mastodon 4.7.2Senior software transformation strategist and writer. Started climbing a ladder only to realize it was up against the wrong wall. Figuring out what the alternative to being a thirsty grind-fluencer is. Working to be better. St. Paul, MN.
All opinions expressed set us up the bomb. Born 333.73 ppm. (He/Him)
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Seen recently on an AGI forum:
"How is it that anything is possible but nothing is changing?!"
My dude, you're *so* close.
#QOTD: "The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple." - Grady Booch
Today's spin: Haute and Freddy's debut, Big Disgrace. Theatrical and danceable - a bit of Lady Gaga, a bit of Chappell Roan. I like it quite a bit
#QOTD: "The first step in any project is to grossly underestimate its complexity and difficulty." - Nicoll Hunt
The #ai subsidies are coming to an end.
This is going to get ugly, especially for those companies that flipped tables to build these dependencies into their critical workflows
#QOTD: "Most people want to improve, but few want to hear from an outsider - or from anyone else for that matter - that they are wrong." - Esther Derby
Only 3% of users on social media post toxic content. But surveyed users guess that number is 43%, due to algorithmic influence.
The 90s JVC tape players had a faux rubber, grippy surface. Over time, that plastic got icky-sticky. When people tried to clean that surface, like with alcohol, it took the finish right off, along with any labeling.
So I've been adding it back - white out lettering, sharpened with sharpie, and sealed with clear nail polish.
There are many cassette players (still), and this is mine.
Now to fix the scratchy volume pot.
"How you doing?"
"Oh, you know. I'm a bit distracted. Do you think we might actually drop a nuclear bomb tonight?"
"Okay. Wow. I guess actually my question was rhetorical. I just wanted to remind you to complete your CBTs."
"Great."
#QOTD: "The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless." - Alan Watts
#QOTD: "Time moves in one direction, memory in another." - William Gibson
Perhaps the easiest vinyl order in the past few years: Genesis Owusu's REDSTAR WU & THE WORLDWIDE SCOURGE
#QOTD: "It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas." - Edwin Land
#QOTD: "There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise." - Gore Vidal
#QOTD: "There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
RE: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
This is some wild stuff; while other smart devices fall prey to being hacked either due to incompetence or negligence, these Yarbo robotic lawn mowers and snow blowers would appear to be state-sponsored surveillance Trojan horses.
#QOTD: "The human soul doesn't want to be advised or fixed or saved. It simply wants to be witnessed - to be seen, heard, and companioned exactly as it is." - Parker J. Palmer
Woke up this morning and all the chickens had gotten out (guessing the door hadn't gotten latched properly when my wife brought the chicken tractor in last night).
Thankfully, all six came when I called - there was a wild turkey at the edge of the yard that they were visiting, but they don't do long goodbyes.
I probably should post some picks of the goobers sometime, but here are some swans that stopped briefly yesterday. We get ducks, geese, and the occasional egret, but never swans
RE: @pbsnewshour@flipboard.com
The whole, "We're not racist and doing crimes, YOU'RE racist and doing crimes!" argument is laughable, if they weren't so deadly serious.
Equality is racism. Questions are attacks. We've always been at war with eastasia, only those who are terrorists would imply otherwise! #uspol
#QOTD: "If you care about productivity, you care about internal code quality. If you want to go faster tomorrow, you care about the quality of the code you wrote today." - GeePaw Hill
AAAAWWWWWWHHHHHHHOOOOOOO!
(But, seriously, why are we starting games at 9:30pm on a weekday? Sheesh.)
I don't care what your intentions are.
If your manifesto includes the phrase "hereditary elites" unironically, you've lost the plot.
Freedom through subjugation, and tolerance for others only if it is the right "others" is some real dystopian, 1984 crap.
How many of your own farts do you have to sniff before this kind of doublespeak starts making sense?
#QOTD: "It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago." - Roger von Oech
#QOTD: "Human intelligence is dynamic, multi sensory, complex, uncertain, and interactive. AI today is still simple, static, and disembodied." - Dr. Fei-Fei Li
Spent some more time on a possible upcoming Net API Notes piece - resurrecting a 2010 photo frame whose online service went the way of planned obsolescence long ago.
Yesterday was a lot of debugging DHCP problems between a 2026 mesh network and 2010 wifi assumptions. Today I got a solid wireshark capture of the boot and update loop.
Next, is capturing the DNS calls to the defunct mothership, and route those payloads to a server I control.
"The impulse to view everything in terms of efficiency, of reducing costs and maximizing output, is radically overapplied in the modern world." - Author Ted Chiang in the LA Review of Books - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/life-is-more-than-an-engineering-problem/
#QOTD: "You can tell a lot about someone with what they do with their pain - do they transform it or do they transmit it?" - Richard Rohr
#QOTD: "The price of light is less than the cost of darkness." - Arthur Nielsen
Happy Mother's Day, from Mr. T
https://youtu.be/dePVWHAT2Go?si=nN-uhpKweDq8MfCJ
#QOTD: "What we really need to study is how the world gets put back together. I'm not talking about the election of new officials or the release of new technologies, but rather the everyday work of maintenance, caretaking, and repair." - Shannon Mattern
#QOTD: "Investments in technology are also investments in people, and these investments will make our technology process more sustainable." - Nicole Forsgren
RE: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
Utah seems intent in demonstrating to the nation how a loud, irratable minority can set policy for a reasonable majority.
The thing about reading a lousy technical book is that it further discourages me from ever writing a technical reference. So, in that sense, this waste of 250 pages has got at least that going for it.
#QOTD: "There are things that can be measured. There are things that are worth measuring. But what can be measured is not always what is worth measuring; what gets measured may have no realtionship to what we really want to know." - Jerry Z. Muller
#QOTD: "It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to." - W.C. Fields
Had some time to waste tonight, so I dropped into my local big box to wander the toy aisle. A 7" action figure costs $20-$40 dollars now? Really?
Good grief.
#QOTD: "One of the biggest fallacies in tech is that you can solve culture problems by writing the perfect piece of code." - Caitie McCaffrey
#QOTD: "Software development is a game of insight, and insight comes to the prepared, rested, relaxed mind." - Kent Back