@nazokiyoubinbou @Viss Exactly

[viss@mastodon.social]

@llorenzin sounds awesome! ill hafta try it your way!

[buherator@infosec.place]

@Viss wait since when is PTP spelled "pen test partners" (as in partners testing pens)?

[hndrcks@dmv.community]

@Viss even though the weather outside is decidedly un-Christmas (55 and sunny) I decided on classic winter comfort food: braised short ribs served on polenta

[dbendit@mastodon.eroticmohel.com]

@Viss 😬

[varx@defcon.social]

@Viss Let me put on my LinkedIn® lunatic soulless entrepreneur capitalist hat for a minute.

Riddle me this: if AI is truly as transformative as the tech companies claim. Then which company will continue to show the kind of growth that wall street wants to see? The one that lays off a significant number of staff to cut costs and keep production at relatively the same value. Or the company that keeps its workforce, trains them on the proper use of AI and delivers orders of magnitude more value than they did before?

Which company is also better off if ... Oops turns out this is a bubble?

Seems to me that the logical answer to both questions is the latter.

[dan@infosec.exchange]

@Viss NYT had really interesting reporting on this (oddly almost exactly a year ago)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/podcasts/the-daily/ozempic-big-food.html

I don’t mean to be overly optimistic, but if food companies are being forced to cut down on salt and sugar and increase protein and fiber, that does seem like a good thing

[mathaetaes@infosec.exchange]

@Viss every other windows OS just sucks. Full stop. Unclear if it’s intentional or not, but it’s almost like Microsoft can’t innovate on their own, but they’re great at stealing an idea and improving on it… so they release a sh*t OS that has a bunch of broken innovative features, then they steal it and fix everything.

It’s been that way since windows 98. Win98: great. WinME: suck. WinXP: great. WinVista: suck. Win7: great. Win8: suck. Win10: great. We’re now on Win11.

The difference is that this time they forced us into the suck.

[viss@mastodon.social]

@dan it totally is

[viss@mastodon.social]

@mathaetaes the 'good' cycle gets you addicted. the shit cycle they remove value to pressure you to move your shit to their cloud

[alex02@ieji.de]

@Homoevolutis0 @Viss this. duolingo has declined in quality for a while now and the last straw for me was the ai shit.

[victimofsimony@infosec.exchange]

@Viss

That's basically a Snapchat filter. Just wait a year. With the magical new Disney license, A.I. could make that possible.

[h2onolan@infosec.exchange]

@Viss YOU WILL CONJUGATE, P’TAKH

[ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club]

@Viss Man, I really need to get into Lower Decks

[viss@mastodon.social]

@ludicity its a great show

[itgrrl@infosec.exchange]

@Viss I’m thinking Gowron^ but not sure which version I prefer… 🤔
 
 
 
^ yes, #StarTrek pedants, I know that it’s actually Kavok, but played by Robert O’Reilly who is arguably more well-known as Gowron so ¯_(ツ)_/¯ 🤪

[jernej__s@infosec.exchange]

@Viss What's the problem you have?
(also, this may heavily depend on which touchpad your laptop has – there are very significant differences between manufacturers)

[bosh@infosec.exchange]

@ludicity @Viss I literally binged it the week it got cancelled. so it’s all there for the watching

[aburka@hachyderm.io]

@Viss I guess an alternate reading of the data is it only takes 3% to make a space extremely toxic :/

[viss@mastodon.social]

@aburka it would seem to be the case, yeah - and reading between the lines tells me that folks would rather suffer and complain than do anything about it

[defractal@infosec.exchange]

@Viss I think that, plus the absence of engagement maximizing algorithms, plus the absence of “suggested” or “promoted” content, plus the absence of ads and thus revenue sharing, plus the ability to choose an instance by its moderation and (de)federation, explains the healthier discourse in fediverse. That 3% quickly get themselves banned on any instance the rest of us would choose, and find themselves relegated to the instances with which ours won’t federate. And then no one sees their toxicity but their fellow denizens of the cesspool servers.