Posts by dvandal@infosec.exchange
(DIR) Post #AseEmKoTpOpMsBTXxg by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-04-01T13:10:10Z
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@futurebird he technically has a Mastodon account. Hasn’t posted since 2023, but you could shake him down for some answers 👀
(DIR) Post #Athh71TphuBWAcaBxA by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-05-03T00:10:38Z
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@Catvalente they don’t have enough people to fight every battle they’re picking! They back down at any resistance because they can’t afford the slowdowns, so they focus on soft targets. They lack the manpower and support for the size of the battle field they’ve chosen.Any folding or bending makes you weaker and easier to disassemble as has been shown repeatedly.Resist and you will win 🗣️🗣️🗣️
(DIR) Post #Atixs1slp2VXS8dwVE by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-05-03T17:46:23Z
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@futurebird my Bean will start yelling incessantly whenever I take a phone call. Or start a meeting at work.And then when I finish he keeps on yelling and yelling til I either shoo him away gently or toss literally anything towards his general direction (gently ofc).I wish smothering him with too much affection worked but alas, he just purrs a storm up because it means he won lol
(DIR) Post #AtxAUAq2tJbBtelMLg by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-05-10T14:13:42Z
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@futurebird “Listen kid, I know this is confusing and the letters don’t match up at all, and that it only works like this on this computer and not any computer at home, the library, your other teacher’s computers, your iPad, your phone, or your future job’s computer. But this was strongly recommended by some great people online so buckle up: we are learning DVORAK!”
(DIR) Post #AtxAobEyRFm3ZaA8y8 by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-05-10T14:17:24Z
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@futurebird oh in that case, we gotta teach em to stop doing that mic thing for their TikTok’s and instead do what god intended:EDM background music and writing out what you wanna say in NotePad for your content delivery needs.Just in case, we’ll have them download and set the Bliss wallpaper too, for good measure.
(DIR) Post #Atz74yMSEWMCPg8JlI by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-05-11T12:44:57Z
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@futurebird 9:00am - Math taught like they did in the USSR10:00am - Fortran/Haskell/x86 assembly10:45am - Snack :3🍪c11:00am - Retro Computing History12:00pm - Lunch :) 🥪 c12:30pm - Nature walks (graded on cool rocks you find)1:00pm - Reading (Fedi has a broad literature base, idk what they’d be reading about)2:00pm - Costume and fursuit design classesHow’d I do
(DIR) Post #AtzKqAaHu8ULKxRIPI by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-05-11T15:19:10Z
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@futurebird I did the same too, and I am in luck that where I live I can walk to a pharmacy or a grocery store, even a hardware store(😈), for those goods that are more difficult to source online.It honestly has made me a lot more conscientious about my shopping as a whole, and for that reason alone I don’t regret it.(That said there a stack of reasons a mile high why I don’t regret dropping Amazon, but yanno)
(DIR) Post #AuXKry7owXRvOd52vY by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-05-28T00:59:41Z
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@ricci same
(DIR) Post #AuoyKiaGT7R7TtaalU by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-06-05T13:11:57Z
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@futurebird the trick for the 👏 is to spam out a bunch all at once and then put the words in, then delete the extras.Still a chore but that’s how I do it with 👏and 🗣️
(DIR) Post #AutvjWSBNULZ1jkDke by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-06-06T20:33:29Z
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Since I've left my last job, I've been thinking about the guy who used me as an alternative to ChatGPT whenever he hit a problem that he couldn't vibe code the answer out of at work.He basically rotted his own brain by compulsively using ChatGPT in lieu of actually thinking with most any of the projects he was working on. Instead of taking the time to read through code in our framework, look up documentation, or do any sort of debugging, he instead just begged and pleaded with ChatGPT to try and get somewhere because "it was faster." Basically just really hammering his brain with the Programmer's Slot Machine. (@davidgerard wrote a really good article here about this specific gambling addiction angle here. I highly highly recommend reading/watching the corresponding YouTube video:https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generative-ai-runs-on-gambling-addiction-just-one-more-prompt-bro/ )Back to the story; When that wasn't working, which was a significant portion of the time, he'd then just turn and use me as a "more informed alternative" to ChatGPT.I worked fully remote and the majority of our interactions was via a Teams chat. which apparently crossed some wires in his monkey brain and made him start just... Basically verbally barraging me like he would with the company ChatGPT instance. No thoughts at all, just an immediate process of:- Ask vague question- Get guess for an answer with a request for more details- Try applying the guess blindly without thinking if it's applicable at all- Have it not work and just report back that it didn't work.