HarkMahlberg

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Donald Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen for the $130,000 in hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.

 

Donald Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen for the $130,000 in hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.

 

This is the SECOND time in 3 days that I forgot that if statements in lisp are ternary. Someone needs to end me.

#programming

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

Let's be real, SO didn't need AI, most of it was already a shit salad. It became increasingly less useful from 2016 to now.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

@atzanteol I said Alternative, not Regurgitative.

 

Anyone got any good alternatives to #stackoverflow?

#programming

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

When I started to read breakdowns about the social engineering behind the xz backdoor I was like, "Waaaaitaminute, I've seen that sort of talk before." I found it notable to point out the similarity and maybe poke around at it.

People decided to use the thread (to my excessive chagrin) to talk shit about kbin and rehash the exact same pressures I was attempting to analyze.

It's a shame, because I noticed similar patterns was looking forward to some good discussion about it here. Alas...

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

It's not the boeh.org link, but here is a similar timeline of events: https://research.swtch.com/xz-timeline

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I mean... they didn't specify it had to be random (or even uniform)? But yeah, it's a good showcase of how GPT acquired the same biases as people, from people..

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Problem With Jon Stewart had much more biting commentary, and you could see that he and his writers had much more creative control to speak their mind. The Daily Show just doesn't have the same bite, or the same wit, or the same strength of conviction.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago

https://www.infoterkiniviral.com/p/contact-us.html

Street : 70945 Roxane Well Suite 870,East Websterton

No state, no country, fake town, fake street, fake account, fake website. Fuck off.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It might be a hot take but I think the bgm is actually the weakest part of the game. Feels too repetitive and too short, like Mementos in Persona 5. I legitimately play on mute and put something else on in the background.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 7 points 8 months ago

Easiest block of my life.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 9 points 8 months ago

The hype is real. There's no microtransactions, no multiplayer, it's just about building the best deck with as many synergies as possible and getting the highest score you can. If you played Magic or even Inscryption, you'll feel right at home.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

The author does have a way with words lol. I love this paragraph in particular, emphasis mine:

As we speak, the battle that platforms are fighting is against generative spam, a cartoonish and obvious threat of outright nonsense, meaningless chum that can and should (and likely will) be stopped. In the process, they're failing to see that this isn't a war against spam, but a war against crap, and the overall normalization and intellectual numbing that comes when content is created to please algorithms and provide a minimum viable product for consumers. Google's "useless" results problem isn't one borne of content that has no meaning, but of content that only sort of helps, that is the "right" result but doesn't actually provide any real thought behind it, like the endless "how to fix error code X" results full of well-meaning and plausibly helpful content that doesn't really help at all.

And he describes exactly what I have to deal with on the regular, "content that only sort of helps" that "steals your attention from the content you actually want." Even moving from Google to DDG has only mitigated this problem, it hasn't fully gone away.

But yeah, one of his conclusions seems to be the Death of the Hyperlink? Which, I mean, not even LLM's can kill that. I doubt `

 

US Steel has agreed to be bought by NIppon Steel, Japan’s largest steelmaker, in a $14.1 billion deal.

 

Posting to raise awareness of this behavior with kbin. Maybe it's something Ernest can address in the ActivityPub rewrite, maybe it's something that doesn't need to be (or can be) addressed at all.

On Mastodon, if you don't like your instance or it's in the process of shutting down, you can migrate your account to another instance. I was aware of this feature, but I hadn't considered how such a move federates to kbin, until now.

I had blocked a user of a niche Mastodon instance, and then they migrated to a larger instance. After the migration, I started seeing their posts again, with my blocklist only containing the old account, not the new one.

Now to my knowledge, this feature of Mastodon is not a standard component of ActivityPub. I think it's a great feature actually, but I'm concerned that enables a sort of harassment whereby an attacker can harass someone, get blocked, migrate to another instance, and continue harassing their target. This feature being non-standard, I don't know how it gets broadcast to other instances, let alone if/how kbin should handle it.

Should kbin automatically update blocklists with the newly migrated account name and instance name? That feels like the ideal solution, but I don't know how feasible it is. Just wanted to open this up for discussion and awareness.

 

Louisiana’s off-the-grid schools are a rapidly growing example of the nation’s continuing fallout from COVID: families disengaging from public school.

 

On the first day of a four-day Gaza cease-fire agreement, Hamas released 24 hostages abducted by militants from southern Israel seven weeks ago. In return, Israel freed 39 Palestinians from prison on Friday.

 

The bill now heads to the Senate, which is expected to pass it before Friday's deadline. It would keep the government funded through early next year while Congress debates spending.

 

The move comes as several GOP members confront the Alabama senator over his blanket hold on nominees.

 

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appears to pull more support from former President Trump than President Biden in a hypothetical general election matchup, according to a new…

 

Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) won the floor vote for the House speaker gavel on Wednesday, ending the weeks of stalemate and failed nominations that followed the historic ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)

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