the people who are operating a technology that hit its fundamental limits a couple years ago and any progress since has been a patchwork of slapped on systems to vaguely correct errors are advocating for an AI development slow down
but it's not because their technology has plateaued or anything
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Counter-argument:
STOP. Hammer time.
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Someone needs to invent a Pizza Pop that doesn't split at the seam in the microwave.
Yes, Pizza Pockets exist, but they are not the same.
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Now that I've successfully made some small tweaks to my fork of #NomadNet. I'm working on adding a conspicuously absent feature to search the text of the open page in the browser for a user-supplied string.
I've been informed that this has been an oft-requested feature that nobody has currently found the time to work on. Considering I've never really worked on a large #Python project before, I'm happy with the progress I'm making so far.
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Hi, I'm Nat. I draw silly, little comics about my life and things I find important. I'd like to give the Fediverse a try because I'm tired of fighting predatory social media, algorithms, and poop-faces of tech bros.
Let's hang out and be nice to each other. 
#Introduction
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your bio 😁
Hi 🐱
You gave a profile picture and a hashtag, great start!
One of the neater* things here is you can follow hashtags. My main ones are #BikeNite and #Monsterdon , though I follow many more.
#Comics #Cartoon and others like that might be good ones to add to some of your posts if you link to or share those.
*you also can edit post.
hey Nat! We are occasionally cranky, antisocial and occasionally misanthropic (ai hating pun intentional) but also there's a lot of good folks here.
Welcome!
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Hi Pluff! 😀
[edit] Uh oh ... or Nat? 
Hi Nat, I'm Joris. I love reading silly, little comics about life and things that are important.
How about that for a coincidence 😀
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Welcome to the Fediverse 😀!
Gonna be curious about your comics 😀.
If you ever need help with anything around here, don’t hesitate to ask, ppl are very helpful.
Have a great Friday!
Hello, person on the internet! I’m a person on the internet! 🎀😊
My instance is clunky, but such a dynamic is infinitely preferable to the ads, tracking, and arbitrary rules of big social media platforms. It’s honestly a reminder to touch grass and look at stars a little more often.
I’m also an artist, flower/astronomy/particle accelerator/bridge/roller coaster enthusiast, and chronic reposter. Poems and shitposts get in there pretty often.
Depends on your GDPR browser settings in Europe. 
Poop face tech bros, can be a 'sideways' for face-shits...
I like it!
sounds like a good motivation. Hi!
Let'a have a great time here!
Hi Nat. Saw your post and instantly hit follow 😀
I run u3acommunities.org (notably giving talks for the computing group which I run) and also the fediverse site u3a.social. All not-for-profit.
Oddly, I suppose, whilst I give talks on how generative AI works, I've long since concluded that I just don't want to use it ... ie the cons far outweight the pros.
But this stance does leave me with an issue ... I can't draw to save my life but yet my slides do need some decent graphics from time-to-time.
Any advice / ideas how to bridge this gap ?
Take care,
Pete
@plord Hi Pete! I find Canva and similar tools great for simple designs, even in the free tier. I use it in my daily work when I need to make pictures for blogs, etc., because it's fast and has many cool templates.
I also used Freepik, but I see now that it has been bought and gated behind a subscription. Oh well 😭
@SomeVeganCheeseIsOk
Welcome.
Just showed the kid the watermelon picture. It has relevance in our household.
Welcome to the fediverse. 😀. #AltText and #Hashtags are very important. Choosing relevant hashtags means you can amplify the reach of your posts -- I found you because I follow #Introduction... And followed you as a result. Easy Peasy! 😀
Good luck!
HI! And welcome! 🙂
thePluff the point isn’t tough.
Silly isn’t willy-nilly
And to be nice
Is more than the price.
Don’t expect much feedback.
But that isn’t the track.
To have fun is the right stuff.
What’ll you get is more than enough.
The trolls are drolls, to be sure.
But here your works will endure.
I’m autistic. I don’t understand
why the trolls demand
that to hate
is to be great.
Offer what you have
And let the salve
be that you’re doing
what is possible.
Limited our time is.
The cola fizz is
To do what is possible.
LOL your works are
LOL your works be
Between you and me
That is great, mate.
Do what is possible.
For the poem, I thank
I hope to stay dank 😎
Hi Nat. I found this intro by way of the Masto algorithm. Basically someone boosted your toot that found its way to someone I follow who boosted your toot and 18days later... tah dahhh. You have a new Masto peep following your account.
