"Flesh & Blood" is on #Inkitt to read for #free. It is part of "Odd Tales & Other Realities"

https://www.inkitt.com/stories/1392636/chapters/3

#horror #shortStory #fiction #vampire #ghost #Halloween

#ShortStory "In The Dark" is available to read for #free on #Inkitt

The Dark comes for you,
takes you deep into itself,
and you become it.

https://www.inkitt.com/stories/1392636/chapters/2

#fiction #halloween #horror #horrorStory #horrorShortStory

RE: https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3mxf6t4bsoc2z

#ICE is evil

"NueFlesh" a short story I jsut published on Inkitt:

He thought having a synthetic woman would mean getting everything he wanted. She interprets things other ways.

https://www.inkitt.com/stories/1392636

#AI #SyntheticPeople #Horror #SciFi #ShortStory #Fiction

Do you know anyone in Nebraska who worked for Union Pacific in the '70s–90s or is a ham radio or vintage computing enthusiast? I'm following leads on Teletype equipment used there.

Boosts appreciated.

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #teletype

RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/117260264474646227

The working class has some news for you, Timmy boy. We are many, and you are a weasel. And when the many are hungry, roasted weasel sounds like good eating.

I generally don't begrudge people using local automatic-kludge-machines. That's not my business or concern. I don't care what a private person does with their own stuff.

I am pissed about giant #dataCenters and big tech treating #LLM as some sort of valid and useful technology, which it is not (at least not at the scale and variety they claim).

Like, a regular person should be able to close out eyes from their property. The local corporation should be at the whim of inspections by any random citizen with concerns.

I find the Automatic-Kludge-Machine uninspiring, uninteresting, and inefficient.

#LLM is still not #AI

#AKM #AutomaticKludgeMachine

Programming was ruined by people "getting into programming for the money," which also incidentally ruined the money part of being a programmer.

We've had a landscape of non-programmers who slap shit together and don't care for decades now. They never wanted to program and now they want everyone to hand over the coding to machines that are just as shit at coding as they are.

Dolly might have sung country, but her soul was punk rock

The supply chain is so bad right now that the only RAM I could find came as a DIY kit.

#UI "upgrades" are the "beige paint in houses" of software. Useless, and usually covering up light switches you were going to use.

I don't want to change the UI for the things I use. Ever. I don't care if you think you made a better UI.

// I // do // not // fucking // care //

I just want to use the thing without learning how to use it again.

They say #AI will make work optional.

#ProTip: Work is already optional. Consequences? Sure. Plenty. But still optional.

#LLM is still not AI

"Returning To The Void" -Phillip J Rhoades

#flashfiction #shortStory #TheVoid #typed #typedPage #typewriter #fiction

My new #pocketCalculator

(I have to use a pen as a stylus to push the beads most of the time because it's all tiny)

#soroban #abacus #calculator

Rewriting the #Linux kernel in a binary-blob-only-compiler language is handing the people in charge of that language a LITERAL KILL SWITCH for future Linux development.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsoaa6R_0lw

#AI #LLM #scam #OldMovie

Here's an interesting article about optimizing #QBASIC code for speed

http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/tuts/qfastman/QFASTMAN.html

#qb #BASIC #qb64 #programming #optimizing

Someone made an #8086 #emulator in #QBASIC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPArFjyG-C8