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flyingsaceur

@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange

Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon
(Brigadier Sicko)

“I’ve done… questionable things.”

Suburban crank. Deep space janitor. Miniboss / Agile bagman. Adjudicator. Python daily driver and hater. Secret Perl Sicko. Standard ML dilettante.

“First we shape our tools, then our tools shape us” —Marshall McLuhan

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calmeilles, to random
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flyingsaceur,
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@calmeilles out here there was this spasm to get something out the door before so one else did, actual user need be damned. Resume driven development

gwynnion, to random
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The US government's entire beef with TikTok is they believe it's spying on Americans for the sake of the Chinese government, as opposed to American social media companies who spy on Americans for the sake of local, state, and federal law enforcement and various intelligence agencies and literally anyone else who is willing to pay for that data.

Which is why they want TikTok sold to an American company willing to hand that data over to them instead of instituting actual privacy regulations.

flyingsaceur,
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@sysop408 @nf3xn @gwynnion having dealt with the Great Firewall and the accommodations vendors make, i see the asymmetry and i have an online gof where you’re coming from and i agree with you. There’s some
dossier that a legislator reads and they Get It. That’s one known unknown, but i can at least take
solace that they’re taking it seriously

There was also an influence campaign by a certain other foreign power that was downplayed and buried and probably succeeded, and the response appears to be to try to clean up the mess without acknowledging the existence of the mess. Was it because one major political party stood to gain a lot by just letting it happen, and they’re now hedging their bets if it works again? The reason for inaction, or at least giving the appearance of inaction, is a much bigger unknown and problems that are allowed to fester keep me up at night more than ones that are being handled

foone, to random
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The Roman empire fell because their Roman numerals weren't a form of positional notation, so they couldn't figure out binary. Their computers were terrible.

flyingsaceur,
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@oblomov @foone the Western Roman Empire fell because they were Doing It wrong

flyingsaceur,
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@foone Rule XXXIV

mcc, to random
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And now for what feels like the millionth time in my career with computers I type into google "useradd adduser difference"

flyingsaceur,
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@mcc the man with the .plan

DeliaChristina, to random
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Don't even get me started on that new Bumble ad.

flyingsaceur,
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@thepoliticalcat @DeliaChristina Exactly. And if the campaign is a flop, the agency takes the force of the blow. Doing it in house means you literally have no one to blame but yourself

flyingsaceur,
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@thepoliticalcat @DeliaChristina willing to bet that this campaign (which has been pulled) was done in house and not by an agency, same as the Crush iPad campaign.

In both cases, they bought their own hype and mistook a VC hype reel for advertising

flyingsaceur, to random
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a long time ago,
in a galaxy far, far away

Han Solo was dating a high schooler

flyingsaceur, to random
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“Ghostbusters (Taylor’s Version)”

flyingsaceur, to random
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from the infinite possibilities of the multiverse, i choose one thread and will it to be:

“No, Luke. I am your mother”

The recontextualized reboot of the full Star Wars trilogy, where in the Clone Wars, as Anakin Skywalker
became more erratic and obsessed with arcana of the Force, Amidala became more concerned for her own safety and that of her children, turning to Obi-Wan. In a fit of rage, Anakin tried to kill her, but with her latent Force abilities and those of the twins she was carrying, she killed him in self defense.

The Jedi Council, frightened by her power, abducted her children and sent Obi-Wan and Yoda on twin missions to hide the children with foster families and destroy all records

Obsessed with finding her stolen children, Amidala swore loyalty to Palpatine and set about hunting down and murdering every last Jedi to get her children back. She created the identity of Darth Vader to conceal
her true intent, strike fear, and fulfill her destiny to bring order to a galaxy ruled by men

flyingsaceur, to random
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Am I the only person who is seeing this play going down right now?

December 2023: Microsoft prices Windows 10 long term support

May 2024: Microsoft poison pills Windows 11 with spyware

The beauty of this is that Microsoft doesn’t even have to sell the new windows 10 pricing, infosec will

In chess, this is called a “discovered attack”. Check!

