beka valentine

beka_valentine@kolektiva.social

trans dyke hacking on @QueeriousLabs@twitter.com . she/her (xey/xem or ey/em if you're bored with binaries); no child zone, 18+ only current twitter handle: @defnotbeka@twitter.com former twitter handles: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/@beka_valentine" class="u-url mention">@beka_valentine</a> @illegally_beka

Posts

Post #4502884
an engineer is someone who accepts the liability of being wrong, because they have the training to know how to do it right a vibe coder is someone who accepts the liability of being wrong, because they have no choice or no brains
Post #4390744
been watching @beneater@twitter.com's series "Building an 8-bit breadboard computer!" and holy moly it's good https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypGqImE405J2565dvjafglHU
Post #4177571
the CIA is running some kind of internal political operation in California, but its agents are incredibly incompetent and one of them used their actual literal CIA HQ address that could be a fake out to take eyes off some other ops tho. if they were smart that's what they'd do. give you something to think you'd uncovered the plan and don't keep digging https://x.com/sf_mills/status/2082240822591013261
Post #4146944
in the long history of technology companies/startups/projects in the Bay Area, there are afaict only really two kinds: the kind where the point is to make money, and software is the means to that end and the kind where the point is to make something cool, and money is the means
Post #4079729
rip to everyone who prefers to self sooth by saying SpaceX rockets will always blow up instead of trying to organize around the reality of space capitalism
Post #4003741
there was all that discussion recently about LLMs and compilers and so on, and I think that ties in to my broader concerns about agency of computer users very closely
Post #3979728
basically every time i see someone saying WOW AI IS SO IMPRESSIVE NOW, its basically guaranteed to be impressive at things with no material consequence. it's all empty nonsense, they're impressed the AI is jumping over hurdles that they created for the purpose of AIs jumping them
Post #3904105
has anyone talked about how industrialization and mechanization alienates workers from the people who build the tools they work and how this means that the tools get fine tuned for capital instead of workers? did marx write about this?
Post #3666715
apprenticeship models of employment are really nice, and we need more things that can be shaped into that model it's kind of optimal in some ways? like, minimal skill threshold required, minimal requirements to get an apprenticeship, get trained on the job and paid to do it
Post #3551605
personally i'm ok with AI techniques being less well known but there's a deeper thing going on here which is far more important IMO, because it's also partially why LLMs have taken over == this thread is in response to this tweet: == https://x.com/krismicinski/status/2072303376629444764
Post #3547373
we need a storage format that isn't prone to data rot even if its comparatively slow
Post #3441467
if the co-CEO of Mullvad is donating money to far right whack jobs, can you really trust that the company isn't storing your activity? what trust can you have when your VPN activity data is a great weapon for the right wing? none. https://det.social/@lostgen/116820546568940358
Post #2546366
@hisham_hm https://x.com/qubitium/status/2054486051172094295
Post #2546365
the last month or so I&#39;ve been learning how to do shader programming in GDShader (a derivative of GLSL), and the last two weeks or so I&#39;ve been creating shaders for things in scifi shows, and this has been the most fun I&#39;ve had in AGES
Post #2175537
wanna know one of the dirty little secrets of how to make a cool science fiction set? this bad boy right here, the NFS 4 Freezer Spacer. this fucker shows up EVERYWHERE in scifi set design ceilings? check! floors? check! walls? check! tables? check! instant scifi vibe
Post #1870306
new video! Recreating the VPL DataGlove, Part 3: Tube+Fiber Flex Sensor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U971dbM8m20
Post #1586269
i think we need to recognize the literacy crisis as extending well beyond just literal reading-and-writing literacy and consider broader literacy in modern technology. i know so many young adults who are completely unaware of how to use computers in even basic ways
Post #1411918
FLOSS devs! have enough self respect to say &quot;this is my hobby, not my work, if you don&#39;t like that, too bad!&quot;
Post #1141300
1990s VR on the web was such an incredibly utopian vision, it&#39;s a real shame we don&#39;t have any movement remotely like that today
Post #989425
every rocket ship should be legally required to play Steppenwolf&#39;s Magic Carpet Ride during launch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIpXYU-9CBM
Post #783890
why the fuck is there a military jet without a call sign screaming over SF
Post #653014
no one is taking this war as seriously as we should be and it&#39;s driving me mad we are on the brink of nuclear war because of this and no one seems to understand this or the fact that they will fucking die if a nuke is used everyone dies, and no one seems to get it
Post #404950
cool new posters going up all over SF
Post #294343
there is a widespread belief among people with even a little technical and scientific savvy that Alchemy was a bunch of hooey, that they never published their experiments, that alchemists had to each discover on their own not to drink mercury, etc but this is urban legend!
Post #252164
deploying solar panels over farms increases crop yields by up to 18% by preventing them from getting scorched, meaning huge solar power plants can be built with no harm to natural landscapes https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/19/france-agrivoltaics-trials-show-early-crop-and-livestock-gains/
Post #218045
everything is so stupid now we have the worst losers as evil overlords instead of villains who secretly invent the universal constructor that could end all poverty and illness, but keep it for themselves we have violent asswipes who can't control their dicks
Post #205131
the honest tinfoil hat nutballs are gonna have to start inventing stories about the illuminati secretly trying to make the world better and kinder, just to get their kicks