Mastodawn

I'm fucking dying here

Apparently they reverse engineered the reasoning behind an ML model trained to find tuberculosis to see how it figured it out and it used the age of the machine that took the MRIs; the actual MRI was just completely ignored

angelthorns Mar 15

Y'know Duff's device really is the most ingenious use of fallthrough i've ever seen. I saw it and though: "Oh that actually makes so much sense" I was a little brainrotted by rust to forget that fallthrough was a thing for a second 😂

angelthorns Mar 14

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Nelson Mar 13

@xgranade AI boosters will never actually do this, tho they might claim to. All they want are excuses to ignore damage from AI, so they can do what they want to without criticism or pushback. It's not good enough to have all the money in the world on their side, they don't even want to see dissent.

Instead they will tell you how it's not as harmful as you think, or it's less damaging than other things people accept, or the harms will be fixed soon, or it's worth it to build an enslaved god.

angelthorns Feb 21

hell yes, linux-postmarketos-qcom-laptop works with full disk encryption now :D
now i can hopefully use my laptop without crashing every hour

angelthorns Feb 21

I want to make digital computing more analog, modernization of interface design I think has lead to this pattern which makes your brain interpret it as a seperate world, one which your brain rewires to and forgets that there is a reality. Modern interfaces more and more are not based on real world equivalencies, while it allows for getting really quick at using tech, in my opinion it's lifeless and poisonous to the conscious thought. I want to make things more tactile, analogous to the physical world, I want mechanical clicks, design that brings back the fact that the world is a real place and every moment you're on a screen is a moment taken away from reality. I think people who've grown up attached to their screens solely with this modern flat way of seeing things probably dont even know how to use some of the physical equivalents of the programs they use on their phone, so instead of skeuomorphism being used to 'ease the transition into technology' we can use it to ease the transition back into reality. The modern hyper-efficiency and ever increasing abstractness in UI isn't what I want to build.

angelthorns Feb 20

one rust program has taken over 2 hours to compile

😞

angelthorns Feb 1

variants are like type polycules

or something

angelthorns Jan 31

ive recently been thinking of static reflection as a custom programmable step of monomorphization, makes me want to make my own actual language thats actually thought through 😞

angelthorns Jan 24

im kinda sad i cant go fosdem this year :((

angelthorns Jan 18

ugh i hate python programs theyre so ridiculous to install

pronouns	she/her
language	en, de (just dont expect any miracles)