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Doctor day again. Getting stabbed, bled, and zapped in the pursuit of a variety of diagnoses, all downstream issues of a single bout in Jan 2022.

BTW you can avoid my 34 months of hell just by:

- masking up
- staying vaccinated
- washing your hands
- ventilate enclosed spaces regularly
- and reminding others to do this
Such a small price to pay

On that note CO2 sensors are reduced for a further week aranet.com/en/home/products/ar I highly recommend them

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Some days you think I'll just fix a bug.

And then you're knee-deep in yaml-powered tool written in python, suddenly falling through a hidden trapdoor into a shell script that uses sed and grep to parse the yaml configs, and you land on a bed of ancient monkey skulls.

At least you hope they're monkey skulls, because the inference could be its other devs who never made it back, and this sed/grep monstrosity is looking for something that was assumed to be on a single line, but doesn't have to be, because ... yaml is not an ini file.

The monkey skulls suddenly collapse into dust, and while you sneeze, you disturb a previously hidden nest of snakes (the python, you remember), which rises up to bite you on the arse. At least, its pretty close to your arse.

The only thing you can think of is to run screaming down random corridors looking for an exit, only to find that the config files that should be in /usr/local/etc are in fact in /etc/ and they point you to an escape route, even if its poorly documented, but its across a shoddy rope bridge over /var/lib/ and there are raging crocodiles below you. Skimming these files that don't respect hier(7) at all, you realise there's no choice - it's the bridge, and the crocs, and you'll need to move, fast.

Grabbing a fraying cord on the rope bridge, you struggle across as fast as you can. Of course, it pulls loose, and you swing wildly down towards the crocodiles. There's no way out now, but suddenly you realise -- /run/ isn't safe, but there's /var/run/ where this stuff should be, and at the last second, you swing over the crocs, into a hidden cave of the ancients.

There is a scroll, and it tells you how to get out. There are only two words:

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On .

I imagine a 20 tonne side loading coal wagon but filled with delicious gravy. And then I imagine 80 more of them. They come past my door where I have a wall of mashed potato and a giant crane with a gravy bucket on it to pour over my mashed spuds. I also have a ball pool but it’s full of peas instead and my entire front yard is laden with delicious slices of roast NZ lamb.

That’s my idea of a gravy train and nobody gonna stop me.

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Dennis Wilkinson

A Great Blue Heron perched on a duck box in the marshes by Tamarack Park in Lakeville.

#photography #birds #wildlife #birdphotography #nature #masswildlife #lakeville #massachusetts #wildmassachusetts #naturalmassachusetts #massachusettswildlife

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Björn Ek photography

The stamen part of a Scilla flower. Cropped version of the Scilla photo above. The pollen looks like rice on this flower. #ultramacrophoto

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Nils Wilcke

Wow. La commission européenne fournit des burner phones à ses agents en déplacement aux États-Unis par crainte d'espionnage, comme c'est le cas en Chine ou en Ukraine. "L'union transatlantique est terminée", déclare un haut-fonctionnaire cité par le Financial Times. Cela en dit long sur la dégradation catastrophique des relations avec la première puissance mondiale ft.com/content/20d0678a-41b2-4

#Politique #Europe #Trump #USA #EtatsUnis #Espionnage #Securite #Cyber #Tech #Ukraine #Chine

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razhael

Finally, I should call out the ONE organization we found that did issue something in support of Krebs of SentinelOne, the Cyber Threat Alliance.

Here's what their president, Michael Daniel, told us:

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razhael

Microsoft's response yesterday to the news that their former exec had been blackballed by the president?

"Nothing to share at this time."

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For visibility:

If you work in cyber I'd be grateful if you could get in touch if (a) your bosses have asked you to keep quiet on social media about the Krebs-SentinelOne affair (b) you know of any cyber or disinfo research that's being suppressed for fear of crossing the administration.

I'm on Signal at: raphaelsatter.01

Reddit post here:

reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/com

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razhael

France's former top cyber defender Guillaume Poupard has reacted to the news about Trump singling out Chris Krebs, calling it "stupefying" and a "triple ignominy."

Not seeing that same level of fire from America's top cyber officials and execs.
linkedin.com/posts/guillaume-p

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European Commission

A strong Europe rolls on at high speed.

Efficient EU train services offer clean and smart alternatives to travel.

This is why we want to bridge gaps in the EU's rail network with a new high-speed rail plan.

Tomorrow, we'll kick-start new discussions with stakeholders to improve infrastructure, passenger services, and the rail industry.

We're also working on single digital booking and ticketing rules to make travelling easier.

Ready to hop on?

