Alec Story
astory.tilde.zone.ap.brid.gy
Alec Story
@astory.tilde.zone.ap.brid.gy
Software engineer, bad endurance athlete, leftist, medievalist. he/him.

#fedi22

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Another way of putting it: ChatGPT is an absolutely amazing fuzzer for human systems. It just spams humans with so many plausible-sounding scraps of nonsense that a ChatGPT user *will* find places where meaning doesn't matter and exploit them.

If you think of LLMs as a spam generation […]
Original post on wandering.shop
wandering.shop
May 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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This [KEYBOARD] is a machine that turns [UNHINGED IDEAS] into [THREE OR FOUR LIKES ON MASTODON AND MAYBE ONE OR TWO BOOSTS].
December 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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1995 - Yukihiro "Mad Matz" Matsumoto creates Ruby to avert some vaguely unspecified apocalypse that will leave Australia a desert run by mohawked warriors and Tina Turner. The language is later renamed Ruby on Rails by its real inventor, David Heinemeier Hansson. [The bit about Matsumoto […]
Original post on mathstodon.xyz
mathstodon.xyz
November 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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@NickGates

Put both cats and the toddler in the boat and let the tide take them.
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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@ricci "The most daring thing to do with your life is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured."

Kurt Vonnegut
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
@futurebird I bought some mastic recently because I was curious to try it and it was right there in the spice store. It's not as sticky as I thought! Once you chew it is pretty much the same as ordinary gum
October 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
@piglet.bsky.social mechanically ventilated, seems to be required.

Apologies if I'm repeating comments - I only see respondents who have opted in to bridgyfed over here on mastodon, which is nobody right now.
October 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
@piglet.bsky.social I got my optometrist to put prescription lenses in mine!
October 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
@piglet.bsky.social my bathroom is windowless
October 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM