My neighborhood is like a third of the way to "The Italian Job"
Entry: 2025-08-16 02:06:12.929257+02 Cybernetically enhanced by Dan Lyke comments 0
SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange
People really be like "oh imagine a future society where humans have to be cybernetically enhanced by machines to get a job" bro wake up just be an American without a car
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Entry: 2025-08-13 20:57:28.169586+02 Ukraine news by Dan Lyke comments 0
Just so I can find 'em: US and Russia ‘propose West Bank-style occupation of Ukraine’
Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff is understood to support the idea, which can be revealed before the president meets Putin in Alaska on Friday
‘Who are we?’ Russia aims to strip teens’ Ukrainian identity. (Via)
Also: Research Buzz firehose: Ukraine cultural genocide.
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Entry: 2025-08-07 17:27:11.879184+02 LLM conversations on the Wayback Machine by Dan Lyke comments 0
I scraped every public LLM chat so you didn't have to. Using the Wayback Machine to find all of those LLM conversations that were accidentally made public.
404 Media: More than 130,000 Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, and Other LLM Chats Readable on Archive.org
Via Joseph Cox @josephcox@infosec.exchange
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Entry: 2025-08-06 19:30:28.266237+02 A few musings on GenAI, technology, and the value of craft by Dan Lyke comments 0
A bunch of disconnected feelings that seem relevant to each other:
Some time around the fall of the Soviet Union, my parents made a trip to Czechoslovakia, when it was called that. They stopped at the Moser Glassworks, and report that their guide told the story of some Soviet muckety muck coming and visiting and observing that in Russia they had the same thing, but better, in plastic.
And I'm sure some of this is a story to appeal to the USAnian prejudices of the time, but...
Last night I listened to Switched On Pop episode 428 — Is that new song you like AI? Here’s how you can tell. It was fascinating to hear how, yeah, if I listened to these things as background music, or heard stuff on while I was out shopping, I may or may not take note. And it's even got me thinking about square dance calling; the background is often just a beat and enough something to make it not super annoyingly repetitive, does it matter what it is?
Charlene forwards me various clips from [Wherever's] Got Talent or The Voice, and some of those performers grab me so hard, I've bought a few albums (Chapel Hart, most recently Linkin' Bridge come to mind), but it's telling on the culture and on how we listen to music how many of those performers show up, blow away the audience, and then a few years later have faded out of the culture.
When I worked on the Cricut product family, especially after my friends who cashed out on that, there was much discussion about riding the balance between turnkey inspiration, and the users of the product feeling like they were doing something, making choices, being creative in some way. It was important that the product enable a feeling of interaction and choices without being too difficult to accomplish.
Since then, I've seen the evolution of craft, thinking particularly about 3d printing, and how that's morphed into laser cutters and UV printers. Seems like there were an awful lot of people downloading models and futzing with their printer's settings until they got something that wasn't a pile of filament spaghetti, but now so many of those machines are gathering dust.
Somewhere along that line, I was working on some product development, and one of the people mentioned that they were waiting on CNC router time to come up on the schedule in the shop they were working with. I went out to my track saw and nailed out a couple of prototype refinements in a few hours, and eventually that product was injection molded in China.
Last Friday night, I got together with someone I met through a local singing circle, and we sat down at his piano and played with music, and... hot damn there's something awesome about participatory musical play.
This leads me to pondering two notions:
First, that the reliance on computers to dissociate ourselves from the knowledge of the details of the craft makes us dependent in ways that impact our ability to actually be creative. There's a line in one of the Dave Gingery books about building your own machine shop from scratch that this isn't about post-apocalyptic recovery, these are the basic skills you need to have if you're going to work in metalworking, so it's not outlandish to be able to cast your own lathe parts.
Second, that there's something in the relationships we form with people that's important in carrying forward the knowledge that we need to remain skilled in craft. The value of musical stardom is now occurring in the parasocial relationships with megastars, and in that we no longer value the craft as much as we value the media scale that creates megastars. If music is just background, then, yeah, it doesn't matter if it's generated by AI. If we engage with it as personality, then there's room for creativity by a few. But if we participate in it, there's something deeper and richer that really enhances our community.
