You know what I love about modern software? Slack is adding "AI" features and can't get my unread workspaces or messages right.
New features trump core annoyances.
I'm an "AI" detractor, but I would like every developer of a package management environment to use an LLM coding tool to install and configure a package, to demonstrate just how bizarre and how much lore goes in to using these damned things.
My own preferences tend towards modern pop, but my voice teacher tends towards 60s and 70s, which means that along with square dance music, I get to do deep dives into a lot of problematic music.
Anyway, Jefferson Starship's Jane is both musically very challenging, and an awful view of matrimony.
My neighborhood is awash in feijoa/pineapple guava (not actually a guava). Everyone's trying to figure out what to do with them.
I just had one that was smooth and sweet (rather than sour and slightly bitter), and now I'm trying to figure out what we're doing wrong with the rest of them...
For reasons, I went searching for UD railway worker deaths in the late 1800s. It used to be that if someone wrote up a web page on a topic like this, it was an indication that they'd done some digging, and I felt comfortable passing along the page as a reference.
AI has ruined everything.
That boards are choosing CEOs who can't understand why prayer and fasting didn't save their sinking company, and same former Intel CEO then getting investment money to build AI to hasten the Second Coming, says pretty much everything about modern tech culture...
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/former-ceo-intel-ai-christ
I hope that the big Santa Rosa hazmat spill yesterday involves some penalties for the employer that undoubtedly strong-armed their workers into stupidly transporting stuff in a pickup truck that should not have been packaged that way.
But some low wage worker is undoubtedly gonna get screwed.
Ouch. Today's Timdle got me hard, from Angolan independence to Uno to population...
https://www.timdle.com/daily
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Oh cool, when you get a nullability specifier wrong in an Objective-C header file that's getting converted to Swift, XCode gives you an error message that takes like 5 clicks to find the actual error message, and doesn't remotely reference the header file until you get to the raw text. Neat.
Someone mentioned the "Ms AWs outage", and when I noted that Microsoft's product was Azure, said "Xerox was copiers, AWS is cloud".
Which is an interesting bit of semantic/trademark creep, and I wonder if it's good, or bad, for Amazon.
I talk a lot about how my blog software is two and a half decades old, but in cleaning some stuff up recently I found remnants of a system I wrote to provide web support for an iOS app that was circa iPhone 3, and bit rot is also a thing.
From paths that may not be HTTPS compatible, to depending on external mapping services...
All the commentary over the Amazon us-east failure is a good reminder that we need a solution to server discovery that isn't DNS, and deals with distributed and redundant resources better than HTTP(S) does.
I was trying to replicate a screenshot someone posted about Google's "AI" mode missing commas and giving "surface of Venus" temperatures for the inside of a beehive, and noticed that "beehive" consistently gives me misformatted numbers, where "bee hive" gives me better formatted ones.
"You’ve been chosen for a Skin Trial!" <-- subject line of spam advertising Ulta makeup products, or over-eager Tech-Priest in Warhammer 40k fiction informing a victim of upcoming excoriation?
Going back through some old bookmarks folders to see if some of the web comics I used to read are still happening.
So many redirects to malicious sites. JavaScript was clearly a mistake.
The Late Show with Steven Colbert has posted a message from the frog resistance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw5zxdSObso
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Trying to solve a mystery. When I was growing up in New Lebanon, NY, there was a house on Hand Hollow Rd that had a bunch of mobile sculptures in the yard. It wasn't Anton Milkowski, they were at 3 Schoolhouse Road. Might have been Alexander Calder, but he died in 1976. Anyone got a clue?
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Here's the thing I don't get about FapGPT: If I wanted to sext with an LLM, I'd just answer some of those Facebook friend/LinkedIn connection requests...
Going through some old assets and loaded Neeva(dot)com, and, wow, that company imploded so deeply that you randomly get a crypto page that wants to send notifications, a product page for "fulvic ionic minerals", a malware site, and... wonder if it just got abandoned, or if it was sold.
Oh, look at this Liquid Glass ugliness. For work I'm installing Perplexity's Comet browser. It pops up the keychain unlock to import Chrome credentials (yes, I know). I've included part of my system settings so that you can see that "Reduce Transparency" is on. Ugh.
Nothing like smacking a quarter panel of a former police cruiser in the crosswalk, and having the driver complain that I hit his car.
And then say "I didn't see you" like the high vis rain jacket wasn't sufficient.
Ever since he got popped by the npm Shai Halud worm, I confess that I get extremely nervous doing anything in the repo where he does all his JavaScript work. Like "what styling package is gonna cause me to have to rotate all of my keys and passwords?" with every pnpm command.
Apropos of nothing at all, I'm reading things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1956 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring
Dear marketers everywhere (in this case YouTube Music): Yes, I have served on a jury through to verdict and it was an amazing experience that I value, but "Enjoy another trial" is not the pitch you think it is.
Playing with hank drums again, and couldn't find my old hacksaw blade handle for lengthening tuning slots, so made another one..
I am a supporter of Chris Kluwe for State Assembly, and I am begging GMail to use different truncation logic for email names...
And here's the one with "bee hive". I guess I are a prompt engineer now.
I was trying to replicate a screenshot someone posted about Google's "AI" mode missing commas and giving "surface of Venus" temperatures for the inside of a beehive, and noticed that "beehive" consistently gives me misformatted numbers, where "bee hive" gives me better formatted ones.
Painted over the graffiti on the benches at Bob's Beach today.
"But Linux is so ugly and hard to use".
Fucking MacOS and "liquid glass". I don't even know where to begin trying to debug this...
Picture of Charlene and me at yesterday's No Kings rally in Petaluma taken by Suzanne Clarke
Picture of Charlene and me at yesterday's No Kings rally in Petaluma taken by @d0rid.bsky.social
My view of the No Kings rally in Petaluma.
Oh, look at this Liquid Glass ugliness. For work I'm installing Perplexity's Comet browser. It pops up the keychain unlock to import Chrome credentials (yes, I know). I've included part of my system settings so that you can see that "Reduce Transparency" is on. Ugh.