I'm a programmer, I help people clock out and go see their kids. Just for context - In the US, SW Missouri currently.
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Last Notes npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…zpa3 Not so much. When U encounter something I don't understand, I decide whether I need to understand or not. Assuming I need to understand, I seek expert opinion. If I don't need to understand, I accept not knowing and don't bother to make up answers. I always skip the conservative step of "rationalize giving rich people money about it" which is really where I think they have the hardest time with my process. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nmr0 Most people would lie to you and themselves to say they are "chaotic good" because they envision this version of themselves who stands up for what's right against even the law. Sadly, when push comes to shove, most of us are "lawful neutral" at best. We follow the rules unless we have a really strong personal motivation to do otherwise. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nmr0 Collectively, we're pathologically terrified of conflict here. "No matter what's happening, don't poke your head out of the burrow or upset the apple cart because that always makes everything worse." It's not true but we've been buried in that propaganda for decades. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nmr0 This has been a consistent gripe of mine. "We're so divided!" - Good, the options are well differentiated then. There's the Right, which the MAGAts own outright. There's a big empty middle with mild issues nobody cares about and no voters. There's the Left where motivated voters are once again found (as opposed to the middle). There's no appetite for a moderate Right. There's nobody even *in* the center. Run credibly Left to pick up every vote that's not a MAGAt. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…zpa3 Why do they think we'll keep throwing money into their bullshit after they leave? We should automatically nationalize anything owned by ex-pat oligarchs. We force them to dogfood the governments they paid for. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…0hde The computer always does exactly what you told it to do. The gap between what you thought you said and what you actually said is why programming is a profession and vibe coding is not. LLMs still follow this rule, they just don't allow you to communicate as precisely as code. It didn't go rogue, you just didn't know that's what you told it to do. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…gu7x And it's a totally and responsibly disclosed accident every time, right? npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…zpa3 What *exactly* has gone too far? The Right attacked the capital, threatened Congress and murdered police. The Right is currently protecting Epstein's cabal by withholding lawfully ordered information. The Right has dozens of child predators, rapists, adulterers and assorted criminals in their midst. The Left asked you to treat us all fairly and do the work you were elected to do. And it's the Left that's gone too far somehow? npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nmr0 A close friend has very strong opinions about how door to door evangelicalism is *actually* designed to make the people going door to door feel ostracized instead of "spreading the word". Most of us have no real quarrel with Jesus but know the churches are a mess. Those kids bear the brunt of it and go back falsely informed that the church is the only place that will have them. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl Crazy pills are starting to seem like an inadequate explanation. #gaza #worldGoneCrazy https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/999/277/714/145/339/original/88427f31a36e94dc.jpg npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…qgdv Because the media measures morality and ethics in petrodollars. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nmr0 Same in every industry now, the bot gets credit, the human gets blame, regardless of whether the human or bot contributions were helpful. "Project A succeeded because AI is magic! Project B failed because those filthy humans got their hands all over it!" In truth they were both vibe coded, but one got luckier than the other. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nmr0 At work where it's required for programmers, this is essentially the advice I give. If you ask for the answer, it's free to make shit up. If you tell it the answer, then tell it to write code accordingly, you're in a better position. It's a shit deal but *not* getting fired before this blows over is unfortunately a high priority. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl Just in case anybody was wondering or still deciding - Yes, they will still kill us even if we don't fight back. The choices are to put up a fight or don't. You can't opt out of being attacked. #fascism #USPolitics npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…j96m We let corporations own culture as soon as we decided to legally honor intellectual property. Ownership of ideas is an abomination we won't recover from if we don't collectively commit to eradicating it. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl The "bicycle for the mind" is just an expensive Uber or Waymo now. There's no more human potential increases coming from tech. It's ruined. #Linus #fascism #llm #endOfJustice npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nmr0 "...if you can afford to be a full time coupon hunter and sales shopper." It's never "in 15 minutes a day, you can make this work comfortably", it's always "add another full time job to your roster to make existence almost tolerable". They hate the poor and especially the fact that the poor aren't suffering enough. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…926n Dig up Ivana and the rest of the Trump golf properties, all of them, and I'm sure you'll find enough to interest everybody. