it's here :3

#Microsoft #Microsoft365 #Microsoft364

Apparently I packaged pumpa, a pump.io client, for Guix back in 2015, approximately 2 years before ActivityPub was standardized and adopted by Mastodon. Now it's being removed. I suppose it's time has come but how the hell am I supposed to play Open Farm Game now???

Let's be Friends (Part 3/3) - Gator Days

Streaming #lispgamejam entries once again today at 11am US eastern.

https://www.twitch.tv/davexunit

My discord has an emoji named "tech debt" - which is just the angzarr, ⍼, the symbol famous for having no known use or agreed-upon meaning but somehow appearing in unicode and now it's just a part of unicode forever.

With so many enormous tech debt bills coming due recently, perhaps you, too, would like to take a moment to appreciate the tasteful angles of the angzarr.

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/117605708954938619

The year is 2049. I'm desperately searching the ruins of my mom's garage for the Voodoo 3 that once brought joy to me as a child in order to continue running my heavily-patched SLM I've become dependent on due to forgetting how to form basic sentences without it. All modern GPUs are owned by Mecha Sam Altman and my Voodoo 5, along with my 2020s GPUs, were stolen by my step brother for drug money.

@cwebber I know *I* miss glide, but I wonder if people who program graphics miss glide.

Ok but how's the 3dfx stock doing. My giant horde of Voodoo Graphics Cards are still a safe investment right

This seems like a great opportunity to test if AI can replace a CEO instead of just software developers and customer support agents. 🤔

The most scandalous thing about the Nvidia affair is BIG TECH EXPECTING COMMUNITIES TO SACRIFICE THEIR WATER, LAND AND CLIMATE SO A HANDFUL OF BILLIONAIRES CAN GET EVEN RICHER

#nvidia #tech #jensen #bigtech #jensenhuand #nvidiaCEO

@luis_in_brief the tool's benefits are immediately obvious and overstated, and the costs are insidious, hidden by a spectrum of dishonesty from sample bias to outright fraud, extremely difficult to measure, often externalized, and systemic. my consistent position is that usage tends to be _net_ negative. there are places where it can locally trend positive (assuming you ignore training costs), but there are a lot more places where it *appears* to trend positive

@luis_in_brief @arunisaac @beamflash @tongpu @whack there is also a factual disagreement here. anecdotally, it seems to me that LLMs massively degrade one's capacity to build liberatory software. most of the biggest LLM users in FLOSS have _stopped_ on their other projects and are now wasting tremendous amounts of time fiddling with agents, building sandcastles out of markdown, and not really getting much done.

@cwebber no chance prerendered 3D wouldve looked better than this in 1998. or ever really. this is so charming, and it mustve been crazy fun to make

"What outdated graphics, why did they do this in claymation instead of 3d CG" said reviews at the time, and I was so angery at those reviews then and still am now

A friend borrowed my copy of the videogame Magic & Mayhem in college and never returned it and I'm still low key bitter about it because that was one of the best games and best soundtracks I've ever encountered

this looks like a shitpost and I could see it as a visual gag in a comedy film, but it is a real game

Nvidia’s fall was inevitable ever since graphics cards stopped coming in boxes like this

@cwebber Well, it's going legitimately, non-sarcastically wonderfully if you like fun;

and it's going horrifically, terrifyingly badly if you love God and care for His natural order

There's no limit to what you can achieve when you're supposed to be doing something else. 🙂