Proton Pass is not safe?
Reads a bit like an ad, and doesn't look into self-hosted KeepassXC, which is also memory safe.
I don't trust any online password managers anymore. Too much juicy data collected in one place, too many intermediaries all doing the right thing to rely on. And as the link I posted says, if the attacker has malware on your machine already, memory safety is a final defence but you're likely already compromised.
Maybe, maybe not, but people that don't care about art have money, and artists need money to live. Probably we should focus on fixing that "need money to live" thing as a society so that everyone would have more time for art and creativity, but the people with the most money have decided to focus on other things, like replacing the artists.
Ugh, this joke doesn't even make sense and why are random words bolded? Load bearing? While laying in a box?
Wouldn't it have been funnier to make use of the properties of the etch a sketch? Like "Oh no, you didnt erase my shed blue prints did you?!" Or draw attention to the joke of it being mixed with the tools, like "That E-a-S has been handed down by the carpenters of my family for generations" or just any joke that ties back into the comic.
Truly it's the depth of feeling in the sigh that makes it so funny, amazing voice acting work.
Dogwhistle
The subtle addition of the swastika to the whistle, very nice.
It's an old instinct. Visual workflow tools have been around for a long time. And I've had at least one bluesky project at every job ive been at long enough that basically amounted to "can you design a way for non-programmers to program this" from visual workflow designers to simplified query and definition domain specific languages.
I was reading an interesting article on the ladder of abstractions that I'm hoping will give me a more unified view across the phenomenon.
I think the general form of the problem is that as development work proceeds from prototyping into production, the need for large amounts of configuration across the domain comes into focus. Unfortunately, this usually just signals the need for a lot more development to cover special cases. But what many see is a need for a lighter-weight configuration system that will allow "the users" to self-manage.
This runs into two problems, usually at a late phase when the only solutions are to put a lot of work into the no/low-code config system or to get developers using those systems. The first problem is the config system not being powerful enough to cover the full domain of the problem, which exacerbates the need for devs as it grows into a fully Turing complete language. The second problem is that non-devs aren't devs, the issue the blog post is getting at, and handing a logic-problem to people who's jobs are mostly rote without a lot of problem solving is asking for fast workarounds instead of well-reasoned solutions.
Tangent: i just watched a great video on the history of the ZSNES emulator, one of the pioneering emulators. It took decades to get wide compatibility with available ROMs, because so many cartridges used custom chips for enhanced processing. Emulating StarFox isn't just about replicating what an SNES does, you also need to emulate the custom SuperFX chip that came with the game. That means the domain of "emulate all SNES games" can't just be passed off to non-devs once the core CPU is done. Each specific problem (different games) requires new development for a custom solution, because each cartridge was itself the bespoke solution to a complex problem domain if it's own.
In short, "complex problems in wide domains that are not fully understood or solved" are the ideal ground for developers, but businesses want to drive towards well understood, solved, domains where cheap workers can crank out money. There is incredible tension and ungodly amounts of money being poured into bridging the gap between those as cheaply as possible in a general sense. This is what's largely driving AI adoption.
But again, you can't just magic away that core part of the situation: someone must reason through and understsnd the actual problem in order to solve it.
Seems I've been dup'd
Slowly sliding a switch labeled "Dubstep" towards on and checking the crowd reaction at each step like a DJ at a corporate event.
Other than what everyone else has said (great taste in film, lemmings) I'll throw out...
In the Mouth of Madness. People tend to rank The Thing as his best movie, but the other two parts of the "Apocalypse Trilogy" are also excellent. Prince of Darkness has plenty to reccomend it, but I actually have watched IMM at least 10 times. The practical effects hold up well, and I feel like I catch new little details or acting quirks on each watch. Sam Neill and Julie Carmen are both really on their game and amazingly bring a lot of both subtlety and camp to the roles. The soundtrack is really banging too, if you're a fan of Carpenter's synth-rock.
And for something completely different, but still an "at least 10 views" favorite: Rian Johnson's Brick. You'll probably need at least 2 viewings just to catch all the dialogue, which is very fast and uses a weird made up slang. The main victim makes a phone call in the first act that basically reveals everything if you understand what she's saying, but it takes the whole movie for that to happen. It's just a fun, good mystery story too. Great sense of style, great (slightly off kilter) acting choices all around. Its one of those movies that's a little like poetry or a great album, just fun to watch and enjoy for itself.
