@cstross@wandering.shop I love the BS1363 plug. US wall plugs are FLIMSY JUNK.

Also, ChatGPT doesn't even have the PINS in the right places.

I saw a similar LLM-generated diagram of how to wire an outlet into a wall box. It was even more surreal.

@lokeloski@mastodon.social Thinking that a slop answer generated by an LLM is "right" requires sufficient ignorance of the subject that you don't understand why the LLM's answer is wrong. If you actually understood the subject, you wouldn't have asked an LLM in the first place.

@Kierkegaanks@beige.party @isotopp@infosec.exchange See also Green Shirt

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social A milliuon satellites is utterly barking insane. Based on the rate they're burning out GPU/VPUs in AI datacenters, my rough estimate is they're going to need 140 Falcon 9 launches PER DAY just to sustain the constellation. A million satellites that need replacement every 18 months on average?

@alice@lgbtqia.space I'm also reflecting on a SF short story that featured an executive receiving a "hate-brace" before a major business meeting, and the executive's 'throwback' daughter Ployploy (who dies close to the end of the story). In the story, success in business meetings basically comes from out-screaming your rivals in psychotic rage.
But I'm damned if I remember the title or who it was by (I want to say Asimov, but I'm drawing a blank, and web search is returning only Kpop tropes). The story is told mostly from the viewpoint of the, uh, 'therapist' administering the hate-brace, who observes that being fired at the end of the session is the highest compliment his profession can receive and almost ensures being hired again next time.

@anyia@lgbtqia.space @alice@lgbtqia.space Love the analogy!


(It could be worse. Never forget Appletalk, the protocol where address assignment is based on jabbering....)

@north@xn--8r9a.com @alice@lgbtqia.space Walk softly, and carry hard facts.

@alice@lgbtqia.space "You're not being obnoxious enough."

Obnoxiousness is a hell of a thing to respect. But there's an awful lot of cultural conditioning for men to be loud and obnoxious and dominating.

"But this is how you get all eyes in the room on you!"

Dude. My dude. The eyes I want on me are NOT those of the people who gravitate to the loudest in the room. I want the people who think.

@cstross@wandering.shop Meanwhile Mozilla promised a one-step 'AI kill switch' in Firefox 148, and Vivaldi's CEO said "We've learned that frankly, people hate AI."

@amydiehl@mstdn.social That could backfire on them. I saw it asserted a day or two ago that without white women voting disproportionately conservative, no conservative would have won election in the last century.

I don't know how true the assertion is.

@drsbaitso@infosec.exchange And you do not IMPROVE security by forcing all account usernames to be the email address registered to the account. Now any attacker who knows your email address knows your username, and vice versa.

Looking directly at you here, Rocket Mortgage.

"If you entrust your security to amateurs, don't be surprised when you get amateur security." — Bruce Schneier

@rayckeith@techhub.social No wonder corporate-owned America hates the idea.

@Tarnport@mastodon.green If you don't specify your units, any number is just a number.

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange This will cripple business travel to the US and DESTROY the tourism industry.

@rolle@mementomori.social This looks interesting, but I have to wonder how well it scales. The weakness of a direct client-to-client network is that N×N grows rapidly as N increases.

@randahl@mastodon.social "Law and order FOR YOU. Not for us. We're above the law. We ARE the law."

@danielpunkass@mastodon.social And they'd ENJOY it.

@inthehands@hachyderm.io He's a fucking mall ninja.

@inthehands@hachyderm.io Make no mistake, this is undeclared war on Minnesota.

@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social Dear Satya,
I'm not seeing a problem here. It sounds like a you problem, not a me problem.
kthxbye.