Miguel Arroz

@arroz
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Indie Mac developer. Former Apple and survs.com. I program my home computer, beam myself into the future. Living in 🇵🇹, missing 🇨🇦 a bit.
PaperVaulthttps://papervault.eu
MacDVI - Compact Mac TTL video adapter to DVIhttps://codeberg.org/arroz/MacDVI
Miguel Arroz2d ago
Jeff Johnson2d ago

Computer science experiment:

Put your LLM or agent through the same technical interview that you would require for prospective job applicants, and think about whether you would hire an applicant who gave the same responses as your LLM or agent.

If the answer is no, then why would you trust your LLM or agent to write code for you when you wouldn't trust a comparable human?

Miguel Arroz3d ago
The weather isn’t great today but I still love this view. Somewhere near Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal.
Miguel Arroz4d ago
Reimagined Search Box5d ago
"Eurovision organisers are doing everything they can to get those boycotting broadcasters back for next year" there's one very obvious step you could take lads
Miguel Arroz5d ago

Just found out the backup of my home instance of PartsDB wasn't running due to a chain of problems caused by bad config (yes, it was DNS in a way). Thankfully before I actually needed it.

People, verify if your backups are working regularly! When you need them, it's already too late.

Miguel Arroz5d ago
A lot of bad things in the world can be offset by looking out the window and the first thing I see in the morning being the random lady that feeds the street cats feeding the street cats. 🐈 🐈‍⬛😊
Show threadMiguel Arroz5d ago
Also look at the size of that car and think how many years “regulators” should spend in jail by allowing these things to be bought and used by anyone, and by allowing them to be driven in city cores among thousands of fragile human bodies.
Miguel Arroz5d ago

Re a post I did a few weeks ago: having to choose between technology preventing people to drive impaired and surveillance is a false dichotomy. Regulation can prevent that.

However if I really had to choose between tech that can prevent this, and drivers being subject to surveillance I would pick surveillance easily. I have more right to walk safely in a city than you to perform an extremely dangerous, highly regulated activity while maintaining privacy. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/police-vehicle-ramming-crash-vancouver-west-end-9.7200915

Senior in critical condition after alleged vehicle ramming in Vancouver's West End: police | CBC News

The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) says a senior and two police officers are injured after a driver allegedly rammed several vehicles and drove along a sidewalk in the city's West End neighbourhood Friday morning.

CBC
Miguel Arroz5d ago
Chris Silverman 🌻6d ago
#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration #fediArt
Miguel ArrozMay 14
tanteMay 13
“It's making me dumber for sure,” the fintech software developer told me. “It's like when we got cellphones and stopped remembering phone numbers, but it's grown to me mentally outsourcing ‘thinking’ in general. I feel my critical thinking and ability to sit and reason about a problem or a design has degraded because the all-knowing-dalai-llama is just a question away from giving me his take. And supposedly I tell myself ill just use it for inspiration but it ends up being my only thought. It gives you the illusion of productivity and expertise but at the end of the day you are more divorced from the output you submit than before.”
https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/
Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains

“It's making me dumber for sure.”

404 Media
Miguel ArrozMay 14
European News 🇪🇺May 13

New EU rules aim to ease cross-border European train travel

The EU plans to force railway companies to sell rival firms' tickets on their websites under new rules unveiled Wednesday aimed at streamlining travel on a fragmented rail network that remains broken into national systems. Critics say the current system makes it unnecessarily complicated to book multiple legs of a trip and pushes up costs.

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260513-new-rules-aim-to-ease-inter-eu-train-travel

New EU rules aim to ease cross-border European train travel

The EU plans to force railway companies to sell rival firms' tickets on their websites under new rules unveiled Wednesday aimed at streamlining travel on a fragmented rail network that remains broken into national systems. Critics say the current system makes it unnecessarily complicated to book multiple legs of a trip and pushes up costs.

FRANCE 24