Yeah, its been pretty disgusting watching the worst people in the state working overtime to fuck up society. We've been trying to get folks in our friend and activist circles to attend these meetings in person when we can do it. But obviously they schedule them at random times, cancel discussion when too many people are there, don't announce reschedules, and so on. It's scummy, antidemocratic tactics and I'm not sure what we're supposed to do to counter them.
And now folks, realize that this is true of every single thing that humans think about.
You put a duck and a sparrow side by side and maybe it seems obvious that, while not the same, these two things have something deeply in common. But most people have never considered them in one thought. When you get into abstract ideas like "freedom" or "socialism" is it any surprise that most people can't even recognize them, let alone agree on any commonalities?
You spend all day arranging dogs next to bears going "do you see how these are both canine-form mammals?" and the public is watching a tiktok while dismissing you going "Uh bears aren't pets, what a dumbass!"
My LinkedIn account (the stupid feifdom I need access to for job searching in my ridiculous field, you know?) locked me out for a similar reason (crime: using Firefox and a VPN to access M$ protected and owned data!)
There is no appeal process. No contact info. No way to even ask for help. Just... Hey sorry you did a thing or whatever, your account has been permanently locked.
I've fully divested from MS except for work devices provided by my employer. I won't use any MS products again, I've been putting up with degrees of this for years but in the last year MS has fully fallen off a cliff in terms of customer concern.
Alright, so here's my case for Thief, the Looking Glass Studios game.
Thief, on its own, is a great game and basically shares the claim to originating a lot of ideas behind stealth in games along with MGS, which came out the same year.
What many don't know is how incredibly innovative what they were doing with their engine tech was. In another timeline, id software were mildly successful action game makers while LGS became the industry defining mega success. The Dark Engine refines a lot of ideas present in Ultima Underworld and marries them to tech that was decades ahead of its time.
Check out the opening and closing of this long talk: https://youtu.be/wo84LFzx5nI
Thief had, probably, the first ECS in gaming. They also had their own rendering technique using "portals" that was a bit slower than id's BSP trees but allowed for insane geometry. They also had an incredible system for events called stimulus-response that was doing things like Breath of the Wild's "chemistry engine" again, decades before it would be rediscovered.
They weren't just making games, these were really simulations of a limited world with complex interactions. If the rest of the industry had caught onto their good practices, who knows what the landscape would look like today!
Doom
I could write an essay significantly larger than the game itself and it wouldn't be as powerful of an argument as just saying the name with the weight of legacy it commands.
Claiming that it's "the Jews" is such ancient antisemiticism that it has its own name: the blood libel. It started as "they need blood for sacrifices (during passover especially) and sweet christian children have the best blood." But it's spread for so long and mutated over the years that claims of outright Jewish vampirism are quite common in bigot circles.
I wouldn't be surprised that it's spread into the wider conspiracy theory world. A lot of antisemitic tropes eventually get broadly applied when the bigotry is disconnected.
You're correct that it's actually a non-issue: trans people are a ridiculously small minority, most Americans who don't live in a city have probably never met a trans person, yet the entire nation has been whipped into frenzied "debate" about fairness in sports, bathroom needs, and other very unserious issues.
The answers are also very obvious. No trans person has ever dominated a sport, otherwise you'd have heard about this. The actual problem with hormones in sports is rampant steroid abuse, trans issues distract from that. Likewise, just have unisex private bathrooms. Treating humans like indistinguishable cattle is already a problem.
None of this, however, relates to the issue of Mayor Pete. Politicians don't really "raise issues" from their constituents, not primarily anyway. They raise issues from their donors, and they shape public discourse with what they draw attention to. Buttigieg could support trans people with a word and move on to real issues. He could ignore trans people and call out Republicans for distracting people. He could do so many things, but he chooses to focus on this. It can't be ignored that he's a gay man also. The intent here is to further wedge between LGB and T.
The ruler class has been working overtime on this for years, because breaking the solidarity of LGBTQ+ people destroys an important progressive bloc held together by shared oppression. If you convince male gays that lesbians and trans people are making too much noise and drawing bad attention, you can split them up and push the whole lot of us back into the closets.
These issues aren't isolated concerns that operate as pure distractions. They're various fronts in the class war; you can't ignore a flanking maneuver as a "distraction" while the cavalry runs rampant over you.
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Apparently LLMs love to use "enigma" (and pedophiles, i guess) and he's an AI addict, so take your pick on whether you think he even wrote that message (and who he's fucking when it's not the employees).
https://youtu.be/LEOnIpO7Xgw