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Entry: 2025-06-12 01:28:55.386276+02 Zero-Click AI vulnerability by Dan Lyke comments 0

Simon Willison: Breaking down ‘EchoLeak’, the First Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from Microsoft 365 Copilot.

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Entry: 2025-05-27 22:38:39.951468+02 OpenAI & Jonny Ive by Dan Lyke comments 0

Two on why OpenAI going after Jonny Ive is not a symbol of a healthy business. Ed Zitron: Desperate Times, Desperate Measures. Among other things, Ed tears down the hagiography:

He was a consultant at Apple until 2022, though it's not exactly obvious what it is he did there since the death of Steve Jobs. People lovingly ascribe Apple's every success to Ive, forgetting that (as mentioned) Ive oversaw the truly abominable butterfly keyboard, as well as numerous other wonky designs, including the trashcan-shaped Mac Pro, the PowerMac G4 Cube (a machine aimed at professionals, with a price to match, but limited upgradability thanks to its weird design), and the notorious “hockey puck” mouse.

Blood in the Machine: OpenAI's desperate quest to become an AI monopoly.

A lot of these initiatives feel pretty flimsy, to me, and there’s a mad dash, rush-to-make-a-deal-with-the-Saudis, see what sticks kind of vibe to a lot of what OpenAI’s up to these days. So the question becomes: What happens if you aim for monopoly—on a scale that no tech company has attempted as fast before—and you miss?

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Entry: 2025-05-22 19:42:03.095075+02 Charlie Stross on Office 365 by Dan Lyke comments 0

Charlie Stross @cstross@wandering.shop

Welp, I have just cancelled my Microsoft Office 365 recurring subscription.

Two reasons.

1. I only ever use it to check tracked changes to the copy edits on novels—once a year—which my publishers process in Word. As of this month, LibreOffice is good enough for the job (just tested at book length).

2. CoPilot in Office would open me up to accusations of breach of contract—my book contracts warrant that they're all my own work: CoPilot brings that into question.

So good riddance to Office365!

[ related topics: Humor Books Privacy Microsoft moron Work, productivity and environment Heinlein ]



Entry: 2025-05-22 17:26:58.323496+02 Github issues showing fighting with CoPilot by Dan Lyke comments 0

Dusty Burwell @dustyburwell@twit.social

Oh my god. I just had the terrible realization that AI coding agents take the Mythical Man Month and make it last forever. They're new to the project and they'll never learn anything, so they're always new to the project.

in response to Reddit /r/ExperiencedDevs: My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employees insane

Jokes aside, GitHub/Microsoft recently announced the public preview for their GitHub Copilot agent.

The agent has recently been deployed to open PRs on the .NET runtime repo and it’s…not great. It’s not my best trait, but I can't help enjoying some good schadenfreude. Here are some examples:

I actually feel bad for the employees being assigned to review these PRs. But, if this is the future of our field, I think I want off the ride.

The hilarity of people trying to fix bad code with English is...

As an Emacs user, one of the things I often wonder is how people get along in editors that don't have a lot of the capabilities that I've become used to. Block operations, keyboard playback, it's amazing how many times I've sat down at IDEs or modern editors over the years and the system just didn't have what I think of as core operations.

This brave new world of "describe in English what your edits should be, and then get something non-deterministic and wrong, and then describe again" seems like the even further stupidification of code editing.

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Entry: 2025-05-22 02:10:33.783208+02 Political prosecution shot down by Dan Lyke comments 0

Judge Andre Espinosa dismisses Baraka charges, reprimands prosecutors, including interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba:

"Your role is not to secure convictions at all costs, nor to satisfy public clamor, nor to advance political agendas. Your allegiance is to the impartial application of the law, to the pursuit of truth and to the upholding of due process for all."

The Daily Beast: Hot Mic Catches Aftermath of Judge Ripping Trump’s Prosecutors ‘a New A**hole’

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka reacted colorfully to a judge’s scolding of Trump administration prosecutors for their “embarrassing” decision to charge him with trespassing—then quickly retract those charges.

“Jesus, he tore these people a new a--hole. Good grief,” he said afterward on a hot mic.

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Entry: 2025-05-19 21:24:59.709563+02 NLWeb by Dan Lyke comments 0

Microsoft: Introducing NLWeb: Bringing conversational interfaces directly to the web.

The Github repo has more:

There are two distinct components to NLWeb.

  1. A protocol, very simple to begin with, to interface with a site in natural language and a format, leveraging json and schema.org for the returned answer. See the documentation on the REST API for more details.
  2. A straightforward implementation of (1) that leverages existing markup, for sites that can be abstracted as lists of items (products, recipes, attractions, reviews, etc.). Together with a set of user interface widgets, sites can easily provide conversational interfaces to their content. See the documentation on Life of a chat query for more details on how this works.

