Notices by Michael Kohl 🇦🇹🇹🇭 (citizen428@chaos.social)

@thomasfuchs It's insane that the second Weizenbaum quote is 50 years old! If you leave off the citation, one could easily imagine this being written as a reaction to LLMs.

@ryanc Please don’t give me ideas 😂

The horrors:

https://gist.github.com/citizen428/2803ea2751282abb622d94ce77636569

A tale in 3 pictures. In which our hero wonders if he can and doesn't stop to ask if he should.

#c #programming

@thomasfuchs All of the above and not just on social media.

I’m currently halfway through season 3 of my #Babylon5 rewatch. A fascist president using a paramilitary organization and xenophobia to become dictator is not that different from watching the news though. This was supposed to be entertaining ☹️

While I did get used to Liquid Glass somewhat by now, I still find it pretty irritating. This article really echoes my feelings:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/liquid-glass/

#apple #ux

"NESFab is a new programming language for creating NES games. Designed with 8-bit limitations in mind, the language is more ergonomic to use than C, while also producing faster assembly code."

https://pubby.games/nesfab.html

#gamedev #RetroComputing

77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryanrobinson/2024/07/23/employees-report-ai-increased-workload/

@thomasfuchs I'd think this is a pretty popular opinion with anyone who has written non-trivial amounts of code.

Rewatching some #StarTrek TNG, based on https://medium.com/maxistentialism-blog/star-trek-the-next-generation-in-40-hours-c4a6762cbd3 & https://wordmerc.medium.com/star-trek-the-next-generation-watch-skip-guide-e489377bfd9 🧵

S01E01, Encounter at Fairpoint: That was… not good. How did this show ever get made after a pilot like this?

#StarTrek #tng

S01E11, The Big Goodbye: The first holodeck episode. Cheesy noir fun, but there’s a better version of this in season 2.

#StarTrek #tng

S01E12, Datalore: A tale of two Androids or KITT vs. KARR, Star Trek edition. Nice episode and contains a satisfying amount of people saying “Shut up, Wesley!”

#StarTrek #tng

S01E19, Heart of Glory: Worf's loyalties get tested as we learn about his backstory. Could have skipped this, but it's an important Worf episode and he's the character who appears most across the franchise (277 episodes & 5 movies).

#startrek #tng

S01E22, Skin of Evil: The only reason to watch this episode is to witness the (pointless) death of a major character, Lieutenant Natasha "Tasha" Yar. Killed by one of the most unimpressive villains in Trek history, Armus.

#startrek #tng

S01E24, Conspiracy: A bit of an unusual episode. Apart from the bad special effects I actually quite liked this, the bar is low in S01 anyway.

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S01E25, The Neutral Zone: Return of the Romulans and an insufferable rich guy who should have been yeeted into space. An unremarkable ending to an overall unremarkable season, but we're not too far away from the first really good episode now.

#startrek #tng

S0203, Elementary, Dear Data: IMO a much better holodeck episode than The Big Goodbye. Quite entertaining.

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S02E08, A Matter of Honor: Riker goes on an officer exchange on a Klingon ship. I always liked this episode and still do. "Gagh is always best when served live" is such an iconic sentence.

#StarTrek #tng