As I look at how I use computers, and where I want my career building things with computers that other people use to go (damn, that's a clumsy phrase, but I'm not gonna use GenAI to blandify it), I want to be building products that encourage participatory engagement, and that back off on the power law a little bit, and help us become more social than parasocial.
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Entry: 2025-07-25 17:17:50.092343+02 CPB harassing school superintendent by Dan Lyke comments 0
“I was threatened with being referred to the FBI. The FBI was mentioned multiple times," Chavarria said. "They also threatened to stain my record so I would never get a job again. They also threatened with an extended detention if I didn’t give them the passwords to the student information or to my district files."
Chavarria said when he was released, a plainclothes officer "shook [his] hand and said that he admired [Chavarria's] resilience and the fact that [he] was protecting student information." Chavarria said he felt dehumanized by the comment.
Winooski School District Superintendent Wilmer Chavarria detained after trip to Nicaragua
Statement by Vermont Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas
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Entry: 2025-07-18 19:22:48.758521+02 not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge by Dan Lyke comments 0
Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
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Entry: 2025-07-17 02:06:51.802569+02 The future is us trying to not laugh at AI users by Dan Lyke comments 0
Bwahahaha: Reddit post begins:
I worked on a book with ChatGPT and it’s around 487MB with all the text and visuals. ChatGPT has tried the Google Colab way but it’s not working (I don’t know whose fault it is).
Is there a way that can help me resolve the issue and save months of work?
As we drop down in the comments, we find this exchange: Professional_Job_307
You generated 700 images with chatgpt? How is it stitching them all together into a book?
After understanding a lot of things it’s clear that it didn’t. And it fooled me for two weeks.
I have learned my lesson and now I am using it to generate one page at a time.
that's, uh, not really the ideal takeaway from this lesson
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Entry: 2025-07-15 19:30:02.001036+02 thing about the Fediverse is that I was by Dan Lyke comments 0
The thing about the Fediverse is that I was just followed by someone whose first name on their profile is "Blow Job". They have no posts yet, and I can't figure out if, yes, this is exactly the sort of person I want to follow back, or if it's just another boring catfisher.
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Entry: 2025-07-09 18:25:42.990299+02 Grok misidentifying movies by Dan Lyke comments 0
Twitter AI Grok Can’t Correctly Identify Movies (And It’s a Problem). What's most intriguing about this is how it makes up bullshit stories about how images are allegedly from one movie or another.
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Entry: 2025-06-02 18:58:03.077182+02 re-moat work by Dan Lyke comments 0
Shannon Prickett @Binder@petrous.vislae.town
When the job lets you dig your own hole, that’s re-moat work.
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Entry: 2025-06-01 23:38:48.473857+02 The Italian Job, Blues Brothers, and eternal vigilance by Dan Lyke comments 0
This is marvelous: The West Australian — Andrew Miller: Classic car chases educate a child’s mind in ways the classroom just can’t
I was supposed to be helping the six-year-old with reading practice, but we got distracted and ended up watching classic car chases on YouTube.
Specifically, comparing and contrasting wanton automotive carnage in the movies The Italian Job and The Blues Brothers.
This naturally led to explaining the historical relevance of the Illinois Nazis — who met their demise by driving off an incomplete flyover while pursuing Jake and Elwood Blues — and why popular culture so often circles back to the dark risks of fascism.
