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• Post #2795678

  I'm working on a book of deeply computer-related poems, each paired with a vignette. I think they fit perfectly here in Mastodon! This time around: Buffer overflow. Your wife is sleeping with another man! #writing #writingcommunity #poetry #poetrycommunity #computerscience #smallstory #fiction #shortstory

• Post #2795677

  @Schouten_B @Aedius @firefoxwebdevs I've been trying to find information but providers are not transparent and they seem to not be under pressure to report, but https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/ seems like a good start. Perhaps if Mozilla explicitly states it will only/preferentially use open source models for which energy costs can be approximated, it would send a message. Those models are getting pretty good anyway.

• Post #2795676

  https://tuentality.wordpress.com/2026/05/15/which-gen-ai-provider-should-you-use-to-minimize-your-carbon-footprint/ "Claude and Meta appear to be the least polluting[1]. A true believer, “native”, use-loops-and-subagents-all-the-time user of ChatGPT and Codex is responsible for burning the equivalent of at least 32 liters (7 gallons) of car fuel every month[2] — about 30 times more than a casual user, who would burn through only one liter (using Claude or LLama on AWS for the same task...

• Post #2795675

  I recently interviewed for an engineering manager position at a startup and one of the first questions was how much I wanted to fire underperformers. I explained that firing meant management had a problem, either by not screening correctly or by not giving engineers the support and environment they need to perform, and that I could do it once but would always consider it a management problem, not an individual contributor's, so they could not expect me to do it regularly, preferring inst...