I have multiple problems with AI especially in retrocomputing but one of the ones I haven't really talked about is appropriateness.

In both retrocomputing and embedded spaces, AI will do things like... Apply SE patterns that are pervasive across the training set (like restful API based microservice architecture) to domains where that is not appropriate.

In an effort to bring "modern technology" to a retro platform, it brings in abstractions and complexity that is, in large part, one of the main problems with software these days making using AI useful in the first place!

No, your apps probably shouldn't be specified by JSON on an architecture where a single byte is an important unit of measure.

News: AI is escaping our control

Reality: [person stuffing handfuls of LLM into everything around them] oh no! [Stuffs another handful] it's everywhere! [stuff] we have to rein this in! [Stuffs it in a robot dog with a machine gun] it's going to be dangerous!

Ok I need an expectations check.

You're a developer. You are calling an API via a library with paging and it's not working. Not that it's failing, it's just not returning what you're expecting... And it's taking a while.

The first thing you'd probably do is verify that it's constructing a request that looks correct. Right? Like the initial call is right, and the paging iteration produces urls that looks correct.

You wouldn't immediately try to schedule a meeting with the API developer to discuss performance issues. Right?!

I feel like people aren't so good at debugging anymore....

Hubby: Final Destination is Jaws but for flatbed trucks on the highway

Thinking about a thing that is kind of like a MUD and kind of like a BBS. An architecture by which to build *places*
Of all the places, Fedi seems like the best equipped to point out recommendations for anything that exists in this space

I also realized that Achaea is still active which is amazing.

So 1Password doubling down is... A choice.

There is something.... Super fucking weird about all the money and attention swirling around this. I would at this point be *super sus* about anyone and everyone involved.

This is clearly a play in motion.

Headline: Startup wants to harvest your idle compute for AI inference

Ok...so I didn't hate this idea at a high level (there are... potential security and liability implications which probably need discussion). Leveraging that which we already have and is underutilized is, generally, the better option.

My problem is that it's another example of a startup claiming to have some groundbreaking idea, cast in the frame of another startup (AirBNB for compute) that actually has existed for ever in the form of SETI@home and later BOINC.

And unlike the latter it will inevitably be a "disruptive" rent-seeking project that shifts risk to the public while hoarding the profits.

I'm. SO. Fucking. Tired. Of tech choosing again and again to do the wrong thing. And so tired of it not being the radioactive career killer it should be.

In a just and compassionate world, no one would want to touch DHH, because the ideas he espouses are fundementally in opposition to their values and those of their customers. They would be imploring him to change course.

Why isn't this the case?

This is a toot about 1Password.

Feeling fatigued under the existential weight of modern technology? Ask your doctor if VT220 might be right for you.

#Retrocomputing

I'm seeing more and more folks embrace the crayon drawing. The "even though it might not look as polished as something I could have prompted, it was made by me, with intent and by my own effort without stolen labor...and that makes it inherently more meaningful" philosophy.

The world needs more crayon drawings right now

RE: https://musicians.today/@venya/117175616971195297

Any article that cites a person or project as "controversial", describes those involved as "polarizing" without naming what *exactly it is* that people seem to have a problem with is not serious journalism.

It's propaganda by omission.

Because including that context - naming the problem - would likely call into question why the outlet is platforming the person at all, or piss off the interests sponsoring the story

Hah I hadn't heard these before but thanks Language Jones

Grammatical constructs-
The Maybelline Hedge: (maybe it's x, maybe it's y) from "Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's Maybelline"

The DiGiorno Construct: (it's not x, it's y) from "it's not delivery, it's DiGiorno"

I took this earlier and just realized that, for better or worse, I've never looked more like "a unix user." 😂

[taps the sign]

No, Claude didn't "mistakenly delete a developer's profile directory"

A developer *used Claude in an unsafe way*, and deleted their profile directory.

So there's a YouTube tech influencer, Arun (mrwhostheboss), who did a pretty good video about AIs impact on gaming and the situation with RAM.

And at the end he talks about some possible outcomes on the path were on including more folks opting to play older games, increased subscriptions for gaming companies and increasing cloud gaming.

I'd like to throw out a fourth that I think is worth putting out in the world:

A shift from huge corporate AAA titles pushing hardware limits, to more smaller indie developers releasing modest games for modest hardware that emphasize story telling, innovative mechanics, etc.

~~I didn't have McCarthyism and lavender scare 2.0 on my bingo card for 2026~~

I absolutely had McCarthyism and lavender scare 2.0 on my bingo card. Queer folks flagged that back in the *last* trump admin. Black folks have been sounding the alarm since before DHS and the concept of "counterterrorism" was a thing.