Some game on the C64 was too difficult and somehow 35+ years later I'm still writing code and I still am bad at playing computer games.
Former self-declared mayor of Glenden Wood.
Toots in EN & DE. Boosts also in NL and ES.
I block people who toot screenshots of text without alt text.
“War is bad. Don’t start one. But we’re already in a class war and we’re losing. Where by “we” I mean most people; the winning side comprises, roughly, the richest 0.1% of the population, who are morphing into a hereditary aristocracy. So, what to do in a war one didn’t choose?”: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/05/03/Life-During-Class-Wartime
Lots of people around me are doing heroin these days. To truly evaluate whether heroin is the right choice for me, I decided I needed to also start doing heroin. And after months of heroin use, I too am unable to stop doing heroin. Sure it comes with trade offs but it’s a truly useful and powerful tool
This post is about LLMs
This is *brutal*...
"There are no more juniors. There was a funeral for their passing in 2024. Nobody came. The machine does what they do now, but cheaper. Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are buried. We optimized for output, and abolished apprenticeship. A few years from now, we'll wonder where all the seniors are. We shot them. Nobody will remember."
Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.
Ich wundere mich jeden Tag aufs Neue, dass die JournalistInnen die SprecherInnen der Ministerien in der #Bundespressekonferenz ob ihrer dümmlichen zynischen Antworten nicht wütend anbrüllen.
Was für eine Farce...
About the Chrome LLM thing:
Google has been working for 15 years now (maybe longer) on dismantling the Internet that you love and cherish.
Fuck them. Don't use their stuff. It's toxic. All of it.
Co-worker is giving a talk about a fully agentic setup for handling tickets. The teaser image contains a pip boy directing a bunch of robots, paired with hyper-optimistic claims of a future were machines do the work and humans just give the ideas.
One of us severely misunderstands the Fallout universe.
Tim Bray
Danielle Foré
Lisa Lorenzin KR4LFE (she/her)
koehntopp ~ :
Thomas Fuchs
Jan Wildeboer 😷
Lieschen Müller