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Riskable

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Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast

  • Anti-vaccine groups melt down over RFK Jr. linking autism to Tylenol

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  • If that's all we hear - is that the end? Not thimerosal. Not aluminum. Not MMR. Not Hep B.

    Correct! It's not caused by any of those things. Just like it's not caused by:

    • "Refrigerator mothers"
    • Not enough hugs
    • Trauma during childbirth
    • Being raised in an orphanage
    • Sugar
    • Food dyes and preservatives
    • HFCS
    • Eating too much fast food
    • WiFi or 5G
    • Humors
    • Fluoridated water
    • "Chemtrails"
    • Living near power lines

    So on and so forth. Maybe—just maybe—there's no universal cause and it's just something that can happen.

    Can there be things that increase the likelihood of an autistic child forming in a mother's womb? Surely! But that's the kind of thing that relies on statistics. Ya know, that thing you obviously don't trust because you never let go of the "vaccines cause autism" bullshit.

    I have no doubt that after many, many decades of research—and maybe with the help of some big data/AI—we can figure out what sorts of things actually increase the likelihood of autism. It'll be probably something like: If you have these three genes and your partner has these other three genes then you should avoid eating venison while also consuming saccharine.

    Maybe we'll get something better than that but if my experience with big data are any guide, the correlations are going to be wild and crazy like that... And they won't really give you "an answer", just places where a scientific investigation might be warranted.

  • Here comes a new JPEG challenger

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  • I really like WebP. It has a super annoying issue though: Animated WebP can't take advantage of hardware acceleration.

    And the real problem there is that WebM doesn't support looping. So if you want an auto playing, looping gif-like video you have to use WebP and thus, give up on hardware acceleration.

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    JD Vance says it's a “statistical fact” that the left commits more political violence.

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  • To be fair, JD Vance doesn't really know what a "fact" is. It's not that he's willfully ignorant; he doesn't have the mental capacity to understand.

  • After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts

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  • Conservatism triggers extreme reactions.

  • DOJ does damage control as staffer admits Republicans will be redacted from Epstein files

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  • As a Democrat, I say don't redact any of them! If there's Democrats in there, everyone needs to know. Everyone needs to know all the people involved!

    Stop being pussies and use this as a proper stepping stone to remove your rivals in the GOP! That's how villain organizations are supposed to work!

  • Framework Making Printers

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  • Any company that sees themselves "in the Business of selling printers and ink" thinks they're strictly "in the business of selling ink." Because selling ink is incredibly profitable.

    This is exactly the type of situation that could be fixed with government regulation: Make it illegal for printer companies to sell ink/toner!

    The day such regulation came into effect, all printers would double (not triple!) in price and we'd have like three standard cartridge sizes that you could source anywhere. They'd all be refillable and the world would be a better place.

  • Chhoto URL v6.3.0 is out now: A simple, blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features; written in Rust.

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  • You've obviously never tried to get any given .NET project working in Linux. There's .NET and then there's .NET Core which is a mere subset of .NET.

    Only .NET Core runs on Linux and nobody uses it. The list of .NET stuff that will actually run on .NET Core (alone) is a barren wasteland.

  • Chhoto URL v6.3.0 is out now: A simple, blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features; written in Rust.

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  • If it's written in C# that's a huge turn-off though because that means it's likely to only run on Windows.

    I mean, in theory, it could run on Linux but that's a very rare situation. Almost everything ever written in C# uses Windows-specific APIs and basically no one installs the C# runtime on Linux anymore. It's both enormous and a pain in the ass to get working properly for any given C# project.

  • Chhoto URL v6.3.0 is out now: A simple, blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features; written in Rust.

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  • As an information security professional and someone who works on tiny, embedded systems, knowing that a project is written in Rust is a huge enticement. I wish more projects written in Rust advertised this fact!

