CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@Bwee i think @wallabra needs to hear this

*wraps both wallaby and fluffderg in a big tentaclehug*

@foone okay maybe *building* it would be a bad idea but you gotta at least tell us what it is

@Bwee *smiles and hugs tight, for a long time*

@Bwee i've been assigned to write a whitepaper about AI-assisted software development and the dangers thereof and I can't even make myself start on it because I don't even know how to start the research

@evacide Moxie Marlinspike, whom I respect less by the day: "No, you see, federated messengers in general can't work. They ossify too quickly and get left in the dust security wise. Thomas Hobbes had it right. A single legal entity must be in control of every aspect of the application. Look at Whatsapp. They rolled out e2ee for all their users with the push of a button."

I would like to thank Meta for reminding these credulous people that anything that can be done with a push of button, can be undone with the push of a button, and with just as much justification.

@DXMacGuffin this must be those changeling things i keep hearing about

@RandamuMaki guns don't kill people ass mf

@avilewis me, a USian: only $70 billion? and that's a total across SIX different banks?

@neil can the provenance of any LLM generated content be guaranteed?

@pencilears https://www.tumblr.com/puipui-official/705493224777777152?source=share

@lowqualityfacts So from this, assuming the correlation is linear, we can compute that "Weird Al" Yankovic, whose shadow famously weighs 42 pounds, himself weighs 32.318 times more than the average person, or approximately 2.5 tons

@alice WOOOOOO 🥳🥳🥳

now all you have to do to get YOUR name in the Book of World Records is pay a bunch of money to a beer company clinging to relevancy so they can fly someone out to watch you do it!

@paoloredaelli

I knew @pkw was talking about developer bandwidth, and I'm not convinced it takes much of that either.

@pkw If your operating system has one developer and one user, it's a project of a couple hours to write a daemon that always returns an "18+" signal. If your project has one developer and a number of users, you add systemd-birthdaysd to your standard distribution and have done with it. If your name is Suckless, you write your own daemon to parse /etc/passwd and it takes you a couple weeks tops.

We can have a separate discussion about whether we're being frogboiled into accepting a surveillance state. But "what if I don't want to" is not an excuse.

@pkw I'm not convinced it takes thay much bandwidth, and as for need, I mean, legal compliance is pretty important

@pkw @david_chisnall doesn't have the bandwidth to...store a file of birthdays and run a service to allow programs to query the user's age?

@micahflee I cannot help but notice the "Contractors" file is about three times the size of the "Contracts" file.

@r @munin please tell me this is not actually how these nutjobs sell their shit to VCs

please tell me that line doesn't actually work on people with money

@r @munin

> within 1% of actual

@petafloppa
as many, many things can be