Dan Sugalski

I mean, the problem is ultimately that we’ve killed all the healthy non-work social systems and maybe we should fix that rather than go back into the office.

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@dougcoulson/117343406521143514 Time for serious sanctions and bar complaints, tbh. And pushing for them to be taken seriously.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/117303224740977755 Part of me wonders if some of the freak out here is driven by a kind of “kill the heretic” urge, since the US AI labs are deeply rooted in apocalyptic Christian theology, and the Chinese labs very much are not. (Maybe there are apocalyptic Daoist or Confuscian threads, but it doesn’t seem widespread like in Christianity) Ideologies tend to conflict, and in those conflicts the wackiest ideology freaks out the most.

Just to be clear, I’m cool if you like your coworkers and find the social environment at your workplace pleasant. Just… it 100% should be optional. You should have healthy social options outside of work.

@flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange @metacurity@infosec.exchange “but but but… what if someone builds God and it’s not us?” is an angle I hadn’t thought about (because these choads deserve exactly no attention) but in retrospect is undoubtedly one of the drivers. These dudes desperately need to touch grass, possibly at high speed.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@houstonpublicmedia/116998685471778121 Frankly at this point grid operators should guarantee residential rates and supply, and have large inbound customers bid for the remainder, along with them being the first cut when the grid is stressed. Want to open a datacenter? You’re first for the chop when the water or power supply is low, and you absorb the extra costs. If you don’t want this, then pony up the extra capacity as part of your hookup, and if you can’t then sucks to be you, go where there is capacity.

@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange I'm guessing someone at the CRA enjoyed the *hell* out of that announcement. It's a giant "we've been telling you this is a problem for years" without having to actually say you've been telling people it's a problem for years.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run wait, you mean we have to engage in activities *not* driven by addiction? How would that even work?

@lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com what befuddles me the most is people being awed by this when the marketing is fundamentally “we suck at our jobs!” since if they were even remotely competent the ai bot never would’ve (allegedly) done what they’re claiming.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@brettcannon/116837182802106809 A reminder of why you should never put your "smart" TV on the internet. And also this should just be illegal. Put some sensible regulations in place as to what apps are allowed to do.

@cstross@wandering.shop it’s pretty impressive how happy they don’t want other people to be.

@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange I am now having flashbacks to the pthreads standardization process and I think maybe I need to go lie down a bit until I forget again.

@jonny@neuromatch.social when you can’t tell if the code was generated by an LLM or by some dude at 3AM after pulling two all nighters… you probably should burn it to the ground and try again by hand after a nap.

@benlockwood@ecoevo.social Pretty convinced that 95% of the pushback against unions is "how dare you think you peons can tell me what I can make you do"

@mhoye@cosocial.ca @mcc@mastodon.social what’s extra awesome and peak capitalism is that they’re clear they *could* rebuild things and figure it out, they just don’t want to because it isn’t worth it.

@grimalkina@mastodon.social when I wrote for O’Reilly they warned me (and all the authors) that if you were in it for the money you should go work at McDonalds because it paid better per hour.

On the one hand it isn't the role of school districts to compensate for the bad decisions of Capitalism. On the other hand it's a one-time capital expense that provides value for decades just in electricity, not even counting the benefits in shade they get if they go the solar-car-parking. Frankly I could make an excellent case that any school district in an area with sufficient sun is doing themselves a disservice *not* installing solar as a long term budget win.

And after fiddling with guest network settings I got this thing on, finally. I’m not sure if I’m happy that Enphase gadgetry doesn’t work with unencrypted WiFi or not. (In this case the solution was just a WPA, not a WPA/WPA2 network and I dunno why it cares. But whatever. Could be pure happenstance)

@randomgeek@masto.hackers.town probably autocorrect, it was supposed to be “3 million developers can be LessWrong” which is, I’m sure, in no way terrifying.

@grimalkina@mastodon.social if it’s available for the PlayStation she has, I’d recommend Flower, by the same game company that did Journey. It’s an older game than Journey but I really enjoyed it.

@mhoye@cosocial.ca meta is, I think, deeply fucked until Zuck is gone. That won’t be sufficient (see, for example, Google…) but it is necessary.

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social Congrats!

@ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network damn right. I actually sorta miss living in Norwalk CT for this (and only this) since the town operated the grid and it was both cheaper and more reliable than the surrounding privately owned grid system.

Pour one out for any kind of event driven control flow, functional programming paradigms, or pretty much anything else that's either fringe or we haven't really thought about yet. The bots don't know about it so it can't be developed.

Can’t wait for the final checks and meter swap so I can actually export power, though what with Air Canada and all it’s not like I have that much excess generation yet. (Not that I ever will, it’s only a 10 panel setup because of stupid roof geometry)

This means i need to do something odd with network configs because going guest network means my home assistant box can’t see the panels, but something to fiddle with later.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run où, god, that’s hilarious to skim.

@ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network especially since M&Ms are best eaten in cookies. Imagine how much butter, sugar, flour, and eggs are needed to enrobe an unlimited amount of them.

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social Ah, it does kind of track with Narcissus, since the reflecting pool is foul, discolored, has no circulation to speak of, and has paint caked on it that's peeling off. Pretty spot on, tbh.

@tess@mastodon.social @xgranade@wandering.shop Followup email: In a data breach seven years ago we have just acknowledged, your True Name has been leaked. As a result we are providing six months of Experian True Name monitoring.

@drahardja@sfba.social That's the problem when we convince decent people that taking on positions of responsibility is more hassle than it's worth.

@mhoye@cosocial.ca unfortunately the incompetence and greed of the rentiers ends up injuring the people who can’t set up their own power. As is tradition throughout history, I guess.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/116993671723883053 Given how capital intensive satellite internet is, especially since the satellites have a very short and hard-imposed lifetime, how small the addressable market is, and how much competition for ISP services there is, I honestly don’t see how having multiple satellite internet companies is viable.

@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange it’s just proof there is no loving god.

@amydiehl@mstdn.social I'm sure this will end well. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@corq/116938767979195456 Well, this explains the “we just updated your Wordpress install!” email I got from my hosting provider. I really, really would love to get rid of goddamn Wordpress and use something a bit less… full-featured.

@bagder@mastodon.social Nice! And also a little bit worrisome that this is new (though I realize there are some things that make it tricky) but better now than not.

@sheepfilms@mastodon.social I had wondered what the USB-C High Power connector was going to look like.

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social "All these images are 100% artisanal free range reality fuckery. None of your AI nonsense here"

Neat the MFA is running a French film festival. (Pinging @tankgrrl@hachyderm.io in case they didn’t know) https://www.mfa.org/programs/series/the-boston-french-film-festival #Boston

@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org Just struck me that people going all-in with LLMs for coding are essentially choosing to move into a company town. And companies that do it are choosing to become wholly owned neighborhoods of a larger company town.

Oh, huh, Taco Bell gave a huge number of people the enthusiastic shits. Now there’s one of the least surprising thing ever, though in fairness I think they don’t usually do it with parasites.

@mhoye@cosocial.ca this is apparently causing serious issues for their grid operators, mostly because their grid is poorly managed and mostly intended to enrich the grid owners rather than to deliver power. Terrible shame, really.