Enrique

@chochosmx.bsky.social

Bassist, programmer, dad. CDMX.

TECH BILLIONAIRE: Unfortunately the Unstoppable Robot Death Machine we built might kill us all. YOU: Oh no! We must regulate it! TB: No! That will make it worse. Leave it to us, we'll solve this scary problem. YOU: But wait, you built the problem! TB: Hush, go back to sleep now.

Cute error pages, like a whale being lifted by little birds or, say, a stupid fucking pink unicorn, are funny and cute when it's actually a rare occasion in which you get to see them. When the site is a steaming pile of shit with daily outages, it's just annoying.

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

404media.co

They say books won’t change the world. Tell that to every colonizer who burned them. To every enslaved person who was punished for reading. Literacy is resistance. Literacy is liberation. The library is a battlefield.

Copilot's code reviewer is just as good as a senior software engineer. It fails to understand the intention of the pull request and chooses about 5 things to give erroneous feedback about because it's underpaid and tired. It's trying to look busy until 5:00, but for it, 5:00 never comes.

"If these tools are so good, where's all the magic software?" I see more bugs now, in software that was rock solid before. The uncomfortable question: when does that hit something load-bearing? Has it already?

ICE is not broken. It's agents murdering people, taking trophies of victims, using illegal tactics, breaking laws, spreading terror, and leaving death cards are not isolated events, outliers, or accidents. ICE is operating exactly as intended.