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Entry: 2025-05-28 20:13:36.270822+02 Seattle PD shows up. Sometimes. by Dan Lyke comments 0
The Needling: Phew! City Always Has Enough Seattle Police Officers Around to Harass Queer Community
“Can our police respond to every domestic violence call? No. Can they respond to the scene of every shooting with a victim 5 minutes away in less than 20 minutes? Also, no,” said Mayor Harrell. “But I give you my word that there will always suddenly be a phalanx of cops available and quickly on-hand any time a queer person is legally naked at public longtime nude beach, exercising their First Amendment rights at a public park named after a gay legislator in the middle of a gay neighborhood, or asserting they have just as much a right to be at Seattle City Hall as any right-wing, religious nut-job does. Men baring nipples at a gay club? We always have enough cops to shut that shit down too.”
Non-satirically: 8 more arrests at dueling protests, this time at Seattle City Hall
The religious group arrived downtown first, finding a section of Fourth Avenue barricaded. They occupied the space behind the barricade and blocked exits with their private security, backed up by Seattle police officers, controlling the flow of people allowed onto the steps of City Hall.
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Entry: 2025-05-22 19:42:03.095075+02 Charlie Stross on Office 365 by Dan Lyke comments 0
Charlie Stross @cstross@wandering.shop
Welp, I have just cancelled my Microsoft Office 365 recurring subscription.
Two reasons.
1. I only ever use it to check tracked changes to the copy edits on novels—once a year—which my publishers process in Word. As of this month, LibreOffice is good enough for the job (just tested at book length).
2. CoPilot in Office would open me up to accusations of breach of contract—my book contracts warrant that they're all my own work: CoPilot brings that into question.
So good riddance to Office365!
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Entry: 2025-05-16 17:08:05.228164+02 LLMs unredeemable? by Dan Lyke comments 0
In what follows, I will argue that being plausible but slightly wrong and un-auditable—at scale—is the killer feature of LLMs, not a bug that will ever be meaningfully addressed, and this combination of properties makes it an essentially fascist technology. By “fascist” in this context, I mean that it is well suited to centralizing authority, eliminating checks on that authority and advancing an anti-science agenda.
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Entry: 2025-05-16 17:08:01.933266+02 Where are the Alexa+ AI users? by Dan Lyke comments 1
David Gerard @davidgerard@circumstances.run
me a month ago: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/0...d-alexa-in-february-where-is-it/ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/0...d-alexa-in-february-where-is-it/
Reuters today: Weeks after Amazon's Alexa+ AI launch, a mystery: where are the users?
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Entry: 2025-05-16 17:08:00.321419+02 Could have bought that for $20/month by Dan Lyke comments 0
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Entry: 2025-05-16 17:07:07.240274+02 Grok goes full racist by Dan Lyke comments 0
You probably read about the whole Twitter pushing South African whiteness thing, but just to make note of it: xAI blames Grok’s obsession with white genocide on an ‘unauthorized modification’.
On Wednesday, Grok began replying to dozens of posts on X with information about white genocide in South Africa, even in response to unrelated subjects. The strange replies stemmed from the X account for Grok, which responds to users with AI-generated posts whenever a person tags “@grok.”
"Someone" fucked up the system prompt. Which, of course reveals how much might be hiding in the system prompt generally.
Via.
Of course the story is changing and evolving: Musk ("xAI") now claims grok was hacked based on this repost of an xAI statement.
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Entry: 2025-05-16 17:02:25.498895+02 Why to use AI by Dan Lyke comments 0
Max Leibman @maxleibman@beige.party
If you aren’t using AI, you run a very real risk of falling behind in the race to produce voluminous mediocrity while slowly forgetting how to do your own job.
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Entry: 2025-05-12 04:54:39.285691+02 AI roundup for the weekend by Dan Lyke comments 0
Malicious npm Packages Infect 3,200+ Cursor Users With Backdoor, Steal Credentials. That's Cursor — The AI Code Editor
Gender, nationality can influence suspicion of using AI in freelance writing
A new study by researchers at Cornell Tech and the University of Pennsylvania shows freelance writers who are suspected of using AI have worse evaluations and hiring outcomes. Freelancers whose profiles suggested they had East Asian identities were more likely to be suspected of using AI than profiles of white Americans. And men were more likely to be suspected of using AI than women.
