Peter H. Fröhlich

@[email protected]
60 Followers
101 Following
145 Posts

I am a recovering academic turned (senior) software craftsperson. I prefer small teams and writing code over large teams and running processes.

I post in both 🇩🇪 and 🇺🇸. But I do NOT speak for any of my employers and they CERTAINLY do NOT speak for me.

DEFINITIV NICHT KRIEGSBEREIT!

Note: Smart people tell me that I am very, very negative. 🤷

I support@fiff_de @usenixassociation @Codeberg
I despisebillionaires, prompt fondlers, fascists, systemd, war
Peter H. Fröhlich1d ago

Unlike syntax highlighting or a better chair, this "generative AI" BS is literally theft on every single level. Theft of other people's creativity, theft of resources like electricity and water, and theft of a future from people yet to be born. Those "people who don't take advantage of it" are not too dumb to do it, they're consciously deciding against it: They are not going to drive an SUV with chainsaws attached through a crowd of toddlers saying "What was that? I hope the car is okay..." #noai

(Proudly self-plagiarized from an October 2024 post on one of my old accounts. I added the hashtag. 🤷)

Show threadPeter H. Fröhlich2d ago
And here's my collection. I think I got a bonus sticker or two for free? 😻
Peter H. Fröhlich2d ago
Yay, got my stickers, thank you @socialmedia for the prompt delivery and the wonderful post card! 😻 #kaoskvlt
Peter H. Fröhlich3d ago
War is and remains a particularly shit way to spend your day. #fckwar
Peter H. Fröhlich3d ago
I think "Having a body is weird and I am scared!" is just about the best thing Stephen Colbert has ever said. ❤️
Peter H. Fröhlich4d ago

Spent some quality time last night with an old buddy who's still in academia doing the professorial thing. Heard about how crazy it is to get funding now with everything having been looted bone-dry by Trump and his cronies. Heard about how crazy the student "AI" shit is now and how he's glad that some of his courses are complicated enough that "AI" doesn't really help much.

But also heard how tired he is of the whole game, of the institution going down the semi-corporate shitter, overrun with idiot deanlets with zero academic credentials, with faculty getting more and more "administrative" tasks piled on but not having the power to implement anything anymore, and with IT that's more terrible than what a bunch of CS undergrads would have put together 8 years ago.

So ... yeah.

Kudos if you're still holding out, hoping for things to get better, maybe. I doubt they will. And I think he doesn't believe it either.

#academia #shitshow #enshittified #ensloppified #bullshit #university #deanlets

Peter H. Fröhlich5d ago
Let's just all be very clear about one thing: Being an asshole is not correlated with age. Plenty of 20-year-old assholes around, plenty of 80-year-old assholes around. You know how I know this? I got older. And most people who were assholes at 20 are still assholes at 50. But it's of course really easy and convenient for 80-year-olds to imagine that only young people are assholes. And it's equally attractive for 20-year-olds to imagine that only old people are assholes. And they are all wrong! The percentage of assholes seems to be constant from generation to generation. Same with the percentage of idiots. Same with the percentage of murderers, presumably. People of all ages are dumb, shitty, evil, nice, supportive, vindictive, etc. Get it in your fucking heads. #psa
Peter H. FröhlichMay 7
Heute ist so ein Tag and dem ich einfach "Bernd und die Befreiung" posten muss. 🤷 Los geht's! 🥁 🎸 🎵 https://yt.chocolatemoo53.com/watch?v=GDZribs3kP4
Peter H. FröhlichMay 6
Sometimes all it takes to make some progress is to collect some very basic statistics like mean and variance. Had to do that "online" today and used a bunch of vintage 1962 technology to make it work. I can't even imagine how often Welford's algorithm must have been reinvented badly over the years. If you're not familiar with it ... take a look! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_for_calculating_variance#Welford's_online_algorithm
Algorithms for calculating variance - Wikipedia

Peter H. FröhlichApr 28

"You gotta help us train
a machine from which we gain
only once we got rid of you
still that's what you gotta do"

"You gotta help us train
of course there'll be some pain
but just think what we can do
when we no longer have to pay for you"

"And if you see a Luddite
report him or her at once
those stupid dirty Luddites
with them we can't advance"

(I am accepting more verses for the song. And improvements to these verses. Feel free to share. Eventually I'll sing it with some badly imitated Bavarian Blasmusik in the background. Be very scared.)

#BoostForVerses #noAI