#calligraphy

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I don’t have anything profound to post, I just like being extra. (Handwritten in an extremely extra style with extremely extra blue-green glitter ink)

As @burnheart123@youtube.com says, "with self-driving cars, the average number of people in a car will drop below 1."

Happy to report that I didn’t feel any need whatsoever to use generative AI for anything at all yet. And I‘m very likely not going to use it for the rest of my life and I’m going to be absolutely fine.

Am I right in understanding that current version requires the creation of playlists and doesn't support dragging and dropping a folder of music files to be played immediately?

the V in Unix System V stands for vvorkstation

If I was in the desert on a horse with no name I’d simply name the horse.

@daringfireball “He has two traits that are almost never seen in the same person. The first is a strong desire to please people, to be liked in any given interaction. The second is almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone.”

…which is exactly how how these shitty LLM chatbots are coded to behave.

"The street finds its own uses" doesn't presuppose that the thing in question is useful, or even tool-shaped. AI isn't a screwdriver in the wrong hands, it's not even tool-shaped. It's product-shaped, it's subscription-shaped, but not tool-shaped.

For the street to find its own uses, we need to dismantle the not-tool, melt it to scraps, and make tools out of the remains. Like, what parts of infrastructure, *if any* can be repurposed to not-AI things?

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration #fediArt

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A signpost standing at a crossroads in a barren place, under a pink and purple sky. It has two signs: "Accept", pointing right, and "Decline", pointing left. In the distance is a treeline. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".

Secret Panel HERE 💀 https://tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/04/08/ruinternet

*long drag on cigarette* Kid, this is Mastodon. We're all the algorithm here. You. Me. Everybody. Now get out there and boost somebody's bullshit.

i thought this exchange could contain some funny HTTP headers so i tcpdump'ed it

they.. they use TLS. for a conversation between two chips on the same fucking PCB

"The form is anonymous."

The form: Is on Google.

...no.

The main thing I learned from the Claude Code leak is that they plan to go out of business before anyone has to maintain it

@0xabad1dea They’re coming for men’s pockets now as well.

I recently replaced my coat, which was ten years old and falling to pieces. When I bought it, every coat had two inside pockets, a few fancy ones had three (not ones I could afford). Now, most of them including ones from places like Moss Bros had one. The two side pockets are still there, but the fashion is now for the stupid diagonal ones that can hold half as much as proper ones.

I remain of the 19th century opinion that the skill of a tailor is measured by the number of pockets that they can insert without distorting the lines of a garment.

[groans]

@nina_kali_nina oberon is the computing history we should have had

you ever write code so inefficient they have to update the whole power grid

Krita’s Maintainer is awesome!

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Krita Maintainer Halla posting that reads: “Speaking as the Krita maintainer, I don’t want us to accept any LLM-generated code into Krita. Some may say, as long as the contributor understands the code it’s fine, but that’s a fallacy. No programmer really fully understands the code they are working with (otherwise bugzilla would be empty); but with LLM-generated code they haven’t even put any thought into it. That code will be unmaintainable. And that’s even completely apart from the fact that using LLM’s to generate code lowers your cognitive capacity, burns up the planet, destroys water sources all over the world and takes away from people what fits them best: being creative together with other humans. The right thing to do could be to, after you’ve experimented in this environmentally-disastrous way, to describe the feature you reached and wanted and make a wish item in bugzilla, or discuss it here, and then let people who can code implement it in a responsible way.”

So apparently the source code of one highly valued, LLM-based code-production product has been inspected by external actors, and found to be extensive, but not exactly an impressive feat of engineering.
Reportedly it consists in some part of natural language directions that attempt to coax, beg, and beseech the text generator to produce desired kinds of output.

Has anyone coined the term "autocompleading" for this style of software development yet?

INTERCAL: We have keywords like PLEASE and IGNORE because we think it's funny

Anthropic: We have PLEASE and IGNORE *baked into our source-code* because we have no fucking idea how this thing works

this isn't engineering this is a religious cult