The Rusty Skull

Ex-desert rat now happily living in the pacific northwest. USCG/Air Guard veteran. Heathen. Dorkasaurus. I make stupid gifs of things like food dancing. He/him. Tumblr Old.

[therustyskull]

This was a suggestion on the Fallout 76/Bethesda Discord channel

Would love to see a Legendary Jimothy added, or at least mutated raccoons to go along with the other mutant fauna.

[viralfrog]

[therustyskull]

This past weekend I finally got rid of so many hex/Allen keys. Had a lot of scrap metal from old projects, things I don't use, car parts, etc I took to the recycle yard, including a coffee can with dozens of these (I still have 3 or 4 big sets of matched keys in both SAE and metric, so I'm safe)

[captain-price-returns]

It's not just that they're doing corruption, but they're doing the kind of corruption that is basically "guy hands over a cartoon money sack with dollar signs on it" corruption.

[natalieironside]

When I got my current job they made me sign a form acknowledging that I'll be immediately fired if I accept free mcdonalds or an amazon gift card from someone at a rival firm

[therustyskull]

Nothing like that annual ethics training I had to take as a federal employee about what gifts I can/cannot accept and the limits of such, including meals.

Of course this admin (and previous 2017-2021) ignored the Hatch Act and still violate it daily too.

[cyberpunkonline]

OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack - BBC News

OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack

It is one of the first publicly disclosed cyber-attacks carried out by AI without direct human involvement.

[ralfmaximus]

Gina Neff, head of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the security tests - called sandboxes - are "supposed to be secure environments where you can see what the models are capable of". "In this case, it looks like OpenAI didn't make a secure enough sandbox," she added.

OpenAI created an insecure test environment for their AI agent then acted shocked when it exploited those insecurities to "escape".

It's bullshit. OpenAI feels threatened by other AI vendors (Anthropic) and pulls stunts like this for publicity. Look how powerful our AI is! It hacked its way out of its cage! BY ITSELF!!

Well, no. YOU made the shitty, exploitable sandbox, YOU told it to escape, YOU gave it the credentials & privileges it needed to visit Hugging Face. It's like leaving a loaded gun at a playground then acting surprised when a kid shoots somebody.

Even if it was not intentional, and the incident was a surprise, their PR department LOVES this shit and locked on.

By the way, building sandboxes (usually used to examine malware) is a skill we've had for decades and doing it wrong is usually clowned on. If you build an insecure sandbox and get infected with a virus because it escaped your sandbox that's ON YOU.

The fact OpenAI is trumpeting this incident is suspicious as heck.

[therustyskull]

Going back to early 2000s on client builds we had a sandbox network isolated from the production network and would run 'Dogfood' testing (we called it Mad Dog internally but came from a long ago Microsoft comment I believe where they said we need 'to eat our own dogfood first'). And that lasted until the agency quit doing dev testing on patches around 2020/2021 and just put their trust in the Microsoft updates (and most of our testing devs retired/left).

Sadly, the average person won't know about sandbox/dev environments and just think this is Cyberdyne and SkyNet at work.

[clinging-to-decency]

[cavernario-galindo]

[therustyskull]

Russel Vought is up there with Miller as the worst member of this admin. He is all over Project 2025's handywork. Just fucking evil.

[thememedaddy]

[therustyskull]

I worked with pilots who flew multi-million dollar Gulfstreams and Learjets. I always figured if I actually got them to remember how to add a CC: to an email or save a PDF correctly, they'd forget something important like 'what switch puts landing gear down'. So I cut them slack when I'd be asked about what should have been a simple computer question.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Leftover roof shingles? Use them in you tub. They're weatherproof. Follow us for more money saving tips.

[therustyskull]

*slips while showering and falls down violently

*in addition to breaking limbs I also have severe road rash abrasions from the asphalt shingles

*but the water flows off the enclosure walls smoothly (and brilliantly hides all the mold/mildew behind them)

[therustyskull]

Memento of my dad’s from the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 missions. He had just started working for Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the Goldstone Deep Space Tracking Station while on terminal leave from the marines in July of 1969. He had a lot of NASA and JPL swag but it all disappeared after he passed away (oldest brother did…something with them, and most likely were lost in a storage unit seizure). Photo taken in his home office after he passed away.

[songbirdstew]

Hung up my Indian Dad's commemoration of white supremacy today

[fuck-customers]

[magnetictapedatastorage]

I Watched a 55-Year-Old Law Break the AI Hiring Industry — And It Was Overdue

The Eightfold AI lawsuit exposed what happens when companies treat employment decisions like ad targeting — and why the fix requires enginee

a bit more context

[therustyskull]

Curious now as to if my applications last year were filtered through this system. Some companies (like Adobe, Oracle, etc) should have jumped at my experience in lifecycle management but I either heard nothing at all or a form rejection weeks after applying.

[carnalreincarnated]

World Cup?

This doesn't even qualify as a coherent question.

[therustyskull]

Swirled cup? (Of ice cream)

[mitchipedia]

[therustyskull]

I feel like this photo implies that somehow the Canada geese are involved in this.

[mitchipedia]

[therustyskull]

We quote this one a lot. More holes, less cheese. More cheese, more holes!

[aibidil]

"High-T Department": Hegseth approves testosterone screening in military

Hegseth says he is authorising hormone screening to ensure US troops "operate at your absolute best".

You cannot make this shit up

[ralfmaximus]

TESTOSTERONE MANLY grunts the man who won't wash his hands.

[therustyskull]

A little gender affirming care as a treat, if you're CIS male (and probably limiting it to the melanin-impaired too).

[marxism-transgenderism]

Somebody save me from this barbaric, bidetless backwater of a country

[marxism-transgenderism]

Every photo or video you see of an american, god forbid any individual you see in real life, is almost certainly walking around with poop butt. They may have convinced themselves they dont because they rub their assholes red and rashed with tissue paper but, like trying to sweep up crumbs with a bad broom, there is always some left. They're luddites whove convinced themselves that the beauty of modern bidet technology is a scary, unknown thing thats meant to hurt them. Some even mythologize their poop butt as proof of their rugged character. God willing one day they may grow into a more advanced civilization

[hotvampireadjacent]

The average American male will write off bidets bc they’re “gay” and rather walk around with shit caked on their ass

[marxism-transgenderism]

It is with deep regret that I must inform you that not even the women are safe from this barbaric practice. They, like the men, also believe that using a bidet can harm them spiritually or even throw off the balance of their humors. Im afraid no one in this unenlightened land is free from the need for reeducation

[therustyskull]

After my Japan 2022 trip I was fully sold on bidets. Especially fancy Toto ones, nothing beats a heated seat and heated water when it is cold. And the TP shortages of Covid days mean the BioBidets we have now reduce the amount of TP needed massively.

But keep in mind a lot of American men are afraid to even wash their ass with soap, so it will always be a struggle for bidets to be normalized.

Had the BioBidet been a thing when I lived in Texas, I probably could have been easily convinced to get them just for the cooling - swamp ass relief as you sit.

[therustyskull]

BREAKING NEW POLICY FROM PETE HEGSETH:

Starting in August, Department of War (sic) Secretary Pete Hegseth will personally cup the balls of every new recruit to ensure their testicles meet his demanding standards.

Hegseth will travel to each basic training/boot camp location ensuring America's newest recruits are able to fulfil the testosterone needs of the warrior ethos by gently cupping each freshly shorn recruits wedding tackle.