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• Post #3839715

  @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems aside, i've been reading up on watchmaking and have seen talks from watchmakers bemoaning the rise of cheap quartz watches, with their poor battery life and short shelf life, as their whole industry got commoditised from underneath them, transforming into luxury goods for collectors and software already has some of the commoditisation already, like say drupal ecosystem, or not having to write your own os so unless fashions change again it feels we'r...

• Post #1948993

  anyway, "world standards day", to celebrate international standards, was on october the 14th unless you're in america, in which case it's next week, the 14th of november

• Post #1919892

  seeing someone note that 'in theory, quality has gotten cheaper as tools have become more powerful, and yet quality doesn't seem to arrive' and i'm torn between going "the technical is social before it is technical" or just "that's capitalism for ya, the best quality at the lowest of prices"

• Post #1919891

  update: smaller crane

• Post #1919890

  code with a bus factor of zero

• Post #1890039

  folding smaller and smaller cranes at work

• Post #1805688

  seeing windows benchmark itself against steamos is a bit "2027 is the year of windows on the desktop"

• Post #1797191

  zoom, enhance

• Post #1414465

  i know this is mastodon and most people here haven't renewed their poetic license but seriously, non technical people will regularly use some part of the system to refer to the whole, and it doesn't make then any less correct fussing over the details is just being pedantical

• Post #1212101

  mastodon users are genuinely unrivaled at reading posts as questions and answering them wrong

• Post #1009008

  finding myself repeating "fuzzers are stochastic, with enough cpu time you will always find a bug, results are a usually demonstration of resources not algorithms" like, hacking, along with spam and fraud are the sorts of activities where things only need to work 0.1% of the time to be successful it isn't a demonstration of clever code or tooling but the uncompromising effectiveness of sheer brute force heh

• Post #17804

  in hindsight, it's a little unfair to characterise all of the pro GenAI people as "wanting to bring about the antichrist" some are "a few dead teenagers is an inalienable price of technological progress" and some are more "psychotic breaks? magical thinking? sounds like a skill issue, i am smarter than every dead teenager" it's one thing to have the nftesque fait accomplit "the future is here and it's not going away" but hearing "genai...