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@jwz@mastodon.social @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer The death of rss was cultural, tho. It disappeared from people's consciousness, even in the tech sector. A couple years back, a friend working at a large multinational software company was talking with me about this cool project his backend colleagues were thinking about, that could revolutionize how content was distributed and updated in their infrastructure. He was really surprised when, unprompted, I revealed to him details of how it could and should work, and possible pitfalls they might encounter. They were trying to reinvent RSS because nobody in the company had even heard of it.

@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social @Nickiquote@mstdn.social "you absolute station wagon" is hilarious

@bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot @pluralistic@mamot.fr and things are gonna burn. Today the manager of my manager tried giving me a speech about how we should all adopt llms in development. His motivation is as follow: they sold to our consultancy customers the tale that AI would make development faster and cheaper. So now the customers are asking for everything to be delivered quicker and cheaper. So now the bosses are asking us to make everything quicker and cheaper, even though we told them it wouldn't work that way. So we won't be able to make everything magically quicker and cheaper.

@IngridHbn@mastodon.online me: rides a bicycle between Alpine villages, to reduce gas usage whenever possible. them: Get snacks flown in by helicopter.

@GamingWithEars@mastodon.stickbear.me also, please, no more instagram. Don't share a screenshot from an instagram thing, with a shortened url in a picture. Don't share an image with a qr code. Give me an actual url to an actual website, please.

@eunews@mastodon.social treating climate change like a student protesting climate change.

@codinghorror@infosec.exchange and twitter. and facebook. and instagram. yeah. And at the same time some very rich people will soon fly to the US to entertain Trump with the FIFA World Cup, while they'd literally have nothing to lose by boycotting it.

@gabrielesvelto@mas.to working on microcontroller and drivers shaped a lot of how I think about code in ways that are still relevant today that I do "high level" backend web stuff. It's hard to point at a specific thing, but knowing how data will be "structured" and handled by the machine is a real boon in writing clean and understandable code.

@lina@vt.social and to add: at different scales, those kind of large refactorings happened also in smaller companies and shops, so it's not like they were exclusive to big companies that could dedicate people to that. So using LLMs isn't even justifiable by bs like "giving smaller companies big-company capabilities".

@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie @Fcksd@todon.eu @MediaActivist@todon.eu If I remember my physics right, the 130% discussed here has little to do with what we generally mean in terms of efficiency. It's more like (and this is an oversimplification) "for every photon absorbed, we had on average 1.3 electrons moving and making electrical current". Each of those electrons have lower energy that they would by absorbing the original photon entirely, but they couldn't anyway, so it is a net gain in the power you can output. Only, it's not automatically 130% of the "original" efficiency. Feel free to correct me because I'm basing this off old memories.

@inthehands@hachyderm.io @mhoye@cosocial.ca @ancoghlan@mastodon.social main difference, I think, is that some teenagers do have sex.

@ami_angelwings@urusai.social Poison Ivy

@ana@starlite.rodeo I was expressing similar sentiments a few minutes ago with friends. More specifically, I was pointing out that the demarcation between "good" servers/server farms and these hellspawned datacenters may be hard to properly define legally, so the best solution is to give me a large hammer and total impunity.

@gattoparlante@mastodon.bida.im condivido questo toot, perchè altri devono leggerlo e soffrire.

@davidgerard@mas.to I hope we're going to be able to contain whatever that is on that boat. We've got plenty to deal with around the world...

@scalzi@mastodon.social if a human had done a fraction of the damage that AI has done, they would be out of a job, and sued into homelessness. And it's remarkably unlikely that a human fucked up so bad, because there used to be processes, and checks, to avoid messing up production environments.

@trib@aus.social "good people doing top-tier work in this industry are able to have proper careers now, which is just bloody ace" And nerds, we get attached to good people and good characters, and we never want to let them go.

@Dunpiteog@devianze.city @GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org @carlux@puntarella.party @antanicus@puntarella.party Io credo che sia perchè gli imprenditori sono mediamente stronzi, e ci andrebbe una legge che li costringe a esserlo un po' meno anche in questo.

@valhalla@social.gl-como.it @GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org @antanicus@puntarella.party @Dunpiteog@devianze.city @carlux@puntarella.party Ma "investire" è una parolaccia per molti imprenditori italiani.

@futurebird@sauropods.win kids are an absolute menace. Let's put more of them in places of power. I mean in the actual rooms, asking questions, pointing things out.

@matildalove@wetdry.world @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place I just realized that You Have Died could be the sequel to so many games...

It's been lightly windy and rainy every evening of the week so far, so I couldn't go #fishing. Tonight I have to go to the city for a #dnd game, so I couldn't fish, and of course the weather is perfect...

ok, possiamo vietare le crociere? Mi pare ormai chiaro che fanno solo danni.

