[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago

in short, the whole moderation team resigned because of interference from the steering commitee; inb4 palmer luckey crowing about how no-one in the project will stop anduril from using nixos to build american military domination.

you know, just another day of the fascist takeover of the nixos project.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago

…to “it's OUR TIME NOW”, cf. the most recent two blogs from david heinemeier hansson, palmer fucking luckey in recent nixos thing etc. etc.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago

indeed, but that “90% of my code is now from ai” piece is even sadder than the rest.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago

seems like armin ronacher (originally of the flask, jinja & co fame) has also fallen into the vibecoding rabbit hole; which is generally a pity.

a good thing that the pallets projects are now independent from him (and if you build python clis, plubum is anyway much, much better than click).

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago

spotify, which is a step away in the software catalogue of any distribution that includes flatpak.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 9 points 6 days ago

there's plenty to read; an incomplete list of authors just off the top of my head: nnedi okorafor, ann leckie, martha wells, kate elliott, annalee newitz, sarah gailey, malka older, sarah jane anders…

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 75 points 1 year ago

yet another programmer who imagines that having computer science baccalaureate gives him an insight into human biology. sigh.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i find the level of ms apologia unsettling. remember, we're only a few news cycles away from the time ms almost shipped windows with spyware and keylogger built-in

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 23 points 1 year ago

at one of the places i worked this kind of data was called assnumbers.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the technical term is either “confabulation” or “bullshit”; “hallucination” is a misleading label coined by the ai pushers.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the fascism is strong in those

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 22 points 1 year ago
  • ‘at rest’ → we're using filesystem encryption
  • ‘in transit’ → we're using TLS

neither is end-to-end encryption, the data is not private to the service provider.

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from the “i'll drm your arse” and “industrial sabotage r us” department, a true scandal: a polish train manufacturer used firmware to lock out trains at 3rd party service depots in order to disrupt the operations of the trains for the railways who did not choose to service the trains at the manufacturer's; at the same time they blamed the 3rd parties for their inability to properly service the trains.

further reading in polish (but translates via google well): more technical and less technical, but with more political/economical details.

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