Hope you're liking it here so far.
Wren
I've made my first tweak to #NomadNet but have nowhere to submit a pull request.
Details: rns.recipes/forum/general/noma…
Update: I submitted my PR to the lead developer over LXMF. He's going to review it, but there are others queued ahead of mine.
I've really been enjoying nomadnet, but I've found some rough edges here and there. I know that Mark isn't in a position to be taking bug reports/feature reque...rns.recipes
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@abortretryfail I did message him, but haven't heard back.
Edit: Never mind. He got back to me. He conceptually likes it, but has a few other PRs queued up ahead of me before he can formally review it.
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Look, you are not required to put sharks in the swimming pool.
But nor are you prohibited from doing so.
This swimming pool is entirely neutral on the issue of sharks in the swimming pool. Sharks are beautiful and graceful creatures.
If you do put a shark in the swimming pool, the shark is your responsibility.
Oh, and you don't have to tell anyone if you are putting a shark in the swimming pool.
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Just saw a YouTube video where a guy took some wood ash, water, and a bunch of other common ingredients and made soap with it. That's cool and all, but then he said it was "chemical free".
Setting aside my typical argument about how a "chemical free" product is objective nonsense... my dude, you literally just made lye, which is a pretty harsh chemical.
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> Setting aside my typical argument about how a "chemical free" product is objective nonsense
... which would be willfully missing the point since there's an implied 'industrial', or maybe 'petroleum-derived', before any such usage of 'chemical'. As with software freedom, the point being local reproducibility. But I'm sure you knew that. Moving on ...
> you literally just made lye, which is a pretty harsh chemical
True that. Fight Club has a pretty good demonstration of just how harsh.
... which would be willfully missing the point since there's an implied 'industrial', or maybe 'petroleum-derived', before any such usage of 'chemical'.
The fact that you had to add "or maybe" demonstrstes my point there. I hate imprecise language. It causes unnecessary confusion, but I digress...
> I hate imprecise language. It causes unnecessary confusion
Fair enough. But jargon is a standard feature of English. Many words and phrases have specific meanings in particular contexts. If the context is ignore, then a lot of language use will seem much more imprecise than it actually is.
Eg 'industrial' is commonly used as shorthand for 'powered by or derived from fossil fuels' in environmentalist discourse. Assuming a more general definition, prunes meaning from the discourse.
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This is one of the many reasons why the Titter-style microposting medium was probably a bad idea.
A group of people who are familiar with each other can use jargon terms in context, and add clarification when they know some participants are new to their specialist usage. When the potential reader is 'anyone', context collapse is inevitable.
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Regarding the pre-show: Those spandex uniforms do not look to be apropriate atire for running around in the snow.
Then again, what are they apropriate for?
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So I just made a pull request to a buttplug.io repository under my government name. (That sounds extra wrong given the context.)
That's probably fiiiiine... right?
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Okay, I've never really paid it much much mind because I'm typically neither a fan of interpreted nor dynamically-typed languages, but I have to admit that I've been having a lot of fun* playing with #Python.
* My definition of "fun" may differ from yours.
We're still here. Tornado risk is gone, but we've been wothout power for the past two hours, the server that hosts my usual account is down.
No word on when power will be restored, but we're otherwise okay.
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I am begging people, please just make *websites*. Not Instagram feeds, not X posts, not Squarespace slop, not e-mail newsletters, *websites*.
You know, those things that I can view without needing an account, a specialized app, shittons of spyware, etc.
(Yes, this is too salty, sorry.)
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@lobingera I don't really agree; so much of what I see is people bending over backwards working around whatever patterns some corporate middle manager thinks is good for engagement.
There's a lot of invisible effort that goes into making corporate social media do anything even remotely useful as an outreach tool.
Hard agree, having done stuff in a research group doing routine insta posts. It's a grind, with few tangible results and the ever present risk of being stuck at a nazi bar. An institution hosted blog would have been /would be far better - for both comms reach and building a useful institutional record.
Agree, my reaction was to the boosted comment and i was missing the start of the thread ...
... from around here (i'm loosely connected to research projects) the expectation is to have public info "visible" in "established social media" and this is an (imho) result of "search engines have degraded ..."
sure, but I'll take a newsletter over any form of social media ANY day!
