Got badly sunburnt while hiking despite clouds and mist all day. Make it make sense! *touches earpiece* Ah, I have just been told I'm a programmer and quote that's what you get for going outside unquote.
Bram Gotink
@bram.gotink.be
Nerd, Dungeon Master (the TTRPG kind), Queer, Leftie, Human to an overly dramatic cat, Husband to an amazing husband 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🇧🇪 Ex-web developer interested in self-hosting and digital sovereignty.
NO ONE WANTS SLOP, NO MATTER HOW FAST ITS MADE
Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 2mo agoHow useful are all those vibe-coded apps at the end of the day? “The marked increase in mobile app releases over the past year has not been accompanied by any increase in downloads — most of the new apps fail to capture even a modest audience.” www.ft.com/content/8e9a...
Unless there's some way to estimate how much money we have to give to AI companies before they cure cancer, we should at least consider the possibility that the true sum is "more money than exists now and that will ever exist." 26/
If you don’t know how they work, just know 3 things about LLMs: 1. They don’t learn 2. They don’t think 3. They don’t understand Here’s a good article that describes in detail what they do: www.0xkato.xyz/how-llms-act...
How LLMs Actually Work
A from-the-ground-up walkthrough of how modern LLMs work, from tokens to transformer blocks to the next-token loop
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Temporarily un-lapsing as a Catholic to avoid using Microsoft Copilot
Lori Emerson@loriemerson.net · 2mo ago"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...
You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)
My kingdom for a tech ecosystem that will stop smothering me with apps and devices that constantly try to engage me in conversation against my will
My apathy levels for the industry are absolutely sky high and I don’t even have a dickhead boss making me hit token targets
Orangetronic@orangetronic.bsky.social · 3mo agowatching the tech industry burn out all the people i know who actually care about delivering things that aren’t perpetually broken, all at the altar of infinite velocity, is making me utterly utterly furious.
“Use AI or get left behind!” Please, leave me behind. Drop me off on the side of the road somewhere. Sentence me to a remote cabin with a typewriter and some wildflowers that don’t know how to use the internet
Interesting isn't it, that homosexuality (for men at least) is seen as unacceptable by the Evangelicals because it's forbidden in Leviticus. But then so are cheeseburgers.
JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.
in 1997, "x.com" belonged to two guys named Dave and Rob and its slogan was "not nearly the worst place on the web!!!" web.archive.org/web/19970411...
You may not know @taskmaster.tv. It's hilarious & joyful. I begged to do it, worked out my schedule a year ahead of time to make it happen & got to do the best show on TV w/ the loveliest ppl. Ep 1 is out &, trust me, you need this joy. All seasons free on youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRfH...
Season 21, Episode 1 - 'Cube is good.' | Full Episode
YouTube video by Taskmaster
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i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years
Crises precipitate change. That's no reason to induce a crisis, but you'd be a fool to let a crisis go to waste. Donald Trump is the greatest crisis of our young century, and the EU looks set to squander the opportunity, to its own terrible detriment. 1/
I appreciated this article by Michael Taggart, on the temptation to use some of these coding tools and the pitfalls, from the POV of an experienced software engineer. This is why it's important to fight these issues collectively rather than at the individual level. taggart-tech.com/reckoning/
I used AI. It worked. I hated it.
I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.
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The cool folks from the Eurosky team just brought you a new site: eurosky.tech, portal to the Atmosphere. I'd say it's the crispest explanation so far of what the Atmosphere brings: 1. one account 2. that works with a bunch of apps, and 3. your data from all apps is yours, portable, interoperable.
Eurosky - Building a thriving open social web for Europe
Eurosky is a European initiative to build and operate sovereign social web infrastructure
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Het is gewoon surrealistisch dat we dit gewoon allemaal laten passeren. Het is nog surrealistischer dat sommigen hier dat land nog altijd steunen. #NYTimes
Israel abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 1954. Today it was reintroduced, exclusively for Palestinians. Fuck the statements of concern from the international community, where are the sanctions?
Repeating for those in the back: "The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less."
Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 5mo agoIncredibly illuminating to compare income and hours worked across countries and states for ***the bottom 95% of earners only***. The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less via sethackerman.substack.com
I’ve never used any of the LLM chatbots, avoided them even in the early days, because they had all the hallmarks of a major cognitive and psychological hazard from the very beginning “I’m not gonna use this shit unless I can be sure it won’t mess me or others up” is an entirely reasonable position
"This probably sounds like nightmare fuel to many, but to wealthy VCs and AI and crypto entrepreneurs it’s the next gold rush." is the quote of our time
Cas Piancey@cascoinfoundation.org · 5mo agoYou thought NFTs were bad? Wake up, babe, new fresh horrors await.