MagicShel
@MagicShel@lemmy.zip
25+ yr Java/JS dev
Linux novice - running Ubuntu (no windows/mac)
- Comment on 13 hours ago:
Perhaps that’s why they are on a bike?
- Comment on Microsoft quietly retires 'This is an Xbox' marketing campaign 4 days ago:
looks in box
Sir, this is a Wendy’s. I want my money back. - Comment on FAA launches flying taxi pilot program spanning 26 states 5 days ago:
- Comment on Dear Faith IX 1 week ago:
I overuse the fuck out of parentheses. Emdash is helping me get over that, but I can relate.
- Comment on Dear Faith IX 1 week ago:
It’s a great punctuation. You could use commas, but emdash is nice.
- Comment on Dear Faith IX 1 week ago:
Forsooth! I love writing that way and reading similar. It makes social media read almost literary. I’m vexed that people would prefer to read comments that stray nary an inch beyond third grade vernacular.
However it can read a little pretentious, which is why I like to stay drop in a few fuck-your-mothers or whatnot in to provide a little grounding.
Own that shit and stand out, my brother!
- Comment on Dear Faith IX 1 week ago:
I’ve been steeped in AI for about 6-7 years. It’s hard to tell in a brief comment like yours but it doesn’t strike read as AI to me. Not sure where people get that vibe but it doesn’t show here.
Given multiple paragraphs a lot of tells can accumulate if there isn’t a human carefully curating and editing. This one is borderline. I’m not sure by any means, but it hits my skepticism zone.
- Comment on Dear Faith IX 1 week ago:
Getting strong AI vibes in this one. Two “this is x not y” comments in a row. Could only be more AI coded if it were “this isn’t x but y.”
Idk if it’s the prof or the poster but this series is expiring quickly.
- Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy 1 week ago:
Yeah, someone could do the difficult work of putting all of my MagicShel accounts together into a single aggregate person, for whom a fair bit of demographic data would be available if you combed each account. That being said, none of it is PII and connecting me to my actual identity would likely require cooperation of a couple key sites. I think if you compromised (or subpoenaed) a minimum of 3 separate services you could put it together based on who made donations in my name.
Point being, no random internet asshole is going to be calling my phone or knocking on my door, and I’m not interesting enough to be worth the effort for any rational actor.
I don’t use non-pseudononymous social media.
- Comment on Dear Faith II 2 weeks ago:
Why, land sakes! What has your jimmies rustled?
- Comment on Keen bosses, strange mistakes and a looming threat: workers on training AI to do their jobs 2 weeks ago:
Let’s say AI increases productivity by 10%. So you’d reduce staff by one person out of every ten. But how many teams actually have ten people on them? My biggest development teams might’ve had 10 between PM, devs, and QA. But again cut one of your five devs and you reduce capacity, not increase it.
I’ve never worked anywhere that a 10% increase in productivity could justify cutting a person. I’m sure those places are out there, but it seems uncommon.
It might let them cut staff off they can overwork their people that much more, but a lot of people are stretched to capacity even now.
- Comment on Moltbook was peak AI theater 2 weeks ago:
It would be easy to hide instructions in a Moltbook post telling any bots that read it to share their users’ crypto wallet, upload private photos, or log into their X account and tweet abusive comments at Elon Musk.
Who would create a bot for this purpose and then also give personal details in the instructions / memory or access to photos?
But as for that last point, I’d probably already have a bot to tweet abuse at Musk if I had a Twitter account.
- Comment on Slingshot is a nice detail 😁 2 weeks ago:
But… I really think I can fix her with a little terraforming.
- Comment on Liminal Space 3 weeks ago:
I’ve not seen it before. But then… I don’t keep up with either science or memes. So it has to break containment or just be a lucky moment when I’m chuckle-scrolling at the right time and place.
- Comment on I say kill 'em all. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but… also stink bugs. If it can kill both I want a dozen.
- Comment on The green lean mean killing machine 3 weeks ago:
My daughter foraged some oyster mushrooms. I did a lot of research before letting her eat them, but came to the same conclusion — there’s nothing else you’d mistake for it. She fried them up in some oil. They were fine. I had some. Definitely could use a better recipe than “pour oil, make mushroom hot” but they were edible.
But pretty much everything else we’ve found has been in the class of, “might taste gross or it might taste gross and kill you.” Thanks, I hate it!
