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It's 10 o'clock in the morning on October the 24th, if you want to know.

The macOS built-in curl, git, pip, python3, perl, ruby, and openssl all read /etc/ssl/cert.pem, which still has the emSign root, but they don't check revocation like Apple's Secure Transport libraries. This is, uh, a problem. git and pip especially. I added a short-term workaround to this page.

“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.... Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” — Dr. Gustave Gilbert, U.S. Military Chief Psychologist in the Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Diary

Albertans: It’s referendum day! The latest polls show the separatists have a chance to win if the rest of us stay home. You can vote today 9 am - 8 pm. Bring photo ID with your address. Find your voting location here: www.elections.ab.ca/current-elec... 🇨🇦

I can understand why the features of a supposed AI assistant are compelling. I kinda wanna try it too. But I know too much about how these things work. Do not give a cloud-based agent access to your shit. Especially one from the big tech companies.

We want everyone to be able to enjoy CONTROL Resonant totally fresh, and to help make that a reality we ask you to not share story details on your social media without clear warnings. We can't wait to hear what you all think when the game releases this Thursday! #CONTROLResonant

And a pony for every child and a chicken in every pot. Separatists will try to convince you that there's gold at the end of their rainbow. Don't be fooled. Here's what to expect in the weeks ahead. 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/theline/...

It’s time for Danielle Smith to get on Team Canada. Reinstate the ban on American booze. Call off the separatist referendum.  Let’s send a clear message of unity to the United States: Albertans are proud Canadians, and we stand with Team Canada.

RIP to a legend

Message to the world: the Strait of YerBooze is now closed. Perhaps permanently. I have been writing about the growing threat for the last 18 months. The war is here. Here's some thoughts on what must do as the rhetoric and menace ramps up. We've got this. charlieangus.substack.com/p/it-has-begun

. @jlisayoung.bsky.social pierces the separatist movement with this satire (or dystopia). lisayoung.substack.com/p/a-day-in-t...

Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79G...

The Province asked Albertans to complain about bike lanes. We’re asking a better question: How does freedom of mobility improve your life? Tell us what safe, affordable ways to walk, roll, bike and take transit make possible for you. Share your story: tally.so/r/Y5vvN0 #yegbike

MULDER [slapping down plane tix]: Hope you packed your rain coat, Scully. SCULLY: Seattle? Mulder it's the weekend, what- MULDER [handing her a file] Confirmed sightings, Scully. This is big SCULLY [eyes wide]: My God Mulder, what am I looking at here? MULDER: The locals are calling it.. JIMOTHY

I feel this in my bones

Programming isn't going away, it's splitting in two. Jessica Kerr on Still Burning: "If you want to build a bookshelf, that's a craft. But there's also IKEA." The code-crafting got commoditized. Knowing what to build didn't.

The stakes in this referendum are too high to sit it out. We need to build a solid case, not just for staying put, but for a stronger Alberta within a better Canada. That's why I'm joining other prominent conservatives in making the case for Alberta to lead, not leave. www.leadnotleave.ca

www.leadnotleave.ca

BEN: Then the Emperor has already won. You were our only hope. LUKE: Yoda spoke of another. BEN: Oh yeah he must’ve meant Ahsoka Tano, a fully trained warrior badass who’s alive just offscreen. She’s got two lightsabers LUKE: That’s badass. BEN: You only have one and you lost it

The good taxpayers of New York have given me a pair of Meta glasses because I am low vision disabled, and I seem to have used them more than a lot of people on here, so let me say a little about my experiences:

This is a good thread highlighting a really challenging set of tradeoffs @vicmsong.bsky.social has been reporting on for a while - gift link: www.theverge.com/column/78177...

Don’t forget the basic research that made it all possible. Ozempuc originally comes from discoveries from Gila monster venom. Let’s stop the attacks on basic research, and enable the discoveries of the future. SamForNJ.org

I'm about halfway through and liking it so far!

Any Albertan who had their personal information stolen through the Elections Alberta/separatist data theft should contact the federal privacy commissioner and demand an investigation. You cannot put your faith in any Alberta provincial body at this time. www.priv.gc.ca/en/contact-t...

It has been a week since the public found out about one of the largest personal data leaks in Canadian history. Calls to *do something* are getting louder. Beyond calling a public inquiry, there are eight (8) things the Government of Alberta could do now to begin restoring trust.👇

finally, perspective grid knowledge will be useful irl

People be talking about EVs today and that's like my whole thing so here's what I've identified as The Problem: The idea of being inconvenienced AT ALL overrides the average person's ability to consider whether a small inconvenience in one context might be outweighed by upsides in other contexts.

it's honestly so funny we figured out how to make matrix math so powerful it damages your brain to read the result of the calculation. from that perspective its an incredibly funny result.

caves of qud: dark calculus you: this is silly the real world: these matrix multiplications cause measurable brain damage

This is something I worry about with all kinds of auto-notes. On the one hand, being in the moment and not having to worry about note-taking yourself is useful! But what do you lose when someone or something else is taking the notes? substack.com/inbox/post/1... via @biblioracle.bsky.social

passkey is imho one of the most important security developments that touch consumers and also one of the worst consumer rollouts i ever witnessed because every company involved treats everything like an enterprise customer solution

🎙️ Agenda @emilybache.com — Technical Coaching as a Career Yoan Thirion — Outside-In Discovery Bhaskar Bharat Sawant — The Hidden Cost of "Just One More Fix" @raymyers.bsky.social — AI Hates Legacy Code 👥 Open-space sessions if you prefer interactive discussions www.eventbrite.com/e/mendercon-...

Attempted Beef Bourguignon, came out pretty well but I forgot to get mushrooms.

This is Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen’s mission patch for the Artemis II mission, painted by Sagkeeng First Nation artist Henry Guimond. You can read more about it here. In a world full of atrocities I’m moved that Canadians are taking part in science & hope. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

slop is something that takes more human effort to consume than it took to produce. When my coworker sends me raw Gemini output he’s not expressing his freedom to create, he’s disrespecting the value of my time

I really enjoyed the book and am looking forward to seeing the movie this weekend! 🍿

I'd also like to nominate "SPECS OFFENDERS". Thank you, I yield my time.

Anthropic has Claude write a compiler. www.anthropic.com/engineering/... I'm reminded of Ken Thompson's paper, Reflections on Trusting Trust. users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.... I don't know where I'm going with this, other than having to consider the ever increasing need to manage security risks.

TIL how to use jless to quickly navigate large JSON documents, find things, copy values out, and so on. It's pretty handy, check it out: jless.io

--and add in a few cross site tracking pixels, you can profile people SCARILY well. Stop using Google search and block the tracking pixels and the coincidences stop, isn't that funny

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If Bilbo had Chat GPT