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Brett R

@swiftone@mastodon.online
mastodon 4.7.0-nightly.2026-08-14
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Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

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Joined November 04, 2022

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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · Jul 19, 2026
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

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Replying to @ilust606@mastodon.social
@ilust606@mastodon.social Unfortunately, changing times as most of us currently do has negative, too often deadly, consequences for everyone, regardless of location within a time zone. It's almost as if we should adjust local business hours to local conditions, and reduce the high pressure we're all under so that we can handle starting a little earlier somedays without it literally killing people . But I'm probably speaking nonsense.
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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · Jun 23, 2026
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

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Replying to @amydiehl@mstdn.social
@amydiehl@mstdn.social I'm reminded of this essay, https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/attack-on-competence , which argues that because competence requires you put results ahead of desires, competence is often viewed as a risk to those in power. That essay focuses on LLMs, but I feel the theory explains the attitude about remote work from those execs that complain the loudest.
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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · Jun 23, 2026
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

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Replying to @abmallgren@mastodon.social
@abmallgren@mastodon.social @amydiehl@mstdn.social I know I'm not giving your joke it's due, but it's worth mentioning that, while I know nothing of this study, many prominent CEOs taking positions against remote work don't hold themselves to the same requirements. Starbucks is one blatant example.
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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · May 09, 2026
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

mastodon.online

It really bothers me that the two biggest reductions in climate changing gas emissions are the unintended results of two authoritarian leaders each carrying out an unjustified war, and not because of decades of global human effort towards a common shared goal of reducing misery.

This fact implies multiple bad things about us.

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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · May 02, 2026
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

mastodon.online
Replying to @bri7@social.treehouse.systems
@bri7 @futurebird Your point about commands is a huge desl. It's why prompt injection remains a thing: the model has no concepts, has no way to process instructions that isn't using the exact same text prediction. Prompt injection is inherent and unfixable. Once I realized that, I realized LLMs should never be given private data.
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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · Apr 29, 2026
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

mastodon.online

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io > Is it legal to strangle people, asking for a friend.

I'm told cutting off air supply to brains can result in discord....

When I open Discord, there are always multiple updates to apply, each of which will open a new window that seizes focus, meaning that opening Discord results in being unable to use the machine for up to a minute (assuming the updates apply) because trying to do anything else is an exercise in frustration.

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Thomas Fuchs (@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io) - Hachyderm.io

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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · Apr 27, 2026
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

mastodon.online
Replying to @jneen@unstable.systems
@jneen Great point. Most people know an LLM can give them realistic looking but misleading results, but most rarely or never ACTUALLY verify the results, much less do so reliably. If you train them to, routine will have them soon cut corners. LLMs don't apply reasoning, concepts, or even words. They are fancy autocomplete to generate language of someone who is confident. Humans are vulnerable to overtrust confidence, that's what the "con" in "con man" means.
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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · Apr 27, 2026
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

mastodon.online

Apparently the U.S. Media may have surrendered their fight, but still doesn't like to be kicked

Quote is trimmed, original at https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/trump-evacuated-white-house-correspondents-dinner-security-incident/)

> O'Donnell said "he also wrote this, 'I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.' What's your reaction to that?"

> (Trump calls media "horrible people" and says " I'm— I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody."

> O'Donnell said, "Oh you think— do you think he was referring to you?"

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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · Apr 26, 2026
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

mastodon.online
Replying to @swiftone@mastodon.online
@sidereal For some reason an industry with a long history of fads and "revolutions" that either fade or do succeed but retain real issues, is particulaly hostile to questioning on "AI". Way more so than the no-code tools of the 80s-90s, the OOP push, Java/JVM, that weird Map-Reduce fetish, blockchain, etc.. This feels more...desperate and intense? Weirdly, I feel the big tech that DID change everything (the web) had/has healthy and considered skepticism among the hype the whole time.
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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · Apr 26, 2026
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

mastodon.online
Replying to @sidereal@kolektiva.social
@sidereal Agreed, and very confusing. Why no evaluation of costs/benefits? Why are these questions treated as idiotic and/or hostile? Costs (post VC funding) arent even estimated. Profitable companies are laying people off despite retention being cheaper/faster than hiring, and we're openly relying more on senior devs while gutting the creation of future seniors. Maintenance is the big cost, but little is said re: LLMs vs upkeep. The laser focus on the short term is almost fanatical.
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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · Apr 21, 2026
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

mastodon.online
Replying to @pleia2@floss.social
@pleia2@floss.social That thinking goes both ways though - back in the 90s I was trying to tell our mainframe guy about a webserver serving static files. He was utterly baffled, because "url path maps to file system path" was as much gibberish to him as his concepts were to me. That was my Least Productive Conversation Ever for a few years, until I tried to get a designer to give some visual rules for the CMS to follow, and anytime we got close to a rule he would add in "unless that would look bad".
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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · Apr 19, 2026
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

mastodon.online
Replying to @whangdoodler@piipitin.fi
@whangdoodler@piipitin.fi @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party "You should smile more! ...no, not like that!" You can't parody these people, reality is already too ridiculous to be believed.
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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · Apr 17, 2026
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

mastodon.online

@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io I'm a touch lost. Are you talking about the volumes of human-genersted training data and open source repos that were ingested?

