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• Post #4502324

  Shout out to whatever Aunt/Uncle/Grandparent or whoever that gave 10 year old me a CD-rom setup for people to make their own Doom *.wads , with CAD and all sorts of stuff, and gave me my first existential crisis involving computers. All I really remember is that opening the CAD software resulted in a black screen managed by inscrutable keyboard shortcuts and I couldn't get it to be anything but that black screen... https://infosec.exchange/@st1nger/117052788992647901

• Post #4502323

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• Post #4502322

  "We get up at 12 and start to work at 1! Take an Hour for lunch and then, at 2, we're done! Jolly Good fun!" ~ The Ozian Workers (The Merry Old Land of Oz)

• Post #4502321

  "Electric Shock Hazard? No, User-Servicable parts inside!"

• Post #4502320

  Found a YouTube video about a PureData module, said to download from their defunct WordPress site; Wayback Machine has the site but not the Zip file... So, naturally, I have to recreate the patch by looking at the Lowres vision of it on the 13 year old video... Bitrot is annoying - the Internet is forever, except the bits you want.

• Post #4486895

  You "have to" use "AI" right now because unless you work hard to avoid it then it's already been inserted into all the major websites and between you and the information you seek -- The Old Ways of searching are gone, you have to use smaller more specialized databases and constantly battle the encroachment of "AI" into search tools. https://techhub.social/@rayckeith/117061225151966686

• Post #4486894

  It's interesting how this grocery chain has "Digital-Only Coupons" that you need an app (spyware) to activate -- and they'll just straight up send you notifications about advertisements...

• Post #4448172

  I hope Elon's right and the internal contradictions of Capitialism 202X cause an instant reversal into Fully Autonomous Luxury Space Communism -- but maybe that's just a marketing gimmick to sell the idea that giving him more money will make everyone rich.

• Post #4448171

  "The authors propose what they call a Contextual Copyleft AI License (CCAI) — a novel extension of copyleft licensing, which would treat generative AI models as derivative works and require AI developers training models on open-source code to make their architecture and training data freely available." - Yale researchers propose ‘copyleft’ rules for generative AI https://news.yale.edu/2026/06/15/yale-researchers-propose-copyleft-rules-generative-ai

• Post #4437786

  Well, that's a new one for me... (not my circus, not my monkeys)

• Post #4437785

  The AI moves faster and breaks more things than any human ever could, and all it takes is a bunch of strip-mined rare earth minerals, fossil fuels augmented by solar/wind power, and potable drinking water. https://mastodon.nl/@Jigsaw_You/117053997405117645

• Post #4178458

  I live in the Dairy Fiefdom of Marburger; but the local gas station's new owner has brought me Strange Creamer, from the Fiefdom of Turner's. Turner's is more famous for Iced Tea across the Greater Pittsburgh Area, and every gas station must have it, so consolidating suppliers is wise. They only had quarts instead of my usual pints, so it'll last twice as long, and wasn't anywhere close to twice the price as my usual pint of creamer, probably only a few...

• Post #4178457

  So, it seems my prediction from ~2018 holds out... AI can never be Great because Humans have no idea what they want and even less of an idea of how to describe it. https://lipn.info/@mevenlennonbertrand/116997917683191056

• Post #4178456

  We apologise again for the faults in the Monty Python References. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.

• Post #4178455

  the orphan-crusher is going to crush us all eventually; you just gotta make sure it rolls over your parents before it gets to you or else you won't be an orphan yet and it won't count.

• Post #4160386

  The battle between my ethics and my need to eat, compounded by 20 years of suffering in the Software Industry, is particularly hard today.

• Post #4133702

  "this is an equity-only role" ... el-oh-el ...

• Post #4133701

  Trying to find a job board that isn't just scams and remembered Dice.com exists; the front page main headline is "AI Skills. Bigger Chances. Better Jobs." and explains "With 73% of tech job postings now requiring AI skills, Dice gives your expertise the competitive edge it deserves." ... But the AI was supposed to make work easier, not create a whole new category of "Non-transferable Skills"

• Post #3938740

  LLMs are the purest form of distilled capitalism.

• Post #3938739

  Employers didn't believe in transferrable skills before the AI Apocalypse, and they still don't - even though they got the "AI" because it allowed people with no skills at all to "write code"

• Post #3938738

  I still think the "Nobody Wants To Work Anymore!" people and the "The AI does my Job for Me!" people should have to knife-fight like the Beat It video.

• Post #3917479

  every tech job RN is like "Here's all the 3rd Party Organizations we're leveraged against; You have to understand them, because we bought their product(s) and don't know what to do about it ever since our previous development team died in that tragic plane crash!"

• Post #3907639

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@amydiehl/116936603119956422 I'm sure the Businessfolk have figured out that LLMs can't become whistleblowers - but it looks like the law isn't protected communicating with LLMs to begin with, and the LLMs may not be deleting things the users think are deleted... they will, however, use every weapon at their disposal to defend their income.

• Post #3907638

  If you consume content, but never produce content; are you constipated? #shitposting

• Post #3907637

  Huh, I guess I got 2 FTDI/Uart dongles ... And I'm going to assume the blue one only has 4 pins because it's missing a 3.3v line and came with an Arduino kit.

• Post #3907636

  RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116932984817903854 Is it possible that Elon failing to launch rockets is no longer newsworthy to the mainstream outlets?

• Post #3907635

  somebody should toss me $50 for a Shodan membership; I promise I can be trusted with search filters :3 https://ko-fi.com/kirch/goal?g=2

• Post #3907634

  I lost a billion dollars this year because nobody gave me a billion dollars despite my potential to earn a billion dollars. https://bsky.app/profile/futurism.com/post/3mqud5qn7ug2y

• Post #3907633

  RE: https://tilde.zone/@kirch/116850852523326043 did ... did I predict Linus being "apolitical" ...?

• Post #3781198

  #NaNoGenMo kinda lost its fun when all these LLMs hit, but also all the LLMs are real bad at story writing? Like, just the cheesiest schlock unless you really fiddle and edit well, at which point you might as well just write your own damned book. https://mastodon.social/@regehr/116904507121217956