nixCraft 🐧
DaddyJewInterviewer: what do you ultimately want to become?
Me: employed
| they/them | Yes, one of THOSE people. |
| OSes | BSD, Ancient Unix, Plan 9, VMS |
| Languages | Forth, Scheme, Algol 60, BLISS, M |
Frobnitz Coil Oil
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Erstwhile IT-type retooling for wires-and-pliers. Occasional hiker, aperiodic XC skier, aspiring sailor, sometime bassist, and confirmed menace to potted plants. Bookish. Cat person. Dislikes spectator sports except women's rugby. Latent goth, overfond of dark clothing, dark music, and better absinthe than I can afford. Quietly miserable, often tired and overwrought. Affinity for '70s and '80s minicomputers and a few operating systems which ran thereon. Building a Level 1 HPR Cert rocket.
Anthropic: We scraped the entire internet, art, books, music and called it fair use. We argued that that’s how humans learn and we won’t pay anyone anything.
Alibaba: Cool, same.
Anthropic: Wait, no, not like that.
@mattblaze No, you don't know me, though, at one time, you were strangely tolerant of a previous iteration of my Fediverse presence. It is, of course, entirely unreasonable of me to unload any of the Mackenzie P. Williams drama on you. He would have turned 46, tomorrow . . . Anyway, surprisingly humanistic response, and kinder words than I've had for myself in a very long time. Speaking of grace, you send fools away with a great deal more of it than some of your former colleagues.
@mattblaze Never meet your heroes, they say. Perhaps this wisdom is due an update: "and never @ them on social media, either."
@mattblaze It was meant as sort of a point of information, I didn't mean to imply any call to action.
This account was created last week, and seems to focus on my gradual self-destruction, already well underway, in the family tradition. I'm far too apathetic, at this point, to create an account just to badger a demigod about a website. I haven't managed to really care about much since my last close friend checked-out, quite messily, from the news reports, on the eve of last New Year's Eve.
@catsalad @maddiefuzz Grandma always said magic circles should be made of salt, but maybe it depends on what sorts of haints are to be found up your particular holler? Are you sure that's big enough to complete the working from the center? Or is it for your cat? She never said whether it was OK to use iodized salt . . .
@mattblaze Stopped clicking on Flickr links when they started using pop-over "ad blocker" nags, when the "ad blocker" is just the EFF's PrivacyBadger.
@Natasha_Jay I'm guessing, from the Claude logo, that no one at Anthropic has ever read Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions.
yeah ChatGPT, we all trying to find the person who is responsible for this ram prices mess 😂
@effinbirds I'm trying, effing bird, I'm trying.