Notices by Alda Vigdís (alda@topspicy.social), page 2

@thomasfuchs @becomethewaifu @danielmunoz Then there's the same people projecting their weird white supremacist ideas about a "pure" model society on you as soon as they find out you're from Iceland, Norway or Scotland.

@becomethewaifu @danielmunoz @thomasfuchs They get themselves trapped by "but I'm a good person" more often than they realise.

@thomasfuchs @skinnylatte I'm pretty sure this has been used as an actual debate point in the Bavarian state assembly.

The greatest business idea of the 21st century is a massive computer system that answers your questions by rephrasing what some guy on a forum said 8 years ago.

It also makes cartoon porn.

@nileane I may be insufferable about those things but asking for a dated copy of said policies is something I enjoyed doing back when I was in party politics and someone in power pulled the "our present policy is" card.

@nieuemma @thomasfuchs it's correct UK spelling but you wouldn't use correct UK spelling for a lot of things that have to do with computers.

@chris The Book of Revelation is basically describing hell as a very large music festival.

I bet Metallica and Pantera are headlining.

See you in the mosh pit.

What I find super annoying is the proliferation of auto-dubbing on YouTube.

I DO NOT WANT THIS. JUST GIVE ME FUCKING SUBTITLES BECAUSE I'M FUCKING LITERATE.

So which dark theme are the cool kids using for #vscode nowadays?

The new default ones are kind of crap.

I'm using Dashiell.mac-vim-ron right now, but I'm happy to explore.

Q: Which AI should I use? — ChatGPT or Copilot?

A: One company was started by a guy who allegedly raped his sister and the other was started by a guy who asked Jeffrey Epstein for antibiotics for his STD infection, which led to his divorce. Are you you need this?

@dalias @NanoRaptor I'm not Nanoraptor, but I've been using rsync.net for exactly that for a very long time whenever I have a choice.

Simplified terms like "coding" and "coding language" are not just drop-in synonyms for programming terminology but a means to trivialise the profession.

The men who wouldn't document, lint and format their code so they themselves and their coworkers could maintain it 5 years ago, even to save their lives would totally do it nowadays to "help the AI".

Is there a name for it when someone replies to your fedi post and blocks you so you can't easily report them?

This is your reminder that Chuck Norris was a hateful, racist ghoul.

So AGENTS.md is just the human-readable documentation the AI dudebros have been refusing to include in README.md until now, because they claim that the code is "self documenting" and everyone else must be stupid if they can't figure things out.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@PavelASamsonov/116125741743536601

OpenTorment developers 2 years later: "We at SunHat Enterprises would like to thank our contributors for their hard work over the past 2 years. While OpenTorment Community Edition will still be available, we have decided to switch to an internal development model for future versions due to extreme community overhead, with the source code available to our Platinum Partner Members with a minimum spend of 200.000 USD per annum"

@thomasfuchs Just wait until someone re-invents MVC as the next big thing in 2030 or so.

It's 2026 and I think we can still use D-Sub, Micro Ribbon and DIN connectors for pretty much everything.

Everything else is just marketing fluff.

Imagine turning the TV on in 2015 and you see that your old dentist is not only a dictator, but also bombing his own citizens.