Biggles @Biggles@qoto.org

@woodpunk @btaroli

My first reaction was the bezel needs woodgrain. Are you emulating, or do you have actual hardware?

@khaost @rileytestut

But will it be available in the US? The rumor I had heard was this was for their EU compliance junk and may be regionally locked. Tell me it ain't so...

@wtfismyip

Is any of Alpine actually GNU? I don't think busybox or musl libc are GNU software, even if they're GPL licensed...

@darkuncle

Because smart people sometimes make very stupid decisions.

I mentioned the developer in the past the brought up a new RHEL server - on a public IP, enabled root login, and set the password to "redhat123" - right? TWICE.

Or the other one who wanted to share AWS credentials with a co-worker - so he posted them to a public github repo.

This default is amusing not because it's a bad choice, but because *nobody called them on it*. Stunning. If I actually used venmo I'd be annoyed.

@darkuncle

Seems pretty cool - light bending because of differences in air density is well known, as the article points out, but to be able to control it has a ton of potential. A "virtual lens" could be changed on the fly and never breaks - it's a neat concept. I'd like to see how they operationalize things. Sometimes the jump from lab table to product is harder than it seems.

@textfiles

Not knowingly. But it wasn't a huge operation and we probably went there a hundred times, so I may well have and not realized it. The warehouse was a big swap-meet and everyone was comparing notes. And yes - the catalogs were just devoured. Thank you for archiving them.

@textfiles

Ha! DAK in the San Fernando Valley. I was fortunate enough to live nearby, so we used to make pilgrimages to DAK's warehouse to pick over the leavings; once thing had somewhat run their course in the catalog, any leftovers got a second life in the warehouse. You could browse thru giant shipping-container boxes of just about anything and everything, both from the catalog and stuff that didn't make the cut, all marked down. It was a picker's paradise, a Fry's before Fry's existed (or at least before it hit the Valley). Rarely left empty handed. I never ordered from the catalog - too impatient - but spent hours and a big chunk of my disposable income on DAK stuff. I didn't need it, it was mostly junk, but we had to have it...

@Secure_ICS_OT

I've been known to tell people at work "If you don't have a log rotation policy, your policy is 'whatever the guy on-call at 2am decides to do' and you don't get to complain". Without maintenance, failure isn't an if - it's a when.

Thank goodness for Find-my-(apple thing). I lose my iPad 3 times a day because I casually set it aside somewhere. I think I need an iPad holster like some wild-west character, but *far more dorky*.

@grammargirl

The proponents *already* ascribe more power to AI than it deserves, unfortunately - with real world effects. People are losing their jobs because managers believe it can do things it can't.

"It's just a pattern-matching engine that emits plausible responses without any understanding of the meaning of the content" - while more accurate - doesn't communicate the point nearly as well as "it lies".

@grammargirl

The "I" in AI stands for "intelligence".

I'm not buying into a game where others can use the word intelligence with all that implies to sell their snake-oil, but I'm not allowed to criticize it for doing the bad things intelligent things can do like lie, or cheat. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, you're justified in calling it a duck and treating it accordingly.

When a supposed AI glibly gives me a made-up answer because the real answer isn't in its corpus, as opposed to "I don't know" - that's a lie, kids.