    Benefits of Rust projects—from my perspective:

    • Don't have to worry about the biggest, most common security flaws. Rust projects can still have security flaws (anything can) but it's much less likely for certain categories of flaws.
    • Super easy to build stuff from scratch. Rust's crates ecosystem is fantastic! Especially in the world of embedded where it's a godsend compared to dealing with C/C++ libraries.
    • It's probably super low overhead and really fast (because Rust stuff just tends to be like that due to the nature of the language and that special way the borrow checker bitches at you when you make poor programming choices haha).
    • It's probably cross-platform or trivially made cross-platform.

  • Chinese social media platforms roll out labels for AI-generated material

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  • Also, stuff that gets mis-labeled as AI can be just as dangerous. Especially when you consider that the AI detection might use such labels to train itself. So someone who's face is weirdly symmetrical might get marked as AI and then have hard time applying for jobs, purchasing things, getting credit, etc.

    I want to know what counts as AI. If someone uses AI to remove the background in an image or just to remove someone standing in the background is technically generative AI but that's something you can do in any photo editor anyway with a bit of work.

  • The Evidence That AI Is Destroying Jobs For Young People Just Got Stronger

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  • Meh. Nothing in this article is strong evidence of anything. They're only looking at a tiny sample of data and wildly speculating about which entry-level jobs are being supplanted by AI.

    As a software engineer who uses AI, I fail to see how AI can replace any given entry-level software engineering position. There's no way! Any company that does that is just asking for trouble.

    What's more likely, is that AI is making senior software engineers more productive so they don't need to hire more developers to assist them with more trivial/time consuming tasks.

    This is a very temporary thing, though. As anyone in software can tell you: Software only gets more complex over time. Eventually these companies will have to start hiring new people again. This process usually takes about six months to a year.

    If AI is causing a drop in entry-level hiring, my speculation (which isn't as wild as in the article since I'm actually there on the ground using this stuff) is that it's just a temporary blip while companies work out how to take advantage the slightly-enhanced productivity.

    It's inevitable: They'll start new projects to build new stuff because now—suddenly—they have the budget. Then they'll hire people to make up the difference.

    This is how companies have worked since the invention of bullshit jobs. The need for bullshit grows with productivity.

  • ill be at your house in 10 minutes. how will you entertain me?

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  • You can hang out in the back yard and hand-feed our 100+ pound giant sulcata tortoise. She'll come "running" if she sees you have treats (e.g. lettuce).

    You can keep the puppy busy outside so she doesn't have to worry about "forgetting" and doing that inside (puppies are trouble).

    You can fish off the dock or swim in the pool. At night, I can setup the projection screen and we can watch some old movie out back and roast marshmallows at the fire pit.

    Or you can just hang out with me in my garage/office and lose endless amounts of time watching the 3D printer print something (as is tradition with 3D printing!).

    Also have a rather large robot to play with and an awesome HTPC setup and wifi 7 with 2 gig Internet. Actually, forget all that other stuff; 2 gig Internet is living the dream! 🤣

  • ill be at your house in 10 minutes. how will you entertain me?

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  • There's hot shingles in your area! They're just waiting for you to attach.

    Do it on the roof! Doctors hate it!

  • Trump Proves He's Alive by Complaining About 'Stupid' White House Contractors

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  • This just proves he's closer to soulless undead than a living being.

  • FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson claims Google is using "partisan" spam filtering in Gmail that sends Republican fundraising emails to the spam folder

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  • Republicans: "Google keeps blocking our emails!" Google: "Yep. Stop sending spam!"

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  • Ugh, if only that worked for longer than like a month.

    Eventually all these materials you can throw under throw rugs to make them stickier end up failing. Catastrophically.

    Make sure to get a throw rug that has the non-slip feature sewn in. Make sure it's nice and heavy too and never put it in the dryer (it'll ruin the non-slip part). You should probably air dry throw rugs anyway, actually 🤷

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  • The rug threw you. That's why they're called that!

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  • Xerox is a bad copy of themselves from decades prior.

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  • Try this and the result may shock you!

    Doctors hate it!

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  • ...and people that work with resin and 3D printerers.