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@carnage4life@mas.to Blockchains and cryptocurrency have successfully conquered money laundering and bribery.

Guy from one of the big AI companies in a presentation was boasting about writing 90k lines of code in a week, none of it being reviewed, and it’s okay if it’s bad code because we all write bad code and anyway only LLMs will look at it. This is the epitome of coder versus software engineer, except now the coder has a firehose that sprays out code.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@appleinsider/116975524473168017 I suspect that in the age of AI, trusting that sources are real humans will be a based on a social verification graph. I can vouch that people I personally know are human. They can vouch for people they know. If there were a way to compute the social confidence score of any given poster, it could filter out a lot of bots. You’d think meta would be well-positioned to implement something like this. But instead they’re just going to do the idiotic face scanning thing.

Panics on memory error detection is not memory safety. If your application is memory-safe then your users will never encounter the effects of memory errors.

Name your phone such that the person renting a car after you wonders what the hell

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place Pro tip: you can use more capable languages as a preprocessor for C https://ioc.exchange/@shac/115527492056624860

@maxleibman@beige.party @GayDeceiver@mstdn.social There are only two Terminator movies

Hotel architect: here it is, the standard room. The windows cannot be opened and the air conditioning recirculates the air from the room. Customer: how do guests get oxygen into their room? How do they get rid of carbon dioxide and other gasses? Architect: is that something people care about?

The #Rivian R2 has insanely thick pillars. I have no idea why or how, but being inside one feels like being in a bunker. I haven’t seen any reviewer mention this.

@macrumors@mastodon.social He’s right that Apple is largely insulated from an AI bubble burst, but forgets that consumer confidence will fall as the whole economy takes a hit and that will hurt sales. He’s wrong that AI is needed to make the Vision Pro viable. It has little bearing on the viability of the product, it’s still dead.

@doctorgoktor@mastodon.social @steve@discuss.systems Sounds like a good option if the latency doesn’t ruin playing videos and video conferencing. I will try it out

@steve@discuss.systems That works with an added amp. What I really want is a device that takes several usb / hdmi inputs, digitally mixes them, and has a DAC and stereo amplifier integrated. But with good quality sound.

What’s the sane way to pipe audio from three desktop computers into one pair of stereo speakers? Ideally mixed and low-ish latency. Don’t say Bluetooth.

Piano black plastic in cars continues to be a terrible idea.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/117004017011678594 It’s true that user reviews are mostly garbage. Some of this can be fixed by adding communication channels between users and developers. Ways to report bugs, get support, and request features would go a long way towards removing bad feedback reviews. Of course most developers are strongly opposed to these because it increases the load on them.

@vitaut@mastodon.social or if it evaluates to a value

I’m declaring a global Snow Leopard year. No new software features, everyone just work on fixing all the AI-reported bugs in your code.

There is no yikes big enough

Pages don’t exist. It’s a scam by Big MMU

@adhdeanasl@beige.party It’s called a turbo boost but you can only use it once per episode

And yes, I know I’m probably missing some exciting chrome extensions that do that in some broken way. But this should be the default behavior.

@jilleduffy@mastodon.social I see many instances of running the same prompt to do a task repeatedly that would be much better served by having the AI produce a script once that would do the same task repeatedly. People use LLMs as the only tool when it is expensive and unpredictable, instead of using it to build cheap and reliable tools and processes.

Bonus, we managed to log you out of single-sign-on while you were using another SSO-based site.

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange But microkernels are so much more cleaner…

@appleinsider@mastodon.social Dvorak made a career out of writing the dumbest takes on technology. Here are a couple of all-time classics.

@harrymccracken@mastodon.social EBay also strongly condemns what happened but needed 5 years of lawsuits to finally settle. So maybe they don’t feel that strongly about it.

While we’re at it, middle clicking on the back and forward buttons should open those in new tabs, too.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cultofmac/117045754026473790 Attempting to avoid spoilers for Silo and Peacemaker but 🤷, so don’t read further if you’re concerned. Some shows debut new seasons that undo a big chunk of what was accomplished in the previous season. This is when I check out of the show. #silo and #peacemaker are both shows I thought were great that did this recently. I didn’t make it past episode 1 of the newest season of either one.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@buckfiftyseven/116982919777937543 Here you go: Nvidia’s open source driver that supports all current chipsets. https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

@synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net Silo had a very slow warmup but I thought it got really good by the second season. Good enough to overlook the horrible pitch-black cinematography in several episodes. They do a good job of ramping up the reveals.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/technology-shjum1jiz/-/a-78dxe3uURz67Zpo-HZo8zQ%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0 We realize some of our customers are disappointed by increased hardware costs. So we’ve decided to raise prices on services too while they’re already mad.

@stiiin@infosec.space @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange waterlogged skin swells, not wrinkles. Dehydrated skin would wrinkle.

@electrek@mastodon.online that’s an enormous Corolla

@arstechnica@mastodon.social the ugly giant grille does not say US in mind. It screams China.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I’m grateful we have linux to keep the latter users busy in their basements and away from society

@siguza@infosec.space fsck because it didn’t unmount cleanly?

In order to update the navigation software in my wife’s car, I have to connect the car to WiFi. No, not to download the update and install it, that would be silly. Instead it needs to register itself with the manufacturer so that their website allows me to download the update to a USB stick for installation.

@never_released@mastodon.social This would never be a problem on a microkernel. There it would only lock up the Bluetooth server. This would hang the HID server, network server, and audio server. These in turn would cause the a cascade of failures and hangs that bring down all of userspace. But the good news is that the scheduler will remain alive.

Owned once again by #macOS Calendar’s broken #Exchange integration. Sitting around waiting for a meeting that was canceled but Calendar is still showing.

@thenewsdesk@flipboard.com @news-thenewsdesk I don’t know what happened at Flipboard, but the news curation quality has dropped precipitously in recent months. A horoscope isn’t news.

@theinformation LM Studio Bionic will run any model you want, including local models. No need to hack Claude Code.

@ewhac@mastodon.social The protection is not absolute, it is a score. But more importantly, it’s not a graph where once you’re in, you are trusted. People would be scored (for you) relative to how many links get from you to them, and how strong those links are. If all your first hop friends know Alice, she will score high. If a set of people distant from you who have low scores are friends with Eve, she’s not going to have a very high score. And when you tag her as a bot, you’ll drag down the scores of all those who linked to her and their other links. At least in theory. I can’t say I put much thought into this and I’m sure it won’t be that simple.

@lproven@social.vivaldi.net The assumption here is that companies care about architecture and technical debt. Most care about getting a product out the door and keeping it working well enough that customers keep using it. Technical debt cleanup, good architecture, lack of duplication, etc are all things to enable human developers to function effectively. LLMs don’t complain about bad code, they just keep chugging through it. The context window problem will be overcome by summarizing and delegating to subtasks. It’s still cheaper than paying us to fix it.

@carnage4life@mas.to AMD hardware performance is roughly on par with Nvidia. Underinvestment in software is their main problem.

@steve@discuss.systems it would be nice if someone could actually make some high quality Lego-compatible pieces. Doesn’t even have to be a set, just bricks and figures.

A fun part of needing to wake up insanely early is that I get to stay up all night anticipating my alarm instead of getting the small amount of sleep I could be

Some people think memory should be private, fenced in, hidden behind translations. They are taking away your freedom to share and collaborate.