Notices by Chris P. :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ (b4ux1t3@hachyderm.io)

@thomasfuchs literally stupid.

We’re required to use these at work because…sigh, executives. (I work on the ML team at work, which was previously “we apply linear algebra to problems” and is now “we vet every stupid AI tool the CEO decides to trial”)

Mine run in their own partition, with zero read/write to the other disks. They’re basically there so that it looks like I’m using them; I’ve already tested them at length and established that they’re outright worse than just having a few junior developers.

Even if I trusted these companies, which I don’t, I don’t trust the thing that can literally accidentally write a script that does stupid shit.

Ridiculous.

@thomasfuchs

> Since many AI agents operate with elevated privileges…

Who?! Who on earth, even if they’re into these things, would run something that can generate malicious commands _by accident_ with elevated privileges?!

@skinnylatte As a big lover of their games (In particular Wingspan), I really need to pick this up. . .

Today marks the first day that we're eating food that has either been grown by us or traded for with stuff grown by us for every meal.

Eggs we traded habeneros for, bread we traded eggplants for, lettuce from our garden, baba ghanoush from our garden, and lentil soup entirely from our or our neighbors garden, pickles from cucumbers we grew ourselves.

That makes these meals simultaneously the most expensive and also cheapest I've ever eaten, depending on how you look at it.

#gardening

Watching Mr Roger's with my sons.

There is a quiet genius to this show that I never appreciated as a kid. I didn't watch it much.

He's intentional about his timing, and how he words things.

He's subtle, but not obtuse.

Truly a gift to the world.

(and that's not even touching on the well-documented and tactful anti-racist, anti-prejudicial stance the show and the man took)

To my wife, who doesn't get sick of me sending her memes, thank you for being an amazing mother to our children.

I'm really glad we see eye to eye on this.

#HappyMothersDay2024

@internetarchive @brewsterkahle

I really, really hope you guys win. I don't want to think about what digital ownership rights will look like otherwise. :(

@GossiTheDog Yeah, I get that, I already edited my post to make it clear that I know it's not that "easy". Sorry, I realized the tone could be mistaken a bit too late.

@GossiTheDog @davidfetter @JRFreeman Hold on, am I understanding correctly that it's not hard requirement of mastodon, just. . ."they haven't gotten to it yet"?

If so, my original point stands, with the addition of "Mastodon has to implement basic functionality that even my own personal crappy websites support" ;)

@JRFreeman @GossiTheDog the content is still there, the servers probably weren't hosted in Afghanistan.

It's as simple as purchasing a new domain name, updating your certs, changing some server settings (to reference the new domain in generated links) and sending an email to your users with the new domain in it.

Like, this is actually one of those things in IT that doesn't have a lot of hidden complexity: the process I described is the _whole process_.

@thomasfuchs I know you didn't ask, but I'm going to be That Guy™️ and share anyway: https://hachyderm.io/@b4ux1t3/111601967071148685

@mattly 😍You're my hero for the day. I don't even do animation, but my wife wants to break into it, and she loves procreate

@mattly @luna They're releasing, like, a separate animation app? I thought procreate supported animations already? Or are they going full-on, like, CelAction2D animation?

@luna You mentioned in the post that you're looking for alternatives for doodling. Are you familiar with Procreate? I would be surprised if you weren't, but _just in case_, I'm letting you know that I love it, and that it's well worth the money.

I know it's not really a "doodling" app, but it supports my crappy doodles just fine. :D

@mypalmike @thomasfuchs uh... Every project I've ever even considered applying them to?

If I need to figure out some tricky bit of syntax, taking the time to lay out what I need in a way that a LLM can understand it makes me figure out what I need before even sending the question.

That's called rubber ducking, and it isn't new.

Unit tests? Source generation.

Boilerplate? Source templates.

The few times I've actually asked it meaningful questions, it confidently gave me incorrect syntax.

@thomasfuchs Lots of markets are shrinking after their heights during the pandemic.

I always feel the need to throw water on both pro- and anti-VR people by reminding them that VR is a subset of MR, which is tremendously applicable, given we've been doing it for decades (think GPS units in cars).

Like, I can point to plenty of real-world applications of VR that exist _right now_, and I can also point to things that are needlessly VR-ified.

In the end, reality, as always, sits in the middle.

@mekkaokereke @nova @maloki Your first point can be summed up with one well-known phrase:

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

I'll take an imperfect ally over a perfect enemy (or a neutral third party) any day of the week.

@thomasfuchs I know a lot of people think ready player one was hit or miss, but the arcade described in the first book is literally the reason I bought a vr headset after years of waffling.

It will happen, hopefully soon, but it _will_. Even if I have to add another side project to the list.

@nova I can only imagine how validating this must feel.

You've done an excellent job yourself, and you've surrounded yourself with smart people.

I can't wait to see what becomes of #hachyderm

Thank you so much for your hard work, your candor, and for taking the bad with the good, not just in stride, but with grace and poise.

You rock.

@nova I gotta say, I love my company's social channel, because I'm good friends with a lot of the folks I work with.

But man, it's nice to see names other than the ones I've been seeing for two years.