Notices by Aaron Caskey-Demaret (aaron@social.caskey-demaret.se)

@zvinj @AnarchoNinaWrites @aral Aral: did you ask them to hold three fingers in front of their face during the verification call?
https://mstdn.social/@stux/116307099981776089

@thomasfuchs @cwebber

Just like with art, the only barrier to learning how to program, is the learning part. Almost every language is free to use, so it doesn't cost anything except effort (and a basic computer, but then you need that for AI too.)

The “agentic AI” in this story, didn't do anything he couldn't have done himself.

AI advocates don't want to learn how to program, they want someone else to do it for them. For free, or a cheaply as possible...

@thomasfuchs @cwebber And I get that the “democratisation“ that people talk about is lowering the technical knowledge needed to program. And that is a noble goal, but I agree with you that we should be focusing on that directly, not hiding that complexity behind an LLM.

@aral Signed.

Off topic rant: Why does an official EU website have a cookie popup. Why are they using tracking cookies?

@selea Where did you get your hardware? I've looked a few times but it always seemed a hassle to get the radios.

@selea @detondev oh and the few times I've been told "caskey-demaret.se" is not a valid email domain...

@selea @musicmatze I don't have a credit on that one, but I do on the other two 😀

I'm like 15 minutes into the credits, and if you blink you'll miss it, but hey I'm there!(like everyone else living in Wellington at that time...)

@selea @gigantos "again" 🙂

@aral We should normalise publicly accessible revision history for web sites. I know we have the Wayback Machine (for now), but it'd be cool if most sites had a version history link as standard.

Probably too late to get that sort of thinking into the Internet Zeitgeist.