As far as I can tell, the primary contribution of distributed systems is in convincing young programmers that TCP/IP is a) free and b) stable.
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GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2023 11:24:15 JST GeePawHill -
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GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 10:55:52 JST GeePawHill @Gargron @dangillmor Jesus, Eugen. I'm . . . I feel like I haven't said clearly enough what I feel.
Mastodon is brilliant. Oh sure, we can make it better, we will make it better.
But it's already brilliant. I happily pay my monthly donation.
As a professional who lives or dies by word of mouth, I have an eighth of the audience I supposedly had on Xitter. But I have five times the engagement and interaction.
Every day I delight.
I'm sorry I haven't said it often enough. That's on me. <3
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GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 11:40:36 JST GeePawHill @ryanhoulihan I say it once or twice a fortnight: I miss Buffy.
I have watched the series three times. Once just me. second me an a gee-kid, third with a blood oath that we would only watch it when all of us were together.
I miss Buffy.
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GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 09:09:59 JST GeePawHill @LauraLangdon @futurebird I
I was never a parent. With my gee-kids, my wife gradually taught me this.I'd say, "If you don't punish them, they'll be totally out of control!"
She'd say, "Yes, definitely. Also if you *do* punish them, only then, you also get the added effect of everyone feeling bad about themselves, and no actual problem solved. Solve actual problems."
(I am trainable, albeit somewhat slowly.)
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GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 08:41:59 JST GeePawHill The last fucking thing on earth that any oligarch wants is free access to information.
The *only* thing a librarian wants is free access to information.
When I, as a child, would get outta hand, my Mom would say, "forgive him, he was raised by wolves and librarians".
God.
Fifty years gone, and I can still see their faces.
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GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 08:41:59 JST GeePawHill Please defend your library.
Please.
If you like me, if you even have tiny like-sparks for me, please defend your library.
I am not possible without my libraries and my librarians.
(Tho, for the record, at times they have been very stern with me.)
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GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Aug-2023 23:25:12 JST GeePawHill Fuck all y'all, I'mo say it again.
The single easiest cheapest thing you can do, the biggest bang for your social media buck, is just this one thing. Takes one minute. Costs nothing.
Tell someone whose work you follow here that their work helps make your life better.
One sentence. You think it's nothing to you, and yeah, it's nothing to you, but it's *gold* to the people who share their art, their craft, their process, and their insight.
*Tell* them.
Do that now, then boost or fave me.
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GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Aug-2023 11:05:28 JST GeePawHill @KristinKim @Toastie My lord, won't anyone think of the *children*!?!?
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GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jul-2023 15:20:11 JST GeePawHill @thebravelittleposter I've a country store I favor for their onsite-made fudge, and they're, mmmm, evangelical, and their clerks are always very polite, even as I buy a twelve-pack of beer and quarter-pound of fudge.
But it weirds me out every time.
"Have a blessed day!" they say.
Weirds me out. Tempts me to talk to them about the history of the church. But. Because I like their fudge and I do not like being arrested for disturbing the peace, I just smile and walk away.
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GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 17:58:31 JST GeePawHill Honestly, none of these corporations care in any way, shape, or form about the communities we grow using their systems.
1) Corporations don't care because they *can't* care, because caring is something living beings do, and corporations aren't living beings.
2) Corporate success depends on quarterlies. Corporations create and honor spaces for community exactly as long as those spaces feed the quarterlies.
Lay off this "I'm so shocked" shit, wouldja?
Fuck capitalism & capitalists.
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GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 23:59:55 JST GeePawHill You're doing a conference in Florida?
You truly represent the apotheosis of "Agile".
For reals, yo.
You're cool with your 3,000 person venue where no one who isn't a cishet white salesperson/john man is welcome?
Jesus fucking Christ.
I was already estranged, I freely admit it, But this is beyond the pale.
Fuck the Agile fucking Alliance. They aren't what we wanted, they never have been.
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GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 23:59:54 JST GeePawHill @agilealliance My trans friends will not go to Florida, not cuz they're mad, cuz they're at risk of their lives. My Black friends won't go to Florida, not cuz they're mad, cuz they're at risk of their lives. My gay and lesbian friends won't go to Florida, not cuz they're mad, cuz they're at risk for their lives.
Go broke, walking away, go broke. But go broke *proud* that you cared more for humans than for a venue-deposit.
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GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 23:59:54 JST GeePawHill @agilealliance I don't give a fuck about your sunk fucking cost.
Apologize, and eat the cost.
You're committing a sin you'll never come back from.
Your one chance, and it's slim, is to just admit that you made a mistake, ask for forgiveness, and move forward.
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GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 28-May-2023 11:40:18 JST GeePawHill "Work requirements" have never *ever* cost less than just giving help to people who ask for it.
The once-upon-a-time "party of small government" knows how much rules -- and their resulting validations -- actually cost.
They don't care. This isn't about the budget, it's about pursuing class war, and implicitly, white supremacy, while cloaking their creepy broken morality in robes they think make it more palatable.
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GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-May-2023 19:32:11 JST GeePawHill Every single fucking company rolling out some fake-assed "AI" system today has paragraph after paragraph of arcane IP-restricted lawyer-language agreements with every single person who works for them,
But they're happy to deploy LLM's whose entire dataset is based on taking content from people who did not consent to their own IP being used in this manner.
*Every* *single* *fucking* *one*.
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GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-May-2023 19:32:11 JST GeePawHill If we let them play "statistical mechanics based on massive stolen datasets" as "AI", welllllll we deserve what we get.
Don't fucking at me.
Don't fucking ChatGPT results me.
Don't fucking CoPilot-my-experience me.
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GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 18:43:41 JST GeePawHill When we catch our assistant *insisting* that they be allowed to chat with Eliza in private, what we are discovering is not that a few thousand lines of LISP has created the singularity.
What we are discovering is that we are not taking adequate care of our assistant, and as a result they are sad, and lonely, and afraid to say how they feel.
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GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 18:43:40 JST GeePawHill Baby, they don't give a fuck about what intelligence is. They don't give a fuck about the Yale School or neural networks or walks-like-a-duck, or Godel.
They give a fuck -- I am not hating here -- about how important it is that they and their circle stay afloat, in a cold hard world. They give a fuck about extracting value from community because it is the only way they know, it is the way they have found themselves in, it is the way to their identity and value as humans.
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GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 18:43:40 JST GeePawHill When we catch our c-suite commissioning a team to explore CoPilot, what we are discovering is not that CoPilot is intelligent.
We are discovering that the owners have not even the slightest clue of how the non-owners create the value so cheerfully extracted.
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GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 18:43:40 JST GeePawHill When we catch our student copy-pasting GPT answers into their essays, what we are discovering is not that GPT is intelligent.
What we are discovering is that our pedagogy is insufficient to the complex needs of someone less lucky than us as they try to learn. (And sometimes, too, what we're discovering is what a horrible idea certification is.)