Activity Log
hackers.town: 2025-03-20 Thu 07:16
The open secret that Facebook and OpenAI were training off illegally acquired books? Thanks to court documents, that’s just kinda open now. Signed off by MZ (who I’m sure we’ll be told actually famed Sonoma County baker Mike Zakowski, just a total coincidence on the initials)
via @beep
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem - The Atlantic
hackers.town: 2025-03-20 Thu 07:43
Getting the two-pair deal on the glasses provides an easy way to slightly appease ADHD brain.
“I’m bored. Need to fiddle with something. Oh I know, I’ll put on the other new pair of glasses.”
hackers.town: 2025-03-20 Thu 08:02
Just sitting here minding my own business and brain goes “WASM reminds me of applets” that’s it no explanation and then “Mah Nà Mah Nà”
hackers.town: 2025-03-20 Thu 09:16
Finally watching the Invincible show and finally noticed the main character’s costume is a stylized “I” from the Image Comics logo.
I’m super smart.
hackers.town: 2025-03-20 Thu 10:53
I write mostly in Python or Go these days and I miss postfix conditionals and unless ALL THE DANG TIME.
Also found myself wishing I had labeled break the other day to bust out of a nested loop, paraphrasing as: last TERM if $oopsie_condition.
A lot of things are easier to say in Perl-ish languages.
hackers.town: 2025-03-20 Thu 11:58
“Why us?”
Even in an infinite multiverse, you find hub realities everyone wants to tour, take over, or destroy. Your world is—
“A ‘hub’?”
Hah! No, a bypass. Main arterials are backed up, so we diverted a few through here.
“So the aliens, demons, and interdimensional armies are—”
Overflow traffic, right. Didn’t even help. I said we need a good rail portal system. But no, everyone wants front door access.
Sorry about that.
#Microfiction
hackers.town: 2025-03-20 Thu 14:20
That voice sounds famliar. Who?
There is no honor in—
Ah yes, Michael Dorn.
#Invincible
hackers.town: 2025-03-20 Thu 15:23
Jack wondering where the lady with the nice lap is.
Everyone misses Mrs Geek while she’s at work.
