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mastodon 4.7.3I'm a father of two cool kids, husband to a most incredible woman and human servant to two cats and a dog. I work as a Business Analyst in Denver. On my spare time I like tinkering with electronics and computers, playing D&D, reading and philosophy
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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange yeah, this tracks my experience very closely. I was laid off shortly after expressing concerns that some of our LLM powered features were not production ready (but were shipped anyways). Another dev that was laid off along with me had been raising concerns about how agentic coding, while speeding up the code writing process, was just shifting the burden of work onto code review.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I understand what the cartoon is getting at (VOTE people!) but I think the car is already past the exit. We’re going to need to drastically change direction to get out of autocracy (as we’re already there).
Voting is necessary, but no longer sufficient to get us out of this mess.
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@Daojoan@mastodon.social the pivot to horny pedophile chatbots probably makes more sense to a billionaire pedophile high on ketamine
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place remember when the right was losing their minds over "death panels" in the Affordable Care Act?
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@bw@social.lol @chriscoyier@front-end.social good advice to just start doing something and not worry about it being perfect. And thank you Blake for making the excellent https://htmlforpeople.com/ site. It inspired me to make my own.
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@Beggarmidas@mastodon.social @ProcessParsnip@mastodon.ie @joachim@boitam.eu possibly. I think the solution isn’t going to involve widespread use of LLMs though. It’s a terribly expensive, inefficient and unreliable technology. I think we’ll look back on them a bit like zeppelins or jet-packs; a technology that sounded cool, but had too many impracticalities to really be useful. And jetpacks and zeppelins never consumed more resources than a midsized nation.
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@Beggarmidas@mastodon.social @joachim@boitam.eu what to do is stop investing into AI companies, and stop buying shit produced by AI. Stop hyping the shitty text prediction machine that just sort of “works well enough” for a glitzy demo, then fails spectacularly when put into production use. And stop trying to shoehorn it into everything.
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ooh, I think you’re onto something… We don’t want to leave people of other ages in harm’s way either, so we ban them from social media too. Ban all humans from social media. Mandate reverse CAPTCHAs; prove you are a bot to use social media. 🤣
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@zenbeater check out some of the drawing tablet reviews by @davidrevoy - he does some really incredible work with Krita on Linux and gives great reviews of different drawing tablets with a Linux user’s perspective. https://www.davidrevoy.com/index.php?tag/hardware
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place exactly 🎯 I also take some issue with saying “I made this,” when one just asked an LLM to make the thing; both for coding and art. Sure, both coders and artists rely on tools, and the tools evolve over time—but their comes a point where one relying on the tools isn’t really engaging in a creative process anymore. Electronic synthesizers are music instruments; but someone who just presses the demo button isn’t playing music.
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@senanthic little things like that are a wonderful reminder that there are still good people in the world 😊
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@MarciaW@ohai.social absolutely sickening. All those involved need to be brought to justice (though I’m not holding my breath).
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@Njord@zeroes.ca @GoblinQuester@dice.camp exactly my thoughts too. Children are people with full rights, and the role of parents (in my opinion as a parent), is to support their children, and help assert their rights, especially while the child is too young to assert them for themselves.
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@joachim@boitam.eu @Beggarmidas@mastodon.social @ProcessParsnip@mastodon.ie Also not counting the deaths from increased emissions from data centers (https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/analyzing-air-pollution-health-economic-risks-from-ai-data-centers/ ). And probably also excluding the deaths from suicide by the poorly compensated labors who have to weed out the CSAM and other internet filth from training data (https://restofworld.org/2025/the-ai-con-book-invisible-labor/ ).
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@GeePawHill@mastodon.social Ursula LeGuin is the GOAT. I discovered her Earthsea fantasy series around 11 or 12, and I’m do glad that I did.
More recently, I discovered @susankayequinn@wandering.shop here on Mastodon. While I’ve only read a few of her stories, they are really good.
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@eevee consider instead trying LibreWolf, Midori or one of the numerous other alternative browsers.
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@kgw that looks like a pretty cool utility, I’m going to give it a try. Another handy utility with similar functionality is TLDR - which is a shorter and easier to read alternative to man. When I need information on the details I use man, when I just need a quick overview of what the command does and how to use it, I use TLDR.
@Njord if you ignore the ethical, environmental, and social problems of LLMs, I think they can be useful in limited situations (taking care to remember that it is often wrong and keeping skeptical of its replies).
But once you factor in the ethical, environmental, and social problems, they are worse than useless. The limited benefits in a few situations are vastly outweighed by the massive harms .
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@markwyner@mas.to @toddz@social.linux.pizza I am so sick of seeing business leaders bend at the knee to Trump. They are either fascists or cowards (or both).
We saw this shit before in 1930’s Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany?wprov=sfti1#IT&T
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@edendestroyer@mastodon.social I’m not particularly fond of algorithms determining what I see. Call me old-fashioned, but I generally prefer a simple reverse chronological list of posts from people who I follow.
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@Beggarmidas@mastodon.social @jhooper@techhub.social @joachim@boitam.eu oh yeah, the world is going to shit, and AI is just the latest tanker of fuel on the fire. But going out and enjoying it is a lot easier without the slop being shoveled in our faces.
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@mattly@hachyderm.io I've started using em-dashes more often lately—it's fun to mess with people who assume they are a sure sign of LLM use, and they are easy to type on Linux with a compose key: compose - - -. BTW, I wish I discovered the Linux and the compose key back when I was in grad school; its far better then searching through the insert symbol menu in MS Word.
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@endorama@hachyderm.io best luck 💜 I’m in the same boat, Equus Software just laid me off with ~10% of the development team. The timing really sucks for me, as I have a major surgery scheduled for next week. So I’m going to wait until after recovery to start applying for a new job.
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@eurobubba @molly0xfff they’re doing it backwards these days. They steal from the poor to give to the rich (usually via a super PAC)
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@cstross@wandering.shop these are great. One that I recently got into is https://analognowhere.com/
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@fdroidorg @marcprux - Also sign the petition at change.org. The more of us that speak out against it the better chance we have of getting Google to back down. https://c.org/kRnMMnS9LP