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ajs, to random

Windows Recall is your regular reminder that to Microsoft, you (the user) are not the customer, it’s corporate IT.

Corporate IT didn’t know they want this, mainly because complete transcripts of everything their users do is beyond their wildest dreams.

But mentioning AI is a shut-up-and-take-my-money thing for the C-suite, and corporate IT mostly does what the C-suite tells them to do.

It’s not that Microsoft in this case intended to be anti-user, it’s simply that they don’t give a shit.

ajs, to random

Dumb question maybe, but does anyone ever actually click on ads? I mean what’s the clickthrough rate?

ratkins, to random
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It seems like macOS/iOS deliberately and per policy clears your cut buffer after you paste into a password field.

Am I holding something wrong or is this the most egregious violation of the principle of least astonishment and the stupidest design decision in the history of password reset flows that has personally fucked me at least three times?

ajs,

@ratkins Where are you pasting from? A lot of password managers do this deliberately to reduce the exposure of clipboard harvesting.

ajs, to random

What is this UX trash in a native macOS app from Apple?

ajs, to random

Wirth passed away aged 90, not 89, because he always started at 1 not 0.

simon, to random
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Glad to see I'm not the only person howling with despair at how difficult it is to build anything that involves OpenID Connect in the comments on this Hacker News thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38868610

ajs,

@simon I’ve set OIDC up with AWS and GCP and it’s intimidating at first sight. But also totally worth it when you realise you don’t need to manage and worry about the tokens/secrets any more. The actions just implicitly run as the service account, just as if you’re using workload identity in a VM or CloudRun action or whatever. Totally worth it.

ratkins, to random
@ratkins@mastodon.social avatar

Oh my fucken god. I made a two minute phone call to Australia this month (because Congstar hide their international tariffs on their website, if they’re there at all, and how bad could it be?) and it cost me €4.50. Holy shit.

Well, now I know. Still looking for something better than Viber for cheap international VOIP calls.

ajs,

@ratkins When I need this, Skype Out. Call rate looks indistinguishable from Viber. I once put €20 on my account… still haven’t used it up. Every now and then it expires and I have to reactivate it, but whatever. The hassle of figuring out anything else will not be worth it until that balance hits 0, which for me will be in about 2030.

SwiftOnSecurity, to random

I feel like we truly need to have a serious discussion about Taylor Swift coming in to sub out Joe Biden.
The constitutional age requirement will be met by inauguration. There is literally no legal block to this plan. It will work. And finally put a Millennial in control.

Taylor Swift is a transcendent global figure of statistically unequalled power. Remember there were only like 5 million people on Earth when Beatlemania hit. They had no other options. Taylor Swift is a lighthouse in the storm of time.

The people will follow. They will Stan.

It is a job that will destroy her. So did Jesus’.

ajs,

@SwiftOnSecurity “lighthouse in the storm of time” chef’s kiss

ratkins, to random
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[1.0 if x in y else 0.0 for x in z] — statements made up by the utterly deranged!

ajs,

@ratkins Just wait until you see the multi-loop variants…

codinghorror, to random
ajs,

@codinghorror There’s an adjacent question that’s also super-interesting: how does the mass of storage media change (if at all) when you write to it?

ajs, to random

New rule: CI/CD infra should be configured with Australia/Eucla as the time zone. 😡

ajs, to random

The buried lede, when reporting on the cancellation of the lease for a new Russian Embassy because it would be too close to Parliament House…

Ref: https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/russian-squatter-packs-up-as-high-court-rejects-embassy-challenge-20230626-p5djkh.html

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