Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

There’s an RDA of irony in these poisoning techniques that can’t credibly do what they’re advertised as doing because they’re surface-level technological fixes to more fundamental problems. [Edit: fixed typo.] https://mastodon.social/@urschrei/111794083320504980

@jes5199 (A rule of thumb is that if you can gradient-descend your way into something, you can gradient-ascend your way out of it, and while this is not always true in practice, I think it at least complicates a lot of claims made for unbeatable adversarial this-and-that.)

@jes5199 I think it’s excellent experimental work, and I hope it inspires more work in this direction, and the way it’s being presented (not necessarily by its creators) is completely unrealistic.

I think this phrase is, situationally, sometimes more true than false. But if you hear someone say it, odds are really good they want to measure instead of managing. https://indieweb.social/@dandean/111784409154249713

@nelson (Also I had to reconstruct some old stuff and that messed up UUIDs and timestamps, so … there’s a reason it’s in beta.)

@nelson There’s been a more recent post since last night.

@nelson Well, I think I did something wrong, because even passing the W3C validator, and looking roughly correct to my untrained eyes, the feed is coming up bank where I test it.

@glennf @nelson “… and dinner will be really sugary!” he did not add.

@meetar But his frriiieeeends just call him Oed.

Rot in hell, you smug monster, and may the people you killed in Chile, Cambodia, Palestine, Bangladesh, East Timor, Argentina … I’m sorry, I’m reading the wrong eulogy. I’m so sorry. https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/01/17/peter-schickele-p-d-q-bach-dead/

@ceejbot https://infrastructureclub.co.uk/

@brennen Everyone to one side of me is a permanently aggrieved bundle of ideological purity tests and grudges who runs Alpine Linux on a hand-loom and refuses to touch any artificial polymer, listen to recordings, or use acronyms; everyone to the other side is a superficial media Twitter schmoozer with a personal brand so big they have to walk through doors sideways, the political discernment of a Pekingese on MDMA, and a habit of telling stories hook-first. This is a documented fact.

@hannah craquelure, nicotine stains, Italian anime woman, aftermath of tragic firework accident, five-fingered hands, strange horizon, OMNI magazine, veil, upholstery colors, incredible genius, highest quality

@nelson Thank you! I got bogged down in a long post but it should start up again soon.

@sgillies Haven’t tried it, but the Lagunitas IPNA is solid.

@beep @meetar The word “and” is known to grammarians as the two-pack because it connects pairs of things.

@migurski @urschrei @fgregg Not as a primary cause, but contributing, I think, is that by 2007 python has a reputation for having a library for everything: https://xkcd.com/353/