nfrgrt

@nfrgrt@hejfolks.social

Software Engineer from Berlin

Interested in #technology, #politics, #media, #sustainability and #travel.

Not your crypto bro from the neighborhood.

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heiseonline, to random German

Steht das vor dem Aus?! 😱

Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-9320933?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

nfrgrt,

@heiseonline

Kein Fan von Wissing aber die Forderung dass die Warlords der ganzen Verkehrsverbünde erstmal zusammenlegen, effizienter machen und damit sparen sollten, halte ich für gut.

Es ist ein überverkompliziertes System, das nur Pfründe von Altvorderen verteidigt.

annika, to random
@annika@xoxo.zone avatar

Mastodon v4.2.0 upgrade starts now!

nfrgrt,

@annika works 👍

thomasfuchs, to random
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io avatar

Can’t wait for the “actually LLMs are a worthless scam” articles in 2025 and all the people that pretend they never fell for it

nfrgrt,

@thomasfuchs
That was my personal conclusion as well. When it came out, I was skeptical but didn’t want to be the greybeard, so I took my personal prompt engineering skills seriously.

After like 6 weeks of observing myself, I decided to cut the crap because you’d almost always waste your time debugging generated code, whilst reading and debugging code already being the biggest productivity killers.

Most of the time it’s better to RTFM and actually understand what you’re trying to do.

nfrgrt,

@ErikJonker @thomasfuchs
Not exactly sure about that. While LLMs being a fun tool to play with, almost everything some hypedrivers came up with are much more reliably solved in the old world. Past few months I felt bombarded with half-working BS that was either already a solved problem (with much higher energy efficiency) or not a problem at all. E.g. if you think that writing and summarizing emails for everybody would be a good thing, then you might rather want to reconsider your email usage..

nfrgrt,

@ErikJonker @thomasfuchs

No offense but why would I prefer a "search" engine with results I have to cross check all the time given it's hallucinating in random ways instead of duckduckgoing or straight going to wikipedia?

Why would I generate code with sth that's making more mistakes than any code generation tool from mid-2000s?

Translation is fine, though. It's an interesting programming model; I consider Copilot UX to be great but for most of the things you list it's underwhelming to me.

zappes, to random German
@zappes@mastodon.online avatar

Ich bin fest davon überzeugt, dass Microservice-Architekturen eine valide Lösung für ein bestimmtes Problem sind. Allerdings bin ich ebenso fest davon überzeugt, dass nur die wenigsten meiner Kunden tatsächlich dieses Problem haben...

https://renegadeotter.com/2023/09/10/death-by-a-thousand-microservices.html

nfrgrt,

@zappes

Der Cyber Resilience Act wird das den jungen Hüpfern schon noch austreiben.

Dann dürfen sie nur noch aus festgelegten, in 5-Jahres-Zyklen aktualisierten, Modulkatalogen wählen oder alternativ eine dreijährige Sonder-Zertifizierung für 500k EUR bei den Experten von TÜV und Dekra beantragen. /s

:]

gsuberland, to random
@gsuberland@chaos.social avatar

am I the only one who actually really enjoys writing regex? the syntax of it really gels for me.

nfrgrt,

@gsuberland my suggested treatment for you: elisp regex

but no more than one dose per day or the side effects will make you go insane. You have been warned

baldur, to random
@baldur@toot.cafe avatar

“We’re still not innovating with AI-generated UI.”

"I generally feel like companies with poor leadership who make bad business decisions will view these tools as a cost-cutting opportunity."

This is exactly what these tools are for https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2023/09/ai-generated-ui-is-not-innovative/

nfrgrt,

@baldur I for one would highly appreciate replacing managers with a cheap subscription service. Any product recommendations? 30% error rate is perfectly fine and still a big improvement over real suits

janl, (edited ) to random
@janl@narrativ.es avatar

We took bun.js 1.0 for a spin at work and the results are…not great ¯_(ツ)_/¯

And that’s all after the founder/lead-dev announced VC-financed open positions that promised “no work/life balance”.

nfrgrt,

@janl

I'm not impressed either. The according discussion on HN smelled a lot like BS, where lots of commenters superficially "just loved it", something which felt unusual for cynical HN folks (especially in the realm of "yet another js tooling silver bullet").

Are we in an age of orchestrated tech hypes where some nonsense tech is put in public media and referred to by some journalists/politicians/managers with, at best, mediocre competence?

bkastl, to random German
@bkastl@mastodon.social avatar

Verwaltungsdigitalisierung ist leider von einer gewissen Ambitionslosigkeit geplagt. Überall.

nfrgrt,

@dirksteins @bkastl

Ja, miese Stundensätze und IT-Projektausschreibungen, die einen ins Jahr 2003 versetzen. Oh Wunder: Die releasten Systeme fallen dann meist auch gleich um.

Dafür sind immerhin alle Beteiligten schön zertifiziert, weil der fachfremde "Manager" sich absichern möchte.

Es ist ein Trauerspiel und irgendwie finden sie, wie bei den meisten anderen Sachen auch, keinen Ausweg. Es wäre ja lustig, wenn nicht so langsam demokratiegefährdend.

nfrgrt, to emacs

M-x pixel-scroll-precision-mode

OMFG this year just became like 1000 times better.

zoom_earth, to random
@zoom_earth@mapstodon.space avatar

Tropical Depression has formed in the central Atlantic Ocean.

