Flutterby™! (short)

You know what I really really love? When an Ubuntu upgrade changes the packages that various commands live in and I have to do a whole lot of `apt install ...` to get my system working again.

I think it really is time to switch to one of the BSDs.

Eros Blog quotes a TikTok video by Josie Marcellino:

If you’re of the belief that becoming a mattress actress [porn performer] at 18 is predatory and a bad idea because you’re still not fully formed and you don’t know what you’re doing to yourself, you do have to believe the same thing about getting married and having children at 18.

I've been having a lot of thoughts in the past few about consent and misogyny and such, and... yeah.

Oh, this is really cool, and unintuitive to how I've been using processors lately (but I'd really like to be back in that space): Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if.

Via Lobste.rs.

Apologies for posting slop, but a coworker was typing at ChatGPT on a topic, and it generated this map, and... the more you compare this to actual maps of The Netherlands, the worse it gets.

Imagine a few more years of people ingesting confidently wrong but plausible bullshit like this.

Wibble.

Please write your software in such a way that I'm not using screen grab to pull the logo and then Google image search to try to figure out what app that's got startup hooks into my machine is asking me to log in...

Good morning from 400 steps into my morning routine on the Petaluma Quarry Heights staircase. Image fixed.

Good morning from 400 steps into my morning routine on the Petaluma Quarry Heights staircase.

Futurism: CEO Pleads With AI Industry to Stop Charging So Much to Replace Human Labor

During the segment [on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street"], the chief executive argued that the cost to use large language models (LLMs) has to drop by 20 percent by 2027 — and 90 percent by 2028 — for the tech to be useful to enterprises.

Via

Ugh. "Enhanced" photos, in this case from a Huawei camera mistaking a plane for a bird: Original posting, Dave Rahardja's link.

Holy crap, the size of the Sunnyvale (square dance) Caller's workshop today. We walked in to what I expected, the regulars are getting pretty good, but by afternoon we had enough dancers to split the groups, and work with the newest callers separately. Square dancing might be a thing again.