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cursed quarto dummy example achieving that at the cost of terrible code

re-posting from mastodon for baptiste: #RStats

"has someone figured out a less ridiculous way to hang ggplot2 graphics in the margins so that the panel axes are aligned with the main text? We should hang"

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke Warns Developers: "Either Embrace AI or Get Out of This Career" GitHub CEO warns developers to embrace AI or quit, he said on X, referencing new research. The study reveals how AI is reshaping developer roles and workflows.

This is my shocked face that a Microsoft executive is a bona fide @$$ of a human. www.finalroundai.com/blog/github-...

SonicWall urges customers to disable SSLVPN amid reports of ransomware attacks | TechCrunch Security researchers say they have evidence that ransomware gangs are hacking into large companies that rely on fully-patched SonicWall firewalls. The researchers say it's likely the flaw is a "zero-d...

New: SonicWall is urging customers to disable SSLVPN as researchers report ransomware attacks targeting SonicWall firewalls. Particularly problematic for big companies that rely on these devices. Arctic Wolf and Huntress say it's likely a zero-day under attack but SonicWall is still investigating.

Drop #689 (2025-08-05): Typography Tuesday Today’s typography-centric edition of the Drop looks at three topics: Flexflex, a JavaScript library that reshapes uppercase letters within defined boundaries; Fit, a variable font emphasizin…

Drop #689 Typography Tuesday

Today's Drop 👀 at 3 topics: Flexflex, a JS lib that reshapes uppercase letters w/in defined boundaries; Fit, a var. font emphasizing geometric design & space usage; + typographic "overshoots".

dailydrop.hrbrmstr.dev/2025/08/05/d...

What are the good online classes out there to learn to make good charts in Excel? 📊

I'm looking for examples where trainers know both the technical side AND the dataviz practice.

I'm asking about Excel because it's such a mainstream tool for clients. We need to master it.

Let's make it a thread 👇

forgot to push that live when I made the bsky post

rud.is/obs/beecharts/

Now that I am actually awake-awake, let's use the proper way to update chart data (via Observable Notebook 2.0) in Apache eCharts 6. Much smoother transitions.

Updated code: ray.so/v2plPDr

The new @observablehq.com Notebooks 2.0 work with "normal" JS, and I wanted to play with Apache eCharts' new beeswarm option & see about interactively randomizing the data for it.

Zero hacks.

It "just works".

Live: rud.is/obs/beecharts/

Source: ray.so/ctLEHwa

We should add a "yikes" button next to the "likes" button

Sadly, yes. I would also add that we should educate ourselves constantly about technology and train to see the lies and hallucinations and propaganda more clearly than ever.

The summary is 69 words of bullet points.

However, a big reason humans need to READ prose is so we can learn how to WRITE and COMMUNICATE better.

I would rather not live in a world where we just throw bullets at each other (via guns or AI).

Screenshot of a web article titled 'Web Guide: An experimental AI-organized search results page' by Austin Wu, Group Product Manager, Search, dated July 24, 2025. The image shows two Google search interface mockups side by side. The left shows a traditional search results page for 'How to solo travel in Japan' with standard blue links and snippets. The right shows an experimental AI-organized version with the same query, featuring grouped results under headings like 'Comprehensive Guides for Solo Travel in Japan' and organized sections with a cleaner, more structured layout. Both interfaces maintain Google's familiar design elements but demonstrate different approaches to presenting search results.

This post on Google's "They Keyword" blog is *220 WORDS*.

The blog itself says it'll take the audio bot 60 secs to speak it to you.

SO WHY IS THERE A "READ AI-GENERATED SUMMARY" BUTTON?

blog.google/products/sea...

We protect the ones closest to us with knowledge and facts about the limitations of the technology. That's really all we grunts can do.

Those in positions of power to do anything truly substantive to stop this have already been co-opted by the billionaires who want to rule over everyone.

Florida officials warn about risks of drinking raw milk after 21 people sickened Florida health officials say 21 people, including six children, were sickened by E. coli and campylobacter bacteria linked to raw milk, and seven were hospitalized.

I'm actually fine w/adult Floridians Darwining themselves with raw milk, but this also puts innocents in harm's way. Lots of folks are gonna needlessly die over the next 3.5 years thanks to a few million democrats who stayed home last November along with the ~30% of deplorable America who did vote.

2025H1 Threat Review This report examines the latest cyber threats of 2025 including data on ransomware attacks, cyber crime, vulnerabilities, and state-sponsored hacktivism.

The first half of 2025 saw a 36% increase in ransomware, a 46% rise in zero-day exploitation, and the return of Iranian faketivism in OT environments.

Our latest threat report looks behind the headlines at what attackers are targeting, how tactics are shifting, & what defenders need to be watching.

AI is the technical equivalent of a gun in the context of summarization (not a danger in and of itself, just when some idiot human picks one up). And current AI – in the form of these daft probabilistic token generators – does in no way, shape, or form have the potential to tackle pressing 🌎 issues.

Thanks to a bona fide hero (you take actual hit point damage visiting X/Twitter) on Mastodon I was able to read pplx's joke of a response to cloudflare. I markdownified it for posterity: codeberg.org/hrbrmstr/gis...

FWIW, this only gets worse w/large context windows, too. I've done scads of experiments w/commercial and local models. Even the ones tuned for "summarization" miss so much in long-form content.

If we don't stop this nonsense soon, we're going to end up with the shallowest & stupidest society ever.

has anyone extracted the contents of perplexity's response to cloudflare from the x[.]com article they posted (https://x[.]com/i/article/1869827152549691392)?

Nitter can't read X articles and there's no way I 'm using their app and/or logging in.

Whoa, Alabama. 💥

Birmingham-area activists put up a Trump–Epstein billboard on a busy highway: “What’s the big secret, fellas?”

Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
www.wthr.com/article/news...

ChatGPT capable of BSing at the same rate as OpenAI employees.

Worst. REDACTED. Timeline. Ever.

and, cyber, dude. and cyber.

i'm honestly at wits end.

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

I've been AFK all day taking care of $SPOUSE (healthcare procedure in Boston) — in a nigh total work news blackout — and the team is CRUSHING it w/o me, working on the daft SonicWall 0-day.

Best. Team. Ever.

h/t to @ntkramer.bsky.social for most of that.

Page logo: SONICWALL Title: Recommended Mitigation Steps. Until further notice, we strongly advise all partners and customers using Gen 7 SonicWall firewalls to take the following actions: **1. Disable SSLVPN Services Where Practical** Callout box: NOTE: All other steps below should still be followed even if disabling SSLVPN is not viable.

So the official SonicWall mitigation leads with "turn it off" ? ooooof.

Also, Cloudflare calling out another tech company for being skeezy is some serioud pot/kettle/black.

Why is everyone shocked that an AI startup is being skeezy? (pplx/scraping)

Opinion: My right to an accessible, private vote is on the ballot this November "A citizen’s initiative on the ballot this November seeks to disenfranchise disabled, elderly and disadvantaged Mainers."

"Under the guise of securing Maine’s elections, a citizen’s initiative on the ballot this November seeks to disenfranchise disabled, elderly and disadvantaged Mainers." www.bangordailynews.com/2025/08/04/o...