00:26@Lana@beige.party1990 Internet: You gotta be a hacker to find anything on the web2000 Internet: Literally all the information in the world accessible to everyone so easy a toddler could do it2020 Internet: You gotta be a hacker to find anything on the web 00:27@chrismerkel@infosec.exchangeYou may be in a position where leaders in your company are hot to turn on Microsoft Copilot Recall. Your best counterargument isn’t threat actors stealing company data.It’s that opposing counsel will request the recall data and demand it not be disabled as part of e-discovery proceedings.The threat that keeps your executives up at night are lawyers, not hackers. 00:35I can’t remember what’s in my fridge when I’m hungry, but I didn’t have to make any effort at all to remember my ICQ number, brains are so stupid 🤦🏻‍♂️ mastodon.social 14:48I wonder how many — or rather how few — years back in time you’d need to travel for people to start thinking your iPhone is a magical artifact. 14:52@stephen@microbe.vital.org.nzI hadn’t realised but "AI"-generated fake images by long-dead artists, out of copyright, are also a problem, out there polluting the commons and slowly destroying our ability to know what is genuine: https://maggieappleton.com/generative-forgery 18:36@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThe Terminator was released closer to the end of World War II than we are to the release of The Terminator 19:24@pawsplay@dice.camp 22:39Little Kitty, Big City (PC) — DNFI really want to like this game — there’s a lot it tries to get right, and the premise is obviously great — but an exploration game about being a cat lives and dies by how fun it is to navigate as a cat, and they just haven’t managed to make it pleasant to move around.

03:42This is what happens when your CEO sends a companywide memo ordering everyone to include AI in their products yesterday. There’s potentially something interesting to be done along these lines — there’s a reason several apps already exist in this space — but you can’t afford to rush this *at all* 🤦🏻‍♂️ cyberplace.social 12:34@carnage4life@mas.toI sometimes wonder if LLMs are this generation’s self driving cars? A decade ago self driving cars were so promising it was assumed they were 90% of the way to being ubiquitous. But now it looks like the last 10% of the work is taking 90% of the time.LLMs work well 90% of the time. The question is how hard will it be to address that last 10%? 12:36@jsq@mastodon.socialDefinitely not switching to passkeys any time soon mjtsai.com 12:39@iKyle@mastodon.socialIf I didnt keep up with LLM, AI and tech news in general and I saw these Google AI answers, Id assume all these models that have been so hyped are useless.But every model or AI tool Ive used can do a better job of putting together answers then Google is currently doing.Bings AI search (ChatGPT + bing search) was/is WAY better than this, for example.And that launched last year. 13:06Regardless of model size, LLM usage costs are directly proportional to how much text you feed them in each prompt. So it makes sense to let an algorithm pick a couple result snippets and just task the LLM with reformulating those as text. That’s a good way to save money and a great way to get the catastrophic “AI-generated” results we’re seeing from Google. mastodon.social 13:11A more charitable / conspiracy-theorist interpretation is that there’s a tiny but non-zero chance Google is intentionally poisoning the well with a bad LLM implementation so it can tell the stock-market gamblers “see? we integrated that buzzword y’all love and everyone told us to stop” because it knows its interest as an ad network is still in people visiting websites. Again: *tiny*chance. But non-zero. 14:02As excited as I am for SLS printing to become relatively affordable, that’s a lot of tedious manual work for a $3,000 device — while modern FDM printers have become literally plug-and-play. Still, can’t wait to see where that techonology goes in four or five years. www.youtube.com 14:29Has absolutely no one considered making a translation library that would let you specify native iOS interfaces with CSS? I can’t find anything at all online, and I know that writing actual CSS by hand has gone out of fashion, but most of it would map rather easily to UIKit, and I’d love to be able to use media queries in mobile UI design. Yes, I know UIKit is also going out of fashion, but look I’m old okay? and old people can still want to make apps. 14:37I love that you get a bonus typical “front suspension self-destructs if you look at it funny.” From the photo you’d think the car bounced off a train car, but the driver just threw it to the side of the road to avoid contact. www.nbcnews.com 14:43@erinbee@gorgon.cityDid anyone have "Pope canonizes a web designer" on their cyberpunk dystopia bingo card? www.bbc.com 19:46@arstechnica@mastodon.socialApple clarifies iOS 17.5 bug that exposed deleted photosiOS 17.5.1 fixed the bug, but users still had questions. arstechnica.com 21:29Performing neuroscience experiments on an LLM — locating and manipulating specific neurons — is an intriguing concept xoxo.zone

