Parienve @Parienve@qoto.org

MASTODON, YOU ARE NEEDED

I'm the faculty advisor for our campus fire dancing club. We're doing a show for alumni weekend, and the students have chosen Y2K as the theme.

It'll be easy for them to choose songs from that time, as well as the obvious "1999", but are there any danceable songs *about the Y2K bug*?

If anyone knows, you would!

#music #asktodon #y2k

Progress on my extensible app launcher written in #ClojureScript and #gtk

- Added icons to app listing (they don't load properly on NixOS, but they are working)
- Render diffing on app listing, to not re-render the entire list on every keypress
- I'm now saving the last ClojureScript evaluation as the `ans` variable, so you can use `ans` as you would in your calculator.

This Recall thing is a prime example of how bad we are at understanding when something is a systemic problem.

It doesn't matter if *you* disable it. It doesn't matter if *you* install Linux. It doesn't matter if *you* set your computer on fire and move to a Luddite commune.

If you have *ever* sent sensitive data, no matter how securely, to another person who now has this shit enabled, and they find your data and look at it, your data is compromised, and there's nothing you can do about it.

• An Oxford comma walks into a bar where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.

• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.

• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.

• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.

• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”

• A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.

• Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.

• A question mark walks into a bar?

• A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.

• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."

• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.

• A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.

• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.

• A synonym strolls into a tavern.

• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.

• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.

• Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.

• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.

• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.

• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.

• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned a man with a glass eye named Ralph.

• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.

• A dyslexic walks into a bra.

• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.

• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.

• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.

• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.

All I can say is that Microsoft's #Recall is going to be a #privacy nightmare unlike anything before it.

There's no question as to "if that data will leak". It's a matter of "when". Be it on purpose or unknowingly by some 3rd party actor.

There are zero branches in the multi-verse where Microsoft's Recall doesn't become this massive privacy hole for people.

Lots of luck to everyone sticking with Windows.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy-and-control-over-your-recall-experience-d404f672-7647-41e5-886c-a3c59680af15

Are you tired of reading recipes online only to realize halfway through that the proportions are laughable and the #recipe is #AI #bullshit and you're making White Glue Sauce?

Why not reference the Joy of Cooking instead? No hardcopy with you? No problem! https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126676 (among other sources)

#realWorld #realWork #realCooking #whiteGlueSauce #JoyOfCooking

@floweringmind@mastodon.social @pointlessone But it looks like Firefox will retain the features required by ad blocking and privacy plugins that Chrome and related browsers are descoping.

"Mozilla will maintain support for blocking WebRequest in MV3. To maximize compatibility with other browsers, we will also ship support for declarativeNetRequest. We will continue to work with content blockers and other key consumers of this API to identify current and future alternatives where appropriate. Content blocking is one of the most important use cases for extensions, and we are committed to ensuring that Firefox users have access to the best privacy tools available."

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-firefox-recap-next-steps/

I wrote a very short (and kind of silly) story about prompt engineering: https://www.daniellitt.com/blog/2024/5/30/a-short-story-about-prompt-engineering

Copilot+ Recall has been enabled by default globally in Microsoft Intune managed users, for businesses.

You need to enable DisableAIDataAnalysis to switch it off. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/manage-recall

Mojeek is working!

So, lets give them a go...

https://www.mojeek.com/

#searchengine #Mojeek

Saw some text online that made me want to turn it into signage. What good are graphic design skills if you can't have a little fun with them.

For collaborative editing of code snippets (not whole projects)—e.g., during a workshop:

– What services do you like? In a pinch, there is always Google Docs.

– What libraries do you like? I found these:
* https://codemirror.net/examples/collab/
* https://yjs.dev/

I believe that we are the curators of the web. #weblogpomo2024 https://bjhess.com/posts/we-are-the-curators-of-the-web

Anyone shocked that an Elon Musk company horribly violated their customer's privacy?

"Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars" | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

#tesla #elonmusk #privacy

SEO ruined the internet long ago but now piling LLM slop on top has made search almost useless.. The first three pages of search results now are all variations of the same AI-generated keyword salad. Where so you go to find useful information now?

If you are in the northern hemisphere and you missed the #Aurora last night: I HAVE GOOD NEWS!

Tonight is predicted to be nearly just as active as last night! Get on out there and see this gorgeous once-in-a-lifetime event!

I would like to remind the world that you actually don't have to get into bed with OpenAI. StackOverflow was a beacon of resistance, but I guess their principles were for sale after all.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

ITS MIDNIGHT TIME FOR ANOTHER "ARIA WROTE 5000 WORDS ABOUT HOW COMPILERS ARE BAD" ADVENTURE https://faultlore.com/blah/abi-puns/

I put Breakout (aka Brick Breaker) inside Google Calendar! It lets you decline any meetings you shatter.

blog info + chrome extension link in thread!

If you are the tech-savvy person within your family or friends group :

Never ever shame someone for coming to you for advice after being the victim of a scam, malware, or for using an unsecured product.

If you do this,
they might never come back to you later. They might just feel so ashamed they will just stay alone with their tech problems.

Instead, always tell them:

1. It was a good idea to come to you with this. Be empathetic with them

2. Give them advice on how to minimize the damage now. Actionable advice

3. Help them harden their security for now and for the future. Recommend better products to them. But be careful not to overwhelm them with advice. One step at the time

4. Talk to them with respect and empathy. Tell them how the people who abused their trust are horrible and anyone can fall for the right scam. Remind them there are things to do to reduce the risks of being victimized again in the future, and help them slowly implementing these

5. Be thankful they trusted you with this. It means they think highly of you

#Security #Privacy