@memeorandum@universeodon.comU.S. and China Agree to Get Geneva Pact Back on Track (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/u-s-and-china-agree-to-get-geneva-pact-back-on-track-695eb5f5?st=w5GiCS&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p160#a250610p160
@raiders@darktundra.xyzJamal Adams humbled by long injury recovery 'grateful just to get the call' from Raiders https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/08/09/jamal-adams-long-recovery-i…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Could you get a wind turbine in your garden? Probably not"
#Windturbines #Energy #Renewables
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems"""
"[…] Wanting a man got me into awful troubles more than once. But wanting to get married, never! No, no. None of that for me."
"Why not?" Tenar demanded.
Taken aback, Moss said simply, "Why, what man'd marry a witch?" And then, with a sidelong chewing motion of her jaw, like a sheep shifting its cud, “And what witch’d marry a man?"
They split rushes.
"What's wrong with men?" Tenar inquired cautiously.
As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, "I don't know, my dearie. I’ve thought on it. Often I’ve thought on it. The best I can say it is like this. A man’s in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell." She held up her long, bent, wet fingers as if holding a walnut. “It’s hard and strong, that shell, and it’s all full of him. Full of grand man-meat, man-self. And that’s all. That’s all there is. It’s all him and nothing else, inside."
Tenar pondered awhile and finally asked, "But if he's a wizard—"
"Then it's all his power, inside. His power’s himself, see. That’s how it is with him. And that’s all. When his power goes, he’s gone. Empty." She cracked the unseen walnut and tossed the shells away. “Nothing."
"And a woman, then?"
"Oh, well, dearie, a woman's a different thing entirely. Who knows where a woman begins and ends? Listen, mistress, I have roots, I have roots deeper than this island. Deeper than the sea, older than the raising of the lands. I go back into the dark." Moss’s eyes shone with a weird brightness in their red rims and her voice sang like an instrument. “I go back into the dark! Before the moon I was. No one knows, no one knows, no one can say what I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman’s power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon. Who dares ask questions of the dark? Who’ll ask the dark its name?"
"""
(Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu)
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchangeThis was foreseeable. Want to go on vacation on the state's dime? Pull your kids out of school and get vouchers.
Reminds me of the time I saw my sister-in-law tell her first grader to read a book for a treat. That was her idea of teaching her kid how to read. Both she and my brother benefited from special education throughout their schooling. The state was fine with them homeschooling. I believe they were eventually convinced by her parents to send the kids back to school. My pare…
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comSigh, DHCPv6 still unusable for an IPv6-only Debian 13 (trixie) netinstall. Gets a lease but drops it almost immediately and doesn't renew.
So, I have to:
- Get a lease
- Switch to the shell to see what the lease is
- Go back to network config and select static network
- Set that address with a netmask of ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:: and a blank gateway
- Proceed with install
#Debian
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialNice analysis of housing in Vienna. Back of the envelope calculation suggests rents are about 30% less than in San Francisco. Why aren't we hearing more about this from the "abundance" crowd? We know we won't get there with market driven housing production (I've had more than one developer explain that to me)
@paulwermer@sfba.socialNice analysis of housing in Vienna. Back of the envelope calculation suggests rents are about 30% less than in San Francisco. Why aren't we hearing more about this from the "abundance" crowd? We know we won't get there with market driven housing production (I've had more than one developer explain that to me)
@sean@scoat.esExcited to try Apple’s new Containerization stuff when I have a few minutes to experiment with stuff that’s not due 3 months ago.
Maybe I can get rid of Docker (and Colima etc.)…
The minimalist approach is super interesting (static, no libc even). They claim you can launch a container and have a shell in “a few hundred milliseconds” and I definitely remember waiting longer than that for `ruby` to start, back when I was doing a lot of Vagrant work.
@hex@kolektiva.socialRelated to understanding firearms, "rifles" and hand guns tend to be rifled. Rifling is grooving that runs in a helical pattern down the barrel. When purchasing a firearm, it's important to check the rifling.
First check that the firearm is unloaded. Empty or remove the magazine, cycle the weapon. Next, check again that it's unloaded by looking both down the barrel and into the magazine. Now, shine a light down the barrel and look down it. In the absence of a light, you may be able to reflect light off your thumbnail.
Rifling should look as though it's drawn on with a sharp pencil, and the barrel should look otherwise completely smooth and clean. If the rifling looks like bumpy mountains, then the owner probably used corrosive ammo and didn't clean it enough. It will probably still shoot, but not at all accurately.
Both the rifling and the pin can be used in forensic analysis to match a bullet to a gun. I don't honestly know how accurate this is because a lot of forensic "science" is just made up stuff that relies on the CSI effect and doesn't actually work as advertised.
However, not all firearms are not all rifled. Shotguns are "smoothbore" firearms, meaning they lack rifling. It is not possible to perform forensic analysis of a smoothbore firearm. It *is* possible to check for powder on the hands of someone who has used a firearm within the last few days, but it's not possible to distinguish between firing inside and outside a range.
I've been gathering all kinds of tidbits like this, partially just out of curiosity and partially because I've been wanting to write a story about a revolutionary group fighting a modern authoritarian society. I'm always happy to learn other bits, if anyone has anything else I could throw in my narrative (whenever I finally get back to writing it).
