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

There should be a list of "music podcasts that do not have someone talking through the music"

"Interference" is the "it's always DNS" of hardware design

Arguing that LLMs are a positive development because they can be used for public good is all well and good, but that would be a much more credible argument if people were actually appropriately credited and compensated for the labour that went into the training data used for that

Like, this discussion would look very different in a society where there's eg. universal basic income, capitalism has been abolished entirely, or there's some other "everyone is taken care of" solution, but that's not the society we live in and that should raise some Questions about any "public good" argument, because exactly whose "public" are we talking about here?

This includes research into "identifying autism before birth", to be clear. The only possible purpose of that is to eradicate autistic people. It's eugenics.

Your periodic reminder that "curing autism" is not commendable; it is eugenics, and should be called out as such wherever it appears.

Things might be different if we lived in a world of consent and agency. But we do not, and that means that a "cure" for autism means eradication of autistic people, *not* freedom of choice.

This thought brought to you by me thinking back to a piece of malware 20+ years ago that called itself "the game", and that upon execution would backdoor the system and start fucking with it

Changing your desktop background to distorted versions of images on your system, trying to creep you out, causing various parts of the system to glitch, only to after X days inform you that its work was done and delete itself

I never was able to figure out where this came from, or what it was, nobody I've talked to about it seems to recognize it

Was just reminiscing about how malware used to be occasionally creative and interesting in the earlier days of computers

Now everything is either a cryptocurrency miner, ransomware, or some other hyper-optimized capitalist enterprise

Capitalism ruins everything, even malware

Gotta give it to alpro, though, this is one of the most impressive "technically correct in a really annoying way" solutions I've seen to this problem so far 🙃

I *so* want to see this go to court, just to see the dairy lobby hopelessly try and argue their way out of this one

(It's not allowed to be called 'milk' here, because of lobby)