But as a matter of principle, I agree.
ah, ok, then I really missed the point, sorry (most newsletters I subscribed to, have a website).
seems like a normal amount of salt
earlier this morning i was talking at my screen about how the app developers should be filleted like a fish. that was probably too much (in fairness it was uber)
agreed! I just made this website and it has felt far more rewarding than any quick thing.
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We have a project website. No accounts. No commenting. No cookies. No GDPR-relevant data storage. Soon a special RSS feed.
_Exactly_ because of this tendency towards apps, newsletters, feeds (or maybe because I was WWW-socialised in late 1993...).
Done. All statically generated with no cookies and no JS too.
Outdoor enthusiast, programmer. Father of two, husband of one. Babbling bloke. This is my personal blog with lots of photos of my outdoor adventures and the occasional rant and technical post.www.buschnick.net
I get the saltiness. The sheer amount of local businesses in my area with NO WEBSITE, but a Facebook page is too high.
It may seem petty to some, but I have decided to do what I can to avoid businesses with Facebook as their main online presence.
no, it's not.
it would be nice if you could point us in the right direction, though.
i ask as a former, very loyal Wordpress user.
In the "White Mirror" series I talk about positive ideas for using digital technologies in a way that can improve our lives. The title is a reaction to the popular "Black Mirror" series of often dystopic visions of our digital future.Nicolas Zahn
remember when Microsoft word would let you export the document as an .html web page so you could just save it to your site and link to it?
Good ole days.
Yes! I used to work at a public library. There was a server crash or something and the central 'local history' site that area library's used to make their photos etc. available crashed. So the director set up ours on a Facebook site. I had a fit. Why should our patrons, whose taxes pay for library access, be forced to sign up for a proven predatory platform in order to take advantage of that access?!!!??!!!!! That's the antithesis of what a public library is! (Fortunately the director who replaced him agreed with me and changed this.)
My husband and I have just decided that, if your menu or company information requires me to go onto Facebook/X/whatever, you don't get my business.
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As a part of my due diligence as "owner of a nightclub" one of the questions I often ask is, "what are other venues up to these days?" In order to answer that question, I wanted to assemble a calendar listing with all of the events happening at my town's other venues with capacities of our size or smaller.
Surely they all provide ICS or RSS feeds. Surely.
Ho ho ho, I had to write 2k+ lines of code, with custom scrapers for 112 web sites.
I used to live in a place where the municipality had a big fat link to an .ics file on their website with all the bins pickup dates. One click, got it in my calendar software.
It could be that fucking easy.
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Ottawa has an app called "Collection" where you can check what kind of trash is supposed to go in what kind of bin, and get a schedule tailored to your home address that will notify you when it's time to put your bins out or when your pickup will be affected by a holiday. It's great, albeit, an app when I'd prefer less of those in my life.
But ... in the last 6 months or so (probably around when the recycling pickup was outsourced and some people's schedule changed) people were upset about missing pickups in my neighbourhood facebook group, so now someone posts a screenshot of what the next day's pickup will be in the facebook group each week, which by nature of facebook, appears in my feed some time in the several days following when the pickup has already happened....
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@geekysteven Oh yeah. Most modern tech has hardware specs that my younger stuff couldn't have fathomed. It's just that the locked down software it runs is utter trash (and in most cases, actively harmful).
Still, there are some promising technologies out there, and also things that can be hacked to actually respect their end users. You just have to wade carefully through the minefield that is the modern tech landscape.
It turns out you can cram so many simultaneous high volume data transfers over sshfs before the host just kind of falls over.
To be fair, I knew what I was doing was janky and should have known better.
Just got an email from a hotel I stayed at over a decade ago. It started thusly:
[GUEST FIRSTNAME,fallback=Dear Guest],
I feel so seen.
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It says something about the state of modern browsers that my preferred way for reading things on the web from my tablet is to:
ewwOtherwise, I chew through battery in no time flat. As it stands, I've been doing so for many hours straight and still have 88% battery.
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I sometimes, if not frequently, use "term" in emacs. It's a very good terminal.
😀
ssh into my laptop
Launch Emacs
Browse using eww
It's my understanding that this would not work under Wayland, while such functionality is one of the cornerstones of X11.
emacsclient -nw. No windowing system required.
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Been looking for an iOS compatible #reticulum client for Katy. There seems to be exactly one (Retichat).
Unfortunatrly, it doesn't seem to work properly, and I can't prove it, but I think it's MitM-ing the messages.
