Notices by FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social)

@klausfiend @fifilamoura @mekkaokereke
she's basically a sniper, but for armour; there are these popular ideas about what makes a good sniper but some of the most effective ones have been quiet, unassuming people without a lot of macho, who are particularly good at not getting caught.

@klausfiend @fifilamoura @mekkaokereke
I remember a profile of her I read some time back; the hatchback works for her because it's low-cost, low-maintenance. IIRC she operates as part of a 2 person team. They park the car, camoflage it, then hike a short distance to a pre-scouted vantage point. Giving her a HiLux would be a waste because she doesn't need it. More than a couple of rockets is a waste because she might get two shots a day if she's lucky.

Today is "#LargeBoulderTheSizeOfASmallBoulder" day, for those who celebrate.

@aer
rsync from a git repo was devops before devops was devops.
@pluralistic

@profdc9 @slothrop @GossiTheDog @Gargron
I hear you & agree in general. I think context is important, though, & I think the really relevant context here isn't OpenAI - it's #Automattic & the #WordPress Foundation.

So, yes, devil will be in the details - but I expect those details to be informed by the actions of a particular devil. Naturally we will have to see how it's all written out.

@GossiTheDog weird nit I know but why did they need to use video of the charging stations to track progress? Wasn't the thing just logging through waypoints the whole time? Like, didn't they literally already know the exact path it took before they even looked at the video?
So why are they connecting the video to location finding? Is it some weird & stupid attempt to distract from the obvious fact that the thing is a two-ton mobile phone sheathed in steel plates?

@dalias @VulpineAmethyst
holy crap I totally did not know that. I never used it enough to see that in action, I suppose - it was always a pretty dead social network experience for me, extremely biz-focused.

@cstross somehow I can't see musk standing up to poison, gunfire & drowning.

@virtualinanity
I won't argue about how he lost or didn't lose which segment's vote. I will go out on a limb to say the "rhetorical device" he used is fundamentally risky, & the way he used it was really bad.

Not just for the reasons @mekkaokereke outlined, but also because it was wrong. It was wrong because Musk wasn't speaking factually - he was trafficking bullshit. Musk doesn't care whether, where, or how there's misspending - he just wants to con people into shutting down the gov't.

@rakoo @mekkaokereke @jeromechoo
Bingo. 'I agree with' is just wrong - he factually doesn't agree with Musk. But he just endorsed Musk's whole deal.

@mekkaokereke @jeromechoo
If it were me, & I felt utterly compelled to champion spending cuts*, I'd start with something like "Musk is wrong about why and where government spending needs to be cut."
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*I probably wouldn't but just saying.

@cstross Fred Zimmerman's 1973 adaptation of Day of the Jackal was both a really faithful adaptation & a darn good thriller. But it's a major exception.
Also I'd put in a similar vote for The Ipcress File.

@dalias I am missing what it does, then. I don't get any of that from the website (not doubting it's there, I'm just not seeing it).

@dalias yeh I'm really just trying to highlight that there could be an OSS alternative that does what they're selling without any of the issues that go along with using them. (I know, nobody's gonna clean up Keepass like that.)

@dalias Improve the UX & you could get Keepass to do a lot of this. (I already use Keepass as a store for random info like license keys.)

@georgetakei bright side is the toddler knows "one thousand".

@molly0xfff wait a sec: if they contracts can't be owned, how can the assets be "theirs" to retrieve?

@GrahamDowns @carnage4life
The problem arises when less-experienced developers (or worse, people with no dev experience at all) are encouraged to use ChatGPT/Copilot for answers. They have no way of assessing quality.
That's the vision.
That's why it all needs to be rejected. Not moderated: Rejected.

@jonpsp @GrahamDowns @carnage4life
I see it as all part of the same assumption-set.

I started out in software training. People invested lots of money in training staff. Now, nobody does. They just assume everyone already knows it.

What happens is everyone looks it up with a search engine. Up to 2022-ish they could count on finding MOL-valid instructions.

When all the search engines are LLM-driven chatbots searching an LLM-generated web, they'll no longer find those answers.

@lzg I think it's fair to say & try to act on 'that's illegal and we should try to force the issue.' But yes, that should be a very different exercise from 'that's illegal, they can't do it.'