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Kirch
@kirch@tilde.zone
mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchHacker, Aphorismist, Thaumaturgist, Unimportant Mediocre Post-Post-Modern Renaissance man.
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Joined August 08, 2018
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all the interviews are like "Are you a straight cis white male yes-man that's excited to put your nose between our buttcheeks? Our organizational alignment depends on never asking questions, we don't want any Negative Nancies around here! We have Mission, and that Mission is to destroy all life on the planet to impress half-a-dozen dudes who live on yachts in Saint Bart's!"
Drinking coffee after my 6pm Coffee Curfew, but it's OK because it's also got Kahlua and Irish Cream and my regular vanilla sweet cream in it, and it's in my grandma mug instead of the usual 16oz-er...
"The authors propose what they call a Contextual Copyleft AI License (CCAI) — a novel extension of copyleft licensing, which would treat generative AI models as derivative works and require AI developers training models on open-source code to make their architecture and training data freely available."
- Yale researchers propose ‘copyleft’ rules for generative AI
https://news.yale.edu/2026/06/15/yale-researchers-propose-copyleft-rules-generative-ai
When I was a kid reading @2600@mastodon.online I thought it was subversive because they might teach me how to do crime - now I think it's subversive because they give an alternative viewpoint that authoritarians don't really like.
We apologise again for the faults in the Monty Python References. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.
Just checked up on LinkedIn, found a guy that says he spends $6-7000 a month on tokens, and be got a hat, sticker pack, plushie and a thank you note from Anthropic... He paid them to help them train their algorithms, and in return he got $10 worth of SWAG.
So many software engineers out here giving the rest of us a bad name, you can usually sniff them out early on because of their methods of self-aggrandizement & how little they care for the community they claim to serve.
"Electric Shock Hazard? No, User-Servicable parts inside!"
Shout out to whatever Aunt/Uncle/Grandparent or whoever that gave 10 year old me a CD-rom setup for people to make their own Doom *.wads , with CAD and all sorts of stuff, and gave me my first existential crisis involving computers. All I really remember is that opening the CAD software resulted in a black screen managed by inscrutable keyboard shortcuts and I couldn't get it to be anything but that black screen...
I hope Elon's right and the internal contradictions of Capitialism 202X cause an instant reversal into Fully Autonomous Luxury Space Communism -- but maybe that's just a marketing gimmick to sell the idea that giving him more money will make everyone rich.
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@StevenSaus@faithcollapsing.com that reminds me, I really should get back to backtracking all my sources on my "Brief History of Fortune Cookies" and expanding it into a finished product...
http://tilde.town/~kirch/FortuneCookies.html
The battle between my ethics and my need to eat, compounded by 20 years of suffering in the Software Industry, is particularly hard today.
I still think the "Nobody Wants To Work Anymore!" people and the "The AI does my Job for Me!" people should have to knife-fight like the Beat It video.
LLMs are the purest form of distilled capitalism.
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I have other thoughts about Linus's "shocking new statement" ... https://tilde.zone/@kirch/116933134838784188
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@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online seems like a major failure for the government to allow their space program to be privatized
RE: @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online
Is it possible that Elon failing to launch rockets is no longer newsworthy to the mainstream outlets?
It's interesting how this grocery chain has "Digital-Only Coupons" that you need an app (spyware) to activate -- and they'll just straight up send you notifications about advertisements...
the orphan-crusher is going to crush us all eventually; you just gotta make sure it rolls over your parents before it gets to you or else you won't be an orphan yet and it won't count.
#NaNoGenMo kinda lost its fun when all these LLMs hit, but also all the LLMs are real bad at story writing? Like, just the cheesiest schlock unless you really fiddle and edit well, at which point you might as well just write your own damned book.
@regehr@mastodon.social
Cool thing about powerful AI talent acquisition software is how it can connect to your LinkedIn account, and your Indeed account, and upload and parse your Resume, and then make you fill out all the data already on your LinkedIn, Indeed, and Resume
I lost a billion dollars this year because nobody gave me a billion dollars despite my potential to earn a billion dollars.
somebody should toss me $50 for a Shodan membership; I promise I can be trusted with search filters :3
You "have to" use "AI" right now because unless you work hard to avoid it then it's already been inserted into all the major websites and between you and the information you seek -- The Old Ways of searching are gone, you have to use smaller more specialized databases and constantly battle the encroachment of "AI" into search tools.
