South Korea’s newly elected president was once an underage worker in a factory, where he sustained a permanent injury to his left wrist, then became a human rights lawyer before entering politics. https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20250602004300315
I'm not sure which is worse, the fact that such a large proportion of talking heads videos are now planting a hardcoded text transcript very nearly dead center of their videos -- presumably to prevent them being cropped out -- or that they never check the autotranscription for accuracy. Absolutely painful to watch.
I don't know how much he cares given that his new grift is that, having bought the Presidency for Trump, the Executive Branch simply shovels the US Treasury directly into his pockets.
Yesterday I discovered that not only do #crows distinguish between people, but also between #cats.
There's a neighborhood cat whose presence is always announced by the outraged crows yelling and swooping at him. But they pay no attention to our cat, even if he's walking right by them. i can only assume that the other cat has menaced them or their nests in some way, and Stanley never does that.
Anyway, yesterday three crows were standing quietly on our driveway apron looking at Stanley, as he sat looking back at them and meowing chattily from no more than 10 feet away.
To Stanley, a #bird is a person if he's ever seen us talking to it. I've spoken to scrub #jays, #hummingbirds and crows in his presence, and since then I've seen him talk to them as well.
I honestly think the limitless popularity of zombie movies and series nowadays is down to people's frustration with the rest of society as a whole. They just like fantasizing that none of these endlessly bothersome others all around you are real people, just mindless monsters whom you're not only entitled to kill, you're obliged to.
OMG. #Microsoft #Copilot bypasses #Sharepoint #security so you don’t have to!
“CoPilot gets privileged access to SharePoint so it can index documents, but unlike the regular search feature, it doesn’t know about or respect any of the access controls you might have set up. You can get CoPilot to just dump out the contents of sensitive documents that it can see, with the bonus feature* that your access won’t show up in audit logs.”
The S in CoPilot stands for Security!
https://pivotnine.com/the-crux/archive/remembering-f00fs-of-old/
We got a new home heating system installed this spring - a massive investment. During the initial pre-sales conversations I made it 100% clear that any system that required an internet connection was not acceptable in any way.
When the work was done the installation tech informed us that for the system to function it needed to be connected to the internet. I let him know this wasn't what we were told up front, and that we were unwilling to compromise.
"I'm sorry sir, I know this system inside and out, and it doesn't work without a connection. I don't know what you were told, but this is what we need to do next."
"In that case I would like you to leave my house while I call your company and my lawyer."
A few hours and three escalations later, the system is working just fine without any internet connection.
FFS, it shouldn't be this hard. The stove, the fridge, the fucking thermostats. No. Absolutely fucking not.
Adafruit Makers getting clobbered by Trump tariffs.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/05/08/high-tariffs-become-real-with-our-first-36k-bill/
Software Engineer, mostly in the Pacific Northwest of late
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
Will code for pie.