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Drikanis

@drikanis@mstdn.ca
mastodon 4.6.0-alpha.5+glitch

Techie, #software dev, #devops, #aromantic, #greyace

On the internet, nobody knows you're a cat.

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Drikanis
@drikanis@mstdn.ca

Techie, # software dev, # devops , # aromantic , # greyace On the internet, nobody knows you're a cat.

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Drikanis
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Techie, # software dev, # devops , # aromantic , # greyace On the internet, nobody knows you're a cat.

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@drikanis@mstdn.ca · 2d ago

our current decade has really perfected a specific feeling of hopelessness i really hoped would have stayed in dystopian sci-fi

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Techie, # software dev, # devops , # aromantic , # greyace On the internet, nobody knows you're a cat.

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@drikanis@mstdn.ca

Techie, # software dev, # devops , # aromantic , # greyace On the internet, nobody knows you're a cat.

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@drikanis@mstdn.ca · 3d ago

someone sent me a table of "security issues" for me to review, despite not being in security

i didn't recognize the report format, and it had some nonsense like a "high security" issue where ubuntu is downloading from our internal deb mirror over http instead of https (which is completely normal for debian/ubuntu since the packages and indices are all signed with a private key)

so of course i ask where it came from, and they tell me it came from copilot

i swear, if someone sends me another bit of slop for me to review for them, i'm burning this place down

LLMs are not useful as an informational tool since the only way to know they are correct is if you already know the information you are looking for

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Techie, # software dev, # devops , # aromantic , # greyace On the internet, nobody knows you're a cat.

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@drikanis@mstdn.ca

Techie, # software dev, # devops , # aromantic , # greyace On the internet, nobody knows you're a cat.

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@drikanis@mstdn.ca · 6d ago

i must have had a power surge or something over night. server tripped and got stuck in an unbootable state, one of my monitors died, and one of my keyboards is randomly not registering certain keys.

fixed the first two with a power cycle and replacing capacitors respectively, but the keyboard is still being annoying. :/

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Now I'm curious how the data looks for us nerds over here on the fediverse: where do you register your domains? If at multiple places, let's interpret this as if you were registering a domain today, w
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Techie, # software dev, # devops , # aromantic , # greyace On the internet, nobody knows you're a cat.

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Techie, # software dev, # devops , # aromantic , # greyace On the internet, nobody knows you're a cat.

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@drikanis@mstdn.ca · 6d ago
@gintoxicating somewhat embarrassingly, I'm using AWS. my previous registrar gave me basically zero control over the DNS, and AWS was the only one i knew at the time that would give me total control over everything.
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Techie, # software dev, # devops , # aromantic , # greyace On the internet, nobody knows you're a cat.

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@drikanis@mstdn.ca

Techie, # software dev, # devops , # aromantic , # greyace On the internet, nobody knows you're a cat.

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@drikanis@mstdn.ca · Mar 07, 2026
@lethalbit@vt.social saving cycles for more zoomies
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Techie, # software dev, # devops , # aromantic , # greyace On the internet, nobody knows you're a cat.

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Drikanis
@drikanis@mstdn.ca

Techie, # software dev, # devops , # aromantic , # greyace On the internet, nobody knows you're a cat.

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@drikanis@mstdn.ca · Feb 25, 2026
with another tech thing of mine breaking i finally got out a box to throw broken/unneeded tech into for recycling. now i've got a couple decades worth of old junk to sort through. some of them are old consoles and peripherals that i'm not sure what else to do with, and not sure if they even still function...
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Techie, # software dev, # devops , # aromantic , # greyace On the internet, nobody knows you're a cat.

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@drikanis@mstdn.ca

Techie, # software dev, # devops , # aromantic , # greyace On the internet, nobody knows you're a cat.

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@drikanis@mstdn.ca · Feb 25, 2026
bleh, spent all day in "ai" training/hype sessions, and immediately after we finished my mouse decided to break on the plus side, it seems most of the engineers who were panelists are aware of what this stuff actually is and what the limitations are, even though our company direction is still to use it everywhere at any cost. big focus on verifying what it's saying/doing and not just trusting it outright. i still don't like the stuff at all, but at least most people are approaching it with due caution.
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Reposting a question for Ed Zitron, I'll forward responses. He asked on Bluesky and will get sub-Mastodon-tier answers: "This is a serious question and I would be delighted if I only hear great things
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Drikanis
@drikanis@mstdn.ca

Techie, # software dev, # devops , # aromantic , # greyace On the internet, nobody knows you're a cat.

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@drikanis@mstdn.ca

Techie, # software dev, # devops , # aromantic , # greyace On the internet, nobody knows you're a cat.

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@drikanis@mstdn.ca · Feb 21, 2026
@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club For the record, I work at a software company that employs ~10k developers. Before LLMs, I'd encounter such engineers a couple of times a month, but I interact with a lot of engineers, specifically the ones that need help or are new at the company or industry at large, so it's a selected sample. Even the most inexperienced ones are willing and able to learn with some guidance. After LLMs, there's been a significant uptick, and these new ones are grossly incompetent, incurious, impatient, and behave like addicts if their supply of tokens is at all interrupted. If they run out of prompt credits, its an emergency because they claim they can't do any work at all. They can't even explain the architecture of what they are making anymore, and can't even file tickets or send emails without an LLM writing it for them, and they certainly lack in any kind of reading comprehension. It's bleak and depressing, and makes me want to quit the industry altogether.
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