I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, by which I mean AI. Some pretty notable software engineers have gone all-in on it to an evangelical level, it’s like NFTs and my favourite musicians all over again
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I do applied applied cryptography.
Deliberately making things less easy to understand since 2015
After much contrived coding situations I’ve finally found a legitimate use case for writing lambdas in Python, as I need some test boolean methods to pass to a decorator and they are ideal for this
They are a lovely little solution/syntax, what do other folk use them for?
Another day of wondering how many big companies have depts who’s job is to actively stop the other depts from getting anything done. #BeingPassiveAggressiveIsMyOnlyJoy
I realise I’m a bit late to it, but once again Transmetropolitan is eerily prescient #Transmetropolitan #enshittification
Also, the WhatsApp news is so far just headlines and allegations, if there was anything to it surely they might have included some actual proof amidst all the publicity-seeking?
my feed is 80% strawmanning of Meredith Whittaker's AI comments taken out of context, and the other 20% are those "tap the post for a surprise" tweets
I still occasionally go on to Xitter to see what the bots and the nazis are up to, and the amount of anti-Signal tweets today alone has been insane