01:29@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.socialNote that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers.The computer, however, will stop you from recording DRMd content.Find it fascinating that when faced with drawing safety and security boundaries, the primary beneficiary is not the owner of the device, or the person using it, but random corporations who control the intellectual property rights.The system doesnt work for you. 12:20@tolmasky@mastodon.socialMost languages *start out* this way. Just look at Java. We had something really special with Objc-C/Cocoa and JS, for very different reasons. With Cocoa it felt deliberate, it was almost a “C DSL for writing mac apps”. Ruthlessly practical, especially compared to its contemporaries (C++, with no “centralized customer” to report to). Things like IBOutlet vs. STL highlight this. It’s too bad we handed over the future of Mac dev to the compiler writers who never write apps and call C++ home. 12:20@tolmasky@mastodon.socialBut once JS really took off, the language devs decided to step back in and “clean up this mess”. So now we have a “universal” module system that, get this, we’ve settled will work differently in node and the browser (sync vs. async, disagree on need for “with: json”, etc), language features that often still need JS implementations (for polyfilling), bugs that the app devs have no power to fix since they’re implemented in C++, and, oh, uh, practically speaking, we still need to transpile. Great. 12:28Impressed by the effort and creativity OpenAI appears to have devoted to being the most unethical incorporated company it could www.vox.com 17:25@Nifflas@mastodon.gamedev.placeI’d like an online game with strangers where I can play as a dog. I can hear voice chat but so jumbled that I can only make out tone, not words. My communication back is different forms of barks.The other players can understand each other but I’m just a dog. 17:26@carnage4life@mas.to$60 million well spent licensing that Reddit data for AI use. 17:27@stroughtonsmith@mastodon.socialBut from what I’ve heard, this runs macOS. You know what that means, though? iPadOS couldn’t get us there, so Apple is making bets in other places — like a touch-based macOS. But why would Apple maintain two touch-based computing platforms? Do they even have that bandwidth? Is *this* perhaps where iPad Pro will end up in a few years time? Will macOS gain a much more SpringBoard-like layer, and then replace iPadOS entirely on the top end iPads? mastodon.social 17:56TIL that it’s common for cheap “USB-C” devices to skimp on the two simple resistors that would allow them to actually work with USB-C cables, instead of *only* being usable with USB-A to USB-C cables 🙃 mastodon.social 18:22Just bought an album on the iTunes Store on my Mac, because I’m old. (And I figured, all other things being equal, it’s worth reminding Apple that some people still want to purchase music.) Spent the next fifteen minutes trying to figure out how to download the damn songs. 19:07Lexcellente marque de produits sans gluten Schär a enfin sorti une version française de son site 🙌 Du coup le site allemand refuse de livrer en France, je suis limité aux produits que leur filiale française propose, les trois-quarts de ceux que je veux ne sont pas disponibles.Et dire que jétais censé habiter en Belgique by now.

11:46I hope the parallel isn’t that piracy was never okay, and the “you wouldn’t download a car” people were right all along about the slippery slope 😱 mas.to 11:46What a perfectly rational and reasonable to the addition of a feature that isn’t enabled until you enter you own API key. iTerm has always been a “throw in the kitchen sink” application; I have no idea what 80% of the features do. gitlab.com 12:04The old “our societal problems would be solved if someone just dropped LSD in the water supply” was always a pipe dream, but Silicon Valley tech bros have made it their mission to prove that it wasn’t accurate in the least. flipboard.social 12:10@evacide@hachyderm.io"...a would-be hacker would need to gain physical access to your device, unlock it and sign in before they could access saved screenshots."I’ve got some news for Microsoft about how domestic abuse works. www.bbc.com 13:50@saagar@saagarjha.comI haven’t spent enough time actually looking at what this code does to be sure, but my best understanding is this relates to running a task that scans your photo library folder on disk for orphaned files and pulls them into the Photos database. 13:50@saagar@saagarjha.comIn iOS 17.5, they added some code to reset whether this had been run already. Presumably this would cause it to run again and pick up any new orphan files it found? Like, if you deleted a file from Photos so it removed it from its database, but it remained on disk somehow.

