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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 1 hour ago

with a moment's thought, it should be obvious that they are painfully aware, and with another moment's thought that that's where I found this out.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 hour ago

don’t wanna read this

what a coincidence!

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

absolutely appalling figuring it out, it really was "it can't be this stupid, I must be understanding it wrong"

then I got to the bash injection

and the proud "Generated by Claude Code"

and welp

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

TIL that "Aris Thorne" is a character name favoured by ChatGPT - which means its presence is a reliable slop tell, lol

like the dumbass-ray version of Ballard calling multiple characters variants on "Traven"

what to do with this information

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

IoM cribs from the ENC, here's to them cribbing that bit! See if you can get in there ...

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago

Tom is a top chap of generally correct opinions

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

The English national curriculum exposes every child to programming of some sort. 10 years ago it was 8yo kids learning Scratch, all of them.

I posted about it at the time: it turns out scratch is probably the answer, scratch is probably still the answer

in high school maths and computers they learn python.

my kid has no wish to become a professional dev, but can wield python as is useful to them.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

OpenAI lasts as long as Masayoshi Son can scam Saudi Arabia. Suddenly my 2027 thesis looks more solid. Fuck.

 

in this episode I explain the numbers that require SoftBank to keep OpenAI alive past all reason: they're spending real money to achieve imaginary private equity valuations and this was enough to make their stock go up. So they can't stop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTYxEVRiCvM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250827-softbank-needs-openai-to-stay-alive-no-matter-what - podcast

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

it's the most aggressively useless way to add copilot to excel

"I love it!!"

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago

there's having a favourite animal, then there's whatever this is

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

yes, instead they use Scott's and just keep typing forever

 

the VCs are pushing the quantum hype again. this is an FT editorial

(archive.is isn't working for me, anyone wanna post an archive link)

note lack of citation of actual results, a ton of handwaving about big companies, repeated "could," and the earliest date postulated is 2033

many of the important requirements for a VC bubble party

the tech press has been loaded with this shit, just a fuckin flood of it, all this nonspecific and glossing over the lack of mere existing tech in the present day

note that this has nothing to do with actual quantum computing, this is purely how to set up the tech macguffin for a bubble party

pretty good for a thing that is real - but doesn't exist as a technology yet or any time soon

bsky:

Tired: cloud computing

Wired: could computing

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