@an0key I feel you there. Suspect it’s one of those things that’s mind blowing when you first hear about it and then after you’re just like “oh, they pulled the firmware” unless there’s some wild exploits to bypass secure boot or something.
@gothintheshell I bought the flat I’d been renting last year, which is both lovely (paying half as much as I was for a start), but there was never a space for ripping out all the landlord crap and replacing it because the place is already full of my stuff. Every now and then I wonder if a can of petrol and a zippo is the answer.
(To my insurer, should my flat suddenly by engulfed in flame, this is mostly a joke. I’m not seriously considering arson).
Everything may be shite but this will make you happy, albeit briefly.
Promise.
@pikesley if your going to search for stuff like that I suggest incognito mode rather than typing it into Mastodon.
@tdp_org I was discussing this with some people in the pub last night, it was about 50/50 whether we’d seen it. I haven’t but also don’t use YouTube for music, I wonder if this is a model just going “statistically people who like music go wild for this stuff”.
@grajohnt there’s something intensely sci-fi about wires that blink as signals go over them.
I’ve managed to lose an AirTag. I can say for certain it’s somewhere in my bag telling me the battery is low, but I’ve checked all the pockets and I can’t find the thing to change its battery.
@cmconseils I was with you right up until “you just have to do it”, I don’t know why you would say such things.
All this because The Pitt, spiritual sequel to my beloved ER, is caught up in a legal nightmare and may never see a UK release.
I’ve been setting up a curiously large amount of software for acquiring Linux ISOs the last couple of evenings. Think I’ve got it down now, it can automatically find ISOs of interest and then make them available via the ISO viewing software on my TV for ease of browsing.
the biggest problem we *already have* in open source right now, which we have oversimplified into the term "supply chain security", is the lack of understanding that putting a dependency in your project's dependency set (package.json, pyproject.toml, requirements.txt, cargo.toml, etc) is not just "downloading some code", it is *establishing an ongoing trust relationship with a set of human beings*. this fact is *way* too obscured in all the tools we use.
I know Alexa Skills were largely not a thing because at one point Amazon decided to pay me £80 a month out of the blue, apparently a skill I’d spent half an afternoon throwing together, and that was almost literally a random phrase generator, was one of the most engaged with skills at the time. They only stopped because I didn’t update it to use a new API so it got delisted.
My prediction is that these will be about as successful as Alexa Skills turned out to be, because very few processes are enhanced by playing a guessing game to work out what some software can do.
I see OpenAI have invented Alexa Skills. Lots of copy in this documentation saying how they shouldn’t be used for ads, or promoting users to come back to your company’s app, while these will absolutely be used for ads and feature prompts to come back. https://developers.openai.com/apps-sdk/concepts/design-guidelines/
I introduced the boy to git today (with a UI in VS Code, I’m not a monster), leading to the wonderful question “shall I make a commitment” when a change seemed like it was done. Took me a minute to work out what he meant.
The boy dropped “I want to make a Peak mod” on me this morning. Our history with “I want you to make an X mod” is that we attempt it, everything is terribly documented, and after several hours of getting gradually more annoyed we both lose interest (generally I lose interest a bit after he does).
Shout out to the Peak/Unity games modding community for making it not hateful. He’s added actual code that does something already, even said he enjoyed the process!
@solderandchaos @jackeric I did half that in 5 recently so it’s technically doable. Definitely wasn’t in any state to do it again by the time I was done though.
Critically this is different software (undecided which yet) running on the same hostname, so I don’t think I can just send out an “I’ve moved instances” message.
I think I need to switch software I’m using for my Fedi instance. Does anyone have a reasonable reference on what needs to happen for followers to stay following me?
Because of this I’ve found myself trying to explain to people outside the hacker camp scene why I have a sticker that says SPIDER in the CYBER font on my laptop.
I’ve been reminded again of Swatch Internet Time, which has a (still online!) powerfully 90s web page including the mention of someone meeting their cyberfriend.
I think I’ll adopt cyberfriend, it’s better than “the people who live in my phone”, so hello cyberfriends!
@q “so if your Mum could kindly disembark the train we can be on our way”.
@alice @alice_watson I think you owe the dog an apology for all those times they got the blame when it was Trump all along.
@floehopper @issyl0 I increasingly believe most people are cargo culting their git usage and don’t really understand what it’s for and how to use it. See also: commit histories riddled with “changed file.py”… yeah, I know, it’s right there in the diff. Why did you change it?
@Edent I’m not sure that is the answer because the user could later change their public key. Feels like an implementation error in the other side of this exchange to me.