In a recent episode of Star Trek: “Computer, discontinue radiation warnings until further notice”.
If they weren’t cowards the script writers would have unceremoniously ended the crew of the Enterprise three seasons later with everyone dying of surprise radiation poisoning because no one remembered to turn them back on.
New from 404 Media: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. I was sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. Opt-out means no housing
https://www.404media.co/landlords-demand-tenants-workplace-logins-to-scrape-their-paystubs/
@q admitting it on the internet, definitely dumb. Not realising ChatGPT can’t make one? Less so in my opinion, given the level of education and how little curiosity into how things work is encouraged both ChatGPT and rail ticket QR codes are basically magic to most people, as evidenced by the fact 50% of passengers can’t even reliably hold a QR code still and at the right distance for the ticket barrier to read one.
Found my grandad’s tape measure while at my parent’s place today. It’s a lot more work but an embossed bit of metal certainly looks more elegant than a printed label.
@q there’s a whole load of people who have fully outsourced thinking to the machine.
Back on my Flight Simulator bullshit. Turns out if you fail to remove one of the things labelled REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT your airspeed indicator doesn’t work. Also turns out if I don’t have the airspeed indicator to fixate on during landing and just have to look out the window and hope for the best I can pull off a silky smooth landing better than anything I’d usually do.
@cmconseils the Apple Watch can do this. It seems a bit weird usinf a watch like an iPod but it would totally work.
@jonty I can’t for the life of me work out what the sample image is. Is it a zip? Is the correct answer “none of these things make zips”? Has someone taught squirrels to make zips?
I discovered today my increasingly senile Mum has an ongoing grudge against one specific tree. While walking by the end of a road she pointed down it at a big oak and just said “I don’t like that tree”. No further information was forthcoming.
Talking to my brother he tells me she always points out how she doesn’t like that tree when passing. He has no idea either. I guess just fuck that one tree in particular.
Google: “Check the output of anything Gemini does carefully as it can make mistakes”
Also Google:
My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”
Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner
Kiddo: that’s AI
@pikesley you should ask him. I’m sure he has fascinating opinions on AI that won’t make you want to kick him down the escalator at all.
@chanakya @fallenhitokiri part of proper vetting should be running your own registry with only vetted packages in it, which among other things prevents another company’s lawyers causing a dependency you rely on suddenly being unavailable.
@fallenhitokiri @chanakya it’s certainly the least healthy package ecosystem. My hunch is we’re going to see an industry of companies offering Security Verified alternate registries soon, with a subset of packages but some assurances that people (or, let’s face it, an LLM) has done some review before publishing new versions.
@chanakya @fallenhitokiri the current setup is roughly equivalent to “I needed a feature so I outsourced it to a random person on the internet and then didn’t do any code review” which would get funny looks if you said it about your application code but is apparently fine for database drivers.
@chanakya @fallenhitokiri NPM is getting all the attention currently but I don’t think any other language ecosystems are doing much better. People need to be taking more responsibility for vetting dependencies they pull in.
@an0key have you tried running it without reduce transparency turned on? I was ready to hate this and honestly it’s fine after a few days. I don’t love it, and that makes me sad, but it’s far from unusable for me.
“Watch my pod on YouTube”: Sad endorsement of a company that wants to sell adverts.
“Get my cast in your feed”: Cool, cyberpunk as hell.
Thus ends my argument that if we’re going to shorten podcast it should be the “cast” bit we keep.
Today in companies being needy: Vision Express called me, than later sent me a text message, then sent me a message asking for my feedback on the experience. This was all to inform me that my order isn’t ready yet, they’ve got half the glasses I bought and I was told not to expect them before Friday.
25km, six hours from start to finish. I lost track of how many bridges I crossed as I zigzagged from one side of the River Itchen to the other.
I’ve got a day to myself tomorrow and haven’t done nearly enough exercise this weekend so a 16 mile walk up the Itchen Way to Winchester it is.
@jenniferplusplus what!? Which language is this so I can avoid it like the plague?