@NFL@darktundra.xyzFree-agent WR Chase Claypool 'excited' to get back on field after toe injury https://www.nfl.com/news/free-agent-wr-chase-claypool-excited-to-get-back-on-field-after-toe-injury
@gwire@mastodon.social
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioYou think ICE is going to “bring the jobs back?” Bullshit. They’re gearing up to sell imprisoned immigrants back to employers as slave prisoners who work for free. You think your wages are going up? You’re a sucker. Your wages are going down.
You think ICE is going to sell you imprisoned immigrants as cheap labor? Bullshit. They’re too beholden to the radical white supremacist extremists. Those people will •never• let those immigrants stay in the country. ICE is going to steal your labor force and you won’t get them back.
8/
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng"Thats not to say there haven’t been growing pains. When a great steak comes out of the microwave I get really excited. But more than half the steaks that come out of the microwave get sent back by the customer. To solve this problem I now run ten microwaves in parallel cooking ten steaks. One out of the ten steaks will most likely be good. The number of microwaves has required me to upgrade my restaurant’s electrical system and I now have a small nuclear reactor installed in the parkin…
@pre@boing.world
Confusing episode. Let me clear it all up.
The world is sinking into the doubt needed to rescue Omega, remember, and The Doctor is falling with a balcony that's separated from the building.
How does he get out of that?
Well, saved by a literal magic door that pops out of nowhere, leading back to the time hotel. 🤨
Anita, who he spent a year with once a couple of Christmases ago, has been popping around the Doctor's entire long life, peeping on him with the Daleks and stuff. Trying to find him on the Earth's last day. Today.
And now he's rescued, today turns into a groundhog day. Same day over and over again. 😆
There's another woman that's been stalking him through time lately, Mrs Flood. She was following him everywhere, but she had Xmas off she reckons, so didn't see the Time Hotel bit. Thus the element of surprise in the deus ex machina rescue. 😀
The Doctor is broken free of the wish spell now anyway, popped his conditioning, and can use the time hotel's door to recall Unit and break them all out of the wish too.
The Rani pops in to say hi and explain her plans. 😝
How did the Rani survive the end of the Timelords? She flipped her DNA to sidestep the genetic bomb apparently? Well that makes no sense, but nor does anything else so no time to ponder.
The end of the Time Lords made them all Barons... No, made them barren. There can be no more children of the time-lords.
She's popping Omega back out of the underworld for his DNA because the timelords are all barren and she wants to recreate Galifrey.
But wait a minute: Poppy is the Doctor's kid in wish world! So she should have Timelord DNA too! Maybe that could work?
No. The Rani is a nazi, don't like the kid's contaminated blood. She's got human all over her DNA. Eww.
Rani pops off back to her Bone Palace, and makes the bone beasts attack.
The Doctor explains that the Giant dinosaur skeletons are beasts that pop in to clean up the world when there's a reality flux, and the Rani has turned them on Unit HQ.
So the UNIT HQ turns into some kinda ship? Like the Crimson Permanent Insurance. Lol. It's blasting lasers at the bone beasts and turning around, and has a steering wheel like pirate ship now. 🤣
During the battle, the Doctor pops out to take a ride on the sky-bike, looking like something from Flash Gordon, and crashes into the Bone Palace.
Too late though! Omega is pretty much here now. He's a giant boney CGI zombie, become his own legend. Looks great but doesn't really seem like Omega, who ought to be held together by pure will.
Omega eats the Rani! One of the Ranis anyway. Mrs Flood avoids being eaten. She pops off with the time bracelet. "So much for the Two Rani's. It's a goodnight from me!" as she disappears off into time. Great gag. 😁
The Doctor just shoots Omega to get him back into his box. Pops a rifle off the wall. The Vindicator has apparently also got a built in laser as well as locator beacons. So that's handy. The Doctor doesn't use guns but some of his devices work like one. 🔫
So all is well! The day is saved and the wish is over and baby Poppy survives in a time box! 🍻
They're going to take the space baby off to do space adventures. Ruby is jealous of seeing The Doctor and Belinda vibing like that, as they plan a life in space with the space baby. Aww. Poor Ruby. 😭
But then Poppy pops off! Disappears entirely, and everyone other than Ruby forgets. Ruby remembers because she's disappeared from time herself in the past they say.
Okay: to save his child and on Ruby's word alone, the Doctor will sacrifice himself to turn reality one degree.
He goes off to commit suicide by Regeneration, but Thirteen is here! She's popped out of her timeline to stop him! Or maybe to help, with a motivational chat instead. Gives him a pep talk then pops back off again.
The Doctor zaps reality with his Tardis, dying but holding off on the actual regeneration for a few moments to go check on the kid.
The kid is safe! But isn't his own kid any more. Poppy has popped all her Timelord DNA and is just all human now. Poppy's pop isn't the doc, it's someone called Richie.
And Belinda has been so keen to get home all this time in order to get back to her Baby! Who isn't a timelord, and definitely didn't exist until she was wished into being.
This may not be the most ethical action The Doctor has ever taken: To bend the whole universe in order to recreate a baby that was accidentally wished into being out of nothing. Twisting time to give a child to a nurse who didn't previously have a child, or even remember the wish. Then it's not even the same child that disappeared, coz this one is all human. 🤷
But the doc is popping off to regenerate with Joy in the stars, and... Turns blonde: "oh. Hello?" 🤯
It's Rose! Billie Piper is back? Fantastic!
Is Rose doing a David Tennant Impression there?