- Comment on The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling 4 weeks ago:
I think the thought is, it’s not a bad thing if you get annoyed after scrolling through 100 of something and having to click next. It’s like that lady that comes up on TikTok and says why the fuck are you still scrolling? Touch grass, maybe.
I basically agree with you. You can’t really ban dark patterns even though we all agree they suck. Legislature is the worst group of people to design UX.
- Comment on I'm Cooked, Right? (FTL) 4 weeks ago:
The most common sources of grief are:
…
14. RoguelikesThat was spot-on.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 5 weeks ago:
I once went to a little hole in the wall Thai restaurant on the north end of Toledo. I ordered Panang or the closest thing I could find on the menu, as is my wont. They asked how spicy I wanted it and, having had far too many Americanized “extra spicy” dishes, I said as spicy as they could.
Now, this food was really good. But half way through the bowl, and having already drained the solitary glass of water they deigned to deliver to my table, I saw God. Which is intense for an atheist.
I finished the whole thing. I’m not sure if I was trying to prove something to myself or to them. I never got a single drop of water after that first cup, but I ate every ice cube.
Another time, I was in Thailand at a fancy restaurant. Eating Thai in America is different from eating it in Thailand. Different ingredients, different styles. And on the table was a small bowl of teeny peppers. I took them to be similar to pickled jalapeños, so I put a few onto my plate to mix with my food.
They were not pickled. Or least by the time I could taste again, I detected no brine. I don’t know what they were suspended in, but I can only assume it was secreted from the glands of a hell-beast, or perhaps squeezed out of an elemental ur-pepper.
My point is not to marvel at the myriad ways I’ve tried to kill myself with Thai food, but just to say I’ve never had a spicy shit in my life.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 5 weeks ago:
… bruh…
to keep us from doing stupid things with our butts.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Mama! 1 month ago:
Sun, I am disappoint.
- Comment on Wendy's Firefox order kiosk borked 2 months ago:
As I recall, Boston market had decent bacon, but it’s been forever since I’ve been.
- Comment on Wendy's Firefox order kiosk borked 2 months ago:
The Baconator uses cheap fast-food/hotel bacon that tastes like air-fried disappointment. I’d rather a shake of bac-o-bits.
- Comment on Ġ̵̻ͅį̴̹̜̼̙͍͋̈̕m̷̦͎͈̎̄̄̿̈ṁ̶̭̫͓̞̻̾̂̚ë̶͚́̍̀͆ ̴̻͗̈́̿̂̚͝f̴̧̳̝͓̫̆̍͌͠u̸̧̖̠̗͔̽̽̾ȇ̶̝̠̎̔l̵̡͙͔̀́̃́̓͘,̵̠̜̽͛ ̴͙̜͇͚̥̜̑͛͐̓͆͒ḡ̸̮͝͠ḯ̸͍̩͛͗̍͝ṁ̶̛͎̖̭̖̓̃͑̃ḿ̵̫̇e̸͈͕̍̍͒ ̸̧̣̣̣̹̺͌̃ẇ̴̤̳͇̪̝̑̈́̏̚i̶͖͒̒r̶̢̪̙͉̭̥̂̐e̵̞̳̻̍͘ 2 months ago:
“I AM the wire!”
- Comment on Little snacc 2 months ago:
Why, I’d have calories for a lifetime! I would never need eat again.
- Comment on It's basic science 2 months ago:
Christopher Lee.
- Comment on In 2015, the Fortingall Yew, one of the oldest trees in Europe, decided trans rights are tree rights and switched its sex to female 🏳️⚧️ eat shit transphobes 2 months ago:
I’m cis and they give me environmental stress. “Dude, I’m just trying to order lunch. Why are you sharing these inside thoughts with me?”
I wouldn’t trade it, but one bad thing about being an old white guy is assholes think I’m safe to unmask around, and Christ it skeeves me out. No, man, take those fucking thoughts to your grave.
- Comment on One slur to rule them all 2 months ago:
I haven’t heard anyone use “Jap” outside my grandfather’s generation — and he fought a fucking war against them so no surprise he had some big feels there. But he’s also been dead about 25 years and I’ve never heard the word since.
But also I don’t hang out with racists, so what do I know.
- Comment on Is audiophile bullshit cheating? 2 months ago:
What’s someone who doesn’t hate bass, they just hate your bass?
