also might be some interesting commentary / parallels to draw there about how i feel about "ai", but i'll leave that one be methinks

like. i'm not sure i'm going to go full bore and into the abyss and start deploying things (i think my concerns are not *entirely* unfounded!), but i could probably stand to at least work on the damn things :p

have to admit, it's somewhat funny watching people get a chatbot to generate an entire app with no oversight, completely juxtaposed with my junior ass being too afraid to do some projects because i worry i won't be able to secure them adequately enough

truly the duality of man lmfao

@tubbo.tv surprised if you see this, but i'm curious, have you talked about this anywhere at all? not really a streamer, but i am rather curious to hear what all your thoughts are 🙂‍↕️

(and no, "but he's a good coder" and "keep politics out of FOSS" aren't valid excuses btw -- shitty excuses like that are how we let all of *gestures broadly* this happen)

rather fascinating getting recommended a video mentioning the fascist distro guy by name in its title

( ^ top ten least cool things ever said by anyone ever)

as an aside i've actually been enjoying reading through this stuff and coming up with a conceptual model in my head for how i could accomplish certain things.. embedded seems fun in a difficult-to-solve puzzle kind of way and (so far) i'm really into it

reading through some of the docs for the pi pico 2, and that last bit gave me a good laugh lmfaoo

honestly yeah, was somewhat surprised to see the content itself doesn't quite reach 200 pages! plus the chunk of references / appendices

suppose that's how you know it's well written 🙂‍↕️ definitely curious to begin working through it

granted I'm more of a rustacean, but hey, figure it's still important to learn 🙂‍↕️

yippee !

I dunno, I just want right and wrong to matter again.

certainly a very peculiar change for them to make.. will be interesting to see if they keep with it / say anything about it

saying this, i admittedly don't entirely know what else counts as 'engagement'. just seems like an unlikely scenario that they pretty accurately kept everything else in the norm across multiple channels

tldr it seems like they just. changed the external number, perhaps to appease advertisers?

something i'm curious about: iirc one of the theories posited was that the way videos are being *served* changed, but if that were the case, shouldn't there be some sort of variance in the raw like count? i would expect it to be higher if that's something they're weighing more now, yk