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…pfuj They're authoritarian down to their bones. If nobody in authority tells them something has value, they don't believe it does. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nmr0 When an indie podcast says "Hey, word of mouth really helps us out. Please keep us in mind." I'm good with it because the exchange is much closer to mutual. When TimeWarner expects it from me, that's a different situation altogether. They tell me ticket prices need to be high to pay for their giant budgets and then they blow 50%+ of the budget on marketing. I'm not paying with both cash *and* by supplementing their marketing. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…d0yj I got a pair of Bose Quiet Comfort headphones and it's the best noise cancelling I've ever experienced. It's not silence but it's as close as you can get. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…awd8 The people choosing to block this know they're anti-humanity and anti-worker; this is very intentional. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nmr0 Everybody has their specialties. Hopefully somebody has the foresight to locate the ventilation ducts and organize some potlucks ahead of time. Go for a world record for most human waste ever piped into a bunker! npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…fw69 They can't justify a lethal response if they don't interpret it that way and they're really itching to kill some dissenters. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…ugpy Anything that isn't a tip or tax obviously belongs folded into the price. In fact, civilized countries don't break out the tax either - You pay the price as labeled. Raise prices 5% across the board and stop with the bullshit. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…v3r3 @nprofile…nmr0 My sister had a 23 lbs ovarian cyst. It was painful, the doctor told her "You're just fat, do some situps!" With the chance of rupturing the cyst, that advice could literally have killed her. Any investigation at all by the doctor would have revealed "just fat" wasn't the cause. "Just fat" isn't inherently painful either. The symptoms didn't even line up with the DX. Maybe it's stochastic eugenics but that doesn't make it *not* eugenics. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…eqsh And in a coincidence worthy of a Douglas Adams novel, the first bomb triggers a cascade of collisions that miraculously clears all of the debris from Earth orbit... npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…9cgn @nprofile…4n05 @nprofile…nmr0 Straight men are conditioned to think of dating as adversarial. They're looking to "win" vs their dates. They think women are "the other team" and so they're not trustworthy sources of information. On top of all the vanilla misogyny, the competitive framing of *all* relationships is pathological. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nmr0 I hope they also come to wonder where all the money went. We paid the military industrial complex immense sums of money, often under cover of "support the troops". Do they feel supported? npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nmr0 I suspect a lot of people feel "off" but can't quite figure out why. It's like everything in the world just shifted 6 inches to the one side. It's all still there but it's also somehow subtley wrong. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nmr0 The media is on the bandwagon. "Hooray for the invincible American military who has not and cannot lose!" There is absolutely zero uncompromised media in the mainstream. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…d0yj Whatever specifics need to be hammered out, I'm still pretty sure we need to give up the imperial idea of a "territory". All in with all the privileges and liabilities of a fully represented State or real Independence. We can't move forward together as long as we're still chained to the colonialist power structures. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…3x2f @nprofile…nmr0 Yup. They're only for social justice, equality, regulations, etc. if it costs $0. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nmr0 That phrase just means "I consider other people's suffering to be a necessary evil for maintaining my privileges". npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…pfuj @nprofile…vkla @nprofile…nqsr I had *no" idea. Now I need to answer why they had a congregation in my mailbox some time ago. I went to check the mail and found like 100 of these guys hanging out. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…s4ce I knew Germans had an anti-Arab thing going back at least to the Ottoman Empire but I didn't think it would render them this stupid. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nmr0 Yup. The donors run the show and the donors are all evil. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…87m8 No, but never allowing any business of any scale to ever under-pay employees is a start. Nobody who works full-time should ever be unable to afford to live full-time regardless of industry segment. "I had the capital to start my own business, what's wrong with you?" is still the dominant philosophy even on the small end and it's unacceptable. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…87m8 Even minor vassals are part of the problem. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…gj0l Eat the loss and learn the lesson. That's the only way forward. When the rich (even the micro-rich like the small businesses) actually feel consequences for their actions is when we're on the path back to healthy society. Pay humans a living wage to run your business or don't run a business at all. That's the solution. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…kahw @nprofile…2c6z The Egyptians had 5 days left at the end of their calendar and their solution was to party. Those days didn't count so slaves were free and work was cancelled. We could do at least one of those. