Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org
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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. 🥧
Joined Dec 2022
Just encountered three adolescent coyotes prowling the street outside in the middle of the day. Not even trying to be stealthy.
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.
A thing that kind of unifies half of the current news cycle is that back in 2016 Trump's campaign used to play "Born In The USA" at stops until Springsteen called him a moron on Norwegian television and openly endorsed Hillary.
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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/
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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.
Full Moon on Monday
Take that, Duran Duran
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Adafruit Makers getting clobbered by Trump tariffs.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/05/08/high-tariffs-become-real-with-our-first-36k-bill/
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The Washington Post: Analysis | A Russian fake news ring was struggling. Then it targeted USAID.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/06/operation-overload-russian-disinfo-usaid-musk-x/
Don't mind me, just catching up with some remedial study
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Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
Y'know, Lucky Charms added blue diamonds in 1975, but it wasn't until 1998 that Pfizer made them actually do anything
I've just donated to archive.org for the first time. We've entered the age of memory-holing and we stand to lose far too much, far too quickly.
I wonder to what extent airlines with routes to and from Canada rely on connections through the US? For the safety of its citizens and visitors, I suspect Canadian airlines and their partners are going to have to open more direct routes to other countries.
Thanks to the risks and burdens imposed by the preposterously draconian blunt instrument that is the #OnlineSafetyAct (UK) of 2023, I've just unceremoniously closed down a collaborative website I've operated for almost exactly 27 years.
A week or so ago I received a rather bizarre email from the London Transport Museum Shop, telling me that if I didn't want to see Mothers' Day spam, I could opt out now. In other words, encouraging me to engage in a whole interactive experience with specific reference to Mothers' Day, in order to spare myself any potentially traumatic references to Mothers' Day.
The thought processes involved in creating this campaign beggar rational comprehension.
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@thisisrjg Yes, I've just shut down a participatory server I've been running since 1998. It was never hosted in the UK but it unambiguously served a UK-centric user base, and as you say -- between steep, costly, onerous requirements and unclear but potentially huge penalties, there was simply no case for leaving it up.
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Time traveller from 1995: I’m new here, what’s the latest with computers?
2025 guy: We have AI integrated into the OS!
TT: Wow! So whenever you spot a bug in Windows or Mac OS, you just show the AI the problem, and it fixes it in a couple of seconds?
2025 guy: Um
TT: Minutes?
- Enthusiasms
- 🏍️ 🪂 🚀 🎷 🔬 🔭 🎞️ 🐧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
- Credit
- A Quinn-Martin Production
- MBTI
- mTBI
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. 🥧
Joined Dec 2022
