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  • Firstly, discord is entirely the wrong medium for documentation.

    Secondly, documentation should be at least as accessible as the code. That is to say, if I can view the code without creating an account for some service, then I should also be able to read the documentation too.

  • Caps lock is great for rebinding to Ctrl

  • Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are wrote about childhood, saying:

    People say "Oh Mr Sendak! I wish I were in touch with my childhood self, like you" as if it were all quaint and succulent, like Peter Pan. Childhood is cannibals and psychopaths vomiting in your mouth.

    I don't really know if it has much to do with Gary Larson's childhood, but I just love finding an opportunity to bring up that quote.

  • I think that's not the problem that this technology is intended to solve.

    It's not a "Is this picture copied from someone else?" technology. It's a "Did a human take this picture, and did anyone modify it?" technology.

    Eg: Photographer Bob takes a picture of Famous Fiona driving her camaro and posts it online with this metadata. Attacker Andy uses photo editing tools to make it look like Fiona just ran over a child. Maybe his skills are so good that the edits are undetectable.

    Andy has two choices: Strip the metadata, or keep it.

    If Andy keeps the metadata, anyone looking at his image can see that it was originally taken by Bob, and that Fiona never ran over a child.

    If Andy strips the metadata (and if this technology is widely accessible and accepted by social media, news sites, and everyday people) then anyone looking at the image can say "You can't prove this image was actually taken. Without further evidence I must assume that it's faked".

    I think spinning this as a tool to fight AI is just clickbait because AI is hot in the news. It's about provenance and limiting misinformation.

  • I'll believe that it's a contender against existing quartz movements when they lay out the production costs for their design. You can't consign discrete ticks to the dustbin of history until you can compete with a $3 SpongeBob watch from Malaysia.

  • Happened at my workplace. An phishing email went out to test how likely people were to click the link.

    Anyone who clicked the link had to take phishing training. Anyone who forwarded it to our internal "hey this is a phishing email" service also had to take training... because the internal service would automatically click the link.