and in case anyone is getting deja-vu:

This is a completely different company than the other one I found like 3 weeks ago:

https://digipres.club/@foone/112817523308786223

anyway I'm gonna be near their HQ on thursday. Maybe I'll stop by and ask if they're still in business, and if they are, do they know where their NUCs are?

not a good sign to see a bash case statement for environment, and prod sets the server to FOOBAR.EGG
and test sets the server to... FOOBAR.EGG

okay found their S3 creds. they hardcoded them in a Jenkinsfile.

BTW I want to make something clear:
remember how I said there was a gaylord full of NUCs?
yeah. I took one. of like, a hundred.

Why the fuck is this on hacker news? ugh. I'm gonna need to run my own mastodon instance, aren't I?

If you found this on hacker news, you owe me 5$:

https://digipres.club/@foone/112929955279707608

because this keeps happening

@lp0_on_fire I'll have you know if anyone is a gaylord full of computers, it is ME

@yuka I don't think I'm really fur enough to be a popufur

So if fonts can contain embedded web assembly, how long until someone makes a font that runs doom?

guys I know you want to show off how stretchable your product is but could you please, please, not do it like this?

Hiya! I'm a programmer looking for full-time work in the SF Bay Area (or remote!)
I'm primarily a Python programmer, but I've got significant experience in Java, C#, C++/C, Ruby, and Javascript.

I've focused a lot on Continuous Integration in recent years but I've got experience with in-house tool development, embedded software, back-end server stuff, and UI/Web/HIL test automation.
I've a lot of experience in digitization/archival work.

My resume & email:
https://wiki.foone.org/w/My_Resume

Thanks!

The good news is that I avoided installing windows 95 today.

the bad news? I'm installing Visual Basic 6 instead.

I imagine it's only a matter of time before some site like Facebook or discord adds a "feature" where they train an AI model on each of your contacts when you talk to them, so that if you ever ask them a question and they're away from the phone, it can have the AI model respond instead.

"your friend isn't here, but this is what we think they'd say:"

The only part of this that's fictional is the idea that they'd make it so absolutely clear when you're talking to the model instead of the human

Anyway they have to turn it off and delete the model if the person dies, because Charlie Brooker has a patent

@niki suggested that this could be used for blocking: you train a model on yourself, and instead of actually blocking someone, you just force them to only talk to the model.
Like the worst kind of shadow-block: they can't talk to you anymore, but they may never realize it

Game idea: a chat room is set up with N players, who all talk to each other normally. At some point, one of them will be replaced with an AI model trained on what they'd said before. Players can accuse each other of being the AI, but if wrong, they're penalized. They get points based on how close their accusation was to the flip.

@clacke I was really confused by this comment for a second, since "Turing" is my last name

@ajroach42 @zarfeblong although to be honest and fair that took nearly 20 years of asking and pleading