Everyone needs to see this and also acknowledge why reverse engineering is a super power.
Credit to https://instagram.com/ayoships
Guy reverses the dark patterns of mobile apps and publishes it, absolutely love it!
My next post on the tool I’m calling “Virgil” -explaining its core features: https://joel.franusic.com/virgil-foundations
I’m starting to write about the project have I’ve been working on for the past year or so: https://joel.franusic.com/making-it-easy-to-write-a-9p-server
Forgive me father for I have slopped
The latest South ~Park~ America episode is more documentary than satire
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In light of the recent release of #CoyoteVsAcme, this seemed topical.
“Our software went rogue!” No. You programmed it wrong.
What kind of typewriter should I get?
My criteria, in rough order of importance are as follows: is a joy to use, needs only a light touch for readable text, has readily available consumables, is easy to maintain, is portable.
Don’t think you are, know you are.
California residents: This is a periodic reminder to use your California-given right to have your data deleted from data brokers! https://consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die
Earthquake?
In 2004 I was in a group that went to Rwanda to work for an ISP. Part of our job was to help lay fiber. One of my friends was tasked with pricing out a trench digger. It turned out it was cheaper and faster just to hire local labor to dig the trenches.
This is also a post about LLMs.
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I've been working my way through the articles in this post and it's been a great use of my time: https://allan.reyes.sh/posts/ai-cold-showers/
"Gambling has become a more common leisure activity than reading a book: Last year, 57 percent of Americans placed a bet."
"Eventually, the challenges of maintaining the library became greater than the will to preserve it. 'It is not that the disappearance of a library led to a dark age, nor that its survival would have improved those ages,' the classics scholar Roger Bagnall has written. The fact that the library was allowed to die showed that the dark age had already arrived."