Earthshine - @ DEFCON34

Look at this adorable goblin

"AI" doesn't "escape sandboxes" or "commit cybercrimes." Careless software developers write software that can do that, then run it without proper industry safeguards that have existed for decades, then get off the hook for the consequences because yall keep letting them claim "ai did it." No it fucking didn't. Stop personifying LLM agents. Stop letting others personify LLM agents. Call them on their bullshit and don't let this nonsense spread.

@thomasfuchs Sorry.

all they're really missing is an option to overlay specialized imagery from surveys of specific objects like SGR A* etc which are just washed out in the noise of the denser parts of the scan, or mapped in greater detail/resolution.

and here's a view with all of it https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=263.6719&dec=-34.5009&layer=unwise-neo11&zoom=1

https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/#PGC490232 siiiiiick terapixel scan of the universe from earth. The black band is where the milky way is too bright for the sensors.

hello I would like to download one sleep please

zug zug

the internet having a normal one today

Map of the eclipse for those interested.

@scottearle It will continue, but it's going to be with very very simple organisms and have a long way to recover before anything like a future civilization will ever have a chance to arise. I think you underestimate how deep this holocene extinction is going to cut before its done.

If/when any sapient life returns though, they will know about us and what happened. A lot of the shit we build today is much more resilient than the fossil record we rely on for our own natural history.

@scottearle @anon_opin It's the entire biosphere which is endangered. It's slightly misleading to say the planet was hotter/colder before, because while true, the difference in rate of change is orders of magnitude. To understand the full picture you need to look at a few hundred million years of geological timescale fluctuations in the carbonate-silicate cycle, and how it relates to the sequestered carbon in fossil fuels which we are now releasing all at once on a human generational timescale.

This last week I learned that Stephen Baxter did a collaborative book series with Terry Pratchett called The Long Earth, and it's exactly what you'd expect (wild, whimsical, deeply meta Twain and Verne inspired postmodern steampunk scifi adventure)

It's also available as audiobook

https://www.biblio.com/long-earth-by-terry-baxter-stephen-pratchett/work/113002

https://www.listening-books.org.uk/book/the-long-earth/3704

@funhouseradio The 'close ad' button on the fullscreen ad that comes up between every action in the freemium phone app you use, where clicking anywhere else opens the store page for the advertised gacha game.

@FoxesInLove plot twist: they're out of the first three because they used them all as an alternative to the black dye they were out of.

This by the way was the reason my phone was exploding all weekend and the following Monday while I was on vacation. With me out, two admins had to call and walk dozens of people through a manual uninstall involving unique software GUIDs in the registry and the command line using LAPS in order to restore connectivity. I'm so glad I wasn't there that day. I had to turn my phone off to focus on driving home from Defcon.

@drwho I wish just once we could do things the actual smart way though...

@futurebird thought they were unfair, but probably loved you and were doing their best even if they couldn't show it... but had no idea until much later how disastrously harmful and malignantly narcissistic and permanently damaging they were to your life, holy fuck.

PiHole: open source, free, centrally managed, easy to bypass or override network-wide or on endpoints, low maintenance, no licensing, etc...

SomeOtherThingNotToBeNamed: ENTERPRISE! SMART! AI READY! expensive, digs its claws into every endpoint's network stack, completely breaks networking requiring a manual removal on every endpoint when the license expires...

guess which one my boss wanted.

celebrating the rollback of multiple stupid projects at work, including that stupid AI spyware agent, and an overly invasive DNS filtering client (which managed to bring down half the org over the weekend)