Finally found another Android client that's working on an iOS port. I popped over to the project's GitHub page and what's the first thing I see? A .claude directory.
Welp, back to the drawing board.
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> Unfortunatrly, it doesn't seem to work properly, and I can't prove it, but I think it's MitM-ing the messages.
I believe such claims are inappropriate because it makes a serious allegation without providing any supporting evidence.
Claims of this nature should be backed by reliable sources and proofs. Without such evidence, perhaps it is better to avoid presenting speculation as fact.
@Pol Dellaiera The reason I suspect it is because while I was receiving her messages, she was not receiving mine, though I was getting confirmation that they'd been received. They were sent directly, not via propogation nodes.
That shouldn't be possible.
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Private communication without accounts, servers, or surveillance. Built on Reticulum for resilient messaging across any transport.Ratspeak
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it does! carmax!
It's the ONLY way to prove where it comes from!
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get out of here with your logic
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One of the things I really love about #reticulum is its ability to seamlessly route traffic over literally any communication medium that can handle at least 5 bits per second. I'm also reminded of a YouTube video I watched a while ago where a guy was able to send data (at a very slow rate) over a literal tin can phone. Sadly, I can't find the link.
Anyhow, I think you can probably figure out what I am now legally and morally obligated to do.
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@Hannes Deeken It wasn't regarding the network itself. I just stumbled across some nodes that were hosting general conspiracy nonsense.
Given how attractive the network would seem to doomsday preppers and so-called "free speech absolutists", I expected that sort of thing to be more prevelant.
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Tiny forest growing on a single pine cone
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Gentle reminder, when someone is sharing some small piece of resistance they have done, DO NOT SHIT ON IT. Do not tell them it isn't enough or it's still bad because blah blah other stuff...
Everyone is tired and overwhelmed and trying to find some accessible way they can push back. Cheer that!
Celebrate the small; celebrate the imperfect.
No single action is gonna solve everything, but a whole bunch of small actions start the sea change.
Don't punch down when we all need lifting up.
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@juliensueur
First off, unless someone asks for your critique of how they are doing, it is very likely unwelcome.
Secondly you have failed to grasp the core concept of what I stated. Just because you think shitting on someone else's efforts is helpful (and unsolicited criticism is 100% shitting on someone) doesn't mean you didn't just shit on them. And what I am saying is don't do that.
It's demotivating and the opposite of helpful. And what you want is to help.
@juliensueur
Sigh.... You've now had two opportunities to listen, and squandered them both.
So here's some Unfiltered Truth to help you Do Better:
Interacting with you has been profoundly unpleasant. You seem to be quite the asshole. Which is why I am blocking you now.
Well said, I did it, too!
@juliensueur@vivaldi.net
I read the first reply, thought, hmm, looks blockworthy (hostility, lack of engaging in any constructive way). There's almost always a second message which confirms that and this time there indeed was and I blocked. Then saw this thread about other people reaching the same conclusion.
I say that not because I deserve a medal (I'm sure I don't), just encouraging other people to recognize this pattern of behavior and don't be afraid to block people if it seems warranted to you. @juliensueur@vivaldi.net
@soaproot
Yeah, I am trying to leave more space for the climb down; I get that everyone is strung out and grumpy and sometimes needs a nudge back to humanity.
This was not a a successful nudge.
Cheeky answer:
It's hard enough getting people's hearts and minds aligned, to get butts all lined up to shit in solidarity would be a real challenge.
More seriously, cheering on individual efforts is still an act of solidarity.
Those who punch down are expressing their anger in all directions. Perhaps they think that scolding will prick people to greater effort; perhaps not.
Yes, it is not enough, it is never enough, because, as you say, no single action is going to solve everything.
As the saying goes, "The perfect is the enemy of the good." Those who demand perfection are always going to be disappointed.
How do you eat an elephant, indeed.
One bite at a time.
Yes please!
This is true for so many things that may not register as "resistance" as well.
If it's the direction you want the world to go, celebrate it, encourage it, don't belittle it, even if it's not <there> yet.
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@grumpy4n6 You are absolutely right and I am probably guilty of doing this. Sorry.
It's very frustrating and discouraging when so many people think that their little tiny thing -- signing an online petition, wearing a certain color hat, sharing a meme -- is going to turn the world around. Especially when so many of these people fail to do the big things: vote, call their Senators and Congress people, attend Townhall meetings. It's the bragging about Slactivism that I'm against.