- No follow-up details, no further explanation of what was going on or what he's trying to do. Nothing added past the original vague situation- If lucky, I might get a screenshot of part of the error, meticulously sliced before it gave something useful in the output because he stopped reading error output to things and made no attempt to understand it. (Why? ChatGPT can do that part!)- Rinse and Repeat until I get fed up and get into a call with him- Fix the thing in less than a minute, pointing out that he should have been able to tell what was wrong almost immediately if he actually dropped a break-point and debugged the code at *literally any point* along the way- Fuck off immediately after getting his fix, no thank you or anything- start the process anew the following day when he vibe coded himself into a corner all over againI literally had to go to leadership and make them have a talk with him and get him to leave me the fuck alone at work, after repeated attempts to establish boundaries about it, due to how much time it sucked out of me being able to work on other projects. Effectively just doubling up my work and slamming me with burn out right at the start of the year for absolutely no reason other than his belligerent insistence to just Not Do His Job Without His Hand Being Held By A Chat Window.It rapidly went from a "He sometimes asks informed questions that I can answer and help him with. I enjoy working with him" to "The dude isn't even trying in the slightest and is now basically offloading his work onto me because he broke his capacity to actually do work independently of an external chat window. I fucking hate him and I hope he gets in a car wreck so I can get a break from the bleakness of dealing with him every goddamn morning"ChatGPT has basically just been an absolute blight for me since it's inception. Going from the team being generally pro-crypto to intensely pro-genAI/LLM because their favorite scammers (er.. I mean YouTubers) had them hooked on a fantasy of some day making it Big by jumping from one Hype cycle to the next. I sincerely was very close to just finding an entirely different career path altogether because of just how incredibly shitty it was working with that team on just about anything, but lacking the job experience on the resume to land someplace else.Nobody wanted to be an actual expert, nobody really wanted to learn anything. They had their degree and ChatGPT, which means they learned all they ever will need. ...While working in an industry that tends to re-invent itself every half decade or so while half-assing solutions with an outsourced bullshit generator. 🫠All in the name of "Well it got me from point A to point B faster." and leaving it at that, despite taking significantly longer than they should have from the get go over it.I've seen and lived what an AI Fueled future looks like:Mediocre men harassing their talented and likely autistic peers until their peers just up and fuckin leave to a different organization out of frustration and exhaustion.I think down the road, we'll be able to measure the negative impact using LLMs has on people's cognitive faculties by comparing it to horse kicks to the head, and only be exaggerating it by a little bit.
(DIR) Post #AvCYw84E97Eg2GXpSq by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-06-16T22:20:25Z
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@futurebird anyone wanna help me figure out connecting my old TRS-80 model 100 to the internet? and figure out an ActivityPub implementation that is written in basic and can run on… I think it’s got 16Kb of memory?
(DIR) Post #AvMd5JcUuB9vrxoFIe by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-06-21T15:38:01Z
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@strlcat @davidgerard not to be pedantic but is it really monopolization when the main developers of X11 have since move on to another project deliberately to replace the old?Like to my understanding, it isn’t about “competition” in this case, but about moving standards from one system to another and making that work happen. Ie. we use computers in 2025, not 1985, and the way graphics for computers work has changed significantly from then til now, and part of the reason Wayland exists is to be able to modernize graphics on anything that uses it. So it’s a shift in standards vs Competition. Especially when it’s all X11 devs who moved on to Wayland and have generally stopped putting much work into X11 as is.(And that isn’t even touching on most of the code added to base X11 from the founder of XLibre being reverted out due to breaking changes and weird modifications of licenses retroactively as people started looking over the commits and noticing some issues..)Idk, I think a lot of the arguing around this issue is stemming from a handful of malignant actors that are deliberately throwing chaff into the wind and getting into everyone’s hair about it while fundamentally misunderstanding what is going on and why we have Wayland to begin with. Arguably deliberately misunderstanding for the sake of arguing and causing drama.Are there technical issues with Wayland? Yeah! But there’s also a fuckload of technical issues with X11 as well, and the decision was made to focus on Wayland and modernizing graphics on Linux rather than maintaining something who’s primary promise of network transparency stopped being true decades ago.
