Notices by Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)

@pathunstrom are they ... proposing you FTP down the browser of your choice?

@technomancy I needed that hearty gut laugh, thanks

@janl uh oh what did they do now?

(I’m so glad I migrated off last year)

@reillypascal installed; it's >90 days after Tahoe was released, so it's still offering it, though I did disable prompts to update for the next several thousand days

fuck all the way off

@technomancy @nasser probably half of the work I’ve picked up since going independent has originated there, but entirely from a “hey I have availability” or “hey I have this need” broadcasts among people I already know

@christi3k this double-sucks because I find most primary documentation obtuse and inadequate; they tell the *what* but not the how, why, where, or when. I learn best by examples, and those too are becoming increasingly scarce

I wonder if we justify even entertaining the argument out of a nostalgia of the self - I was moved, I felt, transcendence and awe, the temptation to say, surely there must be some justification, some moral grounding for the fact that I was spoken to so deeply by the words and images from this monster? This connection to humanity, to the divine can’t just have been a crass manipulation from some crass manipulator, could it? If it’s nothing more profound than that, who am I?

@thomasfuchs “we noticed you’re using Numbers once a month, have you considered paying money to edit video professionally?”

@RuthMalan I had a conversation about this with someone recently; I think it depends a lot on what your timescale for “new” is, and by my measure the field is in its infancy

what sort of endeavors have an equivalent complexity level? Movies, maybe? Buildings? City planning? At what point would a particular software endeavor become more complex than one of those? How long have we as people been tackling those intentionally with the idea of understanding how to do them in a “best practices” manner? What can we learn from them?

Unfortunately software seems so full of “well programming is hard and I’m good at it, therefore I’m very smart, what could I possibly learn from these other fields?” types who think we’ve obviously figured it out because things like google or chatgpt exist. To my mind, that would have been like saying 3700 years ago “well the Great Pyramid of Giza exists, we know everything there is to know about architecture”

@nasser this is… sarcasm, right?

@jackwilliambell @christi3k yeah I never really followed the whole saga but all that’s left of either storefront-wise is an espresso bar near the farmer’s market and a shop on Evergreen campus; their stuff is still served at several restaurants but it’s often burnt

@christi3k @PDXyogini I was pretty solid on only a handful of roasters in PDX but since moving all I’ve really gotten has been Olympia Coffee Rosters, they’re in my ‘hood and just as world-class

@AbramKedge @skylar I bet the role an LLM could replace most accurately in any company is the CEO

@datarama I think “favorite” is a misnomer. I use it as “I appreciate what you’ve said”

@etherdiver as the only person who voted for a cheap chair; I tried a handful of pricier ones much to my wife’s concern, including the steel case and aeron, both of which I hated and one broke on me. They sell relatively quickly if you don’t like them

I’ve been using what’s known as the “TikTok wide butt chair” with wheels on for a few years now and have been happy with it, though I need to replace the cushion at this point

@ramiro my experience - as a white man, at least - has been that you have to deal with someone skeptical of the thing (probably because they hear a lot of bullshit) and kinda resentful that you’re occupying their time but also realizes that they’re part of the paperwork process on which a bulk of “things going sideways in society” rests and so does it regardless. We’ve had to deal with them in PDX before for a variety of things and it never made a bad experience more pleasant but it was necessary for the paperwork wheel

@ramiro basically call the PD and say you’re dealing with a case of identity theft and need to file a report, and they’ll take it from there; I’m reasonably sure most departments have a whole division related to nonviolent post-facto crime handling in this manner

@ramiro oh no, I hope you can get it resolved quickly and with a minimum of damage

@alexanderdyas this is the approach I take to my regular SD cards