Or are you looking at a different point?

hachyderm.io

Thomas Fuchs (@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io) - Hachyderm.io

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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · Apr 15, 2026
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

mastodon.online

@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us I love the self deprecating title, I also love anything that raises awareness of hype-based marketing in what is otherwise education.

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Reginald (@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us) - mastodon@bau-ha.us

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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · Apr 14, 2026
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

mastodon.online
Replying to @Brokar@mastodon.social
@Brokar @cwebber > Didn't think so You and I wouldn't. So many people would. Everyone hates LLMs when others use it, but very few of us refuse to use them when it is convenient to do so, and that convenience encourages (misplaced) trust. This attempt at AI won't stop getting used despite the glaring flaws until it is priced honestly, which will change the apparent convenience. Then so many will have been against it all along. (Unless it gets govt subsidized like the oil industry in the US)
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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · Apr 13, 2026
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

mastodon.online
Replying to @Nickiquote@mstdn.social
@Nickiquote The last 10 years have made me question this Reagan? Societal pressures would probably create a similar "leader" and similar results. But we might have unique (or at least too rare) blend of shamelessness, actually idiocy/dementia, and (granted, not so rare) narcissism, not to mention a drive to actually do things rather than be content. I'm still against the Great Man Theory, but I have far more doubt. Never thought THAT would be a concern of my later life
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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · Apr 06, 2026
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

mastodon.online
Replying to @mhoye@cosocial.ca
@mhoye I use the first pic to teach the difference between the purpose of a caption and alt text, with a guerilla casual mention of how much we owe Hamilton and similar minimized women.
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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · Mar 23, 2026
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io I remember Clipper chips.

I can't tell if this is "just" an attempt to have a tariff-like plaything, a way to gather bribes from companies seeking to be an exception, or an attempt to force NSA-compromised hardware on consumers.

All seem equally likely (and villainously stupid).

I'm honestly (really) surprised this wasn't leaked/obvious in advance though. This isn't an administration known for keeping their mouths shut. I'm curious where this came from.

hachyderm.io

Thomas Fuchs (@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io) - Hachyderm.io

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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · Feb 16, 2026
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

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Replying to @TerryBTwo@ohai.social
@TerryBTwo @tagir_valeev No one would ask this question while shuffling down a crowded stairwell and turn back? Or be in the bathroom and hoping not to have to rush out? It's weird to assume that people won't be a little lazy when LLMs are so successful BECAUSE people are eager to be lazy. Also weird to focus only on a very specific event as how "AI will kill us" when we already have machines driving cars into people, deleting production databases, encouraging people to kill themselves, etc.
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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · Feb 15, 2026
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

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Replying to @j_bertolotti@mathstodon.xyz
@j_bertolotti I'm sorry to see so many "um, actually"s. Beyond your example, disasters show people forming communities with strangers. Not only for mutual benefit, but to help the helpless. Recent times have injured my belief that "most people are basically good". Is "most" closer to 51% than 99%? Does a lazy good count as good? Hollywood tales of humans EAGER to turn on each other run deep. I keep doubting the actual history vs my expectations. But the history is real. Thx for the reminder.
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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · Feb 09, 2026
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

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Replying to @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io Shout out to the teachers that deal with disruptive students but refuse to get them arrested. One might think that such a low bar isn't worthy of praise, but anyone enduring personal effort/frustration in the name of simple basic decency is a model to follow, particularly when so many others are unwilling to. I'm sure schools using such agents likely aren't providing any better alternatives, making the effort harder.
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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · Jan 20, 2026
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

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Replying to @tina@social.spejset.org
@tina@social.spejset.org @faltzuthewiz@eliitin-some.fi I had one therapist that tried to take on concerns with rationalism "but is that actually a likely result?" It didn't work with "I can't remember my last successful project" and it REALLY doesn't work with fascism.
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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · Oct 07, 2025
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

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Replying to @Impertinenzija@mastodon.social
@Impertinenzija @mark Putting aside (briefly) the climate issues, my concern re: art is that new experienced artists will only come from those with enough spare money and time to gain art experience on the side. If humans stop designing greeting cards, billboards, music album "covers", illustrations on how to assemble your new desk, airplane safety brochures, or any other art job that pays the bills, how will new artists gain experience? *Apologies to anyone in these example jobs, I'm ignorant
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Brett R @swiftone@mastodon.online · Nov 18, 2024
Brett R
@swiftone@mastodon.online

He/him Old school Web developer, instructor, TTRPG GM/player, and student of the many things I should have already known.

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Replying to @Daojoan@mastodon.social
@Daojoan@mastodon.social All of this. I'd add in the sense of inevitability: it's true only because and as long as people believe it is inevitable. Realization of these problems should lead to hope and action, not resignation.
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