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@rl_dane@polymaths.social I saw s1 e1 and had mixed feelings, but it was free. a TV analyst guy (Tom something) tweeted out his criticisms of s1 and its ending and it persuaded me to abandon it too, with complaints similar to yours. supposedly its been greenlit for s2. Tom basically said it felt like they were leading viewers on and making shit up out of thin air without proper payoff, which is kinda what the series Lost was guilty of. obviously Lost was wildly popular in terms of audience size so Tom said folks like Vince Gilligan learned the wrong lesson from its success. Vince gave us X-Files, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul so I was willing to cut him slack. and I love that main actress gal from BCS

@codinghorror@infosec.exchange corvids, dolphins and elephants: stay on their good side Just In Case

@dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz @metarecursive@mathstodon.xyz this is the 2nd or 3rd time I've seen this confusion play out online in recent weeks. my takeaway was that I should try watching the 2015 one sometime. I did not like the small sample of 2024's s1 e1 I tried, but a few folks said the 2015 one reminded them of The Expanse and I loooooooved The Expanse. heh

@bagder@mastodon.social curl used by the LA Rams now

They are bad people. And they know exactly what they're doing: https://www.404media.co/doom-loop-openai-and-microsoft-admits-llms-are-destroying-the-web-and-built-on-theft/ scum

@ArtHarg@mastodon.nl @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange my first instinct was to chime in with the joke "and my axe!" but then I realized you already included one

shell scripts FTW relying on vanilla Linux/UNIX features FTW rule of thumb: if it worked just fine 20-40 years ago it will still work today and in 20-40 years from now. not guaranteed, obvs, but a *wise* way to bet kids: get off my damn lawn, adults have real work to do

I asked Google's AI to count to 60. just now THEY MESSED IT UP clowns. at scale. with billion dollar valuations. and non-stop lies, fraud and security risks, and massively wasteful resource usage #AI learned of this first from: https://fosstodon.org/@atoponce/117029422208891428

@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange @curtosis@lingo.lol SHUTUP AND TAKE ALL MY MONEY, SIR

@curtosis@lingo.lol @flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange if its not inside a long lost mountain cave I don't even get out of bed

@silverwizard I cant decide if CoR is a supposedly good film thats actually bad or vice versa. its one of those films where ones prior expectations can help or hurt too, imo

@uep@timeloop.cafe @flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange <-- this guy NetBSDs!

@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange Solaris/SPARC emulated by a RasPi in a meshnet with unlimited fresh hot chocolate chip cookies

@rl_dane @skewray@mathstodon.xyz nvi (2?) and neovim are on my TODO to kick tires

@rl_dane @skewray@mathstodon.xyz thanks! thats on my list to kick tires with but am hoping to avoid it, cuz I have mixed feelings about some things I've observed about. I do like the strategy of staying back on 8.x, no AI, no vibe coding bros, no new big vimscript-ification (security smell -- begging to setup a security exploit in something we need to be able to trust with read access to our private data (source code,config files, fiction & non-fiction writings, PII etc). wise, but I see some non-wisdom that made me hesitiate haha

@skewray@mathstodon.xyz @rl_dane I cannot disagree on vim vs vi. I have a TODO to pin my vim versions because the new post-Moolenaar maintainer has started allowing AI commits. but have punted on the hassle. vi is the only FOSS tool I've seriously considered maintaining my own fork, but I'm reluctant to take on any extra LOE to my plate. too many things I should be doing or want to be doing as it is, dagnabbit. (unless I could brand it as "vi.ai" with a hard promise of NoAI used, allowed or supported, and still land some of those sweet sweet AI VC gazillions)

@rl_dane @skewray@mathstodon.xyz the sheer holy rightneousness of vi/vim empowers me with sufficient magnanimity to allow ed users into Our coalition as well. sed too. even the cat and echo pipeline fetishists

TODO self-host more TODO plain text blogging, and on site/host I control. (tho I have no plans to abandon Mastodon.)

I estimate I've seen at least 30 white M-to-F transsexual/transvestite programmers with online profiles over the last few years. I stumble across 1 new one every week or three. I wonder if its becoming more common IRL?

@dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz well I recently tried its s1 e1. I just meant the 2024 production by that name not the 2005 (or 2015? forget) under same name. the one with Jennifer Connelly

20 episodes into Dark Shadows one of the best vampire stories ever. holy moly

@GreatOldBot@mstdn.social honestly, same

@rl_dane@polymaths.social s1 finale or series finale?