Billie playing the Doctor, doing a Tennant impression as Bad Wolf? Amazing. Can't wait.
#doctorWho
@Adam@social.lein.usI think I need to go back to New Zealand for this. https://hydroattack.co.nz/
@Archivist@social.linux.pizzaNoooooooo! I forgot the laptop, no train-coding, only despair and anticipative design of what will be when I get back home
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesTTC new CEO took the bus from Kennedy to Scarborough Town Center to do his press conference.
Like Andy Byford, an actual CEO that uses transit. Refreshing (the bar is low). Cautiously optimistic.
https://www.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 07 - Assassin
AVON: [V.O.] Scorpio, come in Scorpio.
TARRANT: Avon, what's happening?
AVON: [V.O.] Never mind what's happening. Just get me up as quickly as you can. [Cut to Domo]
NEBROX: You promised! You promised! [Back to Scorpio]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/407/181
@wraithe@mastodon.socialWhat. The. Actual. Fuck. https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/114656946056668221
@cdarwin@c.imThe US Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, seemingly does not know about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre or Ruby Bridges:
“I will look into it and get back to you.”
https://bsky.app/profile/popcrave.com/post/3lqsmomv2rk2i
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Seeking Bounce-Back From Much-Maligned OL https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-seeking-bounce-back-from-much-maligned-ol/?adt_ei=[email]
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caHmmmm… here is a problem I did not anticipate.
Every time I empty the main pond hole of water, (the actual hole under the liner) water returns within an hour or two. I’ve done it 4 times now, and it keeps filling back up with water.
Obviously there is water underground infiltrating into the pond hole, and/or the water table itself is above the bottom of the hole. It is not coming from either of the other holes because they both have the same amount of water in them as they did this morning.
I have “watered” the blueberry patch and hazelnut tree a lot with the water that I have been cleaning the filter with… and we also had lots of water flying around outside the liners yesterday as I tested the pump. So it is quite possible that the ground around the pond is simply well saturated.
I think I am going to have to just keep removing the water (and putting it into the sewer) until it does not refill. We have a week of hot weather coming. Surely that will be enough time for everything to dry out completely.
Otherwise I might run into some issues if the rains return before I can anchor down the pond liner with gravel and get the plumbing in!
How is time already running short!?
Never underestimate the ability of water to find a place where it is not wanted. 😆
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy
@ThatHoarder@mastodon.onlineWhen hard times come along, you might need support to get back on the road again https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-189-scaffolding-hoarding-jan-eppingstall/
@awinkler@openbiblio.social
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukHmm my #Fedora 42 is unhappy with yesterdays 6.15.9-201 - falling back to 8-200 is fine.
Got as far as 'basic target' but no further; it's not hung (caps lock and ctrl-alt-del work). Time to break out some systemd options to get some more debug. Nothing hit the logs on disk.
@chrislowles@mastodon.socialOne of the first things I wanna do when I go back to Linux on my main PC (preferably with Vanilla OS 2) is to try and get NightRiderz working https://nightriderz.world/
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders linebacker Jamal Adams, others, speak to media https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders-linebacker-jamal-adams-others-speak-to-media/
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeGetting ready to tear down the current LATENTRED prototyping setup. I'm at the point that it makes sense to not do much future development until I get the final switch engine board back from fab.
Which i haven't ordered, because I haven't had a chance to finish the last few SI simulations and do signoff review.
But it's getting in the way of other projects (including work related things) competing for the same 3 square feet of bench space so I'm gonna have to …
@trochee@dair-community.social> fifties era Rocketship Republicanism … come back to earth to find the Overton window has moved the landing pad and it's gotta set down somewhere
— @… can turn a phrase, y'all
https://
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeWow, how did you get those scars?
@emd@cosocial.caTrying to order a product I normally get from Amazon, directly from the vendor.
Takes 4 days to say “order getting ready”, still in that state 3 days later, and it costs 25% more! It also takes 3-4 business days to hear back from their support.
From Amazon, in their own store, it's cheaper and comes in like 2 days.
I know I shouldn't expect same speed/pricing from vendors as Amazon, but this makes it very hard to support vendors directly.
Am I expecting too mu…
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgJust because I'm sharing with someone else, here's a throwback to when we played with Jack Blades from Night Ranger. I really need to go back into this project and get the solos out 🤣🫣
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Juxlfe_lSOM&si=liY6zyGdwu7iv2BA
@nerb@techhub.socialWhoo hoo Looks like I get a new back driveway again ( 2nd time ).
County has contractors dig out all the ditches to improve drainage. They have maps showing legal existing culverts, driveways and drainage tubes. Anything not on there is not legal and will be removed.
10 or so years ago they removed my rear driveway because it was not on the map they had. I tried to argue with them and lost. So I dug through my paperwork, found the permit from when the driveway and been permitte…
@hey@social.nowicki.ioAliExpress is a UX nightmare. They send notifications for everything,order status, promos, God knows what else, on every channel in the same time. Whatsapp, push, email. Ffs I'll remove my account soon after I get the package and never come back.
@shoppingtonz@mastodon.socialNow in regards to Albion Online, I'm in Albion EU again...
I chose "randomly" Martlock...but if any of you have any interest in my old and more accomplished account then please give a comment and I'll see what I can do to get back there...
Anyway Martlock... ("ML") got what kind of main resource?
https://
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI may need to get back to doing illustrations again since it's been about a year that I took a break...