I think some of this disparagement activity is ratfucking sponsored by the Bad Guys.
It's kind of like the 1960s adage that the guy in your radical group who tells you you need to stop messing around with useless protests and get violent is the undercover cop.
@mattmcirvin excellent point. It absolutely is part of the authoritarian playbook to demotivate and generate a sense of powerlessness and inevitability.
Also, thank you for "ratfucking" that's a new phrase for me. All my old swear words are worn out.
It seems to be a term that originated in the context of mid-20th-century college pranks and was applied to national politics during the Watergate era.
if I could pin other folks’ posts… this would be the one.
YESSS.
Is one allowed to ask:
This specific action seems less useful then this other action, so why do the former ?
@failedLyndonLaRouchite
Nope.
Unless they ask for a critique re the efficiency of their resistance don't offer one. What they need to hear is "yay you!" or "good job pushing back!"
You are however allowed to ask:
"How can I help?"
well, I've been protesting since we tried to levitate the pentagon and I think you are wrong
it drives me insane all the time and energy people put into useless "protests"
@kerravonsen @geonz
Good discussion! Whether it's performative or not, a lot of uncertain people trying to find ways to engage with be lurking and would see folks being shot down for being perforative and then doubt themselves and their motives and be less likely to try something out of their comfort zone. It demotivates all around.
It isn't always about who you're talking to, it's also about who's quietly listening.
@cybershadow
It does!
The humans in power want us to loose hope and think, our small efforts do not matter, but they do.
Every drop counts!
Every light, no matter how small, contributes!
And with many of the little actions, we can become a flood.
Just keep going in your pace!💪
unless they do something that's actually useless, like voting, or calling their congressional representatives. then it's okay to shit on them, right? /s
and of course if they vote for either of the two major candidates it's our civic duty to call them a fascist
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☝️Two follow up thoughts from the conversations on this thread:
Patience.
For a lot of people, this is their first foray into non-compliance. They are going to start with small things within their comfort zone. This isn't a failure to do bigger things, this is training for it.
Self compassion.
If you are finding yourself angry at how little others are doing, you may be burned out. Rest is resistance too, as is pivoting to joy or humour in how you protest.
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Tautoko.
If everyone did one small act of resistance today the fight would be over tomorrow.
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I would say it is more about the how able you are to inhibit thoughts from becoming actions.
Sometimes that means losing focus on a task.
Sometimes that means blurting out something you didn't mean to.
Sometimes it means fidgeting.
Sometimes it means the world is gone to you while you stay narrowed in on a really demanding task for hours... or consistently for days, weeks, years.
learning about hyperfocus was the thing that made me consider getting tested for ADHD.
I don't have trouble focusing, I just can't control where my focus goes, and I have zero sensory filters, so my attention goes all over the place when I get too many different stimuli.
It certainly doesn't help that all my senses are unusually sensitive.
I absolutely agree. I wish I had more control over my hyperfocus, because when it kicks in, I stop thinking and just start doing.
There might be a few neurotypical people who did awesome things, but honestly? Having ADHD helps so much doing these things... If only we had more control over it!
I have ADHD, diagnosed around 1995, and medicated at the time. I have a genius level IQ and can hyperfocus. Taking care of daily life? Not so good. 😂
My family always said that a bomb could go off and I wouldn’t notice if I had my ‘nose in a book’. Same thing with my life in Electronics and Coding. Now I write novels.
Apparently I ‘fake’ respond to conversations, but have no clue what anyone said, or that I did so. Fortunately, my better half understands that now and when she wants my opinion knows to interrupt whatever I’m doing and make sure I am focused on her instead of the task at hand.
@Cornelius Flynn @unfa🇺🇦 My mother used to say that when I was on the computer, I wouldn't notice the house burning down until it took the power out.
She probably wasn't wrong.
Also, the fake responses thing was a real problem all throughout my schooling. I could even repeat back verbatim what had been said without actually absorbing it. That frustrated (and confused) even me.
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my tabletop party did this to a sphinx once. they played the sphinx like a goddamn fiddle.
they get to a sphinx and just stare at it. the sphinx gets fed up and asks "what'd you come here for? just to stare at me?"
they say "we came here to enter, we did not come here just to stare at you"
the sphinx goes "alright, i was getting worried. now, answer my riddles three and the door shall open to-"
they say "but we already answered them"
the sphinx then commits the fatal mistake of asking "when?"
the party cheerfully answers "now"
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“Have you read the new Crichton?”
