Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

welcome to web engines! your choices are:
- reference implementation maintained by a big advertisement company, building an ad profile of you, popular in part due to smartphone duopoly,
- engine that doesn't really improve because that would endanger the micro-transaction fee business,
- engine "backed by a non-profit" (which owns the company that is now also in the ad business),
- a previously abandoned "rewrite it in rust" initiative,
- engine that started because a guy needed a project to work on for addiction recovery

proposal to all youtube video producers: the next time you think of asking ChatGPT a question for a video, consider drawing a tarot card instead:

1. environmentally friendly
2. does not support an anti-labor business
3. far fewer people traumatized by abusive imagery in the course of its creation
4. way less plagiarism involved
5. equally reliable source of information

another advantage of tarot over LLMs for youtube content: asking the cards highly specific and technical questions is extremely funny

like, here, we'll do this right now:

Q: "How do I configure the fan control on my graphics card?"

A: The Empress, reversed - you have hit a creative block, and you need to accept that you are dependent on others.

...and then you smash-cut to a screen recording of you typing your question into Reddit or a forum or something

(on which note: if anyone else has been having issues with LACT on NixOS 24.05 with KDE Plasma 6.0.5 under Wayland, hit us up - we can't figure this out)

Stay cool everyone! #HeatWave #Hydrate #wxmastodon

On Monday a security disclosure went out, and all the young adepts scurried about updating their systems, for they were not up-to-date enough to have the fix. But the old master sat serenely amidst the motion, sipping her tea. For her systems were not up-to-date enough to require the fix

🚨 KLAXON NOISES 🚨

"unauthenticated remote code execution as root in OpenSSH" is a term that means I don't fuckin' need my morning coffee any more.

Qualys report: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/01/3
Release notes: https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#9.8p1
And a tip o' the hat to @hanno for the initial post about it: https://mastodon.social/@hanno/112710324891813998

Go forth and patch your shit!

Google search thinks you should use glue to stick together a pizza as its AI is trained on Reddit, where 11 years ago a user called “fucksmith” posted suggesting it was a good idea.

What tech bros see vs. what I see

#AI