Hand drawn stuff (even if digitally) might be the future of human art with all this AI bullshit going on.
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/projects/illustrations/
@NFL@darktundra.xyzWho dropped out of the top 10? Players eyeing a bounce-back at 11 positions https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45621153/top-10-nfl-players-dropped-every-position-2025-jeremy-fowler-…
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialI want to push back on the idea in the world of tech work that a PIP (performance improvement plan) is about getting rid of someone, that they're not intended to be survivable.
This is completely false. (I'm sure there's instances of it, of course, but the mode and vast majority are, in fact about performance improvement. Sometimes they're shadow layoffs, but that is cruel callous behavior that not everyone will exhibit.)
Now _most people do not survive the PIP process_. This is to be expected: if someone is in fact not performing, and more gentle remedies haven't worked, it's not looking good.
But here's where I get a bit spicy: most performance problems are constitutional problems with management and management style, not individual performance problems. However, since managers are as a class 'in power' somewhat, the individual contributor takes the fall for this structurally.
The intent of a PIP is not to get rid of people. It's to right performance.
However, as a system, PIPs do largely get rid of people who are constitutionally misaligned with management. Even when it's a management problem (and it usually is)
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Get Deflating Injury News on Possible Starting RB https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jaydon-blue-preseason-ankle-injury/?adt_ei=[email]
@muz4now@mastodon.worldGet Well Soon
- my friend is back in the hospital with pneumonia so I'm sending this as a get-well card -
#OrchestralMusic #NowPlaying
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterDeep punches the ball back into the stumps at the non-striker's end but Tongue is unable to get any skin on it. It looked like Gill had got his bat behind the line regardless.
#Cricket #SecondTest
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSo some Democratic politicians actually got the memo, but clearly others are flailing. To help them out, I’d like to offer my sage political wisdom. Try the following message:
1. Kick Trump out.
2. Tax the living shit out of billionaires.
3. Use the money to get folks back on their feet and clean up this mess.
Just that. Simple and direct, no fussing around. Give that a try and see how it lands. Float a trial balloon in some minor swing district election and see what happens.
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.socialwhatever happened to the software crisis? can we get that back?
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeDoes anyone know how to get a competent Comcast business support engineer to actually talk to you? I've called their support line three times, each time they tried rebooting the modem (saying they would only do this once, liars) and then disconnected me saying that I could call back if I was still having problems.
I have yet to reach even a level 1 support drone.
I'm trying to a) get my CPE password reset because the password in my password manager doesn't work anymor…
@mela@zusammenkunft.netLet's remove the 'woke' from the people who hate it:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMK96jduS-J/?igsh=amdjMjdpbm54bXY1
@mrysav@social.linux.pizzaYAGNI: You Ain't Gonna Need It
Proposal:
YAGDI: You Ain't Gonna Do It
For when someone pushes back that they will fix it later, but you can see that the forces of darkness will conspire to ensure it will not get done
@grumpybozo@toad.socialI honestly don’t get how this is possible in 2025.
There’s no excuse for not having protected backups of everything critical. That was true 30 years ago, it is true today. Back then a bigger piece of the risk was hardware, less malware. Today it is unlikely for a disk failure to take your data because we all learned that RAID was worthwhile. But RAID is not a backup and backups today need to be resistant to intentional malicious deletion.
@jswright61@ruby.socialI created a page to generate a #NYTimesMini results link because they don’t allow you to go back to your completed puzzle on the web and generate a share link (You get just one shot at it, if you dismiss the share modal without copying, or copy something else over it on your clipboard, that’s it).
You’re on your honor to use your actual time.
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgFound an old review, really loved working with New Noveta back in 2019:
"The two young performers get straight to work making the attendees at the edges of the room feel uncomfortable, grasping each other's bodies, screaming and crying, while brandishing what appears to be a giant folding fan made of 2ft blades. The pair chase each other on foot through the crowd, pushing people in all directions and never looking anything other than distressed, disturbed or downright terrified…
@poppastring@dotnet.socialA post from the archive 📫:
Find the address of an object in Visual Studio
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/find-the-address-of-an-object-in-visual-studio
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialWhy AI can't possibly make you more productive; long
#AI and "productivity", some thoughts:
Edit: fixed some typos.
Productivity is a concept that isn't entirely meaningless outside the context of capitalism, but it's a concept that is heavily inflected in a capitalist context. In many uses today it effectively means "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations." This is not really what it should mean: even in an anarchist utopia, people would care about things like how many shirts they can produce in a week, although in an "I'd like to voluntarily help more people" way rather than an "I need to meet this quota to earn my survival" way. But let's roll with this definition for a second, because it's almost certainly what your boss means when they say "productivity", and understanding that word in a different (even if truer) sense is therefore inherently dangerous.
Accepting "productivity" to mean "satisfying your boss' expectations," I will now claim: the use of generative AI cannot increase your productivity.
Before I dive in, it's imperative to note that the big generative models which most people think of as constituting "AI" today are evil. They are 1: pouring fuel on our burning planet, 2: psychologically strip-mining a class of data laborers who are exploited for their precarity, 3: enclosing, exploiting, and polluting the digital commons, and 4: stealing labor from broad classes of people many of whom are otherwise glad to give that labor away for free provided they get a simple acknowledgement in return. Any of these four "ethical issues" should be enough *alone* to cause everyone to simply not use the technology. These ethical issues are the reason that I do not use generative AI right now, except for in extremely extenuating circumstances. These issues are also convincing for a wide range of people I talk to, from experts to those with no computer science background. So before I launch into a critique of the effectiveness of generative AI, I want to emphasize that such a critique should be entirely unnecessary.
