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• Post #4492255

  “But here I am, buying meth on a street corner for the past year and a half. I’m not comfortable with it, but the utility is just too great for me to take a principled stance here. I like it, and I want it, so I’m using it. Maybe that’s morally questionable, or worse. But, as I said: here I am.”

• Post #4484604

  Can’t decide if Blue Prince is genius or 12.5% too smug

• Post #4483410

  “Symbolics Technologies is pleased to announce that Symbolics Genera [is] now available under a free for non-commercial use license. For details, please visit https://www.symbolics.biz “

• Post #4483409

  BREAKING: Walmart’s AI lab says their new model is so intelligent it created a secret space program and visited other planets while researchers were out on a coffee break.

• Post #4483408

  he’s the person most individually responsible for the biggest fraud in human history, the collapse is going to make 2008 look like a paper cut, and you’re mostly worried about whether he’s on Grindr?

• Post #4483407

  The only thing I know about SCADA is the noise when people like @hacks4pancakes suck air through their teeth and make The Face.

• Post #4452205

  Good news, everyone. Only three more days until the next insultingly stupid press release from a “frontier” “AI” “lab” makes another nonsensical claim and gets uncritically reprinted by every newspaper on Earth.

• Post #4403848

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@pallenberg/117043093887400189 the wrong robots are dying

• Post #4387238

  Stating for the record that I have met Aral Balkan ( @aral@mastodon.ar.al) in person, and have engaged with him personally and professionally for roughly 13 years. Adopting a lazy and brainless “devil’s advocate” position that maybe his current humanitarian work _could_ be some sort of financial scam is incorrect, unhelpful, and contributes nothing but noise to a serious and unpleasant topic. Please stop it.

• Post #4375524

  I know which side of the “model rights wars” I’m going to be on, ffs, because I’m exactly the sort of person who keeps a gun next to the printer in case it makes a noise I don’t recognise

• Post #4298014

  sat down to read @grimalkina@mastodon.social’s book only to find my partner has TAKEN IT WITH THEM

• Post #4297922

  I’d love to know what people outside the industry think “data centre” actually means, because no one I know expects them to contain any jobs at all. As someone who has built several: any employee is a design flaw.

• Post #4270314

  blog posts that take 12 paragraphs to reveal that the author’s cool new framework is just claude vomit is this decade’s version of recipes that spend 12 paragraphs reminiscing about their great-grandparent’s cardigan before telling you how many fucking eggs you need

• Post #4229327

  Lazyweb: do long range wireless USB keyboards exist? By long range, I mean better than Apple’s built-in Bluetooth, which remains reliable at 10m through several walls but gets jittery at 20m plus more walls. No combination of related search terms produces useful results on The Internet Of Today. [I have embedded RF engineering experience and understand what I’m asking for and how these protocols work. No, I don’t want to rewire the affected systems to do this some other way. Yes, I know about U...

• Post #4183774

  ENVIOUS WINDFUCKER

• Post #4137709

  And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

• Post #4097400

  I’m pretty bored with this whole notion that just because some people have built ridiculously baroque software development setups that don’t work and mostly produce garbage, that somehow justifies the wholesale adoption of wildly unethical code-writing robots that also don’t work and cause brain damage in people who use them too much. I did something stupid so now it’s OK for everything to be stupid is certainly an argument. It’s just not a very compelling argument.

• Post #4075129

  someone should check in on that poor screaming cannibal and make sure they’re ok

• Post #4055077

  `camelCase-Or-Dashes -use-both` wtf `Import-Module .\running-with-scissors.opaqueCompiledXMLblobThing` wtaf `Do-Magic -Scope knownUniverse` wtffffff

• Post #4004789

  @mhoye@cosocial.ca You were right about 1000xRESIST.

• Post #4004699

  It will surprise absolutely no one that Apple’s HomeKit, Shortcuts and Night Shift features all have wildly different ideas about what time “sunset” is.

• Post #3985100

  It’s hilarious* that 99% of the non-commercial game streaming on this planet happens between a reverse-engineered client application and a reverse-engineered server. The original client and server are long since abandoned, and only the protocol remains.

• Post #3974124

  Dunno if you need to hear this today, but both Melissa Etheridge (Memphis Rock and Soul) and Cyndi Lauper (Memphis Blues) have released spectacular albums of blues covers that approximately no one knows about. Available everywhere fine music is streamed without paying the artist a goddamn thing.

• Post #3927463

  You can't stop Canva cramming worthless shit into the Affinity suite but you can customise the "AI Studio" into something a little more honest, complete with an appropriately coloured icon.

• Post #3900185

  Today I am thankful for the unnamed mesoamerican genius who looked at the extremely unpromising seeds of a cacao tree and thought “I bet I can turn that into something that’ll change your life.”

• Post #3900168

  Today I am thankful for the unnamed mesoamerican genius who looked at the extremely unpromising seeds of a cacao tree and thought “I bet I can turn that into something that’ll change your life.”

• Post #3898884

  Yesterday I found out that a moderately famous local wildlife photographer doesn’t use an SLR or mirrorless camera and instead takes all their photos on an integrated lens dad-cam, which is pretty cool. My mistake was trying to explain what a “dad-cam” was by casually googling for a definition in front of other people. Sometimes it feels like the only purpose of my life is to serve as a warning to others.

• Post #3898418

  bit too much brutal truth on the timeline for a sleepy saturday morning here on masto dot don *cough*mhoye*cough*glyph*cough*

• Post #3845437

  So the guy who originally wrote the linux kernel now claims the GPL isn’t a religion, and I’m like

• Post #3823965

  love these guys, great service, A+