🌎 Iowa resident.
🔨 Full stack engineer working with #Ruby#Rails#React#Swift#Python
🎮 Bulbasaur stan
🎸 Lapsed musician
📚 Bibliophile
⌨️ Keyboard enthusiast
🪵 Beginner woodworker
👨👩👧🐈 Partner of B, father of V, cat dad of 2.
Everyone coming into town for WWDC should be aware that the COVID risk in the area is extremely high right now. You’re not going to see me in any poorly-ventilated areas without a very high-quality mask. https://twitter.com/coviddatareport/status/1797717196048638318
It's so funny being het wanting to show solidarity and join in with Pride but not really knowing what some of it means and not wanting to offend anyone. Sort of like I'm your mum trying to join in with your conversation about your interests. I do hope you have a nice time with your leatherfolk friends doing all that kink you like. Don't forget to drink plenty of water and if you must do crime please make sure you're careful.
Yes, I know that guy still stands a good chance of winning the election in November, but this is your regular reminder that you can't fight a long fight without stopping to enjoy your victories or you will burn out to a cinder.
If you live in the UK or USA, you need to understand one thing about the coming election:
You need to vote defensively.
Neither of the main parties are appealing. But if you don't vote for the lesser evil you may end up helping a totalitarian horror get elected.
Hold your nose and goddamn vote, dammit. THEN go on protests. Because if you don't vote for the lesser evil, the victor will welcome your protests with bullets.
The prize for political purity this time round is a shallow grave.
Google search thinks you should use glue to stick together a pizza as its AI is trained on Reddit, where 11 years ago a user called “fucksmith” posted suggesting it was a good idea.
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)
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The publisher of a small imprint of roleplaying games magazines/speculative fiction shuts down after 22 years because their submissions have been flooded with AI to the extent they cannot wade through them:
“The problem with AI is the people who use AI. These are people who think their ‘ideas’ are more important than the actual craft of writing, so they churn out all these ‘ideas’ and enter their idea prompts and think the output is a story.”
