phutatorius

@phutatorius@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech firms suggested placing trackers under offenders’ skin at meeting with UK justice secretary⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I really want to know the name of the contractor who made that proposal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reaction Channels Death: YouTube cracks down on ‘unoriginal’ monetized content with improved detection.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That takes zero ingenuity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Tech-Backed Influencer Wants to Replace Teachers With AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Replace them with a chicken. Then at least I could have some fried chicken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Tech-Backed Influencer Wants to Replace Teachers With AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First, replace the influencers with AI. Then shut down the AI. Do us all two favors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They try pushing a warable onto me, and I’ll insert it in them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pass a law that protects wearable health data under HIPAA and I’d consider it.

  And then the next bunch of fascists come in and seize all that data. Or the TLAs do it covertly.

  We need strong data protection laws, but we also need strong technical measures to prevent intrusion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Software is evolving backwards⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Design that is in the interest of someone other than the user, intended to coerce or trick the user into behaviors that benefit that non-user at the user’s expense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Software is evolving backwards⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  an alien fish dildo

  That sounds intriguing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Software is evolving backwards⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That would make sense if evolution had a direction. But evolution can favor less complexity just as well as more: it depends on the selective pressures it’s under. “Fittest” is not necessarily “best.”

  This applies metaphorically to marketed products as well as literally to biologiccal systems. It’s not inevitable that the marketplace will deliver progress. You might never get that invisible handjob.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insurance giant Aflac says a cybercrime group breached its systems and may have stolen data; source: the attack bears the hallmarks of Scattered Spider⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, fuck a duck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Happens If an Asteroid Heads for Earth?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll be disappointed when it gets here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The female TikTokers silenced through murder⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a tough one for me: I’m opposed to femicide, but I only wish the absolute worst on influencers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IF bribe_received: return (“Approved”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit sues Anthropic for allegedly not paying for training data | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fairest damsel in the leper colony.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, admins, your efforts and patience have been greatly appreciated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We use Python on the back end of a public-facing website with massive levels of traffic. There are some maintainability issues due to the dynamic nature of the language, duck typing can be tricky for similar reasons, but as long as devs are sensible and test things rigorously, performance is fine, and I’m reasonably sure we’re operating at a scale at least a couple orders of magnitude larger than all Lemmy instances combined. Also, it’s a mature, concise language with excellent libraries, so most non-exotic requirements can be met without too much difficulty.

  People mention how its bad but they just assume people know why.

  They don’t know why. I supect it’s because nothing works right if you do it wrong.