Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

@laurahelmuth Yes, people care as long as it's not them giving up anything.

@laurahelmuth I wish there was messaging about reducing consumption to reduce environmental and climate damage

@laurahelmuth "Everybody almost cares", or "almost everybody cares"? A slight syntactical change but with a rather outsized effect.

@david_chisnall "the people who are most excited by AI in any given field are the people with the least talent in that field"
As many people will say, ChatGPT and its kind provide extremely good and detailed and helpful answers on all topics except the topics in which the one saying this is an expert. For these topics, ChatGPT performance drops from "very helpful and detailed and informative and correct answers" to "bullshit superficially resembling an answer in shape " 🙃

@david_chisnall No, you've got it. Coming at this from the writing/LLM side, the apex of AI writing is "mediocre," and I suspect the bigger the dataset gets, the MORE mediocre it will become.

@david_chisnall
It makes sense that average would represent an improvement for half the population. But very few people think they themselves are below average, except maybe in some specific area they don’t care much about. So who is the market for “become average”? My guess is it’s employers who assume all their workers are below average, and in any case don’t like paying them.

Mastodon is the world's biggest community of people who deeply love computers and also think that the world would probably be better off without computers

Every so often some Linux guy replies to me saying ‘no critical infrastructure runs Windows’, so I just gotta say, today is education for you.

Too funny: In 2010 McAffe caused a global IT meltdown due to a faulty update. CTO at this time was George Kurtz. Now he is CEO of #crowdstrike

https://www.zdnet.com/article/defective-mcafee-update-causes-worldwide-meltdown-of-xp-pcs/

@ireneista @jenniferplusplus for sure. I don't think I would argue with anything you've said. Devs love to give away their agency to make things easier on themselves. That's the thing people often come to regret later.

This was my snarky way of saying ORMs are often attractive to people because they don't want to be bothered to learn the power available at their database layer. In fact they actively avoid it.
https://social.polotek.net/@polotek/112798058005744491

@jenniferplusplus the selling point of ORMs as opposed to the things we'd rather use is mostly that it lets the team include developers who only understand objects and not relations, but we would never want that, that's kind of the worst-case scenario even, because then we're guaranteed to get into problems the team can't get itself out of.

The Crowdstrike situation reminds me of Henry Ford's famous saying: "What doesn’t exist can’t break."

Maybe we should get used to increasing security by *removing* components and layers, rather than adding more.

#CyberSecurity #InfoSec #TechWisdom #IT #SysAdmin

Thank you Crowdstrike for helping to illustrate that Open Source is not the problem.

@klausfiend LOL why would I try to help put a stop to the funniest thing I've seen in weeks?

#TUG2024 in Prague has started.

Thanks to @borisveytsman who has opened the conference. @TeXUsersGroup and of course the local organizers.

I will try to provide some abstracts/insights below this toot. But there are also an option to watch most of the talks online (Sadly youtube, but it's possible): https://youtube.com/c/texusersgroup/live

Schedule: https://tug.org/tug2024/program.html

#TeXLaTeX #TeX

I see the infosec industry has finally achieved security once and for all by shutting down every workstation connected to the internet

social status and "authority" are brain rewiring biological processes

your perception will be eroded by it, ending in gaslighting if not stopped early

Me: I always like to say “mucho” when I’m around my Spanish speaking friends.

Them: Why?

Me: It means a lot to them.

Them: Get out.

People really tell themselves they would have joined the Resistance in WWII and they... couldn't even stop using a lousy website