Lynn

chunks, huh

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

I definitely have Thoughts about Firefly, but "Mal is kind of a bad person and therefore the show is bad" really feels like just about the weakest possible criticism of it

Orange and white cat doesn't like Twitter

If yu wantu kno my opinyin of twerter it is i donot like it, it is bad, varry bad vibes, manny bad pepples, no i donot care fore it.

“We are a small team without the money to pay artists so as I’m sure you understa-” *bass boosted heavily reverberated wet fart sound*

i liked my job better when i got to explain complex and subtle things about technology and society, not when those things were, like, "insider trading on war crimes is bad"

There are a lot of people who resent the entire concept of subject matter expertise and believe that they, a person who read a breezy overview, know just as much and because they're a Great Thinker, should be trusted over actual experts.

The real problem with modern personal computing is that it doesn't involve enough mysterious liquids. Sure, there's always been thermal paste, and the steadily increasing popularity of water cooling in gaming rigs is a step in the right direction, but I think we can do better.

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source

Doing things the "right" way, burning out and then realizing there is another option, coming back and winning it all with no fucks given? Yes please tell me that story forever.

"Completely useless" is a bar that's hard to clear, but what I will say is I've worked with a lot of programmers who were only just barely competent enough to not be unemployable

I wrote a few words last night. nvie.com/posts/15-yea...

I'm so confused by the apparent appeal of these. Why does anyone want to spend a minute of their life watching someone read a Twitter thread at their phone

the entire genre of short-form video where someone monologues into their phone camera needs to die. not a single one of these has ever been good

github is dedicated to promoting codeberg by no longer being the higher-uptime option. i respect that

Sigh

one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.

half of all tech news lately is some variation of "the computer company has discontinued their well known product, the computer"

I knew this was a thing now, but I didn't realize they were doing *video ads*

you should be immune to social anxiety at a certain age

I’m 40, this is bullshit

And I don't care who you are or what your process is, if you're requesting peer review while CI is failing in crushingly basic ways, at the linting phase, then you are actively wasting my time

Code is liability. AI allows us to create tremendous amounts of liability very quickly

What 😭

Hell yeah

My partner just signed off an email with "hope you are surviving the horrors etc." and I think I might use that for every message I write

It's wild how many people don't know this, despite the fact that TARP gets referenced by everyone constantly

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

This was posted after the post Pavel quoted, it seems reasonable to assume the original was quietly deleted