FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

In engineering we say "Good, Cheap, Fast. Pick 2"'. AI is when you pick Fast twice.

Watching tech bros dream up use cases for normal people with normal lives and normal human relationships is something.

dr-dos is just ms-dos after she got her doctorate.

PSA: uBlock Origin's EasyList has an AI Widgets option that doesn't get turned on by default, including if you had other EasyList items selected already before it was added.

Enabling it removes a number of various AI buttons, nags, prompts, etc. across various sites.

#AI #LLM #Firefox

#capitalism #sustainability

why debug a bunch of bitfiddly C code when you can just waste 5kb of code space?

I was dreading have to port and test some finicky code from python to C but then I realized that for my uses, there's only 201 possible inputs to the function, each of which results in like 24 bytes of output

I can just make my python code enumerate them all, stick them in an array, and now the C code never needs to generate shit

wait I just realized I could avoid having to be smart by just being stupid harder

My mom has been running a community art & poetry project using the fence around her home for the last 15+ years, which she calls The Poetry Fence. She takes it very seriously and uses it as a base for all sorts of poetry outreach in her neighborhood. She's recently written a book about her experience with this project which she's trying to get published by a small press.

And in her mid-70s, she's just created her first ever website. It'd mean a lot to her if you take a look! https://www.poetryfencecommunity.com/

She doesn't know I'm posting this, but if she did she'd probably want me to add that science is real, no person is illegal, trans rights are human rights, and banned books are worth reading. And most of all, that poetry is for everyone.

Boosts on her behalf appreciated.

#poetry #community #SmallPress #publishing

#AI

Alright fedi, can I have a recommendation for an email provider which:
- is not based in any country on earth, or at the very least, no UN-recognised nation
- has a no-log policy only in the summer, as I have a fireplace in my house so I gotta be burning those logs when it gets cold
- supports end-to-end encrypted lucid dreaming
- is completely vegan and ideally fairtrade, but rainforest alliance is also fine
- supports using other people's domains, I like those more than mine
- allows for text formatting in green, and also, ideally, red. I love my friends Green and Red.
- has diplomatic treaties with other mail providers

On Google shutting down AlphaFold.

it's a common misconception that the Windows GDI stands for “Graphics Device Interface”. it actually stands for God Damn It, because its arcanities will make you want to kill yourself

oh god rgba(255, 0, 0, 255) gets alpha-blended on Windows XP as rgb(254, 0, 0)

I need to add an epsilon 😭