@joey My colleague suggested COBOL should still be quite LLM-safe…

But yeah, same here, all the introductory exercises get one-shot by Copilot and friends…

@sundogplanets …over their whole career!

Relatedly, data centers in orbit are a fucking terrible idea (not the title Scientific American used, but they should have) https://archive.ph/UPkWu

The SA article references a paper that analyses the carbon footprint of orbital data centers, since techbros talk about "unlimited" solar power so […]

This is getting a bit more traction than my posts usually do, so hi, people reading me, a bit more context for my being pissed off about Calibre putting AI into its feature set:

I am an author. I've released work with Carina Press, and I've released work on my own. My released work is on record […]

@jschauma No more file storage and no web pages anyway, faculty at $DAYSHOP only gets a cheapo CMS where we can’t even publish files like slides or papers (for science, for teaching there’s a learning-silo).

BTW don't use Spotify. Or any other streaming, really.

Bandcamp isn't ideal but at least they give artists actual money while making it easy to listen to - stream or download ( without DRM ) as you see fit.

@isotopp