kibiz0r

@kibiz0r@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I made this instead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Life is an orderly system of producing disorder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have an acquaintance that have their own "password system" that involves having a "core" set of characters, plus a few unique characters for each site; Is that system safe?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All of security is about trade-offs. “What does it protect me from, and what do I give up to gain that protection?”

  If you need to remember a lot of passwords, then having some kind of system makes sense.

  But most people don’t need to remember a lot of passwords. Most people can reasonably offload that job to a password manager.

  So without knowing anything more, I’d guess it’s not good security for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Engineers develop self-healing muscle for robots: Device detects injury, heals it and resets to detect future harm.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How about robots that heal people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lara Croft games are the nightmare of any real archaeologist, biologist and paleontologist.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Half-Life

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No looky for you!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And the , commas with , spaces on , both sides

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have been in a prison of bone for your entire life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the definition of “you”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This meme goes way back⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Classic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hello! It's-A-Me, Shrek!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re a legend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hello! It's-A-Me, Shrek!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A small black stroke on the text helps with legibility.

  Thank you for your service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like. A. Bawwwwwssss!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ideological*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tim “Cook of” Apple

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Copilot Delusion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So if library users stop communicating with each other and with the library authors, how are library authors gonna know what to do next? Unless you want them to talk to AIs instead of people, too.

  At some point, when we’ve disconnected every human from each other, will we wonder why? Or will we be content with the answer “efficiency”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people have it worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never understood the argument that you shouldn’t complain about the environment you interact with because other people interact with worse environments.

  Like, okay, that’s good to keep in mind with respect to privilege and assumptions and such, but like…

  I can’t deliver a first-hand account of someone else’s life, and I can’t identify the possible solutions to their problems as well as I can for my own — let alone access their world as well as my own, to try to fix some of the problems.

  I think on some level the people who say “focus on those other people’s problems” know that those other problems are less accessible.

  It’s not that they want you to do better activism. It’s that they want you to do none.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Witcher 4 devs adjusting to Unreal Engine after years of REDengine:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 95 chime composer Brian Eno denounces Microsoft for its ties to Israeli government⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Brian Eno is pretty cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So what counts as dictating my life?

  The government prohibiting me from firing my gun in the air, or my neighbor’s falling bullets prohibiting me from leaving my porch?

  I’m always suspect of those who assume there is only “freedom to do” and not also “freedom from being done-to”.

  They tend to think they will never be on the receiving end of someone else’s “freedom”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In America, crisp is used to describe natural food that is very fresh or a nice, cold morning. But crispy is used to describe food that is cooked so long it's become crunchy.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Crispy can also mean you’re contemplating the nature of Mario’s 8-bit existence

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In America, crisp is used to describe natural food that is very fresh or a nice, cold morning. But crispy is used to describe food that is cooked so long it's become crunchy.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And CRISPR

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saudi Arabia has big AI ambitions. They could come at the cost of human rights⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also the people who do the tagging and feedback for training tend to be underpaid third-world workers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers discover new security vulnerability in Intel processors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Another day, another speculative execution vulnerability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t believe the common refrain that AI is only a problem because of capitalism. People already disinform, make mistakes, take irresponsible shortcuts, and spam even when there is no monetary incentive to do so.

  I also don’t believe that AI is “just a tool”, fundamentally neutral and void of any political predisposition. This has been discussed at length academically. But it’s also something we know well in our idiom: “When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” When you have AI, genuine communication looks like raw material. And the ability to place generated output alongside the original… looks like a goal.

  Culture — the ability to have a very long-term ongoing conversation that continues across many generations, about how we ought to live — is by far the defining feature of our species. It’s not only the source of our abilities, but also the source of our morality.

  Despite a very long series of authors warning us, we have allowed a pocket of our society to adopt the belief that ability is morality. “The fact that we can, means we should.”

  We’re witnessing the early stages of the information equivalent of Kessler Syndrome. It’s not that some bad actors who were always present will be using a new tool. It’s that any public conversation broad enough to be culturally significant will be so full of AI debris that it will be almost impossible for humans to find each other.

  The worst part is that this will be (or is) largely invisible. We won’t know that we’re wasting hours of our lives reading and replying to bots, tugging on a steering wheel, trying to guide humanity’s future, not realizing the autopilot is discarding our inputs. It’s not a dead internet that worries me, but an undead internet. A shambling corpse that moves in vain, unaware of its own demise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For a glorious second, the entire world was able to communicate as one.

  Then we catalogued every accessible reservoir of culture and knowledge, mined them bare, and refilled them with slop.

  A global collective consciousness, hollowed out, replaced with static. No signal. Only noise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like i'll have to start hating everyone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m-a firin my Franco-beam

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get why people think putting manifests on a blockchain is a good idea. Fraudulent manifests are usually the result of entering fraudulent data into the system, not modifying it mid-flight. If you want a way to address those situations, you need another layer where a trusted central authority is able to revise events. At which point, why even have a decentralized layer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will step on you and spill your food, my small friend⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate it more when People do it with just a few Words, arbitrarily.

  It’s like they saw a Smart Person do it to Make A Point, and then they decided to just Do It All The Time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In heat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re an ad company that just happens to offer search as a way to show ads.

  Their ideal scenario is one where you search forever and never find what you were looking for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I look forward to the documentary.

  “Mastodon: Victory Through Technical Superiority”, available soon on Laserdisc and Betamax

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He has a legal status similar to refugee, but not technically the same because he didn’t apply for asylum within a year of entering.

  So yeah, not an illegal alien. Legal resident.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are two root-reasons why people laugh about something that was said.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But… I don’t think that’s true, and yet it didn’t make me laugh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump pardons crypto exchange for money laundering, possibly preventing them from even being investigated again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Molly White: Issue 81 – Crypto crime is legal