TomMasz

Our posts being sold to AI companies paid for those.

They’ll have jobs right up to the introduction of the next gen AI.

The planet is healing.

Oh well, I tried.

I left and deleted my account. My content should have been deleted, and not useable for AI training, but who knows.

Inertia, at least in some cases. It takes a lot of work to rebuild your audience. Leaving is accelerating, though, albeit slowly.

I use Pocket and Fakespot. Now what? I requested my Pocket data to be downloaded, so I’ll have that at least. Fakespot was really valuable, losing it really sucks.

Beginners are the least likely to ask thoughtful questions. We include slides in lectures about how to ask a question, but when there’s an assignment deadline and you’re inexperienced, it’s more likely you’re going to just blurt out “help me!” rather than provide a detailed explanation that doesn’t require repeated prompting. It takes time to learn how to work through an issue yourself before asking. Students are often facing time pressure and that can drive bad behavior. Correcting them is important, just don’t do it in a way that crushes their spirit.

Ever ask a question on SO? I tell my students to search there but never, ever ask a question. The unmitigated hostility is not what new developers need or deserve. ChatGPT won’t humiliate you for asking a question that someone else has already asked.

Black Mirror has its work cut out for it, that’s all I’ll say.

For sheer aggravation, Facebook. I’ve been on it long enough to remember the chronological timeline, which made it easy to see your friends’ posts. Now you basically have to visit your friends’ profile to see what they’ve posted recently.

Instagram/Threads I don’t hate quite so much, but I avoid Meta products as much as possible due to my hatred of Zuck. I left Twitter and Reddit a while ago, not because I hated them but rather because I hate Elon and spez.

Behold the next generation of voters.

He knows the words.

LO is fine for most uses though working back and forth with Office users can be problematic. Two things that I like about are: it offers a database module, which Office for the Mac doesn’t have, and it can open a lot of older file formats that newer apps can’t.

There’s no way this can cause the Earth to be catapulted into the Sun.

The looks like an interesting process. It would cool to see someone create new ones but it won’t be simple given the requirements.

Digg picked the right time for a comeback.

Every little bit helps.

Nobody in the entire world wants this but Zuck. Nobody.

I’ve never regretted deleting my Reddit (paid) account. And every day brings more confirmation I did the right thing.