Notices by Chris Gioran 💔 (chrisg@fosstodon.org)

Meta making billions of dollars of profit is a sign of something wrong with society, not proof that it’s a "good company"

https://www.wheresyoured.at/lost-in-the-future/

@tante

In some ways, all code is "boilerplate" code.

The actual work of a programmer is to choose a certain data structure, or the appropriate algorithm.

So you are right, when they say "25%", they want it to be interpreted as "AI took 25% of the decisions" but in reality it means "it did 25% of the typing", which is immensely lame because I don't use AI and my IDE already autocompletes more than 25% of my typing.

The question I'd ask though is - why would I even believe what they say?

@dalias Especially now that Mozilla has made it clear that any version can undo your privacy settings or introduce new horrors.

@djnavarro Looking at this, it's hard to believe that NYT once was at the cutting edge of data visualization.

I know it's fun to snipe at #Crowdstrike and #Microsoft right now - and we should continue doing that. They suck.

But spare a moment to think that a system that collapses because a vendor messed up is a badly designed system.

If a public utility stops providing its services because a software product went offline, then that utility is badly designed.

No system that people depend on should be remotely possible to take out this easily and at this scale.

@dalias I think you are attributing way too much agency to them.

It's not high aspirations for AI's capabilities. It's fundamental disinterest in the subject matter that's the problem.

My bet is that they thought - gee, this looks like a hard problem. I bet that no one has thought about it before, so instead of me investing the effort to understand it, I'll just have AI solve it for me.

@HeavenlyPossum It just blows my mind that the punishment for **funding terrorist groups** is $25m. That's it.

They behave as if Chiquita did this by accident and a fine makes it ok.

If this isn't the poster child for supporting the corporate death penalty, I don't know what is. And all the C-suite should go to jail to boot.

So as you say, if the state won't sponsor violence, its complicity will suffice.

@aral Our cluster munitions are made with 100% recycled depleted uranium.

This "greener satellite" crap reminds me of "environmentally friendly bombs" that occassionally make the news.

Because, you know, the reason people are against wars is the toxicity of the explosives.

My sister in Satan, we need fewer satellites, not greener ones.

Greenwashing the privatization of space, SMH.

"World's first wooden satellite could herald era of greener space exploration"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01456-z

@cmdr_nova

Not the most important thing, but this

> that even our experiments with the tech were confusing to users

In these people's minds, you're either an AI acolyte or you are "confused". There is no legitimate criticism.

@drewdevault There is something about software licensing that draws the kind of people who because they understand one complex issue (software programming) think they understand _every_ complex issue.

@inthehands The confusion experienced while reading this toot also serves to demonstrate the state of mind when debugging distributing systems.

@aral The problem with Jesus vision is when you see more bread and fish than what you actually have. Complicates grocery shopping.

Yesterday I heard, for the first time, the expression "software defined automobile industry" and I had to sit down for a second.

My sisters in Satan, a car needs to be reliable, cheap, repairable, clean, and eventually extinct.

But not software defined.

@aral Watching Facebook vs Fediverse is like watching a teen slasher film, where the protagonists _know_ who the killer is and they still invite him in the house because he hasn't killed any of them yet.

And you're just standing there, yelling at the screen, because you saw them watching him murder everyone else in the neighborhood.

How can I _only just now_ notice that DBMS is an anagram for BDSM?

Also, why does it make so much sense?

Pro tip: If you can "legally justify" bombing a refugee camp, then the only conclusion is that your legal framework is inhuman and morally bankrupt.

@aral It could suck, wouldn't it?

How hard can it be to name it something else than ext7?

The year is 2030.

Computers boot directly into the browser. IDEs are just a web app now, running in the GPU. No one knows why. Or how.

All programs run in 4 nested containers on top of a hypervisor abstracting over the 5 major computational clouds. The last time a branch was predicted correctly, in any CPU anywhere, was 4 years ago.

Cloud costs are withdrawn directly from your retirement fund.

Ext7 just came out, it's written in Javascript and uses AI to guess what the file may contain.