Yes.
BlueMonday1984
joined 1 year ago
If this gets CUDA open-sourced, I will be one very happy man.
Their radical idea of building a social network that did not require a either VC funding or large amounts of volunteer labour has come to a disappointing, if not entirely surprising end. Going in without a great idea on how to monetise the thing was probably not the best strategy as it turns out.
I never used Cohost, but I know a couple people who do and fuuuuuuuck this sucks. 'Least Newgrounds is still going, though that's a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison.
I'm gonna risk coming off too harsh and say this gaggle of meth microdosing ratfucks don't deserve rehab, they deserve to rot in jail. Fuck them.
New piece from The Atlantic: A New Tool to Warp Reality (archive)
Turns out the bullshit firehoses undeservedly called chatbots have some capacity to generate a reality distortion field of sorts around them.
eigen "Whipping Blacks who Talk Back" robot
eigen "Replacing Meals on Wheels with Cotton Fields" robot
(If anyone can think up more nicknames like this, go ahead - I have zero intent treating this dumbfuck with any degree of dignity)
You could also ask ChatGPT to make it for you. The idea's complete garbage unworthy of an actual writer's time, so I'd let it slide in this case
They're too stupid to understand anything beyond "the code", its unsurprising they're treating it as a technological hammer in a world of nails
Anyway, we tech people really need to learn that being good in tech, and getting tech changes approved is different from being good at modern community management and avoiding the pitfalls of those.
That'd require them to be decent human beings, but from what I've seen I'm not counting on it
Not a sneer, but another cool piece from Baldur Bjarnason: The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus.
Gonna skip straight to near the end, where Baldur lays out a potential apocalypse scenario for FOSS as we know it:
Best case scenario, seems to me, is that Free and Open Source Software enters a period of decline. After all, that’s generally what happens to complex systems with less investment. Worst case scenario is a vicious cycle leading to a collapse:
Declining surplus and burnout leads to maintainers increasingly stepping back from their projects.
Many of these projects either bitrot serious bugs or get taken over by malicious actors who are highly motivated because they can’t relay on pervasive memory bugs anymore for exploits.
OSS increasingly gets a reputation (deserved or not) for being unsafe and unreliable.
That decline in users leads to even more maintainers stepping back.
Linking this to a related sneer, another major problem that I can see befalling FOSS is earning a reputation as a Nazi bar. How high that risk is I'm not sure, but between the AI bubble shredding tech's public image and our very good friends increasingly catching the public's attention, I suspect those chances are pretty high.
Why do I get the feeling we're gonna see a colossal tech crash