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In the age of AI, the "10x Engineers" finally have "somebody" around to fix their bugs that they can trust because this "somebody" can't challenge their place in the hierarchy,

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/117507824445989188 Everyone and their mom is hyping these things, would save the effort of a DIY Dexed DX7... And Gear Acquisition Syndrome tugs the heartstrings.

The screen on $10 Laptop Server miraculously revived itself, so I'm guessing it's a loose cable and not a bad graphics section 🤷

I don't think Alice the Librarian was, but Venkman just had to ask, I guess... #motd

RE: https://digipres.club/@foone/117481441401787058 AI: the cause and solution to all of our problems...

RE: https://masto.ai/@unusual_whales/117479094174303555 Factories? Where all the Industrial Machines & other Robots are? The Luddites would like to have a word.

I assure you I didn't, but wtf do I know. #motd

people who think computers are smarter than they are are probably right 🤔

Damn it, another French philosopher? I should've stuck with French Class a bit more... or get back into the German lessons I was doing up until last month (they were slopified)... or I can keep truckin' on English translations.

Yes. The conservative scheme for education is a three-way split: high-priced academies for the children of the wealthy, religious instruction to brainwash the middle class, and a rump of prison-like public schools to discipline the lower class into obedience.

the problem with being an "Early Adopter" is that you can be too early & figure out things that the industry won't figure out for another 5-10 years; like training my own AIs for #NaNoGenMo circa 2015-21 showed me LLMs aren't ever going to do what they say www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-soft...

A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security made an unusual request of its agency focused on cybersecurity: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. 😳

It seems like the reason White Christian Nationalists hate Islam isn't because of 9/11, but because Muslims actually do "Judeo-Christian Values" better than these "Judeo-Christians" who pretend Allah isn't the same God as theirs.

.env is not safe. any agent on your machine can just accidentally read it. i keep my secrets on a sticky note on my desk and read it via my webcam and a little ocr script. stays in memory only, never persisted to disk

“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.” ― Douglas Adams

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

the tech industry is about to invent books

Last I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever.

RE: https://eldritch.cafe/@enkiv2/117468113568477114 "the technology simply isn’t capable of what they believed it could do" (repeat 100x) #AI #LLM

RE: https://masto.ai/@unusual_whales/117468083223053944 Next year? he's ramping things up; we used to be 5-10 years out on his promises... this must be about the midterms, I'm sure it'll go just as well as him ending world hunger.

seems like the attrition rate for any #Pittsburgh Tech Community is the same as any other tech: 3-5 years... where did everyone go?

I bet companies in the town of Remote Oregon are getting tired of receiving AI-generated resumes from all around the world...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@freakonometrics/117451167148386112 "Remember how Ugly and Unfunny you are" ... Seems like the ideal TechBro is an Incel that has never thought about anything but Compute 🤔

"Rouge AI Agents" are Infinite Script Kiddies; they can make more intelligent guesses than just trying to gain root access on Windows; and they can do it thousands of times faster than any bored suburbanite teenager.

AFAICT, the Tech Industry is a morally bankrupt and elitist place where wealthy individuals keep trying to build higher paywalls... So, Hack the Planet, take the Commons back for Commoners, the Industry is a Tragedy.

IDK what The Kid Laroi's deal is, but it seems that lady left him and didn't want to be his wife because he was aggressive and calling her a ho and doesn't seem all that repentant about it...

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/117439697372548932 Come to think of it, a buggy-whip would be useful for driving away the hypesters...

RE: https://social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald/117439712330211427 Come to think of it, a buggy whip would be useful for driving away the hypesters...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@everylibrary/117439637064556993 To Kill A Mockingbird: Step 1: Finding the bugger. Nature has developed a plethora of camouflage techniques, and the Mockbird is no different. They can be hard to sight, so you must be patient and follow your ears and your eyes...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@spikybaddie/117433817494321296 I'm considering trying to get over my fear of doctors & needles for that sweet sweet Plasma/Blood money