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• Post #4033961

  Idiots hiring: Applicant: "What's the salary?" Company: "Well that depends, we need to interview you first, but it's certainly competitive..." Applicant: "... okay?" Three or more rounds later... Company: "We think you're a great fit, we'd like to offer you the position. At $X per year." Applicant: "That's not competitive, I make 30% more now, and you said I'd have to relocate..." Company: "Well, if it's just...

• Post #2441080

  Imagine your boss saying "Look, the genie is out of the bottle. We may not like it, but everybody else is using slave labor, too. So we can no longer afford not to use it ourselves..." and handing you a brand-new whip along with a voucher for a highly reputable slave-whipping course next week. Yes, this is exactly about what you think it is about. Just how happy are you with yourself for taking that whip and attending that course? #noAI #fuckCapitalism

• Post #2299180

  I love it when a political party goes "You must give us money! If you don't, then only the rich people will give us money, and then we'll have to do what they want us to do." Like they'd ever do anything else anyway! Politicians have absolutely no shame.

• Post #2299179

  Finally blocked Terence Tao. Wow. Hey I am sure you're really smart but that doesn't mean you're not also very very dumb. #noai #AbundanceOfRubbish

• Post #2299178

  Sometimes all it takes to make some progress is to collect some very basic statistics like mean and variance. Had to do that "online" today and used a bunch of vintage 1962 technology to make it work. I can't even imagine how often Welford's algorithm must have been reinvented badly over the years. If you're not familiar with it ... take a look! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_for_calculating_variance#Welford's_online_algorithm

• Post #2299177

  Code you don't understand is not a solution. It's just code you don't understand. Unlike in school you may not catch a bad grade for not understanding it. But you'll still catch all the actual trouble that comes from not understanding it. 🤷 #noai

• Post #1649047

  Oh hey, the "Did you know that Germans are genetically superior? Who are you calling a Nazi? It's just a fact and 'science' says so my dear Untermensch!" videos have started to appear on the youtubes. I guess this fucking country is poised to (once again) rule Europe for a thousand years? 🤮 Wow I hate all these Nazi fucknuts out there. 🖕 👊 #fcknzs #germany #fckafd

• Post #1649046

  Tired: "...können wir uns so nicht mehr leisten..." Wired: "...verkauft den Sozialstaat an den meist-bietenden..." Inspired: #Merz #entkanzlern

• Post #1649044

  If you were a nice person before and are now also an "AI" booster, then you're probably still a nice person, mostly, but sadly you're also an "AI" booster. So get out of my timeline and boost your "AI" drivel somewhere else. Thanks. #noai #vaguetoot

• Post #1649043

  It's funny when "subject X" comes up and you point out that "doing X" supports fascism and everybody turns to you and says, in unison, "You cannot be serious. How could doing X support fascism. Everybody does it. We do it. So according to you we are all fascists. You cannot be serious. You cannot be. You cannot be. You cannot be. We will not let you. You must leave. Leave. Leave. Leave now." and then everybody turns away again to disc...

• Post #1100190

  Well, what can I say, I now have a new favorite 13.2 kB of data. Mad props! https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=aLiuF9k3Xt4&t=2778s #revision2026

• Post #1100189

  I have found that SOMETIMES that familiar first impression of "This is terrible, how could they?" one gets when looking at someone else's code simply means that the purpose has not become sufficiently clear yet. 🤔 For example, back when I was still teaching, I found that students who grew up on Java could not AT ALL figure out how some C code I gave them could possibly work without a single dynamic memory allocation anywhere. They promptly rewrote much of it to use mal...

• Post #1100188

  "For those unfamiliar, a platform ... is a statement of values that a political party stands for, generally agreed upon by people who stand for election as representatives of the party." Sorry anonymous person who is super-excited for your new platform, that's not ENTIRELY correct. More accurately a platform is a STATEMENT of values that NOBODY who gets ELECTED into POSITIONS OF POWER is bound by. And the PARTY will not enforce those values either because it is so ver...

• Post #1100187

  I keep seeing people post this thing like it's an important statement. So I read it... And it's an entertaining read until you realize that the author himself is an "AI guru" and all he ever says in this piece is "you're doing it wrong" but never "the technology is wrong". So yes, he characterizes the terrible consequences idiot "AI" decision-making by idiot CEOs has for companies. But he never expr...

• Post #977838

  During a discussion of how only power matters between states, not laws (whether international or not, whether long-established or not), I was reminded of Alan Watts' saying "There really is no other problem for human beings than ... [death]" [1] and how that encompasses ALL of the various struggles humanity has been through whether it's against slavery or for the eight hour day or whatever you look at. The threat is always, ultimately, "comply or we wil...

• Post #977837

  Let me get this straight. German politicians think it's a Good Thing (tm) if their citizens need to use identification that can be switched off by two US corporations. It will be the policy of Germany to require all German citizens to use credentials from US corporations for their day-to-day interactions with the German state, for example when getting married or when filing taxes. Just exactly HOW MUCH SHIT is in these people's brains? They don't deserve to make ANY decis...

• Post #977836

  I am messing around with creating my own .deb files and slapping together my own roughly Debian-shaped apt repository. The plan is to fill it with #NoAI packages that were built using #NoAI compilers and libraries. I am not at all sure if I am really the person to be doing this, but surely SOMEBODY must start? Or maybe this is already in progress elsewhere and once again I don't know about it?

• Post #977835

  I don't care one bit if "official" accounts exist in the Fediverse. I don't care if this or that newspaper, this or that city, this or that state, this or that ministry/department of some state, this or that professional organization, this or that famous person, this or that ... whatever are here. Indeed I often block those things anyway, even entire "official" instances. I like accounts of normal people best. To me, that's what the Fed...

• Post #977834

  "THE FEDIVERSE IS FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. IT DOES NOT SUPPORT YOUR DESIRED ENGAGEMENT MODALITIES AND IS UNABLE TO PROVIDE ANY REASONABLE MONETIZATION OPTIONS POSSIBLY CONTRARY TO YOUR EXPECTATIONS. DON'T RELY ON THE FEDIVERSE AS YOUR SOLE SOURCE FOR FAKE FAME, MINDLESS FOLLOWERS, OR INFLATED INCOME. POST TO THE FEDIVERSE AT YOUR OWN RISK FOR HORRIBLE LIFE-LONG NEVER-ENDING WHEATON-SHATNER-PIONEERED EMBARRASSMENT ETERNAL. OH AND ... SUCK A BAG OF DICKS." #fediv...

• Post #977833

  A system I work on regularly has one calloc/free and one mmap/munmap left. Aside from those it's "statically allocated" meaning the entire life of the system takes place in a bunch of arrays of structs. Yes quite a few structs have brands and pointers to them are branded as well. That's because it's possible for a reference you are holding to become invalid without you doing anything to it. Think "reference to a USB disk" and someone p...