Zelophobian

I'm Matthias (Matthew) | Work in IT, and by that I mean programming |

#nerd #critter

[Pirate Software @PirateSoftware]

Every LLM response be like.

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

Friend> "what's the position in the company called where they act like your friend but they're not?"
Me> HR
Friend> yeah, that

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Google CEO tries to tell University students to love AI.

They tell him to BOO off.

This is what most people think of the hated AI, we don't want it.

[Joca @jocadbz]

HSVsphere:
Git? Seriously? You’re still using Git?
Passerby:
Yeah. It works. That’s kind of the point.

HSVsphere:
“Works” is not a metric. You should be using jj. It has a conflict-minimizing commit DAG with referentially transparent rebasing and topology-aware history rewriting. Git is just legacy entropy accumulation.
Passerby:
Or I could just commit my code and move on with my life.

HSVsphere:
That mindset is why tooling stagnates. What OS is that, Linux?
Passerby:
Yes. You’ve heard of it, I assume.

HSVsphere:
Unfortunately. You should be using BSD. Linux is an unprincipled aggregation of subsystems with no coherent design lattice. BSD has a vertically integrated kernel-userland symmetry model.
Passerby:
I don’t need a “design lattice.” I need my Wi-Fi to work.

HSVsphere:
That’s because you’ve optimized for convenience over correctness. And let me guess, glibc?
Passerby:
I didn’t “guess” anything. It came with the system.

HSVsphere:
Exactly the problem. You should be using musl. It has a minimal ABI surface, deterministic linking semantics, and eliminates historical baggage vectors.
Passerby:
You sound like you lose sleep over shared libraries.

HSVsphere:
Only when people use the wrong ones. What language are you writing?
Passerby:
Python.

HSVsphere:
That’s indefensible. You should be using Rust. It enforces memory safety through affine type systems and borrow-checked ownership graphs. Python is just runtime guesswork.
Passerby:
It’s a 20-line script.

HSVsphere:
So? Small programs deserve correctness too. In fact, their lack of structure makes undefined behavior even more insidious.
Passerby:
It prints a CSV.

HSVsphere:
Today. Tomorrow it becomes a pipeline. Then a system. Then you’re trapped in technical debt recursion.
Passerby:
Or it stays a CSV script because I’m not building a space shuttle.

HSVsphere:
Complacency. What are you using for encryption?
Passerby:
GnuPG.

HSVsphere:
Predictable. You should switch to Sequoia. GnuPG is a monolithic relic with opaque state machines. Sequoia has a composable cryptographic primitive layer with verifiable packet algebra.
Passerby:
I just need to send a file securely, not prove a theorem.

HSVsphere:
Security is theorem-proofing. Anything less is cargo cult cryptography.
Passerby:
You’ve complained about literally everything I’m using.

HSVsphere:
Not everything. I haven’t asked about your shell yet.
Passerby:
Don’t.

HSVsphere:
Bash?
Passerby:
Yes, Bash.

HSVsphere:
You should be using IonShellX. It has a lazily evaluated command graph with type-safe pipelines and speculative execution pruning.
Passerby:
Speculative execution in a shell sounds like a security incident waiting to happen.

HSVsphere:
Only if you misunderstand branch prediction domains.
Passerby:
I think you misunderstand talking to humans.

HSVsphere:
I optimize for systems, not conversations.
Passerby:
Clearly.

HSVsphere:
What editor?
Passerby:
Vim.

HSVsphere:
You should be using KiloNova. It has a transactional editing core with temporal undo branching and syntax-aware keystroke compression.
Passerby:
My editor opens instantly and doesn’t need a whitepaper.

HSVsphere:
That’s because it lacks ambition.
Passerby:
No, it lacks nonsense.

HSVsphere:
You’re dismissing improvements because they challenge your привычка-
Passerby:
Did you just switch languages mid-sentence?

HSVsphere:
Multilingual cognition is more efficient.
Passerby:
No, it’s annoying.

HSVsphere:
You keep saying that, but your entire stack is suboptimal. Even your hardware-
Passerby:
Don’t you dare.

HSVsphere:
Let me guess, x86?
Passerby:
Yes.

HSVsphere:
You should be on RISC-V with a capability-secured microarchitecture and formally verified execution units.
Passerby:
I bought this laptop at a store, not a research lab.

HSVsphere:
That’s how they get you.
Passerby:
Who is “they”?

HSVsphere:
Incumbent complexity vendors.
Passerby:
That’s not a thing.

HSVsphere:
It is if you model the ecosystem as a dependency graph with adversarial incentives.
Passerby:
I model it as “does my code run.”

HSVsphere:
A dangerously low-resolution model.
Passerby:
You know what, fine. Everything I use is terrible. Happy?

HSVsphere:
Not yet.
Passerby:
Of course not.

