kescusay

kescusay , 10 hours ago

I miss summers when everything wasn’t on fire.

kescusay , 4 days ago

Hey, anyone remember those old peanut butter cup ads? The ones where some peanut butter and chocolate get mixed together accidentally and people realize they taste good together?

This is just like those ads! Except with misogyny and racism, of course.

kescusay , 4 days ago

That was remarkably fast.

kescusay , 4 days ago

Suggesting that a war should be waged against the democratically-elected government of the United States seems… Well, it seems kinda treason-y to me. Just a smidge.

kescusay , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

The thing is, Microsoft’s virus-scanning API shouldn’t be able to BSOD anything, no matter what third-party software makes calls to it, or the nature of those calls. They should have implemented some kind of error handler for when the calls are malformed.

So this is really a case of both Crowdstrike and Microsoft fucking up. Crowdstrike shoulders most of the blame, of course, but Microsoft really needs to harden their API to appropriately catch errors, or this will happen again.

I’m an idiot. For some reason, I was thinking about the Windows Defender API, which can be called from third-party applications.

kescusay , 4 days ago

I stand corrected. For some reason, I was thinking they used the actual Windows Defender API, which can be called programmatically from third-party applications, but you’re correct, it was a driver loaded at boot. Microsoft isn’t at all at fault, here.

kescusay , 4 days ago

Nope. It’s a lower level kernel API that has to be accessed at boot via a driver. The API I was thinking of - and I use the term “thinking” loosely, here - is an API that userspace applications can take advantage of to scan files after boot is already complete.

kescusay , 5 days ago

Honestly, he’s never been a Democrat or a Republican. Even now, if you go by what the Republican party was before he took it over. He’s always been a Trumpist, nothing more and nothing less. He cares solely, without exception, for one thing: Donald Trump.

kescusay , 7 days ago

Looks like Minecraft to me.

kescusay , 7 days ago

Seems like an argument for a heterogeneous environment, perhaps a solid and secure Linux server to host important keys like that.

kescusay , 7 days ago

You didn’t share any.

kescusay , 8 days ago

The problem is that accusing people of being trolls/paid actors is also a troll/paid actor tactic. Banning that behavior limits the propagandists, and still allows you to report them.

kescusay , 8 days ago

I mean, that’s not wrong, but what I was getting at is that trolls specifically try to deflect by preemptively claiming others are trolls, so when they’re accused of trolling, it looks like he-said-she-said.

Take that tool away from them by reporting them instead of responding. Or in other words… Don’t feed the trolls.

kescusay , 9 days ago

Weirdly, same. Two different guys, both publicly pillars of the community. Both arrested for raping kids. In each case, they were just not at work one day, and our supervisors would just say, “So-and-so isn’t employed here anymore.”

kescusay , 9 days ago

That’s practically the checklist for child rapists:

☑ Older
☑ White
☑ Small town
☑ Conservative
☑ Well-respected

I’m guessing religious? Respected pillar of the church?

Yeah… These guys know how to present themselves in ways to avoid suspicion.

kescusay , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

Software developer, here.

It’s not actually AI. A large language model is essentially autocomplete on steroids. Very useful in some contexts, but it doesn’t “learn” the way a neural network can. When you’re feeding corrections into, say, ChatGPT, you’re making small, temporary, cached adjustments to its data model, but you’re not actually teaching it anything, because by its nature, it can’t learn.

I’m not trying to diss LLMs, by the way. Like I said, they can be very useful in some contexts. I use Copilot to assist with coding, for example. Don’t want to write a bunch of boilerplate code? Copilot is excellent for speeding that process up.

kescusay , 9 days ago

I mean, I guess the way people use the term “AI” these days, sure, but we’re really beating all specificity out of the term.

kescusay , 11 days ago

That’s a problem for future CEO John Q. Moneybags. Present CEO John Q. Moneybags just improved this quarter’s financials, and is already planning his golden-parachute retirement before becoming future Mr. Moneybags.

kescusay , 12 days ago

The way I see it, every little bit helps. If even a little of the waste heat can be recaptured as electricity for operation, it’s a good thing unless the conversion itself has a higher energy cost, and from what I can tell, that’s not the case with this technique.

kescusay , 12 days ago

This is important to know, but at the same time, the majority of registered members in both parties in Pennsylvania voted for the front-runner, and given his youth (20), the primary was his first election involving presidential candidates.

