Lmst

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someone made a TOTP app for PalmOS 2 and up in 2024. heroic

https://palmdb.net/app/totp-authenticator

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I identified with that famed XKCD cartoon for too long. Drawing a new panel myself made it easier to manifest another way of being.

A cartoon panel with a stick figure drawing of a person sitting on a bed. A dialogue is carried out between this person and a person not visible in the panel.

Person 1 (outside the panel): Are you already in bed?
Person 2 (sitting on bed): Yes.
Person 1: I thought someone was wrong on the internet?
Person 2: Lots. But it turns out I have more space for love when I don’t fight. – I’ll write something educational tomorrow. – Are you coming?

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@eniko
Tech bros really thought, "We haven't had an immense, incomprehensible force accidentally wander through our reality, completely unthinking, unfeeling, and/or uncaring as to the human suffering it leaves in its wake... and that's a shame. Let's create that ourselves."

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AI is an eldritch horror. it is an incomprehensibly vast being but without physical form, not truly alive or aware of anything, though it consumes human knowledge and spits out a perversion of it. those who get too close to it are driven mad, and worship it as a deity that will lead them to salvation, even though it is not even aware of them and will lead them to destruction instead

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A modified YouTube thumbnail photo of Adrian digital basement but the image on the screen shows two fursuiters, a fursuit paw replacing the hand and the text says

Will a fursuit solve all my issues?

@tilton "OK, wise guy, what's this, then?"

*holds up a record made of shellac*

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Today's nostalgia bomb: Separate Ways as (animated to be) performed by The Rockoons (but actually performed by Journey).

https://youtu.be/lIZJzlrT1G8?si=pAB3TjeWNnFhdHJm

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@GossiTheDog it's even worse than that. They're fucking with this bullshit in the .NET ecosystem, and pushing 'vibe coding' hard.

Literally over a decade of effort to make it open, accessible, building rapport with numerous communities, and untold hours proving .NET's real worth.

This isn't just customer code; this is literally an entire ecosystem impacting over a hundred million users.

Just getting pissed right down the drain.

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If you want an lol - Microsoft have implemented Copilot on its own GitHub repos and it’s a clusterfuck, you can see MS engineers publicly begging Copilot to work.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1krttqo/my_new_hobby_watching_ai_slowly_drive_microsoft/

@erkhyan "Riddle me this, Batman: What do you call someone who believes Jesus of Nazareth to be the messiah?"
"Uh..."
"You call them a Christian, dumbass."

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Gee! It sure is boring around here

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Standard "regular end station" Ethernet speed over time:

1990s: 10mbps
2000s: 100mbps
2010s: 1000mbps
2020s: 1000mbps

We kinda stalled, didn't we? 10gbps is still really pricey, and 2.5gbps is still considered "exotic" even though the cost of the PHYs has come way down.

WTF happened?

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Please share this widely. Including infosec. exchange. These assholes deserve to be named and shamed.

I'm a female cybersecurity professor now struggling for rent money survival and this asshole makes a rape "joke" (TW rape "joke") when I dare ask for compensation for tech reviewing and editing a book.

BTW, my commercial publishing experience is way more extensive than this asshole's. Tech reviewers get set fees for tech editing books (O'Reilly would pay me $300) and every editor I have ever worked with is either a freelancer paid set fees or a salaried employee.

Getting a speculative tiny cut from an author's speaking fees in the distant future was never the norm.

(Continued...)

Kim Crawley in (She/Her)• 11:15 AM
I also need to discuss my compensation.
Please.
There is an NDA that protects you, but no compensation
agreement.
Some upfront compensation would be great for paying
bills. I'm willing to give up future royalties and the like.
I work much better with food in my kitchen.
NEW
Ken Underhill, CCSK, CEH, CHFI in (He/Him)• 12:44 PM
This might hurt, but I'm going to give it to you both
straight with no lube...
If you've never done a book before, you dont really make
any money from the book. It can lead to things like
speaking engagements, course creation, etc over the long

Chip/Kim - It's possible you could pitch the book idea to a
publisher like Packt or Manning. If they pick up the book,
they would normally pay upfront royalties to the authors
and then you wouldn't get paid anything until they recoup
that money. They don't pay anything for book editing, so
Kim would need to be listed as an author.
That being said, from my experience with Packt, we got
like $200 upfront and then had to write the whole book
and go through all of their approvals before they paid
anything else. - It wasn't worth it. And the total royalty
was like $900 upfront and most of that came after a year
of writing.
If the goal is to put food on your table Kim, I hate to be
the dick here but this book is not going to be the way to
do it.
If Chip is fine being pimped out for speaking
engagements, then maybe you could do cold outreach to
book those and he gives you a cut.
1) One alternate route for cash (although probably a

2) Another route for you specifically Kim, is finding work
through the Cybersecurity marketing Society Slack group.
If you're not in there, just apply to join through their
website. Once in there, just mention your writing skills
and that you are looking for contract work to feed your
family right now. There's always someone that needs
some help, especially at the smaller startups. This is
probably your faster route to getting cashflow.
Bottom line for both of you, this book is not going to be a

cash cow in the near term at all and the only real way to
make money off this type of book is to leverage it into
speaking engagements and courses - but again those all
take at least 12 months to build up enough to where it
could theoretically pay the bills for either of you.
Kim Crawley in (She/ Her)• 3:37 PM
"If you've never done a book before, you don't really
make any money from the book. It can lead to things like
speaking engagements, course creation, etc over the long

speaking engagements and courses - but again those all
take at least 12 months to build up enough to where it
could theoretically pay the bills for either of you.
Kim Crawley in (she/Her)• 3:37 PM
"If you've never done a book before, you don't really
make any money from the book. It can lead to things like
speaking engagements, course creation, etc over the long
term."
I have written tons of books, including for major
publishers.
I don't know why you think I'm naive for expecting to be
paid for my labour.
If I'm not going to receive any money upfront, I'm
dropping out.
Frankly, it's insulting that you assumed I have never
written a book commercially.

Oh gee, what's this? A bunch of commerically published
books? Including an Amazon bestseller in its category?

books? Inluding an Amazon bestseller in its category?
https://www.amazon.com/stores/ Kim-Crawley/author/
BO8L723KHY
Not naive to expect money upfront. Especially since
staying housed greatly improves my ability to work.

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Dragon.

Send toot.

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The builder.ai story is wild. Microsoft put almost half a billion dollars into them (and lost it all). Everything crumbled when the Financial Times did a tiny amount of research on them, and realised their accounts were signed off a friend of the CEO. As soon as they hired a real auditor, they collapsed.

https://sifted.eu/articles/builder-ai-auditor-founder-news

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Another one bites the dust https://www.ft.com/content/9fdb4e2b-93ea-436d-92e5-fa76ee786caa

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Holey sheet.

This is in Budapest.

Holey sheet. :blobfoxhyper:

Two progress pride flags flying in front of one of Budapest's IKEA stores

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Another reason to not use ChatGPT: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DELETE anything BY COURT ORDER. (Straight up violation of GDPR if they're doing this outside the USA, BTW.)
https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/114530814476876129

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Your future doctor is using ChatGPT to pass medical school, so you better start riding a bike and eating healthy now.

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