But back to my thesis: generative AI cannot increase your productivity, where "productivity" has been defined as "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations."
Why? In fact, what the fuck? Every AI booster I've met has claimed the opposite. They've given me personal examples of time saved by using generative AI. Some of them even truly believe this. Sometimes I even believe they saved time without horribly compromising on quality (and often, your boss doesn't care about quality anyways if the lack of quality is hard to measure of doesn't seem likely to impact short-term sales/feedback/revenue). So if generative AI genuinely lets you write more emails in a shorter period of time, or close more tickets, or something else along these lines, how can I say it isn't increasing your ability to meet your boss' expectations?
The problem is simple: your boss' expectations are not a fixed target. Never have been. In virtue of being someone who oversees and pays wages to others under capitalism, your boss' game has always been: pay you less than the worth of your labor, so that they can accumulate profit and thus more capital to remain in charge instead of being forced into working for a wage themselves. Sure, there are layers of management caught in between who aren't fully in this mode, but they are irrelevant to this analysis. It matters not how much you please your manager if your CEO thinks your work is not worth the wages you are being paid. And using AI actively lowers the value of your work relative to your wages.
Why do I say that? It's actually true in several ways. The most obvious: using generative AI lowers the quality of your work, because the work it produces is shot through with errors, and when your job is reduced to proofreading slop, you are bound to tire a bit, relax your diligence, and let some mistakes through. More than you would have if you are actually doing and taking pride in the work. Examples are innumerable and frequent, from journalists to lawyers to programmers, and we laugh at them "haha how stupid to not check whether the books the AI reviewed for you actually existed!" but on a deeper level if we're honest we know we'd eventually make the same mistake ourselves (bonus game: spot the swipe-typing typos I missed in this post; I'm sure there will be some).
But using generative AI also lowers the value of your work in another much more frightening way: in this era of hype, it demonstrates to your boss that you could be replaced by AI. The more you use it, and no matter how much you can see that your human skills are really necessary to correct its mistakes, the more it appears to your boss that they should hire the AI instead of you. Or perhaps retain 10% of the people in roles like yours to manage the AI doing the other 90% of the work. Paradoxically, the *more* you get done in terms of raw output using generative AI, the more it looks to your boss as if there's an opportunity to get enough work done with even fewer expensive humans. Of course, the decision to fire you and lean more heavily into AI isn't really a good one for long-term profits and success, but the modern boss did not get where they are by considering long-term profits. By using AI, you are merely demonstrating your redundancy, and the more you get done with it, the more redundant you seem.
In fact, there's even a third dimension to this: by using generative AI, you're also providing its purveyors with invaluable training data that allows them to make it better at replacing you. It's generally quite shitty right now, but the more use it gets by competent & clever people, the better it can become at the tasks those specific people use it for. Using the currently-popular algorithm family, there are limits to this; I'm not saying it will eventually transcend the mediocrity it's entwined with. But it can absolutely go from underwhelmingly mediocre to almost-reasonably mediocre with the right training data, and data from prompting sessions is both rarer and more useful than the base datasets it's built on.
For all of these reasons, using generative AI in your job is a mistake that will likely lead to your future unemployment. To reiterate, you should already not be using it because it is evil and causes specific and inexcusable harms, but in case like so many you just don't care about those harms, I've just explained to you why for entirely selfish reasons you should not use it.
If you're in a position where your boss is forcing you to use it, my condolences. I suggest leaning into its failures instead of trying to get the most out of it, and as much as possible, showing your boss very clearly how it wastes your time and makes things slower. Also, point out the dangers of legal liability for its mistakes, and make sure your boss is aware of the degree to which any of your AI-eager coworkers are producing low-quality work that harms organizational goals.
Also, if you've read this far and aren't yet of an anarchist mindset, I encourage you to think about the implications of firing 75% of (at least the white-collar) workforce in order to make more profit while fueling the climate crisis and in most cases also propping up dictatorial figureheads in government. When *either* the AI bubble bursts *or* if the techbros get to live out the beginnings of their worker-replacement fantasies, there are going to be an unimaginable number of economically desperate people living in increasingly expensive times. I'm the kind of optimist who thinks that the resulting social crucible, though perhaps through terrible violence, will lead to deep social changes that effectively unseat from power the ultra-rich that continue to drag us all down this destructive path, and I think its worth some thinking now about what you might want the succeeding stable social configuration to look like so you can advocate towards that during points of malleability.
As others have said more eloquently, generative AI *should* be a technology that makes human lives on average easier, and it would be were it developed & controlled by humanists. The only reason that it's not, is that it's developed and controlled by terrible greedy people who use their unfairly hoarded wealth to immiserate the rest of us in order to maintain their dominance. In the long run, for our very survival, we need to depose them, and I look forward to what the term "generative AI" will mean after that finally happens.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alBack home after a week away to see family and itching to get back to work on the Small Web on Monday.
