gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

Nokia had great hardware, but crappy software (and I say that as a heavy Series 60 user back in the day). In a parallel world, Windows Mobile could have ridden that hardware to a glorious future, but it was transparent that Elop's acquisition was just part of a Byzantine internal Microsoft play.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

Good luck! I'm rooting for you.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hate I'm so terminally online I found out about the rumor that Musk and Stephen Miller's wife are bumping uglies through a horrorfic parody account

https://mastodon.social/@bitterkarella@sfba.social/114593332907413196

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

My pocket take: the chickens from 45 years of effective neoliberalism coming home to roost, coupled with Brexit hangover, has led the reactionary elements of UK society to retreat to rancid culture war positions

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

why is robot lady in queue with springy legs so darn sexy

seriously though, good piece. Hopefully the fever breaks soon (yeah right)

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

Anecdata: if you're working in IT in Sweden you can get away with just English. I know a guy living in Berlin who hasn't ~~bothered~~got around to learning German yet, he also manages with English.

But it's a big Community and different parts have different requirements and of course different expectations.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 18 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Oh man this is peak venture capitalism crossed with Factorio - valuations are actually cash, and a factory is a black box where you just upload new software and other stuff comes out.

Let's take your average holder of car manufacturer stock. You're holding the stock because you believe the car manufacturer will continue making competitive products, and you'll get either dividends or higher valuations. Then OpenAI pitches up and offers you - what? They don't even have stock! Even if they did, you're exchanging a stake in something known for stake in an enterprise that have never made any cars, and when asked what kind of business plan they have they look shifty. No fucking way anyone will sell their stake for less than double what they have, especially if they find out the factory they're selling is gonna produce machines that will kill us all.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Wow he looks even dorkier in video than in photos.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Stupid sexy robot judge...

One thing an adversarial judicial system like the American one is that if one party sloppily use GenAI to write their documents, they can lose, because the other party can point that out. A lot of the excuses to use LLMs in software development is that modern software development is terrible anyway, so if you can get your slop to market faster than some other schlub, you probably won't lose customers. When there's a balanced incentive to point out hallucinations, they (hopefully) won't get that far.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"Free speech" is now a rightwing dogwistle, at least for me.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 1 points 2 months ago

I have downloaded the relevant page from an open tab in Firefox ("Save as HTML), but it doesn't contain the latest craziness. If anyone is interested, let me know the best way to host such content.

What's scary is the raw number of upvotes he got for basically admitting to defrauding a FLOSS maintainer.

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