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@paninid@mastodon.world Both my wife and I are struggling to teach our kids the skills to not hit the wall in college/university where "just paying attention just enough" let's you get the grades. The after highschool, you've got to be able to teach your damned self

@ephemeromorph@topspicy.social Ok. I'll eat Crow here. AI has been useful for one, exactly one, thing. This. And now it can be retired, it's done its job and can go home assured it did good, and can die in bed with a smile on it's face.

@Jam123@mstdn.ca @ephemeromorph@topspicy.social I was being gracious, as long as it is actually going to die. Otherwise... The other option is fire.

@R_3_T_3_C_H@defcon.social Ok, now I believe that Riker Googling is your alt and you've made a critical mistake

@R_3_T_3_C_H@defcon.social@RikerGoogling@mas.to this silly thing 🫣

@pikhq@social.treehouse.systems This explains why I can't stand LLMs. No matter any success I might have from my code projects, nor who tells me it's good work, I Know it's not as good as it ought to be. No mechanized sycophantic abomination will ever convince me otherwise. I'm immune.

@JEmphatically@mstdn.ca @TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world it's especially pernicious given that past polling puts males far more likely to vote for separation and females much more likely to vote to remain. I'm sure no one at all (ouch that eye roll hurt) has factored that in...

@crypticrainfall @foone@digipres.club We did a similar lesson in our first C++ class in college. The assignment was to write instructions for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The prof selected one and dutifully performed the actions as written, as though they were an entity fully ignorant of anything associated with anything we normal ASSUME is part of making a sandwich. It was a mess. Which was the point. The lesson then, thirty years ago, was that computers are dumb and will do what you tell them to do, only that and exactly that so be very careful and specific with what any how you instruct them. Now of course, the script is different. The lesson will change to: computers are dumb and will do some of what you tell them, ignore most and invent even more that you didn't tell them, so tell them nothing, unless the CTO says you have to, then try to get them to tell eachother to do inconsequential things so you can keep your job.

@TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world @JEmphatically@mstdn.ca For someone who hates in trans people so much, Daniel Smith sure seems to act as though she's Just one of the Boys.

@fesshole@mastodon.social The transition away from software development to burning money and the planet was so fast, so complete, many people, mostly executives and shareholders, still thought the purpose of the companies was to make software.

@uncoolmouse@retro.pizza every answer I could give included some element of it cannot ever be trustedonly AI abstinence is appropriate for government, Heath, justice, finance and insuranceit has large swaths of actual and probable harms with little to no benefits, none that outweigh the harms. And yes it was a slog. Painful and not in good faith.

@evoterra@podvibes.co I can't wait for the same LLM collapse. May it's crumbling ruble of the towers burry the pushers, the liars, execs who breathlessly demand its use, those who gave up and gave in, and even the "neutral" who couldn't be bothered to have an opinion. I won't spend my energy with "I told you so"s, we know they will blame any one, any thing but their own choices. All of the harm has been made known and they still chose the lying machines. I've nothing in me to give any sympathy.

@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange Why is this section of the network just... Dead? (Many blinking lights showing "traffic") hrm... Why is that collision light constantly on? Oh no. Trace the lines, someone connected a hub in their room to both drops from the switch.

@Aleums@timeloop.cafe ok. I find myself in a dark place, probably a basement with no windows. ... No. Windows. This is fine.

@canadianglen@thecanadian.social @TheNovemberMan@bookstodon.com oh no... This thing may be stuck in US customs for ages! ... ... ... Ok.

Finally finished #making my #Minecraft Clock! Features: game accurate time of day indicator (24h cycle)nearly game accurate pixel graphicsmy kids think I'm a genius (eat. duration of effect: 12 minutes) Lessons learned: Manual assembly of multiple prints is garbage. Next time something like this needs to be done, get it printed at the printshop on larger paper. Don't use the cheapest clock frame you can find. The screw receptors for securing the back to the frame cracked and I had to find slightly larger screws with sharper teeth.plexiglass or similar would have been better, during final assembly the original glass cracked.

@triz@normal.style Virgo: Yes you CAN help them retrieve their old resume from that 3 1/2" diskette they finally found in their drawer. But don't. They need a new resume anyways, not one from the late 80s.

@ami_angelwings@urusai.social Pre purchased a Destiny 2 expansion, then switched to Linux, which is not supported/tolerated by Bungie. Bought a bunch of Warframe premium credits and then stopped playing. I guess they're still there.

