It's worth patiently and persistently pushing back against AI hype in your worksplace to try and counter the bubble evangelists
- Generative AI can't do facts
- Generative AI can't reason
- Unless a model tells us what it's trained on, we should assume it's participated in the largest copyright theft in history
- No incremental improves are going to change this

Here are some common acronyms used by tech companies in 2024, and what they mean.

AI = Always Inaccurate

AGI = A Guy in India

LLM = Large Lying Model

GPT = Great at Producing Trash

You know you're drunk when you feel sophisticated, but can't pronounce it.

I've come to believe working on open source is really the only way to have a happy programming job.

so I just realized I did a sizable project and never posted about it publically

last year I spent a few months on and off reverse engineering Pinball Fantasies (a 1992 video game; originally for Amiga, though I was reversing the more polished DOS port) with the intent of doing a game engine recreation, and then rewrote the logic as a Rust program

you can grab the result here: https://github.com/wanda-phi/pfr/ ; if you're interested in the internals of a 1992 DOS game written by demoscene people, I wrote down some (rather incomplete) notes here: https://github.com/wanda-phi/pfr/blob/main/TECH.md

I'd also like to thank @domi for porting this thing to browser environment with WASM, and hosting the result: https://pfr.sakamoto.pl/

enjoy!

STOP DOING HARDLINKS

INODES WERE NOT MEANT TO EXIST IN MULTIPLE DIRECTORIES

YEARS OF FILES yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for being in more than one directory

Wanted to reference files from more than one directory anyway? We had a tool for that: it was called "SYMLINKS"

"Yes please give me FIFTEEN paths that this file resolves to" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

"Hello I would like different permissions on this file based on path" They have played us for absolute fools

Today I'm making a call for the total economic blockade of the Russian Terrorist State.

Sanctions do not work, if your enemy on the third year of war is able to make weapons for stockpiles.

They will use those weapons in the war with you tomorrow if you will not stop it today.

We need a total blockade of the trade with Russia, and secondary sanctions for everyone still trading with Russia.

Boost this, share this.

#RussiaIsATerroristState #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine

The "new" Linux CVE approach seems ... unhelpful at best. I know from experience that dealing with security reports is a pain and I assume that's way worse for Linux than for Postgres. But this just seems to purely be aimed at annoying everyone.

BREAKING: Smart pointers in C++26 will be even smarter thanks to integrated AI

Gutted to find out at LWN that somebody at the OSS was unhappy about deleting SLOB and SLAB :(

Europe’s naivety must stop. While we limit Ukraine’s use of our weapons on Russian territory, Russia is completing an airfield just 75 km north of the Ukraine border, near Ukraine’s second largest city, Kharkiv.

This means, transport plane after transport plane can deliver Russian soldiers and equipment needed to destroy a city of 1.4 million people — just a short drive away.

You do not fight a cancer by discussing if chemotherapy is an escallation.

Source: https://unn.ua/en/news/russia-is-building-an-airfield-75-km-from-the-ukrainian-border

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#Cats #CaturdayEve

I miss Ostrava :(

Almost €4 million in 12 days! #Slovaks, without government support, collect money for shells for #Ukraine

Citizens of #Slovakia are unhappy that their government does not support #Ukraine with weapons. Therefore, they raise money on their own.

In 12 days, more than 60 thousand #Slovaks donated €3,874,701 to the #Czech ammunition program.

#infantilnikoutek

Secret Panel HERE 🙌 https://tapas.io/episode/3161466

Why am I going to Ostrava? To cause @ljs some massive FOMO, of course!

It’s absolutely wild that we’ve allowed a CCP-controlled fully-algorithmic social network on virtually all phones while our apps are illegal there. That’s just as absurd as having allowed Soviet propaganda channels on cable TV in the Cold War. It’s even wilder that they found enough useful idiots to defend them using Soviet-style whataboutisms. Since Uyghur concentration camps aren’t enough, guess we have to wait for them to invade Taiwan for ppl to realize they’ve been played. (1/2)

:(