Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

I made this for my wife when she found a "$20 burger place" that was actually just another ghost kitchen by Denny's (we've previously found a "$20 grilled cheese place" at the same location).

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The recruiter spam on LinkedIn seems to have switched from "revolutionizing the Whatever with Blockchain" to "revolutionizing the Whatever with AI" in the past few months 🤔​🙄​

In case anyone was still in doubt, Google is not at all interested in "organizing the world's information" (despite that language still being in their mission statement). Mixing non-information, LLM-extruded sludge in with authentic information is actually the opposite.

https://www.404media.co/google-news-is-boosting-garbage-ai-generated-articles/

Relatedly: if you think that "everybody should be building simpler software", maybe help out on addressing the capitalist conditions under which the current development practices have developed?

Like, these practices did not come from nowhere, and there's a *reason* that decades of "just do better" blogposts have not led to meaningful improvements in development practices

I wish people would stop conflating "dependency complexity" with "dependency count". It's ruining a lot of otherwise legitimate arguments, for no other reason than 'number high'.

There is no meaningful complexity difference between 1 dependency that does 10 things, or 10 dependencies from one author that each do 1 thing.

I think making it clear that the stories of fascists are just that, empty promises of a better, uncomplicated world, is one of the main ways to undermine them. But you also have to prevent them from telling simplistic stories in the first place.

Thanks, @bastianallgeier, for telling your history. 🫂

https://bastianallgeier.com/notes/grandpa

Nightshade was just released. Poison your art before you post it so that AI scrapers choke on it https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/

(Further edit to stress that I did not make this product and I have nothing to do with it so please don't assume I did)

Help us Sad Bastards!

Amazon in all its wisdom has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook. They won't tell us why. They won't tell us how to fix whatever tripped the algorithm. They won't seem to let us appeal. Reaching a human at Amazon is a Kafkaesque experience that we haven't yet managed to do.

Not only does this affect our ability to distribute it free to depressed, disabled, and broke folks, but the paperback is a big source of income for us. Anyone fought the 'Zon and won? Help!

@sieri I still don't know why HDMI is the de facto standard instead of DP, cause they do the same things but HDMI is always somehow worse