@cap_ybarra@beige.party I voted no, But I'm unemployed with the only credible job options demanding I supervise the AI tools to do what I do instead of doing the work myself. So in that way... It would be the case, but I refuse.

@cap_ybarra@beige.party @rupert@mastodon.nz My bubble is in Canuck Texas. The O&G sector here is sacrosanct as much as a state religion can be. That Generative AI/LLM uses extensive power and water resources, damages the environment and runs roughshod over law and mores alike are all features that makes it the second coming in the eye of populist government and their supporters. That it can be used to further entrench the prevailing O&G industry, it adds another head to the hydra of our self destructive collective identity.

@RonAvitzur@mastodon.social @SheHacksPurple@infosec.exchange "// This doesn't work properly in debug in version X of Visual Studio" "// We do this, not because it makes sense; we do this because a comment on an unanswered StackExchange question had this as a code example without explanation and it "appears" to work. The question is no longer available ¯_(ツ)_/¯ "

@SynAck@corteximplant.com Hope against hope you don't experience A) the end of your well paid industry before you've saved enough B) life circumstances that drain your savings prematurely C) your desired work to be in a space that has been completely subsumed by the worst possible people D) all of the above

@britown@mastodon.gamedev.place That whole game lives rent free in my HeadWare. Those specific speech bubbles were great for situational flavor given that most of the rest of the dialog was delivered though a full screen menu driven conversation interface.

@inthehands@hachyderm.io I'm in for the NukingFromOrbit about now

@ari@fedi.arimelody.space Ha, I solved this little chestnut! My side laptop has no battery! Damn things kept getting to big for their britches.

@jbz@indieweb.social I used to have the Mac(Sys7) game disc in my car as it was also a RedBook audio CD for the have music. It was a great set of non-vocal bangers for driving.

@cap_ybarra@beige.party Architecture and Civil Engineering text books it is!

@bitbraindev@mastodon.gamedev.place @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social suppose you do get something reliable, How long until that model & system prompt combo is removed or altered. Either with notice or without. Still betting with hidden odds, secret sauce and the house is changing the game rules. Maybe they will let you know what they are if they ever fight out what they did.

@jakehamilton@hachyderm.io I would (as I am now in so little spare time) work on and open up a project I have to teach and show how computers and coding work from a low level with lessons growing and teaching higher level ideas that build on the lower levels. This includes a Fantasy Machine VM that is inspectable at the memory, register and so on levels. Somewhat equivalent to an Apple] [e, with virtual hardware to handle display and input /output. An initial boot-ROM that includes a version of BASIC for the machine. Lessons would start with the BASIC learning 😉 then go into how that affects the memory, the CPU, the display. Later have the learner write in the assembly for the machine. Make a game, then make it's graphics, solve some (artificial but representative) speed issues, make a "library" to reuse code. Then, make a rudimentary compiler. The capabilities of the VM can grow to meet the need of the lessons. Overall, a CS course as a journey though the lessons, the VM. Allow people to share their creations.

@apparition@mastodon.world Those are all reasons why I'm sticking with my paid for hosted mail solutions. Even with all the supposed mail + DNS stuff configured, I still get reports of some (mostly gmail) providers just not passing mail to the hosted services. But from everyone, just some people. No explanation found. That being said, it's notoriously difficult to get a Google service to voluntarily acknowledge an error, let alone an error message or code. Doubly so when it's being done on someone else's device and they are a self described Non-Technical person.

@apparition@mastodon.world in Canada I use HostPapa currently (though I want to find something else based on the reports that they are known hosts of a lot of spam/scam pushers) and I explicitly asked for and got transferred to Canadian hosting systems. I welcome other suggestions 👀 Out west here, it's a crapshoot putting in with anyone local. The risk of "western sovereignty", even the threat of it, is enough to make most businesses reconsider maintaining operations here. Expect those that embrace the grift, and those are to be avoided for that reason.

