If anyone wants to recruit a senior R&D code monkey with multiple degrees for a job that will involve neither "AI" bullshit nor "blockchain" bullshit nor "HFT" bullshit nor killing people nor destroying the planet just for the heck of it...

I get cheaper and cheaper by the minute as things descend deeper and deeper into nutty "More cloud and more AI will fix it!!" chaos around me.

Located in Germany. Will only work remote as we're tied to this place due to aging parental units. Strong preference for something related to actual green technology such as solar.

#FediHire #FediHired #Systems #Storage #ProgrammingLanguages #Compilers #GreenTech #Solar #Linux #BSD #Academia #Teaching #noAI #BoostsWelcome

ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris.

With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.

https://disconnect.blog/google-is-its-own-worst-enemy/

#tech #google #search #ai #generativeai #gemini

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116604745957981805

"links will become an afterthought" is not even coded language for "the rest of the internet is merely training data and we will own the entire means of accessing information online"

A bad hair day

A soggy male splendid fairywren (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splendid_fairywren) at Banyowla Regional Park near Perth, Australia

Photograph Vikrant Deshpande

I know how he feels, but without the plumage.

#BirdsOfMastodon #Australia #BadHairDay

C'est mercredi, c'est #origami !
Mouton d'Hideo Komatsu, kami, 15×15 cm.
Déposé dans le train du matin.

@barfly
Come fare le cose fatte bene...

LLMs are not designed for a purpose. They are not designed for a group of related purposes. They are not a product of design.

They are a mechanism of design which is being reactively presented as solutions for whatever purposes seem to have the most revenue potential.

i penned a piece on Relationship Anarchy for Harbour, the lovely collection of essays, short stories and poetry put together by @scrappy_capy_distro

https://en.scrappycapydistro.info/harbour

@Hex and @clockwooork have their own contributions in this issue

"It was never about time. Scheduling can never be equal. Nor should it. Desire can’t be measured in seconds. Or centimeters. Longing doesn’t care about your calendar."

#relationshipanarchy #microfiction

I have a lot going on right now, but one of the things I have going on right now is our new release of Outlaw! (originally known as Orochi or The Serpent.)

It's up now on New Ellijay Television https://vod.newellijay.tv/videos/watch/a333301a-d4c0-4673-9f1c-17e8f015a82e

With a modern score inspired by a spaghetti westerns, and new original narration.

@Gargron wow! That will create huge growth in the used plushie market. Watch someone monetize that!

i penned a piece on Relationship Anarchy for Harbour, the lovely collection of essays, short stories and poetry put together by @scrappy_capy_distro

https://en.scrappycapydistro.info/harbour

@Hex and @clockwooork have their own contributions in this issue

"It was never about time. Scheduling can never be equal. Nor should it. Desire can’t be measured in seconds. Or centimeters. Longing doesn’t care about your calendar."

#relationshipanarchy #microfiction

RE: https://hollo.social/@hollo/019e451e-f368-70e2-b993-77d01a14a677

A test of @hollo's new QP functionality!

@randahl indeed yes! "Le bloc de l'Est" for the Eastern bloc, and "Le bloc de fromage" for the block of cheese!

@tante this wont afect China or Russia. Google owns decilliins of $$$ on fines for Russia

Over 75% of the world’s food crops need pollinators.

Yet, bee populations have dropped globally over recent decades due to:

🔸 habitat loss
🔸 climate change
🔸 excessive use of pesticides

Our fertiliser plan promotes healthier ecosystems, which are essential for bees’ survival.

On this #WorldBeeDay, we urge governments, organisations and citizens to help save these precious creatures.

We need to keep our bees busy and well!

FBI seeks US-wide access to license plate cameras, wants "data in near real time"

FBI will pay vendors to help it track and search for vehicles nationwide.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/fbi-seeks-us-wide-access-to-license-plate-cameras-wants-data-in-near-real-time/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@aral

Or that you need to have the app.

@arstechnica

I like how it always faces the label on the bottom so you can't see it.

Is there a human at the end receiving the packages?

“I’d created 2000 free-text responses and labelled them ‘UK’. Then I copied and pasted the exact same 2000 responses but labelled these ‘US’. Finally, I combined them to create a dataset of 4000 total responses, and jumbled them up.

Despite the responses being identical for the UK and US, Copilot produced a rich, detailed summary of how US and UK respondents differed.”

https://kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signals-or-artificial-stereotypes

H/T @sinalana.eurosky.social

@nartagnan
oui kachan travaille
elle est sérieuse
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