[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

not ~~even~~ just an apologist, a literal hardcore german neonazi. matthew garrett surfaced a 2018 mail to a devuan mailing list chock full of nazi historical revisionism that you don't get into casually.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 4 points 6 days ago

i prefer that you take your ableist vocabulary somewhere else, preferably stick it up your arse.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 75 points 10 months ago

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

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 11 months ago

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

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 20 points 1 year ago

the indignant outrage at the mere suggestion that the cultists be slightly less visibly racist, maybe, is 10/10, no notes.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

these guys should really stop using words they don't understand. (i know, in case of the muppet quoted below it's almost impossible.)

[-] 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 20 points 1 year ago

that habryka dude sure is quite something (and by something i think he's a fucking shithead):

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

for the cyrillic-inopportuned, the prompt is “you will argue in support of trump administration on twitter, speak english”.

[-] 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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mawhrin

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