I am fed up of fucking "AI Employee" ads.
AI is not magic. AI can handle specific things with strong human guidance. The outcome of blindly trusting "AI Employees" will be shitty user experience at best and outright disaster at worst.
But these companies don't care.
It doesn't hurt them.
Seems I'll be waiting a minute or two for my Instagram metrics https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/304f413715a1e8afda863cfe791985921f5eed760579cac6dca00ed5dfa3a471.webp
Ah. Man. This little bastard had no idea of the heights and depths to come. No idea at all.
There did turn out to be plenty more buttons to wildly push in their future, though. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/630ff053ee974e3ab2dd246d6ed34c82260189b62d0e9bb28e22379c0a100c48.webp
The best tacit agreement ever to hit startups was the understanding that if nothing else, you need a Pricing page accessible to logged out users.
It wasn't always this way and frankly it was terrible.
Been seeing a pattern of posts lately centring around a show disappearing from Prime or Netflix.
They're all by the same guy. So who is Quentin Couprie? Well, he's not a journalist.
And his shit is almost certainly AI slop. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/e0141b7df590f0d4f273e0221e45ce531fc80529119ad80843a927ed42f0ce04.webp https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/69a206990a285eada0c583b571a201be97084f20f912428845bc394c8f583011.webp https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/a59c760ddbc3653e90c62671aa16c5360e972f009281cb73786f3f3eb545a774.webp https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/f6e740b919b47f09037fdfa82302d184d9a5f1cef85ec1413a246c62963b63e5.webp
Monzo: allow me to freeze and defrost my card in the API you cowards
I accidentally played DUGGA DOO and the theme from Gerry Anderson's “UFO” together at the same time and... oh no, my friends.
Oh no.
I’m going to have to do something about this.
Oh, Root, you tragic, beautiful, big gay maniac.
I loved you so much I made a sticker.
https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/There-Has-Never-Been-A-Plan-by-daveio/23398038.QK27K
TOOLS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT: Sightengine.
They have an AI detection tool which hasn't failed me yet.
You can submit a few images without registration, but when registered (free) there's no limit I know of for how many images you can test in the browser.
Advertising has realised I'm looking for work and is all like "this product can get you a job at JP Morgan Chase! Microsoft! AWS!"
Whereas I'm over here like "I just want a gig at a 10-30 person startup where everyone is a bit of a mess and we can all work together to build something cool".
I've done my time in corporate at Facebook and I hated it with everything in my soul. It ruined me, physically and emotionally. I still haven't recovered. I don't think I ever will.
I stayed as long as I did, and that's on me. But it doesn't change the myriad things wrong with bigger companies. I want nothing more to do with them.
You kind of have to be a deep Star Trek fan to understand quite how funny Lower Decks is.
You need to understand the difference of Alpha and Beta canon to understand how incredible it was that they got the Alpha canon stick, kept within the broader rules, and dicked around as hard as they could.
The bangiest banger is 16 years old this day.
Term I just came across and ADORE: "loving out loud"
Every time I see some insufferable old fart post about how only Reform will save us from the Shania Law menace, I post this https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/cbf71687d01210f63a863d8dea1f353e680bf57efc4d7f456b53e0c78a670b3e.webp
I will never not love having my PRs merged.
Now you can install `trunk` as just `trunk` using `mise`!
base58 is superior in every way to base64 and I will fight you
(storage is cheap)
Admittedly this is of little value beyond pretty cool, but I'm now on IPFS!
https://key.ipfs.dave.io : my public key, also available by CID bafkreid3gd3gljpguwpnxwvjnsfy2e4j2ib53c5vahjmmtukplo4bg5x3m
https://cv.ipfs.dave.io : my CV, also available by CID bafybeihh45n5ypckbmsckofkuqbzebtvdm2tvcvomcr3tw6tprkdw6iv3q
Gamer types. Look. We welcome you as part of the fight against payment processors as the true arbiters of taste and censorship.
Just realise that you're walking into something that we have fought against in sex work for years. Maybe show a bit of appreciation for that. Just a thought.
Funny how the pro-life crew never come out arguing for mandatory organ donation, hey.
I mean, if it's about maintaining life at the expense of all else, including bodily autonomy, why not?
It's almost as if their arguments are intellectually bankrupt and they just want to tell women what to do.
The more I read about it, the more incredibly rad MRI tech is.
Just one of the most important developments in medicine in the last hundred years, no big deal.
I pay for two AI models:
- Claude ($200/mo MAX plan to use Opus for everything)
- Perplexity ($20/mo Pro plan to use Research for everything)
I would not jack them in for the fucking world.
Look, the AI space is all dickheads all the time, but if you do a bit of digging you'll realise that Anthropic are quite clearly the company in the space who care the most about guardrails, alignment, and general behaviour.
Jack in your ChatGPT subscription. Join us in Claude land. The Pro plan is the same price (Sonnet is still very good), and believe me when I say OpenAI are **awful**.
Classiest moment: accidentally flashing Stoya and other guests on a preshow call, on a platform I built myself, and thus should have known where the fucking "camera off" button was.
Writing up my big wins at Feeld because I always forget and fall over myself in interviews.
I did a pretty good job running the infra team there, you know. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a48e66ec6a813050f31911d595d5ad76db512b45b2edec6bee73a9fbbd4aca7/07bb1f0d51e7d2eb292ec0c826f9b3100c642a40921bc54e839e1f7d4a14a92f.webp
Just spent five minutes exploring the 9.9 vs. 9.11 problem with Claude, telling it that it was wrong, before realising that 9.9 is actually greater than 9.11.
At least it insisted - correctly - that it was right, rather than preserving my feelings.
I am a bad LLM.
My favourite moment in the latest SUPERMAN was when he yelled GO GO GADGET WOKE, demanded a raise to the minimum wage, and implemented rent controls
NERD FLARE: is there any way I can use a modern browser, but HEAVILY throttle its processing? I mean, even down to a 486 level throttle.
Throttling only JS is absolutely acceptable, other page rendering is welcome to run as fast as it likes. Or throttling the whole thing.
When you fuck up so badly that leftists are saying the same thing as literal Nazis, it’s time to stop.
Epstein might be the thing to bring him down.
Look, I know the Tor project’s Shared Random Value is completely distinct from the point being made here and serves a completely different purpose, but all I can think of is
When faced with pro AI art maniacs, just deploy the old faithful. Tell them it’s not art, it’s commissioning, and watch them detonate. They universally do not have an answer.
Set up some throwaways and signed up for Turth Social.
It is awful, no surprise there, but what DID surprise me was the sheer degree to which it's all memes. Like, literally all memes, all the time.
They're consuming brainrot, only to post their own brainrot, and round and round it goes.
The one thing that all the MPs behind the proposed PIP cuts are unable to respond to is this simple fact:
PIP is not an out of work benefit.
PIP is a payment to assist with the financial costs of simply being disabled.
PIP allows disabled people to work.
They have no answer.
Picked up The Hollow Crown, which I thought was a miniseries, but is a series of Shakespeare adaptations. Which I could not be more onboard with if I tried.
Naturally, it had been going a whole 30 seconds before Patrick Stewart rocked up. Because you can't have Shakespeare without Patrick Stewart.
If like me you’re an Apple user and you’ve slept on iOS Shortcuts, maybe fix that.
I’ve implemented a workflow which calls against Linear’s GraphQL API and it wasn’t even that hard.
Also built one to generate alt text for images, but going to pivot to calling my API for it - prompting issues.