Madison

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Pixels guy. Previously: cameras for pants computers. Now: cameras for face computers. He/him.
Websitehttps://hello.greyhill.me/
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@MozillaAI/116279201448628866

All we wanted was a browser. All you had to do was build a browser. You had one job.

One of the things I love to do in cities is walk around and take pictures. And one of the things I hate about cities is that somebody's stupid ugly car is always in the photo I want to take

The Rust project puts out an article about how they're listening to their community https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/20/rust-challenges/

Except it turns out that article was drafted by an LLM https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1rz15t3/what_we_heard_about_rusts_challenges_and_how_we/obiwu24/

They claim nearly every line was rewritten by a human but I'm not sure how you could send a worse signal to your community about how much you aren't listening than having an LLM draft a post saying we're really listening, honest

What we heard about Rust's challenges, and how we can address them | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

"The most wildly successful project I’ve ever released is no longer mine. In all my years of building things and sharing them online, I have never felt so violated."

https://beyondloom.com/blog/onwigglypaint.html

Edit: I am not the author of this. Please go check out https://beyondloom.com/ for more of the author's work.

Gmail has, at some point, given up on meaningfully filtering my spam. And I get the best spam.
Machine translations are often brought up as a gotcha whenever I criticize LLMs. It's worth pointing out two things: Machine translations existed decades before LLMs, and yes, machine translations are useful. However: I would never in my life read a machine translated book. Understanding what a social media post is talking about in rough terms? Sure. Literature? Absolutely not. Hell, have you ever seen machine translated subtitles? It's absolute garbage.
actual wile e. coyote shit
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