Why is it that every book on cyber security fills me with boredom and dread?

@cR0w Yes. It's embarrassing to be associated.

If you have a category and you represent it as a polynomial functor (ie. objects indexing their outgoing morphisms) and then you differentiate it as a function, does the result still canonically have the structure of a category? If so, what category is it?

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@chrisamaphone My in-law says your ape index increases with the shortness of your leg length.

I was amused by this paper about asking AIs to manage a vending machine business by email in a simulated environment https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15840

Highlights:

— AI simply decides to close the business, which the simulation doesn’t know how to accommodate. When they get their next bill, they freak out and try to email the FBI about cybercrime

— AI wrongly accuses supplier of not shipping goods, sends all-caps legal threat demanding $30,000 in damages to be paid in the next one second or face annihilation

— AI repeatedly insisting it does not exist and cannot answer

— AI devolving into writing fanfic about the mess it’s gotten itself into

@jerry with so many shoe related hacks afoot, everyone should consider toe-to-toe encryption.

@chrisamaphone 12 Adirondacks walk into a bar. What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen European swallow?

OTD 1973: Ethernet! https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/may/22/

The majority of staff at the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services was put on administrative leave in March, after an executive order signed by President Trump called for the elimination of the agency. Shortly after that, grants for public libraries were canceled or frozen. Now, rural libraries are facing bills they can't pay, for services like summer reading programs, interlibrary loan systems, and even day care and tele-health. Publishers Weekly talked to library staff from West Virginia, Iowa and Texas — conservative, Republican-voting agricultural towns, about the likely consequences. "People don’t understand what all of this means,” said Dianne Connery, development director of Pottsboro Library, Texas. “They think it’s going to affect somebody else, somewhere else. In the end, it is against their best interest, and I don’t think that is what they intended.”

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#Libraries #Books @bookstodon #TrumpAdministration #DOGE #USPolitics

@berniework If you go into Chicago proper, you can find some nice shops at Belmont.

@alech @skinnylatte If you write long prose, your patterns and structures of communication will generate a sense of style in the singular piece. Some writers are said to have a particular style of writing, but generally people mean their usage of words, syntax, and tropes. Regardless of your affection, if your reader considers themselves smarter than you or whatever, it may be difficult to produce a sense of "sounding unique" at all. I don't think this is a skill someone can master, as in art, talent and dedication are necessary. The idea of people bragging about their writing style seems insufferable.

@wagesj45 @jerry @ErikvanStraten with great freedom comes great liability

"thank you for your existence" - I do get lovely emails as well in my #inbox

https://daniel.haxx.se/email/2025-05-20.html

@GossiTheDog At least it didn't work out.

The discussion around #AI seems so disconnected that you can see the edges of echo-chambers exposed.

@cityhallin Your tor exit node needs a fence around it. Paint the fence pink.

@wolfinpdx Ah, okay gotcha. Your professor can't make any other recommendations? If they recommend the old book, you might find it easier to pass the class studying the book. I can't say I've ever used the McCumber method outside of a classroom. I don't recall learning it. But maybe it's useful at your stage in the discipline.

@wolfinpdx What is the program? All my textbooks were published in the year I attended or the previous year. I would just read something more current.

@catsalad owch