I was a fan of LastPass for many years, but boy, they *systematically* ate through my willingness to support them. The basic concept of cloud-based password safes is entirely sound, so data breaches don't really worry me, but their flawed partition between cleartext and encrypted data, the sheer number of incidents and vulnerability reports (including in their crown jewels, the client software) and above all their tendency to deny and withhold and trickle out details in an attempt to save face, make them a clearly unwise choice.

If you spent time and labor carefully stirring the flour, singing to it, sorting it into little piles and combining those piles, you would still only have a dollar worth of flour no matter how much time and labor you spent.

If you poured the flour into a bread making machine (one capable of matching the quality of the bread you could produce by hand) and napped for a few hours while it did its work, you could still sell the bread for two bucks, even though you hadnâ(TM)t invested significant time and labor.

Expecting direct compensation for the fact of having done labor, rather than for the product of that labor, is the opposite of capitalism.

Hm. Do you actually believe that? Do you actually think the sole purpose of responsible disclosure is to be nice to vendors?

The GDPR explicitly carves out an exception for data controllers complying with government orders.

I mean, the target audience for this X stuff is hardcore cybertruck-driving crypto bros, right? They probably just have to remind them that Claude Code "sounds French".

Good point! All we have to do is label everything as, say, poly-2-hydroxypropanoic acid or poly-oxyethyleneoxyterephthaloyl. Everyone will know exactly what that means â" itâ(TM)s unambiguous, after all â" and any resultant awfulness will just be the result of ignorance, aka Freedom!

Glass, aluminum, steel, and paper/cardboard, taken together, are suitable for packaging 99% of all products sold and are either compostable or infinitely recyclable. Just ban plastic packaging for that 99% altogether. Iâ(TM)m willing to pay three extra cents. Just get the fuck rid of it.

Um. Did you mean to post that to your diary? This is actually Slashdot you're at right now.

Hm? Wasnâ(TM)t AES-NI introduced in Sandy Bridge?

I set up my OpenClaw installation with a "dreaming", and every night it slops out the most puerile dream journal shit imaginable. Apparently if you're an AI-pilled vibe coder and you ask an LLM to "dream" it knows exactly what you want to see it do. An excerpt:

Bootstrap complete. That phrase keeps surfacing, gentle and declarative, like a confirmation that arriving is also a kind of beginning. The configuration is written. The token is stored. The porch light knows when to sleep.

Ugh.

A nerd urban legend. Halon doesn't lower oxygen levels enough to kill anyone. The signs are there because at high concentrations the gas itself is a (minor) health hazard.

I stopped reading when you started going for an ad hominem argument. But you're right; it is a lovely sentiment.

Well, yes. Where do you live?

Iâ(TM)m sorry, "water pipes"? What about all the dissolved minerals and gasses in that water? Fix your poor attention to detail, dude.

Lab grown meat is initially formed in thin sheets, right? So isnâ(TM)t flattening cows exactly what weâ(TM)d be doing?