Notices by Maarten Sneep (mrtnsnp@mastodon.social)

@aral git is a nightmare to use, and overkill for most projects except the very big ones. I’m sure it is fine for the linux kernel, but few projects reach that scale. I much prefer mercurial. Fewer options to screw up, and (IMHO) friendlier error messages.

@GottaLaff immigrant detention facilities is newspeak for concentration camps.

Fiets gestolen.
https://nos.nl/l/2548584

@aral Are those apologies really needed?

@jwildeboer @jurjen_heeck Ironic to have a crown on that poster.

Computer in a lego brick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wBrOV2FJM8&t=0s

@georgetakei Conservatives are weird, really weird.

@ryanhoulihan spell check is an AI application. AI is just a bullshit generator and is best avoided. It would be nice if Apple realised that the threat of not bringing its Intelligence to the EU isn’t the threat it thinks it is. That still doesn’t change the behaviour in iMessage.

@aral Criminally unaware of the climate impact of LLMs.

@aral I’m sure you’ve seen that there is a peer-reviewed article that argues that “ChatGPT is bullshit”. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5

If you use homebrew (on a mac), please run brew update; brew upgrade; immediately. This will downgrade the xz package and the lzma library to remove malicious code that has been introduced in the current versions.

@aral
No, hell no.

*block*

At least I assume that you reacted like that.

@georgetakei Appropriate for the “city of light”.

@davep I think that @aral may have a decent reach in Ireland.