Thomas Spooks πŸŽƒπŸ‘»πŸ’€

Thomas Spooks πŸŽƒπŸ‘»πŸ’€

@thomasfuchs.at

20 years ago I killed Flash with my #JavaScript library script.aculo.us. Now mostly petting cats. Also dabbling in #retrocomputing and #astrophotography. He/him.

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There's no good reason to repost famous people saying ignorant shit. It just amplifies the ignorance.

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when i was in school, "revising a draft to make it yours" was called plagiariasm

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

"AI can draft an essay for you, especially if you give it a high quality prompt." Really? This is what MIT thinks high schoolers should learn? MIT's "Day of AI" dayofai.org provides materials for K-12 teachers and claims to have reached over 5,000,000 students to date. 1/2

I’m waiting for Bluesky to add in-app purchases to get rid of annoying app features β€œBuy a 1,000 gem loot chest with items like β€˜never hear from the dev team again’ and β€˜15% reduction in how often you need to restart the shitty react iOS app’!”

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thomas: i'm gonna cook some onions and beeef and spiiiices… me: that sounds good! thomas: but first, 🎢 a coffee enema me: that does not sound good thomas: an espresso enema thomas: an espressonema

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if you never used llm coding tools, you should know: this is either manufactured for bait, or this person is the "holding-it-wrongest" user on the planet there's simply no benefit to not knowing the actual state of the thing you want to fight against. it is, in fact, a detriment.

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I also have an Apple Extended Keyboard (I, not II) from just about 40 years ago, which works fine. Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

Seeing people weirdly are saying β€œApple products have always been bad quality and not durable” and no, that’s absolutely not the case. Amongst many other things I’ve an Apple computer literally from the 1970s and it still works fine (everything is factory).

Seeing people weirdly are saying β€œApple products have always been bad quality and not durable” and no, that’s absolutely not the case. Amongst many other things I’ve an Apple computer literally from the 1970s and it still works fine (everything is factory).

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The interface to AI is all wrong for the unsophisticated user who does not understand how ML/AI works. It is designed to give you a definitive answer. That is the wrong interface.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing β€” then apologizes when confronted.

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Okay, Folha called it, it's official. A hearty GO FUCK YOURSELF to every last living fascist

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OMG, Scottish people facing flooding (maybe northern England too): NEVER DRIVE THROUGH FLOODWATER. Even if you think you see the bottom. Just saw a sedan up to its door handles and the driver was STILL TRYING to drive through it.

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but the first gen ipod was great. mine still works, after a new battery. so was the first gen iphone. and the first gen imac. basically almost everything they made after 1998 was fine this is apple making new, huge leaps backward, just like they have on software quality

Elizabeth Lopatto@lopatto.bsky.social

back in 2001, a high school friend got the first ipod. I had a discman; I asked if I should buy one. he said he was a nerd, and as a normal person I should never buy a first-gen apple product. thinking about this for no reason www.theverge.com/tech/1018290...

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Replying to @thomasfuchs.at

I can’t tell you how much productivity I’ve lost to iPadOS’s traffic lightsβ€”a UI feature that shouldn’t exist on an iPadβ€”covering things I’m trying to do.

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can i just say how annoying the word "modern" is in web (especially front-end) dev land

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guys, if you work for the puppy crushing factory, the technology you build is going to be used to crush puppies

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Please note: I am not asking for advice and don't want you to give it in this post. It is EXTREMELY FUCKED that everything you pay thousands of dollars for spends time trying to get you to upgrade and there is no way to stop it.

why do they need safety goggles when they could just genetically engineer extra eyes and exoskeletons

Scientific American@sciam.bsky.social

Think Captain America but for dogs. The start-up Warhound wants to create a new class of military superdogs using cloning and genetic engineering. We asked scientists what they think. sciam.com/article/warh...