thomasapowell

thomasapowell, 17 hours ago to ai

I asked ChatGPT another #AI BS engine to calculate Google’s BS engine’s failure cost and it came up with about $10.4 billion. Is that accurate who knows? Hilarious ? 💯

Cost calc below from ChatGPT

“Total Estimated Financial Impact:

• Ad Revenue Loss: $2 billion
• Increased Operational Costs: $300 million
• Legal and Regulatory Costs: $600 million
• Brand Damage: $7.5 billion

Total Estimated Loss: $2 billion + $300 million + $600 million + $7.5 billion = $10.4 billion”

#shitpost

thomasapowell, 7 days ago to LEGO

Not exactly a clean build of a Space 1999 Eagle. That’s what you get I guess for knock off Chinese #Lego still an icon of 1970s #scifi

thomasapowell, 8 days ago to ai

Last year I told my team we have to get off #Slack because this #AI train wreck would likely happen and I wasn’t ok with info leakage like that of our private and customer chat. Sadly as we are finding out it happened. We had picked #Mattermost and found it was fine as a replacement but the migration has been a slow effort. At least now it will accelerate.

thomasapowell, 23 days ago to ai

A student shared this with me about their upcoming graduation ceremony. It's the sign of the times that of course we would use #AI during graduation so it too can mispronounce names.

Sigh.

thomasapowell, 24 days ago to shitposting

So if I understand these wearable AIs approach I am supposed to carry a second super cheap phone that is specifically for AI around and that will help me not take out my primary smart phone?

Cool cool got it. One question.

Can I get a third phone with special software for #shitposting to make phone of the second phone so I don’t have to take out the first phone to dunk on them?

#Rabbit #Humane #AI #Fail

thomasapowell, 1 month ago to webdev

If your go to assumption when making a component is just #HTML is some emitted slop and the component is the most important part as opposed to the HTML and other core web tech the browser uses as being the ultimate point of the component you simply are doing web dev wrong and working against the platform.

Some days I feel most of the“modern” #webdev community acts like Chemists who think atoms are passé and compounds are all that matter.

thomasapowell, 1 month ago to random

Be it nfts, various crypto schemes, react, metaverse, tailwind, etc. every single time older techies with common sense & a desire to test things we have seen a gap between the bullshit and actual reality. Now when we are doing it for things like LLMs and generative AI once again it is you are a cynic, a hater, out of touch, etc.

Computing is getting so unprofessional we simply don’t respect lived & earned expertise anymore. It’s ageism, grifting, and magical thinking taking over 😢

thomasapowell, 1 month ago to random

As an SWE Prof, I warn students about the MVP rush, that iteration can't fix releasing too early making you an R&D release for others and tainting initial users.

Today, I had a sad example with a possibly cool documentation platform, Butterdocs. It could be a contender, yet it lacks code formatting, code blocks, & has no embeds, so it is pretty much useless for its best target audience as it stands. 😢

TL;DR - Release software when it is actually ready not early because of start-up beliefs

thomasapowell, 2 months ago to random

Well LLMs prove for certain that if you are good enough at bullshitting people really will think you are super intelligent even though you have absolutely no idea what you are saying.

thomasapowell, 3 months ago to VisionPro

Twas the night before #VisionPro, when all through the lands techies were hoping soon to stop using their hands

The hot takes were pre written all with much care, with hopes that St. Jobs spirit would still be somehow in there

The nerds all nestled all snug in their beds, with VR visions not AI nor crypto danced in their heads.

My girl in her LuLus, and me with emails still,had just settled our selves for a long Netflix and chill.

/1

thomasapowell, 3 months ago to TeslaMotors

Apparently #Elon thinks this is Earth 2 in some bizarro universe where Delaware is not a corporate friendly state.

thomasapowell, 3 months ago to random

A rule of the Internet is mess with an important enough person & suddenly the fantasy of online anonymity is cleared to reveal everything in this case so far showing the process and tools. The person responsible for the initial deep fake porn image of Taylor Swift likely has no idea what might be coming for them esp if TSwift's lawyers go after MSFT then I 100% guarantee that the image generating individual will be the patsy.

https://www.404media.co/microsoft-closes-loophole-that-created-ai-porn-of-taylor-swift/

thomasapowell, 3 months ago to MemeryAlpha

My interest in the NFL these days is quite low. I think the only thing I knew about this season is that Taylor Swift’s boyfriend was on the Chiefs and he is apparently going to the Super Bowl.

