Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
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🔴 Brand new Tom the Dancing Bug now up on Boing Boing
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THE REPUBLICAN CIRCUS: Follow Little Donald Trump's Odyssey!
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https://boingboing.net/2026/07/22/tom-the-dancing-bug-follow-little-donald-trumps-odyssey.html
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Hey, everyone, as I've mentioned a time or two, I'm in geo.coop. My big project is running our paper journal. The second edition will be coming out in the very near future. This time around, the topic is union worker co-ops. If you're interested in either unions or co-ops, and especially if you're interested in both, then I invite you to become a supporter: https://geo.coop/geo-journal
#geo
#unions
#cooperative
#workercoop
@Matt_Noyes
@GuerillaOntologist
@geosocialcoop
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It is harmful to use AI to talk directly to people. Be a person and use your own fucking words.
I'm so tired of banging my head against the brick wall of embedded programmers who think the hardware is the main thing.
#DumbAllOver
#DoomedToRepeat
I've been doing embedded programming for 30+ years. I learned pretty quickly that the hardware has very little to do with the software. The hardware imposes functional requirements that represent a very small portion of the software work. The other functional requirements (SW language, OS, etc) also don't represent much effort. The majority of the effort is in the non-functional requirements, aka, the applications; the solutions to the problem spaces that are independent of hardware.
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Thinking out loud for a bit:
The problem with tech, as others have pointed out, is that tech as a whole isn’t exactly a humane environment filled with thoughtful and charming people, and it’s in a multi year cycle of layoffs. So, if the job itself is losing what fun it had most other industries start to look appealing in comparison.
And if I manage to get out of the coding-for-money racket and end up missing bits of it, I could always take up coding as a hobby
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“OpenAI said that the breakout was “an unprecedented cyber incident, involving state-of-the-art cyber capabilities,” and that it was reinforcing its safeguards.”
This is an advertisement. This is intended to make their models seem so powerful as to be a scary threat in order to get more VC funding to pour in. No company would openly releases a security incident unless they are required to do so.
Facebook did the same thing years ago when they did a press release talking about how they had to do an emergency shutdown of their AI models because they had “developed their own language to communicate that the human observers didn’t understand” and it was portrayed as some incredibly frightening entity that might “escape the lab”. It was bullshit: the two LLMs were just babbling nonsensically at each other.
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