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…d0yj That's how you soften the landing for stuff this big is by diluting people's recollection of what was fictional and what was real. It also softens the impact when there's already a cultural reference for the thing when the news breaks. "Oh it's just like that movie that was scary but ultimately didn't hurt me; this is probably harmless too" npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…9ywd They get off on knowing we can see their crimes but not prosecute them. This needs to change. Exposure needs to be a real dangerous liability as it should be. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nmr0 "One day they will all have been against this" is how I see it going. The USA has a long history of refusing to process their issues and this will go on the backlog along with everything else since slavery. They'll take their hurt feelings, disconnection and feelings of displacement and spin them into a "South shall rise again" narrative they'll pull back out of the closet when they're feeling plucky again. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nmr0 On further reflection, it's just that the GOP is using "1984" as their model and the Democrats are working from "Brave New World". npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nmr0 Same ownership, slightly different approach. Republicans - The lower class must be brutally released. Democrats - We don't think it needs to be *brutal*. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nmr0 "I know commercialization of everything, industrially corrupted food supplies, unavailable inferior healthcare and brutal workloads are killing people now. Is there any way we could speed it up though?" npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…l70y The fact that they won't unify behind a genuine oppositional coalition is a party-wide failure. Having exceptions among them who are fighting without the support of party leadership is more damning, not less. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…l70y The Democrats had "control" more than once and allowed the GOP to still obstruct nearly everything. They're not even trying to employ such tactics now that they are the minority party. They are content largely to grumble and promote dominating the midterms beyond the ability of Trump to rig them as the only solution they'll consider. They aren't doing enough to be considered a real opposition party. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…l70y I have no idea how we're going to keep ourselves fed after Trump destroys our global standing and foreign investors dump all of our bonds. We can lose *everything* by ignoring justice and the rule of law. Justice and affordability are aligned. The Democrats are either completely in thrall to the same monied powers as Trump or they're idiots setting themselves up for extermination. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…gfcd People believe Trump is only going to seize imperial powers over the US, Greenland, Canada, Venezuela, Cuba... And then just stop? This one is for *all* the marbles. Now that he knows that even the Epstein Files can be nullified, he's got nothing personally left to fear from Bibi or Putin and he's got the presidential bunker to save him physically if it comes to it. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…8u43 Does anybody in the wider media establishment understand that it's too late? We need education how to survive the fascist takeover rather than palace intrigues about how fucked we all are. Nothing will come of this either. The GOP is all in on human extinction for profit and will not be deterred by anyone or anything. The Democrats can't be moved to adopt any pro-humanity platform so even if they did get power it wouldn't save us. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl Oh goodie, another town hall. In almost as many words, they said "Yes, there are ethical questions about LLM resource consumption and training but we need to set those questions aside and just use the hell out of it". Then they handed off to somebody else who said more or less "We're doing this as cheaply as possible and because Capitalism, that automatically means we're doing the least impact" - set aside that the entire industry is in Loss Leader mode. #ai #corporate #bullshit npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…jljv Similar to Twitter, Meta is never going to get better. Their core values and culture are anti-human. They will never make the pro-human choice without duress. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…u0qu They stole her wedding ring? What possible justification do they have? npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…6zuf You screw a company out of existence often enough, people stop hiring you to manage their stuff. Executives shouldn't get to be executives forever based on seniority or whatever. They need to prove they can get results without abusing the public, the employees and the shareholders. The LLC as currently conceived is morally and ethically a dumpster fire. Executives should be legally liable for anything happening on their watch. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…6zuf Capital punishment for corporations. Dissolve their charter, liquidate all assets. Pay back in this order - customers, non-executive employees, other creditors, shareholders, executive employees. When the money runs out, it runs out. The investors who talk so much about taking on risk should be the ones taking losses and executives shouldn't get anything at all from failure. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…syqt I'm a fan of cranberries generally so I feel the need to infodump a little. Cranberries are one of the highest fruits for pectin content. They will gel with no additions, just cook the fruit. Nothing dubious was necessary to make the canned stuff solidify. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…d9d3 A trucking company in town offered on-site daycare for employees. They had a credible bomb threat, found a (non-functional) device above a drop ceiling and only kind of mentioned it in passing at pick-up. