multjoy's comments

On: Changing how we develop Ladybird

[multjoy]

“Its riff”

[pelagicAustral → multjoy]

You're absolutely right...

On: Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left

[multjoy]

I migrated from gmail to Migadu. They have a webmail client, but they make a point that they Do Standards.

They also let you host as many domains as you like and the servers are all EU based.

On: macOS needs its grid back

[multjoy]

No. Mac window management is inexplicably awful.

On: Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler

[multjoy]

That’s because they cannot invent anything. They’re reductive, not creative.

On: AI and the Courts – A Cautionary Tale

[multjoy]

A judge hearing a routine administrative order in the English insolvency courts spied something amiss in the drafting and the judgement takes us through the perils of a) poor chatbot use and b) the reputational risk of said use.

On: The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble

[multjoy]

1) there is more to the world than software development

2) there is no profit. There is barely any revenue, the only money is continuous injections of VC cash and some frankly Enron-like book keeping.

[stringfood → multjoy]

apparently their goal is to take part of the 60 trillion dollar labor market that includes fast food order takers, IT professionals, hotel front desk workers, etc. There is plenty of payroll they can target

On: Canada’s Bill C-22 would weaken protections on private messages

[multjoy]

Those offences also include, as well as ‘hurty words’, threats to kill, bomb hoaxes and harassment matters.

The legislation covers all types of communications including phone calls and letters, and because the authors haven’t bothered to drill down into the stats it is impossible to pick out the ‘hurty word’ offences from (for example) someone threatening to rape and murder an MP on X, or engaging in a campaign of harassment against their ex-partner.

On: AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise

[multjoy]

I think it’s safe to assume that they are bleeding cash.

On: Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

[multjoy]

The only time I go into a bank is to deposit cash, and that is very rare.

I have no idea why people think in-person banking is superior, it is a pain in the arse.

That said, my bank predates all the fintechs by decades and was phone-first before smartphones.

On: I'm going back to writing code by hand

[multjoy]

It has no judgement at all.