Mark Tomczak @mtomczak@qoto.org

@Ateriath Audio programs is dry but accurate.

@lauren Ooh, I hadn't thought about that. Yeah, that suggests some shenanigans.

I wonder if Chrome itself (being both the browser and the OS) has a funny notion of the TCP stack relative to other apps on the Chromebook? Like... Maybe Chrome is outside a shared Android / other-app sandbox?

I really have no idea on this one.

@lauren Oh, because it's got an Android environment and that environment isn't necessarily publishing an interface to the TCP stack the Chrome app is running in; now I follow.

I love Chromebook for the benefits of the isolation, but it does make it tricky / confusing to do anything even remotely complex on it. We've looked into it as a platform for developing FIRST Robotics machines in the past, and the consensus continues to be "The security model actively gets in the way of developing mobile robotics software."

@SwiftOnSecurity I'm angry that I know exactly enough about helicopters (and no more) to get this joke.

In possibly the most cyberpunk fate I can think of, the operators of the "Nothing, Forever" AI-generated eternal Seinfeld episode on Twitch found they were saturating ChatGPT, leading to downtime. To resolve the issue, they switched from the "DaVinci" language model to the "Curie" model.

For all the complaining people do about ChatGPT's niceness and morality filters, they're actually pretty subtle and sophisticated.

After the cutover, "Nothing, Forever" got banned from Twitch for transphobia.

@lauren Huh. I wonder why Chrome on a Chromebook can't access its own localhost ports?

@carnage4life Oh God, was this one real and not a parody?

I can never tell with Turning Point stuff. It's so reductionist that it fails the "Is this an Onion article" test for satire.

@carnage4life "Two management scholars [who have apparently never heard of 'going for a walk'] say the commute offers..."

Apparently, when one Mastodon node defederates from another, follow lists get deleted.

Regardless of the reasons for federating / defederating, dumping the follows list when a defederation occurs is deleting user data without warning and therefore fails Software Engineering 101.

@ethanschoonover Regardless of the reasons for federating / defederating, dumping the follows list when a defederation occurs is deleting user data without warning and therefore fails Software Engineering 101.

@hasmis Ah, now I follow :)

Yeah, and that's the thing... I don't know I'd want it any other way. Open source is a space where people can contribute regardless of the skillset they have, and that's actually super great. I wouldn't want to put "Must be able to write documentation" as a barrier to entry on the ecosystem.

... but a thousand blessings upon people who can!

@ocdtrekkie I'm incredibly impressed by the casting and the character chemistry. We didn't have a lot of narrative fixed points for Pike before they started telling new stories with him, but as for the ones we did... Yeah, this is a guy Spock would be willing to sacrifice his career and possibly life to bring to Big Head Retirement Planet And Health Spa when the time came.

(Also, they apparently lifted the "Captain Pike holds briefings over a kitchen table" idea from Anson Mount himself, because "creat[ing] consensus in his life over cooking" is a thing he does IRL). 😛

@ocdtrekkie As someone who was convinced his favorite franchise was permanently on the shelf for about a decade, I cannot. Get. Over how good new Star Trek is.

@SwiftOnSecurity

> You should become bold in fearless appeals to specific sectors, which you continually cycle.

Is this why you wrote a song for *Cats*? ;)

@lou @lauren Yes; China dropped a rocket on a village; I have no doubt they'd consider the risk of loss of life from dropping an unknown payload 60,000 feet irrelevant.

... We don't do that here.