This was an interesting series of shorts. The bouncing screen edge overlay and the use of PDF made me chuckle. Very nostalgic.

Thirty-odd years after it was first ejaculated into the world, PDF still remains the demon threat vector for payloads that just won't die.

13% (presumably 12.5%) means 1 in 8.

CxOs with their Thought Leadership™️ and outside the box (follow the herd) thinking have done everything they can to reduce the cost and chaos of humans in their company, and prioritising the reverse centaur approach to LLMs for short term gain instead of making them centaurs: a useful tool to enhance their productivity for long term results.

And now they're waving their hands in despair, wondering who's to blame. It can't be them, by definition.

Let them burn. Let those companies die. Piss on their ashes. Blacklist the people involved. It's more than they deserve.

Yes, but also no.

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Wow, that's amazing. I'm typing hunter2 and you can't see it?

That website was amazing. 😄

Thanks for the heads up.

Also have an upvote for the bash.org reference with hunter2 😄

Looking at the replies to your comment... so many people not getting the reference. 🥲

Shared their login details - as in username and password? Why am I not surprised it doesn't even use multi-factor authentication... 🤦🏻‍♂️

At this stage in the game, I'd not be surprised to learn that Flock's database is stored on an unsecured cloud instance with password123 or sithlord as the sole security between it and the world.

Phone thickness is the excuse, but adtech is the reason. Just look at how camera lenses are handled.

Forcing everyone to use Bluetooth means you're more likely to leave it permanently enabled. And that means a lot more data for adtech. All those beacons in shopping and urban areas make population-scale measurement trivial.

This is the way.

The "in app browser" that phone apps offer is for convenience alone, not security nor anything else that matters in our current "techbros vs humanity" reality.

The words are from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but aren't the images stills from The Neverending Story?

Is this one of those '"Use the Force, Luke" -Gandalf, with an image of Harry Potter' type memes?

Or am I going mad? 😄

Waiting for Spez to weigh in with his typical subtlety and even-handedness... 🍿

Classic modern tech company formula. If any records or targets are broken, mass layoffs must happen.

I think MBA schools have forgotten the golden rule of economics: you get what you incentivise for. Guaranteed unemployment isn't it.

This dystopia is sofa king boring.

For those who haven't read it: it's Stripe, their payment processor, behind this. Kickstarter isn't doing a Tumblr; they're just handling it like amateurs, rather than just yeeting those puritanical morons.

Microslop going full "the beatings will continue until morale improves" with their ensloppification of everything they touch, I see.

I think my irony meter just broke. The company that takes freely published papers* and paywalls them for extortionate profit is mad that that someone else is making money off free content?

I propose a trial by mortal combat. It's the only logical solution.

*You'll be hard pressed to find a published researcher who thinks well of the Elsevier distribution monopoly, and it's even harder to find one that won't send you a PDF copy for free if you just ask for it.

Yet but also: don't blink too quickly...

I asked this question many years ago on a Usenet group, and the answer was along the lines of what we're seeing is many millions of years after those orbits began, and that they all eventually flatten out due to the gravity of the other objects in orbit.

So you could have 2 objects at roughly the same orbital distance but perpendicular to one another (eg. one orbiting the star's poles and the other around it's equator), and over time the small amount of gravitational force they exert on one another will bring them roughly into the same plane.

Hopefully someone better versed in the topic can come along to explain it better than I can.

Found this to be an interesting read, and well written. Thanks for sharing it.

Parts of the Internet now only searchable on specific sites now? What next - charging a monthly subscription to use Google?

This needs to be regulated before the Internet becomes like streaming TV.

This is what FAFO in public looks like. Gold!