For many years malicious PDF files had the shameful honor of being the number one way people’s PCs got infected, and it’s because of bullshit like this.

“Surprise, here’s some Java code to execute on your personal computer without asking!” isn’t being done by anyone who is actually your ally.

We’re just discussing how shitty a shitty person has been toward you, at this point. There’s no good pro-social reason to deliver you an app while calling it a document.

Do we think it’s a virus? Probably not, but maybe. So we think there’s a tracker? Certainly. The average organization shitty enough to build or use this technology layer has over 500 separate relationships with companies that track you.

Someone tried to put a tracker in this PDF.

Whether people like me made it too hard for them is up for analysis.

I guarantee you that someone tried.

They’re not good enough at hiding this stuff yet, to feel confident lying about it, so it likely is disclosed in the fine print somewhere, if you’re feeling patient enough to read all of it.

Good point.

I don’t believe that you can use traditional algorithms to teach the car street driving, because there are to many different variations… Even if your autopilot is 99% correct and you drive 20000km a year, you still drive wrong 200km of it.

Exactly!

And this is why, if the problem is solveable, it must be solved by learning models shepherded by expert engineers. The LLMs can take care of the long boring stretches, freeing skilled engineer time to fine-tune an LLM algorithm hybrid for the tricky bits.

I’m inclined to believe the problem is solveable, but since I’m not selling anything, I’m allowed to say “if”. Heh.

Yeah. I gotta admit I laughed at Ellen’s (completely unrelatable) “relatable” jokes about being ultra wealthy.

I dunno if she counts for this request?

I guess she’s more conservative than many comedians, but I’m guessing her wife makes sure she still votes in favor of civil liberties like marriage rights.

Yeah. Current generation learning models can do impressive things in the hands of a skilled engineer, but Elon is leading a round of class warfare against skilled engineers right now.

Shareholders need to decide which they really want to bet on to win.

Makes sense. I’m not picky about which exact risks our entitled overconfident billionaires opt to take.

Others mention Chappelle here, and I want to just mention, I did watch his last special with an open mind, and I just want that hour back.

It was depressing on a couple of levels. But most importantly (for a comedian) I didn’t find it even a little bit funny.

I like a good bit of dark comedy, and tragedy plus time, and all that.

But Dave Chappelle should pay for a therapist in private, instead of wasting my time.

+1 for Bill Burr, who will mock anyone, pretty mercilessly.

Also, his cameo in Star Wars, after giving tons of shit to Star Wars fans, is an utter delight. (And made him a fan.)

I mean, if anyone ever introduces the average shareholder to those executive decision desk toy spinners, the average CEO is fucked.

Sometimes I’m reminded that there’s always a chance that they go submarine diving or some such with another overconfident crony who thinks their skills got them where they are today.

That out of the way, FSD sucks, and it’s getting worse, not better.

It’s almost like they bet on the AI to teach the AI, rather than continuing to pay for skilled engineers.

Buckle up folks, we’re going to see a lot more of this, across every industry, before the lawsuits go into high gear and anything gets better.

I have both the official dock and some random USB C multi-connector. The random one is far more reliable, in my experience.

Historically, “nothing” is the label we apply when none of the things we are currently able to detect are present.

After we can detect what actually is there, we update our description to the much more accurate term “practically nothing”.

Large corporate donors decide, in a non-representative winner-take-all vote system.

Also, I think they meant to say “both parties”.

Oh, yeah. You’re right. When mine happened, the whole system rebooted.

How is your cooling setup? Do you have any heat monitoring plugins running?

The only sudden crashes I’ve seen on my Linux boxes lately were due to heat lingering too close to my machine, and eventually my cooling setup not keeping up.

This is terrific. More folks would be more excited if they realized how much less hassle Podman is than Docker.

That makes sense. Did you also set the path to Nvim in settings.json? I had to do so to clear at least one error.

I also sometimes get that “disconnected” error too, but the have it work fine. I think there’s a race condition and it raises the error right after it starts, but then connects anyway, once everything else is set.

Yeah.

Annecdotaly, Dropout.tv has a good number of LGBTQ employees, seems conscious not to shit on people, and has a growing library of stand up.

Why would Microsoft fire an employee for holding a vigil, it’s not like they …

…called “No Azure for Apartheid”

Oh. Thanks for drawing attention to this, Microsoft! I appreciate that they’re so willing to invoke the Streisand Effect.

I hope those employees land somewhere where they build something that costs Microsoft a lot of profit.