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trying not to engage in conspiracy theory belief now that my homepod 1s have *this week* after years of faithful service started to become more flaky...

(the homepod 1s are notoriously flaky, i am surprised mine lasted this long.)

TIL i am like the last person on the internet to learn about gamazda

today would have been dan kaminsky's birthday. miss him.

"everybody knows" that deepfakes are harmful.

however i've not seen any evidence whatsoever that deepfakes can or have harmed anyone.

it seems like it'd be obvious that making porn with someone's face on it who doesn't consent to that use of their face would be bad... but you're already allowed to make fake imagery using faces. it's art.

i don't have any evidence that deepfakes are harmful. do you?

The livestream from Punxsutawney is playing the imperial march for some reason

ok campers rise and shine, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's COOOOOLD out there today

rsync needs better maintainership

so macOS automatically scans local files on your mac for malware, based on remote signatures downloaded from apple.

https://tidbits.com/2022/09/02/macoss-new-xprotect-now-regularly-scans-for-malware/

anyone wanna bet it can detect anything on your mac that apple wants to detect?

exec 1> >(logger -s -t $(basename $0)) 2>&1

ubuntu including rspamd packages (which are so out of date as to be an active hazard) in ubuntu is really sad and caused me a lot of wasted time today. i literally would have been better off if they didn't have the package in the repo, i would not have to redo this work today.

mediaanalysisd seems to not phone home on image preview in 13.2, with live text on or off. then again, who knows if it only does so if its database is a certain age or something?

ok, we've had siri suggestions turned off for ages. now live text is turned off too. let's see what other bullshit this computer does now.