@ashley @at the paradox of google is that the longer we can go without reminding google they’re providing this stable and useful service, the longer it will exist

the llms can't talk about goblins anymore cause the goblins won their class action suit. it happened a few weeks ago, but human media doesn't usually report on stuff from goblin court

I like how “for Reasons” is a fixed phrase in Japanese

Alt...

Bunpro screenshot: 訳あり is a phrase that is often used before nouns to express that there is a reason for something being a certain way. The reason is normally complicated or something that the speaker does not want to or cannot explain. 訳あり is literally made up of 訳, 'reason' or 'cause', and the continuative form (連用形) of ある.

▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░ 33%

Once again, my professional recommendation in response to the latest Linux kernel vulnerability in the news is that you should gather up all your electronic devices, cast them into the sea, and retreat to the woods.

Each night, gather your children and tell them tales of the Before Times when the hubris of humanity grew so large that we made idols of sand and spoke to them as equals. Remind them that the sand, of course, did not speak or think, but we imagined it could, and let it guide us to folly.

Should a stranger ever come to your village with a glowing rectangle, encourage the youth to beat them with sticks.

#infosec

@jalefkowit Andy Serkis thinks that you can make an adapation…

of *Animal Farm*…

with *no ideology*…

I am speechless

@ariels A URL is a monoid of a URI, whose morphisms are the elements of the monoid. Hope that helps clear things up.

Listening to cybersecurity people freak out over Mythos is so tiring. Like, bro, your local water treatment plant runs Windows XP, your mobile provider's hardware is older than you are, and the protocol that routes internet traffic is secured by everyone just agreeing that hijacking it would be uncool.

A cozy cat in these trying times 🌿☕️

Alt...

Watercolor drawing of a cat snug on a couch with a mug and little snacks

At some point the corporations realized that Clarke's logic works in reverse, and any sufficiently advanced sleight of hand is indistinguishable from technology

From 1903 to 1907 Augustus Jansson produced more than 30 striking adverts for the Queen City Printing Ink Company, including the wonderful Ink Beasts Parade series, with its "Magenta Ponies" and "Orange-Yellow Ibexiaticus". More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/augustus-janssons-queen-city-ink-adverts-1903-1907

I gave up on the "native" client for discord on linux years ago and just it in a browser.

CC: @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

the 555 timer is 55 years old, so if we celebrate on the 5th of May it can be the 555's 55th on 5/5.

#fossangel's favorite brand

#unix_surrealism #perl

Alt...

Softpack of 20 FOSS cigarettes PERL FILTERS PROGRAMMING BLEND

@munin How did we get to the point of _asking_ the computer? You don't ask a computer, you tell it. You give it a command and it either succeeds or it fails or or it is broken. It's a complicated box of sand. There's no awareness, no spark, just an odd arrangement of doped silicon and metal. Believing there's more than that is deeply deeply delusional, like believing socks are sentient because you made a sock puppet once.

Intelligent

Alt...

2 Blue Jays conversing in a spruce. First Jay asks "What if we aren't the only intelligent species in the universe? What would they be like?" The second replies "Let's see... they'd need to be good at problem solving, and to have advanced communication skills, a social structure, self-awareness..." "... the ability to fly?" continues the first Jay. "That goes without saying!" exclaims the second. The first states confidently "And a strong beak, of course". To which the second responds rhetorically "How could you do anything intelligent without a strong beak?"

Tired: “Dogfooding”: Using the software you work on with unbridled happiness and glee, no consideration what it is
Wired: “Catfooding”: Looking at the software and saying “Fuck that shit. I ain’t using that”, and then going for a nap.

half the point of programming-tool design is to reduce the need for hypervigilance on the user.

if we're designing tools that require you to be *more* hypervigilant, legitimately what use are they?

please don't tell me to read that great essay on why AI is so bad, when it features:

> I use AI tools sparingly for assistance while refactoring code in languages I understand. I occasionally use it to help compose command line arguments for tools like ffmpeg.

straight after why not to use it

YOU CAN LITERALLY NOT DO ANY OF THAT AND NOT MISS A THING

and directly before

> The explosion of AI has played a significant role in my own burnout.

i mean,