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@jmcs@tilde.zone I tried to apply to something through We Work Remotely, they want either "$2.95 /first month then $14.95/mo" with a "12-month commitment" or access to all their job boards with "TopAccess Bundle, $29.95 /month, 12-month commitment · billed monthly" ... I started the week with $65 to my name... If you have a job, do what you can to keep it, the Job Market is extracting rent from the destitute.
If you consume content, but never produce content; are you constipated?
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Alright, I just did a round of Distro hopping on my ancient 2015 laptop... Antix & MX Linux were speedy & great Debian-based distros, I prefer Flexbox here (and like it a little better than OpenBox which is incredibly similar), the MX iso was a bit touchy but a much kinder experience than the Antix install. CachyOS was also blazing fast - but Arch doesn't support hardware this old very easily so I skipped KaOS, I liked Niri & Wayland and KDE Plasma is always nice. ElementaryOS is beautiful - but I landed on Linux Mint because my printers Just Worked right out of the box, and after some updates so does my wifi card - which seems to be lacking support on "Modern Systems" and requires a lot of finagling on NomadBSD... Don't think I like Cinnamon that much, or Ubuntu - maybe next time I'll try Mint Debian Edition... But for now, no more funsies - and no more thinking about escaping Debianland
I'm sure the Businessfolk have figured out that LLMs can't become whistleblowers - but it looks like the law isn't protected communicating with LLMs to begin with, and the LLMs may not be deleting things the users think are deleted... they will, however, use every weapon at their disposal to defend their income.
Had a dream that I tried to buy some pants but for some reason the only ones that fit my waist had a 9 foot long inseam, so I was carrying them around by holding up the hanger as high as my arms could reach...
Found a YouTube video about a PureData module, said to download from their defunct WordPress site; Wayback Machine has the site but not the Zip file... So, naturally, I have to recreate the patch by looking at the Lowres vision of it on the 13 year old video... Bitrot is annoying - the Internet is forever, except the bits you want.
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Being a little hyperbolic, but there's 20+ forks and only 6 butter knives? And the bulk of the knives don't match
So, it seems my prediction from ~2018 holds out... AI can never be Great because Humans have no idea what they want and even less of an idea of how to describe it.
Huh, I guess I got 2 FTDI/Uart dongles ... And I'm going to assume the blue one only has 4 pins because it's missing a 3.3v line and came with an Arduino kit.
Well, that's a new one for me... (not my circus, not my monkeys)
The AI moves faster and breaks more things than any human ever could, and all it takes is a bunch of strip-mined rare earth minerals, fossil fuels augmented by solar/wind power, and potable drinking water.
"this is an equity-only role" ... el-oh-el ...
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apologies to @lrhodes@merveilles.town for stealing & modifying their joke ... but the results speak for themself... which I guess isn't all bad in regards to the advice about how writing requires a human soul & your style comes down to you -- it's just the assumption that the bot also has a soul and a style and some sort of lived experience?
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It really doesn't help that my previous employer was on the fence about giving people AI access, but also kinda wanted everyone to use it because everyone at the top was using them, and essentially said they want everyone to expense their own LLM account instead of paying for a corporate account or self-hosting their own system (it was a hosting company.)
"We get up at 12 and start to work at 1! Take an Hour for lunch and then, at 2, we're done! Jolly Good fun!"
~ The Ozian Workers (The Merry Old Land of Oz)
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Usually, the "Gas Station Tax" makes all snacks and candies a bit more expensive than the grocery store; but a pint of creamer at the store and a quart of creamer at the gas station were both somewhere around $3.50...
I was thinking about Milk Fat ratios a while back after finding an Eggnog recipe combining Whole or 2% Milk (2-4%), Heavy Cream (36%+), Light Cream (18-30%), and Half and Half (10-18%); and came to the mathematical conclusion to just make eggy half & half with booze in it.
https://www.pghcitypaper.com/food-drink/yinzer-yums-of-yesteryear-high-octane-eggnog-27135109/
Employers didn't believe in transferrable skills before the AI Apocalypse, and they still don't - even though they got the "AI" because it allowed people with no skills at all to "write code"