction #tootfic #microfic #IAmWriting

@nopatience Shorter:

*) When you follow an account that account's posts will be pushed to the instance you're on and you will be able to see them.

*) When you follow a hashtag only those posts that already reach your instance will appear for you.

If no one on your instance follow a specific account, it doesn't matter if they use hashtags you follow. You won't see the posts.

This is probably the easiest way to perform reverse DNS lookups over IP address ranges using the built-in tool getent and bash brace expansion:

getent hosts 130.59.{20,31}.{0..255}

Useful if you are on a system/container with limited tools.

#pentest #dns #linux