Mark Tomczak @mtomczak@qoto.org

@peter_ravn I call fake.

There's no *way* anyone had a plane to get the perspective to paint this.

(... I'm auditioning for a role in the reboot of the History Channel's "In Search of Aliens" series ;) ).

@3psboyd But if it replaces junior-level dev positions, then I would assume "using the AI" would get rolled into the education layer. Much as development of more flexible and robust languages displaced the hand-rolling algorithms into assembly that junior developers used to do, so as a result programming education moved to teaching how to express oneself in languages (and the algorithms behind what one could express).

@decitect @dsilverman @Popehat Fascists got their hands on actual legal power in the United States.

There are basically no choices that aren't playing with fire.

@ceolaf @riana @Popehat I assume "Asserting the behavior demonstrated was unacceptable" is part of the process of teaching how not to lose one's shit at garbage people having authority.

@riana @Popehat You've said it best. I've seen a lot of responses to this that are couched in what would be best for society / how an ideal world should operate.

Lawyers intending to practice law in the messy, historically-anchored, closest-thing-we-have-to-consensus world of actual legal practice in the United States don't have that luxury if the want to *be practicing lawyers,* and the actions of the school training them to do that should be understood in that frame.

@liroyleshed It'll be really interesting to see how that evolves.

Right now, I think (even with 10 million users) it's still in the "sparse conection / few users" phase. Twitter has 20 times that many users in 2022 (though I think the real factor of Twitter's fucktastrophe is density of connection network, not just DAU).

As the density of the connection forest grows, it'll be interesting to see whether the Mastodon ecosystem collapses into the same human-driven anti-patterns we saw on Twitter or a combination of the weaker ability to mash together highly-engaged users (due to a lack of centralized knowledge of use) and the self-regulation tools that are part of the protocol prevent that pattern.

@liroyleshed + a million. Got a sick dog today. It's life-changing that after COVID I don't even have to send a note to my boss to just wire up and do the day from my desk next to the puppy so she's got someone watching her.

@samreciter@corteximplant.com @SecurityWriter it's both. People started to bolster crypto in the large after the housing crash. They weren't wrong that failure to properly regulate the economy resulted in mass chaos, but unfortunately, all the crypto ecosystem offers is a different kind of chaos.

There is something to be said for your flavor of chaos... That's arguably what risk management is. But cryptocurrency is no panacea for a disrupted mundane system.

@SecurityWriter A wise soul I know once commented that the value of a currency is pegged on the value of the thing you must have that currency to get. For example, the US dollar is pegged to the value of paying your taxes if you're an American. Because you can get other things with other currency or even barter, but Uncle Sam won't take pesos, wheat, oil futures, or jelly beans.

And in that sense, the most common necessity people pay for using crypto is getting their ransomware unlocked.

@DavidBlue @ernie Don't worry; at the current rate of tech layoffs, you'll be doing their jobs soon anyway.

... Pay will, of course, not be increased. ;)

@skrishna I honestly loved that.

I enjoyed most of Star Trek 2009, but the one thing they played as a gag that stuck out to me like a sore thumb was the computer not understanding Checkov's accent. Because my over-analyze-everything brain latched onto that and went "Oh... I guess that means either Russian accent is super-rare in the future or we never cracked the nut of making voice recognition accent-agnostic. That's... Kind of sad."

And I know they didn't intend it that way, but it's Star Trek. Shit means things.

@ernie What can I say? You can't stop the fun, they've been hooked on the Brothers.

@randomino@kolektiva.social @Popehat Yep, that's me. I'm sorry we elected a fascist and will be spending the next couple decades cleaning up after that mistake.

... but that's what's going to happen, and future lawyers need to be prepared to work within the system if they're going to change the system (because that's what they're training for). You can't just pretend a federal judge isn't a federal judge until he *actually* isn't when your job is advocating in a court.

@randomino@kolektiva.social @Popehat What ethics violations have occurred? What venue changes are applicable?

You're saying this like the legal system doesn't already exist and have rules. I'd certainly be in favor of filing such charges if applicable, but if all he's guilty of is "interpreting the law to the best of his ability," what charge can be brought?

Elections have consequences. Until I see evidence to the contrary, he's there because voters and their elected officials put him there, and to pretend otherwise chips away at the foundation that protects your rights, my rights, and the rights of all Americans, including those we think he'd rather see burn.

Something that I've found useful when getting back into #cplusplus is learning #Rust at the same time.

A lot of the ideas in C++ are made explicit in Rust, so as I read, for example, how Rust treats string slices vs. strings, and then I see a lot of machinery around manipulation of a C++ string view, I can go "Oh, yes, this is attempting to minimize the need to copy strings."

C++ (for historical reasons mostly) has too many ideas jumbled together in too many ways to self-describe; Rust makes those ideas explicit, so they're easier to understand.

@lauren Why let some unaccountable third-party set your money on fire when you could do it yourself?

@randomino@kolektiva.social @Popehat Out of curiosity, what should these law students do when they graduate, go into practice, enter the court, and find this judge sitting across from them on his own literal platform?

@Popehat Life also has a way of making behavior like that have consequences. I wonder how many of those graduates will end up arguing a case in Judge Duncan's court?

I bet he has a good memory.