Replying to @josh0@babka.social
@josh0 thanks, that is hopeful! please send feedback that this is a desirable state and they should expose it
Glyph
@glyph@mastodon.social
he/him
You probably heard about me because I am the founder of the Twisted python networking engine open source project. But I’m also the author and maintainer of several other smaller projects, a writer and public speaker about software and the things software affects (i.e.: everything), and a productivity nerd due to my ADHD. I also post a lot about politics; I’d personally prefer to be apolitical but unfortunately the global rising tide of revanchist fascism is kind of dangerous to ignore.
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- https://blog.glyph.im/pages/disclosures.html
Replying to @glyph@mastodon.social
bit of a rant about the state of phone operating systems
@lumi I mean this is absolute fantasy but so's the competitive environment where 1000s of independent OS providers could exist, so, as long as we're fantasizing, let's dream big
bit of a rant about the state of phone operating systems
@lumi in android, we do have 1000s, with all the budget handset manufacturers, and it is a miserable slog to make software in that environment, which is why nobody does. stochastic competition won't solve this problem, what we need is regulation. a UN agency that develops software in the global public interest, mandates that apple/google accept it, and regulates their developer programs.
Replying to @dianea@lgbtqia.space
@dianea I frequently think "the metaphors I am coming up with are way too bleak. surely someone with direct experience with ionizing radiation / lead / biohazards would chastise me for catastrophizing this" and then people with experience in the fields keep showing up and telling me that I'm not pessimistic *enough*
Replying to @glyph@mastodon.social
Protesting LLMs by refusing to use any software that includes them feels like attempting to protest the introduction of tetraethyl lead into gasoline by refusing to breathe until everyone stops putting it in their cars. So I am drawing my personal moral lines in such a way that I will probably accept this.
But please don't mistake this for excitement about huffing a bunch of vaporized lead.
Somewhat alarmed that the LLM detritus seems to no longer have a toggle to be disabled in the iOS 27 and macOS betas. I hope, but do not expect, that it will come back in the final releases.
If I want to still be able to set a timer when I'm cooking with my voice, I probably need to accept a bunch of nonconsensual slop ("writing tools") being shoved in my face in every app.
For extremely stupid reasons I am going to need to change the Family Organizer in my Apple Family. This involves disbanding and re-creating the Family, which I suspect may have destructive effects.
Have you experienced this process? What was it like?
(Please do not speculate; I want replies from people who have actually done this. If nobody has, and I get zero replies, that's OK.)
“I poisoned my own mind.”
More and more programmers are writing retrospectives like this — and a huge THANK YOU to Elissa for doing so — where they discover that Programming Is Not Special.
It is particularly interesting to read this from a solo game developer who is both a programmer and an artist, who began by thinking the programing isn’t art, and discovered by an emotionally torturous process that it actually is.
Elissa@vampiress@eigenmagic.netBlog post: Inspired by the video I just boosted - some honest thoughts on my AI remorse from my experiments earlier in the year.
It was bad, and I have SERIOUS regrets.