Some wisdom my dad shared with me decades ago: when you’ve lost everything and must rebuild, the rebuild is ALWAYS better. As a programmer for a very long time who has done what you did, I have found this to be true. So there is your silver lining.

I got a privacy update for Gmail tools too. It used to be to enable smart tools you needed to allow google to read your email. That does stuff like automatically add calendar events for flights and such.

Now you must also allow the email to be read by their AI services too. I can’t recall precisely how it was worded, but it was an easy decision to keep the “smart” features off.

I mean, I really just use Gmail as the email address I give to sign up for sites and such, but would be good just not to have it one day.

• Pinball Deluxe Reloaded: so good
• lichess: so addicted

Also in Norway. Can generally see my FL in one or two days. He is always on time and takes good care of me. I can also just send a message for many things. Legavakt is nearby if something major comes up. My daughter’s experience is closer to yours and she too has seen private a few times. Good to have options.

Awesome. I’ve been using Lemmy for a long time now and this is the first time I’ve gotten that feeling that Old Reddit used to have. So nice having the expert you need right when you need them.

If only there were a word, literally defined as:

Made by humans, especially in imitation of something natural.

I hate that. I’m looking at you Healthline. I hate that it’s always so high in the results.

I’m the akshually guy here, but complex numbers are the combination of a real number and an imaginary number. Agree with you, just being pedantic.

This talk by Freya Holmer on Quarternions is awesome and worth anybody’s time that like computer graphics, computer science, or just math.

Not liking Apple for ethical reasons is one thing, but thinking they don’t make good products surprises me. I think the current generation of MacBooks are some of the best computers ever sold.

By denying access to resources in a primary region, one might force traffic to an alternate infrastructure with a different configuration. Or maybe by overwhelming hosts that distribute BGP configurations. By denying access to resources, sometimes you can be routed to resources with different security postures or different monitoring and alerting, thus not raising alarms. But these are just contrived examples.

Compromising devices is a wide field with many different tools and ideas, some of which are a bit off the wall and nearly all unexpected, necessarily.

Disabling network security and edge devices to change the properties of ingress can absolutely be a component of an attack plan.

Just like overwhelming a postal sorting center could prevent a parcel containing updated documentation from reaching the receiver needing that information.

Can be a component of it.

Say, would you like a chocolate covered pretzel?

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for SEGA.

AI is a superset of transformers which is then a superset of LLM’s. I think I’m making the same point as you, that in the broader sense “AI” can be useful.

I’ll give it a pass as parody, but you really should include the source material.

xkcd 303

It also helps with tons of complex tasks in the sciences like finding new protein folding algorithms.

I’ve traveled around the world a lot and seen many great sites. Nothing compared to the feeling of home when I first reached Scotland. I can neither describe it nor understand it, but I had an overwhelming since of home.

Falcon 9 has launched over 500 mission with a very high success rate. Of course the bulk of advancement should be coming from NASA and we need to spend more there, but SpaceX is putting up big numbers in successful payload lifts.

dua-cli is good for this.