Posts by SynAck@corteximplant.com
(DIR) Post #ArtUqjBSzmqxF7t916 by SynAck@corteximplant.com
2025-03-09T23:58:25Z
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@pixel Exactly! So I condensed all of those posts into a running document on my digital garden and made this one my intro post that is pinned to my profile. :bec_wink: Sort of "eating my own dogfood" as a trial run, as it were. :kekw: :thisisfine:
(DIR) Post #As1A0YYmo2BxPtJwsC by SynAck@corteximplant.com
2025-03-13T16:37:57Z
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I find it interesting when websites deny me access to them simply because I'm running on a VPN. Kinda makes me wonder what they're running under the hood such that connecting through a VPN is seen as some sort of security risk. But why should it matter where I'm connecting from in order to just read your public webpage?This is the same kind of crap that Reddit pulls, and we all know why they do it. The company I'm interviewing with today does this. I'm not quite sure how I feel about that.
(DIR) Post #As1AAi44K5xJn3nJSa by SynAck@corteximplant.com
2025-03-13T16:44:31Z
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@pixel Yup. It's on my list to ask. :bec_wink:
(DIR) Post #As9mcXqBHQRriDg54q by SynAck@corteximplant.com
2025-03-04T05:21:15Z
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Man, 2025 just keeps picking up more shit-sandwich steam every day, doesn't it? Just got word that my county is under a burn ban already due to "extreme drought conditions exacerbated by high winds". Usually, we don't start going under burn bans and water restrictions until at least the end of May. Stay classy, global warming. :thisisfine: :dumpster_fire_gif: 🔥
(DIR) Post #AsGlzQnqOMe4uxsH32 by SynAck@corteximplant.com
2025-03-21T03:33:09Z
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So I finally got the rejection email for the latest position that I was expecting, and of course it was all "we enjoyed talking with you but we're not going to proceed."I know that corpos don't give a rat's ass about any applicant as a human being and all that, I just wish someone - anyone - would tell me what I'm doing wrong or what I'm lacking. Even if it's brutal, just tell me that I suck, that I don't have good enough skills, that I don't have enough experience in the right things for the position, that I'm trying to punch above my weight class, that you think people that part their hair to the right are suspicious, or whatever. Just please tell me why you're not going to proceed because I don't know.I can't fix what's wrong or make any changes if I don't know what it is about me that keeps getting me kicked to the curb.I'm kind of at the end of my rope here. I don't know what I need to do in order to get a job and I don't know what I'm going to do next. I'm very, very frustrated and quite frankly, lost.
(DIR) Post #Asv4rEB0VePMJh6Be4 by SynAck@corteximplant.com
2025-04-09T16:04:16Z
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Now down to today's question: how best to share small, private, personal programming projects across my machines? Sync them via my Nextcloud?Put 'em in Github?Put 'em in GitLab?Install my own Foregejo instance and put 'em in there? That last one seems like a lot of work, but it would be a learning experience for sure. Maybe a recipe for long-term frustration. But it would allow me to keep all my stuff within my own network. Hmmmmm.... 🤔
(DIR) Post #AtOhJfeTxvRG0uAG4O by SynAck@corteximplant.com
2025-04-23T22:35:10Z
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So my SSD got hosed again. I was able to un-hose it using ntfsfix like I did last time, but apparently there's something about running npx quartz build on that drive that it really doesn't like. Something happens at some point and it just hard locks my whole machine to where my only option is to reset it, and then I have to fix the dirty bits. So I've moved my quartz directory back to it's original location on the internal HDD, and hopefully this won't happen anymore. I can't for the life of me figure out what would make npx just lock up my whole system like that.:confusedlucy: :rebeccaconfused:I guess it's really time that I do the dance and reformat this thing. It's clearly causing me problems on its "home" server.
(DIR) Post #AtOlnB5eYd5BjSCOZc by SynAck@corteximplant.com
2025-04-23T23:09:20Z
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@brettm I have no idea because the system becomes completely unresponsive until I reset it and clear the drive dirty bits.
(DIR) Post #AtTGOc78ounxW8V9w8 by SynAck@corteximplant.com
2025-04-26T03:58:09Z
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@foone This has happened to me 3 times since the beginning of the year. Things are getting bogged down in customs and the USPS is.... well, who knows what the hell they're doing. My latest package - which was just an art print from Germany - arrived in the major city to the 'burb I live in, and then I watched it bounce around the state to different cities 3 times only to have it sit in back in my local post office and sit there for nearly 3 weeks before it was finally delivered. It boggles the mind.
