Notices by Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io), page 5

@MuseumJoe I think this highly depends on the specific circumstances, e.g. if say you write a book about some of Alan Turing work, it’s fine to use the name and photo; similar if you sell Henry Kissinger stickers for urinals.

@Tubemeister I’m not an engineer but shouldn’t the cylinder heads be inside the motor

It’s not exactly an entirely satisfying consolation given the amount of misery they inflict on others, but it does help a little seeing them for what they are.

@drwho sure I guess 🫣

By their very nature they will never and can never experience happiness.

They’re sad sacks of miserable shit who always want more and can never have enough.

And they’ll go to their graves feeling miserable and lonely.

Whenever I see these billionaire fartwaffles in the news I think about how with all their money and power they’re surrounded by sycophants; and they never in their lives experienced the best thing you can experience: make an another person burst into uncontrollable, heartily laugher with tears.

hope the horses can read

The 3 superpowers

JavaScript frameworks are planned obsolescence for software

@fluidlogic please test power supply before connecting if it hits expected voltages; these often go bad and can fry your motherboard

@fluidlogic (specifically a C64 problem)

@sushee my block button gets a lot of exercise these days

@lunarloony fwiw a lot of command line software is older than a year, e.g. tar last saw a release in 2023 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@tbridge yeah, I’m not saying it’s hyperterrible, it’s just so close

how do you like the neo? Considering maybe getting one as a backup computer and got travel

@tbridge I’m assuming they’ll launch a successor relatively fast with maybe an A20 Pro or whatever comes next that will support 5K

@tbridge which makes extra infuriating, it’s so close

@tbridge plus the Neo has the potential to be Apple’s best selling computer ever

@tbridge scaled resolution to 4K, it doesn’t support 5K

From what I've observed, people who claim that LLMs can replace artists don't understand art, people who claim that they can replace musicians don't understand music, people who claim that they can replace writers don't understand literature, and people who claim they can replace translators don't rely on translations. If I had a button that would erase LLMs from the world but it would take machine translations away (which is a false dichotomy anyway), I would absolutely still press it.

As a former SXSW speaker I highly recommend you don’t attend.

Instead loudly mock them in public whenever you can, for the reason alone that they don’t move the conference out of Texas.