Just another Linux hacker
Constantly struggling to hide my affection of hacker subculture and memes behind the veil of corporate professionalism.
Father of 2, master of none.
Interested in #MotorSport, #F1, #VintageCars, #VideoGames, #InfoSec, #OpenHAB, #HomeAutomation, #Linux, #OSS.
Thoughts and opinions are my own.
I am not a bot (that I'm aware of).
people forget how influential Palm webOS was. lots of modern iOS uses similar patterns.
palm was basically the OpenAI of their time. such talent density that Steve Jobs had to threaten them to stop poaching.
• horizontal app card multitasking w/ flick up to quit
• edge swipe gesture nav for back nav and quick app switching
• swipe away banner notifications
• swipe down system tray (like Control Center)
• "Just type..." global search bar
• threaded messaging
• magnetic charging puck
whoNeedsCodeReview
posted by @woodmichl@reddit.com - https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1lig3gq/whoneedscodereview/
itsAllMarketingAlaSama
posted by @freehuntx@reddit.com - https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1lifbfk/itsallmarketingalasama/
"Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerer of death's construction
In the fields the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning"
The street that my mum lives in is a one-way street, but wasn't marked as such on #Google Maps. This caused many drivers to drive the wrong way. I have tried to edit it on Google Maps (there is such functionality), but to no avail. No matter how often I submitted a change (with photos of street signs!), Google said "Sorry, we could not verify it".
Solution: Edit the street on #OpenStreetMap! A few months after I did this, Google seems to have stolen the data, as it regularly does, and now the street is correct in both datasets!
long before all of that started, there were two restaurants on Rideau St. in Ottawa called "The Restaurant Next Door", and "The Restaurant Across The Street" which was across the street. i think the Restaurant Next Door might have been next to Nate's Deli or the Rideau Bakery. that end of Rideau St. used to have some local culture. it's all just chains and high-rise condos now.
Using a search engine is so 2024.
@CatsWhoCode @zenhob Just in case we dared to use the term 'Artificial Intelligence' for such, that would probably reflect an IQ just below room temperature.
Algorithms assessing x-rays for tumors undoubtedly have their merits and are definitely a different animal than this bullshit. Are you supposed to PAY for that?
If this is a giveaway, it's rather a throwaway. No bull.
@zenhob I cashed out all my tech stocks back in January. I suspect this will be the dot-bomb v2.0, where everyone finally figures out that LLMs and the hundreds of billions of dollars invested would have been better off getting tossed into a dumpster and just lit on fire.
They're impressive chatbots, but not useful for anything of consequence. They can't do math, they can't play games, they get basic facts wrong, they can be manipulated into being complicit in crimes, etc.
@1337 @zenhob Yup, but I've made money on my tech stocks over the past 8 to 10 years. I watched with pleasure when the tech ETFs dropped nearly 30% earlier this year, but I thought it still had more to go. Having said that, it's still not back to mid-January/mid-February highs. It was still a good move.
I'm happy to have cashed out and moved it elsewhere while I wait for the AI / LLM bubble to burst.
@stelclementine @1337 @zenhob As an IT guy, blockchain and crypto seems interesting, possibly revolutionary -- taking money out of the hands of politicians and bankers, and making it a hard asset like gold, but instantly portable and nearly infinitely divisible -- all made possible and enforced by code.
As someone who breathes, and is consequently concerned about the environment, it's a trainwreck.
Only time will tell what happens to it.
@stelclementine @1337 @JustinDerrick @zenhob Yes but there was a time - not many months mind you - where too many tech enthusiasts insisted that you should put your stuff on the blockchain, until they realized it is a slow, expensive, pseudononymous, world readable database with very little payload size full of bugs and exploits. So they stopped insisting on it.
The new machine lying fad even has governments singing its praises.
@toriver
Is there a better distributed database?
Single-purpose? Probably not. Nor is there one that is slower or more energy-consuming. And with no transactional rollback where you «fix» errors by forking. And it’s not really one, there are multiple, with some bridging going on.
@1337 @JustinDerrick @zenhob
Cryptocurrency found a usecase where it's really useful: Drug deals, scams, ransom money and similar things that need to move money on the black market.
That's real value keeping it afloat. Criminal but still real.
@JustinDerrick @1337 @zenhob
That's not what I was arguing.
AI, NFT, etc are/were bubbles, full of hot air, no actual value.
Drugs and other crimes - worth billions. Not a bubble, people just need to be aware of what they are really investing in.
@leeloo @1337 @JustinDerrick @zenhob
B̶r̶i̶b̶e̶s̶... Gifts to shady politicians.
@1337 @JustinDerrick @zenhob that's the argument against shorting something overvalued though isn't it?
Cashing out before the pop is a different thing.
@davey_cakes @1337 @zenhob It's still 'timing the market', which is generally bad (see: day trading) but sometimes it seems obvious that a correction is overdue (see: TXF.TO or XIT.TO 2023-2025).
I actually held my tech stocks through the 2022-2023 slump, because it felt like there was no real reason to jump -- no structural issue, no obvious over-valuation or bad direction -- and more importantly, no where else to go and put the money that looked way better.
@JustinDerrick @Dataless @zenhob @artemis
I agree. Though I suppose then they’d all try harder to hide their money in anonymous accounts and invest in “crypto for billionaires”
They’ve got everything propping up unaffordable international housing prices now
Honest question: If the wealthy’s billions disappear what happens to the economy?
They could still personally buy as much lifestyle as they want
If their cash hoard was not sloshing around in the real world would that be bad or good?
@Dataless @JustinDerrick @zenhob @artemis
Money is a convenient fiction, but a lot of time was used on this.
And some of the people are capable of useful work.
@zenhob It really is. Venture capitalists and companies have spent billions and billions on a tech that has no future in any of the things they've been spending on it doing. LLMs can have uses, but not one single one of them is anything these corporations are trying so hard to force them into. They will never -- no matter what -- ever be able to become true AI and will never successfully perform as well as alternatives in any of the things they're using them for.
What scares me is it may be another housing market crash type of thing if everyone lets this get much further. Governments are already starting to become receptive towards it. I'd love to see corporations knocked down a peg, but chances are they'll just get subsidies to support them when this fails.
I realise the overall situation is bad, but the absurdity of that one is delightful to me! Haha!
@zenhob adblock the ai overviews. No mercy.
Every couple months they change the css class and i need a new ublock rule but that's at least somewhat tolerable compared to the alternative.
@zenhob Open question: if you adblock the overview, does it prevent the request from being made to the server?
Or is it still burning energy and just not being rendered? I'm not sure of the specific point in the search process that it happens and when ublock steps in.
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