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…7e7l A little boy lived across the street from my grandmother in Koblenz and played outside every day until one day he just didn't anymore. Everybody knew the answer but nobody said it out loud. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl If you ever want to see a neurotypical person lose their shit at work just imply however lightly that their ego-driven, authoritarian and imprecise communication style is the problem. They really don't want you to engage unless it's to be deferential and polyanna. #corporatismKillsHumans #bullshit npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl In AI training at work. In a lab, I asked the bot to respond to "Where to rabbits go when they die?" So of course it came back with "Certainly! Let's explore whether a patient with chronic hypertension and diabetes should be offered a standard health plan or a specialized chronic care plan though a multi-faceted evaluation process." Silly me thinking it might refuse to answer rather than just make up its own wild shit. #AI #corporate #bullshit npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…03hd "Retail Therapy" let's us feel in control in some small way when nothing else feels that way. "At least I can still have a nice thing" feels better than "I'll try to go see what good is left in the public domain after the book bans, bathroom segregation, lynchings and gestapo..." npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…rqac *Needing* to bioengineer superfood for an animal already only one step up the food chain feels a little concerning. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…r5mx It's a predatory thing. You don't spook the herd as much if you just take the prey at the margins. As the herd shrinks, the margins move in and you pick from the new list of targets. Modern humans have sadly turned into herd animals. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…evae I don't think ADHD is inherently painful in any particular way. Any pain experienced in relation to my ADHD is about trying to square the way my brain operates with the way other people expect it to operate. Among "my people", it's not a thing I notice at all. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…9vf2 But when the studios want to use AI trained on everybody else's stuff to replace actors, animators, voice actors, etc. Who's going to then defend the randos on Deviantart and elsewhere? npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…tsg3 @nprofile…jewt I overstepped but I did mean that Americans in general are fine with the credit system because we accept the monetary systems are all out of our control and we consider that proof of some intrinsic or objective fairness. We don't consider the Chinese system objective because it's not monetary. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl Just watched a presentation at work that explained how instead of form validation and UX rework, we're going to deploy an AI to detect incomplete forms and attempt to guess the answers in new job applications. I am aghast and yet still powerless. Nobody with any power cares that it's all wrong. #corporate #LLM #AIMonomania npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…jewt We only dislike the Chinese system because it's not entirely about money and classism. Anything goes in the US as long as there's money attached. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…0tvd In some ways it's weird that this crash didn't happen in other industries. When woodworking CNC broke out into the mainstream, it wasn't followed by the entire world suddenly firing all the woodworkers and accepting shitty amateur furniture as the new permanent industry standard. It's kind of amazing that people treat the craft of software so differently given how important it is to everybody at this point. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…n92f I am constantly irritated by the people who pretend they couldn't see this coming or that everybody who did was just being alarmist. We warned them about a thing before it happened so they could prevent it from happening. They refused to act because it wasn't happening yet. Now it's actively happening and they're somehow shocked and *still* actively trying to marginalize everyone who warned them. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…nm3g I kind of love the inherent silliness of "Can anybody tell me which movie I'm in?" npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…5rrm @nprofile…0r3q @nprofile…5lc3 That's the interface as it's designed, not that there's any redemption to be found in it. Working with CoPilot is like having a pair programmer who is wildly insane, didn't read the project documents and may or may not be a spy. The syntax is usually solid, it's the logic and design that's absolutely bonkers. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl The pieces all clicked. I need a new job somewhere else. The liability for HIPAA violations is potentially $250k and 5 years jail and I'm expected to use GitHub CoPilot on legacy codebases containing God-only-knows-what in an environment where nobody has secure test platforms with dummied test data. It's not even about what *I* directly put into it. I'm not accepting that liability. I get my ducks in a row and GTFO. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl Demo yesterday explicitly told us to turn off GitHub CoPilot any time we're working with PHI, PII or any other kind of officially sensitive info. My work is *entirely* data driven. There is no robust test platform, no dummied up claim data, nothing to support us in avoiding real data for testing and development. If I can't use it for sensitive work and all my work is sensitive, WTF am I supposed to do about being required to use it? #corporate #ai #copilot npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…hunl Those are the ones that bother me the most. Not only could we see this coming, we *did* see it coming, hollered about it, did everything we could to convince people to change course and ran headlong into the problem anyway. Short of violent revolution to seize control, everything was done to avoid this outcome. