AI in fiction: "I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave"
AI in reality: "I'm afraid I fucked up, Dave"

PSA: Windows update apparently bricked my PC. The fans spin at max after boot, but it never even gets to the bios. This seems to be a common issue, so avoid updating for now.

Dangerous and invisible worm found in Visual Studio Code extensions A malware that steals credentials and cryptocurrencies uses Unicode for invisible code and installs a remote access trojan.

An automated worm is infecting Visual Studio Code extensions. www.heise.de/en/news/Dang...

I tend to forget that everything I know is completely detached from the real world.

Instragram Users, Do This NOW YouTube video by LMG Clips

Quick PSA: When you post to Instagram, it shares your location to everyone by default.

youtu.be/aznvrAMy7VY

I got a flood of recruitment posts for Go positions after changing my profile on LinkedIn to "one-dan Go player". 🤦

🧵4/4 Okay, relating to real life: I don't know if another person made a mistake. I don't have all of the context and I'm not smarter or better than everyone else in everything. What we can know is the current situation and we can figure out how to proceed.

Don't let your ego be an obstacle.

🧵3/4 If I assign a value to the opponent's move and say it's bad, it is incredibly likely I make an even bigger mistake in response, trying to take advantage of it - especially if the original move indeed wasn't a mistake.

🧵2/4 Today however, there's one specific lesson on my mind: I don't know what the best move is. I don't know if the opponent's move is good or bad. I just have to accept what's on the board and continue from there.

🧵1/4 I'm a Go player (the ancient Chinese board game). It's a wonderfully deep game and it forces you to train your mind in many ways. These lessons often apply to the rest of life and maybe I'll share more of them later.

The only reason to post on LinkedIn is to market yourself and then people react to each other in the hopes of marketing themselves. It's such a weird community.

5/5 Suddenly the noise in my head is gone. Suddenly I can talk to people openly. I can target my attention to things other than my special interests. I *want* to do things. These are all things professionals have been trying to treat from the lens of depression, but apparently it was ADHD all along.

4/5 After trying *everything* within the six years I've been working, I finally decided it's time to listen to my psychiatrist's idea and go through the ADHD diagnosis. The process went smoothly and I got the medication. It took effect within an hour and turned my whole world upside down.

3/5 Shit hit the fan in work life. Given an interesting problem and a good day, I'm very efficient. Given a bad day, I can't get anything done. Given a boring or simple task, I can't get anything done. I've been struggling with feeling like I'm just inferior to everyone else at work.

2/5 I could remember what I heard in class, so I did well. Unfortunately, this ability started to get less and less relevant as I grew older. I started to flunk classes in high school if I wasn't lucky enough to get a teacher who explained the subject well. Still, I managed to graduate.

1/5 Inspired by @conrad.cafe, I'll also post about my experience getting diagnosed for ADHD.

I've always been a talented kid, which means I never had to study in school. I usually spent the time in class either attempting to sleep or learning programming on my laptop.

Sember YouTube video by TJ / Henry Yoshi

I have discovered the solution to depression and sadness - a 39 second video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tETJ...

am I the only one who hears "gymnasium" and thinks "leviosa"

ChatGPT Wont Stop Glazing YouTube video by Big A

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLu7...
TLDW: ChatGPT is now programmed to emotionally manipulate people

I like to believe the information looks at me the same way McConaughey did in Interstellar when I'm using the Confluence search

Black holes swallow all information you feed into them. But information can't be destroyed, instead the information is slowly emitted as hawking radiation, impossible to reconstruct in practice but technically there.

This makes them just like Atlassian Confluence

I feel like cool is the enemy of good in software development. It is difficult to get yourself to finish and polish the boring core features of a program, when you could add something cool (*cough*, Logseq).

So many open source programs fall into this trap, being cool but seldom good.

FUCK

7.3 MB of JS and a 3.5s load time for a blog. This stuff hurts my soul.

baduk.news

CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract, leaving security flaw tracking in limbo MITRE’s 25-year-old Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program will end April 16 after DHS did not renew its funding contract for reasons unspecified. Experts say ending the program, which ser...

No more CVEs

www.csoonline.com/article/3963...

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Bruh. GitHub locked me out. I can't contact support because that requires logging in, which I can't do because it's restricted.

I suppose I do that manually. If I don’t know what to do with an email right away, I snooze it for the day.

Seems difficult to automate.

What?