04:18@cabel@panic.comI just really hope Apple is preparing a metric hectare of reassurances if (big if!) they’re about to announce a deep partnership with OpenAI.Like, reassurances about the environmental impact (all that work down the drain?), about the training data sources, about general ethics, about the cringy move-fast-and-break-things startup-bro vibes that they will then inherit onto their brand, etc… 14:11Am I nostalgic of old DOS word processors because they were simpler and distraction-free or because I was simpler and distraction-free, back then in the Middle Ages. 14:13Just remembered that George R. R. Martin stuck to WordStar for ages (can’t find whether he still does), so either it’s not the magical productivity pill that I’m looking for, or it is and he’s stopped writing because he lost the install floppies. 14:39Over the past month I’ve found the Cybertruck’s design less and less revolting every time I’ve seen pictures of it, and I’m not happy about that. Musk has moved the Overton window dramatically toward “Carmageddon for PlayStation 2” and there will be no undoing that damage. 15:35“Recreating the Dreamy Digicam Look in Unreal.” Gorgeous.And TIL that moonlight isn’t blue. (I’d never thought about it, but why would it be? It’s sunlight reflected by a gray orb.) It’s our vision that turns blue in low light 🤯 www.youtube.com 16:04This is both a great introduction to Satisfactory and a wonderfully produced video that’s making me jealous — not that I would ever want to devote that kind of work to making a video, I’d rather play Satisfactory. www.youtube.com

23:04@MnemosyneSinger@kolektiva.socialHello 23:04Investigating the medieval skyscrapers of Bologna www.youtube.com 23:13Oh no 💸 www.lego.com

04:11@BenRiceM@mastodon.socialThe Cybertruck is stupid and no one should buy one.. but someone should paint theirs with dazzle camouflage 12:56@telemetrydeck@social.telemetrydeck.comGood morning to all Objective-C developers. How are those knees today? 13:00Comment on est passés de “oktopous” (😍) à “pieuvre” (😣)Apparemment ça vient des pêcheurs normands au XIXe, je parie que cest un mot qui se veut négatif parce quelles ne se vendaient pas comme du poisson à lépoque. 13:32I’m not the multitasking kind of ADHDer but I really like the idea of turning that 2018 iPad Pro I don’t really use anymore into a dedicated typewriter and trying to force myself to write longform again.I don’t own a keyboard for it, though, and that’s probably not the sort of whim that’ll be worth the investment. (But! Typewriter-style bluetooth keyboards can be so cute!) www.facebook.com 13:32@Libon_@mastodon.artJe vous présente mon chat. Il a décidé d’aller dormir dans le panier de linge (il a pas le droit) posé sur la machine qui vibre, mais comme ça vibre il râle. Vous remarquerez qu’il a mis sa tête sous un robinet ouvert juste avant. Oui il est complètement con. 13:36There are gaudier models but this reminds me of the computers I borrowed from my mother’s workplace during the holidays, a few centuries back 😞 22:07Oups, j’ai pris l’habitude des horaires de la VendrediXXL, et maintenant il faut que je m’occupe jusqu’à minuit pour ne pas arriver avant louverture des portes 🤦

* * *@halide@mastodon.socialAnd we thought dealing with a bug that lost photos on iOS was bad, turns out the opposite might be worse: 01:57Harold Halibut (PC) — ZZZThere are games in which the walking, and the chores, are the point — the cannery level in Edith Finch remains one of the best ideas ever in interactive storytelling. Harold Halibut is not one of those. This story wanted to be a two-hour animated movie, and it could have been a good one, too — that ending is lovely. The developers really should add a button that lets it play itself as a movie; it’s on Game Pass anyway, so they should probably be looking to increase the number of hours running, shouldn’t they? 11:47@lapcatsoftware@mastodon.socialOnly 6% of app submission rejections are for Safety.In other words, most rejections are bullshit. mastodon.social 11:56@ole@chaos.socialIt’s unacceptable IMO that tvOS apparently doesn’t allows apps to use persistent storage. For instance, the new RetroArch game emulator has to store all your savegames, screenshots, ROMs in the Caches directory, which the OS may purge at any time without warning. *poof*“your app can only access 500 KB of persistent storage … Outside of this limited local storage, all other data must be purgeable by the OS when space is low.” Why even sell the 128 GB Apple TV then? developer.apple.com 12:31@matoo@super-gay.coL’Angel Gay Bear (il l’a toujours été 😏) de la gare du Nord pour le 17 mai. 🤩 15:38J’ai fait tous les supermarchés du coin et je ne retrouve pas où j’ai acheté le lait de noisette qui allait tellement bien avec mes céréales 😭(Déjà quand on est neurodiv, mais toute disparition daliment est un drame déchirant quand en plus on a des allergies alimentaires.) 18:12@isotopp@chaos.socialSource: x.com x.com

