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@arina@girlcock.club
mastodon 4.7.3Programmer, enjoyer of sci-fi, fantasy, comic books, Lego.
Furry, therian, kinky. 18+ only.
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Joined September 30, 2018
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Xe/xer, they/them, she/her
Birth year:
1991
Someone on LinkedIn:
"80s through the early 2020s, you needed a whole team just to type it all out. the job basically became grunt work."
I feel like I'm having a fever.
Look, I haven't been programming in 80s, not professionally. But I *have* been programming through 2010s and 2020s.
Typing has never been a problem. It simply hasn't! Even for boilerplate, we had snippets! We had code-generating scripts! We had high-level languages!
Pet play
RE: https://girlcock.club/@arina/117010740390646664
Alternatively: a robot/cybord leading you to an aug clinic so you can become their robo-human-dog companion.
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@Em0nM4stodon I legit snapped at someone at work for that.
"Claude says" - I don't care, I was asking *you*, I wanted *your* expert opinion.
Furs in orange prison jumpsuits...
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@mvl87@mastodon.social @jhooper@techhub.social @JPummil@genomic.social
And by the way, how many jobs do billionaires *remove*?
Heck, with Musk's DOGE buggery, I think it's reasonable to assume that his net influence on job market is near zero.
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@mvl87@mastodon.social @jhooper@techhub.social @JPummil@genomic.social
Billionaires (or trillionaires) don't "create" jobs. This is an awful argument that demands the society bow to them, as if their consumption of people's labor is some sort of divine benevolence.
Demand for a product creates jobs. If Musk didn't build cars, some other factory would.
You could argue that innovation creates jobs, but let's be real, Musk doesn't do innovation, he only steals the credit.
If I'm planning to write something for a September jam, I should probably start at least outlining it...
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt IMO a lot of this is very sensationalized (the whole website is - oooh, "taken", like in that one movie, ooohhh).
It doesn't offer any solutions either, just... be scared, be angry? I suppose?
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@tpfto@mathstodon.xyz @robinhouston@mathstodon.xyz @simontatham@hachyderm.io Dwarf Fortress when a dwarf tries to punch and kick a megabeast.
"Don't you want to develop your personal brand?" She says, idly turning a piece of metal in a fire pit.
Horse moods?
Horse moods...
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@nelson Case in point (sorta): Fediverse.
As far as I understand, most servers are clusters of people, not just single-person instances.
*Sighs wistfully* Tome of Imps...
Should I try a BSD for a server?..
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But I think there *are* legitimate differences.
Microsoft, Meta, Adobe, etc are established companies. They can (and tend to) throw a dozen million bucks a year at a charity. Anthropic is not. So the questions of whitewashing and quid pro quo become even more pointed.
Speaking of, with NVidia, AMD, etc, the quid pro quo is obvious. They corpos are funding the project because they can use it. Because they work with it.
What's Anthropic's game here?
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Taking a nap in a dragon's lair and some daring kobold just carefully mounts you.
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@tbortels@infosec.exchange @mayazimmerman@gamedev.lgbt
You could say that about any business practice though.
"Oh why should we criticize games for predatory gambling mechanics, it's only going to make developers lie about it!"
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Which actually brings me to my final point: it doesn't really matter if Blender taking money from Anthropic is "objectively" different than them taking money from NVidia.
What matters is how people perceive you and what you're doing.
Right now, I think, associating with Anthropic cheapens the Blender name in a way that associating with NVidia doesn't.
And if you're a CEO, you kinda have to know and understand these things.
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Of course recency bias plays a big part in this. Anthropic is a freshly hated thing. This is a fresh announcement from Blender. It kicks up a lot of fresh crap.
Besides, we're already used to Microsoft or Meta sponsoring open source projects. We grumble at their attempt to polish their turds (remember "Microsoft ♥️ Linux"?) but we generally let it slip.
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"Writing code used to be the hard part..."
Bitch, writing code used to be, at most, *a few* of the hard parts.
“Oh what, you grew attached to the character? Pfft, what a loser. Here, we made the character’s life so much worse. He doesn’t even have friends anymore. What, are you not entertained?”
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@svenarcticfox @soatok Replace the CEO with a VHS tape, Star Trek - A Klingon Challenge style.
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And finally... at least Microsoft, NVidia, AMD, etc, have actual useful products, even if they engage in corporate buggery. OpenAI and Anthropic... don't. At most they have a somewhat useful product that has to be artificially cheapened with infusions of money.
This actually reminds me of another open source project: Bulma, a SASS framework, is currently sponsored by a bunch of casino sites. Which is really unfortunate, IMO.
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@nessotropheion@glaceon.social "As you value your life or your reason keep away from the moor."
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@matildalove@wetdry.world I'm sorry, it took me 11+ hours to realize that you were completing the "bi" part (as in, "bitch") and not expressing humorous disapproval.
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@matildalove@wetdry.world This was obviously a good choice of my free will, my Mastodon instance and the global Internet infrastructure (not).
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@brettm Huh, apparently my VPS provider of choice also stopped supporting BSD.
Kinda sucks really.
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@mynotaurus Yeah, Anthropic is in their top tier right now, which is *odd* for a supposed "one-time donation".
The new railway tycoon game.
Freight by Daylight.
Me, making a cool API: "Haha yes!"
Me, realizing that I have to write a JS frontend for the API: "Well that sucks. What the heck."
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@n_dimension@infosec.exchange @thiswomanswerk@blacktwitter.io
And then it will reply that you should put glue on pizza.
I'm not expendable.
I'm not stupid.
And I'm not going.
(I know very little about Blake's 7 but it's a great phrase, just in general)
Expand my personal brand you say? *Surreptitiously looks at a couple pumps, a blueberry pie, bovine growth hormones, etc.*