boatswain

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In 2015, Portland announced a plan to reduce road fatalities in c/portland_oregon@lemmy.world
[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago

The city that works!

/s obviously

‘An uphill battle’: why are midlife men struggling to make – and keep – friends? in c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 8 points 2 days ago

I think I've got right around there where I'm living now; that's part of what makes it hard to contemplate leaving the country, even though this place (US) is turning pretty terrifying: I know if I leave it'll take years to build up friendships like that again, if it ever even happens.

Amazon asks corporate workers to ‘volunteer’ help with grocery deliveries as Prime Day frenzy approaches in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nah, go there and then start organizing with the warehouse workers to get them paid as much as you're being paid to do their job.

Trump Threatens to Launch DOGE Investigation Into Elon Musk, Send Billionaire ‘Back Home to South Africa’ in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

Makes sense; thanks!

Trump Threatens to Launch DOGE Investigation Into Elon Musk, Send Billionaire ‘Back Home to South Africa’ in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

How would that work? The President is the only one who can issue pardons, I thought.

Doctors are using unapproved AI software to record patient meetings, investigation reveals in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 8 points 2 weeks ago

Scheduling would not be fine; under HIPAA "provision of healthcare" is considered PHI, so knowing that person x had their care at a certain time and place would be a problem.

Board games with emergent complexity? in c/boardgames@sopuli.xyz
[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'll throw in an answer from a different angle: social deduction games can be incredibly rules-light while still maintaining a lot of complexity. Resistance, for example, has not too many more rules than Go, but games can get deeply complex as players try to figure out who the spies are.

The big difference is of course that the complexity offered by something like Resistance is the product of imperfect information and willful deception, which means that a good ability to read people (or conversely, to lie) can be at least as important as strategic mastery.

16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 4 points 3 weeks ago

This appears to just be a compilation of other leaks: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/no-the-16-billion-credentials-leak-is-not-a-new-data-breach/

Still not a bad idea to change passwords and make sure MFA is enabled.

16 billion passwords leaked in one of the biggest data breaches ever: Report - Dexerto in c/cybersecurity@infosec.pub
Which is the correct way to create bullet points in Markdown — using spaces or tabs? in c/obsidianmd@lemmy.world
[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I believe either will work, so your call. If you really want to spark a tabs vs spaces holy war, I'll throw my vote in for tabs: they're semantic, whereas spaces are not--the meaning of a tab is "this is one level of indentation". Using spaces for indentation is like using <span class="italic"> instead of <i> for italics.

Trump’s EPA to “reconsider” ban on cancer-causing asbestos in c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 17 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

It is banned; they're talking about un-banning it

Why so much hate toward AI? in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 29 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Because of studies like https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03622:

Overall, we find that participants who had access to an AI assistant based on OpenAI's codex-davinci-002 model wrote significantly less secure code than those without access. Additionally, participants with access to an AI assistant were more likely to believe they wrote secure code than those without access to the AI assistant.

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New HHS nondiscrimination guidelines on AI use in Healthcare (infosec.pub)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by boatswain@infosec.pub to c/cybersecurity@infosec.pub
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Looks like they're pretty concerned with the possibility of mass discrimination by AI, perhaps in the wake of the news about United Healthcare using AI to decline coverage. This could be useful to people:

If you believe that you or someone you know has been subjected to unlawful discrimination due to a health care provider’s or health insurance plan’s use of AI, please let us know by submitting a complaint to my office: https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/

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Left hand keypad with D pad and scroll wheel? (infosec.pub)
 

Hi all, I recently got into the world of ergo mech by borrowing a friend's old Iris v2, and I really love how powerful and customizable things can be with QMK firmware.

Recently, my old n52te has started to show signs of age after a dozen or so years of abuse. If you're not familiar, they look like this:

There's definitely stuff that could be improved on--just being able to build your own firmware for it would be amazing. Having one or two more thumb buttons for layers would be sweet as well.

The community of ergo mech keyboard builders are doing some super cool things with 3d printed builds and all kinds of neat stuff. Since I've just been dipping my toes in, my question is: does anyone know of any good replacements for my n52te? Is this something anyone has tried tinkering around with?

Thanks!

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5e: Playing with Ancestral Weapons (infosec.pub)
 

I'm trying to figure out the best way to deal with some homebrew stuff I'll be dealing with in my 5e campaign.

If you're not familiar with Ancestral Weapons, it's a pretty cool system that gives you the ability to have weapons that level up with your players. The players get points periodically that they can spend on upgrades to their weapons.

I'll be using a variation of this setup in my campaign, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to do so. My initial thought was a scene for each character's weapon, with some Monk's Active Tiles to handle a "talent tree" kind of interface where a player could select and then lock in which powers they want.

That doesn't really take care of updating the item itself though, which means that the players would have to update things manually ("oh, I need to make this sword +2 now" for example) after using the scene as a kind of calculator.

So maybe there's a better way: make the weapons Actors of their own, with special character sheets or something? Or maybe there's an existing mod I can use? Any thoughts or suggestions on the best way forward are appreciated.

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