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the beauty of linux distributions and package managers is that you can be safe in the knowledge that your version of a program will always be 2 years behind the easily downloadable windows .EXE of the same program

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I think the time has come to share a tradition that me and a bunch of friends have that we hope catches on more broadly.

It all started when a catgirl friend asked me to drive her to one of her surgeries. I couldn't make it because it was a work day and short notice, but I did show up a day or two beforehand with a good luck/get-well-soon gift basket consisting of a bunch of popcorn balls and a pair of scissors...

Plus the largest cone of shame I could find. I didn't think it would fit as it was mostly a joke, but I was pleasantly surprised to get a picture a few days later of her wearing it post-op.

Well, a year later I asked her to drive me to a vasectomy clinic because my wife was busy watching the kid.

After the procedure she sent me home with the very same cone (which I guess makes cis me an honorary catgirl?)

That cone is now a traveling relic with a long history. Every time someone gets bottom surgery, they are crowned Bearer of the Cone until they have the privilege of passing it on

#trans #transgender #cyberpunk

So consider the "Copilot button". I cannot imagine a way this could get implemented that doesn't come down to "there's a trap button on your keyboard that every time you press it, some nonobvious chunk of local/personal information gets sent over the Internet and bounces between multiple corporations". The privacy policy will claim the information is not "retained", but the moment this centralized data pipe exists every intelligence service on earth will have a high incentive to get a tap on it.

There *has* been a lot of talk about the problems with so-called "AI" but one I don't feel gets enough attention is that "AI" products are surveillance products. "AI" is inevitably run in a cloud service, and in order for the AI to know what to generate some amount of the context within your application— usually it's not clear to the user what context, or how much— has to get sent to the cloud. The more of my local app state that gets transmitted over the Internet, the less comfortable I am.

I think there’s a disconnect where people do correctly apply the standard basic account protections (unique password, 2fa) and don’t get hacked so they assume that when a famous account gets hacked they must have not been doing the basics and were asking for it

but really, these protections only work well when you’re one in a crowd and there’s no reason to put extra effort into targeting you specifically. that’s why every major social media account gets hacked sooner or later, there’s only so much they can do in the context of “an account on someone else’s free website”

*blahaj snuggling sound intensifies*

it's out of touch thursdays!

Index out of bounds? Not always! - A Rusty Surprise

https://www.greyblake.com/blog/index-out-of-bounds-not-always-a-rust-surprise/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.greyblake.com/blog/index-out-of-bounds-not-always-a-rust-surprise/

#programming #rustlang

does anyone know how to fix the environment and end the trash economy. can it be achieved by doing a trade war and trying to reindustrialise the west. i feel like there might be something in this

i think like half of all social problems can be fixed by radically upending the real estate market. i just need to figure out how you fix the other half

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Holy shit. I just realised something.

Went out yesterday. Had a great evening. Near the end, I went to use the toilet. Was queuing up behind some Karen type.

Karen comes out of toilet, I go in. When I'm done, as I'm coming out, there's a security person standing around, my attention goes to her because she's speaking into her radio. Only caught something about the toilets, seemed like she was looking at people. As I went out, she looked at me and acknowledged me in some friendly way (I don't remember the exact words, but neutral or positive).

I think Karen complained because she was upset a queer person was there, and that's the reason security was there.

That means either I passed and she looked right past me, or realised what must have happened and acknowledged me to show me I belong, because she didn't to anyone else, just me. I wish I'd realised at the time and looked to see if Karen was hanging around - I didn't see her on the way out but possible...

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