Every NLWeb instance is a MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. Looks like this is mostly about human curating lists of products to be MCP accessible.

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Entry: 2025-05-16 17:29:33.873986+02 Can we ditch the pop-ups? by Dan Lyke comments 0

Irish Council for Civil Liberties: EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis.

Via Aral Balkan @aral@mastodon.ar.al

Those annoying “consent” cookie pop ups that Big Tech has been using as part of their malicious compliance efforts to convince you that data protection law in the EU is a nuisance?

Turns out they’re illegal.

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Entry: 2025-05-16 17:17:35.60897+02 Bing limits search API? by Dan Lyke comments 0

In response to Microsoft Cuts Off Access to Bing Search Data as It Shifts Focus to Chatbots

Microsoft is limiting access to tools that boosted its rivals, but larger customers like DuckDuckGo say they won’t be affected.

Taggart :donor: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange

"People want something that works better than search."

Why doesn't search work?

WHY DOESN'T SEARCH WORK M__________R??

Also Via, and Ben Werd links to The Verge: Microsoft shuts off Bing Search APIs and recommends switching to AI

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Entry: 2025-05-12 20:59:37.568247+02 Clippy LLM front end by Dan Lyke comments 0

'I see you're running a local LLM. Would you like some help with that?' — Dev creates official Clippy 'love letter' to query AI models on your box

Github repo for Clippy

... Through Llama.cpp, it supports models in the popular GGUF format, which is to say most publicly available models. It comes with one-click installation support for Google's Gemma3, Meta's Llama 3.2, Microsoft's Phi-4, and Qwen's Qwen3.

[ related topics: Humor Microsoft moron Sports Artificial Intelligence ]



Entry: 2025-05-01 17:09:37.143967+02 Telling on themselves by Dan Lyke comments 0

In Adrianna Tan's "From Fintech to Fin Tech" talk at North Bay Python, she put up a slide which said:

DO NOT WANT

making particular reference to Meta's involvement in the Myanmar genocides, but, of course the awful people said "this is anti-semitic", because any complaint about genocide is clearly about Palestine and "hey warfare is not genocide".

I've seen this locally too, where mentions of unhinged people harassing city staff and threatening people has been met with complaints of "the Petaluma Historic Advocates aren't unhinged".

So, yeah. People telling on themselves.

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Entry: 2025-04-30 16:30:03.153608+02 If 30 of code at Microsoft is being by Dan Lyke comments 0

If 30% of code at Microsoft is being written in a language that doesn't reliably compile to the same output, doesn't have a formal spec or grammar, and only has indirect error checking, what does that say about the languages specific to programming that we've been using?

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/2...osoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html

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Entry: 2025-04-25 21:40:46.318917+02 slate pickup truck by Dan Lyke comments 0

I'd like a little more bed, but looks perfect for grabbing lumber for my woodworking hobby or a load of bark for landscaping in the yard, definitely like the "just use your phone" for entertainment approach.

I think the question will be whether we'll have become a one car household by that point, in which case we'll trade the Bolt for it, or be a two car household and trade the '90s Ford Ranger for it.

Road & Track: The Slate Truck Is a Simple EV Pickup and SUV in One, for a Very Low Price

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Entry: 2025-04-11 00:08:53.486448+02 IEA sees potential in AI: Aieeee! by Dan Lyke comments 0

Yikes: IEA (International Energy Agency): AI is set to drive surging electricity demand from data centres while offering the potential to transform how the energy sector works

Summarized nicely by Kevin Beaumont @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social

That report is wild btw, it’s basically ‘we’re going to set the planet on fire!’ along with ‘but generative AI will save the planet and cure cancer ‘cos Sam Altman is Jesus’

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Entry: 2025-04-10 18:35:56.601281+02 ChatGPT-powered pipelines by Dan Lyke comments 0

Reddit r/datanegineering: Tried to roll out Microsoft Fabric… ended up rolling straight into a $20K/month wall

The dream was Spark magic, ChatGPT-powered pipelines, and effortless deployment.

[Emphasis mine] LOL.

Via

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Entry: 2025-04-09 17:12:40.229423+02 Grok for thoughtcrimes by Dan Lyke comments 0

Reuters: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say

Trump-appointed officials who had taken up EPA posts told managers that DOGE was using AI to monitor communication apps and software, including Microsoft Teams, which is widely used for virtual calls and chats, said the two sources familiar with these comments. “We have been told they are looking for anti-Trump or anti-Musk language,” a third source familiar with the EPA said. Reuters could not independently confirm if the AI was being implemented.

