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kboyd

@kboyd@phpc.social

Software Developer, Photographer, Sailing Enthusiast.

I talk about #photography, #sailing, #ebikes, reading, writing, watching TV, cooking, politics, climate, EVs, more sailing, programming, the open and sustainable web, php, sailing again, and more. Ask me about sailing co-operatives. (he/him)

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kboyd, to random
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The wind is so strong here that my syrup-covered pancake flew off the plate and got pinned to my arm.

🎶All we are is pancakes on the wind

kboyd,
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Very strong wind today. Good for racing, tough for watching.

kboyd,
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@ilikepi Swiftsure, in Victoria BC. Wind at the time was about 20 knots gusting to 30. https://www.swiftsure.org/

jon, to random
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kboyd,
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@PandaChronicle @jon ah, like in Gattaca. Just need someone to say "This programming language can only be coded by someone with six fingers. And two keyboards."

ramsey, to random
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Why do IDEs always default the terminal to the bottom of the screen? I’m always—always—going to move it to right side of the screen. No matter what. Am I the only one who does this?

kboyd,
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@ramsey I tend to prefer the bottom, but that's probably because I use my monitor in tall mode.

foone, to random
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I somehow managed to break Visual Studio so that it can't render text in source code.

Everything else seems to work fine, but if you click on a .cpp file, it just shows you a blank window.

kboyd,
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@foone "we've got font rendering experts at home"

the font rendering expert:

Angry Ryan Gosling GIF by Saturday Night Live "I know what you did!"

kboyd, to random
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Ah.

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/05/23/1724218/ai-software-engineers-make-100000-more-than-their-colleagues?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

jacob, (edited ) to random
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edit: this use to be a link to a fake story about MS buying Valve. It was fake. https://mastodon.social/@ThePlant/112486469559854730

kboyd,
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@jacob actually this is great news.

Finally we can get the US government to carve MSFT into tiny pieces. And half life 3, too.

nhoizey, to random French
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The many faces of #Flickr… 😞

Error 504
Error “Bad, bad panda!”… 🤷‍♂️

kboyd,
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@nhoizey yep, looks like a significant outage. https://status.flickr.net/ - the team is on it, though

#flickr

kboyd,
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@nhoizey Seems like it's back now :)

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kboyd,
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@rayckeith @mhoye I knew I should've taken that left turn at Ceti Alpha VI!

cferdinandi, to random
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That doesn't sound legal...

https://arvr.social/@mpesce/112488147047646912

kboyd,
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@cferdinandi @mpesce The first rule of Roko's NDA is that you don't talk about Roko's NDA

kboyd, to random
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SG-1:

"This tastes like chicken."

"What's wrong with that?"

"It's macaroni and cheese."

kboyd, to random
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"Your mail to the list is being held until an admin can approve it"

Next inbox message:

"As list administrator, a message is waiting for your approval"

🙄

getalifemike, to random
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I was wondering when these would show up. AAA can’t just rely on a jerrycan of gas anymore.

https://electrek.co/2024/05/22/this-supercharger-on-wheels-brings-fast-charging-to-you/

kboyd,
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@getalifemike cars that run completely out of gas can be started when more gas is added.

Some electric cars, when run dry, need to be towed to a shop and repaired.

ghorwood, to random
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everyone is falling all over themselves about all this new whale language research and how maybe whales have words. but, my people, we've known prairie dogs have a language -- verbs and nouns, even adjectives -- for fifteen years and no one has ever cared.

https://www.npr.org/2011/01/20/132650631/new-language-discovered-prairiedogese

kboyd,
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@ghorwood "I'm not interested in the cosmic fate of [prairie dogs]"

kboyd, to random
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I went to bed in a timely manner last night, yet it is not even lunchtime yet and I feel I could sleep a whole 'nother night.

carnage4life, to random
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I think crypto broke people’s brains. There was a clearly useless technology being hyped by pundits, VCs and tech companies which turned out as worthless as we all thought.

So there’s now a gut reaction to treating any hyped technology as a scam. The trend is similar to how after the dotcom crash, pundits proclaimed every year that we were in a bubble for almost two decades while big tech started generating hundreds of billions in revenue.

AI is the same. It’s hyped but there’s also substance.

kboyd,
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@carnage4life As someone who is very negative about what is currently being called "AI", I don't think crypto is the right comparison here - neither for the technology itself, nor for negative opinions like mine.

AI is the current tech marketing cycle's XML.

XML had (and continues to have) value. But that value is vastly, supremely inferior to what its VC hype cycle had enthusiastically promised.

jwz, to random
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Is there any recourse -- besides bolt cutters -- to these scooter companies coming by in their truck and locking their commercial product to every slot in every bike rack so that nobody with a bike can use the rack at all?

Is there anyone at the city who will do something about these assholes?

kboyd,
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@jwz Thermite, maybe?

kboyd, to random
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Good morning, and welcome to Enshittification Tuesday. We've got quite a selection for your perusal today, and shockingly it isn't all related to AI.

We've got:

  • Microsoft adds AI spyware at the OS level

  • iTerm2 adds AI spyware at the Terminal level

  • FireTV interface has been sneakily tweaked to automatically subscribe users to new services when downloading certain apps (yes, there's a confirmation screen, but blink and you'll miss it & might get double-subscribed)

kboyd,
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@rpsu yeah. Though the concept might have some small amount of experimental merit (terminal commands are strings, LLMs mash strings together), it still gets a hefty NO THANKS from me. https://mastodon.social/@Viss/112476622482265388

kboyd,
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@thomas @grmpyprogrammer The nature of the technology makes it so; the fact that it is opt-in is solely why I'm not planning to ditch iTerm over it. Yet. (And I ditched windows over a decade ago.)

However, as someone I follow pointed out, "you do not let the camel's nose into the tent if you do not want the camel's ass in the tent."

https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/112481620690222978

kboyd,
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@thomas @ramsey @grmpyprogrammer @mdhughes

> But I also don't think the sky is falling

You're right, the sky is not falling in this case. But a thousand cuts are being made, and I was long ago bled dry of trust & excitement for silicon valley

> I certainly don't classify it as "spyware”.

I believe we all should. Part of those thousand cuts I refer to are all of the backchannel information trading practices that led to the current data harvesting economies.

Third party "AI" is a threat.

kboyd, (edited )
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@thomas Maybe we'll be lucky and the biggest threat of it will turn out to be the potential for the AI rug-pull - everyone goes all in, and then they become beholden to the new gatekeepers, their entire business model on the financial hook.

That's the best case potential outcome, IMHO.

Gargron, to BelieveInFilm
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I took a new (to me) lens to San Francisco, the Canon FD 50mm/1.4, which I haven't had a chance to test before going (which I in hindsight realized was not very wise). I shot 4 rolls of film on the trip. Eagerly awaiting the scans to come back from the lab...

kboyd,
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@Gargron ah - this is one of the fears I have that keeps me away from film.

Maybe a tandem film-digital camera would get me into it, since it could recover from such a mishap.

Good on you for embracing film, though.

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