darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
And NOT ON A FUCKING TUESDAY. Make it a national holiday while you're at it.
Australian, InfoSec Curmudgeonly old bastard yelling at clouds.
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And NOT ON A FUCKING TUESDAY. Make it a national holiday while you're at it.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Or stick UV light "into your body"
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Not just Keir Starmer's party either...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
I suspect the Amish don't want them ;)
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Fair point, come to think of it, I don't tend to feel physically ill when I see roadkill...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Eh, those two first ones are pretty much the same point. But here's hoping for FUN!
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
They're DEFINITELY clumsy, they run into EVERYTHING.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Because rich arseholes and hype merchantry :(
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Wonder white that is?
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Into a hole in the ground...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
🎯🎯🎯
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
The problem is the UK pollies pandering to the racist minority are PART OF THAT MINORITY...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
We haven't been robbed, why do we need insurance? Etc, etc, etc..
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Yup, same as things like systems administration, when the sysadmin is doing their job it looks like the sysadmin isn't doing anything...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Give me an E... Give me a U... Give me a G... ... EUGENICS!
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Here's hoping...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Yup, this is one of the biggest issues as far as I'm concerned as a non US resident, if you cut the legs off detection and response it makes it MUCH more likely that you'll originate another Pandemic. I just hope that other countries are smart enough to close borders at the first signs of trouble.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
He's certainly the one in a position to do the most damage... And not just to the US either.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Eh, there would've been someone else, though it's hard to imagine somebody else galvanising MAGA like Trump did... I'm still at a loss to explain that since to me at least he has the charisma of roadkill but as they say, the proof is in the pudding.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
And his family THRIVED under apartheid.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Gee, I wonder why... 🤔
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Funny anecdote, I forget who, but they were applying for a job which said 5 years experience with $THING, where $THING was something THEY had created 3 years ago and got rejected...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh, 100% that's been an ongoing issue for AAAAGES (at least two decades). The number of JDs I've seen with "must have X years experience with Y technology" when Y has been around for a lot less than X...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Perhaps if you weren't hellbent on fucking up the country people might be more inclined to have kids? You know, things like pre and post-natal health programs, childcare, maternity leave, you know those things that make it easier to have kids?
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Abolishing "Citizens United" is CRITICAL to the future of democracy in the US.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
THIS ^^^ SO MUCH THIS. Non-determinism has no place in medicine (unless you're using it for allocating groups in a randomised trial).
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
HIGHLY suspicious...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, he was in decline for some time, might have decided he'd become a liability...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Depends on what they used, Polonium takes quite a while...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Miller will crawl up his arse and animate him from the inside...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, but the last attempt looked pretty suss...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean, he's always been incapable, so if he's not in front of the cameras it must be REALLY bad ;)
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
"A device without a machine spirit is but a shell, however, if it contains an animating intelligent force, it is no longer technology that can be trusted and relied upon. As such, it is no longer part of the Omnissiah's great plan and is damnation made manifest." Praise the Omnissiah!
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean, they were trying pretty hard to destroy it BEFORE they added the LLM shite in... Not that that makes it any better OFC.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
And they're non-deterministic by necessity, that's why you can get different results from the SAME prompt...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
WITHOUT using an LLM, and it produces accurate results.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Except we're more than halfway through the year so it ought to round UP :)
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, LLMs are non-deterministic by design, they are not guaranteed to return the same result for a given input because randomness is baked into the design. Internally it pretty much says "which words might look good next" and rolls a dice to chose from the list ;)
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Which is all well and good until it says 2025-2010=14 ;)
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
It's got LOTS of digits though...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, this observation has been made a number of times; "You've taken a box whose purpose is to crunch numbers and made the poor thing innumerate"
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Indeed.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
IMO any physician who voted to confirm this evil ghoul should lose their license.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm sure he thinks that Vance or Mike "accountability partner" Johnson will do.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Indeed. Even if he dies in office, unless it happens in a fairly public way (and even then) there will be PLENTY of fodder for the conspiracy nuts, I mean he's supposed to be God's chosen one after all...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, I reckon it's about a 50:50 shot, if Vance was to pull the 25A card that would be GUARANTEED to turn them against the regime though.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
And the collapse of the goods based economy when nobody can afford to buy anything because they don't have a job ;)
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Yup, I mean, it would seem to be pretty sensible to assume "apocalypse bad" but these morons think they're going to live in eternal bliss after it happens so...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
And I can't think he's gonna be too pleased with them for doing that... Never mind completely ignoring and generally contradicting the teachings he sent his son to earth to convey (and be killed but that's a whole OTHER story...)
