Notices by datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io), page 2

@thomasfuchs AI code doesn't just make the user feel like shit, it also makes everyone around them feel like shit.

(Although in fairness, that might have less to do with AI itself, and more to do with how it seems like loud AI bros generally just seem to enjoy making other people feel like shit.)

@mattly ¿por que no los dos?

@mattly @technomancy Lemmy Kilmister from Motörhead died on the 28th of December 2015 and has not been able to protect our timeline since then.

@mattly They've been with me in various forms for my entire life.

The particular trigger/focus is new (as is the intensity in the last 3 years, which is unlike anything I've ever tried before), but the pattern hasn't changed since I was a little kid terrified that I'd die of asthma in the night. Or that nuclear war would break out. Or that I'd develop another terrible disease. Or, or, or .... , or that AI would make me superfluous.

@mattly If I could actually do anything anyone wanted to pay me for other than software, I would be out of this grotesque parody of a profession yesterday.

Alas I can't. But soon nobody will pay me for making software either, so I'll be out anyway.

(Then I join the unemployed-for-life cohort and lose my home. I hope I will have an actual aneurysm or heart attack before then, so at least my life in AI Hell can be shorter.)

@mattly Meredith's take or mine? :P

@mattly (I'm left pondering what technology would be like if the people making it were instead based in a dignity culture, or a face culture. Those are the three "frameworks" I know; I'm not a cultural anthropologist.)

@mattly I'm nought but a humble programmer, but I enjoyed it too.

(I suppose it helps having grown up with philosophy nerds.)

@thomasfuchs Sending him back here would constitute a war crime.

@mattly @cthos Obviously not. That's the "and yet you participate in society" meme, almost to a self-parodying degree.

@mattly @cthos I don't use any software that *uses* Claude directly and don't want to, but I'm very likely using software that was partially generated with Claude.

@thomasfuchs This is something I need to get *a lot* better at.

@mattly I live on the top floor, so my apartment has slanted ceilings everywhere. I've tried my best to make the best of it - but the nook, specifically, has a pretty big piece of wall I'm not currently using for anything.

(I think that's my best shot for putting the Eurorack case in near the computer. Alternately, once I get around to rebuilding my bedroom, I know I'll have a little space left over which I could then turn into a musicmaking spot; put my bass and the synth there.

Or I might just turn *that* entire wall into a bookcase too. But I'm beginning to think that I should just accept that my collection is living room sized, and then begin giving away old books that I won't read anymore and don't have a sentimental connection to. :) )

@mattly That is one delightful eurorack case.

@thomasfuchs Thank you! I have one at work too. I got my first one as a gift from my brother about 20 years ago (he worked at an office furniture store at the time and could get them at an employee discount), and they've been my favourite chairs ever since.

(After I got this fancier one here, I gave my first Capisco to a little local art studio, where it is still being used today! Its upholstery looks like shit now, but it's as comfortable as ever and still doing its job.)

@thomasfuchs The bookcase and desk are homemade. This is probably the tidiest computer space I've ever had.

(I have another, smaller desk - also homemade - just in front of a window, which is where all my drawing, writing and papercraft supplies are, so I can draw in natural light. That's also where my bonsai usually stand, but they're currently on life support under artificial light since little tropical trees don't like the light levels of Scandinavian winter days.)

@mattly I draw. I want to take up traditional bookbinding and perhaps woodcarving at some point.

@thomasfuchs I honestly don't understand why anyone who knows anything about computers can think it is.

(Yes, it does some things that a computer can also do. But you could use that argument to demonstrate that a beluga whale is a kind of submarine.)

@mattly I am a nerd who almost never uses dollar signs in paragraph text. :-P

@mattly I'm currently on a vortioxetine / sertraline cocktail.