12:33Briefly checked out the new ChatGPT app. The selection of voices is good — they sound offensively enthusiastic in the list but that might just be the previews.Then I spoke, it replied, and I threw down my phone and locked it in horror because I am not ready to have such a natural-sounding conversation with a computer.This thing is too good, it will eat up the world. And I grew up reading sci-fi, so I’m used to the idea — but our overlords were supposed to be smarter than us, not just RNGs. 13:01I keep thinking of that joke about how the existence of the uncanny valley shows there was an evolutionary advantage for our ancestors to detect intruders pretending to be human. (It doesn’t, the uncanny valley exists because half our brain is dedicated to analyzing other humans’ reactions.)Well, this is the moment we lose that evolutionary fight. It was hard enough explaining to people that ChatGPT isn’t intelligent; it’ll be outright impossible now that it speaks like this. 13:10Dammit, I really hoped the service would implode when they finally went ahead with this. www.theverge.com 13:45I’m not sure I want to spend time playing the whole game, but Cryptmaster is full of very interesting and creative ideas. So much more than just a typing game. store.steampowered.com 13:45@beyondmachines1@infosec.exchangeEveryone hates meetings 14:36Je n’ai jamais aimé le lave-vaisselle parce que je suis maniaque et les couverts ne ressortent jamais assez propres, mais saviez-vous qu’ils rincent aussi mal qu’ils lavent, et que la vaisselle ressort couverte de détergents toxiques et propices au développement d’allergies ? www.arte.tv 14:37Bien sûr ça colle assez bien avec le fait que je me tape de nouvelles allergies alimentaires à chaque covid, parce que dans les deux cas ce sont les cellules épithéliales qui morflent et laissent entrer les allergènes potentiels, ce qui déclenche la réaction immunitaire. 19:29@benbrown@hackers.townHave you tried unplugging it and then just leaving it unplugged

10:28@rotational@mastodon.socialThe end of the mechanical in modern tech is such a terrible loss, even if that’s where VCRs, floppy drives, Walkmen all tended to go wrong. Here’s a profoundly satisfying supercut of anime “retro tech” www.youtube.com 10:28@eniko@peoplemaking.gamesI feel like too many words are spent explaining why "AI" search is a terrible idea when we could just be like "Large language models can’t do that hope that helps" 11:58@danielnazer@mastodon.socialI wrote a fairly mundane post on Reddit that led to me getting an AI-prompted message with suicide prevention resources. I was completely mystified but then I realized it was probably because I included the phrase: I find it hard to manage (in a context like I find it hard to manage the crabgrass in my garden ... ).This is the future isnt it? AI pestering us with context-free misunderstood nonsense. I guess I should just count myself lucky that the AI didnt institutionalize me. 14:22Je suis dans un mon ère Sondheim aujourd’hui, et je suis retombé sur cette master class de comédie musicale d’il y a quatre ans, que j’avais postée à l’époque sur l’oiseau mort. www.youtube.com 16:24@waldoj@mastodon.socialOK Apples new Vehicle Motion Cues is super cool. They reduce motion sickness while using an iPhone or iPad in the car by having little dots move around on the screen in tandem with the vehicles movement, to align visual cues with your inner ears sense of movement (the lack of which causes motion sickness). www.apple.com 17:44Ah mais la Foire du trône s’est terminée vachement tôt cette année ?! Normalement j’évite le quartier pendant tout le début de l’été, du coup je viens seulement de m’en apercevoir. Un rare avantage des JO ? 19:48Hey McDonald’s quand on est la destination numéro 1 des neurodivergents qui ont un rapport complexe à la nourriture (pléonasme), on ne piège pas son menu en rajoutant du Spicy aux McNuggets du jour au lendemain sans mettre DE GROS AVERTISSEMENTS PARTOUT.(C’est pas mauvais mais c’est pas ce que je voulais manger 😒) 20:49@stephaniewalter@front-end.socialTeranoptia a typeface without letters that lets you imagine chimeric creatures by typing letters. Love it, I’m having way too much fun with this!!(via @cassidoo ’s newsletter) www.tunera.xyz 22:41Franchement surpris que la France n’y soit pas déjà mastodon.social 23:59@b3ll@mastodon.socialWhoever worked on the 3D dynamic shadows cast by the virtual pen tool with Apple Pencil and the new iPad Pro… kudos. It’s so damn cool. Makes me wish I worked there twitter.com