I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: it is morally correct to snatch Meta Ray-Bans off of someone’s face and smash them.

The Fedora AI-assisted contributions policy makes the same mistake that every "use it but just be careful" policy makes, which is a belief that humans can or will sustain careful critical attention on work they did not do themselves. The only sensible policy is a total ban. lwn.net/Articles/104...

No question in my mind he could level the whole thing and get zero pushback besides a couple of lib accounts posting AI-generated images with the worst Annie Wilkes-ass joke you've ever seen in your life on them.

Software quality is, on average, in the toilet, so I don't have a lot of patience for the whole "some code isn't worth caring about" line. I mean it's definitely correct in the abstract, but I worry that practicing sloppy thinking carries too much risk of making it the only kind of thinking.

Gonna be very hilarious and on-brand if the thing that finally turns a bunch of Boomers against Trump is "someone else is doing something ugly to their house".

PiCoSteveMo 3 is fast approaching! Join us for a chill, fun month of PICO-8 and Stephen King: itch.io/jam/picostev...

Very Reasonable Big Tent Libs don't want a tent that's big, they want a tent that's built around them and that they do not have to move to get to.

It's not great that basically everything on the web is hosted by AWS, GCP, or joke third option Azure.

No kings except for

Oh wow, YouTube changed the UI on the video settings panel to make it very hard to tell whether "Stable Volume" is enabled or disabled ("on" used to be bright red, now it's slightly lighter grey). So they *know* it sucks, but instead of getting rid of it they want to trick you into using it.

Firefox oh my goooood stop it STOP IT just show me webpages your *only job* is to show me webpages I do not want to CHAT TO A CHATBOT ABOUT THE WEBPAGE FUCK OOOOFFFF jesus christ

November is fast approaching, which means it's almost time for PiCoSteveMo! Join us for a fun, noncompetitive game jam celebrating the fantasy console PICO-8 and the works of Stephen King. itch.io/jam/picostev...

Quietly devastating. How AI firms lied, cheated and robbed their way to killing the open web and decades of mutually agreed, protocol-based technical cooperation All technologists who work for them are culpable. They murder knowledge and systems of informal and hard-learned collaboration and care.

it's crazy that the top 10 objectively best anime series all came out when I was in high school, what are the odds

I mean I've been talking to my computer more or less daily for decades. The second it responds, though, it's getting Office Spaced.

I saw a post that claimed they saw a post, but I couldn't find a citation. The post was: Every programming language has one of two flaws: * it has macros * it doesn't have macros

I'm sorry, but if you were spending so much time on boilerplate code that an LLM writing it for you saves you enough time to be excited about, then you are too ass at programming for me to take your judgment on anything seriously.

Is anybody maintaining a fork of Firefox that just reverts all the stupid shit that doesn't have anything to do with rendering webpages Mozilla keeps insisting on cramming into it?

The YouTube UI looks wildly different every time I go there. I think they've advanced beyond A/B testing and are doing A/B/C/D/E/F/G testing.

not even slightly joking when I say that sora should not exist. it should be crime for something like it to be made available without restriction to the general public. its servers should be destroyed with hammers

Love how the AI coding guys are suddenly experts at ultra-precise estimates, but only for how long a feature *would have* taken them without their bot friend.

Saw somebody saying ChatGPT is better than your doctor a couple weeks ago, and I have to admit that I did not consider the possibility that they could be technically correct by the mechanism of we ruin all the real doctors.

Whoever invented the first recipe that involved separating out an egg yolk was a freak.

There is a cult of action at the heart of tech. This cult says: don't mind that the systems are broken. Don't try and fix them. You can just do things, using you ubermensch will. AI has plugged into this cult to promise 10x-ing your action. But instead your will becomes subservient to the machine.

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

I don't think it should be me (I would waste it all on FFXIV glams) but we really ought to try letting anybody besides the world's 100 dumbest guys decide what happens with all the money.

Sharpest materials on earth, ordered by increasing sharpness: - carbon steel - diamond - obsidian - the plastic they make fucking Brita pitchers out of

Honestly great news for anyone still stuck on GitHub since every new feature they release makes the user experience worse. thenewstack.io/github-will-...

LLMs make good programmers miserable, so even if they did speed up making software (which they don’t), by mandating their use, you only benefit from that boost until the misery catches up and tanks the ability of the programmer to do anything at all, which is something like a couple months.

Damn, I was hoping the LLM fad would be over by the time I got back from vacation, but it looks like I still have to deal with this shit.

Trying out tabs on the side instead of on top and all I can think about is sidetalking.com

haha ok sure

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest: www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

I hate to say it, as the beneficiary of a liberal arts education myself and also a huge proponent of The Humanities in general, but I think the people who say we need more required humanities classes for CS majors are kidding themselves that that alone would meaningfully move the needle on anything.

Man it had to have been such a cakewalk to get famous as a composer in the 19th century. Holy shit this guy used a whole tone scale, that's front page news!

if lowtax's ex-wife is saying you remind her of fucking lowtax maybe you should stop posting

the kind of thing you write when you definitely don't have 100 terabytes of CSAM on SSDs in your basement

Private Equity feels like one of those things that future generations will read about and have a hard time believing was real.

boy those react folks sure do keep adding stuff to react, huh?

Looks like I picked a great time to finally de-Apple my life

They invented a version of ELIZA that converts stolen books into psychotic episodes and every Fortune 500 executive suddenly experienced the most intense FOMO of their lives.

Web frontend dev culture is such a cursed place.

I make breakfast. I power up my PC to log on on to write video games. The president says he wants to unleash the military to kill U.S. citizens on American soil. I respond to a few emails. Gotta take inventory of what still needs signoff before script lock on Friday.

I would love to never spend another millisecond of my one precious life thinking about or talking about Auth.

No worker owes anything to their boss beyond the strict terms of their contract, but also I find real joy in working with people who take their craft seriously, a mindset which necessarily involves doing things beyond the strict terms of a contract. Hard to square those two notions sometimes.

I’ve been training my cat to play ambient music. Last night he hit me with this hauntingly beautiful chord change after 10 minutes of A7sus4

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If I had made millions of dollars from putting a todo list on the internet at the luckiest possible time, I would never be heard from publicly again.

Unbelievably cringe to call anything you might do with an LLM product "collaborating".

Hard to overstate just how much I do *not* want to read a new book by Kamala Harris.