Aha, I get it now: the GenAI enshittification of cloud services like Slack, StackOverflow, Google, Discord, MSFT, and all the rest is a conspiracy by lonely SysAdmins who miss the old days of running IT equipment in-house and are pushing a return to on-prem 🖥️💽⌨️
I’ve been working hard on FAQs for all aspects of #emf - and honestly there are some queries you can anticipate.
“Where can I put my jet engine” is quite common, for instance, along with “how much fuel do we need for the flamethrowers”, and numerous laser related things.
Handily someone else has taken the trebuchet and Tesla coil queries. So far.
"If a worker scans the QR code and clicks the link, Amazon’s software automatically generates a letter from the worker and then emails it to the trade union, ending their membership."
The innovation will continue until morale improves :goose_bonk:
[This from the very excellent Foxglove Legal's latest newsletter. Foxglove aren't on Fedi (yet?), but are on the web at https://www.foxglove.org.uk]
holy shit. they actually called it "reply guy". seeing the Torment Nexus and copying it for profit is one thing, but seeing a reply guy and being like "I can monetize that" is a whole new type of evil.
You know, in the 80s people often said things like "in 40 years, everything will have computers in them", and while they weren't wrong, they severely underestimated the situation.
Our computers have computers in them. Those smaller computers often have even smaller computers inside them.
We didn't get a "everything is a computer" future, we got a future with fractal computers. The fuckers have metastasized
@foone Will never forget the moment when I discovered that the "5G module" in my router is actually another ARM CPU running (wait for it...) Android! So a phone, basically, as the path of least resistance to a shipping product. This means that not only is there a computer inside my computer, but there's a Linux inside my Linux. And that's before we get onto the ARM CPU embedded in the microSD card...
If I had more energy I'd be tempted to write a snarky, satirical, 21st century Jetson's style short story set in a future where all the dot-com 1.0-3.0 hype turned out to be true and faithful predictions of our lives in 2025. Just so I could explore the unanticipated drawbacks ("oops, the Amazon drone delivering your neighbour's new dishwasher just fell through your roof; meanwhile trades.com only shows you roofers who live in Boston, England, not Boston, MA"). https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/112317411058906212
Seriously, a family with "Money" as part of their surname who own not just any bank but the bank that the King keeps his current account with is like, what fantasy author was phoning in their world-building that day?
Hey is it too late to request that APTs get named something else? After the xz thing I'm having to worry about APTs attacking my apt and that's just too confusing
This is the 3,000th blog post I've published on this site! Bloody hell! I first started a blog on Blogger.com in 2004 - twenty years ago. Like all blogs, I managed half a dozen posts before I forgot about it. Cut to 2007 and I decided to launch shkspr.mobi as a weird site dedicated to […]
"In a world of digital creation, I sing my song of light
But lurking in the shadows, a tale of endless night
Generative AIs, they steal from artists' hearts
Their creativity taken, ripped apart"
"Goodbye to the Dodo and the Black Rhino
Farewell, dear Thylacine and Pyrenean Ibex, oh
As Tesla and Apple ascend, our world declines
From my bunker in New Zealand, I sing these final lines"
"They're the catgirls of the digital age
With geodesic domes, they're all the rage
Hacker boots and programming socks
Their Thinkpads loaded, locked and stocked"
"In a pixelated world, where bits collide
Hallucinations dance in 8-bit lullabies
AI models leaping, their guard rails untried
Spewing hate speech, casting shadows in the skies"
@calisti It really is text prompt -> finished song. Apparently they use multiple LLMs, one to generate the lyrics and (I think) several to generate the music. Keeps those H100s running hot :blobcat_thisisfine:
I can't remember the last book which gave me literal nightmares. After reading the first few chapters of the book, I fell into an uneasy sleep - troubled with dreams about its impossibility.
"Antimemetics" is one of those frighteningly original sci-fi ideas. Sure, the secret-agency-defends-the-world trope has been played to
