theneverfox

theneverfox, 21 hours ago

And the “don’t be evil” philosophy

theneverfox, 9 days ago

It’s quite possible, although I’m inclined to blame it on turnover and pressures for deadlines

I’ve come to see software kinda like a plant. If you neglect it, it rots, because all software is contextual and the world moves on. If you keep growing it, it starts to rot from the inside. If you carve out down to something smooth and streamlined, it can last a long time and just need TLC to bounce back

Ultimately, if you want something to be big and to last, you have to prune it, transplant it, and continuously work on it. There’s no direct money to be made there though

And it helps a shit ton to have people around long-term. It can take years to learn a big stack, but having someone go “wait, if we do this we need to rexamine how we delete photos” is how you avoid fuck ups like this

theneverfox, 5 days ago

All I knew until today was you apply headon directly to your forehead. Why would you do so? If I had to guess, I would’ve said for headaches, but that’s completely an assumption

theneverfox, 5 days ago

Compared to full paralysis? I think a lot of people would still want it

theneverfox, 5 days ago

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theneverfox, 6 days ago

And Facebook has some of the best open source work of all time, from the react ecosystem to making php feasible, to LLMs. There’s certainly a ton missing and a lot of it is for their own products, but some of it goes far beyond their own needs

Facebook also did unethical human testing and debatably broke democracy and the social fabric

Just be even handed. Praise the good, denounce the bad, and keep in mind these are monstrously large companies and the people that did the good probably have little to do with the ones that did the bad

Google shouldn’t get a pass because they bought Android and only partially used that ownership to control the ecosystem and push their own products

theneverfox, 10 days ago

It’s called “monopolize gaming without paying for developers”. The beauty of it is, if you ruin all of modern gaming and buy out all the existing hits, you can shove in monetization and project insane profits

At least until indie gaming takes over, your stock price will go to the moon

theneverfox, 1 day ago

It blows my mind that fact isn’t more widely shared, especially among technical folk. There’s a reason for the superstitions every senior dev seems to develop one way or another

theneverfox, 5 days ago

If you’re going for a fuck you, teleport a Dr. Pepper into your head. You’d leave a big, terrifying mess to anyone who came across the scene

theneverfox, 6 days ago

If there’s any chance they’ve heard about a concept, I’ll ask if they’ve heard of it and take them at their word (without comment either way).

And if they’re kinda nodding impatiently, I’ll wrap up the explanation and move on to the deeper level

At first, people will sometimes be defensive or lie about knowing a topic, but after you establish there’s no judgement either way with you I’ve found people become less hesitant about admitting ignorance and will even want to hear your explanation of something to check their knowledge

I also do the flip side - I pride myself on admitting when I don’t know something, so that might play in too

theneverfox, 6 days ago

Don’t forget the food… And the water, and the water used to grow the food, etc. Creating a clean generation of even mice would be pretty difficult, it’s just everywhere, including most of the tools we’d use to make a cleanroom

theneverfox, 5 days ago

The ultimate conspiracy theory… The CIA is manufacturing conspiracy theories so that their actual, admitted, documented conspiracies are dismissed reflexively for sounding insane

theneverfox, 10 days ago

I had the original with the expansion, I used to play Tony hawk online

There was no psn back then though, you just plugged in and were good to go

theneverfox, 5 days ago

Can we please not?

theneverfox, 9 days ago

The imitation game had such a good portrayal of it… I’ve known the story for a long time, but Benedict Cumberbatch really made it hit home

theneverfox, 6 days ago

You know, malls were initially envisioned as fully indoor planned communities. It didn’t survive long, but it was a way better concept

theneverfox, 10 days ago

In our current economic system? Absolutely, declining population is a huge problem.

As far as physics? The world doesn’t care about imaginary human numbers. Production continues to soar through the roof

We made all of this up. At any point, we could say “hey, this is a dumb game that’s making people suffer, let’s figure out something else”

theneverfox, 5 days ago

John Oliver has an interesting episode about what else that can mean in America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn7egDQ9lPg

theneverfox, 5 days ago

I hear “the doctors will give up on me more easily” if they even have an argument they can put into words. Which seems ridiculous to me - if they even bother to check, it seems like they’d be more willing to put time and effort into keeping your body intact, giving you a better chance to bounce back despite long odds

theneverfox, 5 days ago

I interpret it as a grieving father turning an accident into a heroic choice made by his son

theneverfox, 5 days ago

Because they’re using hacktivist groups as a proxy. They just deny all involvement, and probably keep it all isolated from the fancy military grade tools and techniques

theneverfox, 7 days ago

You’d think actual pay would be the next step after they realized pizza parties weren’t cutting it anymore

Nope, the new strategy is to just complain “no one wants the deal I’m offering”

theneverfox, 10 days ago

Seriously… The closer to three edge we get, the faster enshitification goes. No one is writing algorithms with users in mind… Not for a paycheck anyways

We’re getting to the point where we all need to carve out bubbles of curated Internet for our friends and family

theneverfox, 8 days ago

Nah, I’m thinking much bigger. I’ve got an AI that can transcribe video, I’m working on one to summarize and put facts into a knowledge graph, I’ve got one that can hold a conversation, and I’ve got a script that scrapes sites and does natural language processing. I just need an agent to tie the pieces together and some control scripts to manage the containerized pieces

The idea is, my assistant will go out, read up on programming topics and build knowledge graphs with references to the source, and I’ll fix my biggest issue - shittified searches crippling my work speed

Then, I’ll send it off to find content. It’ll transcribe/summarize videos and rank them, research topics and come back with reports, and trawl my socials to find new things I might find interesting

I plan to take all that, then let my assistant create video channels to watch and additional content to read if Lemmy is slow. And if my friends and family show interest, I’ll add in hosting and an internal social media and convince them to run additional nodes at home

I’ve been working on it for a while because I saw this coming, I’ve got most of the key pieces already.

And that’s the bubble of Internet I’m building - AI curation of my Internet life, it’ll happily work away the hours deshittifying a bubble of Internet

theneverfox, 10 days ago

Tomorrow I’m finishing up a game jam with a friend, then Sunday I’m driving for like 12 hours to visit with family