Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

i do actually think github is bad but in the way that i think if the people who ran notable project githubs instead ran forums, they would be the saddest, most depressing forums around, whereas github just normalizes it

“i used to think github was bad, but actually it’s just that tech culture is bad and lots of tech people use github”

apparently the U·S recently vetoed a U·N vote for a ceasefire, as they do

« Secretary of State Antony Blinken once said of the war in Ukraine that the targeting of heat, water and electricity was a “brutalization of Ukraine’s people” and “barbaric.” The Biden administration should acknowledge that the same holds true in Gaza. »

imagine if google only indexed pages that human users actually visited and then clicked a button saying “i found this helpful”

some folks in a slack talking about how the rise in LLMs has led to an increase in web spider activity and i’m just like what if we didn’t allow that

“wouldn’t that kill google?” yes, that would kill google

i think a lot of the problems of the internet would be solved if they just made it illegal to run a web crawler of nontrivial magnitude

tolkien wasn’t tolkien by being an ideas guy

“by writing my magnum opus, i will establish myself as the world’s next Tolkien!!” buddy, if you want to be the world’s next tolkien u first gotta get a Ph.D. and write like several articles or translations of folklore

oignyoun

an exception to this is domain-specific technology when the people in your domain are both largely good and numerous enough to maintain most of the necessary components of their ecosystem, which is why i work in library tech, but

making software which is useful to other people generally involves networking with the most insufferable imaginable human beings so that’s why i don’t do it

actually, you can iterate non-recursively over a string with exslt:tokenize, it’s just terrible

personally i feel like W is such a rare letter with largely nonsensical application that as a kid i would be reluctant to use it, but adults fond of eye dialects sure do love sticking it in there

which misspelling is more likely?

anyway no guy in tech with such a strong cult of personality as to be able to resecure their C·E·O position just five days after their firing isn’t a serial abuser, sorry

support in Open·A·I was so unanimous because all the haters had already been pushed out or silenced

“actually i thought sam altman was a great guy and the board just picked this random day to suddenly be super afraid of his vision for artificial intelligence”

« The complaints about Altman’s alleged behavior, which have not previously been reported, were a major factor in the board’s abrupt decision to fire Altman on Nov. 17, according to the people. Initially cast as a clash over the safe development of artificial intelligence, Altman’s firing was at least partially motivated by the sense that his behavior would make it impossible for the board to oversee the CEO. » ok but like, everybody knew this

somebody bothered to formalize this when they could have been fucking