Jerry Orr
jerryorr@fosstodon.org
<p>Software Developer by trade. Here for great <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SciFi</span></a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fantasy</span></a> content (<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/microfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>microfiction</span></a>, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>art</span></a>, everything); the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>programming</span></a>, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tech</span></a>, and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span
Posts
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Post #2690333
&gt; We talk a lot about &quot;enshittification&quot;these days… It&#39;s about how platforms start great, get greedy, and slowly turn into user-hostile sludge. But what we rarely talk about is the alternative. What do you do when the product you rely on rots from the inside? &gt; &gt; The French have a phrase for this: Demerdez-vous. The literal translation is &quot;unshit yourself&quot;. What it actually means is to find a way, even if no one is helping you. Le...
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Post #2690332
Awesome story about a &quot;Freedom Phone&quot; from the 80s: &gt; What you had to do was push the button down and say a command word like &quot;DIAL&quot;, then wait for it to do the &quot;ke-bwoop&quot; confirmation noise and show &quot;DIAL&quot; on the single-line display. Then you&#39;d read out the numbers one by one, waiting after each one for it to confirm. &quot;1&quot; *wait* &quot;2&quot; *wait* &quot;0&quot; *wait* &...
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Post #2690331
&gt; The T-Rex doesn&#39;t want to be fed. It wants to hunt. https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/slop-is-everywhere-for-those-with-eyes-to-see/ #technology #AI #AISlop
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Post #2690330
&gt; We are effectively back to the era of downloading .exe files from the internet and running them without a second thought. Excellent point. And I love the framing of “Markdown.exe” https://idiallo.com/byte-size/markdown-exe #AI #programming #llm #tech
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Post #2690329
I am the John Henry of “tldr;” No AI wil ever beat me
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Post #2690328
&gt; Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory. Leo Tolstoy, over a century before ChatGPT and Claude Code came along #AI