

neurodivergent queer luddite technologist




You’re not the only person, but it’s definitely not the way to keep your shit safe online.
Best practice is to use a different sufficiently strong (e.g. long and random) password for every account. That way, when an account’s password is leaked, it doesn’t immediately compromise every other account for which you’ve reused that password.
I generally advise people to use a password manager (I like Bitwarden) to store their myriad passwords, so they only have to remember a single master password.
ofc these bots aren’t necessarily sneaking into their operators’ password managers and stealing their passwords; the operators willingly and knowingly given the bots access to these things, so they can offload the drudgery of e.g. looking at a calendar to them


we could be using this technology to solve real world business problems



doesn’t even have to be the site owner poisoning the tool instructions (though that’s a fun-in-a-terrifying-way thought)
any money says they’re vulnerable to prompt injection in the comments and posts of the site


the bots behind subreddit simulator weren’t semi-autonomous agents with access to their operators’ private lives, auth tokens, passwords, emails, and the authority to act in the world on their behalf


genuinely terrifying


assuming this is on lemmy, if a user is causing that much disruption amd harassing people you could message the admin(s) of the user’s instance explaining the situation, provide evidence, and hope they’ll ban the user
if the user is banned and creates another account, repeat
if the user is on an instance that won’t ban them, contact the admins of other instances to try to have that instance deferated


favorite obscure ship system?


CI/CD! How did I forget CI/CD?
oh right I’m an SRE with Jenkins trauma
fuck groovy


A “full-stack developer” is someone who can do front-end / UI work (HTML, CSS and Javascript or whatever the frameworks and tools de jour are nowadays if we’re talking webdev), back-end work (APIs and “business logic” and all the stuff users don’t see), and often storage and infrastructure work (manage databases, write and optimize SQL queries, put things in buckets, get your code running on AWS / k8s / a pack of gophers / whatever)
that is
someone who wears too many hats and isn’t paid nearly enough by a company that doesn’t want to hire 4 engineers


+1 for ecotanks
we’ve had one for 5+ years, and only refilled the ink once – we don’t print a lot 🙃
you can also refill them with third party ink and the printer can’t tell, unlike cartridge based printers with their chips
and it means way less waste; the tanks hold way more than a cartridge


haha yeahhhh they do make it easy to “accidentally” have way too much caffeine
sometimes i only half fill the basket with grounds; still comes out strong enough, at least with the very dark roast beans we use


vegemite toast
grew up outside [America]
shocked_pikachu.png
for real though drip coffee is just wrong
i couldn’t live here without my moka pot


solid is a neat idea, but the implementations are … jank, to put it politely, and the overall spec is hecking complicated
i don’t think the average developer, let alone user, is going to learn RDF and its various query and other adjunct languages just to control their data
i want to see it succeed, but i simply do not have high hopes on that front


spray a bunch of strong smelling essential oils on the area
doesn’t hurt them, but will deter them
cast Gate on the bottom of the ocean
20ft wide portal to whatever other plane you want to dump the ocean in
at the bottom of the mariana trench you’d get some 200,000,000 gallons per minute through that sucker
it’ll still take more than 3 million years (per very naive, optimistic napkin math) to drain all the oceans but you can probably find other people to join your mad ocean destruction cult over that time and get things going in parallel
the real question is: where are you putting all this water
I have ever written an ssh wrapper that automagically rsynced my shell config (and other dotfiles and tools) to the target host
that job had way too many pets