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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 7h

I got to talking in my discord about a bizarrely nonsensical short story I was assigned to read multiple times by different teachers, about, uh, aliens running miraculous fat removal booths to harvest energy, because clearly there's no more efficient way to go about that. Now that I'm older I […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10h

my old twitter account has open DMs (in case someone doesn't know how else to contact me) and gets hammered by porn bots, but I laughed at one that said "I saw you in the city the other day and wanted to meet you." Damn girl, you reverse engineered my twitter handle from that? you're an OSINT […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13h

Sad? Lonely? Alienated from your labor under the crushing machinations of late-stage capitalism? Have you considered forging an unbreakable bond of trust and love with one of the MIGHTIEST HOUNDS OF HELL?

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14h

The moving guys who picked up my boxes in Boston, Massachusetts four years ago have sent me email to remind me that they're still available if I need help moving heavy boxes from my current home in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

rare lore: one of those guys totally stole my precious stash of […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14h

I love the enormous hell-beast who sleeps next to me in my room all day. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

a close-up of Odin the Newfie lying asleep on his back, one toof showing through his drooping lips

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h

@0xabad1dea I particularly "like" their FAQ entry on the subject:

> How do you **prevent** sensitive data from being used to train models?
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> We use filtering, anonymization, and strict access controls to **avoid** using sensitive information for LLM training. [...]

Emphasis mine. How do they […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19h

jetbrains is far from the first company to make this particular pair of claims but it is simply, on the most fundamental level, impossible to mass-collect people’s terminal and editor contents and also not collect sensitive or personal data.

I realize they […]

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screenshot: We’re now adding the option to allow the collection of detailed code‑related data pertaining to IDE activity, such as edit history, terminal usage, and your interactions with AI features. This may include code snippets, prompt text, and AI responses.

That sounds like a lot, and it is, but that’s where the real value for improvements comes from. If you allow us to collect this data, we will make sure that:
No sensitive or personal information is shared.

(Snippets of the text have been highlighted: “edit history, terminal usage, code snippets, prompt text … no sensitive or personal information is shared.”

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sam henri gold @samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 2d

hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes.

(this is going to be a very long thread 🧵)

Assembly code between iOS 4.0 and 4.0.1. It's basically the same except one instruction points to a different address.

A lookup table tweaked between 4.0 and 4.0.1.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 1d

My husband surprised me with something I wanted for years 🥰 #webcomic #webcomics #girlgenius

Printed volumes 1 through 13 of adventure webcomic Girl Genius on my bookshelf

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 1d

The Miraculous Mandarin by Bela Bartok but make it JRPG Earth Dungeon probably full of noxious fumes or something

I actually toned this one down dramatically from the sheet music as written – the original is Bartok going Sickos Mode: https://musescore.com/user/32417071/scores/20006026 […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@glyph I just call this “glitch aesthetic”, and know that if you look at plugins sold for game engines (unity, rpg maker etc) they’re generally just labeled as “glitch” under category “visual effect”

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Speaking of image alt text, as a photographer who tries to put care into this, I would really love it if there were a single standard EXIF field in which alt text could be embedded and from which the text was reliably extracted when the image was uploaded. It would be much easier to write a […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 2d

文章合为时而著，歌诗合为事而作。

Serious translation: Prose is written for the era, poetry is written for the moment.

New Living Internet translation: Post takes as long as the world needs to hear them, post memes while they're still funny.

source […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 2d

The Passion of the Carrot #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

Odin the Newfie resting his drooping jowls on my bed, sadly

Crushing despair: mommy is eating the carrot???

Odin is not sure he dares to believe he gets to partake of carrot (he does)

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damien 🥖🐈‍⬛🧣 @damien.zone · 2d

Twitter, Mastodon and now Bluesky are a constant reminder that you can’t just add layers of abstractions to avoid dealing with the fact that someone is running the thing you use. Layers are only pushing the can down the road.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 2d

experienced the full range of human emotion tonight (went from first place to last right in front of the first checkpoint in Mario Kart after getting hit by six things in a row, and then took first place overall in the next rally)

#mariokart

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Slightly damp baby waiting for daddy outside the grocery store as the weather aggressively mists on us #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

Odin the Newfie sitting down and waiting patiently

Odin having given up and lied down flat on the sidewalk, mist drops shining in his hair

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@victorgijsbers @at I can’t make too much sense of this without context — it could be a newspaper article, an announcement, or a novel excerpt — but yes, it says something about a roller skating center, in the evening, in this place: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiantang,_Hangzhou

Qiantang, Hangzhou - Wikipedia

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 2d

while researching the rubygems takeover situation, I ended up on the blog of someone who insists on using AI header images, and now instead of engaging with the actual post I’m stuck on “why is there a puppy on the table? WHY do the evil corporate overlords holding a sinister meeting have a […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 2d

I am informed that the rubygems leaders who were ousted in the coup have regrouped at https://gem.coop/ with a new gems server.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 2d

a cross-model Mandela Effect LLM meltdown https://vgel.me/posts/seahorse/

Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?

Investigating the seahorse emoji doom loop using logitlens.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 3d

#mariokart

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 3d

My hand is under there somewhere, trapped in eternal scritchies servitude. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

Odin the Newfie resting his mighty head upon my slender hand, that I might scratch his chin

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 3d

This tangentially reminded me of a TV advertisement (I don't remember for what product) that confused me as a child, but now I understand how and why it happened.

The plot was that a man was engaged to a woman ten years older than him, and his parents were freaking out and rejecting the […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 3d

me: badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom

my husband: what

me: badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom

my husband: what??

me: snaaake, snaaake, ohhh it’s a snaaake

my husband, who is several years younger than me: okay maybe I do need to go to the ER for that concussion after […]

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