ByteOnBikes

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[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

Hey, you're like me. I HATED soup for decades. Can soup BS was disgusting. Soup on the side of my burger, gross.

Then I went to a real soup place. Like all they did was soup. Like professional level soup that's $8 a cup or $12 a bowl.

My god - it was incredible. I now understand the Soup Nazi bit of why anybody would tolerate that behavior.

I went from clean shaven anti-souper to a god damn soup coke fiend.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 36 points 1 month ago (11 children)

And also being so confident, you don't need another man to tell you you're a big strong masculine man.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

That's the challenge with technical advances. It's not just solving the technical problem, it's also solving the societal problem.

If you look back into history, Automated elevators was a major panic until people got comfortable with the idea.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

If it gets me closer to Half-Life 3, then pipe that shit into my brains

 

This has been a banner month for X. Last week, the social network’s built-in chatbot, Grok, became strangely obsessed with false claims about “white genocide” in South Africa—allegedly because someone made an “unauthorized modification” to its code at 3:15 in the morning. The week prior, Ye (formerly Kanye West) released a single called “Heil Hitler” on the platform. The chorus includes the line “Heil Hitler, they don’t understand the things I say on Twitter.” West has frequently posted anti-Semitic rants on the platform and, at one point back in February, said he identified as a Nazi. (Yesterday on X, West said he was “done with antisemitism,” though he has made such apologies before; in any case, the single has already been viewed tens of millions of times on X.)

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago

Came to post this. Monthly donations. Bumped it up recently.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago

God damn it now I cant unsee it

 

TeleMessage, a communications app used by former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz, has suspended services after a reported hack exposed some user messages. The breach follows controversy over Waltz's use of the app to coordinate military updates, including accidentally adding a journalist to a sensitive Signal group chat. From the repor In an email, Portland, Oregon-based Smarsh, which runs the TeleMessage app, said it was "investigating a potential security incident" and was suspending all its services "out of an abundance of caution." A Reuters photograph showed Waltz using TeleMessage, an unofficial version of the popular encrypted messaging app Signal, on his phone during a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

A separate report from 404 Media says hackers have also targeted GlobalX Air -- one of the main airlines the Trump administration is using as part of its deportation efforts -- and claim to have stolen flight records and passenger manifests for all its flights, including those for deportation. From the report: The data, which the hackers contacted 404 Media and other journalists about unprompted, could provide granular insight into who exactly has been deported on GlobalX flights, when, and to where, with GlobalX being the charter company that facilitated the deportation of hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador.

"Anonymous has decided to enforce the Judge's order since you and your sycophant staff ignore lawful orders that go against your fascist plans," a defacement message posted to GlobalX's website reads. Anonymous, well-known for its use of the Guy Fawkes mask, is an umbrella some hackers operate under when performing what they see as hacktivism.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 94 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Need a new Texas bill banning Rep. Stan Gerdes from being 10 miles near any school because dude is a fucking creep.

 

A Texas bill, known as the FURRIES Act, would ban non-human behaviors in public schools, including the use of litter boxes and wearing animal accessories.

Rep. Stan Gerdes, the bill's author, claimed schools were providing litter boxes for students acting as "furries."

When pressed, Gerdes could not find an example. The bill was left pending in committee.

 

The entire staff of the Defense Digital Service (DDS), the Pentagon’s decade-old technology development office, is leaving by the start of May, with nearly all individuals resigning, a current member of the office confirmed to The Hill on Tuesday.

The mass exodus, first reported by Politico, means the service will effectively shutter in less than a month.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

Appreciate it! I didn't even see that.

And now this one has a lot of comments. 😭

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

I'm laughing real hard because I was also attracted by the thumbnail and clicked.

But -- I hope others don't follow suit and make sharing content look like time square with motion everywhere.

 

Microsoft is gradually rolling out the AI-powered Windows Recall feature to Insiders in the Release Preview channel before making it generally available to all Windows users with Copilot+ PCs.

Recall is an opt-in Windows feature that screenshots active windows every few seconds, analyzes them, and allows Windows 11 users to search text within the snapshots using natural language.

As the Windows Insider Program Team said on Thursday, Recall can be paused whenever needed and will only allow access to the data it captures after authenticating via Windows Hello.

 

I am currently winding down the Mastodon bots I used to post sunrise and sunset times. The precipitating event is that the admin of the instance hosting the associated accounts demanded they be made nigh-undiscoverable, but the underlying cause is that it’s become increasing clear that Mastodon isn’t, and won’t ever be, a good platform for “asynchronous ephemeral notifications of any kind”. I’d also argue (more controversially) that it’s simply not good infrastructure for social networking of any kind. There are lots of interesting people using Mastodon, and I’m sure it will live on as a good-enough space for certain niche groups. But there is no question that it will never offer the fun of early Twitter, let alone the vibrancy of Twitter during its growth phase. I’ve long since dropped Mastodon from my home screen, and have switched to Bluesky for text-centric social media

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Federation does not work I’m not saying federation “won’t” work or “can’t” work. Merely that in 2025, nine years after deployment, federation does not work for the Mastodon use case.

I could opine at length about possible federated architectures and what I think the ActivityPub people clearly got wrong in hindsight.1 But the proof is in the pudding: Mastodon simply doesn’t show users the posts they ask to see, as I quickly

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah I was prepared to hit the mark to spam button until I clicked on it.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 30 points 2 months ago

I started my protest a decade ago.

While you can argue that nothing happened and we still have loot boxes, I'd argue that my life is greatly enriched for not feeling any motivation to play in those looty skinner box games.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago

NGL I keep forgetting NextCloud has collaboration tools.

 

Microsoft says it has developed a new generative AI model that can produce "complex gameplay sequences."

The Xbox maker's Research Game Intelligence team debuted the World and Human Action Model (WHAM), which it has nicknamed Muse, earlier today and described it as a "generative AI model of a video game that can generate game visuals, controller actions, or both."

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