Mastodawn

This is a great essay on how all our stuff needs our attention.

I definitely feel like the maintenance man for my often-too-smart house. The robot vacuums are the worst, but lots of other stuff keeps changing, too.

I briefly, stupidly connected the oven to wifi and it started showing news headlines on the lcd I don’t want. I took it off WiFi, now it rotates an image on that lcd I still don’t want.

I’ll never connect my tv to the internet.

You live in a house full of dependents. https://terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing

The Last Quiet Thing

Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.

Terry Godier

S 6d ago

Ames 6d ago

One of the ways LLMs are damaging society is by causing us to endlessly talk about LLMs when we could be doing something creative.

S Mar 14

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ploum Mar 14

In the end, I realize that reading official documentation and the source code of the tool you want to use is the best way to go. There’s always that 5 minutes dread when it seems helpless, when you think you could simply find a blog post from someone explaining exactly what you need.

But, this era is no more. You need to either blindly follow an hallucinating tool not under you control or build a real knowledge of the tools you use, through sweat.

S Mar 13

ploum Jan 27

Les pubs vont arriver dans Whatsapp cette année en Europe.

Il est temps de passer à la version Premium qui:
- n’a pas de pub
- n’a pas d’IA intégrée obligatoire
- ne vous espionne pas et ne récolte pas vos données
- améliore grandement votre sécurité et votre vie privée.
- permet de discuter exclusivement avec les autres utilisateurs Premium.

Et le meilleur c’est que cette version Premium est pour le moment gratuite (le paiement est facultatif).

Alors installez-la !

Elle s’appelle : "Signal"

S Mar 12

nixCraft 🐧Mar 12

things that never happened and then the printer stood up and clapped too? because writing a kernel extension that bypasses Apple’s system integrity protection and driver kits requirements in a single prompt isn't a productivity hack it’s a miracle equivalent of Jesus walking on water 😂