Notices by tef (tef@mastodon.social), page 2

realising i went to a campsite with a pay phone network and didn't think this at all weird until i got home

at one point i was showing off pulse dialling by disconnecting the line but dialled a 0 instead of a 9

"hello?"
"ah i think i have the wrong number is this 6300?"
"6309. who were you dialing?"
"the meow number"
"i can meow if you want"

it is funny to be that every photo of keir starmer giving a speech is against a union jack and the word britain on it

like, you'd never guess he was a labour mp

must be really hard for starmer, he keeps wanting to say "britain first" but can't

not without sounding like someone on their way to murder a labour mp

i know i'm showing my age but every time i see "AI features added!" i mentally interpret it as "Bonzi Buddy 2.0™"

moore's law but it's the number of clowns in the clown car doubling every 18 months

this is the funniest thing slack's done since they rebranded themselves as a tool for remote work, despite years of "no-one gets remote work at slack"

for context, slack is launching "AI Features" trained on global data

and you can tell it's being launched without purpose as the list of benefits includes "emoji autocomplete"

like

no-one in their right mind would go "so we're going to make every sab/ox customer panic, so slack knows if to use the party hat emoji or the party balloons emoji by default"

not to call ai a big woop of nothing but slack absolutely slaughtering any remaining trust they have in order to provide "emoji suggestions" is incredible

@mcc is this image real? it looks like a composite

there's a very convincing anonymous post from an alleged boeing engineer, talking about how a "quality escape" can happen

https://leehamnews.com/2024/01/15/unplanned-removal-installation-inspection-procedure-at-boeing/#comment-509962

just bought "Stop Making Sense" on LaserDisc

haven’t told anyone to “just fucking google it” in a while

i haven’t suddenly become a better person, it’s just google doesn’t really work any more

sorry to tech post but i have seen a "when to use microservices" post and it's kinda got the whole cause and effect mixed up

"you can use it to decouple things" isn't how it works, things aren't less decoupled by virtue of sending a packet

the point is, you start out with decoupled things, and decide to keep them that way

it's not so much mono vs micro, it's "things that get changed at the same time, should be in the same place"

realised that goatse.cx was online (1999-2004) for longer than the confederacy (1861-1865) was

it is the most sf bay area thing to unionise to stop your boss from being fired, lol

if you know someone who works for Google, remember you’re not obligated to speak to them for the first 30 seconds of a conversation unless they say “Skip”

it's been a while but i wrote some flamebait

"enshittification is what happens when a disney adult learns about captialism"

https://cohost.org/tef/post/3175066-enshittification-is

:3

friend was lamenting his youtube comments "i keep getting ChatGPT spam now" and someone else asked "but how can you tell?"

the answer? "they look like linkedin posts"

sure enough, ChatGPT is trained on a large dataset, but one that's been poisoned by years of SEO copywriting