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Entry: 2025-04-08 17:25:19.037731+02 a “solution” in the Microsoft sense by Dan Lyke comments 0

Wanda @mwk@donotsta.re

OH:

– I’m not sure I’d call it a “solution”, more like “an affront to god” or something

– it’s a “solution” in the Microsoft sense!

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Entry: 2025-03-28 18:43:47.712141+01 CRWV (CoreWeave) IPO by Dan Lyke comments 0

Last night: Nvidia-backed CoreWeave downsizes US IPO

This morning: CoreWeave Stock Opens at $39 After Disappointing IPO.

CoreWeave, a rapidly growing AI cloud company, priced its initial public offering at $40 a share on Thursday night, well below an expected range of $47 to $55.

Peter @peter@thepit.social observes:

AI is such an exciting technology that the first big IPO for the sector is a bust. like, if you spun off Google and Microsoft's AI businesses, they would immediately be stripped for parts and shut down because generative AI is not a profitable business.

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Entry: 2025-03-25 16:26:58.12269+01 AI pessimism of the morning by Dan Lyke comments 0

Ed Zitron — The Phony Comforts of AI Optimism

American Prospect: Bubble Trouble

Venture capital (VC) funds, drunk on a decade of “growth at all costs,” have poured about $200 billion into generative AI. Making matters worse, the stock market’s bull run is deeply dependent on the growth of the Big Tech companies fueling the AI bubble. In 2023, 71 percent of the total gains in the S&P 500 were attributable to the “Magnificent Seven”—Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft—all of which are among the biggest spenders on AI. Just four—Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta—combined for $246 billion of capital expenditure in 2024 to support the AI build-out. Goldman Sachs expects Big Tech to spend over $1 trillion on chips and data centers to power AI over the next five years. Yet OpenAI, the current market leader, expects to lose $5 billion this year, and its annual losses to swell to $11 billion by 2026. If the AI bubble bursts, it not only threatens to wipe out VC firms in the Valley but also blow a gaping hole in the public markets and cause an economy-wide meltdown.

I especially like the ending observation of that one:

Maybe, after the fallout of the AI bubble is felt and the sun sets on Silicon Valley for a bit, the tech world can do a hard reset and return to its more innovative days again.

Via.

Edit: Alibaba’s Tsai Warns of ‘Bubble’ in AI Data Center Buildout

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Entry: 2025-03-25 15:25:02.92101+01 Heard someone yesterday who's part of a by Dan Lyke comments 0

Heard someone yesterday who's part of a healthcare startup bemoan that their IT group isn't approving use of Microsoft's LLM product, and... We as an industry have done a really bad job educating people about privacy, security, *and* LLMs.

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Entry: 2025-03-14 22:32:25.078892+01 killing with impunity by Dan Lyke comments 0

Fixing this means huge social change: After crash kills Washington Middle School student, parents seek answers

Investigators said a 51-year-old woman failed to place her GMC Acadia in park and got out of the SUV, which rolled about 75 yards downhill and struck Arsema shortly before 12:30 p.m. Police have not publicly identified and did not arrest the woman, who two drug recognition experts determined was not impaired.</blockuote>

It's not like punishment changes things, it's a good bet that woman won't ever leave a car out of "park" again. But we have a culture that encourages casual automobile use in a way that every one of us could see making the same mistake.

On the other hand, dismissing this as "an accident" does nothing to change the culture so that we start taking responsibility for wielding deadly weapons in our neighborhoods.

Via, From.

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Entry: 2025-03-12 22:10:39.876039+01 Typescript compiler by Dan Lyke comments 0

Typescript is getting a native compiler, written in Go.

(Closed this tab this morning without actually getting it, then Zellyn Hunter mentioned it.)

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Entry: 2025-03-04 00:12:12.144162+01 MS scaling back data centers, SoftBank stretching even futher by Dan Lyke comments 0

Ed Zitron: Power Cut

As a result, based on TD Cowen's analysis, Microsoft has, through a combination of canceled leases, pullbacks on Statements of Qualifications, cancellations of land parcels and deliberate expiration of Letters of Intent, effectively abandoned data center expansion equivalent to over 14% of its current capacity.

And, yeah, the Microsoft pullback is the first part of this, but make sure you get down to the funding of the "Stargate" project and Softbank borrowing money to invest in his.

