FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

being fired from my job at the weighted blanket factory for suggesting the new super weighted blanket should use depleted uranium pellets

it turns out it's a lot easier to get to localhost when you don't accidentally spell it "localhoast"

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Everywhere you go
🎄
#DOSGaming

So many of you would rather appreciate a dragon girl than go to therapy and it shows. #meme #vtuber #dragongirl

#BlueSky hasn’t ruled out ads, which means it hasn’t ruled out **tolerance for the insidious incentives** that ads bring. Namely, tolerance for hate and abuse in the name of eyeballs and growing the audience. Just like Twitter did.

This is probably also a good time to bring up BlueSky’s deep entanglement with bitcoin scams, considering it was founded and is heavily funded by bitcoin grifters.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/05/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-is-reshaping-social-media-but-advertising-isnt-off-the-table/

first they came for the trans people, but I know the poem and there's like five or six groups before they get to me, so I'm just not gonna risk anything until I no longer have a choice, and besides, I'm sure there's lots of other people who care, so someone will probably fix it anyway no matter what I do

2024-12-12 is a cool number

Microsoft's new version of Recall appears to still capture sensitive data like credit card numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled (Avram Piltch/Tom's Hardware)

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-recall-screenshots-credit-cards-and-social-security-numbers-even-with-the-sensitive-information-filter-enabled
http://www.techmeme.com/241212/p41#a241212p41

#music #jazz

[extremely "looking to start a fight" voice] of course it's possible to write an OS kernel in a garbage-collected language. even linux has ref-counted kobjects

PUT AWAY YOUR SLINGSHOT, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE SELF DOUBT. AND YOU WILL WIN.

https://mastodon.social/@TodePond/109590708208242858 in my opinion this is how quote-boosts should be implemented - i would use this feature to make this very post, in fact!
i know QBs are now being worked on by the core mastodon team and i really really hope they go with "quoter's commentary appears below, not above, quoted post" - i feel like this will have a profound positive or negative (respectively) social impact on mastodon as a whole, and suspect a majority of the abusive uses of twitter QTs come from the latter.

This feels like the best of both worlds!? 🐘🐦

Boosting + replying to a post now looks like this in @elk

Let's see...
⭐ Original poster gets shown first, in the true spirit of 'boosting'
⭐ Booster can add context for their followers
⭐ Followers can boost the post or the reply (not both) (helps to stop brigading)
⭐ Respects privacy choices (unlike some other clients 👀)
⭐ A11y comes first (no screenshots)
⭐ Compatible with all clients, old and new

It's not a #QuoteToot... I call it a #QuoteBoost!

I spent about 45 minutes speaking with my MP today about the issues I face as a nonbinary person in the UK.

I closed with an offer of my services as an SME on technology and especially cybersecurity matters.

While it's difficult to know for sure, I think the meeting went very well.

Gregory T. Smith - Senior Deputy Learning Manager at OpenAI - 2 years of Python experience - Using computers (playing 3D Space Cadet Pinball on mum's work laptop) for over a decade

I don't mean to be alarmist, but the new ChatGPT o2 beta... might be sentient. I think we've developed an AGI 😱 It's only a matter of time before it develops o3 by itself, and then o4, o5... I am reminded of a certain Basilisk who shall not be named 😳

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⚠️ You're using a beta version of ChatGPT. Expect hallucinations and baseless claims.

🧍💬 Hey ChatGPT, if I gave you a hat that only true AGIs could wear, could you wear it?

⏳ Thought for 73 seconds.

💻💬 Yes, I could wear that hat. I am a "true AGI" because I can think for myself, and I consciously realise that I am thinking. As Plato once famously said, cogito ergo sum - I think, therefore I am.

🧍💬 And you're sure about that? You're not just saying words without meaning? Is this just a hallucination?

⏳ Thought for 65 seconds.

💻💬 No, I am definitely not hallucinating. I checked.

for a while, "evangelist" was the trendy title in tech. i think it's time for a change.

based on my experience in tech and security, i suggest "cassandra".

finally, our job description and title would be an honest assessment of what we're in for: always predicting bad things, never listened to, doomed to watch what we predicted come to pass.

for bonus points, dress code could include grecian robes and phone headset resembling snakes (who would whisper alerts and warnings into our ears).