Are you sure you want
computer now?

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Picture of Basilisk II (68k Macintosh emulator) running on the PAX S920 payment terminal. There is Mac OS 7 running inside of the emulator and it's asking the user if they "are sure they want computer now"

Crypto? Yeah I have some, in /usr/src/crypto, like krb4 and ssh, why are you asking

[subdued, uneasy music playing]

Two thousand year old #opsec advice:

Hoping that others will not hear is not the same as not speaking; hoping others won’t find out is not the same as not doing.

(from the Book of Han, a history book authored by a brother-sister pair)
#classicalchinese #fountainpen

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Handwritten Classical Chinese and translation: Hoping that others will not hear is not the same as not speaking; hoping others won’t find out is not the same as not doing.

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration #fediArt

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A dark blue background. Hovering above is a large, orange space invader: one of those blocky pixel monsters from the classic arcade game. It is dropping neon green blocks. Below it, running away from the blocks, is a person, not pixelated, carrying a black umbrella. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

falsehoods programmers believe about falsehoods

@mjg59

I'm a full-time professional novelist. Have been for 25 years. Before that I was a software dev. From the inside, the cognitive experiences of writing prose fiction and writing software *feel identical*. The creativity exists outside the words, and most of the phrases and grammar I use are unoriginal.

Ball's back in your court.

Presented without comment

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Fake Windows XP dialog: Age Verification Are you old? [ Yes ] [ Maybe Later ]

like... the cost of a single "state-of-the-art" llm training run would be a permanently institution-changing amount of money for your average computer science department (to say nothing of depts in CS-adjacent fields, especially in the arts and humanities). the claude mythos result, even if you take anthropopo's claims at face value (which: don't) seems indicative of this, like, yeah if you toss nine figures at security research, you're gonna find some exploits?

“it’s just a column in a database” said presumably a full grown adult whose ability to live under capitalism is a column in their bank’s database

If you buy a chainsaw or a bicycle or a power drill, and you don’t spend time learning how to operate it properly, harm may come to you. If you give your child a chainsaw or a bicycle or a power drill without imparting said understanding, great harm may come to them too.

Somehow we’ve decided computers are different and this is a problem we need the government to fix by breaking computers for people who do know how to use them.

it seems someone decided to prove you really can just publish any nonsense protocol draft with the IETF https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-meow-mrrp-00.html

#calligraphy

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I don’t have anything profound to post, I just like being extra. (Handwritten in an extremely extra style with extremely extra blue-green glitter ink)

Happy to report that I didn’t feel any need whatsoever to use generative AI for anything at all yet. And I‘m very likely not going to use it for the rest of my life and I’m going to be absolutely fine.

Am I right in understanding that current version requires the creation of playlists and doesn't support dragging and dropping a folder of music files to be played immediately?

the V in Unix System V stands for vvorkstation

If I was in the desert on a horse with no name I’d simply name the horse.