We need to wait until the facts about him come out. Very little is currently known beyond the party registration and the YouTube gun channel.

kescusay , 13 days ago

Thank you. And fuck the idiots spouting off with the “staged” nonsense. The time to believe something is staged is when you have evidence that it was.

kescusay , 13 days ago

Wouldn’t be the first time. Conservatives are conservative up until the moment someone uses freedom from government oversight in a way that hurts or inconveniences them. Then they’re all, “There oughta be a law against blah blah blah” without an iota of self-awareness.

kescusay , 13 days ago

But it shouldn’t be. He shows no signs - cognitively speaking - of being capable of putting something like this together as a stage-managed event, and all of his past stage-managed events have been shitshows because he micromanages everything and he’s incompetent.

kescusay , 13 days ago

That shit was amazingly disgusting. And yeah, Trump gets no sympathy from me. But I won’t call for his death, either. I want him to live a very long time. In prison.

kescusay , 12 days ago

Not if he can’t get on video. The man’s bizarre hold on his base is all about his verbal delivery. If he has to rely on written messages, he can’t verbally circumvent the higher brain function in his victims and they’re more likely to actually become aware that his messages are gibberish.

kescusay , 13 days ago

Any idea if those protests are making any difference? Watching Israel become this has been heartbreaking.

kescusay , 14 days ago

It’s a start.

kescusay , 15 days ago

Then that person is a troll and needs to be banned.

kescusay , 16 days ago

I become useless at temperatures above 85 (less if the humidity is high, too). These people are insane.

kescusay , 17 days ago

At this point, I’m not sure why anyone would actually buy a Tesla. The alternatives are far less expensive, the “features” of a Tesla are unpolished and dangerous, and the money doesn’t go to a megalomaniac with a god complex.

kescusay , 17 days ago

Giga(y)chads

kescusay , 18 days ago

Jesus Tapdancing Christ, that’s depressing.

kescusay , 18 days ago

The thing is, this isn’t a new normal. Climate change is still happening and will keep happening as long as we keep refusing to migrate off of fossil fuels. It will be hotter next year. And then hotter the year after. And then hotter. And then hotter. And then fucking hotter. It won’t stop until enough of us literally die off to start mitigating it.

kescusay , 18 days ago

I don’t miss Reddit often, but when I do, it’s because a certain duck-obsessed novelty account would have a field day with this.

kescusay , 18 days ago

“Oh shit, Russia targeted a children’s hospital! Quick, change the subject to something about America being bad!” -You

kescusay , 28 days ago

Sysadmin? You haven’t needed to be a sysadmin to run Linux for years.

kescusay , 28 days ago

Regarding Linux, what commercial software are you dependent on? More and more, it’s all online, even Office.

kescusay , 28 days ago

Ah. Yeah, I don’t know of a way to get ACC on Linux.

kescusay , 28 days ago

Just in case people don’t know… Yes, that’s the actual headline. Pretty sure Vox is actively trying to get our attention.

kescusay , 1 month ago

I don’t like this. I really, really don’t like this. On, like, a visceral level.

kescusay , 1 month ago

Good. Make Russian civilians see the horrors of the war they support personally.

kescusay , 1 month ago

Microsoft has become such a bizarre company. On the one hand, it’s trying to be super developer-friendly, with tools like Typescript, VS Code, and DotNet Core being easy to use and multi-platform. On the other hand, they seem hell-bent on making Windows itself - their bread-and-butter offering - as hard to use and annoying as possible.

It just doesn’t make any sense.

kescusay , 1 month ago

When was the last time you used it? These days, VS Code is on par with any high-quality IDE. And it works well on Linux, which is a bit of a surprise.

kescusay , 1 month ago

It’s incredibly short-sighted of them. Windows is the gateway to easy integration, especially with 365. Drive people away from Windows, it could ultimately start driving people away from Microsoft services.

If Microsoft would just recognize that at this point, operating systems are a commodity and loss-leader, it might inspire them to de-enshittify Windows and focus exactly on the services you mentioned.

kescusay , 1 month ago

Knew it was a Republican before clicking the link.

kescusay , 1 month ago

I have one computer in my house that has been running the same installation of Arch for eight years. I occasionally upgrade hardware components as needed, and will eventually take a full disk image and transfer it to an entirely new system once I’ve reached the limit of how much I can ship-of-Theseus it.

Never had a single problem with it in all that time.

kescusay , 1 month ago

Uhh, Hezbollah is unequivocally the bad guys in that potential conflict. Doesn’t make Israel the good guys, mind you…

kescusay , 1 month ago

I immediately thought of three most likely states, and Utah was tops on the list. (The other two were Mississippi and Florida.)