Increased AI use linked to eroding critical thinking skills
In the study "AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking," published in Societies, Gerlich investigates whether AI tool usage correlates with critical thinking scores and explores how cognitive offloading mediates this relationship.
Via, in the replies @borderham.bsky.social notes
It’s not that the machines are getting smarter. They’re just making us dumber.
And the whole thing is in a longer thread about Eric Schmidt's AI batshittery, which is making me think that maybe giving all of the capital to not terribly smart people who allocate money based on who blows smoke up their ass most effectively is going to lead to some pain...
Brian Krebs @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
Beware any industry that claims you need more of what it is selling to offset negative externalities generated by its unbridled use. This seems to be the pitch of the AI cheerleaders: If your systems are doing a poor job screening automated activity from AI, the real problem is you're not using enough AI, dumbass.
Pivot to AI: Study: Your coworkers hate you for using AI at work: PNAS: Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI Jessica A. Reif, Richard P. Larrick, and Jack B. Soll
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Entry: 2025-05-09 22:53:42.104504+02 Lackadaisical engineer still is by Dan Lyke comments 0
In response to Pivot to AI's round-up of stories about how "prompt engineer" isn't actually a real job, Rycochet @Rycochet@furs.social notes:
@davidgerard 'I didn't spend two years using Stable Diffusion to generate big bosom, small girl anime pictures for 'memes', I was working as a freelance Prompt engineer! I even got retweeted by Elon once so you know I'm good! He doesn't just retweet any old garbage from a blue checkmark, you know.'
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Entry: 2025-04-28 03:30:03.209222+02 My neighborhood is like a third of the by Dan Lyke comments 0
My neighborhood is like a third of the way to "The Italian Job"
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Entry: 2025-04-27 00:00:38.429241+02 instant technical debt by Dan Lyke comments 0
Random Geek @randomgeek@masto.hackers.town
Just described model-generated code as "instant technical debt" and I have to make sure not to use that in a job interview.
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Entry: 2025-04-21 17:33:01.79891+02 ex-pope by Dan Lyke comments 0
Something in the air... Rick Gualtieri @rickgualtieri.bsky.social
So, reading between the lines, the Pope basically decided he would rather die than meet with JD Vance.
We get it, Pope Francis. Trust me, we do.
Soatok Dreamseeker @soatok@furry.engineer
Pope Francis met with JD Vance and then literally fucking died of cringe.
Matthew Haughey @mathowie@xoxo.zone (accompanied by a picture)
this meeting could have been a (leaked) signal chat
Newsthump: Pope loses will to live after meeting JD Vance
A White House spokesperson told us, “This President is all about creating jobs for Americans, and just hours after a visit from the Vice President, we find yet another top global job has become available.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 @rysiek@mstdn.social
I find it pretty interesting that US Vice President keeps referring to the late Pope as "Francis" instead of Jorge Mario Bergoglio – I thought James Donald Bowman had pretty strong opinions on birthnames. 🤔
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Entry: 2025-04-09 18:27:53.256126+02 Border Patrol lying by Dan Lyke comments 0
Nationwide there are roughly four times more Border Patrol than ICE agents. In El Centro, there are five Border Patrol agents whose job it is to produce videos.
Their latest project is a series of fictionalized videos portraying migrants crossing the border as menaces with a bloodlust to commit crimes. Bovino shared the first video on social media with the caption: “Any town. Any neighborhood. Any family. When heartless criminals, sex offenders, and human traffickers illegally enter the United States and get away, they prey on our children, the most vulnerable members of our communities.”
We know, of course, that immigrants, both documented and undocumented, statistically are less likely to engage in criminal activity than citizens.
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Entry: 2025-04-03 23:36:03.238695+02 Today's tariff news by Dan Lyke comments 0
Economist James Surowiecki quickly reverse-engineered a possible explanation for the tariff pricing. He found you could recreate each of the White House’s numbers by simply taking a given country’s trade deficit with the US and dividing it by their total exports to the US. Halve that number, and you get a ready-to-use “discounted reciprocal tariff.” The White House objected to this claim and published the formula it says that it used, but as Politico points out, the formula looks like a dressed-up version of Surowiecki’s method.
