It’s December already? When did that happen?

Basically Dan Olsen’s entire channel - lots of good stuff

RAGS shadow data extraction from LLMs - a horror movie for anyone who cares about data security in a world where people/organisations use LLMs

Bile

Never question the customers’ reasons for buying.

And then one day you have kids, and they innocently put on Disney’s Robin Hood…

At least there’s a chance to warranty it. If you buy the knockoff stuff, you can go back a month later and that manufacturer no longer exists under that name so they have no responsibility to service a warranty.

Hmm… I am a fan of this aesthetic so…

Hard to beat Darkher for dark and witchy. Incredible music in its own right as well.

But also…

Eivor Pålsdottir

Nyghtegale from the Green Knight

Amira Elfeky

Jolene via Joliet

Halfsleeper

Bulgarian choral music

Rïcïnn

Hetane

Linea Aspera

Lindy Fay Hella is hella fey. (Sorry)

Lamb has something to them that feels right too.

Kati Ran of course.

Noeta

The Negative Harmony cover of Maneater though lots of negative harmony covers could angle toward that uncanny valley feeling of illusionists.

Something in the Dark

Cloak of Feathers for something more metalic

Alice Francis if she’s a bit cocky

Kovacs has a touch of spooky in her jazzy

The big problem with cheap Chinese knockoff crap isn’t that it’s crap, but that it’s that it’s highly variable. With some things, who cares? Getting a spatula for half price that will, even at the worst quality, do basically the same job and last years, won’t be a problem. Getting a badly made computer component that fries some other component, or a storage drive that craps out after 6 months and takes your data with it, is a different matter. You won’t have any recourse. Same with cheap batteries that either ruin the experience by needing constant charging or by being actually unsafe. QA is expensive, but it’s worth it when the object is also innately expensive.

Uh… I was just thinking it was strange because you, being a girl, can stare at women more freely because they won’t think you want to sexually assault them?

The individual poster may or may not be real, but anti-union ‘training’ and propaganda are definitely real.

I think of them like food content warnings for non-lethal allergies, like lactose intolerance. It’s a kindness to have a warning that helps people avoid shitting their pants. However, we all need to recognize that it is just that, a kindness. There is an inherent risk when someone says ‘hey, taste this.’ If you have a high sensitivity, you have a responsibility for self-care through self-denial. If you were uncertain if a food contained something to which you had an extreme sensitivity, you’d say ‘no, thank you.’ Same holds true for the whole world of media. You can hope for kindness, and put in the effort give it to others where you will, but don’t trust that it will always be given to you because it is an extra effort.

Haven’t used it but I’ve heard of cryptomator.

Freedombox but with more modern and popular apps? I was just thinking about this kind of thing.

It’d need a bit of reinforcement, but maybe a lazy Susan?

Yeah. I’m hoping to go mostly self-hosted.

HR is the bane of all forms of success, both for companies and people.

I think I understand your meaning. However, if everyone is insane because they are blind to reality, does it matter that educated people are too? And if those who study deeply on something don’t actually shrink their baseline awareness, (learning mechanical engineering doesn’t make you less able to comprehend text, grow a garden, ride a bike, etc.) even if they only reduce their blindness in a narrow area, they are less blind/insane than the average person who is blind to most/all of the same things as the expert but also blind to the things the expert has studied.

Now, there is an effect where someone may see how much more sane the expert is and expect that the experts narrow knowledge will make them also saner in some other area where they are just as blind as anyone else. This is a big problem in our world because you get people who think they know how to run the world because they know how to write a few lines of code. The trick is, this is a blindness shared by almost all people, not just experts. The expert in chemistry isn’t more likely to mismanage a school than the average person, but both are more likely to fail than an expert in education.

It’s not $5. There’s a tap in all our pockets, pipelessly connected to the Heidelberg Tun of free wine that comes in all colours, types, and flavors.

I have a similar one but these days I’m wanting something smaller. The spring slide on this style means the minimum size is rather large.

Clearly made by a junior. Any senior developer knows users are a bunch of animals.