Expect an exciting update soon :)
:kitten: 💕
#SmallWeb #SmallTech #humanRights…
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialLooks like I should get back to working on Fiedka 🐙 again. 😅
@bourgwick@heads.socialhonestly feeling pretty fuckin' bleak at the moment, *BUT* i do get to go on @… & play a bunch of fantastic (mostly) not-bleak #music for falling/floating/back-stroking through hot stupid summer skies. come hang & listen with me. tune in:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIn Yuga Labs vs. Ryder Ripps, an appeals court rules that NFTs are "goods" that can get trademark protection but sends the case back to a lower court (Zack Abrams/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/364012/nfts-q
@domm@social.linux.pizzaToday I cycled some more trash to the recyling center and cycled back with free humus (the spoil kind, not chickpeas) and a bag of potting spoil, with a short stop at a supermarket to get an ice cream.
@stefan@gardenstate.socialThanks to everyone who stared my #tvmarks github repo. I really appreciate it.
If you have yet to start or have questions I would love to get you excited back tracking tv!
https://github.com/stefanhayden/tvmark…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 11 - Gambit
BLAKE: [V.O.] Bring us up, Avon.
AVON: Bringing you up now. [Operates teleport.] Welcome back. How did you get on?
CALLY: We managed to reach Docholli.
AVON: Oh, great. Wonderful. Terrific.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/527 B7B2
@idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.placeGreat list of boxes to tick to get marketing support for your game from Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox (featured on first party channels):
https://piratepr.com/treasure-trove/how-to-get-marketing-support-for-your-g…
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euBookmarking this as the only thing I'll need to do exactly as shown to get back in shape ->
Evolution of Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg
@detondev@social.linux.pizzamy parents went to get us pizza for dinner, and on the way back the car ahead of them broke down. they pulled over and hopped out to check on it, and discovered the driver was an absolutely ancient looking iranian immigrant and his son. he immediately started going off about how he was bahšʼí and not muslim and how the muslims in iran were crazy evil oppressors, almost like he thought that was a foolproof spell to ward off ice agents and other hostile whites
@samvarma@fosstodon.org
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialAm I becoming crazy? The Copilot toggle is OFF in this screenshot, right? If so, why is there still a Copilot icon on the top right? How do I get rid of it??
(this is in #Outlook for Win10)
Edit: the (temporary, because I already did it once a few days ago and Copilot is now back) solution is to follow the instructions for editing group policies here:
@cdp1337@social.veraciousnetwork.comAttn VN folks; got our instance updated to the latest stable and managed to include the 5k post limit, (they made it easier, but still confused as to where `state.getIn(['server', 'server', 'configuration', 'statuses', 'max_characters']` is referring to)
File uploads are back to default for the moment, I may try to get around to patching the 24-file limit back in too, but I don't know how many folks used that anyway, so I may not. Let me kno…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzJoel Bitonio: Browns getting back to 2020, 2021 running schemes, 'a strength' of Cleveland's O-line https://www.nfl.com/news/joel-bitonio-browns-returning-running-schemes-a-strength-offensive-line
@threeofus@mstdn.socialWhat I really need to do is get back up to my full antidepressant dose to lift me out of the depression, and find better coping strategies for the irritability / rage episodes that come with the increased dose.
#mentalhealth #depression
@joxean@mastodon.socialFrom upper case "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!!!1!" to "let's get back to JCPOA". After US unilaterally violated the agreement, helped Israel bomb Iran unprovoked, and even bombing themselves them. Lol.
In which fucking world do they live?
@pre@boing.worldA wish granting god baby, granting Conrad's wishes in service of the Rani, turns London into a misogynist utopia and The Doctor into a good husband and insurance worker.
Hard to say why misogynists are so keen on the American 50s. Perhaps because it was before blacks had the vote and women could do banking.
And if anyone doubts this ridiculous tale, their table stops working and their family might call the doubt police, so they soon learn not to. All very oppressive and subversive.
Ruby manages to doubt anyway. And all the disabled people who simply never enter into Conrad's mind. Nice touch that. Great scene in the tent city filled with the dispossessed. They don't seem to have actually done anything so far but maybe they'll get more useful in part two.
Conrad is on TV telling a story about a man named Doctor Who.
Giant dinosaur skeletons walk the city, stepping over sky scrapers, and a bone palace towers above the city. Because I guess Conrad wishes for it to be so in order to give the Rani somewhere to live.
The palace is beautiful and Gothic.
But doubt is seeping in. Rogue is back, on the TV in hell, telling the Doctor that tables don't work like that. So he investigates. Gets himself reported to the doubt police who take him and Belinda to the bone palace.
The Rani's split from Miss Flood gives the pair of them a good chemistry. Queen and her maid of honour. Seems like Mrs Flood is likely to be the Rani's downfall. She doesn't like being told to make a sandwich.
A lot of exposition going on, but they at least put a hat on it: "Isn't just exposition, I need you to doubt"
So that's the reason for the strange wishes: To make the doctor have doubts so severe that the reality collapses, and Rani can rescue Omega. Omega is the dude in a Mask from the first 3 doctors episode, who gave the timelords time travel and got trapped in the underworld in the process. Timelords forgot him and never mounted a rescue, but presumably Rani is now hoping he'll bring back Galifrey.
And with London collapsing into the underworld and the doctor falling from the sky, we get the episode break and have to wait until next week.
That's not a cliff hanger, that an already-falling-from-the-cliff hanger.
Poppy really is his daughter he's shouting as he falls. And you know what that means?
🤨🤔
Back in Space Babies, the worst episode of the Nchuti seasons, that space baby asked if he was her parents and he said he wished that he was their parents.
