I'm not sure if we've ever been at a point in history before where competence was an active hindrance to your professional success in the way it is now

Anybody who has ever helped others, especially less experienced people, with programming, or other tech stuff, knows that, when asked a question, the most productive response is the question "what are you really trying to do?". The reason why this is such a good response is because very often […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@JakeOrlowitz/116642070621496950 Just cancelled my recurring donation and told them exactly why, and that I won’t be restarting it unless workers are demonstrably free to unionise. Cancelling is easy: reply to your last email from [email protected], or follow […]

Now that I'm more into theatre, I'm a bit disappointed that there doesn't seem to be a good way to keep track of what's going on in Berlin. It would be nice if theatres published their shows via RSS, or hell, even ICS. Social media has never been a good way to keep track of events, and as I'm […]

Would you connect to their wifi?

I feel there is a risk I might slightly overuse this thing https://trek.epicrandomness.com

I'm starting to become one of those people who goes to theatre shows regularly, and honestly, I really like it.

#startrek #deepspacenine

It's amazing how many people proudly show off how their AImaginary friend nuked their repo or did something dumb on their behalf. Be aware, many of us are paying attention, do make hiring/purchasing decisions, and will remember.

Another (in retrospect obvious, but for me only realised by wanting to change generated code from someone else) big thing that code generation takes away from people is noticing that stuff can be made better. Like, when you're writing something yourself, you notice pain points and start thinking […]

I just got a shirt that I know some of you might appreciate.

Interesting post by the author of @allaboutberlin on how AI is killing his awesome website. #ai #openknowledge #berlin

But if you use a LLM to write your code, and only look at it, when it doesn't do what you want, you are not training to become a better programmer, you are training to become a better "incoming code quality inspector". But there is no training-path from incoming code quality inspector to good […]

It's sad how often I type the words "but sadly" these days. This timeline sucks.

Who gives a single shit how good the "AI" can code when the purpose of "AI" is and always has been enclosure of all information in an ad-driven surveillance platform. If you love LLMs, this is the future you, yes you, are actively helping create.

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116604745957981805 "links will become an afterthought" is not even coded language for "the rest of the internet is merely training data and we will own the entire means of accessing information online"

info on the github breach appears to only be available on xitter 🙄 , I fished it out for you. #github

I "love" how Google maps consistently suggests a worse route, just because it thinks that I'm allergic to walking even the tiniest amount.

This scans with all my chats with people that are not in tech, most people dislike that big tech is forcing this nonsense on them, and during improv jams and workshops, the only mention of AI is in jokes at the expense of AI and people that use it to replace their own thinking. @wwahammy […]

Something I'd like as an @Mastodon feature is the ability to turn on notifications for specific posts. I often see question-based posts where I'm interested in the replies, but where there are currently none/very few. I therefore bookmark them and periodically scroll through my bookmarks to […]

Interesting fact I recently learned, piracy, as a term to illegally copy works, stems from the 1500s.

I love going to the Sunday improv jams, but I wish my body wouldn't just automatically wake up at 0600, even when I go to bed late. #tired

🎵 there’s not a soul out there 🎵 🎵 noone to hear my prayer 🎵

"AI is going to replace a lot of jobs." Ok, what do you think is gonna happen when you stop paying the "don't riot" bill? How long can you go without paying that bill before an angry mob is gonna come to collect? You can tell from their vacant eyes that they never considered that. They're […]

Hey #lazyweb, I'm looking for a browser extension that is essentially "ctrl+p for tabs". In other words, I want to be able to press a shortcut that will then search over all my tabs, maybe with a fuzzy match. Can anyone recommend one? I'm using Vivaldi, but as everything uses chrome extensions […]

[physical health (+)] This year, I've been more sick than I've been in any year, having head a "bad cold" at least 4 times already, and the last cold just wouldn't quit, and I've also been having headaches much more than was normal for me. So, being quite worried, considering that I normally […]

"It doesn't matter if your project's policy doesn't allow LLM generated contributions, people will still try to submit them anyway, so you might as well allow them!" With that logic, we might as well stop having laws as well, as people keep murdering, stealing, and committing other crimes […]

So, there is one use for the current "AI" tech that I can see for software development and that is this: I wouldn't mind a small language model, trained on bugs and security issues. This small model would then run on my pull requests and maybe my entire project, and flag potential problems for […]

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116566758802645935 Keep coming back to one of the most important heuristics for a good life: Nothing only men like is cool.

So, let me get this straight, the only reason people think LLMs are great for software development is because the leadership in tech companies is forcing their workers to use it, and force them to make it seem like LLM is actually doing a good job? Yep, great work team, we're REALLY nailing this […]

"But AI is the future of software development" https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/

If you see someone wearing Meta Ray-Ban spy glasses, or anything like them, you have my permission to punch them right in the glasses. It's one of the few times that punching someone wearing glasses is not only acceptable, it's the moral thing to do.

I really hope this fails to get any traction over here...

The science podcast (let’s learn everything) that I’ve been binging lately have started to get cameos from my favourite comedy streaming service (dropout.tv), small world…

I'm honestly impressed with just how much iOS autocorrect sucks, yet somehow, turning autocorrect off doesn't seem to fully turn it off, it just gives you a worse version of it.

Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s. Many of the cities we admire made tough choices regarding cars in the past, and are still making better choices today. Better choices instead of excuses.

The turbines are ruining the natural beauty of the giant hole

Yup

"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

MedlifeCrisis absolutely nails it regarding medical diagnosis via AI: youtube.com/shorts/hRv5K...

It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.

[Weightloss observations] I've recently bought a bunch of new t-shirts as I got a good deal, and despite buying them a full whole X smaller than my old size, they are still much too roomy. It's so weird that I'm slowly starting to be able to buy "normal" sizes.

A thing that many people don't realise,is that if you get neoliberals in your government, they will actively work on making your government work worse. Neoliberals want services, like transit, healthcare, etc, to be privatised because their friends can make profit off of running these thing […]