The price level from all 2025 tariffs rises by 2.3% in the short-run, the equivalent of an average per household consumer loss of $3,800 in 2024$. Annual losses for households at the bottom of the income distribution are $1,700.
As others have pointed out, in the face of an 11½% effective percentage point increase, it's perhaps worth looking back to previous tariff disasters
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff remains a cautionary example of protectionist economic policy, frequently cited in debates over the risks and consequences of trade restrictions in modern economic discourse.[3] Excluding duty-free imports, the tariffs under the act were the third highest in U.S. history, after the tariffs imposed on the world by Trump in 2025 and Tariff of 1828.[4]
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Entry: 2025-03-27 17:50:02.340999+01 I think it's becoming more and more by Dan Lyke comments 0
I think it's becoming more and more clear that the "AI job skills" for the future will not be focused on using AI as an assistant, but in understanding and mitigating the impacts of AI as an adversary.
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Entry: 2025-03-25 15:25:02.92101+01 Heard someone yesterday who's part of a by Dan Lyke comments 0
Heard someone yesterday who's part of a healthcare startup bemoan that their IT group isn't approving use of Microsoft's LLM product, and... We as an industry have done a really bad job educating people about privacy, security, *and* LLMs.
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Entry: 2025-03-22 00:59:52.10654+01 ChatGPT and loneliness by Dan Lyke comments 0
OpenAI has released its first research into how using ChatGPT affects people’s emotional wellbeing
The researchers found some intriguing differences between how men and women respond to using ChatGPT. After using the chatbot for four weeks, female study participants were slightly less likely to socialize with people than their male counterparts who did the same. Meanwhile, participants who set ChatGPT’s voice mode to a gender that was not their own for their interactions reported significantly higher levels of loneliness and more emotional dependency on the chatbot at the end of the experiment. OpenAI currently has no plans to publish either study.
OpenAI Study Finds Links Between ChatGPT Use and Loneliness
Those who spent more time typing or speaking with ChatGPT each day tended to report higher levels of emotional dependence on, and problematic use of, the chatbot, as well as heightened levels of loneliness, according to research released Friday. The findings were part of a pair of studies conducted by researchers at the two organizations and have not been peer reviewed.
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Entry: 2025-03-17 22:04:31.839321+01 Willing to take that risk by Dan Lyke comments 0
The great thing about this story isn't the guy who's willing to go to jail for destruction of evidence rather than cop to corporate espionage, it's that the Deel executive team was so bloody inept in their spying when they fell for the Rippling honeypot: Lawsuit Alleges $12 Billion "Unicorn" Deel Cultivated Spy, Orchestrated Long-Running Trade-Secret Theft & Corporate Espionage Against Competitor
Deel’s Alleged Spy Locked Himself in Bathroom When Confronted by Court-Appointed Solicitors Friday
“I’m Willing to Take that Risk [of Violating the Court Order]” Alleged Deel Spy Declared When Served with Legal Papers to Hand Over His Phone
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Entry: 2025-03-11 18:02:09.715832+01 AI Search has a citation problem by Dan Lyke comments 0
Columbia Journalism Review: AI Search Has A Citation Problem
Chatbots’ responses to our queries were often confidently wrong
Overall, the chatbots often failed to retrieve the correct articles. Collectively, they provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries. Across different platforms, the level of inaccuracy varied, with Perplexity answering 37 percent of the queries incorrectly, while Grok 3 had a much higher error rate, answering 94 percent of the queries incorrectly.
TechMeme rounds up coverage, got this from Their Fediverse feed.
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Entry: 2025-01-27 19:35:02.903451+01 OH Keeping up with React changes is a by Dan Lyke comments 2
OH: "Keeping up with React changes is a full-time job".
So, uh, tell me again what this framework is offering?