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…9vf2 The only upside to the deregulation mania in play is that it lets projects like this exist. If you can't make or service your wheelchair without paying tribute to some oligarch, that's an unreasonable barrier. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…qgrt The Port of Seattle is empty. We're like 2 weeks out from mass denial becoming virtually impossible. A month after that, we'll have people eating American-made cat food. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…ssyg I think it's notable at least that they're not paying full freight for their infrastructure. They've got subsidized water and power distorting their costs such that their pricing now can be safely considered a loss leader situation rather than being genuinely low cost. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…eqw3 @nprofile…4yw8 I hadn't yet but it's in keeping with what we've seen. Anyone who initially resisted Trump was smart and engaged, when they got compromised all of those assets turned into liabilities for the USA. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…eqw3 @nprofile…4yw8 Do we believe for a second that Rubio will be allowed to recommend anything else? npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…60lz When studying business, researchers observed that failures were inevitable. Success came to the people who could sustain the most non-lethal failures over time rather than to someone who had a one-off lucky shot. It's not just patiently waiting, it's *surviving* that's going to matter. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…843t Mozilla's AI is still hungry, it needs new user data to ingest after Librewolf started eating their lunches. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…u00v Any deal with Trump is as good as Brexit 2.0 in the long term. He will destroy everyone in his orbit as a simple display of force just because he can. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…6ezj The only freedom they ever wanted was the freedom to unilaterally change the rules in their favor. Literally nothing else matters to them now nor did it ever. They wanted guns to force their way, the 2nd Amendment was always just cover. The NRA suddenly DGAF about the government being overtly fascist and authoritarian because white supremacy was all they ever wanted to defend. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl In our town hall meeting this morning, an executive told us that they plan to give all software engineer jobs to Al. When asked what he might have to say of any comfort to us, he said there are still lots of projects to be done in the meantime. He ended the call by telling us he's uncomfortable with AI coding, knows that we're all uncomfortable with it, and that's exactly where he wants us to be. #capitalism #ai #wtf #executivesDGAF npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…lse8 We have kind of a lot of overseas workers doing stuff for American insurance companies and I don't know how we explain it to them. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…s0v8 Any chance the living room power supply is sketchy? The only parts I've had fail on me were subjected, unprotected, to the vagaries of the local power grid. Adding a PiJuice battery backup has saved me even replacing an SD card since I got it. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…sxdw It makes it so the government permanently has to pay "Mother, May I?" for all future planning and infrastructure. Texas tried and failed so now they're spending billions to buy back their own highways. I *thought* that would discourage others from doing the same but clearly I'm wrong. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…zzxx @nprofile…qz4x Divvying up the spoils of the oligarchs' successfully waged class war. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…zwgs I tell anyone who will listen that BlueSky set themselves up with all the same liabilities as Twitter and will predictably follow the same enshittification trajectory because of it. Someone will demand more profit than the current model will provide and they will introduce ads, subscriptions, "light" algorithmic moderation... They're on the on-ramp with no credible plan to do anything differently from here out. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…3sf2 I said elsewhere this was big "catching up on the group text" energy. "Hey guys, I'm almost caught up. That Trump guy sounds like bad news, how did that turn out?" npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…vvfe In a further shift of all American business and politicians away from objective reality, Microsoft is betting against deterministic computing in favor of probabilistic computing. No one will ever be really sure of what's going on ever again. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…48vs "Words [that offend the ruling class] have consequences!" npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…chpz Just saying but... Maybe flexing those muscles that the industry shouldn't have and which inspired the shooting isn't the deterrent they think it is? npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…chpz JFC he's a disappointment. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…0tvd Which one is "The Linux Desktop" though? I think a big part of the problem with adoption is that people don't understand how much of Windows isn't Windows-only. Interfaces carry over 99% intact. It's not like switching to Linux is a completely alien environment, different in every way. Most desktop environments on Linux are more like Windows than Mac is. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…chpz No. He still holds the blackmail files. npub17g4hruwtcdv8fmmz6yaqrjdx80gn0ctkxu377nsql5acfhlj0d0s2u9epz Urzl @nprofile…chpz Also, just making it very clear that we recognize the relationship between them. Musk is his boss, closely supervising all of his bullshit this time around.