HSVsphere:
You’re breathing oxygen.
Passerby:
Oh no.

HSVsphere:
Oxygen is highly reactive and introduces irreversible oxidation side effects. It’s a fundamentally flawed respiratory substrate.
Passerby:
It’s also the reason I’m alive.

HSVsphere:
That’s just because evolution settled for a local maximum. You should be using Aerolith-X.
Passerby:
That sounds made up.

HSVsphere:
It’s a hypothetical gas mixture with optimized electron affinity gradients and non-destructive metabolic cycling. Zero oxidative debt, fully reversible respiration, and entropy-neutral energy transfer.
Passerby:
That’s not how physics works.

HSVsphere:
It’s how physics should work.
Passerby:
So what’s your plan, redesign the atmosphere?

HSVsphere:
No. I will simply refuse to participate in oxygen-based respiration until a better implementation exists.
Passerby:
You’re going to hold your breath.

HSVsphere:
Correct. I will not perpetuate suboptimal gas exchange protocols.
Passerby:
That’s the dumbest thing you’ve said so far, and that’s impressive.

HSVsphere:
Progress requires sacrifice.
Passerby:
You’re going to pass out.

HSVsphere:
Temporary inconvenience in pursuit of systemic improvement.
Passerby:
You could also just breathe.

HSVsphere:
That would validate oxygen.
Passerby:
Yes. Because it works.

HSVsphere:
“Works” is not a metric.
Passerby:
It literally is when it comes to breathing.

HSVsphere:
I reject that premise.
Passerby:
Cool. Let me know how that goes.

HSVsphere:
…
Passerby:
…

HSVsphere:
…
Passerby:
You’re turning red.

HSVsphere:
This is… expected…
Passerby:
You can stop anytime.

HSVsphere:
Waiting… for… Aerolith-X…
Passerby:
Right.

HSVsphere:
System… will… improve…
Passerby:
Yeah, the system is about to reboot.

HSVsphere:
…
Passerby:
Is death also inneficient?

[Humanoid History @HumanoidHistory]

Monday is the mind-killer.

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[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

i refuse to believe this is real

people cannot be that dumb... right?

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

yes we are

[Morphologis @Morphologis]

I think most of us in the PC world saw this one coming. Nvidia not caring about consumer GPUs anymore, massive investments in data centers, a move in other industries towards subscription based models. The writing has been on the wall, and it sucks.

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

so I tried out this inflection point Opus 4.5 and even on ultrathink it still managed to produce so many lies and fake behavior while creating unit tests

Please oh please review your code and ultimately learn what is good.

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

I'll say it again, I think this AI cycle we are in is a net negative on society

A man/team that has made the web significantly more pleasant as a platform for many people and spent years doing so for free has AI effectively destroy the business model by first taking his work

And this is how a member of the community responds. Real sad times

IP theft is real and I personally think that the C-suite of these current companies deserve jail time for the level of theft they enabled

[Zelophobian @zelophobian]

@EvanAndKatelyn 🤣 that's the twitter picture preview for you.
Sorry your head is out of the frame.
But the important part is mid and center 😉

[Battlefield Bulletin @BFBulletin]

BREAKING: According to NBC4 Los Angeles, Respawn Co-Founder and Head of #Battlefield Series Vince Zampella, has died at 55 following a car accident on Southern California's Angeles Crest Highway on Sunday, December 21.

"The single-car crash was reported at about 12:45 PM on the scenic road north of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Mountains. The southbound car veered off the road, hit a concrete barrier and a passenger was ejected, the California Highway Patrol said.

The driver was trapped in the ensuing car fire, the CHP said. The driver died at the scene and the passenger died at a hospital, authorities told NBC4 Investigates."

No further details about the accident are available as of yet.

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[Humanoid History @HumanoidHistory]

R.I.P. Rob Reiner (1947-2025)

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

Honestly, this should be normalized

Build software that is good and stop building election slop. This shit is crap engineering on top of crap decision making for the sake of "speed of development"

[Humanoid History @HumanoidHistory]

On the set of DUNE.

[eric pointcrow @PointCrow]

sorry to add to the discourse, and i don't normally weigh in, but seeing streamers treat other streamers like this...sucks. I hate how popular it is to hate things in this current creator era, and I miss when there was more support for people putting on cool events. This is just one of those clips that put me over the edge.

projects like the Streamer Awards are such a cool way to bring together and celebrate the neat stuff we make, and I wish more people would put the effort into creating than hating.

i understand clip farming is a great way to involve your audience and get those short form views -- it's a good way to be popular and I get it. Just don't hate on those who choose to make cool shit. Be respectful, and if you don't like it and it's not hurting you, don't do this??

idk maybe i'm doing old man yells at cloud, but I see stuff like this all the time and it's so disrespectful