David Gerard

Please don't scroll past. This is important. I am being pressured by FreeBSD's reddit moderation team to censor the Omarchy #content_review or to remove it completely. They have began a harrasment campaign with the goal of removing me from this world. the […] [Original post on merveilles.town]

Same old same old (courtesy @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy ) pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/23/w...

i must inform buyers that the pivot to ai mugs from redbubble are not dishwasher safe its just a print - a year of handwash it was perfect, 4 months of dishwasher and it's stripping the print so handwash if you get one

What happened with LibreOffice? 🫩 (and where can I find the inciting incident?)

Anthropic AI safety bill: let us kill 50 people — but not 51 or pay one MILLION dollars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgV2dxqdJfo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261026-anthropic-ai-safety-bill-let-us-kill-50-people-but-not-51 - podcast time: 6 min 52 sec

the correct version of libreoffice to use now is an old one it's remarkably stable software and te ODF format is fine too dunno when the slop started showing up. but for now run 25.08 I expect

@davidgerard this is the kind of knowledge that either never comes in handy or is crucially important all at once

“what is your plan for when there’s cum on your lens” photographers don’t know how to answer this

anyway, you need to invest in an inexpensive UV filter or other optically transparent filter for your lens and practice turning a ziploc bag into a liquid-proof enclosure without impacting the part of the image that’s inside the frame or getting weird reflections you will want to do this […]

you would think they shouldn’t have let me into art school and that’s correct, I snuck in because engineering was driving me up the wall

I am fairly sure at least one person on mastodon has cancelled thanksgiving due to a family member not using libreoffice if you counted only non-corporate and non-governmental donors (which none of these assholes do because fuck lasting growth and community, they want numbers nowww) it’s quite […]

we spent our donation money on paying someone to run a PR account that takes everything weirdly personally and thinks insulting our biggest fans is a great idea what do you mean we have fewer donations this month? who’s going to pay the dickhead we have doing PR?

hello direct line to the most die-hard open source fans. have you considered that you suck? anyway donate to my project at libreoffice dot

they don’t need your money anymore, that’s what they’re signaling with this they don’t give a shit that you like libreoffice or that you use it at all they saw your applause and it made them angry because you were applauding the wrong thing

you ah, probably shouldn’t donate anymore money to the project that’s been talking shit behind your back so frequently that the person behind their PR account felt that saying “ah, another high-quality mastodon discussion” and trying to redefine slop to be “not what we’re currently doing with AI […]

oops, your PR account accidentally revealed that your team hates your community oof, one might say you had one job

that doesn’t imply that libreoffice isn’t all in on slop by the way the PR account’s still official, even if the person behind it is a dickhead embarrassing themselves online and making the project look horrible libreoffice’s anti-AI marketing statement was very specifically crafted: there’s […]

it has been 0 days since an official FOSS PR account on mastodon was just some dickhead’s personal alt account

yo @fasterandworse which tech “journalist” tried to get ahead of the jerryrigeverything iphone duo teardown this morning and pretended there was minimal dust ingress? cause uhhh direct quote from the actual video they tried to talk over: “There is an incredible amount of dust and dirt in here […]

@fasterandworse apple invented so little technology for this phone that he disassembled it mostly going off of prior experience from disassembling previous samsung folding phones

@LabSpokane @davidgerard the "using slop for debugging" demo at our day job had a guy sitting there telling us "uhhh, the model you choose sorta doesn't matter, and also you have to tell it where the bug is" totally useful technology, love having to pay money to sam altman to do debugging by […]

clearly Andy Yen’s Trump-loving ass blames his employees for not doing AI hard enough, not making the mascot for their chatbot cuter, not forcing the users to shore up the numbers on the AI horseshit nobody asked for and nobody* wants * don’t bullshit me, I know their chatbot is fucking […]

https://www.404media.co/proton-to-re-interview-staff-about-ai-to-see-who-gets-to-keep-their-job/ did you listen when I told you proton is a bunch of dickheads?

@davidgerard JFC. They used an LLM to write 24 lines of code AND STILL HAD TO DEBUG THEM. “The copyButtonHandler method was manually created and had support from LLM/code completion. (lines 330-353) The patch is open to further suggestions for simplification and code improvement or refactoring […]

LibreOffice is now a project that uses chatbot code then tells people who call them out that slop is "not slop" so much for the "no AI" babble https://web.archive.org/web/20261026230500/https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/117214068793979843

yeah, so when LibreOffice repudiated the AI, that was what we call a lie

Anthropic AI safety bill: let us kill 50 people — but not 51 or pay one MILLION dollars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgV2dxqdJfo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261026-anthropic-ai-safety-bill-let-us-kill-50-people-but-not-51 - podcast time: 6 min 52 sec

me on Tech Report! This was actually about the PHP vuln, but *ended* being about the coming vibe code toxic waste disaster, so they grabbed that for the headline lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLOzJtGVpyM

evidently i've missed something: how the fuck can Anthropic redact these clearly material numbers from an S-1?

Ah, my favorite reply. Kudos to @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy for anticipating this.

i'm on the tech report again today (probably), talking about the PHP vulnerability my thesis: it was something, but not remarkably something, and I blame AI boosters for the incredible hype

just read the paris review interview with grimes and took psychic damage she was gonna talk about nick land and her publicist stepped in and stopped her manic pixie dream nazi https://web.archive.org/web/20261013165247/https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/10/13/grimes-secret-psy-opera-pop-up/

I see a foss repo and I watch it become slop no thinking anymore, it all turns into slop I see the repos get stars with all their sloppy code I have to turn my head until the boosters go

lolol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9OhekhlZ9Y

shocked to hear Jensen from Nvidia thinks investors need to put more money into AI neoclouds https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/neoclouds-secure-record-funds-as-nvidias-huang-says-more-investment-required

Support Pivot to AI — and join the supporter name read for October https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/26/support-pivot-to-ai-and-join-the-supporter-name-read-for-october/ please forward this! tell your friends!

BTW that implies the AI bubble is all that's propping up US pension funds. So 2007 vibes here too. Friends told me about toxic risk banks BEFORE the 2008 crash. I documented it in 2009, before my blog was very professional, or I knew much about ethics. joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2009/03/who-...

Kai Lentit explains the European tech scene. America doesn't even have a word for entrepreneur. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGlpBuW6ZFc

it feels like a missed opportunity that most liquid glass critique is “lol it looks ugly” (who gives a shit), some of it is “this isn’t accessible or usable due to all the transparency” which is fair, and only a little bit of it is “basic functionality that worked well in previous iOS releases […]

i did not know the rand corporation is currently being run by a future of humanity institute guy until yesterday. everything's the same thing and it all is insane and sucks lol

“uhm you know an air fryer is just a small convection oven” shut the fuck up chef

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this is the new frontier in AI coding: write a slopcoded browser with a slopcoded README and put a No AI policy on it. https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/northstar-web-browser guy's trynna get this into debian. ted t'so personally tells him lol maybe not […]

new Kai Lentit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV6A1Zf3F2Q

THE INTERNET

This looks nifty: Hotwire: a new experimental modular DAW, from the chap who wrote the Serum synthesiser. It includes a number of instruments and effects, has Lua scripting for MIDI, and can both run as a plugin and host plugins (currently VST3 only). There's also a web-browser version […]

lmao "cancel culture"