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@hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy@hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyP.S. the video totally IS coming 😤
@hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyI feel this in my bones. My failure to produce/deliver contains multitudes, but this is the core of the issue. The audience and (more importantly) exchange for any type of content have all but collapsed. And the “AI” discourse is either science, ethics yelling fights, or markdown astrology. I […]
@hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyotoh they won a land war against the australian army
@hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gylove the new slop email spam format of: “”” Love your {{ GITHUB_PROJECT }} because {{ LLM_PRAISE }}. Here’s a thing I'm shilling: … “””
@hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy@glyph the output is almost cute; one could think it's a scrappy open source project and not a trillion dollar company talking to me
@hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy@karmalakas it's not “free free”; it's a perk from my bank account. if web scraping is their main business, I understand this peak dumb email much better. do you have any sources for that?
@hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy@glyph happened twice to me too, but it seems a general human urge of everyone to have the last word in a conversation
@hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyholy shit I got a free NordVPN subscription and their macOS client installs an endpoint kernel extension that just hangs around after an uninstall. There was a constant com.nordvpn.macos.Shield process. I had to boot into recovery and disable SIP to get rid of it. Part of that is on macOS that […]
@offby1.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gyReposted by @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyRIP Margaret Hamilton
https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
@hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy@glyph if i ever go down it can as well be in a honey trap surrounded by coke clouds
@hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyRE: https://publicidentity.net/@jezdez/117365085500527409
great day to sponsor PSF's infra, too 😇👛
@hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gya good day to advertise https://kapeli.com/dash ;) #hugOps
(I noticed because my monthly update builds failed due to intersphinx 😬)
@hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy@glyph what if i don’t use tarfile
@hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy@offby1 On the bright side there wouldn’t be baipp without it ;)
@hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy@hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyLM and I can’t stress this enough AO
If you click thru, it’s actually even worse than it sounds.
@hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyTraveling keeps reminding me of how much work it is to: a) deal with impromptu to-do items (usually via email) b) keep everything charged Somehow we’re serfs to email and chargers, and nobody is setting shit on fire.
@hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy@glyph @zzzeek aw the optimist/pessimist roles are in their natural order again 🥹
@hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy@glyph @zzzeek Yes, but the question now is “do people want to give up on free cocaine?”
I’m regularly disheartened seeing how much genuine excitement people have towards ChatGPT. And that’s just the chat interface, not the productivity tools.
