Brent Ashley

It seems a fool's tactic to trust that [ai-models|social-platforms|politicians|oligarchs] will feel constrained by the limits placed on them by rules.

I have a new contention which is that if you are checking in AI generated code without fully understanding it, it's a special type of closed source that's even closed to its putative authors.

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It's time for pundits to realize that he's not trying to succeed and failing, he's trying to fail and succeeding. If you look at what they do from the perspective they are purposefully destroying relationships, capacity, potential etc, every thing you decry as not making sense falls right into line.

New definition: Bullshit Points - that bulleted list you just had AI generate for you in service of whatever bullshit you are peddling.

The old order is not coming back. From the fracture, we can build something bigger, better, stronger, and more just.

As a programmer I find AI does far more to grow my busyness than it does to grow my business.

It's the shed life for me

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🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US. Shut the backdoor: openmedia.org/StopC22-bsky #BillC22

@scripting.com you might want to try Simon Willison's "llm" tool for interacting with LLMs from the command line datasette.io/tools/llm

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(Don't Fear) The Reaper was just on the radio, and it's always a disappointment now straining for the whole song to hear the cowbell that isn't there. They really need to rerelease it with strong cowbell in the mix.

Something I found interesting about reading this thread is that it made me wonder how many people think of ChatGPT as primarily a tool for writing things for you I use ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini possibly 100+ times a day and NONE of those uses are to produce writing that I then share with other people

I see the already historically unpopular president is exploring how to get the military invovled in “assisting” local law enforcement just a few weeks before the real shortages caused by his inept economic policy start hitting. Probably nothing to worry about.

“Stay the course. Follow the plan.”

It’s only a War Plan™ if it comes from the War Room region of the Pentagon. Otherwise it’s just sparkling unclassified policy discussion.

Not only survive but thrive I believe. If our leadership really captures the opportunity here - we have the chance to truly lead in “what’s next” while the US is distracted trying to piece their government and supply chain back together.

Lots of good advice here on building a production-grade high availability Kubernetes framework. Looking forward to the followup articles. www.linkedin.com/pulse/build-...

I'm soooo glad that Elon was able to find 19-25 yr olds with deep COBOL chops to perform precision updates to Treasury code.

Nerdy escape room: a single keyboard. Solution: <esc>:q!<enter>

I can't help but agree

Calling it now: Harris taking Trump apart as he rants and raves incoherently is the liberal dream - every Sorkin fantasy come to life. People will be devastated when this doesn’t end the race and it’s still neck and neck next week.

There are 2 kinds of people: Those who find AI absolutely revolutionary and indispensable and integral to their workflows, and those who haven't learned how to use it yet. #amen threads.net

Came for the headline, stayed for the pun-fest: www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/r...

Fuck you and your polls. I repeat again the words of James Carey: Polling is "an attempt to simulate public opinion in order to prevent an authentic public opinion from forming." This and its play is The TImes' agenda. Objective, my ass.

@mmasnick.bsky.social great to see you are using Mint. In my estimation the best OOBE to be had. For me Cinnamon just stays out of my way and lets me get things done. There are a few things to learn (e.g. flatpak - 'flatseal' is an essential util to set access permissions) but generally, top marks.

What a nerd. I'm sitting here patiently waiting for Unix Epoch seconds to roll over to 1700000000 in a few minutes.

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Reminder: it's *always* DNS.

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1/4 We're in a long-term political depression. We don't study this like we do economic depression, but we should, because otherwise how will we get out of it? We have scholars tell us how to recognize fascism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism and all the other terrible human