Tristan Colgate-McFarlane

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IT worker (Unix, k8s, Go), but here for art (cartoon, poltiical cartoons, animation, photography).
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Bloghttps://tcolgate.github.io/
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GitHubhttps://github.com/tcolgate
Years ago I drew these for a bunch of presents for my partner. I cannot for the life of me remember what the presents were now (the cartoons were themed to each present).

Companies that openly researched addictive UIs deny tat their products are addictive. Fortunately, they lose.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c747x7gz249o

Meta and Google found liable in social media addiction trial

The verdict marks the end of a five-week trial on the addictive nature of social media platforms.

BBC News
The real question you have to ask is... what the fuck were the python folk thinking with these pth files? Nothing on my arch install seems to use them, I'm considering seeing if I can just block opening them completely with a syscall filter.
Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them.

Discussions of cognitive offloading often miss a critical distinction: What AI does to a 45-year-old's brain is categorically different from what it does to a 14-year-old's.

Psychology Today
America looks ridiculous when the leaders and spokepersons for the other side in a war have a better grasp of the English language than the US president.
Random selection, just for the sake of posting some pretty things.
Today is the first time I've looked at using an open source tool and actually gone an checked their github actions scripts to make sure they are maintaining them properly. (this is a #trivy sub-toot).
The #trivy thing is an absolute train wreck. There's an irony that I did some work to drop n8n because it was putting out too many CVEs, but now I've had to back out our CVE checks completely because trivy has thrown itself under a bus.