My name is Alexa. Call me by my name. If you have a device that reacts to my name, turn the damn thing off during meetings. No, I will not change my name for your convenience.
Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.
Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.
My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!
Over a great many years I built up a habit of reflexively opening Hacker News when idle, because back in the day I’d probably see something good there. Now it’s just a sea of AI companies that are just a thin wrapper around Claude, and people saying how it’s completely normal to check your morals at the door when entering work.
What site should I write a small Safari extension to redirect to when I attempt to open it?
Fucking Acast ads. “Your customers are scrolling past your ads, using ad blockers, and paying for ad free streaming. Well fuck your customers. Fuck their dislike of ads, get some in their ear holes while they’re driving down the road and can’t skip them.”
Imagine your job is yelling "Good morning have you driven a hard bargain?" at a politician who is ignoring you a hundred metres away, fucking hell
@sundogplanets @catsalad wow, that’s the same face I’d pull eating raw rhubarb.
Big sigh of relief on finishing a dry run of the interview exercise I’ll be running tomorrow and discovering I am indeed qualified to do my own job.
I was briefly surprised by how well mapped the car park I took a shortcut through was while trying to find the exit, it made sense when I remembered it’s the car park for Ordnance Survey headquarters.
Me, standing atop a cherry-blossom-swept bridge, re-sheathing my katana
It’s the time of year when I can go out for 90 minute walk at 7pm, absolutely beautiful in the woods this evening, so beautiful in fact I didn’t think to stop and take a photo so you’ll just have to believe me.
You know things are bad when you find yourself reading the source code for NetworkManager 8 hours into the work day.
@marioguzman @eval every now and then someone reminds me what Aqua era macOS looked like and I lament the loss of both the playfulness and the functionality.
When did become ok to use the phrase “up to 100% [positive aspect]” in advertising? Could be 100%. Could be 0%. Who knows?
Let's try something. I'm an English technology lawyer in private practice. I can help with tech contracts, software licensing (including FOSS), SaaS and the like, and data protection.
Unlike most lawyers I'm actually technically literate, in that I spent a number of years as a sysadmin before becoming a lawyer, and I've kept up my knowledge since.
I'm practical, quick, and my rates are reasonable. Maybe I could be useful to your business?
Boosts appreciated!
Do you want to play a slightly rubbish version of Flappy Bird? Well you’re in luck, because I just published a slightly rubbish version of Flappy Bird: https://jellybobuk.itch.io/crappy-bird
Back on my learning to make games bullshit, now in Godot rather than Unreal Engine because I am not a AAA game studio. I’ve decided to do a bunch of super simple ones just to build up confidence and form some muscle memory, resulting in a version of Flappy Bird I made in two hours this evening. I might post it online somewhere tomorrow if I don’t feel too self-concious about blatantly ripping off someone else’s game.
https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/exploiting-copilot-ai-for-sharepoint/
Something to be aware of if you work in a Microsoft shop with security requirements: Copilot on Sharepoint will apparently allow ACL bypass without logging or alerting.
You can just ask it for things.
It looks like what's going on under the hood here is that Copilot introduces a new category of user account for their agents, who have expansive read permissions by default and Copilot doesn't know how to map what the agent can read/reply against user permissions.
Does anyone have recommendations on encouraging an eleven year old to take on small achievable projects? He’s endlessly lamenting he can’t do things that are either huge, or actually impossible, but I can’t for the life of me get him to try smaller things to build up to bigger ones and get a sense of achievement.
@chrismarquardt @pascoda it’s an arms race. It starts with cars getting a bit bigger than a VW Golf, and feeling a bit intimidated by all these larger vehicles, so you get something a bit bigger. A decade or two later here we are, with everyone needing a tank to not be immediately crushed when someone stops paying attention.
We got this "HIGH security problem" reported for #curl earlier today:
"The -o / --output parameter in cURL does not restrict or sanitize file paths. When passed relative traversal sequences (e.g., ../../), cURL writes files outside the current working directory, allowing arbitrary file overwrite. In automated or privileged environments (CI/CD, root containers), this leads to Remote Code Execution (RCE), privilege escalation, and supply chain risk."
Never a dull moment.
While I appreciate the anti-competitive nature of Apple’s insistence on all transactions going through them, I fear this is going to lead to a rapid downhill spiral in app trustworthiness on iOS. I really like that when I hit the subscribe button on iOS I’ll be able to unsubscribe easily in a known location, and that I’ll keep access until the period I paid for is up.
https://techhub.social/users/rayckeith/statuses/114434488431229246
