FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

@jk Every checkbox will spin up a whole new server in the background, because it's 'serverless', and kill it again when it's unchecked, no wonder it's slow.

2025. you go to a website. you see all the elements on the page pop-in, loading one by one. it's like the 90s again. your internet connection might be hundreds of megabits per second. the web designer is using a 4k video file as a looping background, and that somehow loads quickly compared to all the actual useful elements on the page. three seconds, five seconds, ten seconds. each checkbox and table has to initialize its own software stack of UI abstraction libraries and surveillance middleware

@patterfloof I think we'll be there basically forever now. There's a limit to the S-curve of increasing productivity, and we're well along the top of it. Maintenance and services are most of the economy of the future, that means labour and that means paying for it. Privatising wealth in the hands of tech bros makes real solutions harder to effect

Yesterday's government announcement that AI is going to fix potholes continues to live rent-free in the rage room of my head.

I don't have words to describe how stupid this is.

Council workers with shovels fix potholes. And since the government continues to fail to fund councils, they are sacking the workers who do this job.

There just aren't the words, faces or palms enough to deal with the asininity.

int. Kremlin
agent 1 (sets down bong): what if
agent 2: (giggling)
agent 1: what if we get trump to buy, like...
agent 2: (stifling laughter, holding back tears)
agent 1: ...fucking greenland
agent 2: (fully crying)
agent 1 (opens gmail): who's the dumbest senator

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/01/13/danish-intelligence-russia-forged-letter-to-spark-trumps-greenland-purchase-bid/

But all big tech will need to do is market the concept enough, so that people accept it as what AI always meant

Then they can control what it spits out and control what is "intelligent"; right now what these models spit out is often racist

Who would have known putting in all books into a model would make it racist? I guess anyone who reads, but besides them, who?

I'm not going to entertain the idea that we did not move the goalposts on what AI is.

In addition, the backtracking to AGI is just as stupid because it fails to understand the concept general intelligence too

The conversation begins with everyone agreeing this is marketing hype

There are interesting applications of all types of machine learning-- but pretending we can create artificial intelligence when we can't understand the animal brain is hubris beyond belief

I have a proposal for a solution of the term "AI"; it is neither intelligent by any definition, and often has humans cultivating data sets

And even artist talking about it are forced to talk bout it in the terms as it if is "AI" which benefits them anytime you even engage in discussion

I think a far more accurate and useful description is:

Slop Algorithm

It is a series of machine learning algorithms not AI, and generates slop, not intelligence

de nada

The geography of technical terms according to live on-device captioning:

ROM: Rome
UART: York
ASIC: Asiatic
JTAG: Democratic Republic of JPEG

me in my twenties: oh neat, a free program

me in my forties: oh neat, a free program, what horrors are concealed within

Stop placing complex chronic illness patients on psych holds.

If you don’t know how to treat someone, say so. Don’t tell them it’s all in their head.

Placing patients in the psych ward breaks their trust, sets back their baseline and sends a clear message that they’re not safe in your care.

Medical trauma is real. It maims and kills. Respect our expertise in our bodies. Listen to us and let us be partners in our care.

https://time.com/7206080/long-covid-psychiatric-wards/

#chronicillness #longcovid #mecfs #spoonie #gaslighting #medicalptsd #trauma #disability #ableism

Perfection.

I have broken my windows in a unique way: I'm using a high-DPI display, but my menu size and some other metrics are set wrong.

This happened for reasons. But since Windows 10 removed the Appearances control panel, you can't fix it.

what if I use a ported Windows 8 appearances control panel? THAT'S HOW I BROKE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE

oh hey, some light reading (for $4.48 plus shipping for paperback, or $18 hardcover)

https://sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-History-of-Transgender-Medicine-in-the-United-States

I tried to ask my roommate to do some static-DHCP nonsense and sent her the following MAC address:
28💿c1:0e:78:ea