No bro the new model from 3 months ago is infinite gooder than what they tested. In 12-18 months we get agi or some shit i dunno just 10 more billions$ bro.

It is all going according to Trump’s plan actions and their inevitable and obvious consequences.

I am pretty sure I could do it sans phone and only the handle, by rapidly pulling the plug out of the socket and putting it back in.

Never thought to try it when I had the chance.

If presented with an old 1970-2000 era landline phone, I can call someone by rapidly hanging up in the pattern of their phone number.

Kim: Aw shit I regret my contract. Maybe I can get out of it by lying. I need tons of lies. I need to lie and bullshit like a madman. I need to spout tons of absolute unhinged bullshit with a straight face.

ChatGPT: This. Is. My. Moment.

If everything on Windows is a vibe-coded web app then everything is going to look like different, feel like shit to use, and perform like shit.

I am happy to report: Windows apps that look different, feel shit to use and perform like shit are already available!

E.g. Teams, the CPU warmer from hell, was rolled out to Windows long ago. It was coded for Electron and couldn’t even integrate with Microsoft Windows’ taskbar popups. They had to fake one by creating a window that moved itself up from below the screen. Did this break when you changed resolution? Yes it did. Did it break when you moved the taskbar? Yes it did. Did it break when- YES IT DID

Clammy Sammy

It’s unlikely to be anything close to what the headline fuels to the imagination, but it’s good to read about some nice actual scary stuff instead of the calculator that Sam Altman put googly eyes and a miniskirt on and keeps claiming will kill us all.

“Happily” rules out most streaming services I do pay for, but Nebula is still a valid answer.

A Hetzner box i use for offloading hobby crap calculations to.

Various patreons and patreon-like things for people who make things I enjoy and/or strongly believe should exist: Garbage Brain University, Octavius King, Pivot To AI, Master Hellish, and a few more but I forget.

AI doomerism is pure fiction and a marketing ploy.

Whining with a question mark at the end doesn’t count

Python is really good for golfing. The flexible types are ripe for abuse.

print(["fizzbuzz"[n%3and 4:8-(n%5and 4)]or n for n in range(1,101)])

print(''.join(__import__('random').sample(etc... for one-lining it :)

What do you mean. Why would it be a problem that my password is the most statistically likely sequence of characters in the world? And that the password is stored in plaintext in a chat log? And used for training LLMs on password conversations?

Previously from the same decision makers:

The Metaverse

Hiring the guy who fucked Apple’s UI design to shit

It’s buried deep in the article, but they seem to recommend:

the LEAP method. Developed by Xavier Amador, it stands for Listen Empathize Agree Partner, and is meant to help better communicate with people who don’t realize they’re mentally ill or are refusing treatment.

They link to https://namiga.org/resources/about-mental-illness/leap-assist-someone-accept-help/ which unhelpfully tells me my IP is blocked by CloudFlare because accessing that link is considered an “attack”

A small company this level of cooked and immature leadership may not have the resources to recover long term from the damage. Even if the bubble pops on them in a year.

I’d start looking for alternatives now, before it becomes urgent.

According to mousetrap manufacturers, putting your tongue on a mousetrap causes you to become 33% sexier, taller and win the lottery twice a week.

While some experts have argued caution that it may cause painful swelling, bleeding, injury, and distress, and that the benefits are yet to be unproven, affiliated marketers all over the world paint a different, sexier picture.

However, it is not working out for everyone. Gregory here put his tongue in the mousetrap the wrong way and suffered painful swelling, bleeding, injury and distress while not getting taller or sexier.

Gregory considers this a learning experience, and hopes this will serve as a cautionary tale for other people putting their tongue on mousetraps: From now on he will use the newest extra-strength mousetrap and take precautions like Hope Really Hard that it works when putting his tongue in the mousetrap.

We don’t need cautionary tales about how drinking bleach caused intestinal damage.

The people needing the caution got it in spades and went off anyway.

Or maybe the cautionary tale is to take caution dealing with the developers in question, as they are dangerously inept.

I mean… Deloitte is mercenary, and hired by the company wanting a passed audit.

They get paid to check pre-agreed spots A, B, and C and keep their eyes closed outside those areas.

A RAM-only server can still send metrics, metadata, “anonymized” metadata…