Along with the prior repost of UK being halfway to net zero and Australia getting free electricity from renewables there are a lot of these quiet victories going on. The fossil fuel industry is in full thrash and thunder trying to assert how irreplaceable it is but inch by inch we’re getting there.

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

Employer lays off 20% of engineering. Seems like I survived this round of lay-offs, but the AI-washing and other nonsense reasoning doesn't seem to have impressed stockholders, lmao. "Move Faster" was said too many times that it lost semantic meaning...

As a point of contrast, you can’t STOP rust people from labeling every single thing they make as “written in Rust”

when somebody says "of course even I can admit that ai is good for X" X is often something *outside their area of expertise* they've heard it's good at. like, for example, protein folding. spoiler: it turns out that actually there are serious problems with using it for protein folding

AI is forcing a wedge between those who see any given craft as a means to an end vs. those who have learned to enjoy and value the skillful execution of the craft itself

Larry the Cat, the appointed Chief Mouser of Downing Street, has now outlasted 6 UK Prime Ministers, and the Queen herself. He holds the true power over the country

Hearing the AI narrator voice kick in

Bevy 0.19 is out now! It features Next Generation Scenes, Render Bigger Scenes Faster, Contact Shadows, More Feathers Widgets, Text Input, Richer Text, App Settings, Post Processing Effects, Improved Skinned Mesh Culling, and more! bevy.org/news/bevy-0-19

New coding LLM can be run locally! > looks inside > Requires 256GB of RAM

Aight, I gotta join the trend. Here we go:

i can’t wait to open 473 browser tabs on my brand new computer

Artistic comrades do not outsource thinking to AI. You already own the means of production, do not give it away.

There is complete industry consensus on this. Every reputable cryptographer on the planet agrees: Signal’s cryptographic protocols are the most secure in class. Period. Just because your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate told you otherwise doesn’t make it true

Because the adults are addicted to said design patterns, and they'd rather push kids out instead of rehabbing so they can continue to get their dopamine fix. I mean, when the UK Gov continues to post on Xitter...

I do not claim to know why we are on this planet, but I am very certain we are not born to start a mission where we optimize every single little thing in our lives. I think it's just not good for the spirit.

In Spain time works differently.

There have been a lot of counter-racism protests in the UK that demonstrate just what a vocal minority the right are. Not sure if they’ll get the same breathless news coverage…

Needing to write unsafe code, so that the compiler can optimise better through more strict assertions... that are only possible to make through unsafe. Just #Rust things 🙃

Ivanti's latest perfect 10—this time a preauth command injection—has been confirmed exploited in the wild. discourse.ifin.netwo... #ThreatIntel #ThreatIntelligence #IFIN

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

rabisquei skull kid pq fiquei nostalgico

If I open a free soup kitchen that people eat at, but then I start serving spoiled, rotten soup, people would still be right to complain about me serving crap. Only in tech that people are expected to keep eating without complaint.

Hey, this is a bit of a super duper emergency, but if anyone who is looking to hire a dysfunctional catgirl for software or hardware stuff let me know,

A court in Munich declared that Google is liable for their "AI summaries" and all its hallucinations. This brings "AI" slop in line with all other products: "AI" is basically the only product where a provider can deliver unchecked garbage and put all liability on the consumer.

What if we just got rid of the tech industry and started over? What if there’s no point to an industry that mostly invents new chocolate and cheese flavors of the panopticon?

Watched Predator: Badlands yesterday... Kinda funny they disguised a queer coming of story as a Predator movie. Twink thrown out of home, protective brother cut off, toxic lesbian relationship, accepting found family over blood family... I could go on

Not happy with the power usage of esphome on my pico w. I might have to yak shave my own rust firmware, again, for my automated waterer.

Aaaaaah, my brain is mush today and I'm in stupid mode. But I am reading my own code and getting warm fuzzies, "eee, I wrote this"

I am pretty convinced that to satisfy the public, regulation as strict as the nuclear energy industry has would need to apply to AI. Not an outright ban, but it should be treated with the same paranoia as with radiation.

Much like workers experiencing what David Graeber calls “bullshit jobs,” robots in post-apocalyptic stories (Saturn's Children or Service Model) are trapped within a hierarchy of labour. These stories resonate because many workers are increasingly alienated from the meaning of their work.

Been printing out replacement enclosures for my moisture sensors, and the Prusament PETG v0 natural filament has been a nice improvement, since it lets through more light in, allowing better data out of the light sensors the board has. Still figuring out the best print settings for it

it's so cool how you just can't trust anything any more

Fundamentally. Unsecurable. You can't rid yourself of this vulnerability in LLMs.

Exciting times for Rust on consoles! Looking forward to seeing how different engines are able to work with it! akaganite.com

This will happen to other AI models/companies too. The chinese models still need a lot of compute if they take over all the demand. Good luck having the money to run the good models locally.

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Someone asked me how I can continue to write fiction where people find a way to be better when the world now shows it's not the case. And fella, nothing the fash want you to do more than give up on hope but you really must not. If it's getting too dark to see you don't turn out the lights.

Really happy with how my continuous refactoring has shaped up my encryption cipher to be fairly simple and easy to read (by my standards at least). Made some changes with how the multi-rate padding is done, so it should be at least better than before. tangled.org/sachy.dev/wh...

Time to delete your Linktree!

The Final Day #Majora'sMask #TLOZ