@[email protected] "I'm afraid your pavement is undergoing repairs, the catapult and hang glider replacement service is just over there."

Making coffee with a #DreamTheater album I've not listened to yet in the background, and had a moment of "wow, even by Dream Theater standards that's a weird time signature shift" before processing that the new note was actually the kettle boiling.

Anyway, this is mostly to let you know that Dream Theater and their instrumental spin off Liquid Tension Experiment exist if you didn't already. If you're into #prog metal that leans heavily into playing with #music enabled by insane levels of technical skill, they have you covered.

@[email protected] Pushover offers a command line client that lets you spam yourself with a mobile alert at the end of a long running process which can be surprisingly useful.

@[email protected] Ooof. You'd really hope that by the time you've collected enough money for that type of publicity you'd have read at least one article on the topic of your core claims. It's not like government identities making networks less safe is a new idea at this point.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Something I've wondered for many years since I first found out that many companies 'reward' spending your whole budget before the end of a financial period: what are senior management thinking/smoking when they issue policies that explicitly say 'I will financially reward you for spending more of the organization's money'?

@[email protected] @[email protected] TCP over cruise missile.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Or this torpedo: lwn.net/Articles/501536/

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"What's that printed on the nose cone?"

"The guidance software."

@[email protected] source code available on request?

Showing that despite having lived in Italy for five years his communication is still exceedingly British, my still in secondary school son just described getting a 10,000 line multi-month C++ hand rewrite of CUDA algorithms to SYCL merged into a reasonably well known open source project as "not as impressive as the numbers would initially indicate". #facepalm #OpenSource

@[email protected] ah, my apologies, I had misremembered. And that's disappointing on the phone experience side, I'm not a fan of phone calls. Especially as in the UK I had a non-zero number of occasions where I needed to ring on my wife's behalf because they weren't going to respond to the female voice with a foreign accent 😡

@[email protected] Unless that's now his UK experience? I have been away a few years now, I suppose

@[email protected] Yeah, joys of culture shock. In the UK, making sure everything is in writing is a way of prompting action by creating a paper trail. Here in Italy, and by what I've seen in the US, the call is needed to get action (although still suffers from making the whole conversation undocumented most of the time)

@[email protected] it seems a mostly US thing? As a Brit, I was slightly horrified at the number of US services that offered, or even suggested I paid more for, the option to have a robot phone me rather than send an email or text. But... why? Even if I was blind, I'd trust my text to speech over an auto dialer.

@[email protected] @[email protected] I think in both cases there's also a practicality aspect: having taught tech skills to primary school children I can tell you that a sizeable percentage (verging on a majority) have at least some access to devices where they are logged in as one of their parents to at least some services. More than 10% so far have devices they carry with them that are logged into a parents email account, meaning they can (if they know how) reset the password on most online services and then delete the evidence of having done so.

Assuming my experience isn't unusual, and I have no reason to believe it is, I cannot see any way to target restrictions by age that isn't nonsense; a sizeable proportion of children are browsing the internet with completely legitimate 'adult' accounts out of a combination of convenience and lack of knowledge already.

@[email protected] @[email protected] ...I think this is, unfortunately, the second time in as many days I've been wanting the "dislike - but agree" button.

@[email protected] "Give me money for my AI removal AI" is right up there on the offensively brazen stakes I have to admit.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Also, if a slight aside, I'd argue that from a formal point of view if finding out more information changes the answer you can't really claim you had complete information. That's more of a 'my Bayesian priors make it seem most likely that' territory 😊

@[email protected] @[email protected] Hmm. My turn to be on the "other" side: to claim something is true in a formal mathematical sense while not holding complete information seems straight up incorrect to me, even though I have no issue with it being used for "best guess with the information available" in general conversation.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Fair. I suppose I associate a level of intent with honesty, while (maths + programming background) I use true/false in a formal sense all the time. I wouldn't claim to be the one true arbiter of correct use of true however, and I would disagree with anyone claiming that the statement was a lie regardless of whether you consider it 'true'.