Notices by Tito Swineflu (tito_swineflu@sfba.social)

This is all because of an infuriating conversation with my single source of work these days:
Them: "The client has 400 documents, and they want to be able to search them."
Me: "No problem, I'll ingest the documents and apply a text search engine on them."
Them: "No no, they want to use AI."
Me: "So tell them we're using AI and we'll give them something that can actually do a real search."
Them: "Unfortunately, it has to be a real AI."

Good pull quote from this article:

"Without taking my word for it, consider how it show up in the economics: If AI companies could deliver the productivity gains they claim, they wouldn’t sell AI. They’d keep it to themselves and gobble up the software industry."

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2024/11/10/

@kingrat He's a contender, but I'm more looking to the case that I see in media more often, where the use case is self-evidently so good that everyone has to start using it. Bitcoin isn't necessarily the slam-dunk best way to buy drugs, but it did get adopted that way.

Did anyone ever write some magical computer code and then get rich? I think it's a myth, but it always shows up on TV and movies. I can't think of a single instance where someone wrote the killer algorithm and then got wealthy from it. Can you?

@kingrat it looks like a 14- seater or so on the video

This story really raises more questions than it answers: a guy hijacks a plane with a knife, but it ended ok because another random passenger shot him?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/17/belize-hijacking-plane

Ha ha, I was given a warning on reddit for suggesting shooting down police drones with nerf guns. My post was flagged for 'harrassment'. I guess that makes sense in this day and age. Poor police drones.

Eric Adams wearing a hat that incorrectly labels him as "Mayor Adams" rather than "Dipshit".

@kingrat 20 years ago, i knew people who paid the cops $200 a week to keep shows going (no booze) on mission st. Meanwhile a place down the block had a full on bar with large shows weekly, no idea what or if they had to pay. No one cares until they do.

@MLNow I always wonder about the way this works. You could, say, be running an illegal bar/performance area in the 20th and mission area, selling booze without a license, etc. and survive for years. Or you can run one of these places and survive for a few months. What's the difference? Is it which cops you bribe? Is it because some have neighbors and some don't? There's no consistency.

@kingrat I would, but their fundie parents whisk them in and out of there. Maybe i could start a cult deproggramming summer camp. Mostly, though, I just want this bigoted fuckers out of the city.

What do you do when you live in one of the most liberal neighborhoods in the country and you find out your neighbor has opened a nazi training camp?

https://www.donumdei.org

@kingrat I heard a nws alert on the emergency broadcast service for 70mph gusts and hail that can damage siding in Pacifica, weird that we didn't get cell phone alerts.

@kingrat should be fun times for the permanently butthurt among us.

@kingrat and we knew he was a racist at least as long as Tesla has had the Fremont plant, America's (if not the world's) most racist assembly line.

No you didn't

@bri_seven Reminds me of crossing the Czech border on a night train while wearing nail polish. The bulky border security guys came through our car, checking passports. They were about to leave when one of them caught sight of my nails. He grabbed my hand and looked at it, then said, in a heavy accent, "is very pretty." Then they took their machine guns and left.

@kingrat At least this is real money in bribes, not like the SF way, where bribes are: $2000 in cash, a riding mower for your youth sports team and a vacation in some third-tier Chinese city.

@lmorchard @mekkaokereke something like torrents, where servers that have rendered the preview card could raise their hands and say "we've got it"?

@kingrat ah. Too bad