Latest images and forecasts here: https://zoom.earth/storms/13l-2023/

nfrgrt,

@zoom_earth eff me. Are you telling me we're almost there getting near real-time high-res footage of planet earth?

simon, to random
@simon@simonwillison.net avatar

One of the things that I'm really enjoying about working with LLMs is that I feel liberated from /syntax/

I'm used to spending a substantial portion of my intellectual energy when I'm writing code thinking about the very specific syntactic rules of the programming language I'm working in

When I'm writing with Copilot, GPT-4 or Claude I hardly spend any time thinking about that at all, which frees me up to spend more time thinking about more interesting, higher level problems instead

nfrgrt,

@simon
I’d say it’s an absolutely legit programming model to be embedded into products that provide value, maybe copilot and the like in your case.

But all the rest reminds me so much about the crypto-alike hypetrain with only managers and politicians making the wrong calls and public media spreading fud and hype. What’s horrifying to me is not “using AI” but the erratic decisions fueled by some clever marketing tricks.

nfrgrt, to random

I think the best outcome of the current poly-crises in Tech industry (WFH blackmailing, massive job cuts, "AI" replacement shenanigans) is the tech people to wake up and realize that they've been lured into a shiny world of plastic and lies.

Instead of fueling the centralization they should start doing following their ideas again and make the Web and tech world look like the weird thing it used to be.

heiseonline, to random German

Telekom-Chef droht mit Verlagerung von Investitionen ins Ausland

Viel Geld hat die Deutsche Telekom in den Netzausbau in Deutschland gesteckt. Doch Firmenchef Höttges zeigt sich verärgert über Vorgaben aus Berlin.

https://www.heise.de/news/Telekom-Chef-droht-mit-Verlagerung-von-Investitionen-ins-Ausland-9240794.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

nfrgrt,

@heiseonline

Bitte gehen Sie und nehmen Sie am Besten den ganzen Rest der dysfunktionalen subventionsschmarotzenden German Gatekeeper-IT gleich mit. Viel Spaß in den Staaten :]

davidho, to random
@davidho@mastodon.world avatar

Now?

nfrgrt,

@davidho

How soon is now?

EDPS, to random
@EDPS@social.network.europa.eu avatar

this summer. Make sure to lock up your data. Change your passwords regularly and don’t forget to activate the multi-factor authentication setting. Watch video of our final tip. https://tube.network.europa.eu/w/pXi2Faj5NPXaee9WkTYndV

nfrgrt,

@EDPS it’s fun to see tips like that while the EU is bringing up ideas to weaken encryption tech

quincy, to random
@quincy@chaos.social avatar

Ehrlich gesagt bin ich nicht böse, wenn nun Mittel für die gestrichen werden.

Digitalisierung ist prinzipiell gut, aber:

Digitalisierung ohne digitale Selbstbestimmung ist nix

Digitalisierung mit Microsoft statt öffentlich finanzierten, fortlaufend auditierten FLOSS-Lösungen auch nicht

Und außerdem hat man ganz schnell fünf Blockchains an der Backe.

und und und

An zuvielen Stellen wurde da bisher eh der Pflug vor die Ochsen gespannt IMHO.

nfrgrt,

@alper @quincy Our guesses are not mutually exclusive, but yours just comes on top.

FWICT Germany systematically created a bubble of "German IT" in the past 1-2 decades (as in "How the world looks like if OOP was kept as a silver bullet") backed by industry and education system and a lot of arrogance and ignorance.

nfrgrt,

@alper @quincy
IMO CCC did more for tech education than the whole German education system. They got criminalized from early on by the then German governments. CCC is some of those people I’m thinking about when I’m saying that Germany is not lacking talent, it’s lacking competent tech leadership.

nfrgrt,

@alper @quincy

And btw First Principles thinking ("taking things apart") is one of the pillars of silicon valley. Everyone esp in media is talking about investments, but as you can see in German digitization efforts, the pure money (3.5B EUR AFAIR) doesn't get anything done, if they blindly apply legacy textbook shit.

nfrgrt,

@alper @ratkins @quincy Okay just to give you a hint that you're on the wrong track blaming "digital activists" for pretty much anything: It's people of the German mainstream education fucking things up for 20 years. All the people at IT-Planungsrat are some Phd-ers or consultants. No Datenschutz involved, they manage to screw it up all by themselves.

nfrgrt,

@alper @ratkins @quincy

And btw: Datenschutz has become the first excuse for anything not working. This is simply a lie to cover own mistakes. That said Datenschutz evangelists could be a bit more pragmatic here and there.

nfrgrt,

@alper @ratkins @quincy

Without knowing the exact context of the case you're talking about but from my experience with German politics "digital national ID" sounds like it got nuked by 99% by federal states and their leadership. And they will publicly argue it's because of 1% Datenschutz.

vicgrinberg, to fediverse
@vicgrinberg@mastodon.social avatar

Folge ich den falschen Leuten oder existiert bzw im gar nicht? 😢

nfrgrt,

@vicgrinberg Ging in meiner Instanz auch nie durch. Da du auf der Hauptinstanz bist, würde ich schätze, dass die das gesehen haben müsste, wenn es denn im Fediverse existierte. :/

rahmstorf, to random German
@rahmstorf@fediscience.org avatar

Liebe Union, ihr wollt mit Klartext die "Hoheit über die Stammtische" erobern.
Der Inhalt zählt aber auch. Klartext muss nicht "Heizhammer", "Genderwahn" oder "Moortaliban" lauten.
Wie wäre Klartext zu den wirklich lebenswichtigen Problemen, wie der ?
UN statt AfD als Vorbild?

nfrgrt,

@rahmstorf

Irgendwann neulich hat der Markus Lanzinger vor seinem Kartoffel-Millionenpublikum das Wort Alarmismus im Kontext von Guterres gesagt. Das ist der Stand der Dinge.

Die "bürgerliche Mitte" steigt ein in den Kulturkampf, statt sich den Tatsachen zu stellen.

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