Notices by Socketwench (socketwench@masto.hackers.town)

"We need to fix this!"

"With what fucking money? There isn't any!"

Repeat until you die from chronic health conditions and overwork.

Take the shittiest LLM you can imagine.

Give it a shitton of cameras, lidar, and proximity sensors.

Run it on self-enclosed hardware.

Put that hardware on wheels.

Give that hardware a giant ass pouch of explosive minerals used as a power source.

Add motors with enough torque to go through a metal guard rail.

Now take that heavy as heck, explody, ambulatory LLM and put children in front of it.

That's a self-driving car.

You just invented a self-driving car.

I don't want a thinner phone. I want a thicker phone with real privacy controls and tough enough to be used as a blunt instrument against fascists.

He died as he lived, a shameless exploiter.

#monsterdon #manfromplanetx

God cannot help you. Give yourself to bear.

#monsterdon #grizzly1976

Ahhh, the haunting love theme from Grizzly (1976).

#monsterdon #grizzly1976

The chilling thought that all the chatbots and assistants being forced into our everything aren't just a fad.

It's a fad being inflated by an economic system that has hit a limit in overpaying its top members.

The only option is for it to eat itself from the lowest paying members up. The lowest already eaten by decades of neolibralism, the mid and higher tiers are next on the menu.

All to support the obscene wealth of those out the top. Saturn eats his own children.

Your trans friends are scared right now.

Cis people, we need you to step up, shut down the hateful shit that's coming.

It matters. Even little stuff matters.

Look, nerds. I *know* some of you are itching, "I'll write my own Mobile OS, then!"

Hun. No. Stop. Try some of these fine projects instead:

https://grapheneos.org/ A security focused version of Android, mostly for Pixel devices. Multiple stores supported.

https://lineageos.org/ Remember ClockworkMod? Lineage Is a full OSS version of Android. Like Graphene, you can get multiple stores here too.

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/ focuses on older devices, putting Linux on them instead.

🧵

Honestly, I can't wait for us USians to be the de-facto villains in film.

@mntmn I would prefer one of yours over a framework, but tariffs...

Granted, I can't afford a framework either, nor am I sure how my workflow would manage on Arm.

So things are going as expected over at BlueSky.

So...this happened.

Someone actually called my bluff on my quip.

@cwebber "Ocelots."

"Don't you mean Octets?"

....
...

[ravenous snarling]

@cwebber ßussy

@RikerGoogling The holodeck characters are asking me to accept cookies.

I have so many holodeck cookies.

They litter the projectors, covering every available surface, the characters, myself.

I can barely move.
I can barely say "end program".

I can only "reject all" by reciting a 17th century sonnet in iambic pentameter.

I continue to want thicker laptops with visible screws and user replaceable everything and I'm not joking.

"But Pagliacci, I *am* The Doctor!"

[Doctor Who end credits play]

People really think before AI, people aimed to use computers to "improve society" and not replace jobs and become filthy rich?

Please.

VisiCalc was meant to eliminate accountants.
CAD was meant to eliminate draftsmen.
Outlook was meant to eliminate secretaries.

Or do you just not value those jobs?

Stop looking through rose tinted glasses. Even the Apple guys knew they could become filthy rich doing this.

On the plus side, all the evil, murderous automobiles might finally break America of it's addiction to car culture.

#monsterdon #maximumoverdrive