I’ve been around the Internet since the BBS days and I can’t think of a single time where a de-centralized platform has out competed a centralized platform with “normal” users.

I’m right there with you. I’d love to see the dream of the decentralized media return, but it’s long-dead. The “Normal” user doesn’t give a fuck about the benefits and even the moderate barrier to entry over some centralized platform is enough to keep them away.

Tech-minded people seem to often forget that even the most simplistic choices like “Choose an instance” is a big deal for people. The platform that’s the most familiar, and easiest to use is going to be the one that wins, and, right now, that looks like it’s Bluesky.

Ours has leaned they are not allowed in the counter when we’re watching.

It’s cute how you think things will be alive.

I remember. The turbo on my 386 didn’t make it faster. It made non turbo mode slower.

The episode that really nailed down what a talented actor Jeri Ryan is was the time she had all those assimilated personalities surface and was switching back and forth rapidly, and the bit where the Doctor “took over” her body when they were in prison.

Both times, it was absolutely believable that someone else was at the wheel, and “Seven” wasn’t there.

Standing up in the face of oppression and bigotry is the point.

“Training data”

I have frequently complained that the cat doesn’t do anything useful except generate poo, and what can I do with that?

My demands to get a job are met with disdain.

Altruism is never going to be the way to get companies to do the right thing. Instead, making the wrong thing a financial liability is.

There’s an IDE drive in a landfill somewhere with 10BTC on it because I’m fuckwit.

I admit, this news has made me add a note to re-download firefox on my work machine…

Consumer PCs are almost certainly not covered entities under HIPAA, nor is Microsoft in its role as an OS provider.

Even then, if this whole thing were to result in an inappropriate disclosure by a covered entity, the organization that processes the data would be liable, not Microsoft.

That’s like blaming the building contractor because you left the door unlocked and someone came in and stole your cat.

Fun.

From the article, the linked Swagger docs : https://web.archive.org/web/20240120071238/https://mycscgo.com/api/v1/docs/static/index.html#/

And a little more detailed account : https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/how-this-security-bug-in-washing-machines-can-help-college-students-in-the-us-do-free-laundry/articleshow/110277923.cms

It looks like these laundry machines are controlled by a mobile app, and requests are routed through The Internet™. The flaw appears to be the web service presumes a user is only able to gain access to their API endpoints via the mobile app, which only exposes certain functions to a user.

Once authorized, though, there’s no further checks like oauth scopes or even user roles, to prevent someone from doing a little bit of lateral movement to admin-style endpoints.

Lazy. The machine makers should be ashamed.

No lie … if they could make a chip that like … Shuts off cognition while I’m at the gym so I don’t have to experience it … I’d consider it.

I really hate working out.

Nothing. They’re behaving quite rationally.

You just have to understand that their motivation is not “successful governing” or “making the world better” but rather, “getting more money.”

When you view their actions through the lens of self-enrichment, they’re behaving quite normally.

The worst and best thing you can do when using vim is learn the movement keys (h, j, k, and l) because they’re so powerful and work no where else.

It’s a contract.

They give you some money now, and, instead of an interest rate and a term for repayment, they get a percentage of your future income for some period of time.

Particularly shitty ones continue even if you repay the original loan amount.

I don’t know how other devs tolerate IDEs in the first place. Is not (neo)vim and CLI sufficient?

The Christian god is just a spurned lover who wrote in their diary about how stupid and mean their ex is and they should never have dumped him.

Satan is the dumper and has moved on long ago.

I remember mine, and my childhood best friend’s Prodigy account IDs.