No, wait, read down further to the discussion about how this all ties together in predicting demand, especially as OpenAI is moving features that were part of the "Pro" package down into the cheaper packages, in a way that sure feels a lot like "maybe this time they'll like it?", and how Microsoft's language about demand suggests that Microsoft thinks that LLMs and Generative AI have gotten into the commodity phase, where we're not gonna see a lot of improvement, and now it's about delivering the current level of technology cheap enough to turn a profit with. Which is a hell of a lot cheaper than right now.

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Entry: 2025-02-25 19:24:47.589278+01 AI of the morning by Dan Lyke comments 0

The Deep Research problem — Benedict Evans. On trying to get useful information out of ChatGPT, using OpenAI's examples:

We’re asking for a deterministic answer from a probabilistic question, and there it looks like the model really is failing on its own terms. In my opinion, or given my expertise, it shouldn’t be using Statcounter or Statistica, but even if it should, it hasn’t taken the correct number from them.

Every: I Created a Hacker News Simulator to Reverse-engineer Virality

Given a more detailed persona based on a two-hour interview with a human, ChatGPT can replicate their answers on surveys with as much as 85 percent accuracy.

Uh. Yay?

Back to Benedict Evans, in his summary he notes:

... OpenAI and all the other foundation model labs have no moat or defensibility except access to capital ...

Emphasis mine. With Microsoft dialing back on data center leases, maybe we're starting to see the bubble deflate.

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Entry: 2025-02-17 19:11:55.728518+01 AI grumblings of the morning by Dan Lyke comments 0

Interesting to read this from Namanyay, who self-pitches as "I’m now making developers more productive with AI": New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code

RT Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop

Study after study also shows that AI assistants erode the development of critical thinking skills and knowledge *retention*. People, finding information isn't the biggest missing skillset in our population, it's CRITICAL THINKING, so this is fucked up

AI assistants also introduce more errors at a high volume, and harder to spot too

https://www.microsoft.com/en-u..._ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf
https://slejournal.springerope...icles/10.1186/s40561-024-00316-7
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/ai-generated-code-outages/
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03622
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11128619/

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Entry: 2025-02-09 23:09:43.43351+01 AI use & critical thinking by Dan Lyke comments 0

Microsoft Research: The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers

Moreover, while GenAI can improve worker efficiency, it can inhibit critical engagement with work and can potentially lead to long-term overreliance on the tool and diminished skill for independent problem-solving. Higher confidence in GenAI’s ability to perform a task is related to less critical thinking effort.

Via Pivot To AI: Microsoft research: Use AI chatbots and turn yourself into a dumbass

404 Media: Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”

The Register: Some workers already let AI do the thinking for them, Microsoft researchers find

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Entry: 2025-01-20 23:16:17.213327+01 Doom in Word by Dan Lyke comments 0

Doom ported to a standalone Microsoft Word document — plays well but there's no sound

6.6MB document runs on x86 systems with modern Microsoft Office installations.

Following up on Doom in a PDF

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Entry: 2024-12-17 17:49:05.242436+01 Serving the machine by Dan Lyke comments 0

I think these two things are related:

David Gerard @davidgerard@circumstances.run

Microsoft refuses pull request to put documentation in readable table form because LLMs are bad at parsing tables https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/pull/2021

Edit: Same sentiment with more text at Pivot To AI.

Jef Poskanzer :batman: @jef@mastodon.social

Which is worse, newspaper websites or restaurant websites?

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Entry: 2024-12-13 17:48:28.114837+01 Industry standards by Dan Lyke comments 0

RT Helen Czerski @helenczerski@fediscience.org

11 yrs ago I found this funny: 'How many Microsoft designers does it take to change a lightbulb? None. They just define darkness as “industry standard”

But now I can't unsee this:
'How many huge companies does it take to fix the climate? None. They just define global warming as “industry standard”

[ related topics: Humor Microsoft moron Global Warming ]



Entry: 2024-11-20 18:52:06.869637+01 365 Copilot hates < by Dan Lyke comments 0

Sanitize your inputs, kiddos. The Register AI + ML: Microsoft 365 Copilot trips over angle brackets, frustrating coders — Chatbot seems to choke when fed tricky less-than character

Via

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Entry: 2024-11-07 16:53:05.993725+01 MS merges Copilot Pro into 365 by Dan Lyke comments 0

RT Kevin Beaumont @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social

Microsoft are effectively giving up on Copilot Pro subscription ($20/month) as almost nobody paid for it.

Instead they are bundling it into Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions and inflating the renewal prices there. There’s no opt out.

Effectively allows the Copilot revenue and user numbers to be inflated.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/...ot-office-features-microsoft-365

This feels a lot like Zoom doing similarly.

Edit: Pivot To AI says the same thing.

