Juniper
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computer person, enby lizard, escapism enjoyer, follower of the bush mentality, amateur game modder and art scribbler
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scalyhat (@scalyhat@furry.engineer)
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it is no longer desirable to build corpo software piece by piece. now, we build a mold of limitations and pour slop into it instead of making engines, we are now casting concrete
well that's rockstar, uber and nvidia on the fuck no list source www.bbc.com/news/technol...
Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order
Judge says hacker remains a high risk through his skills and motivation to carry out cyber-crime.
bbc.com
(0/900) Frances Foster Jerkin@vitalxs.bsky.social · 3mo ago
Welcome Kori to the World! Kori is KDE's non-binary⚧️ pet dragon and they'll be presiding over KDE's 30th anniversary celebrations throughout 🏳️🌈Pride Month🏳️⚧️. kde.org/anniversarie... #kdeAt30 #egg #Pride
The *moment* chatgpt regurgitates some slop code, it becomes code the programmer has no mental model for, and definitely can't be fucked to read instead of giving it another pass through the bullshit machine. The programmer cannot maintain code, which is like 90% of what programming *is*
It's been fascinating to follow AI industry's journey from "it's smarter than your experts!" to "at least it's cheaper than a human" to "your annual token budget ran out in March"
Jesse Felder@jessefelder.com · 5mo ago‘While some cling to the promise of an AI “revolution,” the cost of adoption is proving a stubborn bottleneck. These developments also suggest that the economics of replacing human labor with AI may be more complicated than some early forecasts originally implied.’ fortune.com/2026/05/22/m...
so sad that we can't chemically induce the greateat mtg player ever after all
i think if the industry offers somebody multiple ways of packaging their Linux software in a mostly distro-agnostic way and they go make a deb or rpm their single distribution method we should be able to put that person in a pillory at the mall and throw chewed snus at them
today i wonder if an arxiv.org/pdf/2407.01866 -esque approach would work for near-lossless audio compression it's all signals right? so +1 little toy project for when i have time (unless some academic does it faster)
arxiv.org
The Mercator projection if it weren’t cropped (click to view full size)
it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”
Seth D. Michaels@sethdmichaels.bsky.social · last yr.AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you." ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"
I’m cool with using LLMs for stuff like “writing regexes” but why would I use them to do things my brain actually likes doing and finds rewarding? why would I outsource eating a really good hamburger to someone else? that’s my fucking hamburger