Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I personally consider "I asked ChatGPT to generate a response to you" not witty but a form of an insult. Don't do that please. If that is how you want to talk to people at least don't tell me. It's offensive.

One thousand years of 😳

From an early ninth-century manuscript (Basel, Universitätsbiblitohek, N I 1:3c, fol. 2r).

anyone got a cool list of webcams that are of the streaming on a webpage kind and not of the hardware to plug in your computer kind. where's the next xcoffee

i just think it's funny that people despised when Microsoft did this in the 90s with internet explorer but now that Google is doing it it's Firefox that's "lagging behind on standards"

the solution is not for firefox to support web usb api the solution is for people to stop using web usb api

i just don't think that web browsers should be the same program you access USB ports with or write local programs in

this has been a message against Google's lobbying for "web standards" that have actively made software worse in the past decade

Ask ghosts.

today in "stop using chrome":

"DateTimeFormat Welsh locale in Chrome missing"

Safari and Firefox are unaffected by this as they include the Welsh locale by default.

https://github.com/formatjs/formatjs/issues/3245

even when he’s not being overtly racist, this guy is so fucking miserable. yet working with him is still worth it for some people, for some reason

please make sure whatever shit you're planning on april 1st is actually funny and isn't offensive or dangerous shit, ty

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@elilla "Signal-shaped noise" is an utterly brilliant characterization of what "gen AI" produces.

helpful tip

#retrocomputing

It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.

How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegomonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.

But sure, no, it's it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.