Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/05/prisoner-who-took-moj-to-court-says-he-remains-in-isolation-20-months-later?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

New year, new blog post: I had a random question, what happens when LLMs are prompted to write better code, again and again? Do they actually write better code? The answer is yes*! https://minimaxir.com/2025/01/write-better-code/

we got a rare thin dusting of snow. I'd rate Odin as mildly bemused but not concerned.

#dogs #dogsofmastodon

https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post

Just recovering from a helpful user who launched a web security scanner at my site and found 5 "issues", none of which were a security issue. But by opening public security tickets you cause a lot of work for a project, since we can't just close those & people start to worry if you ignore them. Please think twice before opening security issues if you aren't sure what they mean & you just copied them from a random site. Feel free to send an email before raising the alarm.

This list is scary and depressing—but the 'black swan' event I wrote about breaks the mold. I’m not being a Pollyanna here. I genuinely believe my prediction has at least as good a chance of being right as any of them, and possibly even more. What do you think?

The Incredible, World-Altering...

love mobile computing

Aloha fediverse. Unfortunately the great layoffs have come for me and I have been deemed too expensive to keep on, so I need a new job.
I'm a specialist when it comes to legacy systems and technical debt.
If you have a big ball of mud that no one understands and you'd like someone to just Deal With It, I'm your engineer!
I've mostly done this in Python for the past few years but I know a bunch of other languages too.

More info on my CV: https://lex.me.uk/cv
#fedihire #getfedihired #fedihired

Are any computer scientists here on Mastodon working in Visual Computing, or Computer Vision? I'm looking for a collaborator to work on the visualisation of medieval handwriting as movement. Would be grateful for re-posts!

I’d like to conduct some polls on social norms here…..First up: blocking

Do you think it’s ok to block people

@tpolecat right back at you :)

@eed3si9n Thanks for sharing these. It's fun to see what you're working on.

I am enough of a psychologist and a person who has been through shit to know in my soul the actual answer to living with a lot of pain and the aftermath of mortality anguish right now is Be More Phenomenological and Mindful and Embodied Experience, but I don't WANT it to be the answer and what if we try Being Pure Intellect again

Happy New Year! Join @ahl and me next week as we engage in our annual tradition of 1-, 3-, and 6-year tech predictions -- and revisit our predictions from past years. (Especially our 3-year predictions from 2022!) Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific:

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1324197967397126175

Our predictions from 2024: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/predictions-2024

Our predictions from 2023: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/predictions-2023

Our predictions from 2022: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/predictions-2022-2022-01-03

Evening walk

(Somehow both frames have some cinematic Western vibes to it [at least to me]...)

#EveningWalk #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Winter #Snow #Trees