We lost the package manager fight, and now `curl myhost/install | sudo bash` is everywehre.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Please, Apple, do this one right. Neuromancer by @greatdismal.bsky.social finally gets a TV series. Could be amazing, but expectations will be high from all of us who read these books when we were young. Count Zero was a personal fave.

This is one of the cool things about getting older - watching science find new things that were once myths. As a kid in the 1970s most info I read (from a decade or two before, given the books available) said Giant Squids were just a myth. or Dinosaurs *may* have had feathers but we'll never know.

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

People that used to complain that Wikipedia was not trustworthy because anyone can edit an article, do they use LLMs? Do they ask them for advice? Trust their output?

17 years ago today. The first self-replication by a #RepRap #3Dprinter - the start of the #3Dprinting revolution.

[email protected] - Oesterheld no escribió solo "El Eternauta". Fue un autor sumamente prolifico. La mayor parte de su obra está perdida en revistas de los 50s,60s y 70s que nunca se reeditaron. Por eso  les dejo este torrent con todo lo que existe de HGO. ¡Compartan! cloud.disroot.org/s/49K5RBbt8y...

Another visitor. Stay a while... stay forever!

I think we have advanced enough that we can replace all linters with AI linters. No more "this looks better but breaks rule 34" issues.

From: "Piracy. It's a crime." To: "Studio Ghibli-like images are cute" in two decades.

Copilot can code for me, but the keyboard spell checker will still autocorrect sentences into meaningless gibberish.

Bueno, gente, ✨se vienen cositas✨. Concretamente estas cositas ⬇️ En mayo voy a dar un curso sobre historia de la melancolía desde la Antigüedad hasta el siglo XVIII. +INFO: [email protected] Pre-Inscripción: forms.gle/xdYUqjgiAzf3... Su consulta no molesta, su RT se agradece.

Excited to announce the official launch of our online book, WebAssembly from the Ground Up! 🎉 It's the book we wish we'd had 3 years ago. No messing with tools and frameworks. It's a hands-on guide to the core of Wasm: the instruction set and module format. Link below. 👇

TIL: If you are in La Baranda, Chile: - To the North you have Argentina. - To the South you have Argentina. - To the West you have Argentina. - To the East you have Argentina. maps.app.goo.gl/5KUKoMm9sdAt...

Come work with me! www.getaleph.com/careers?ashb...

The 2024 Turing Prize winners announced this morning: Barto & Sutton for "developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning". Well deserved. Built on 1959 Donald Michie's idea; matchboxes and colored beads learning tic-tac-toe. awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...

hell is other people's key bindings

hell is other people's computer

Berkeley DB -> SQLite -> DuckDB ?

OH: "Una pila de impresoras inkjet y DVDs desarmados en mi casa no llegan a constituir un hackerspace."

AI made computers feel as exciting as they felt in 1990.

A sad story in two chapters: Chapter one: bsky.app/profile/rodn... Chapter two: chat.deepseek.com/sign_up "Due to large-scale malicious attacks on DeepSeek's services, registration may be busy. Please wait and try again. "

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery. U.K. countryside

Which one is the best AI? One of those pirate AIs, trained with all the illegal material. If only we could make big corpos respect copyright :)

Where can I find the AI related sci-fi worthy of our times?

Technical debt is a tempting metaphor. When things are bad, everyone complains about tech debt. I don't think I have ever seen the metaphor play a part in getting out of a bad situation. What practices do you do that are based on this metaphor? "Pay your debt"? What does that mean?

TIL: William C. Morris is William Case Morris

This is what all cyberdecks should look like.

At work, clear communication about the importance of risk management using simple graphs: