Em Adespoton

Trust me… it’s getting better, but it can’t do the non-boring stuff in a way that’s ISO compliant. Yet.

I work with a lot of productive software developers. They all write code. They also leverage AI to do all the boring stuff.

That’s what makes it interesting 🤔

Or… the agent hallucinates that it has a valid license.

Er, there’s at least 5 consumer router manufacturers that meet the new requirements. Interestingly, one of them is TP-Link.

The right is selling that vision… in private education. They want to do away with the public school system. At that point, it doesn’t really matter what vision they describe, as only the wealthy will have access to, and the market will provide the type of education they’re willing to pay for.

The left is selling a vision of equal opportunity education.

It’s not just bug reports; in the last month, AI driven development has actually gone from slop to reliably better than the average human.

That’s not saying it’s writing better code, just that managing the development process and catching regular bugs is now better than when run by a junior analyst.

Makes sense that a properly balanced model with randomization turned down should be able to recognize when something is being done outside the acceptable parameters.

That was the trash can; they brought back a modified cheese grater with the M1 chip.

I miss the XServe.

Is this the second or third time the Mac Pro has officially died?

I wonder if this means the rest of the world gets cheap routers for a while, or whether prices go up because the demand isn’t there to make them available at volume anymore.

The different muscle bit is “different muscles to hand churning” - could be a positive or a negative depending on your goals.

If you’re churning anything while running, that’s energy being diverted to churning. Perfectly fine, but if your goal is to improve running technique, pace and speed, there are better ways to do it.

If your goal is to get exercise, it’s more efficient than running and then coming home and churning butter; but it uses different muscles.

Al Capone got it wrong; when he started being investigated for tax fraud, he should have run for President.

US Christian Nationalism co-opted Southern Baptist protestantism; they consider the Pope to be a heretic.

Shooting a rocket directly into the sun would waste as much energy as current AI data centers, because it would have to shed all the earth’s momentum.

Better to just use a volcano.

Reminds me of “Security security security.”

Now, with AI.

Great… so now workplaces will have to default-block Firefox to lock down their networks.

You say “after all, the Internet that shaped me no longer exists.”

In a way, that’s true, but the reality is that most of it is still there; it’s just dwarfed by what came after.

I can still log on to mume.org and play on a Middle Earth-based MUD. I can still connect to IRC.

FirstClass BBSes, Hermes BBSes, Hotline servers and trackers, a plethora of self-hosted HTTP1.0 compliant sites, Gopher servers, FTP sites, and more.

The only real victim that I can think of is Usenet; AIM servers are back again, as are ICQ servers, shoutcast servers and battle.net servers.

Dialup is gone, but people have built TCP wrappers so all the old dialup stuff can be used over the Internet. You can even run the operating systems and software packages just the way they were in 1979 (or the year of your choice).

The callenge is finding all that when your phone and computer do all they can to direct you to Instagram, Tiktok and Temu, and system defaults use add on technology that has only existed for a decade max.

I have to admit, I hadn’t realized it had got this bad. How did this get normalized?

I browse with most scripts disabled, and have since JS was first introduced to the browser. What I’ve observed is that some pages contain NO actual content, or just the first paragraph, when I load them. I read what’s provided and move on. If the site is hostile to me reading their content they worked so hard to get in front of me, I’m not going to do any extra work to find out what it is.