Chris Gioran 💔 / is on Nostr

I want to raise my voice. I try to remember my dreams.

Fascism is a loser ideology. Trans rights are human rights. Abolish borders and eat the rich.

I do silly things with software. Compulsive database implementor.

Currently working on #glowdust

Blog: https://radiki.dev/about
Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/chrisg
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2024-08-01 15:06:07

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I just love how the .4 is a scaled down corgi. Clears it right up.

2024-07-31 13:26:59

Logitech CEO: In the future we will sell a mouse that customers can use "forever.""
Me: <Looks at my mouse I've been using forever>
Logitech CEO: But what if it was, like, a software subscription. For the mouse. So it lasts "forever".
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I swear, CEOs say crap that is indistinguishable from chatbot word salad.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/logitech-has-an-idea-for-a-forever-mouse-thatrequires-a-subscription/

2024-07-29 16:01:39

There's drinking the AI cool aid, and then there's this:
A GenAI making end of life decisions for you is good, actually. Inevitable, even.
@npub15xv…0jms cuts through the nonsense quite eloquently, it's worth a read.
https://buttondown.email/maiht3k/archive/medical-science-shouldnt-platform-automating-end/

2024-07-26 09:39:56

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Their response suggests https://catena-x.net as a successful project.
This sentence is on the front page:
"an open data ecosystem for the automotive industry designed to create data chains that will enhance your value chain."
Reading the rest of the website doesn't make things any clearer.

2024-07-24 16:17:57

We need a meme generator that creates the meme image and the #alttext that goes with it.
People that depend on the alt text can feedback on the description so it can improve and everyone has single click access to it.
Unless this already exists of course, in which case I'll happily use and promote it.

2024-07-24 13:59:48

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Techbros be so apolitical they won't accept contributions from "DEI hires".
We've gone full circle.

2024-07-24 13:39:42

After AI crap, @npub19kd…t56d introduces....crypto wallets.
Because the reason crypto sucks is that it isn't private. Whatever that means.
I expect next week they'll introduce MLMs, but private.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/proton-releases-a-self-custody-bitcoin-wallet/

2024-07-20 10:41:24

Evergreen meme.
#CrowdStrike
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/112/817/913/049/647/828/original/35b02ff8c9ffc9be.jpeg

2024-07-19 13:01:28

I know it's fun to snipe at #Crowdstrike and #Microsoft right now - and we should continue doing that. They suck.
But spare a moment to think that a system that collapses because a vendor messed up is a badly designed system.
If a public utility stops providing its services because a software product went offline, then that utility is badly designed.
No system that people depend on should be remotely possible to take out this easily and at this scale.

2024-07-15 16:40:38

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"Like the bullshit claim that being against “AI” is ableist."
I had no idea this was a thing, so I went looking for it.
For anyone reading this, to save you the trouble, I think the argument says that "AI" enables neurodivergent people to communicate better, therefore being against "AI" is ableist.
Being against AI as the tech movement it is today does not mean being opposed to tools that help people just because they use some AI technique (assuming these tools exist).

2024-07-13 13:46:02

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But...but...number bigger. Moar tech words. Bigger is better. Tech is better. Must be moar fun.

2024-07-11 10:01:42

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I mean, they could have onboarded any script at any time as an employee. Do they think it's less stupid now because "AI"?
They pretend they're attributing personhood to code, when they're actually removing personhood from actual employees.

2024-06-18 22:00:43

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oh damn, wikipedia was amended and has a big disclaimer at the top too.
Thanks for pointing it out, I'll make amends.

2024-06-18 21:27:29

Noam Chomsky has passed away https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/06/the-noam-chomsky-i-knew

2024-06-16 10:30:30

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It just blows my mind that the punishment for **funding terrorist groups** is $25m. That's it.
They behave as if Chiquita did this by accident and a fine makes it ok.
If this isn't the poster child for supporting the corporate death penalty, I don't know what is. And all the C-suite should go to jail to boot.
So as you say, if the state won't sponsor violence, its complicity will suffice.

2024-06-03 11:09:41

#Microsoft to "invest" $3.2bn in #AI in #Sweden, "drawing on the country's green energy"
When you read that "AI consumes as much energy as a small country", that country is now Sweden.
And this basically means the country's *public* power infrastructure is being sold out to private interests.
Shit like this makes me livid.
https://fortune.com/europe/2024/06/03/microsoft-invest-3-2-billion-swedish-ai/