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Entry: 2024-11-05 21:35:02.259483+01 Huh by Dan Lyke comments 0

Huh, not only Henry 1, a CHP helicopter, and a whole bunch of police cars (I couldn't see the agency markings), but at least one Petaluma Fire SUV. Activity is now down around 101 and Lakeville. Don't see any smoke.

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Entry: 2024-09-20 17:19:57.031822+02 Fake videos with Russian provenance by Dan Lyke comments 0

Russia goes all-out with covert disinformation aimed at Harris, Microsoft report says

Microsoft explained that the video blaming Harris for a fake hit-and-run incident came from a Russian-aligned influence network it calls Storm-1516, which other researchers refer to as CopyCop. The video, whose main character is played by an actor, is typical of the group’s efforts to react to current events with authentic-seeming “whistleblower” accounts that may seem like juicy unreported news to U.S. voters, the company said.

Microsoft blog entry.

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Entry: 2024-09-18 20:55:02.016234+02 So if the Saudis and petrodollars are by Dan Lyke comments 0

So if the Saudis and petro-dollars are gonna go all-in on the AI bubble, can we agree to hang them fucking out to dry when the AI bubble pops? No more "too big to fail".

https://finance.yahoo.com/news...soft-aim-raise-30-202200420.html

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Entry: 2024-09-06 17:45:30.268587+02 "Accuracy Debt" by Dan Lyke comments 0

Short thread about Microsoft CoPilot's inability to summarize:

What I do fear is that for those that do heavily invest, they’ll be required by the likes of Microsoft to begin to speak in ways that Copilot can parse and ‘understand’. Which in larger organisations will shape the way that they communicate with others, and it’ll spread. In the same way that American corporate speak, or Agile terminology has infected the rest of the world.

The thing that most blows my mind about this whole LLMania is that we have mechanisms for accurately describing processes to computers already...

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Entry: 2024-08-25 04:48:03.81577+02 Always going to let you down by Dan Lyke comments 0

Startup Alarmed When Its AI Starts Rickrolling Clients — "Literally f*cking Rickrolling our customers."

Though he's not entirely sure how it happened, the Lindy CEO and founder told TechCrunch that he has a theory about how his AI assistants figured out how to execute this specific brand of internet humor.

"The way these models work is they try to predict the most likely next sequence of text," Crivello explained. "So it starts like, 'Oh, I’m going to send you a video!' So what’s most likely after that? YouTube.com. And then what’s most likely after that?"

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Entry: 2024-08-25 02:00:02.667586+02 Dear Microsoft I want you fuckers to by Dan Lyke comments 0

Dear Microsoft. I want you fuckers to try to talk an 85 year old former mortician and home appraiser through using Windows 11 vs Windows 10.

I'm trying to help him via Zoom screen share, and holy shit the attempting to be "helpful" with arranging windows. We have no idea what it's trying to do.

Also, if it's gonna be glacial I wanna see what's happening in the task manager.

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Entry: 2024-08-19 18:10:11.481763+02 Markov Chains are funnier than LLMs by Dan Lyke comments 0

Markov Chains are funnier than LLMs, an interesting short delve into humor and text generation.

Via

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Entry: 2024-08-10 00:25:10.10271+02 X C&D by Dan Lyke comments 0

Giggle: McSweeney's: X Sends a Cease and Desist Letter to a Former User by Randal Cooper

(Just so I can find this in the future: the social media disaster formerly known as Twitter)

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Entry: 2024-07-19 16:30:36.791598+02 Windows IT go kaboom by Dan Lyke comments 2

In case you're unaware, last night there was a major Azure outage, and this morning a faulty Crowdstrike update has caused outages across the world.

The difference between security software vendors and ransomware extortionists is that security software vendors get you to pay before they destroy your systems.

RT LittleAlex @littlealex@infosec.exchange

Too funny: In 2010 McAfee caused a global IT meltdown due to a faulty update. CTO at this time was George Kurtz. Now he is CEO of #crowdstrike

Defective McAfee update causes worldwide meltdown of XP PCs

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Entry: 2024-07-11 18:35:02.770146+02 Started a new podcast Derelict on the by Dan Lyke comments 0

Started a new podcast (Derelict) on the walk to work yesterday, and just not feeling grimdark. I don't mind peril, but...

So looking for fiction podcasts with heart and humor. Examples: Where The Stars Fell, Unwell, Kingmaker Histories, Amelia Project, Super Suits, Starship Q Star, Murder on Sex Island, Moonbase Theta Out, Midnight Burger, Girl in Space, Fawx & Stallion, Alba Salix, The Strange Case of Starship Iris, Unwell...

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