@StephenRees@mas.to2026-10-22 16:46:21
I wonder about the reliability of "points" schemes.
For example today's message reads "Become a points millionaire! Spend $20 and scan your app for a chance to win 1 million pts. From May 21 to June 3."
Today is October 22!
Maybe they are using AI
@StephenRees@mas.to2026-10-20 18:23:12
TransLink replacing 40-year-old elevator at Patterson SkyTrain Station
Upgrade will improve accessibility and reliability
#Vancouver #Transit #SkyTrain
What's happening: Starting Nov. 3, the nearly 40-ye…
@vrandecic@mas.to2026-10-16 08:56:40
The last few weeks I've seen a certain looseness regarding facts among folks whom I often align with politically. I'm used to point that out on the other side of the political spectrum, and I would prefer to be closer aligned to truth. I didn't want to comment on each, because that would make me annoying, might damage relationships, and would take a lot of time. So, just a few points I noticed and remembered:
1. To the best of my knowledge, there is no reliable data that s…
@denmanrooke@social.coop2026-10-10 17:49:40
Anyone looking for a used car in Galway? I've got our small but reliable Kia Picanto up for sale for only €2500.
https://www.carzone.ie/search/4543406/advert
@Carwil@mastodon.online2026-10-20 11:53:16
These are very simple tasks in each domain, shown here for language. So if you are asking an LLM to read thousands of pages, it probably isn't and won't reliably count results for you at all. #AIfailuremodes
@StephenRees@mas.to2026-10-07 16:35:00
https://pluralistic.net/2026/10/07/gouged/#aeropain
Cory Doctorow is a very reliable source of information. This article about Air Canada's pricing policies throws light on something which had long bothered me. I have found that, despite having Aeroplan miles enough to use…
@adamhotep@infosec.exchange2026-10-14 20:37:06
The DoJ claims up to 250k registered voters in CA NV NJ PA are non-citizens. If that's true and they're all in CA and they all vote and they all vote the same way, that could swing a vote by 1.1-1.6% (CA has 23.2M registered voters; 16.1M voted in 2024). CA has no senate races this cycle and the Dem gubernatorial candidate leads the polls by 16.1%.
CA has 48h to validate the list—an impossible task.
"I have serious doubts about the reliability of your data and accuracy of your claims, since my office has not shared our statewide voter registration list with DHS or any other federal agency or official," [CA Secretary of State] Weber said …
The Republican administration claimed Nevada had 1,500 noncitizen voters on its voter rolls. But after the federal government identified them to the state, the number of actual registered noncitizens turned out to be zero.
#USpol
@saraislet@infosec.exchange2026-10-03 17:47:24
You see, it was important that the Cloud Glider has a persistent control mechanism to stop it reliably
I started with a Boolean in an s3 bucket, checked by each instance's glider daemon before deciding whether to continue propagation
However, an s3 object is fallible if the glider is outside control, so I needed more extensive configuration settings (i.e., in DynamoDB) — and an EmergencyHold mechanism that would yank IAM permissions if anything goes wrong. The EmergencyHold triggers a full stop, which pulls propagation permissions while retaining other operation permissions in order to create an audit log of state for an incident review
The "incident" in this case being that the fork bomb didn't, uhh, fork or bomb as expected 🙈 ::awkward_monkey.gif::