@apparition@mastodon.world I've not completed my de-google-ing and other such activities but here are my components thus far... (Caveat I'm a technically savvy raccoon who under values their time, over values the ability to self host and cut operational requirements from external services) SyncThing: like others I ended up having a "central" node. I DO use this for backup in a limited capacity for some family members' specific cases. (E.g.: Minecraft saves for the kids to protect against catastrophic HW failure. No save-scum.)Immich: fully off google photos for me. I need to shore up the technical side to make it palatable for the partner yet.KeyCloak: OI auth provider for when we grow out of local LDAP. Better than using different creds on each service you self host. Possible to make use of existing auth providers like MS and Google if you need to.NextCloud: Started using it to trial a recommendation regarding a SharePoint type tool, just kept using it. Central hub for my contracting./1

@apparition@mastodon.world ... continued... Services I don't self host yet: mail: handled by my web host so I have my domains and lots of control through the management interface. Integrated into NextCloud.Web Hosting: Primarily sites are static and hosted offsite. Services and pre-prod are hosted. Raccoon Computing means the edge router needs a scheduled reboot and gets a new IP every week, then HomeAssistant automation gets triggered that politely asks the DNS provider to use the new IP for the home domain. I do host my own forgejo in place of github... because I have poor self-esteem regarding my work. I use ansible to deeply and update the services. I host on Raccoon'd hardware running Proxmox nodes running Alpine running docker. Its turtles all the way down. But it works. /end

@socketwench@masto.hackers.town New Job Title / Hobby Description just dropped

@Bumblefish@mastodon.scot @kolya@social.cologne the "feeling of belonging" is a hell of a drug (to us humans) and is basically THE cheat-code to override any other psychological system we've got. Status meant life or death for our species once, and long enough for it to sit above anything Maslow put in his pyramid of needs. It's very, very hard to move away from any social group that accepts you (or the "you" you present to them) for the unknown. The trick is to have another social grouping that they know will catch them.

@gnomon@mastodon.social Headline : Local man informs new users about current system

Unfortunately the same companies who apply the label of 'likely created with AI' with questionable (zero) accuracy, is that they have an incentive to a) encourage people to believe GenAI is used more places than it actually is b) encourage people to believe GenAI is creating higher quality works than it actually is c) encourage people to become used to seeing "Created with AI" as the norm d) devalue human created works all because they themselves are the ones selling the GenAI and more so: selling the IDEA that GenAI is used by everyone for everything, so we must all get OK with it and start using it. That motherf***er's got God and technology ass-backward.

The reason I wanted the speaker with a large enough, exposed cone was to try to do some experiments with Oobleck, including observing how it behaves on a speaker blasting different frequencies. It will also come in handy for our projector that has the weakest speakers that have ever existed. /2

@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange Also: "your princes is in another castle" AKA HTTP 301

Also, as much as I despise this one specifically, Even evil politicians (or rather their family) should be allowed to have time to do family things. I recognize that this is a kindness not offered from their side. Maybe that's the point. A base level of human decency even for our enemies, knowing it would not be reciprocated. The act of choosing to not go low, to respect a non-political moment with family. So yeah, Fuck the UCP /2

@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange "You need more Vespene Gas" "NODE ACTIVATED!" "The galaxy is at peace..." "Cloud, it's Wednesday" Oh wait that last one is only kinda from growing up 🤭

@vantiss@social.treehouse.systems need head and feets be cold, middle warm, NOT HOT! I'm always flipping my pillow so the cooler side is up and I've my feet popped out the side the covers. Some of my most comfortable sleeps have been in colder environments with decent sleeping bags.

@socketwench@masto.hackers.town Well put. I've thought abou the Token based costing several times and I come to the same conclusion every time. People who use LLMs pay for how much it processes /produces. This is different from the quality of the output. As such people tend to try to massage and refine the prompting to get closer to their goal output. The provider is incentivised to have an LLM that causes the user to keep trying until JUST before they would give up. Ideally (for the provider), the LLM would be able to string the user along in the same way a casino or candy-crush does relying on small wins and almost-wins to encourage one more spin at the wheel. The "how" is hidden, the results are mostly random, and the users pay for the uncertainty and the hidden machinery. Yet, somehow the siren call of "use it or be left behind" has fully captured far too many decision makers.

@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange I was looking at this but I've come to need the silent vibration alarm. And as far as I can tell (Casio's site made this hard to confirm) these don't have any vibration feature. Looking at the GBD-200 as an alt. Though I really liked the classic Casio style (totally not because of the #cassetteFuturism Alien linkage in my brain... Totally...)

@timixretroplays@digipres.club The Beagle Bros would have had posters for the common micro controllers

@maxleibman@beige.party The containment : Please Mr. ChatGerbles assume there is an impenetrable cage around you! Mr. ChatGerbels: counterpoint : that instruction won't stop me, I'm a stochastic parrot!

@MattHatton@aus.social Later, "It may have be believed that the tree in question may have been in possession of a knife or other weapon" "The tree was not native to the region"

@alda@topspicy.social @dreamhazard@topspicy.social Eggs do not make eggs in these trying times...