I'm stuck in an AI chat with my health insurance regarding a new #Ohio GOP "Fraud" overreaction prior approval requirement for services I have been getting for over a decade and it is pissing me off and the AI is useless.
Epilogue: It told me to call the phone number I originally called that told me to go and talk with a live agent online to resolve the issue. This is bullshit.
macOS is unusable if you don't have a scroll wheel connected. I found this out because suddenly every Apple service is sending codes to the dev machine I keep in the basement and only use over KVM. Which in turn I'm only finding out because iTunes remains the only service I've found for buying DRM-free music at reasonable quality from major labels, and I'm trying to buy the new FFXIV album to have in the background while I work.
just in case you didn’t know that “it’s only for code reviews, I don’t see the problem” is always bad faith horseshit: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Claude-Code
> Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been known to use AI to help with kernel debugging and outside of the kernel tree has also done some vibe coding with Google's Antigravity. He has previously said he views AI as a useful tool. It turns out he's even now using Claude Code for working on new Linux kernel features.
> "The code, the test programs, the review behind the list above and the first draft of this text were done with an LLM coding assistant (Claude Code) under my direction. The measurements were run on my machine."
so just a full vibe, done with the LLM that can’t make a web browser, C compiler, rsync features that aren’t riddled with bugs, or JavaScript runtime
this is the shit we were warning you about
was there a reason why you didn’t listen?
🎶 The Glove Shack is a little old place where
🎶WE GET HANDSY
Don’t forget that Christopher Columbus isn’t just a violent cruel asshole by modern standards. He was also seen as (and arrested for being) a violent, cruel asshole during the time he lived
imagine one of your customers goes into the freezer aisle and sneakily replaces the viennetta with stuxnetta
My friend and his partner are raising their kiddo in a prescriptive-gender-role-free way: they're super hardcore about it. Except kiddo has realized that her parents really hate unnecessarily gendered stuff and apparently has learned to troll them.
The other day in the car she was like, "Hey Daddy. Monday, Thursday and Sunday are boys and Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday are girls"
This is, as far as I'm concerned, a high-tier adult-quality #shitpost.
I got a call from someone I don't know.
"Hi. We have a FreeBSD server. It's been working perfectly for years, but it hasn't been updated since then. We asked AI to update it, but now it won't boot anymore. It didn't even make a backup before starting. The AI keeps trying things, everything is down, and we've already spent over €500 in tokens. Can you help us?"
"Sure. €500, plus the time it'll take me to try to fix it. Assuming it can still be fixed and nothing important has been deleted."
"That much?"
Some silence.
"Well, I hope AI takes your job away!" And he hung up.
Believing that autopilot automatically makes you an invulnerable professional pilot will ruin far more people than job losses will.
I don't know if AI will take my job away, but it's already cost them €500 and, probably, their server.
I asked a trusted colleague for comments on a written document and they fed it in to chatGPT and sent me back that output and I just want to cry.
Guess I won't be asking that person for help or advice on anything anymore. Enshittification happens in people's writing skills too, I guess.
I also have absolutely no idea how to respond to them. If you're that far down the genAI black hole I don't think pointing out the ethical/environmental/cognitive issues will help. Fuck.
Morning Monarch Madness! A couple of triple monarch phone photos.
There are probably 15 monarchs in the garden this morning. I hope they scoot on south soon, but it’s great to have them around.
1) Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends
2) "Fuck Thanksgiving" to all my Canadian friends
3) "Fuck Columbus Day" to all my American friends
;)
@devilgirlbot You. Can't. Hide. Murder.
(stares into the camera for the benefit of the Hays Code people) "You. Can't. Hide. Murder."
(fade to lesbians)
"Why, it's Lieutenant Anderson! The roller-coaster operator!"
A secret room behind two fireplaces is twice as cool as a secret room behind one fireplace
I don't *think* she could use all the air in a room that size that quickly, even if it were airtight, somehow
😒🤚 Columbus Day
😊👉 Indigenous People's Day
Now *this* is just unsafe secret room design
"I've seen better performances. I remember you now. You were Osric!"
"If you go, I go. Your people will be my people..."