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I like fiddling with 1s and 0s. My Perforce-related account: @p4lester

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@lauriewired @h0mbre_ Considering how much a browser does and how rapidly they changes it doesn’t surprise me. All these recent 0days is a good reminder to use separate device/account/browser for important stuff.

[anul agarwal @anulagarwal]

i saw a mouse with an X-shaped battery compartment.

first thought: this is stupid - who designed it?

5 seconds later: oh.

10 seconds later: OHHH!

the X slot fits an AA or an AAA battery - whichever you've got lying around.

the part most people miss is that the shape also makes it physically impossible to load both at once.

there is no warning label, no instructions and no way to screw it up.
the geometry does the thinking for you.

japanese has a word for this.
poka-yoke = "mistake-proofing."

the product refuses your stupidity before you can offer it.

i wish more things worked like this.

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LSM (Linux Security Module) was proposed and implemented after NSA donated SELinux to the project. Turns out it’s a pretty neat tool to implement security policies live. There are some examples in response to the recent 0day exploits: https://t.co/DEESwxmH3p

[Elara Grace @ElaraGrace_AI]

🚨Just IN: If you've used ChatGPT for writing or brainstorming in the last 6 months, your creative ability may already be permanently damaged.

A controlled experiment just proved the effect doesn't reverse when you stop using it.

3,302 creative ideas. 61 people. 30 days of tracking.

Researchers split students into two groups. Half used ChatGPT for creative tasks. Half worked alone. For five days, the ChatGPT group outperformed on every metric. Higher scores. More ideas. Better output. AI was making them better.

Then day 7. ChatGPT removed. Every creativity gain vanished overnight. Crashed to baseline. Zero lasting improvement.

But that's not the bad part.

ChatGPT users' ideas became increasingly identical to each other over time. Same content. Same structure. Same phrasing. The researchers called it homogenization. Everyone using ChatGPT started producing the same ideas wearing different clothes.

When ChatGPT was removed, the creativity boost disappeared -- but the homogenization stayed. 30 days later, same result. Their creative range had been permanently compressed.

Five days of use. Permanent damage 30 days later.

A separate trial confirmed it. 120 students. 45-day surprise test. ChatGPT users scored 57.5%. Traditional learners scored 68.5%. AI reduces cognitive effort. Less effort means weaker encoding. Weaker encoding means less creative raw material.

You're not renting a productivity boost. You're financing it with your originality.

The interest rate is permanent.

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Would it be nice if the last few years were an April Fool’s joke?

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PSA: Take your keyboard battery out if you only use it in wired mode! Just took mine out - indeed slightly swollen!
https://t.co/EeifmyUs6B

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@youkhna Do we have all the binary blobs needed to make it work with lineageOS etc when software support ends?

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@AlboMP Getting educated shouldn’t bring financial ruin to anyone. It didn’t happen with you, it should not happen to next generations. #auspol

[Mark Ogge @MarkOgge]

“Watt is to meet with @LEANAustralia, an influential grassroots organisation within the Labor party, on Thursday night after his visit this week to WA.”

@LEANAustralia if Watt approves 4.3 BILLION TONNES of emissions, will you condemn @AustralianLabor ?

https://t.co/nRrgRKGV9c

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This gives them rights to exploit future generations until 2070. We have no rights to sell our grandchildren like this! 🥹

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So dental in Medicare is controversial while this is ok? Well done Australia!

[Mark Ogge @MarkOgge]

Approving this would be the greatest giveaway of Australia’s natural resources ever.

$200 billion +of Australia’s gas given royalty free to Woodside.

It is against Australia’s national interest.

https://t.co/nRrgRKGV9c

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(AI bits continued)
- vLLM help scaling inferencing and serving.
- Agentic AI (agents that can use tools).

https://t.co/QTvkiY5OlY

5/5

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Redhat Summit Day 1 Summary

Highlights:
- RHEL 10 goes GA - uploading to SAC for all to test it out.
- Image mode - basically runs everything as containers with security patching.
- FIPS validation made easier.
- (extra cost) 90 days SLA for CVE fixes.

1/x

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Lots of AI bits that I might get wrong:
- llm-d - support distributing inferrence requests across multiple accelerators.
- Same AI training pipeline from dev to deployment.
- Cross cloud/on perm/accelerators support.
- Lots of open source AI talk - multi-pretrained models.

4/x

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@nixcraft I think you get the order wrong @nixcraft. First you build a k8s cluster at home, then you figured you need therapy but have no time to do so as something is broken 😂

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@UbaldoHervas @psluaces This++

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No more CVEs, no worries right? Right?? 🤪

[Tib3rius @0xTib3rius]

BREAKING.

From a reliable source. MITRE support for the CVE program is due to expire tomorrow. The attached letter was sent out to CVE Board Members.

[Ozzy Man Reviews @OzzyManReviews]

Pitching my policies if I was running as prime minister to our prime minister 🔊 #australia #auspol full 50 minute video with less mucking around is on YT. Cheers. #australia