More: europa.eu/!nvqbGc

#EU

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Euronews

‘Fossil fuels in another form’: Plastic recycling rate stagnates at under 10%, report finds
euronews.com/green/2025/04/14/

Posted into Green News @green-news-euronews

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kira :3

tech people need to find more ways to get money than from a bunch of coked up fascists who think they're going to live forever on mars. could you imagine how much cool shit we could be working on

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These kinds of images have always being harrowing, but now I have a kid they're unbearable. I just think of him in this situation, and what it would be like to be a parent. I would do anything - anything - to make sure he could survive. What we're doing to this population (and most of us are complicit) is inhuman.
nbcnews.com/news/world/childre

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rural driving in aus: start in the town of Garrawuppa, population 87, consisting of a post office and a bakery selling vegemite scrolls, and home to a self professed "old mate" who remembers an old mate who remembers when this town had a train station taking you to the nearby (seventy kilometres away) gold mine. drive for one hour in a random direction. there are no visible signs of civilisation anywhere. stop the car to allow an echidna to cross the road. your phone has one bar of "E". a sign tells you to turn back unless you have five litres of water per person, and not to leave your vehicle under any circumstances, including a breakdown. the nearest servo is in Garrawuppa

rural driving in england: start in the town of Brentleysham-upon-Willingsby, population 5,210, consisting of all the amenities needed for modern life, and home to a family of knitters who have passed down a unique and world-renowned style of jumper down for generations. drive for one hour in a random direction. you have passed six more towns and are now in Old Foldopperstokesshireton, population 3,398. stop the car to allow the world-renowned Jam Parade Marching Band to cross the road. the nearest petrol station with miniature Greggs and Sainsbury's is right next to you

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gustav

A very interesting interview with Audrey Tang on digital democracy and how to reshape social life online: thegreatsimplification.com/epi

From Wikipedia: "Audrey Tang is a Taiwanese politician and free software programmer who served as the first Minister of Digital Affairs of Taiwan from August 2022 to May 2024." Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_T

I have to listen to it again, take notes and look up all the things she mentions, there were so many interesting ideas. For the first time in a long time I could imagine something better than social "media" actually being widely adopted. It would be very interesting to hear what a local of Taiwan thinks of these solutions and how they are deployed.

#democracy #socialmedia #taiwan

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Picked up a 2nd hand pair of Beyer Dynamic Amorin headphones for my birthday present to myself. They are amazing, I’m hearing stuff in Amy Winehouse, or Sibelius, that I never heard before.

The cans come with software to build an individual profile of your hearing at all ranges, which probably compensates for being old and having listened too loudly to too much music for too many years.

Next ,up I’ll be getting ironiconium tipped plugs, and swearing that using c++ produces superior crispness in the high end…

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Elena Rossini ⁂

I just watched the most brilliant TED Talk by Carole Cadwalladr "This is what a digital coup looks like"

🔗: ted.com/talks/carole_cadwallad

It's filled with memorable, superb quotes about the broligarchy. A must see, to be shared widely.

But then I looked up Cadwalladr's online activity. She uses Bluesky for social and Substack for publishing. This is impossibly incongruous after her incendiary TED talk.

Honestly, it made me sad. One place is owned by crypto bros, the other is funded by A16Z...

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has been on time all day — for me. As a result I could cancel my leg (full refund up to 30m before departure!) and take a delayed DB train that wouldn’t have been an option prior to the delay.

I’ll be back with the family 5h earlier than planned!

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@dch

i don't know if it's useful to anthropomorphise AI like this... it can't lie, because it has no intent, it's not a conscious being. it's a tool that sometimes generates incorrect output, like an algorithm with a bug.

i sometimes use LLMs, but i don't assign them either good or bad intentions, i just treat them as a text processing tool. i absolutely agree that people underestimate how often they produce wrong answers, but i worry that trying to explain this in terms of intent and human behaviour ends up being more confusing in a way that's not obvious.

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Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta

We have CEOs telling junior developers to not bother learning how to code, try to vibe code. That’s scary! You don’t learn much with vibe coding. Learning is the best part of the job!

I tell my junior engineers to not outsource their learning. AI can’t do the modeling, the architecture, the understanding. Can it do boilerplate? Sorta! But the job isn’t writing boiler plate.

We knew this way back with the no silver bullets essay on incidental vs necessary complexity.

#workersrights #ai

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We talk a lot about what AI helps with and where it doesn’t. After doing this exercise, his feedback is that AI isn’t a code timesaver, it generates stuff that seems right but actually isn’t. It can explain complex code, but you can’t be certain that explanation is correct.

My new name for AI is the Stochastic Psychopath.

It makes false statements confidently and without shame, apologises profusely what caught out, and continues to lie without stopping. It has no shame, does not change its approach based on feedback, and continues to speculate wildly.

Just like a real-world psychopath, we keep falling into the trap of believing it has “good intentions” and we operate with it in good faith.

Of course like a real world human psychopath it has none of these attributes. It does not think, learn, nor feel responsibility for inventing facts nor wasting your time due to speculation.

To be clear I don’t expect any of that from LLMs but many people will, and their insidious poisoned lies will get into everything, like a virus or mold, destroying the intrinsic quality of everything they touch.

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