(DIR) Post #AtkxvZFyaAqm986Y1A by SynAck@corteximplant.com
2025-05-04T16:56:25Z
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@futurebird It's also seen as a way to shift blame when something goes wrong. I don't think that this is a primary motivation, but I would say that it's more prevalent than one would think. These landlords want to be seen as "responsible owners" when things are going well but as soon as something goes poorly, they want someone/thing else to yell and scream at (whom they don't have to look in the face) to get things going. It's about being able to shift the blame and causality away from themselves when something goes wrong. And, to be frank, most business types are too dumb to realize that they've been sold on a promise of "new efficiencies" that will never be delivered.What is that old saying, "A poor workman blames his tools?" I believe that this is one of the main ideas driving this "AI" adoption in business - what these people really want are tools for which they can take credit but then also blame as being "faulty" when their own ineptitude causes problems. That's all that this whole "AI" bubble is about - they don't want to augment or improve human capability or even efficiency, they want automated slaves to do their bidding 24/7/365, and screw the actual human workers. Having a workforce that won't talk back and demand rights is more valuable to them than hitching their wagons to the providers of those tools.It has never been about long-term efficiency or sustainability. It has always been about short-term, quarter-to-quarter profit and being able to get out with their money before that rent really comes due.
(DIR) Post #AuQmnZdSE3oonLBsie by SynAck@corteximplant.com
2025-05-24T21:09:16Z
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@pixel @revengeday I suppose that's better than the traditional English name for these, which are usually "urinal cakes". :spongebobbruh:
(DIR) Post #AvbXAIUpSlL6qrR7Wi by SynAck@corteximplant.com
2025-06-28T21:34:45Z
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@bloopmuseum And Phantom Phreak still gets no love..... :bec_sigh: sighWhat about Phreak weather patterns and changes? Gotta dress for those too!
(DIR) Post #Avc4B4syqgPxPsiGJ6 by SynAck@corteximplant.com
2025-06-29T04:35:13Z
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Rediscovered Psykosonik's eponymous album during my "Retro Electro" music collection spelunking while doing some late-night computing. I am here to tell you that "Down to the Ground" still slaps as hard as it did the first time I heard it. The whole album is quite the exemplar of the '90s techno music scene (1993), but that track in particular is just ultra-perfect.Nova preem, choom! Checkit fo' yo' damn self ritecheer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SACi43UNFX0
(DIR) Post #Aw7nm8hmNsJkzJ4SXY by SynAck@corteximplant.com
2025-07-14T13:04:58Z
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@pixel Happy birthday! 🎉🎂
(DIR) Post #AwVUlpjnB4xLLyrNA0 by SynAck@corteximplant.com
2025-07-25T23:25:02Z
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(DIR) Post #Ax5AXojbIefknQBYga by SynAck@corteximplant.com
2025-08-12T04:28:01Z
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@pixel My suspicion is that with that big class-action lawsuit looming against Anthropic - you know, the one that threatens to bring down the "AI" industry because it would cost them billions and billions of dollars if they lose - Microsoft is looking ahead to mitigate the consequences for themselves if the case is lost by saying that they "own" that code so it's not stealing.From everything I've been hearing, Claude is the current leading model for working on source code (as in, it seems to get the most things correct enough to seem "better" than the others). So if Anthropic goes down, then M$ could be poised to step in because they'll effectively "own" the biggest code library out there for training their models. That's my take on this whole move.
(DIR) Post #AxEnFHu8GfmwOiuFcG by SynAck@corteximplant.com
2025-08-16T19:51:33Z
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Small crew in the #holocall today....but we're here! Come join us on our weekly Discord chat!
(DIR) Post #AxEnkaaOrMJRJbbOq0 by SynAck@corteximplant.com
2025-08-16T19:59:42Z
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@pixel yes, yes....you and your world travels! Hope you're having fun at the demoparty!
(DIR) Post #AyshxpTYyoafIsjBei by SynAck@corteximplant.com
2025-10-04T23:55:30Z
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@pixel @crypticcelery :maxheadroom:
(DIR) Post #B1aJoOhhpP1Lfw6PZI by SynAck@corteximplant.com
2025-12-24T20:36:37Z
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@futurebird I don't think I have the space or the knowledge to make a case on technical grounds, but all I can say is that when one group anthropomorphizes an inanimate object - be it a product, a tool, or a corporation - it's usually a psychological manipulation to "humanize" the thing so that other humans will identify more closely with it and give it more leeway and the "benefit of the doubt" that they would never give to a mere tool. When people attribute humanity to things, they're much more likely to rationalize or even defend mistakes or lies as being "only human" by doing something that the thing they're "humanizing" absolutely cannot do - filling in the gaps and jumping to conclusions in order to empathize with something that has no emotions. In turn, anyone that thinks of them as merely a tool is ignorant, backwards, and close-minded.By conflating LLM with "AI", they're counting on a murky and ill-defined definition of what "intelligence" really means, and they're obfuscating the fact that intelligence in the context of LLM is not the same as human intelligence. They just let the dupes assume that the context is the same and let their human ability to jump to conclusions do the rest. They trick people into off-loading their own human intelligence to a machine and most people don't even notice the context switch, nor the loss of fidelity. They assume that machine intelligence is at least as good as human intelligence, which is absolutely false because we humans can't even come up with a consistent and agreed-upon definition of what "intelligence" quantifiably means.