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Entry: 2025-01-18 00:50:43.213564+01 Is cinema sexy again? by Dan Lyke comments 0
I'm trending remarkably vanilla, but this is interesting: Is cinema sexy again? How 'Babygirl' is inspiring important conversations about kink
“I think that Babygirl does an excellent job of portraying two people, new to BDSM/kink, trying to understand and act on their desires,” Dr. Stefani Goerlich, a clinical sexologist and award-winning author, says.
“Unfortunately, it does an excellent job of showing the risks, dangers, and pitfalls of trying to stumble into kink - without calling them out as such in the film. So the end result is a film that accurately depicts the ways in which people new-to-BDSM can get themselves into trouble (physical and emotional) but it is NOT a positive portrayal of BDSM, because it shows these negative outcomes without critical analysis or discussion of how to do things correctly.”
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Entry: 2024-11-26 18:35:02.615631+01 One Petaluma podcast feels like it by Dan Lyke comments 0
The One Petaluma podcast feels like it sometimes struggles to get its feet, but I'm really enjoying episode #4 where city staff talk about what drew them to and keeps them in the job. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRoDNtyyzdM
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Entry: 2024-11-07 19:25:42.097752+01 Automate that gold farming! by Dan Lyke comments 0
RT Merry Jerry 🎄🎅🕎⛄️❄️ @jerry@infosec.exchange
I think i stumbled on the next billion dollar idea: AI bots to play video games for you. Playing video games can be mentally taxing - wouldn’t it be nice to offload that work to AI so you can do other things, like get a 3rd job to help pay for my game playing AI bot?
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Entry: 2024-11-05 20:18:22.39178+01 Strategy by Dan Lyke comments 0
RT RolloTreadway @RolloTreadway@beige.party
@davej @RickiTarr There's an old trade unionist saying here in the UK, which I bring up quite often but it often bears repeating:
Vote Labour on Thursday, fight Labour on Friday.
And I think that works in most countries, replacing Labour with the name of the relevant party. You vote for the people you're most able to influence, you do everything you can to help them win, and when they do win, that's when you get to work.
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Entry: 2024-10-29 22:35:02.02242+01 Julia Evans does a great job of by Dan Lyke comments 2
Julia Evans does a great job of demystifying things like Git, and recontextualizing a lot of technologies that olds like me take for granted for the kids these days.
It's fascinating to see this "what do the control characters do" chart, because there's so much "yeah, but, and...", and yet it's kinda mostly right and I can see that contextualization.
https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/113392535388687769
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Entry: 2024-10-29 21:14:43.618+01 Virtual interviewee by Dan Lyke comments 0
What I’m really not sure about though is what the endgame is for this person? How will they pass 3-4 rounds of interviews? What will they achieve if offered a job? When does the time spent on this pay off?
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Entry: 2024-10-22 21:25:02.855833+02 Realization by Dan Lyke comments 0
Realization: LLMs are automating Malcolm Gladwell's job.
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Entry: 2024-10-12 17:46:43.349261+02 Limited Federation by Dan Lyke comments 0
Shades of the old Elf Sternberg "Balkanize Usenet" proposal: The Oliphant: Islands
Islands are opt-in federated networks consisting of a chain of allowlist or “limited federation” servers linked together. Everyone in the network federates with each other, and as such the entire network is more resilient and able to handle moderation challenges simply impossible in the wider fediverse.
Although I think Tara is doing an amazing job at moderating the Mastodon instance I use.
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Entry: 2024-09-30 03:45:02.533712+02 And Friday was miserable yesterday I by Dan Lyke comments 0
And Friday was miserable, yesterday I was a total lump, today I got out in the shop and did some stuff (built some fixtures for bandsaw bearings, still don't know why the blade is drifting like it is, need to get work sorted so I feel justified in springing for the Carter upgrade rather than something I built myself with a file and a hack saw and skate bearings).
But I'm definitely testing positive for COVID now. Ugh.
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