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-to-offer-windows-10-subscription-plan-for-customers-who-want-to-keep-getting-updates-after-october-2025-for-both-businesses-and-individuals

joy, to random
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Dang, HashiCorp to IBM

https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/ibm-nears-deal-for-cloud-software-provider-cf146448

flyingsaceur,
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@joy RedHash Enterprise Terraform

Binder, to random
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Knockin’ on Heaven’s Dior.

flyingsaceur,
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@Binder Louie Vui(tton), whoa-oh

glyph, to random
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TIL the “what Bladerunner would have driven” tweet was real

flyingsaceur,
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@glyph Lemme tell you something
🎶RUNNING MAKES ME BLAADE
GOOD

flyingsaceur,
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@glyph There’s electric sheep
In the neighborhood
Who ya gonna call?
BLADE RUNNER

There’s a replicant
Sleepin in your bed
Who ya gonna call?
BLADE RUNNER

I ain’t afraid of robots

I ain’t afraid of robots

Binder, to random
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Sitting across the Ouija board from Sam Altman. “Can my hands be on the planchette, too?”

“No! It’s not safe. The spirits only deign to respond if no one examines our input corpus!”

flyingsaceur,
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@Binder Cf. Rifftrax: Ouija Shark

Binder, to random
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That doesn't really narrow it down, ya ding dongs

flyingsaceur,
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@Binder That Book You’ve Been Wanting, by Joanie Portcullis

“It’s a book.” —Orson Bean, Sky & Telescope

Binder, to random
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Sears, Roguelike & Co's Christmas Big Book Catalog.

flyingsaceur,
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@Binder You have ruined Christmas. TRY NEXT YEAR or START NEW FAMILY

flyingsaceur, to random
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Why haven’t the Cars covered Fary Numan’s “In Cars”? or if they have, why havent I heard it?

The same Gary Numan doing “Who’s Gonna Drive You Home”

flyingsaceur,
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@brouhaha i forgot about that one!

as far as bands that performed songs with the name of the band, there’s Bad Company, and also Big Country

Alice Cooper did “Poison” and I wish that Poison did a song called “Alice Cooper” but that’s a different thing

Binder, to random
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    flyingsaceur,
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    @Binder Nobody expects the Hashiquisition!

    flyingsaceur, to random
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    Leonardo DaVinci would have been a horrible coworker. If you asked
    him to do something he would take forever, hand in some halfassed doodle of a helicopter, and the bosses would love it. Everyone would talk about how smart the guy is. But it would take hundreds of years for anyone to get the idea to qork, and it would look completely different

    One of the few things he actually finished was a simple ask: paint a lady smiling. It takes forever, everyone loves it, but you can’t even tell if she’s smiling or not

    What an asshole

    flyingsaceur,
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    @tuban_muzuru “Art is anything you can get away with” —Marshall McLuhan

    Binder, to random
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    Hey, did Huey Lewis ever score that new drug or

    flyingsaceur,
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    @Binder what if Nine Inch Nails “The Perfect Drug” was about the same guy, see he’s trying to get over her with a new drug but then he ends up finding out what she’s really into and he’s hooked. Maybe they’re a sandwich around “Escape (the Pina Colada Song)”

    Binder, to random
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    I’ve a modest appetite for wealth. It would be enough for me to own 1-2 politicians.

    flyingsaceur,
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    @Binder Politicians are like party boats: pretty expensive, but still affordable if that’s your thing

    Binder, to random
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    Sincerely hoping that someone let Haddaway in on the definition of love by now.

    flyingsaceur,
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    @Binder who is baby and why do they keep hurting him?

    djsundog, to random
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    I wonder what lick it was that Prince once heard someone else lay down that made him think "damn I wish I had thought of that lick"

    it has to exist, I'd think.

    flyingsaceur,
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    @djsundog
    I heard there was a secret lick
    Prince heard it once and he was sick
    It had a name but you don’t know it do ya

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