(DIR) Post #AvOUmW0aD5xjTLWGx6 by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-06-21T17:40:04Z
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@david_chisnall @strlcat @davidgerard If all the maintainers for Old Thing have moved over to working on New Thing, wouldn't it be incredibly irresponsible of them to not declare Old Thing as deprecated? Is that not the literal definition of Deprecation?X11 as a fallback option has been supported for well over a decade at this point. The goal being: Push people to the new standard so the new *standard* can be developed more fully and flushed out and fix the majority of the gaps.*Standards take time to change, with all the presumed growing pains in between*. It's not easy to shift standards, but when the devs have flat out *moved on*, it's not about a competition between the standards. It's that people are moving on to a new Standard to work on.We did have competing modern display protocols there for a bit. Do you remember Mir? Didn't Mir just flat out lose out in terms of gaining market share and so forth to Wayland?Suffice to say, framing a standard shift as Monopolization is *really really weird* and fundamentally is at odds at the reality of what the ongoing process actually is. The developers *moved on.* Nobody stood up to take their place and continue developing X11 until recently, and even then the first thing that project did was break from the Standard (lol)I understand the annoyances and the pain of this process: I've been daily driving Fedora Desktop since Fedora 11. But I also understood, especially in the early days, that Wayland was *heavily* under development and to expect bugs, and I went into it knowing full well that I could revert to X11 Fallback as necessary (which I used a ton in the early days!). We're well into a decade past that at this point and I literally have more issues in X11 than I do with Wayland. It's been like that for about 3 years now, personally.But again: Calling it a Monopoly when the core maintainers just Moved On is, frankly, weird.
(DIR) Post #AxvwESpzO3ZVOwvY9o by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-09-06T15:27:41Z
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@futurebird @amorphophalex "The council of Aunties has spoken"
(DIR) Post #Ay4LEJ7RZX99NXnDl2 by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-09-10T15:21:09Z
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@briankrebs The screenshot is from a JP Morgan article released last week where it discusses how Capital Expenditure towards AI is fully 35-45% of the entire US economy GDP for the past 3 fiscal quarters.We are fully in a recession/depression except for one industry that is a statistical outlier of fanatics with more wealth than brains dumping into a dead end technology stack at the expense of basically everything else.Our economy is kept afloat by a Spider Georg outlier industry.
(DIR) Post #Ay4LENX7A23d4JpmKG by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-09-10T15:25:32Z
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@briankrebs this is where the charts are from, it’s in the pdf linked on this page:https://privatebank.jpmorgan.com/nam/en/insights/latest-and-featured/eotm/fair-shakes
(DIR) Post #Ay5M0cZSkQSklXtcxc by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2025-09-11T04:28:55Z
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@futurebird When one’s participation in politics is just Parasocial Relationships replacing both community and political though processes, it really makes sense why so many people are galvanizing around one primarily online guy with a podcast.It’s like putting flags half mast for a talk show radio host passing.Utterly bizarre behavior until you realize that for a large portion of the Right, Politics to them is just Parasocial Relationships with online celebrities. Then it makes sense why the figure head would stand out more than one’s actual elected representatives
(DIR) Post #B29r5dMDNNGm7Mn3GS by dvandal@infosec.exchange
2026-01-11T00:04:24Z
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@futurebird i mean this with more love than the earth itself can hold: Pica has such incredibly strong Cave Govlin vibes and this is her natural habitat, regardless of whatever evolution or some diety might have in mind for “The Cat”:This is the domain she was created to inhabit and God themself descending to earth to disagree would not sway my opinion and I would infact murder them for heresy for disagreeing.(Give her a pat for me when she is receptive)