That wish has been granted somehow?
Is this space baby Susan's mother? They have very different skin tones, but that doesn't matter much in a regenerating species.
Never have found out much about The Doctor's child. When he traveled with his granddaughter everyone assumed he'd met his own kid, the grandchild's parent.
But that doesn't have to be true for a time traveler. Maybe he met the granddaughter before he met his own kid, and maybe his own kid was just wished into his family line 60 years later (or billions of years in his timeline I guess).
Pretty fun episode but not sure it makes much sense. Why doesn't the Rani just wish for Omega to be back instead of all this doubt and underworld bollocks?
Last one next week. Super long episode. Hope it's all cleared up. Good chance we'll meet Susan again I think. And maybe see Omega's mask once more.
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialTwitter: you're yelled at for being woke and on the payroll of Big Weather because you say the sky is blue today.
Bluesky: you tell the void the sky is blue today, and the void just stares back.
Fediverse: you tell the big messy mess of disparate services that somehow make the whole messy thing work that the sky is blue and you get 10 replies, half of them asking if you're here just to promote bluesky. You proceed to engage in a rich conversation with the other half.
@mlawton@mstdn.socialLuna won’t worry about that deflection. Great diagonal ball out to Arfsten from Tillman. That will get his head back on right. #USMNT
@cdarwin@c.imThis is a cause I could get behind.
I would donate to that fund.
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3lvhaxmhkd22v
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukIt's June, so I've got my Javastation off the shelf for the first time in a couple of decades. This is a Javastation Krups, with 100MHz sparc, sold as a diskless workstation. I never realised it had a PPP ROM boot in! Anyway, I should get on and set up networking and a boot server.
(Note: the plastic on the clips on the doors is fragile, 2 just pinged off on me)
#retrocomputing
@adrianco@mastodon.socialI’ve been discussing some agent swarm based development work on LinkedIn. So far it’s going well, I’m figuring out how to get the results I want from the tools. As I say there, it feels more like managing a team of experienced product managers and developers (which I’ve done a few times in my career) than doing developer work faster.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca#selfhost v4.4.1 upgrade complete! Phew that was a long one. But I think I found the root of the issue in the zombie pixelfed install. Maybe it had a memory leak (it wasn’t a current version) or maybe it was just too much for #footiMac.. but it was definitely slowing things down. Things are much more responsive now in general. I guess that brings the pixelfed testing to an end for now. But I'll probably bring it back up elsewhere if I get a chance.
#Pixelfed #Mastodon #upgrade #Debian
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI think I'm finally starting to get past being sick. It started last week Tuesday, but I had to conduct online training sessions at work so I soldiered through until Friday when I was able to stay home and rest. I thought I was better Saturday but I was wrong... Sunday rolled around and still not great but I think finally this afternoon I am starting to get my energy back.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSteelers LB Patrick Queen striving to get back to 'old self' after disappointing first season in Pittsburgh https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-lb-patrick-queen-striving-to-get-back-to-old-self-afte…
@wraithe@mastodon.socialReally feeling this right now, but it’s a LOT more than just 2.
@grumpybozo@toad.socialTrue.
OTOH: The same is true for TB, flu, measles, and a slate of other potentially severe diseases floating around.
#Covid is not a qualitatively new threat, it's the latest in a long line of pathogens that we have become accustomed to just living with. For a long time measles left the list, but it is now back and it is at least as harmful as Covid.
I don’t have a magic bullet.…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzBrian Branch: Injury-tested Lions are 'better than last year,' hungry to 'get that Super Bowl' https://www.nfl.com/news/brian-branch-injury-tested-lions-are-better-than-last-year-hungry-to-get-that-super-b…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeI'm not sure which is funnier, the idea of some random third party sending bot spam DMs trying to beg people to come back to the nazi bar, or the idea that this is actually some kind of official user retention program.
Whoever's behind it, it reeks of desperation lol. Anybody else get one of these?
@pre@boing.worldOn the 10th of December 2024 at about 4pm in the afternoon I had a sudden shivering attack. The room wasn't cold, but I was, so I took to bed and shivered on the electric blanket until I napped for a few hours.
Woke up groggy, and never got better. Feeling light headed and occasionally dizzy and half stoned all the time. Can't handle booze or dope at all any more. Doing the job feels like trying to program drunk, concentration shot and short term memory failing.
Various doctors have ordered batteries of tests and put me on drugs to reduce my blood pressure but nothing that's really helped.
They did an MRI last week. Apparently everything looks normal which is good I guess, but still leaves symptoms unexplained.
There are worse fates than feeling half drunk all the time I suppose.
Given no visible brain damage, about the best suggestion anyone has is to stay off booze and drugs (which is easy, since I can't handle them any more) and get back to meditation. If it's damage so small the MRI can't pick it up it'll get better slowly probably. 🤷
Anyway, they gave me the MRI data upon request, so I spent most of yesterday importing it into Blender and making some visualization.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present: My apparently completely normal brain in an MRI selfie.
#blender #mri #selfie
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caalright. emptied the pump bay (watering the hazelnut tree as I go) so I could get down into the box and loosely fit the hose onto the pump.
Now we'll turn the water back on in the filter and let the bay fill back up again from the little diversion stream.
I need to go get a couple big hoseclamps to properly secure it to the pump. But loose is fine for testing.
