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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 2h

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 4h

just found out npm didn't email some people until close of business on monday, about changes they made on monday

and those changes include a 7-day-lifetime token for installing private packages in CI

what on earth is going on in there

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 4h

incredible

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 4h

they emailed you yesterday about a change that went into effect the day before? what on earth is going on in there

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 4h

and you still have to do your normal tax return

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 4h

it's cool that our governments are trying to criminalise digital privacy instead of the machine that destroys information

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 4h

you could literally put your totp key in a github secret and then generating codes from it is (checks my own impl) under 50 lines of code

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 4h

I think they mean on the client end, but it's not true there either. there is nothing non-automatable about "generate a number from a secret key and the current time". how do they think their phone makes the numbers

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 4h

the only use cases for this technology are to make all visual media untrustworthy, to manufacture evidence of crimes, and to synthesise illegal content. even the "benign" stuff it outputs is absolute nightmare fuel to such an extent that I will block on sight rather than look at it

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 4h

someone told me npm uses "tokens" instead of totp for automated publishing, because totp cannot be automated, but that is not true

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 5h

every single piece of content I have seen anyone post from it has made me want to go and live in the woods

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 5h

not even slightly joking when I say that sora should not exist. it should be crime for something like it to be made available without restriction to the general public. its servers should be destroyed with hammers

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 5h

skate story: they put tony hawk in the children of the sun engine

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 16h

on top of the fact it's pointless to watch a semblance of an artwork that communicates nothing at all. if you wanted to make art you would be making art

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 16h

I just fundamentally don't get why anyone would want this. if I had good ideas for movies then I would be making movies already. I'm not going to have a good time requesting movies from the slop factory

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 17h

yeah. pretty good. pretty good

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 21h

in my case I need to evaluate how well a new idea meshes with the rest of the system, and so seeing how to reasonably add it to an interpreter is useful

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 21h

programming is building conceptual models of things ! that's the entire thing !

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 21h

it's possible that part of my aversion to genAI comes from the fact that making little toy versions of things for my own benefit is such a core part of my programming practice that it just weirds me out to abandon the idea of building that sort of understanding of anything

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 21h

probably my most called upon relatively niche skill, just being able to whip up a tiny version of a thing to build and expand my understanding of something and do experiments on it

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 21h

it has been 0 days since I wrote a tiny interpreter to prototype some new database features. you will never regret writing a tiny interpreter

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 21h

seeing the film you all said was brilliant. this better not be an elaborate prank

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 21h

I heard recently than in british english it means "nearly" whereas in u.s. english it means "barely", although personally I have never noticed the latter usage. I do notice americans saying "most" instead of "almost" though

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 1d

ghostty doesn't seem to forget its windows' locations, but it *does* forget their sizes, and I feel like I've discovered a new uncertainty principle

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 1d

even if this stuff worked, the pitch is I'm supposed to drop hundreds of dollars a month to make a machine do something I'm already good at, and not very much faster, which is a terrible deal. but it's necessary for the business model to work, else the economy crashes

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