Bram Gotink

Microsoft literally told fragile white guys to use AI to compete with Black co-workers.

Explaining to my parents tonight what COBOL is and why their bank probably isn't susceptible to the PHP vulnerability

unbelievable how many developer-hours have been wasted over the years because json doesn't allow trailing commas

Tech press: Look at that car fly!

It is funny (in the joker way, as per usual) how so many people's lives were completely shattered over copyright trolling from companies who treated downloading a song as a capital offense but the moment they could make money on it themselves it instantly stopped being relevant

when ai leaves u behind

Here's what I actually think these incidents reveal (instead of a rogue AI terminator situation): Much of the infra we expect to be hardened is actually being held together by glue and popsicle sticks.

went and tried the shirt that hides you from AI surveillance cameras, made this little video about it: www.404media.co/this-digital...

Found myself wishing I could manage certain non-JS tools I depend on in my javascript projects via @yarnpkg.dev so I wrote a (very experimental) plugin to install binaries from GitHub release assets. github.com/bgotink/yarn...

Avoiding AI is about to be a superpower.

thinking about what one trillion dollars of investment in clean energy would look like and getting so mad i need to lie down with the lights off

Got badly sunburnt while hiking despite clouds and mist all day. Make it make sense! *touches earpiece* Ah, I have just been told I'm a programmer and quote that's what you get for going outside unquote.

Unless there's some way to estimate how much money we have to give to AI companies before they cure cancer, we should at least consider the possibility that the true sum is "more money than exists now and that will ever exist." 26/

If you don’t know how they work, just know 3 things about LLMs: 1. They don’t learn 2. They don’t think 3. They don’t understand Here’s a good article that describes in detail what they do: www.0xkato.xyz/how-llms-act...

Temporarily un-lapsing as a Catholic to avoid using Microsoft Copilot

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

Een geldige identiteitskaart, hoe belangrijk is dat eigenlijk?

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Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)

My kingdom for a tech ecosystem that will stop smothering me with apps and devices that constantly try to engage me in conversation against my will

My apathy levels for the industry are absolutely sky high and I don’t even have a dickhead boss making me hit token targets

Results Age xkcd.com/3245/

Interesting isn't it, that homosexuality (for men at least) is seen as unacceptable by the Evangelicals because it's forbidden in Leviticus. But then so are cheeseburgers.

in 1997, "x.com" belonged to two guys named Dave and Rob and its slogan was "not nearly the worst place on the web!!!" web.archive.org/web/19970411...

Eng? Nee hoor

You may not know @taskmaster.tv. It's hilarious & joyful. I begged to do it, worked out my schedule a year ahead of time to make it happen & got to do the best show on TV w/ the loveliest ppl. Ep 1 is out &, trust me, you need this joy. All seasons free on youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRfH...

i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

Crises precipitate change. That's no reason to induce a crisis, but you'd be a fool to let a crisis go to waste. Donald Trump is the greatest crisis of our young century, and the EU looks set to squander the opportunity, to its own terrible detriment. 1/

I appreciated this article by Michael Taggart, on the temptation to use some of these coding tools and the pitfalls, from the POV of an experienced software engineer. This is why it's important to fight these issues collectively rather than at the individual level. taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

The cool folks from the Eurosky team just brought you a new site: eurosky.tech, portal to the Atmosphere. I'd say it's the crispest explanation so far of what the Atmosphere brings: 1. one account 2. that works with a bunch of apps, and 3. your data from all apps is yours, portable, interoperable.

Het is gewoon surrealistisch dat we dit gewoon allemaal laten passeren. Het is nog surrealistischer dat sommigen hier dat land nog altijd steunen. #NYTimes

Israel abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes in 1954. Today it was reintroduced, exclusively for Palestinians. Fuck the statements of concern from the international community, where are the sanctions?

Repeating for those in the back: "The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less."

I’ve never used any of the LLM chatbots, avoided them even in the early days, because they had all the hallmarks of a major cognitive and psychological hazard from the very beginning “I’m not gonna use this shit unless I can be sure it won’t mess me or others up” is an entirely reasonable position

"This probably sounds like nightmare fuel to many, but to wealthy VCs and AI and crypto entrepreneurs it’s the next gold rush." is the quote of our time

in-ter-o-per-a-bi-li-ty It may be an unseemly long word, but it's beautiful to watch at work.

anthropic: I have made AI tech nerds: you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety