Greg Bell
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@Artemis201@mstdn.social @jerry@infosec.exchange oh come on there's worse places for a data center. How about inside a volcano? It's like we're hardly trying.
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@rk@mastodon.well.com a scientist, I see
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@Ardvaark@mastodon.world single serving web site IsJesusOnTheRadio that returns Yes or Not Yet depending what day it is
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@janamarie@mystical.garden @jana@mystical.garden nutriation is important
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@spiegelmama@infosec.exchange @argals@mstdn.ca @soatok@furry.engineer even if they mean well it's still always less efficient than just using the money to help more ppl instead of measuring their virtue
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@MLE_online@social.afront.org that's how spacetime does it on a bigger scale, but we're stuck with this local gravity
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@404mediaco@mastodon.social boy, too bad there's not some kind of effect about how blocking something on the internet brings attention to it
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@rosyna@mastodon.social ✋ it me, the one with them all turned off
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@misternineham@mastodon.social just giving you a soupçon of cheek pheromones to complete your style
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@MLE_online@social.afront.org I wonder if some model gamer furry over there is getting all your bike content
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@adamshostack@infosec.exchange that was my concern as well. Having a rule or a deal means nothing to this regime, nothing is ever final or certain
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@swizzlevixen@social.lol ai coding assistant works better when listening to music
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@txo_elurmaluta@mastodon.eus @JohannaForster@mastodon.art @annaleen@wandering.shop came here to comment about the automatic noodle vibes
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@gsuberland@chaos.social Untitled Grouse Game
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in Arizona, CPB using a “Cold War-era law to ticket legal immigrants for minor offenses like not carrying their immigration documents, a break from the agency’s longstanding focus on people in the country illegally.” https://azcir.org/news/2026/03/04/border-patrol-tickets-legal-immigrants-carry-your-papers/
The U.S. is a show-me-your-papers country.
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com the collective noun is "an optimization of compilers"
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@futurebird@sauropods.win curled on her side she looks like a cinnamon roll
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I'm at a bus driving competition today
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@MLE_online@social.afront.org this looks cool as hell
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@cpay@mastodon.online squirrel is 60% tail by volume (TBV) or 120 ploof
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@theleftistlawyer@mastodon.social keep her away from Lost then =p
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@swizzlevixen@social.lol not productive, but reductive: you're reducing the scratches!
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@MLE_online@social.afront.org a cultural artifact
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@aparrish@friend.camp known as gameboy modding
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@gsuberland@chaos.social "A Short Stay in Hull"?
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@gsuberland@chaos.social it keeps being the same people you most expect
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@wdormann@infosec.exchange it's not supposed to keep sounding non-stop. Mine dings when it gets power then is silent.
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com why TTL was invented
(I know)
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Well I'll be damned. There's a plugin for IDA to clearly indicate indentation/bracket level in the decompilation view I had to tweak it slightly to get it to work with my ancient IDA version, but it w
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@wdormann@infosec.exchange omgbbq this is the best thing I have ever seen
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@gsuberland@chaos.social STATUS_UWOT_M8
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@North@chaos.social without the rest of the words this reminds me of "Do not the cat" https://reddit.com/r/DoNotTheCat
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@North@chaos.social since these things are just language processors there's no way to delineate control instructions from data input. Any appearances to the contrary are just cruft layers admonishing the AI to pay more or less attention to things, but there's never any real separation. This issue cannot be solved even in theory
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com I thought it was. Not that it ever stopped people from needing it
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@weirdonwheels@social.chinwag.org @MLE_online@social.afront.org maximum speed: 3. Safety profile: no.
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@kstatz12@discuss.systems trackball very 90's Logitech energy
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@slava@mathstodon.xyz @joe@f.duriansoftware.com what do we want? Better performance!
When do we want it? Optimally soon.
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@metacurity@infosec.exchange find any competent and broadly well-liked white man in a prominent fed gov post, and the *only* thing between him and being fired is that Trump hadn't noticed him yet
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io deleting my account reduced most of my LinkedIn spam
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If you want to understand why this nonsense with Anthropic and Hegseth is so important, go read @ DanielSuarez ’s“Kill Decision” book from 14 years ago: https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Dec ision
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@bsletten@mastodon.social @DanielSuarez@mastodon.social as soon as I finished Kill Decision I made my friends go read it so I could be inb4 it just .. happened.
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If you want to understand why this nonsense with Anthropic and Hegseth is so important, go read @ DanielSuarez ’s“Kill Decision” book from 14 years ago: https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Dec ision
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@bsletten@mastodon.social one of the main issues with @DanielSuarez@mastodon.social 's fictional dystopias is the relatively short shelf life before they just become life
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@NewsDesk@flipboard.social put it behind some buildings, served by an alley. Keep dumpsters on it
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@swizzlevixen@social.lol @ScienceScholar@mastodon.social it's an interesting approach; really different than what we think of as a vaccine now. More like a way to temporarily prod your innate immune system into high gear against certain stuff for a little while. Could be good and bad in new complex ways
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@drskyskull@mastodon.social @swizzlevixen@social.lol I hope in the appendix they addressed how they doted on the cats with treats and love to make up for tossing them around
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@404mediaco@mastodon.social it's ok if you read to the end they learned their lesson: they will now ask another LLM to check the first one. What are the odds that *two* make-things-up machines will both make things up?
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@eta@gotosocial.i.eta.st new innovations in literal rent-seeking
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@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social neuroplasticity means in a very real way we become what we practice enough
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