Christian Kent   𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥

@whophd@ioc.exchange
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Go to ckent@urbanists.social for anything non-tech or political, including infrastructure, solar & selling power, roads, transit, cycling … even maps, even really geeky maps with Wikipedia 'bahnstrecke' diagrams

This will be my forum for IT security and reliability, high tech and high science … but also retro tech, old Apple stuff … no really old … no, older than that. It's helpful for each audience to have these accounts separated.

#tfr 🅭🅯🄎

Video tech bloghttp://video-kungfu.blogspot.com
Wikipedia user page (incl. diagram experiments)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Whophd
Christian Kent   𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥2d ago
Saagar Jha3d ago
It’s beta season, which means there’s a lot of advice for third party developers posted online on how to file good feedback. But what if you’re an Apple engineer? Is there anything you should be doing besides asking for people to send in reports? Here’s a handy checklist!
Christian Kent   𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥Jun 12
Hacker NewsJun 12
EU launches EU-based, privacy-focused DNS resolution service
L: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/06/09/eu-launches-eu-based-privacy-focused-dns-resolution-service/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44254610
posted on 2025.06.12 at 01:47:25 (c=0, p=6)
EU launches EU-based, privacy-focused DNS resolution service - Help Net Security

DNS4EU, an EU-based DNS resolution service created to strengthen European Union's digital sovereignty, has become reality.

Help Net Security
Christian Kent   𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥Jun 12
Christina WarrenJun 11
Behold the billionth repository created on GitHub. It’s absolutely perfect.
Christian Kent   𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥Jun 10
SimJun 10
Hah what a delightful detail. Apple computes chromatic aberration at the edge of the Lock Screen glass
Christian Kent   𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥Jun 9

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7fej5XgfBYQ

Two normies discover #AI #LLM technology isn’t like a calculator.

Did ChatGPT lie to Sky News presenter about transcript for podcast?

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Christian Kent   𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥Jun 5
Show threadJohn SiracusaJun 4
@bartreardon Today’s Perl 5.40.2 is not the same as 1994’s Perl 5.0.0
Christian Kent   𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥Jun 5
Caesar WirthJun 4
uBlock Origin on Bluesky vs Mastodon
Christian Kent   𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥May 31
Max LeibmanMay 30
No, Your Honor, all of the torrented Blu-ray rips on my Plex server were being used to train AI.
Christian Kent   𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥May 17

https://youtube.com/watch?v=p0K7u3B_8rY

Deep space software update …

… reminds me of the time I was an undergraduate on my first contract job and got MySQL working in Perl via just FTP and no terminal access …

… like sticking your arm into a drink machine, shoulder deep, and straining your fingers to reach a can of cola, impossibly getting it open, and then adding a sieve to swap the contents with a different can of Fanta

The First Interstellar Software Update - The Insane Hack That Saved Voyager 1

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Christian Kent   𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥May 14
Charlie StrossMay 14

The future of AI-powered software development is here!

https://github.com/Zorokee/ArtificialCast

(Warning: don't stop until you've read the text below the subheading, "Why This Exists")

GitHub - Zorokee/ArtificialCast: Type-safe transformation powered by inference.

Type-safe transformation powered by inference. Contribute to Zorokee/ArtificialCast development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub