Notices by datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)

@mattly That is very cool.

@mattly That sounds like simultaneously the most awesome and awful programming language ever in time.

@inthehands No - you raise that kind of money if people think this will replace essentially all salaried work.

@inthehands @eb And this time, we *already* have fascists seizing power before the crash.

@inthehands @eb

If it works, it crashes the economy when the entire consumer sector implodes when people are replaced.
If it doesn't work, it crashes the economy when it turns out an investment frenzy based on replacing all salaried work was a bubble.

Either way, we're all screwed.

@thomasfuchs I'm an old follower, but here's a picture of a pet.

He's a 17-year-old Northern blue-tongue skink named Igor.

@mattly His most famous work is the Revelation Space trilogy (Revelation Space, Redemption Ark, Absolution Gap), which later got extended with a fourth main cycle book (Inhibitor Phase) and a whole lot of other stories set in the same universe. I'd recommend starting with Galactic North, a short story collection set in that universe - that's how I got into it, and probably the reason why the first book in the series itself didn't feel like a slog (a common complaint).

Two other great stories of his are House of Suns (set in the *VERY* distant future) and Pushing Ice (which I cannot describe without spoiling it).

@thomasfuchs Since before the main/master dispute, I've always used "trunk". Aside from Historical Reasons, trunks usually have branches coming out of them and masters usually don't.

@mattly When I read about those trolls I thought about reptiles. :-) It's been known for a long time that reptiles' cognitive ability is directly tied to the surrounding temperature.

(Anyone who has kept or worked with reptiles will absolutely definitely have seen this in practice. They're basically scaled potatoes before they've done the morning sunbathing. Kinda like programmers before they get coffee.)

@thomasfuchs I used to think I was really witty when I came up with my own corollary (which I am undoubtedly not the first to have thought of):

"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced."

Now I live in that world. And every day, I wish more and more that I lived in a cabin in the woods.

@thomasfuchs Have you tried turning it off and never turning it on again?

@thomasfuchs And if you let shit generate that shit out of shit, you get shit cubed!

@thomasfuchs I still sometimes use Google, but I'm less and less sure why. Force of habit, I guess.

The "AI Overview" has, in the last few weeks, told me that:

- The second-largest Danish reptile is the "eagle, also known as the eagle, which is a large lizard".
- If I want to know who my MEP is, I can go to the European parliament's website, "search for your own name, if you know it", and then it'll tell me who I voted for.
- Horned helmets from the Nordic Bronze Age are historically incorrect and were invented for Wagnerian operas.
- Steel is heavier than brass (it referenced the correct densities, but "summarized" to the opposite result).

Also, when I wanted to compare the GPD Pocket and the MNT Pocket Reform, it helpfully provided a well-written, articulate comparison between the former and a fictional version of the latter it made up itself (and, for some reason, chose to equip with an ancient Intel Atom processor). It even provided links ... to completely unrelated product pages.

At least DDG explicitly supports a "no AI" option.

@thomasfuchs "software architect". :-P

@thomasfuchs Oh, it's the *next* model that cures cancer and quickfixes climate change. Please sir, can you spare seven trillion dollars?

@thomasfuchs It seems to me he's a dullard who's really, really good at bullshitting.

Which I suppose is completely on-brand.

@mattly I was thinking of hacking up something with raw HID to have it receive messages and switch layers depending on what it's sent. I use application-specific named workspaces exclusively in my Niri setup, so I'd then tell it what to switch to on-workspace-switch.

@mattly They do, and so do corporations (at least once they pass a critical size). Weatherwax would consider both irredeemably terrible ideas.

My point (more of an extension of hers than a rejection of it), is that it is another, closely related, root of evil when we start viewing things like people.

@mattly I haven't tried Ploopy's trackpad, but I *have* tried Apple's desktop trackpad. I don't like trackpads, so I don't think Ploopy's is for me.

(Note, because this is the internet: I am not *at all* saying "trackpads are bad" and especially not "people who like trackpads are wrong".)

@thomasfuchs @alienghic They're often wrong (sometimes ridiculously so, sometimes subtly so), but are they actually killing people every day?