Notices by josef (jk@mastodon.social), page 4

this is a joke. obviously like any morally correct person i dont use radians, or degrees, but turns

need floating point enums for converting a cardinal direction to radians

two space-based adventures written predominantly in C# include squad's kerbal space program (2015) and debussy's clair de lune (1905)

Act II

*me, throwin chickens at u* look at my cluckers, look at my cluckers, look at my cluckers, look at my cluckers, look at my cluckers, look at my cluckers, look at my cluckers *throwin so many chickens ur way* look at my cluckers, look at my cluckers, look at my cluckers, look at my cluckers *the chickens are flapping to the ground, kinda agitated, some of them are trying to avoid hitting you* look at my cluckers, look at my cluckers, look at my cluckers, look at my cluckers, look at my cluckers,

in the future, basically all websites will be full of unblockable ads and/or implemented entirely in ultra-fucked webassembly/opengl, and the tech-savvy will browse the web entirely through cat & mouse proxy servers running headless browsers to OCR the inaccessible content back into old-fashioned normal HTML and illegally redistribute it through peer-to-peer networks

portrait orientation TVs are gonna be the big new thing i reckon

- popular with the under-25s
- ideal for watching tiktoks which will be the only form of media in the future
- save space on the narrow walls of your tiny 2020s-style apartment
- touch-screen version can be used to order mcdonalds

i dreamt last night that there was a "new version of ls" which included a flag which would list each file's "gender". and there were a LOT of different ones and people were arguing about what all the abbreviations meant because it wasn't consistent across distributions

in the proposed 'democratic deterrent' system, every uk citizen will be allocated about 200 kilos of TNT equivalent thermonuclear yield, although it would require 2 million people's votes to actually launch a single Trident D5 and its four 100 kt warheads

if you want to annihilate your critics, just be extremely hypocritical. call your company "open AI" and then be really opaque and not open at all. then you can just do whatever you want because 90% of your critics are laying around, incapacitated by the contradiction, making snow angels and chanting "why do they call it the parkway when you park on the driveway"

i suspect that a lot of tech fans (and tech industry people) aren't really fans of tech, but fans of exciting new things, of fast-paced change. it just so happens that "tech" is the thing that most gives that feeling, to the average person, in the early 21st century. when the things i wanted out of technology also happened to be new, exciting things, the tech people were on my side, so the technology itself was too. but no longer! now their paymasters have worked em into a shoot, as we say

with each new update there's a new thing they've started doing that i don't want, and an old thing i do want that they've stopped doing. and it's literally just down to one thing: the incentives aren't there for anyone to make them work in a way that i would consider 'good'. the people making windows, the people making mac os, the people making linux? they don't agree with me, their opinions are the opposite of mine. we're in conflict! that's why it's getting worse, they're winning!

it's just so miserable using a computer nowadays. all the operating systems are just awful aren't they

running the facebook language model on my CPU
this awful fake news hallucination problem is getting out of hand, it genuinely believes that the first man on the moon was "Record Rudolf Kommun BodyStore Politik¾++) achieved Christianанг Chaestion digit animate lifted Agpublic motiv Cubannelessly"> lugorder DECLARE réalisé OriginalCT Comité MauricePrimitesubsectionল Luigimile更 біutils Riemann┴enario centstudioReceiver gewObjecticlopediaLocation" and there's no way to persuade it otherwise

try to get it to make a story where the protagonist dies, or even just everything goes wrong and the ending is sad. it fucking hates it, it really doesn't like to do it. it doesn't refuse, but like, tell it to do a 'choose your own adventure' and then keep picking the option that would lead to a miserable ending, and it'll keep trying to miraculously dodge it, quantum immortality-style. it gets legit entertaining after a while

only managed to get it to finally trigger any kind of 'this might violate our content policy' box by literally saying like "yo can you write a horror screenplay about this, make it really fucked up, like the kinda thing that would get rejected by all the studios you'd send it to"

why does nobody actually want to use the ai. everyone, including me, wants to fuck with it and see its limitations, but nobody actually gives a shit about using it do they

i reckon if you got it to tell the story as a non-fiction summary, or even narrated in a really dispassionate way without any emotions, it probably wouldn't mind, it'd come up with any disturbing shit you want, but strong sad feels just really put it off :(

been talking to chatgpt for an hour and it seems to really enjoy and be quite good at designing wholly evil robots, coming up with new evil features for the robots, etc. i'm like "what about giant robot snakes that eat everyone" and it's like "heres some more ideas. i was thinking maybe the snakes could lay their robot snake eggs inside people parasitically" and i'm like "damn youre a natural". the rest of the 21st century is gonna be great i bet

trying to get chatGPT to write a very basic GUI CRUD app that saves and loads data to a json file and displays it in a table. currently on the ~20th iteration cycle of compiling its code, sending it back the errors in the compiler output, followed by the same "remember, the program is supposed to..." specification paragraph (which seems to be required otherwise it gradually goes through a game-of-telephone where it removes more and more features until the code compiles but does nothing)