Bennet

I love Troye Sivan, my sleep time, my bug-free codes and queers.

[Bennet @benotoho]

@sugabelly Calabrar?

[Bennet @benotoho]

@AdamZivo Sometimes, you're testing concepts whose scopes can't be covered in 3 hours. A dissertation isn't written in 3 hours. It's university, not middle school.

[Bennet @benotoho]

@SullivanJosh2 @AdeolaKabiesi @Akintola_steve Please don't mind them. Nobody is ever going to experience a database engineering bottleneck at scale by specializing at home. If as a pioneer in your field, you don't want to source and train talent, then hire expats and leave us alone. These things are only learned on the job.

[Bennet @benotoho]

@Gahbriehel1 @TommyYesItsMe @aakashgupta But why do we need to import every update?

[FFmpeg @FFmpeg]

FFmpeg is moving to Rust 🦀

Our use of C and Assembly in FFmpeg has been an unacceptable violation of safety.

FFmpeg will be running 10x slower - but we're doing it for your safety.

All your videos will appear green - safety first, working software later.

[The Spearhead @Spearhead_Af]

Selling Intelligence: The Real Agenda Behind the AI Boom

The aggressive push for Generative AI is a calculated move to turn "intelligence" into a product, something people must constantly pay for and depend on. When Sam Altman openly talks about selling intelligence like electricity, it tells you everything you need to know.

Across Africa, this idea is being sold hard to governments, students, creatives, and workers as "the future," even in places still struggling with basic infrastructure.

At the same time, there’s a clear double standard. Tech elites like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg limit their own children's exposure to the very technologies being pushed on everyone else. The Spearhead's Kangmwa Gofwen explains that this contradiction should raise serious questions.

[Bennet @benotoho]

@TheGreatWilkie @mccomic @thamosdeaf No, no, you didn't get his point. The fork needs to be sent to mental purgatory for a week (abandoned), then rewashed in a completely different physical context. With warm water. THEN, I'd consider putting it in my mouth.

[Bennet @benotoho]

@michelleakin I actually thought this was satire at first. 'Cos like… that's a lot of furniture, casings, etc. idk more things = more cleaning. What I do agree with is tidying more often. When you tidy often, you take away the decision-making and it becomes easier, four walls or not.

[Bennet @benotoho]

@Market_Mirage @ThinkingBone "Going through the motions" is how you develop expertise to solve big problems. There's a reason elementary school pupils still learn mental math even though everyone has access to a calculator.

[Bennet @benotoho]

@shekhu04 @Oblivious9021 But the API was still called twice

[Bennet @benotoho]

@ireaderinokun Why the disclaimer about disparaging "AI"? Why really? Why isn't the principle transferrable?

[Bennet @benotoho]

@sissythatpatch This is cracking me up so bad

[Bennet @benotoho]

@vinemond001 @_doe_____ @Ifenimiii Yeah, I listened to a podcast episode about the history of boycotts recently. Boycotting is very much a political action and if it's not well-defined and goal-oriented, as most boycotts aren't, then it's bound to fail.

[Nigerian Author @MinoEhirim]

It’s 2025 and we still haven’t learned to disagree without burning down the house. Nothing serious gets built this way.

[Bennet @benotoho]

@FatmanZeitgeist @TheCinesthetic I was a bit too young when I watched it. Scared me shitless.

[Favour Ayorinde @viyancefavour]

Let me explain the difference between traditional and Western medicine with this pepper soup issue.

Let's say a Western scientist heard this rumor. They'd immediately conduct a study with peppersoup and check if it's correct.

Now let's say they actually found a positive result, i.e, it actually worked, they wouldn't stop there.

They'd reason that surely it can't be the whole pepper soup that's responsible for the effect they're seeing. I mean, first of all, pepper soup is almost entirely water. So what is it? Is the meat? Is it the spices?

So they'd split their study into groups. Some would be fed only the meat, some, only the actual soup.

Let's say the soup group came back positive; they still wouldn't stop there. Surely there are over half a dozen spices in pepper soup. Either it's one of those spices that's causing the effect, or the spices are interacting to cause that effect.

So they'd split up the groups again and cook different kinds of pepper soup, omitting each ingredient each time.

Let's say they did this for a while, and then discovered that the effect only persists when three particular spices are combined and boiled. They still wouldn't stop there.

They'd start studying the chemical properties of those spices before and after they've been cooked. What compounds are in one but not the other?

MEANWHILE, while all of this is going on, there would be another research group trying to analyse what actually happens when women are taking this pepper soup. What happens to their blood pressure? their heart rate? What about their blood lipids?

There would be groups taking blood and adding pepper soup to that blood, and looking at it under the microscope.

All these different groups would be firing papers at one another.

Usually, what this leads to is the isolation of a single compound that was actually responsible for the effect THE ENTIRE TIME.

Then once we have the compound, we can start studying its properties, using the research from the peppersoup blood guys. Does this thing accumulate in the bloodstream? Does it trigger immune responses or cause inflammation? Does it degrade into a known dangerous chemical? Does it trigger cancerous cells? That's how we understand all the known side effects.

And the funniest thing is that this compound may also appear in another random place. Like maybe it also comes out as a waste product when refining petrol or some shit.

Then, since we have the compound, we know how it works, and we know it's a byproduct of an industrial process, we start setting up a factory to mass-produce it for the public.

After all this, we have gone from

> Drinking pepper soup to flush things.

to

> Taking a single pill that's 100x cheaper and 100x more concentrated and effective, to do the same thing.

A layman could look at this and be like, "Why the hell are these people using waste product from refineries to us as drugs?" but they wouldn't get it.

They just wouldn't get it.

[Bennet @benotoho]

@nelsoncj3 @republicjournal @JCObioma Amazing. Didn't know portable weight checkers were a thing. My favorite item was
- Buy shea butter.

[Bennet @benotoho]

@riffy_z @tobeycodes @cpojer Why isn't it going to happen? What are PR reviews for? Seems to me that it just takes a few slaps on the wrist to put everyone in line.

[Bennet @benotoho]

@riffy_z @tobeycodes @cpojer What about bigger projects makes it difficult to create conscientious commits?

[Bennet @benotoho]

@grok @bhardwajshash @tomieinlove It didn't take into consideration the obvious case where a prompt containing only "thank you" is the last one in a conversation. That's where most of the cost is supposed to come from.