The thing tech companies won't admit is that we don't need any new "features", tech has done what we need for years now.
So they keep making up more and more bullshit and cramming down our throats. Because no one wants it, no one cares.
💯 All the stuff we can build just sitting on our butts typing into a computer has been built. Now we need to get up off our asses and go build 400 kph mag lev trains and stuff like that.
Someone should make a nerd tier list for mastodon/Fediverse
@farah
Will this include which is the nerdiest Fedi software to be on..?
🤔
I mean, clearly THE nerdiest, is your own self-coded custom AP server. 
Least nerdy is Mastodon. Well, unless we count Threads, which is extreme normie territory.
The slow death of the power user.
"This isn’t an accident. This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos. They succeeded beyond their wildest expectations"
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
@deepmud I try not to park my car anywhere that is accessible to goats!
@sundogplanets @deepmud "Thanks for the compliments on my page! It's nice to have a fan so dedicated. Write me on Telegram 👉 @ Marcomengoni01877"
"Scuttlebutt around the channel is that you are out of the Emperor's esteem because you lmao'd at his words of wit when everyone else was rofl'ing"
"I too came to court seeking his Majesty's aid in a matter of some import but I have remained here patiently biding my time, learning how the web of power operates. Today, I have become a merchant of influence, trading in secrets, and in fact have forgotten the point of my own petition in arriving here oh so long ago"
The thing tech companies won't admit is that we don't need any new "features", tech has done what we need for years now.
So they keep making up more and more bullshit and cramming down our throats. Because no one wants it, no one cares.
I'm fascinated by the comments from other people talking about how glitter got all over the place because that's also a very true thing. Like, how is it that the glitter gets everywhere but still stays all over you at the same time? Is it multiplying?
@Alice The invitation to my 10th HS reunion came in an envelope filled with glitter. The room I opened it in still had glitter in the carpet 7 years later when I moved out. I’ve never been to any of my HS reunions, but would love to know which genius decided this was a good idea.
Ilya Sutskever Stands by His Role in Sam Altman’s OpenAI Ouster: ‘I Didn’t Want It to Be Destroyed’
https://www.wired.com/story/ilya-sutskever-testifies-musk-v-altman-trial/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business @business-WIRED
RE: https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/116545164468952303
I really like SwiftUI.
It just still has a lot of missing or incomplete functionality, and Apple doesn’t seem to be in much of a rush to fill in the gaps.
I sometimes wonder how much better macOS could be today if they’d never tried to make the iPad into a Mac replacement, and had focused on maintaining and improving just one great PC-class OS.
@marcoarment "Thanks for the compliments on my page! It's nice to have a fan so dedicated. Write me on Telegram 👉 @ Marcomengoni01877"
@Viss i routinely get the driveby criticism "well you probably just haven't used them and know how to use them you stinky luddite!" and increasingly my only response is have you????
@jonny queue that weird nerds simpsons meme template
"The Grand Vizier is not available to hear your petition but you may loiter about the antechamber currying favour with the notables in hopes of furthering your cause"
@evan One time I went into #lineageos and asked them how to navigate recovery without a screen. "Good luck" was the response. I got a lot more traction posting to reddit 😊 Nolan very graciously walked me through it personally.
Really been blown away by the interest in Find Out Social in less than a week.
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Really been blown away by the interest in Find Out Social in less than a week.
We are building a platform free from billionaire interference. And we would love for you all to join us.
Let me know if you want info on how to sign up
Every day I'm struggling 
@TheBreadmonkey Please allow me to ruin this for you.
@jonny like basically everyone who hasnt drank the kool-aid who is, with their own hands, testing all thes claims is like
"what the actual fuck how is any of this real? it barely works a tenth of the time and when it does work its like, junior analyst mode. how is china supposedly getting away with murder while the rest of us have to deal with this hallucination and refusal bullshit?"
@Viss i routinely get the driveby criticism "well you probably just haven't used them and know how to use them you stinky luddite!" and increasingly my only response is have you????
wait first sorry this bit is very important:
To characterize precisely what types of inconsistent observations are permitted,
into my veins please yes!!!! permitted yes!!!!
these language-level memory models
first time anyone mentions this distinction
echew the fiction of a single global RAM and an interleaving semantics;
single global RAM is WHAT??? oh my goodness. that's quite surprising
rather, they model valid program executions using event graphs, which track dependencies between memory accesses subject to a variety of consistency axioms, e.g., “if this event is visible to a thread t, then so are these other events.”
it's a pants system!! i know this!
@jonny dude my obsidian page for collecting these articles is literally three pages tall with just links to shit like this
@jonny like basically everyone who hasnt drank the kool-aid who is, with their own hands, testing all thes claims is like
"what the actual fuck how is any of this real? it barely works a tenth of the time and when it does work its like, junior analyst mode. how is china supposedly getting away with murder while the rest of us have to deal with this hallucination and refusal bullshit?"
anyway at LLNL when our users trust our logic solvers and they don't work? we get to work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0AB4g2KDX8
i'm so jealous cause greg keeps doing things i thought were my thing. fantastic coworker and scientist
@hipsterelectron wait you work at LLNL?
That’s cool! I might know someone you know
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