Notices by Dan Lyke (danlyke@researchbuzz.masto.host)

Dear Google: I definitely don't need more "AI" crammed into my phone, but if y'all could spend a little time making your Bluetooth stack more stable and reduce how often I need to reboot, that'd be awesome.

Since a few of my toots have gone viral, maybe this'll hit a different set of eyes: Software developer, looking for new opportunities.

I have debugged with a 'scope, know a graphics pipeline, can tell a datum from a projection, worked on projects that have touched your life, have my name on a few patents, grad students have called me up to ask about social media.

And I'm super LLM skeptical. Which is why I'm looking.

#FediHire

When I am lord high ruler of the universe, "Paste Unformatted" will be the default, and if applications have a "Paste Formatted" option at all, it will be two clicks to get there.

@shauna had a brief moment of "wonder which version that is?", then realized "no, wait, 'worst covers', I don't need to..."

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/117175365480100998

Your regular reminder that DNS sucks for identity.

RE: https://mastodon.stevesworld.co/@steter/116993599228138467

Sometimes I complain about how LLMs are destroying software quality, then I remember the entire Node ecosystem and I'm like "fuck it, let the world burn."

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116965058098416838

The more I think about it, this really is the only framing: OpenAI builds shit containment system, gives their tool dangerous permissions, faces no consequences, in fact gets all sorts of "omg it's so alive!" press for their incompetence.

@gsuberland whaaaaa? I'm on Ring, yeah, I wanna migrate away, but it's like $10/mo or $100/yr for cloud video storage for "unlimited" devices (I haven't pushed the definition of that, we have 5 cameras).

The replacements I'm looking at will have on-site storage (which I hope doesn't get burgled), but the server for that will cost well over its lifetime in subscription fees (part of why I haven't jumped yet).

Cc @dalias

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116443575607421807

Bright spot in this thread that reinforces my feeling that that LLM hype stems from the fact that so much of our tooling suuuuuuucks.

@soatok ugh.

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116296432842909909

Sorry, that was me.

Can someone familiar with solar systems give me any evidence that a slightly north-facing (4°) panel would give better performance (perhaps evenings or mornings) at 38.23N?

I think I'm being fed bullshit, but citable evidence would be really nice to have to smack this down.

I'm not getting a lot of solace from the headlines these days, but the news that the rumored Nvidia plan to dump $100B into OpenAI is collapsing brightens my day.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidias-plan-invest-100-billion-235951874.html

@chrisjrn I mean, so far it's just been me... And this last year not even that 'cause I was shuttling people.

cc @skinnylatte

Do I know anyone who knows anyone who works in an administrative capacity for a shipping port? Trying to do some due diligence for someone, pretty sure I know the answer, but an exchange with someone actually in the business would be helpful.

@dalias ugh. Although presumably they don't notice because each generation of device has more storage.

Thinking a lot right now about my 80+ year old friend who's dying of prostate cancer who just upgraded devices, but not because they actually gave him any more capabilities that he'd use...

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/115770593211651726

Perverse incentive: Apple has no reason to fix this, because it drives less technical users to upgrade...

@dalias @groxx do you remember the "NASCAR Badge" stage of OpenID?

And, I suspect like you, I have no problem with the mental model of the Fediverse, but I have a ton of friends on Bluesky because they couldn't figure out the "tell me the domain of your home server" aspects of interacting.

@dalias @groxx I get it, I'm the cranky old guy who's saying "yeah, that didn't work. And that didn't work".

I agree with your utopia, hell, I'm kinda feeling uncomfortable with the growing feeling that the Fediverse is a monoculture (though if I'm gonna make my blog participate in it, I may just pay someone to run Mastodon for my domain) but if I'm gonna put coding effort into my blog, I wanna see a path that doesn't just try what's already failed, only harder.

@dalias @groxx and I think it's great if your identity provider lets you edit the preferences you want to share; I *like* having different identities on different platforms.

But the OpenID flow required enough additional steps vs having my browser suggest a password that nobody I knew who was less into the "why"s of netwoork computing than I wanted to use it.