Me too!

LLM showed its true nature, probabilistic bullshit generator that got caught in a strange attractor of some sort within its own matrix of lies.

My beans are mighty low right now and the fog has been dense these past few days. :/

For what it’s worth, I enjoyed this comic.

I feel the same way, but had no idea he’d had a stroke around the time of the big change. If true that makes it a bit easier to separate the man from his art for me.

Didn’t something similar happen with the US politician John Fetterman? I recall he was a darling of the Democratic party, then post-stroke turned radically ‘right’.

Reddit API apocalypse and their plan to IPO to sell everyone’s posts for data.

Guess Trump will be abducting Carney and ‘running Canada’ like Venezuela now, since we apparently have pissed off the Dept. of War for sending buttplugs to Bahrain. What a world.

Fortran – because helping any of the idiot CxOs who embraced vibe coding will only reward them and delay popping the bubble. Let 'em hang by their greed.

I hope any dev who’s asked to come back and fix vibe-coding demands 3x their previous wage, double the vacation and stock options.

This is really wholesome, good on that other dev!

I recently heard a saying which I’m still trying to take to heart and apply to my own troubles working on creative pursuits: “Comparison is the thief of joy”.

We’re all so connected and online these days, it’s all too easy to see the work of others, and either feel “it has all been done before, what’s the point?”, or “this other person is so good I’ll never reach their level”.

To the Great White North! Take off, it’s a beauty way to go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaqFkFExi3M

Ooo that’s fun. Might have to add that to my site.

That is, I’m guessing, either BQN or Uiua?

I have dabbled in APL, and it can be written either as ‘line noise’ like this, or as readable as any other language, with comments, control blocks and clear variable names. Let’s just say I have … opinions on tacit programming like this.

Well that could be considered the point where we lost our innocence, yeah. :(

Good point. On that note I am very happy having moved my home server from Apache to Caddy. The auto cert config is very nice.

More the latter :) … if only we could all just get along and be nicer to each other. Sigh.

Oh, definitely rose-coloured, but I am thinking even before those days… like when access to Usenet was restricted to colleges and universities, dial-up BBSes … and I didn’t use Windows or MacOS at all back then. ActiveX and js didn’t even exist back then. Boot-sector floppy viruses did, but those were easy to guard against.

Oh, I’m really just pining for the days before the ‘Eternal September’, I suppose. We can’t go back, I know. :/

This seems like a good idea.

So what’s the floor here realistically, are they going to lower it to 30 days, then 14, then 2, then 1? Will we need to log in every morning and expect to refresh every damn site cert we connect to soon?

It is ignoring the elephant in the room – the central root CA system. What if that is ever compromised?

Certificate pinning was a good idea IMO, giving end-users control over trust without these top-down mandated cert update schedules. Don’t get me wrong, LetsEncrypt has done and is doing a great service within the current infrastructure we have, but …

I kind of wish we could just partition the entire internet into the current “commercial public internet” and a new (old, redux) “hobbyist private internet” where we didn’t have to assume every single god-damned connection was a hostile entity. I miss the comraderie, the shared vibe, the trust. Yeah I’m old.