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Today's "Luigi isn't sexy" poster is Thomas Ptacek. The funniest example is probably this reply on the orange site:
That's an extrapolation from a poll, not literally 50 million people…
A cryptographer not believing in statistical analysis! I can't stop giggling, sorry.
if you think about it the human mind is really just a kind of naturally arising artificial intelligence #Deep
And, whilst I’m here, a post from someone who tried using copilot to help with software dev for a year.
I think my favourite bit was
Don’t use LLMs for autocomplete, use them for dialogues about the code.
Tried that. It’s worse than a rubber duck, which at least knows to stay silent when it doesn’t know what it’s talking about.
https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/113690087142854474
(and also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging for those who haven’t come across it)
True Anon podcast (began with dissecting the Jeffrey Epstein case) goes deep on Luigi, his shooting, and his grey tribe ideological background. https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-425-blue-118079355
oooh. AWS t4g.small instances (ARM, 2GB RAM) are free until 31 Dec 2025. See caveats.
oh good I needed a replacement free host for my other-other wireguard bouncy box. thanks aws
genuine question https://mathstodon.xyz/@sc_griffith/113680680638530340
Oddly parodied before it happened in the tv series community (the dad of the somewhat racist main character. The dad itself is very racist).
E: I do wonder what Javier Milei looks like if he would dye his hair
People probably asked the same question about the first Habsburgs.
Not A Sneer But: "Princ-wiki-a Mathematica: Wikipedia Editing and Mathematics" and a related blog post. Maybe of interest to those amongst us whomst like to complain.
Interesting article about netflix. I hadn’t really thought about the scale of their shitty forgettable movie generation, but there are apparently hundreds and hundreds of these things with big names attached and no-one watches them and no-one has heard of them and apparently Netflix doesn’t care about this because they can pitch magic numbers to their shareholders and everyone is happy.
“What are these movies?” the Hollywood producer asked me. “Are they successful movies? Are they not? They have famous people in them. They get put out by major studios. And yet because we don’t have any reliable numbers from the streamers, we actually don’t know how many people have watched them. So what are they? If no one knows about them, if no one saw them, are they just something that people who are in them can talk about in meetings to get other jobs? Are we all just trying to keep the ball rolling so we’re just getting paid and having jobs, but no one’s really watching any of this stuff? When does the bubble burst? No one has any fucking clue.”
What a colossal waste of money, brains, time and talent. I can see who the market for stuff like sora is, now.
I feel like before Redbox went under, it was also a dumping ground for this sort of thing. For instance, that mid-budget Western "Rust" where Alec Baldwin killed the camerawoman on set felt like it was destined for this sort of distribution strategy. Who's clamoring to go out to the theater to see a Western with Alec Baldwin these days? But it might stand out among all the other slop when you're looking to turn your brain off on a Saturday night.
See also the rise of the "geezer-teasers," where a random 80s/90s action star signs up to appear in the first and last 10 minutes of a generic action movie filmed someplace inexpensive, most likely eastern Europe or southeast Asia. There were a lot of those. Perhaps my favorite, that I still want to watch someday, was Danny Trejo and Danny Glover in "Bad-Ass 2: Bad-Asses."
I had to use clipchamp for something recently and my god, what an awful, enshittified piece of software. It's sending me emails now!