“He’s dead, how can there be a new book.”
“Ghost written.”
“So it’s not by him and they paid some desperate kid to not have their name on the cover? Have some fucking respect, I’ll pass.”
“No, it’s cool, they used a Raspberry Pi, a surplus Russian GRAVEDUST unit and an CP/M emulator running WordStar to let him write from the Beyond. With a signal booster they reckon they’ll get a trilogy or two before he fades completely.”
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Meta: the MicroFiction part is that they could source a Raspberry Pi in this economy.
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YouTubessa voit nauttia parhaista videoista ja musiikista, ladata alkuperäistä sisältöä ja jakaa kaiken ystäviesi, perheesi ja koko maailman kanssa.Pivot to AI (YouTube)
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Woke up this morning to a very large unexpected bill that needed to be addressed immediately. Managed to put the immediate fire out (or at least reduce it to a manageable simmer) but it took several hours of negotiating and it burnt essentially all of my spoons for the day. I should have just written the rest of the day off and done nothing else.
Katy and I decided to go run an errand anyway because we could turn it into a nice relaxing bike ride, which honestly sounded pretty appealing. Unfortunately, the errand went sideways and resulted in me having to spend another hour on the phone putting out another urgent fire.
I've done what needed to be done, but I know I'm going to pay a heavy price for overtaxing my system like that. The spoon tax is real.
"But an act such as that is against the law!"
My dude, do you want to save the world or not?
Give people a complete program for the usecase you've envisioned and they'll complain about edge cases and missing features.
Give people powerful primitives and a way to arbitrarily combine them, and they will build the program they need themselves, programs which you've never dreamed of.
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Of course this is about Minecraft.
Any resemblence to Unix is coincidental.
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Eniko Fox
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •"of course the technology is developing less quickly now we all agreed to an AI development slow down because we were afraid we would develop AGI too quickly and it would be a skynet situation not so we can justify why our dead end tech isn't progressing"
"btw we just did an IPO please buy shares"
con men every last one of them
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Eniko Fox
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •Eniko Fox
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •also it's such "what would you say is your biggest weakness" interview question level bullshit
*i care too much about work voice* "well you see actually AI's biggest weakness is that it's progressing and becoming amazing too quickly"
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Clifton Royston
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •I completely agree with you on all of this. It's all so absurdly transparent I can't believe anybody over age 12 falls for it.
To follow, totally tangential joke on the interview question bullshit.
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Clifton Royston
in reply to Clifton Royston • • •On interview questions:
A guy goes in for a job interview. His resume looks good, and it's going well, so the interviewer starts giving him some of the standard questions and gets to "What would you say your greatest weakness is?"
"Oh, that's easy - I'm too honest with people."
"I don't think that sounds like much of a weakness."
"I don't give a fuck what you think."
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NormanDunbar
in reply to Clifton Royston • • •Jari Komppa 🇫🇮
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •"I don't think that's a weakness..?"
"I don't give a shit what you think"
aiuto
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •Bee O'Problem
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •biggest weakness?
Probably bench press... can't even do one plate. Oh, for tech work? Hmm... Yeah, it's bench press, yeah.
Edit: more relevant to the thread, I hope a lot of boosters lose their shirts on this crap. Gen AI is a cancer
Ben from CDS
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •This is my job right now but I'm working with an agency so I can't really diss the agency's previous guys to the client, which is probably why I'm posting about my frustrations here.
My current view is that Claude is an incredibly powerful tool for generating cruft.
Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •minus
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in reply to minus • • •Graham Sutherland🎃 / Polynomial.pdf.exe
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •luca
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •Kofi Loves Efia
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •kera remix in halloween party
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •CoffeeBoy
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •The tech lords are lying about their motive. The S curve on AI adoption is at 50% and they will only get another double from here.
So the LLM arms race needs to cool off a lot.
This is about survival and putting a fig leaf on it. But it won't stop the inevitable popping of the bubble. Too much supply, too little real demand. Sam loses money on every free user, and he has the most freeloaders because that is what he wanted.
We have to pause so LLMs don't get yo mama.
softproof
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in reply to Eniko Fox • • •M Schommer
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •It just needs to… kinda… reconcile. Focus. Ripen. Align. Take a deep breath. Ommmhhhh…