Sasa Sekulic

To me most of these sound like "you can now get frozen pizzas for 2$, the pizza places will all close in a month"

A lot of those people don't have a slightest idea of what actually makes a product and the associated costs. Programming is like 1/4 of product creation. But even taken at face value, two days of your time are worth what, 500$? So 10 years of 1password subscription? Not really worth it, no?

The Enshittificator Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

Criminally funny, but also I'm crying inside

Norway comes for the #TechBros

www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree

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Tuxedo cat sitting in a box

Tabby cat relaxing

Ask and you shall be given!

Don't forget the New York pizza!

What ever do you mean? You want to say that Europe wasn't united for the last 2000 years over their common beliefs in Christianity and common western civilization values? Why I never... 😂 😂 😂

Pizza with frankfurters and French fries called Dutch pizza

Pizza with frankfurters and French fries called Alessia

Pizza with frankfurters and French fries called German pizza

Pizza with frankfurters and French fries called America

Ok, I had to go and check and I did find one place that calls is "America", but then other places call it "Dutch" or "German" or a woman's name, "Alessia" so...

I'm not sure I've ever seen the "American pizza", but there's a "wurstel pizza" with hotdogs and fries, popular with kids, and also a "kebab pizza" with kebab meat and fries, very popular with students

I keep reading posts about people who wrote applications entirely with "zero coding." They say they don't read the code and instead refine the application using increasingly precise prompts. I have some questions:

* Is the application nontrivial?
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The naked fun. Not sure if it counts as "ruined" tbh 😂 maybe "the baked gun"? "the naked bun"?

I think they're cleaning the gravity tubes or something

That sounds very interesting!

One possible scenario could be to temporarily postpone elections using an excuse, and in the meantime - since obviously the states cannot function without officials - they would temporarily stay in place, and then this temporary measure gets extended for another month, and then another and...

Built a palette extractor that thinks like a curator, not a pixel counter.

– Physics-based color repulsion
– Auto-detects muted vs vibrant bias
– Adaptive spacing to hit target count
– OKLCh color space (perceptually uniform)

Early Access: please break it!

chipper-otter-d6c600.netlify.app

Famous scifi author John Scalzi in mauve? Pink? T-shirt with a unicorn illustration and "alpha male" written on it

Well that's just wrong!

Although they might decide to add an "eXtra fee" or an "xTrA fEe" or "EXTRA fee" something

The reason CEOs think genAI is so capable of doing everyone's jobs is because literally the only job genAI has been able to do from the get go, and will possibly ever be able to completely do, is a CEOs job.

I was talking about it with a friend of mine and he said he uses it all the time and he couldn't live without it. I asked him for what and he said: I use it instead of Google Assistant. He thought the use case would be obvious to me, but I used GA once in the last 5 years, so no, not obvious at all

There's also the myopia that "everyone uses it as much as I do". I use it every now and then for writing reports because it uses legalese and project-managerese well, even if it's too verbose and sometimes misses the point so I have to fix it manually

it's not just that I find it chilling to imagine Sam Altman wearing my dead mom's face in order to sell me ads

it's that the way we ACTUALLY keep our lost loved ones alive requires a myriad of human skills these assholes perpetually devalue, like storytelling and deep emotional connection

I'm so sorry to hear about your cats. You should probably stop feeding them to the coyotes though! 😂 (I was tempted to ask Google about this but I don't want to give it any ideas...)

The most important question: was it in the training set? Because if it was then what's the surprise, that it correctly outputted something it was trained on?

Also, the company selling you a service says that their service is good. And the Coca Cola Company thinks Coke is better than Pepsi.

What fire post about algorithms? I'm here for Odin content! 😊

@ivanmorgillo.bsky.social and @sasasekulic.bsky.social's talk was beautiful, a wonderful chat with the audience about the use of AI for developers, friend of for? 💚

@benkadel dressed in Star Trek uniform in a very convincing panto 😂

Kudos to @benkadel for making the most interesting presentation on admittedly not very interesting topic of regex in #kotlin and #Android #droidconIT2025

A bookstore shelf with sf books, including books from John Scalzi, Jeff VanderMeer, Adrian Tchaikovsky, China Mieville, Martha Wells etc

I'm somewhat disappointed I couldn't find any of the newer @scalzi.com books at the Dussman bookstore in Berlin, but still I managed to get something new to me - Starter villain! Also, this shelf is very different to how it looked like ten years ago, and only a few authors were in there 20 years ago

I am (self-evidently) very interested in language. And also in technology. From that perspective, the rise of LLMs has created many new things for me to think about.

One is: why is it that certain very small clusters of words are *clearly written by an LLM*? What is the quality of that writing?

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