Btw this is not a #shitpost but you are welcome to read it as such if you need a laugh.

thomasapowell, 4 months ago to random

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050478/apple-ios-17-4-browser-engines-eu

Merry Browser Christmas? (at least in Europe) @slightlyoff

thomasapowell, 4 months ago to retrocomputing

My collection is thriving. All work and all are a blast. Yes that is a Vectrex and yes I know it isn’t a computer. #retrocomputing #retrogaming

thomasapowell, 4 months ago to random

Rabbit R1 feels like someone saw Panic’s really cool Playdate (I own one and it is great) and said let’s do a quick and dirty Humane knock off on that type of hardware.

thomasapowell, 4 months ago to random

Streamer Management Consultant Cheat Sheet

Problem: Stream costs & mounting losses
Solution: Add mechanism to avoid bandwidth costs at expense of choice on demand (aka Broadcast)

Problem: Content gen costs
Solution: Replay warmed over old shows (aka Re-runs)

Problem: People can't find what to watch
Solution: Add thing to quickly show what's on (aka TV Guide)

Problem: Fee model not working
Solution: Go free + ad support (aka Old revenue model) or both (aka Enshitify!)

#shitpost

thomasapowell, 5 months ago to retrogaming

Christmas end of work event at the office and I break out a Duck Hunt setup with a CRT. The Gen Z crowd is what is this thing … in a good way. #retrogaming

thomasapowell, 5 months ago to webdev

Safari Tech Preview has #HTML changes for a checkbox switch using <input type=checkbox switch>

More useful #webdev changes just keep coming.

There are plenty of other things like @scope, setHTMLUnsafe, and more so go read at https://webkit.org/blog/14885/release-notes-for-safari-technology-preview-185/ for the details.

thomasapowell, 5 months ago to Colorado

Cue the GOP continuing to loudly support the 1st and especially the 2nd amendment of the US Constitution but not the 14th because that one is apparently woke.

#colorado #Trump #GOP #hypocrisy #USPol

thomasapowell, 5 months ago to Youtube

What’s up guys? Thomas here & today I’m gonna toot some info that will totally blow your mind. But first I want to remind you to smash those boost & fav buttons so I can bring you more killer #shitpost content just like this. Also don’t forget to support your local Masto instance. Gotta keep the #Fedi ad free!

Now epic toot in 3,2,1…

“Too often #YouTube tech videos are about as useful as this toot”

Ok y’all hope you enjoyed that epic toot. See you next time & remember to boost and fav!

thomasapowell, 5 months ago to ChatGPT

“Clever” solution for when you can't fix something just say the user broke the service terms. Read all about #ChatGPT "fix" to the disclosure of retained trained content at 404Media https://www.404media.co/asking-chatgpt-to-repeat-words-forever-is-now-a-terms-of-service-violation/

Happy those fine folks at @404mediaco are not falling into the trap of access journalism and rather have their muck rakes ready to go!

thomasapowell, 5 months ago to random

I am not 100% sure about this but I think telling your advertisers to "Go F themselves" is not a very good sales strategy.

#ElonMusk

thomasapowell, 6 months ago to javascript

Really enjoyed learning about JengaScript which is the game most “modern” webdevs play with #JavaScript these days.

Wanna play? First build your towering tooling and dependency tree. npm can set it up really fast for you. Now try to change or update things without toppling the whole project. Fun for all ages!

#webdev #shitpost

thomasapowell, 6 months ago to webdev

In an effort to develop some better ways to help students get into semantic markup and abstract thinking in #webdev I started playing with the Lynx browser again just for a demo and (re)discovered that many modern approaches simply kick it to the curb. Sure simple page can render but many sites are utterly pointless to use with it and many security appliances immediately nuke the connection.

One surprise Lynx renders some crazy #HTML 3 leftover element unimplemented elsewhere...crazy!