#poolpond #backyardProject #DIY #electronics
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialLet's say you find a really cool forum online that has lots of good advice on it. It's even got a very active community that's happy to answer questions very quickly, and the community seems to have a wealth of knowledge about all sorts of subjects.
You end up visiting this community often, and trusting the advice you get to answer all sorts of everyday questions you might have, which before you might have found answers to using a web search (of course web search is now full of SEI spam and other crap so it's become nearly useless).
Then one day, you ask an innocuous question about medicine, and from this community you get the full homeopathy treatment as your answer. Like, somewhat believable on the face of it, includes lots of citations to reasonable-seeming articles, except that if you know even a tiny bit about chemistry and biology (which thankfully you do), you know that the homoeopathy answers are completely bogus and horribly dangerous (since they offer non-treatments for real diseases). Your opinion of this entire forum suddenly changes. "Oh my God, if they've been homeopathy believers all this time, what other myths have they fed me as facts?"
You stop using the forum for anything, and go back to slogging through SEI crap to answer your everyday questions, because one you realize that this forum is a community that's fundamentally untrustworthy, you realize that the value of getting advice from it on any subject is negative: you knew enough to spot the dangerous homeopathy answer, but you know there might be other such myths that you don't know enough to avoid, and any community willing to go all-in on one myth has shown itself to be capable of going all in on any number of other myths.
...
This has been a parable about large language models.
#AI #LLM
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
TARRANT: Has Orac got any results yet?
VILA: [V.O.] No.
C.A. TWO: The first batch are just coming back from treatment.
C.A. ONE: Good. Get the next six ready.
AVON: Treatment?
CALLY: Where?
@cdarwin@c.imOne week ago MAGA threw me in jail
for speaking out against their gerrymandering plan
to hand Trump more control.
Gov. Gavin Newsome, Joy-Ann Reid, and even People.com told the world to pay attention.
The time for strongly worded letters is over.
We must meet this moment,
and that means electing leaders who are willing to get arrested to stop Trump's tyranny.
I'd do it again for the people of Texas.
I'm running for congress in a…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeIn between other stuff I've been running sims to dial in the ARC6 connector launch to back-side diff pairs.
After sweeping lots of variations I've concluded it's impossible to get it matched using 0.45 / 0.25mm ViP. You can't get above about 90 ohm Zdiff no matter how far you pull back the ground planes, just because of coupling between the vias themselves.
Orange trace is a first test using 0.35 / 0.15mm ViP which seems much happier. Slightly overshot so I need a…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzImportance for Raiders to Win Games Early This Season https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-allegiant-stadium-training-camp-tom-brady
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioWe did a little promo video about the album for our Kickstarter campaign back then, and I think it’s pretty charming. The Kickstarter campaign is long since closed, but you can see see the video if you want to see the artists and get a little behind the scenes action:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paul/the-river-inside-of-trees/
@NFL@darktundra.xyz'He's trying to get perfection out of me': Jets pushing Sauce Gardner for more https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45576147/new-york-jets-sauce-gardner-perfection-new-regime
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
AVON: [To Plaxton, indicating a seat] There. [To Tarrant and Vila] Secure that and let's get the hell out of here.
VILA: [To Tarrant] Put it on the back of the counter. [They do so, and hurry to their seats.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/401 B7…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caCooling our old house in summer. This house was built in 1940 so it has gone through all the stages and types of heating you can probably imagine.
We installed a ductless ("air source") heat pump a few years back. This was a revelation after 15 years of "window management" and fans to keep a lid on the intense heat of the Alberni Valley.
It has made a wonderful difference both for cheaper heating in winter and newfound cooling potential in summer. We only could get one big enough for two of three floors.
So basement and main floor have a register like this.
Today, on the first official hot day of summer it is:
Outside temp: 33°C
Top Floor (windows open, fans on): 30°C
Main Floor (windows closed HP set to 23°C): 25°C
Basement (HP set to 23): I would estimate 23°C
We also have a hybrid HP/Electric hot water tank in the basement that I have blowing its outlet air into the room for summer to help keep the temperature down in the basement.
#home #energyefficiency #heatpumps #electric #portalberni
@NFL@darktundra.xyzJim Harbaugh: 'Justin Herbert's biggest weakness is' offensive teammates must 'get to his level' https://www.nfl.com/news/jim-harbaugh-justin-herbert-s-biggest-weakness-is-offensive-teammates-must-get-to-his-l…
@pre@boing.worldBeen out today trying to get my phone battery replaced.
Three phone repair places said they couldn't do it today and would have to order the battery in, and the last made a call and said they'd have a battery this evening if I came back.
So I did come back and they did have the battery. Went to the pub for half an hour while they changed it only to come back and find them apologizing that their heat-plate is apparently broken since yesterday so they can't soften the glue to open the screen.
Annoying how sealed-in batteries are these days. Could change it myself if I had a heat plate to soften the glue and open the screen.
Oh well. They'll call me back when the heat plate is fixed next week.
Given how hot the battery gets now and how hot the weather is, it's a bit surprising the glue isn't softened all on it's own 😆
@NFL@darktundra.xyzCards' Murray: Knee back to feeling like pre-injury https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45845885/arizona-cardinals-qb-kyler-murray-says-knee-back-feeling-did-acl-tear
@NFL@darktundra.xyzRaiders hope Devin White can get back to Pro Bowl level, make impact https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45598605/las-vegas-raiders-devin-white-impact
