salacious_coaster

joined 2 years ago
[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 1 points 11 minutes ago

I find it difficult to have sympathy for people who suffer predictable consequences after scanning unknown QR codes left in public.

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fine. Until relatively recently, like before mass industrialization.

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (15 children)

We've had a habitable wilderness for all of human existence until now. Dystopian society is now The only option for living in most of the planet. World has not always been this fucked.

Edit: if you're not convinced, actuaries are predicting 2 billion climate deaths at +2C warming (we're at 1.7C now) and 4 billion deaths at 3C, which is the absolute minimum we're in for assuming we stopped all emissions tomorrow. Obviously that's not happening, so it's going to be way worse than that. Our existing billions of people also depend on a complex web of logistics systems which are currently falling apart or being dismantled. Google "complexity collapse."

One of you can have my ration. I'm not gonna fight you for it.

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My SO owes an impossible amount of student loans, and her repayment plan is being cancelled. It looks like the Trump admin is gearing up for debtor's prisons soon.

Edit: typo

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 50 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure this is the moment that will give pause and encourage caution with LLMs going forward. Yes. This time people will learn.

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 20 points 2 days ago (19 children)

Long life isn't everything. World is fucked

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

She could be an agent for Big Rust. Trust no one

Make sure it's in a less-trafficked area. Laser printers emit clouds of microscopic toner particles when they're printing. It's as bad for your lungs as secondhand smoke.

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't think any distro only ships with vim anymore. Even Debian, Gentoo, and Arch include nano.

The richest person (and I use that word loosely) in the world is the most enabled man-child in history, and the president is the second most enabled man-child in history. And we're here because the US is populated with men-children who elected a king in their image.

The county where I live voted Trump 3 to 1 in the last election. MAGA hats and flags are rare. I think they assume everyone here is on the same idiot page and don't need to signal group identity.

 
 
 

This particular flower is native to my geographic area, although there wasn't any in my suburban city. So I got a big bag of conservation seed and dumped it everywhere, and it went nuts. Best "weed" ever.

It flowers for most of the season, but it's most magnificent right now. Hoverflies and other tiny pollinators love it. Honeybees do too, but they're a little big for them.

 

Two of my favorites. The rose smells heavenly

 

By "unconventional" I mean something other than classical visual or audio arts like painting, sculpture, music, etc.

I've never been a very "artistic" person. But when I took my first programming class, I worked on my code like it was a sculpture. I found beauty in making my code clean, efficient, easy to read, and user-friendly. It still seems weird and affectatious to say, and I wasn't really expecting that kind of experience from that class! It was one of the only times I ever felt "artistic."

But why not? Any medium can be artful.

What's your non-traditional art?

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