a corporation, as enshrined in its charter, puts itself and its shareholders above its customers loss of control is the cost of many modern conveniences. DVDs sitting on your shelf and .mp3 and .mkv files sitting on your hard drives (back up your shit) are immune to this sort of corporate caprice

there's like a five-year-old child chanting "ref, you suck" at the game and i don't know that i would expose a child to this energy

office wall update

got back from my evening run and noticed two new friends hanging out in front of the house

this is delicious. obviously sam altman is lying because his lips are moving, but this is an admission of the fact that openAI has tried and failed, for at least four years, to make their software efficient enough to be financially solvent

happy pride

deep purple dio joe satriani buckethead eric johnson bernie worrell & socialybrium gov't mule king crimson the eagles ... femtanyl bet you didn't see that last one coming (old man who goes to shows with his somewhat younger trans gf sometimes)

whenever i read about the history of something, i eventually run into the new york times being wrong about it. here is them saying that you can't send a rocket to the moon because it won't work in a vacuum (lmao) web.archive.org/web/20080209... "In 1969, the Times retracted this editorial."

if anyone has the time and energy to dig up a lawyer to sue for unauthorized use of likeness, i pledge $20k for legal fees. we can probably collect quite a few plaintiffs

oomfies with experience, what's the best n64 flash cart? like sd2snes is unequivocally the best snes one

potatoes au gratin omelette with extra veggies goes hard

made eight pounds of potatoes au gratin

the concept of buckethead but it transcends brian carroll, like dread pirate roberts in the princess bride

copilot being "for entertainment purposes only" is funny because microsoft used to have an entertainment division called microsoft gaming which they cannibalized so they could make an "entertainment" LLM product nobody wanted

an overlooked consequence of codeslop is how long it takes to debug. there's an inverse relationship between how fast something is written and how well the author understands it. at one extreme end, if you didn't write it, you don't understand it but tell me more about how LLMs increase velocity

these mfs really be paying a company tens of thousands of dollars to take down their website, i can do it for half

for the foreseeable future, we should just blame LLMs for bugs and outages in software (like this website) unless we know for a fact they're not involved. any response will reflect poorly on them

openAI and anthropic should get j.d. vance to speak at their initial public offering announcements

added more decorations to my desk area at the office

hmm, where have i seen this graph before oh, that's right

patched my roof today and it was very empowering

this is the second service discord has attempted to use for age verification. the first also leaked user data it's almost as though they all eschew good engineering in a rush to profit from these new requirements (it's definitely that)

ripening coffee cherries

i love it when a contractor asks if i can pay in cash because it means i'm probably paying undocumented workers and depriving the federal government of tax revenue

the job of the businessman is to sell you something--to convince you that particular goods or services are worth your money these people have resoundingly failed to do so, but instead of accepting their failure, they lie, to you or themselves, about whose fault and problem that is

the title of this article is wishful thinking 'When asked for comment, Discord told Kotaku its work with Persona was part of a “limited test” which has since been concluded.' this is materially different from discord saying, "our bad, we will never work with these assholes"

"i've been training my whole life for this," i mumble to myself as i configure an IRC server for the first time in 20 years

amazing juxtapositions here

funny how executives say LLMs save them time, actual workers say it wastes their time, yet executives talk about replacing the workers instead of themselves www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

got him to use his bed again by moving it next to the radiator h/t @itsjoelle.bsky.social

"on the path to deploying super intelligence" after hundreds of billions of dollars, it cannot reliably draw a map or perform arithmetic. these people are lying to you or to themselves

real bad look if i see someone posting nobletofu emotes in a twitch stream, because it means they support this point of view, with their money

the cool thing about the LLM bubble is that it's looking increasingly likely that openAI will take down with it microsoft and oracle

i went on my roof to remove six inches of ice and snow so that i could then patch a leak because no roofer wanted to and it's one of the most precarious things i've ever done

abolishing ICE is the centrist compromise position the principled position is to make it so that their most appealing option is ratlines to russia or whoever else will take them

funny how the same people who want to ban trans women from women's bathrooms because they want "safe spaces for women" are defending a website which lets people make non-consensual porn of said women

i love that these are here every year

the CEO of microsoft won't see you calling him a slopper but-- nevermind, carry on

this is how he greets me when i come home

english ivy is built different