Samsung Magician Dan Lyke / comment 0
A good rant about a crappy tool for setting passwords in SSD encryption, or something? Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two Recovery Mode reboots to uninstall.
Read down to where they embedded Electron to show a pie chart. And then down to where they embedded 150 PNGs for a "health good" animation.
Tahoe update Dan Lyke / comment 0
What I wanted for a MacOS Tahoe 16.4 update: performance, stability, security, better handling of switches disabling "Liquid Glass", square corners...
What I got: 🧑🩰
(p²-1) % 24 == 0 Dan Lyke / comment 0
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @shayman@cosocial.ca
TIL: For any prime number p >= 5, p²-1 is divisible by 24.
That's cool.
Isn't it?
Yes it is.
Steve Hayman 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @shayman@cosocial.ca
Informal proof that for a prime p >=5, p²-1 must be a multiple of 24.
p²-1 = (p-1)(p+1)
p-1, p, p+1 are three consecutive integers. One of them must be divisible by 3 - and it can't be p, because p is prime. So either p-1 or p+1 is a multiple of 3.
Also, p is odd, so p-1 and p+1 are both even - and one or the other must be divisible by 4. One is a multiple of 2, the other of 4.
So the product of p-1 and p+1 has factors of 2, 3 and 4, and must be a multiple of 2*3*4 =24.
axios supply chain attack social engineering Dan Lyke / comment 0
Simon Willison has a link to the axios npm supply chain compromise post-mortem, including Jayson Saayman's description of how the social engineering worked.
tl;dr: extremely real looking contact with a company that eventually ended up as a Microsoft Teams meeting, that complained that some component was out of date, update process on that component was the compromise.
Nota plagiarism Dan Lyke / comment 0
Because better solutions for local (and, yes, national and international) news are on my radar: An AI company set out to fix news deserts. Instead, it copied local journalists’ work
Nota shut down its news sites after Axios and Poynter found dozens of plagiarized quotes, phrases and photos
I mean, it's an AI company, so of course it didn't actuall "set out to fix news deserts", it set out to exploit a human desire to fix news deserts, and of course it fucked over the actual reporters.
Reminder to mobile email client Dan Lyke / comment 1
Reminder to mobile email client developers: Often people have urgent tasks to do with their phone. Nobody wants to take your five minute tour of new features when they're trying to find a login code because a friend is helping them solve their Netflix billing issue after a square dance.
Assholes.
Listening to Who Killed Avril Dan Lyke / comment 0
Listening to "Who Killed Avril Lavigne?" on the walk to work this morning, and... it's super dumb in a good way. If you need a pop-punk flashback to the '90s made by a bunch of people who are obviously friends and having fun...
Huh Don't know how I've missed this Dan Lyke / comment 0
Huh. Don't know how I've missed this "Danger! Do not operate! Man on line." tag dated 12/14/24 on this pole that I've walked past a gazillion times, but I hope dude isn't still up there somewhere, he's gotta be getting thirsty.
Also, "man on line", what century are we in again?
Finally figured out my Deckset issue Dan Lyke / comment 0
Finally figured out my Deckset issue. As a competent text editor user, I am really digging the trend of "all configuration happens in text files" and "tools do one thing, well."
Build systems to reinforce System 1 use Dan Lyke / comment 0
Tri-System Theory is not a warning about AI’s dangers but a recognition of System 3’s psychological presence. We do not merely use AI; we think with it. In doing so, we must ask new questions: What happens when our judgments are shaped by minds not our own? What becomes of intuition and effort when a generative, artificial partner stands ready to answer? How do we preserve agency, reflection, and autonomy in a world where users engage in cognitive surrender?
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/yk25n_v1
Via Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social who characterized it as:
The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender.
Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information.
Based on an ancient Cooks Illustrated Dan Lyke / comment 0
Based on an ancient Cooks Illustrated article, I've been making hash browns by squeezing the grated potatoes, letting the juice sit, pouring off the water and re-incorporating the starch.
(Cook 9 minutes per side, medium heat, plenty of fat.)
I just did my first batch by squeezing and rinsing and discarding the starch, and way crispier!
Happy Skeletons Dan Lyke / comment 0
There is some debate over the meaning of the text that’s paired with the recumbent skeleton. The writer İlber Ortaylı reads it as, “You get the pleasure of the food you eat hastily with death,” and believes that the mosaic was in a soup kitchen rather than a rich person’s dining room. But in a thorough post by Livius on The History Blog, they argue that a skeleton “partying with [the Romans] in the dining room” is consistent with the art at the time in which Kara dated it. The mosaic would’ve been a reminder that life is fleeting—so imbibe the wine, eat the bread, and enjoy it while you can.
Deskset mavens I think I'm loving Dan Lyke / comment 0
Found it! Those two images, I didn't have a blank line before the image specifier.
Deskset mavens: I think I'm loving it, except that I have two B&W images from the
Library of Congress that I cannot get it to display at a reasonable size, even when I
screengrab for them, or convert from TIFF with Image Magick or GIMP.
Any help?