✏ Tammy

✨Optimist, Polymath, Han Solo Enthusiast

Creative Technologist who likes to make movies, apps, & stuff. Award-winning Director/Producer @

[Alex 🦥 @FunpageWho]

Cannot believe it’s taken until now for me to realise FRIDAY in VisionQuest was Tasha Lem in Doctor Who 😭

[Jack (-_•) @captaincupkick]

Please give everyone who wrote a fake UltraVision episode title a raise, these are all gold 😭

[✏ Tammy @Cowkitty]

The VisionQuest finale phenomenal, only second to Loki Season 2. Most importantly, my head cannon says it’s a love letter to Too Many Cooks.

Thank you @TerryMatalas. May your DeLoreans always run smooth and replacement parts remain available aplenty.

[mark @midsommark]

This will be the sixth time we have destroyed the DC cinematic universe, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.

[Di Huang @dihuang111]

Some of my friends think AI will make it possible to build AAA games in just a couple of months. I think that seriously underestimates how complex game development is.

I often point them to game designer Liz England’s “The Door Problem.” It’s a great example of how much thought goes into game design. Making a good game still takes hard work and experience.

#gamedev #game

[✏ Tammy @Cowkitty]

Also in Burbank

[Jared @jaredjct]

do people in Mississippi understand there are people on the New York City Subway right now going, “pick another protein? Sheeeeiiiiiii”

[cody @codycollier]

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[diogo grelo @diogovandijk]

#VisionQuest

[trash @trashh_dev]

declared a variable this morning by hand just to feel something

[Web Design Museum @WebDesignMuseum]

Happy 35th Birthday HTML tags!

On October 29, 1991, the internet pioneer, Tim Berners-Lee, published a document entitled HTML Tags.

The document contained a description of the first 18 HTML tags: <title>, <nextid>, <a>, <isindex>, <plaintext>, <listing>, <p>, <h1>…, <address>, <hp1>…, <dl>, <dt>, <dd>, <ul>, <li>,<menu> and <dir>.

[Cory Althoff @coryalthoff]

Unpopular opinion: your results with AI largely depend on how smart you are

[⁵⁄₉ @fiveoutofnine]

So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and https://t.co/QlOXb3COq3 went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.

[henry @trappedkrinkle]

what happened after Digger jumped off the oil rig

[Cristina A.C. @Cristina_AC_X]

The real tragedy of AI is that it makes the Dunning-Kruger effect worse.

It's good enough to make incompetent people overconfident, but not good enough to make competent people dramatically more efficient.

This was already a problem in society. Now the gap between confidence and competence is off the charts.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs https://t.co/CeCNYfhKSb

[J.MP4 @jd0tmp4]

I’m so glad someone else understands that Digger is the closest we’ve gotten to a studio picture being anything like End of Evangelion

[tab 🪏 @miauwortzik]

was anyone else seeing this or am i too welles pilled

[Tom Cruise @TomCruise]

“Level 4.”

[Fireside Alpha @firesidealpha]

Ben Affleck reveals he writes Python, understands convolutional neural networks, worked extensively with GPUs, and used his celebrity status to get private looks at Google and OpenAI’s video models

“I’ve always been kind of into computers since I was young. Then, when film started to move from analog film to digital, I became more interested in that aspect of it. The visual-effects workflow for many years has included machine learning, so I can write pretty shitty Python scripts and stuff like that.

“With convolutional neural networks, which were the precursors to what the transformer can do, which is much more computation simultaneously, you would do things like look at what’s called a tensor. That’s the numerical translation of a visual image in numbers, like the batch number, the frame number and the red, green and blue values of each pixel in each frame. It’s just that simple. That numeric is called a tensor.

“You’d use a convolutional neural network to identify patterns that reveal what’s called edge detection or feature extraction, which is identifying patterns well enough to know, this is where the window ledge is, so we can more easily take the green-screen image out and replace it with something.

“That was familiar to me early on because, prior to Artists Equity, I had a small visual-effects company. I’ve worked with GPUs a lot too. The visual-effects guys said, ‘Hey, you should see. There are a couple: Google and this other company, OpenAI, are doing really interesting stuff with transformers in video.’

“I’ve learned that I can actually just call up and go, ‘Hey, it’s Ben Affleck. Can I come see what you’re doing?’ Sometimes people say yes, to my astonishment.”