Notices by Æ. (aesthr@wandering.shop), page 4

The price of convenience is always dependence.

Peanuts for the crow friends!

I wasted so much time of my life trying to make friends with cis people.

What a stupid thing to try.

"ten years ago tech was still doing good things, what happened?"

ten years ago you didn't know shit, now you do know some shit. that happened.

@cwebber purple seems to be the canonical color option

Cis people can choose to take an interest in transphobia whenever they feel like it.

We on the other hand don’t get that choice, because transphobia takes an interest in us every day.

Ever wonder whether you’re at the top end of a power dynamic?

Check whether you’re allowed to show anger without repercussions.

RE: https://wetdry.world/@lucydev/115965825897311202

I have quit a whole industry that was ruining my mental health, and that felt really good.

@dalias yeah sure, if you use a private custom definition of “kids” then any statement about those can be true

Oh, “the kids are alright”?

Spend a week among present day psych students. That’ll give you a reality check.

The ableism alone is weapons-grade, and it’s sometimes worse than the stuff that significantly older lectures will teach.

And many of these people are going to be tomorrow’s therapists.

They’re going to cause immeasurable harm.

This is why people don't take open source seriously

Yeah, I'm totally going to install the harfbuzz freetype2 fribidi library, sure, that sounds like a normal thing to do to m computer.

Calling .unwrap() on a value in Rust is like asking a German "How are you?"

You *might* be fine but there's also a chance that you'll be here for much longer than you bargained for.

Last week in a seminar we discussed a text that was largely about sexual violence, including mass rape during war. Heavy stuff.

One student admitted they had not read the text but worked off a ChatGPT summary.

They had no idea the text was about sexual violence. ChatGPT withheld that information.

This wasn’t just a minor error nor a typical LLM hallucination.

About a third of the text, arguably its most important part, went completely ignored because it didn’t match OpenAI’s content policies

Capitalism surely produces the best possible products

https://youtube.com/shorts/kTqvAZmMU48

It's a famous trope that tech oligarchs think they could totally have done a physics degree, but then they confirm it by showing e.g. how they don't understand that producing electrical energy isn't "making new electrons", which is something I learned around 7th or 8th grade physics class.

Does Sam Altman also think a water faucet creates new water? Or that wind is the creation of new air?

Full transcript: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam-altman-2/

Oh, please, please actually do this. It'll be hilarious

Advertising is equivalent to code injection for your brain. Therefore ad-blocking is a necessary security measure.

Want to know that the main advantage of Bluesky over Mastodon is?

There’s not several men yelling at me, the woman who clearly must be wrong and stupid, every time I have an opinion that they don’t understand.

Fuuuuuuck!

Maintainers of KeepassXC (popular open source password manager) have started to use LLM code, which is a horrible idea for any software but especially security stuff.

https://blobfox.coffee/@Ember/115507736529184708

Details are not done but I did get it to a point where I could try it on.

And it fits, and I really like the minimalist look and the angles.

Oh, and pretty much the entire lower half (legs, hips) is still not even fully figured out but I’ll need more material for that.

But it’s required because without any anchoring on the bottom the too part slides around too much.