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Indeed.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Sounds legit to me...* * I am not an accountant and none of what was said in this post constitutes legal or financial advice ;)
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
then again between 1700 and 0900...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
I concur, they're doing useful public service at least...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
👌
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
I've said it before, I'll say it again, at least they're doing something USEFUL while they're there instead of standing around or going on bullshit "presence patrols" (of course it'd be better if the people whose actual job this was hadn't been fired and/or deported but I digress)
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah yes... If only Trump had sent the National Guard into Portland it would still be standing today *rolleyes* I'm not sure how you can be both transparent and THIS thick at the same time, no wait, I do, it's because she's a lying sack of human excrement. SMDH.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah... I'm sure it would've been burnt down just like Portland was... FFS.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Actually, on second thoughts, "pretending" doesn't go fare enough they are "...actively DELUDING themselves that..."
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
*powderkeg even...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Thanks for that :)
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
LOTS and LOTS of magical thinking embodied by those three magical words "Line Goes Up" Infinite growth assumed by and indeed essential for the function of "modern economics" but if you apply the slightest bit of thought it becomes patently obvious that that is complete farce.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Yup. Therein lies the incentive misalignment problem which is at the heart of pretty much all this fuckery today.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
100% you're dead on. There's no actual "entry level" jobs in tech these days. I got my start being a dispatch clerk for a software company, then moved to tech support (whilst still doing dispatch), then to software dev and infrastructure management.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Nail on the head. The rot will kill the field before the generational issues come to bear.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, this is the problem that comes along with eliminating the middle class (which is very much part of "the plan" here), if there's nobody with any discretionary funds there's nobody to buy your widget because everybody's funds are tied up with ESSENTIALS of life.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Tl;DR: magic box go brrrrr... But yes, in maybe 5% of use-cases it's been shoehorned into it actually can provide value, but that's not enough to satisfy "Line Goes Up"...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Same thing basically happened around the whole Y2K thing, there wasn't a pipeline of juniors who learned how to COBOL so they had to drag a bunch of retired people back to work to fix their shit.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Of course they haven't. They believe whatever they're told by the man behind the pulpit whilst he relieves them of their money and tells them they're virtuous every Sunday... But of course everyone ELSE are the sheep. SMDH
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
This right here.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
MUCH more appropriate.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
I support this messaging...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Your keyboard to $deity-of-choice's ears...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Yup, that's about the only benefit of Trump departing, there'll be nothing to rally MAGA. The upside is, there's also a non-zero chance that somebody saying the right things in RWNJ circles could convince them that Vance knifed Trump...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Yup. And if they're not REALLY careful about how they proceed the whole powerkeg they've been stoking could go up in their faces.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Yup, this, there's no way that limp noodle will be able to wield MAGA like Trump did. And if they're not REALLY careful he could well turn them against the regime.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Miller's been running a lot of it since the Inauguration...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
And moreover, take steps where necessary to prevent said infection from spreading to the broader populace...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, serious case of "main character syndrome" right there...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
I was wondering how long it would take for a Klangphonics video to pop up in this thread ;) I do take slight issue with them because they often use drum pads on unusual objects rather than actually playing the object itself but they are still pretty bloody awesome.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Reminds me of a dude who used to hang around Swantston St in Melbourne with a bunch of buckets, some sticks and a milk crate just absolutely ROCKING out.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Probably be more reliable...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Yah, there was a flaw in Gemini a while back which allowed you to inject an admin prompt in white-on-white text in an email to any user of Gemini...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
My favourite part of this, even assuming the Rapture is a thing that's "really truly gonna happen", I imagine sky daddy's gonna be kinda pissed about y'all enabling the antichrist in order to force his hand... SMDH
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Also a good part of what they have as an excuse for a personality.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Zuck or Musk, that's pretty much it...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Soo, how's Target's foot traffic numbers going... SMDH.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
You know REPRESENT their constituents...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
*further enshittify*
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
I am HIGHLY skeptical... What was the demo of the people surveyed? High schoolers and early uni?
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
If only somebody had warned them about this...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
🤔
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, this is potentially "planet has finally decided to say 'fuck it' and shrug off the parasites" level calamity.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Certainly seems like the planet has decided "fuck it, time to shrug these parasites off"
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
"Unexpected?"... No, no, these consequences were 100% expected by anybody who was paying attention...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Yup, his screeds usually run to at least 200 chars. And the signoff didn't include the usual artefacts of his posts of late. Maybe they've already passed the torch to Vance since he didn't call himself PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES DJT...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Except they won't because they're complicit weasels.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm betting on somebody else wrote it.
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
May this observation become a reality in the near future...
darkglade.bsky.social (@darkglade.bsky.social) reply parent
Spectacularly many-times convicted felon to boot.