RE: @ilPost@flipboard.com

@HailsandAles@metalhead.club and, please, use insoluble bread. I'd rather not be holding the patty directly by the second bite.

@afewbugs@social.coop we may be adding some hantavirus on top of all that, to liven things up a bit.

@lelevup@livellosegreto.it e probabilmente l'opzione di farsi un abbonamento

@TG_Esq@metalhead.club blank cassette -mixtapes, a bit from the radio, but mostly from other cassettes

@ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world I wonder how he took being welcomed with Australian flags...

@Tuftears@wandering.shop @MicroSFF@mastodon.art it will make all the extravehicular time spent scratching behind them worth it.

@jwz@mastodon.social @mbpaz@mas.to on the mountains, when you are on a path you don't know well, GPS is really helpful. Even on paths you know, it's really useful in case of emergencies.

@CppGuy@infosec.space @pluralistic@mamot.fr @bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot And you sit with them, explain to them how the thing that looks to be almost working to them, is very far from actually working, and requires more time and effort to make usable compared to starting from scratch, and you realize they can't possibly fathom what you are saying, and it makes you sad.

@david_megginson@mstdn.ca "Train ran on time" had always been a joke among the people I knew, until we realized (long ago), that some people were 100% serious and earnest.

@codinghorror@infosec.exchange @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer @jwz@mastodon.social Not what I meant, but sure. email works. Arguably, the user experience isn't better than rss. You need a client to receive, parse and render the whole thing. As a content feed is actually worse, I think, because people can just send me stuff I don't want. I was more talking about "social media feeds", that just aggregate and push stuff towards the users.

@kirch@tilde.zone also, athletes and artists, who possibly have a much bigger impact on public opinion (but perhaps is comparable on the economy).

@wafflesies@infosec.exchange Just a matter of time, especially since Torvald is going off the deep end

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange I could also see those valuations move around. My boss (pretty high in management in this company) told me they are considering what the price point for tokens would be where they'd switch from "buying tokens", to buying 5k€-10k€ machines for each developer to run local models on. (Which is kind of funny to me, as I've witnessed the whole "let's get rid of our in-house servers and move to the cloud" saga, and now the want to reverse that)

Chissà se/come si potrebbe fare una cosa analoga per i prati usati a pascolo per i bovini...

RE: @AgenziaAnsa@flipboard.com

@artemis@dice.camp or, it's giving us an excuse to hunt down real life references. (no, I know, they suck. It's so annoying. I would recommend wikipedia, but I honestly don't think they have enough media to be a good reference for visual arts)

@png@yap.pony.biz Until moments ago, this wasn't the reason I'm growing a few habanero plants...

@ansuz@gts.cryptography.dog I've been in a similar headspace lately. I'm looking a either love2d or defold, because my previous forays into godot left me feeling like I was fighting against its assumptions to get my ideas out.

@codinghorror@infosec.exchange @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer @jwz@mastodon.social I think the dev experience was less than ideal, because of version incompatibilities. The user experience is possibly mostly to blame on the client side of things. Even html/css/js sucks without a browser to parse it and render it. For example, the fact that it's not push-based is a positive feature, to me, for what rss is meant to do. This is not to say "push" systems don't have their place.

@dansup@mastodon.social why wouldn't this be the default?

@pierogiburo@tech.lgbt I hate that it allows stuff like #define f float becuase that lead to stuff like that being used, and I always thought it was insanity.

@Dunpiteog@devianze.city @antanicus@puntarella.party @carlux@puntarella.party Pannelli e batterie, mannaggia a loro, sì.

@peter@thepit.social "a sustainable business model “would require that genAI be infused in everything from billboards to checkout kiosks,” with providers taking a cut of all of those transactions." So, what if I take my wood-chopping axe, stick an "AI Inside?" sticker on it, and use it to check inside everything that supposedly has genAI?

@futurebird@sauropods.win I've been arguing for this every time someone brings up "protecting the children" by denying them access to online spaces.

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange the kid is also posing like an action hero

Quanti consulenti hanno pagato per arrivare a questa conclusione? E quanti ne pagano per confermare che l'acqua è bagnata?

RE: @AgenziaAnsa@flipboard.com

@munin@infosec.exchange "Even tho it demonstrably does not" a sad part about this is that understanding the demonstration takes an amount of competence that most llm addicts refuse to have.

@codinghorror@infosec.exchange @mjg59@nondeterministic.computer @jwz@mastodon.social On the other hand, most successful "feed-based" things I see online are push based, so clearly there's something there that works for most people and not much for me.