@publicvoit @alex I define what terrible means to me. Simple as that. What's so complicated about that?

One of the recurring tropes that bums me out *so* much about the process of AI sludge devouring software _specifically_ — with practitioners of the craft enthusiastically participating more than the practitioners of any other — is that the *self*-developmental potential of writing software is completely ignored.

I couldn't really fit this in to my blog post "Programming Isn’t Special" https://blog.glyph.im/2026/10/programming-isnt-special.html although it touches on many of the same themes, so that's good background for this.

Last night my ISP got flaky right around 5pm. I posted about it here, sent them an email then logged off for a bit and got some food, etc.

By the time we sat down to watch TV it was working fine again and I sorta forgot about it.

This morning they called and told me they had a problem on a tower and fixed it by 7pm and they just wanted to let me know.

Honestly, I like my ISP. They aren't the fastest, but they're a small local company, they always call back, and they always fix their problems.

#LabourTheft

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/54244922

Guess they are opening up about how they be using AI, as invasively as possible, to completely analyze and categorize all users:

“…use AI to analyze entire profiles for contextual clues, such as birthday celebrations or mentions of school grades…The company also looks at visual cues from photos and videos, including a person’s height or bone structure.”

Good excuse to collect biometrics!

@hacks4pancakes @MostlyBlindGamer

For the purposes of a free trip to Finland, my wife and I are single.
😅 😀

Plurai, founded by former Nexar staffers to use synthetic data and digital twins of corporate IT environments to assess AI agents, raised a $13M seed (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/11/plurai-wants-to-help-ai-agents-work-better-using-the-same-approach-that-helped-get-self-driving-cars-to-roads/
http://www.techmeme.com/261111/p31#a261111p31

It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.

I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.

I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.

And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.

I don't understand people criticizing cancel culture and or political correctness. To me, not wanting to collaborate with people who have terrible opinions is the most natural thing to do. Sometimes I have to. Sometimes its expedient not to know. But in my own free time, having values and living up to them is what I expect of everybody and specifically of those I am going to collaborate with. In fact, I wish corporations and politicians did the same.

More and more I keep thinking of @onepict and her point that Freedom of Association is key.
https://chaos.social/@onepict/117581024206372507

I don't want to collaborate with homophobes, transphobes, misogynists, xenophobes, right wingers, creeps and all the other people I don't like. The big tent is necessary if we need to run a country because we can't move around as easily. But for Internet projects? Of course we can. We should!

In my twenties I also thought that forks were the worst, and why can't we just all get along and make the software. But now I know, it's not a zero sum game: If misogyny reigns, for example, there is just one broject. If we fork it, there are two projects. The broject is not harmed, because the misogynists can keep collaborating over there where as all decent people can collaborate on the second project. These people had left and now they can come back.

When I think back to my younger days, as a cis het white man at university in Switzerland, with all this ignorance and protection, I could not bear the ranting and flaming on news:comp.lang.lisp and so I left. I did not want to associate. If I had understood that other forums exist, I might have joined those friendlier places. I think this experience translates to all projects with people having terrible opinions.

And yes, the new project may not be a shiny as the old one. It's new! Of course it's not comparable. But at least I don't heave to bear the terrible smugness of unbearable opinions.

@thenewoil Shame it's all vibe coded, so it's no longer secure.

@clive Oh, Obsidian genuinely scared me. And I know DevonThink.

This dude is the reason I just wanna do the same thing and nap all day

@molly0xfff guess they wanted him to go out like a warrior 🤷

sometimes I worry that I come across so unhinged that people would never be able to tell if I'm having a stroke or I'm just back at my shit

@matthiasott @marcel

ordered eggroll (life didn't come with it)