Trabajo con computadoras, escribo en mi blog, escucho punk rock, juego Nintendo, y leo cosas.
🏴 Uruguayan living in Scotland.
Tha beagan Gàidhlig agam.
Looking to give away some tickets for https://brightonruby.com purchased by kind folks in the community in the name of @codefolio
Please share with folks (in education or out of work in early career) who would qualify. Will contact folks by Wed 5th June.
New music!
KNEECAP - THE RECAP Ft. Mozey (Bootleg Version)
https://soundcloud.com/user-89644332/kneecap-the-recap-ft-mozey
Today I learned there are "vibecoding sessions", I threw up in my mouth a little 🤮
I don't want to outsource my thinking to a machine.
I don't want "art" averaged from some aggregation of actual artists' work.
I can write my own fucking emails.
I can write my own fucking code and design my own fucking games.
And I want art that comes from the brains of human artists. Who feel and whose soul goes into their work.
All this stuff is clever and I am sure there are uses for it but the things that are actually valuable in life can't be reduced to a fucking prompt.
FFS. 🦬
Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky had to censor dog butts to get his new animated movie made
"Nothing rattles the British establishment like being laughed at by someone who isn’t supposed to have a voice ... We could be forgiven for thinking our police don’t know how to handle dissent without detention."
An absolutely BLISTERING attack on the British state in defence of Mo Chara by ... the Daily Express?
100% worth reading.
Express: "Kneecap row shows just how desperate Kemi Badenoch can be"
This week's blog post is about what kind of society decides to create and use LLMs: it's not a very nice one.
"AI" (language learning models that pretend to look and sound like an artificial intelligence) is rotting your brain and making you stupid
https://newatlas.com/ai-humanoids/ai-is-rotting-your-brain-and-making-you-stupid/
Loving this: "The Copilot Delusion"
Quotes:
"Copilot isn’t that. It’s just the ghost of a thousand blog posts and cocky stack-overflow posts whispering, "Hey, I saw this once. With my eyes. Which means it's good code. Let’s deploy it." Then vanishing when the app hits production and the landing gear won’t come down."
"The problem isn’t just laziness. It’s degradation. Engineers stop exploring. Stop improving. Stop caring. One more layer of abstraction. One more lazy fetch call inside a render loop. Eventually, you’re living in a cathedral of technical debt, and every user pays."
"At that point, you’re not working with a copilot. You’re playing Russian roulette with a loaded dependency graph."
"But even if you're just slapping together another CRUD app for some bloated enterprise, you still owe your users respect. You owe them dignity."
@richlitt The venue? It's called Slay, close to George Square.
Saw The Aquabats in Glasgow, am filled with joy
I just backed THE HEART OF NEON BLU-RAY @HeartOfNeon on Kickstarter.
Own the film about a life in video games: HEART OF NEON tells the story of how game developer Jeff Minter went from pioneer to legend.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dokk/the-heart-of-neon-blu-ray?ref=thanks-copy
🥩 Is red meat bad for health?
Meta study of 44 studies finds it depends on the sponsor. If the sponsor is impartial, studies find it's bad. Studies sponsored by the meat industry find the exact opposite.
@Jorgemet En 2012 y 2013 hubo PyCon Uruguay. No sé si alguno de los grupos que había en el momento seguirá activo 🤔
Fui a uno en el LATU y no me acuerdo mucho, pero me suena que era sí menos onda empresarial, más grupo de usuarios.
Volviendo a jugar Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. Qué bueno puede llegar a estar Age of Imprisonment para Switch 2, corriendo a 60fps con más personajes en pantalla.
Y... ¿cómo no han sacado un Dynasty Warriors de Astérix?!?!
"Scotland was “absorbed” into England by the Acts of Union and is not a “partner in a union”, according to Professor Robert Black, an emeritus professor at Edinburgh University... [who] compared Scotland’s situation to that of a corporate “takeover” rather than a “merger” [and that] contrary to the prevailing opinion in legal and political circles, Scotland and England did not merge into a new state with the Acts of Union."
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25175433.scotland-absorbed-england-acts-union-says-legal-expert/
Metaphor: ReFantazio, galardonado con los premios a Mejor RPG, Mejor Dirección Artística y Mejor Narrativa en The Game Awards 2024 y Juego del Año de IGN, recibirá un parche de actualización gratuita el 21 de mayo a las 7pm CST que incluye la opción de subtítulos en español latinoamericano.
Será la primera vez que un videojuego de ATLUS pueda jugarse con subtítulos en español latinoamericano.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin
