At least you can pretend to Excel at something

Honestly, I don't drink much anymore. I drank a lot as a student and I was youthful enough not to feel too many after effects.

But now... maybe once or twice a month tops. I'm mostly there for the taste now. I brew beer. I drink so little of it I end up giving away most of my bottles, or maybe sharing one with several friends on occasion. I love a good whiskey, but I'd rather buy an expensive bottle and let it last several years than powering through it or getting fucked up with cheap booze.

Truth is, I literally can't stomach heavy drinking anymore. So now I more often than not stop when sufficiently buzzed or when my taste buds give up.

It's great. A show about MI5 fuckups who keep fucking up. It's funny in a dark, twisted way and tragic and thrilling. The plots are kind of silly but that's not the point, the characters are.

Well written, flawed characters. The "hero" still believes he's a hero, despite being as much of a fuckup as the others. Much of the plots are fueled by his delusions of grandeur.

Amazing cast including BAFTA royalty like Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jonathan Pryce.

Have a watch or two. The seasons are short and fast paced.

Oh I love this one

Well, technically the open source kernel behind all Apple's OSs is still (mostly) open source. It's useless as is, but it exists. So yay for BSD licences, I guess?

For me, "progress" is any societal or technological change that helps society as a whole and reduces or removes inequality.

Examples of progress : ending slavery, women's rights, worker's rights, free quality education, LGBT+ rights and general acceptance and understanding, ending racism, the personal computer, internet, medecine, clean transportation, diplomacy, right to repair etc.

Exemples of absolutely NOT progress: conservatism, fascism and authoritarianism (several sides of the same coin), social media, LLMs (both being pushed by and controlled by and only benefitting technofascist feudalists), erosion of rights, mass surveillance etc.

I would never buy a such a critical piece of equipment if it depended on an app. I've seen too many devices being rendered useless or crippled when their app disappears or worse, forces a subscription model. Meanwhile, I SSH into my Mikrotik router, as the gods intended.

Thanks OOP for putting words on what I've been feeling for months.

Were "incentivized" (read "threatened into") pushing features quicker than humanly possible with no regard for quality, sustainability and proper ownership of the code to please one (1) stakeholder who had a barely thought out idea. The amount of tech debt in staggering, broken features come and go as the code is "rewritten" with each commit.

It's completely unsustainable and the only ones who profit from it are the LLM providers. When the whole product collapses, the only one to suffers the losses are the company building that product and their clients. Their employees get fired because it's somehow their fault. LLM providers get even richer because now the remaining employees burn through tokens to try and "fix" millions of nine of code nobody has ever thought out, written and reviewed.

Companies pivoting to "full AI" code are literally committing suicide, for the exclusive benefit of LLM providers. I get that that's Anthropic's and OpenAI's plan all along. I just can't understand the utter stupidity, hubris and amount of kool-aid drinking most CTOs are riding right now.

Yeah until CTOs start to realize that they spent the budget to double the workforce on tokens while producing nothing of lasting value. Nobody profits from LLM code except LLM companies.

That's my hope anyway...

I'm doing my part!