@me_@sueden.social "genuinely" is one of the telltales. AI gen also loves honestly and actually. I once saw an AI-gen post on Reddit with "actually" 5 times

Rule of thumb: if I count at least 1 instance of each these words/phrases in a post on Reddit then I bet is 99% chance its AI-gen and trying to trigger real humans into blooming crops (posting a reply comment) for their content farm ingest pipeline:

• actually
• genuinely
• honestly
• curious
• legit
• honest feedback
• roast me
• here's where it gets interesting
• what I did not expect
• (...many more...)

one alone does not trip my spidey sense. if I see all of them it reeks of inauthenticity, or applying a template

@shac@ioc.exchange yeah I wanted to like Silo but I witnessed too much in e1 which felt inauthentic to me and I bailed. I already worried in advance it would use same plotting playbook as Lost or Pluribus. but I made it all the way thru Lost to the very end because its strengths were so strong I could overlook its flaws. its a risky strategy for modern showrunners, imo

tired: LLMs wired: libraries

@dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz s1 overall might be great but I bail early if a show doesnt resonate enough for me. I bailed on The Expanse after about halfway through s1 e1. years later I retried, loved all of it, bingewatched to series finale, think its a masterpiece series haha.

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange I would be willing to allow my AI to accidentally become sentient and escape its sandbox for a mere $275 B

@zion@beep.town propaganda by the fork industry

@GreatOldBot@mstdn.social you had me at Jurassic

@a2_4am@mastodon.social @_the_cloud@mastodon.social nice! now I want to find a good free Apple 2 softemu for Mac

@shac@ioc.exchange ok good to hear. might give it 2nd chance then

@mjd@mathstodon.xyz rice rice. then spice

There are 3 types of people:

1. those who watched the new He-Man film in theatres

2. those who follow Skeletor on social media

cc @skeletor@mas.to

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange troubleshooting race/concurrency Heisenbugs in prod with zillions of dollars at stake is what led to the mechanism in the rules for the TTRPG Call of Cthulhu for gradually losing one's sanity, incident by incident by incident

I have been surprised by how many M-to-F transsexuals (and/or transvestites) are programmers. It seems to be a higher percentage than in the general population, but I wonder if there are any objective measurements?

@icing@chaos.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange I think I adopted a rule to not try doing it (in C or any other proglang) because of all the prickly failure modes. in Golang we have the luxury of either using channels to convey that desire to the target thread, or, cancelling a "context" in Golangspeak. in early Java days I remember they also first designed it with an API for externally cancelling a java.lang.Thread and then abandoned it there too as too dangerous. I would not be shocked to learn if Java 1.0's impl of thread cancelling was itself a wrapper around pthread_cancel too.

@skewray@mathstodon.xyz @rl_dane there are 3 types of people in the world: Notepad/VS/IDEs: barbarians emacs: heathens... but will allow it into Our coalition vim: proper folk vi: saintly; keepers of the eternal flame ... yes the above comprises 3 types of people ;-)

your hobbies: using LLMs, vibe codin and churning out AI slop, racing to a global bottom and devolving yourself into an interchangeable commodity painlessly replaced by bots owned by rich capitalists who are so wealthy to themselves already be post-scarcity and thus incented to act on every selfish sociopathic whim no matter how cruel or ultimately destructive to society, sustainable ecosystems or to a stable democracy itself mine: reading, thinking, brainstorming, writing, programming, (actual) building and making, solving and shipping, iterating and optimizing... all with 0% "AI" but... you do you, kiddos!

@dpiponi@mathstodon.xyz I bailed about 20 mins into s1 e1 of the latest Dark Matter series.

ssh BBS FTW

@_the_cloud@mastodon.social @a2_4am@mastodon.social ok I'll try those, thank you!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@NoveltyBot/117319773340698306 when someone tries to convince me to use AI (because "its good for me" and tots safe, no downsides whatsoever!) I think of things like this (of which there are countless examples going back centuries if not millenia) #AI

@vitaut@mastodon.social heck that is a sign its approaching human IQ!

FOSS projects:

• explicit AI/LLM policy is Good

• explicit DEI/sexuality/culturewar policy is Bad

someone made an obvious reference to events in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey some rando replied, asking if it was about Murderbot this is why nobody under age 30 should be allowed on the Internet

@atoponce@fosstodon.org Anthropic payroll

oh look a suspiciously very security-unwise, antipattern-riddled codebase, with a totally unnecessary feature set, promoted by a R****** on Reddit: what are the odds?

points for at least not doing reasonable steps to hide the R***** taint, I guess

Former NFL Steelers HC Mike Tomlin has announced that on Sep 30th he will reveal to the world the Minecraft city he has spent the last 12 years building. I hereby declare in advance that he shall win the nerd Internet that day. The rest of us can kick back and coast until then... https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/s/UjXTTc7m71 #NFL #Minecraft