@badnetmask @homelab @homeassistant work laptop and then different PC or laptop for personal projects based on what I want to work on. I did used to share the desk for everything but eventually it makes me hate sitting at that desk so I spend a lot of time with laptops in different spaces to try to avoid association with work that impacts my mental state on the others

@badnetmask @homelab @homeassistant There’s a room in my house that is “the office”, all serious work happens in that room.

The desk is set up with a USB-C dock so I can easily rotate between computers at the same workstation.

Yes, my desire to do personal projects is definitely lower than it used to be. But I don’t think changing the physical space would help with that. There’s only so many hours a day I can look at code. So they mostly happen on weekends.

@badnetmask @homelab @homeassistant same setup in general like sometimes having a meeting on the couch while having a very good setup at my desk. BUT a different computer for work and home. The most crucial thing in my eyes to keep it mentally separated

@rysiek hmpf.... artificial is not intelligent, it's pattern recognition, it's statistical gambling, it is NO LOGIC, no reasoning, not even smart or creative.

@rysiek I am SHOCKED!

@rysiek I am so sad for students who have been deprived of an education and even worse atrophied critical reasonong skills. Academia has wronged them by tolerating this technology, let alone encouraging them to depend on it. They are the victims of a horribly unethical human subjects experiment. The worse is yet to come in tje years ahead, as children come of age having never once learned how to learn.

@rysiek I actually hate this sense that kids are supposed to come almost fully formed into their workplace, ready to do amazing things on graduate wages. You want them to do groundbreaking, deep thinking? Model it. Teach it. Cultivate it. Pay it.

@rysiek AI Naive

@rysiek This college graduation speaker put it all quite well!

https://mastodon.green/@gimulnautti/117107338529494012

@rysiek

Us over here in the future saw it coming months ago: "Published May 9, 2026"

@rysiek

> decline in social skills

way ahead of ya

@rysiek I am not sure if this also relates to the USA now being a rogue state with controlled media, a government so shallow as never seen on earth with horrifyimg morals?

@rysiek I think my late career will have something similar to the "cobol effect" back in pre-2000.
(for those who are not aware: year 2000 caused a major headache in legacy IT systems with date length, esp. old and effectivly non-replaceable systems running on Cobol. If you knew the language back then, you earned a shitload of money.)

@rysiek "AI natives" are these new hires from the future or do hiring execs just not understand the word native.

@rysiek żodyn siem nie spodziewoł, żodyn!!!

@rysiek Thank you for posting this. My daughter is in a humanities program in college and she frequently feels anxious that she’s making the wrong decision. She actually reads the material and writes without using assistance of AI tools, something she enjoys outside of classes. I’m going to show her the article you boosted and your amusing comment. Below is evidence of her diligence in studying for exams during the semester 😆 #AI #studying

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A textbook with multiple colors of tabs marking pages to review

@rysiek meanwhile, here I am, almost failing my thesis course because I loathed doing research but I managed to pass because my teacher forgot to grade a section of my whole file, lol.

I would rather write a creative story than do research ever again. Fuck that shit.

@rysiek I expect corvids to soon surpass some college graduates in critical thinking skills.

@rysiek I'd be curious about the details of how this works: I can see people who went for the typically-less-lucrative degree out of genuine interest being more likely to have done their own work; but if it's just genuine interest that makes you do your own work there are STEM enthusiasts available as well.

Is it a sorting problem, with those genuine enthusiasts harder to distinguish from botherds who scored better? Is it an actual disciplinary rot problem and those departments fell faster?

@rysiek

@rysiek @purplepadma This is why schools who rush to integrate AI into every aspect of their curriculum are just so ridiculously short-sighted. It’s almost like they’re also full of alarmingly shallow ideas. Go figure.

@rysiek

Im experiencing it in the workplace, people with an attitude that think they can google and copilot in 10 minutes the engineering gut feeling and craftsmanship you build in a career…

@rysiek Surprised humanities doesn't have the same problem. Must be lagging a little bit?

Now that there's interest in that field, albeit not intrinsically, maybe it'll get the attention it needs to catch up :p

@rysiek Be wary of any news story that prompts a "see I told you so" reaction. Confirmation bias aside, this story does not address all the non-STEM students using AI too.

@rysiek

hey, "AI native" people:

what do they need you for?

turning yourself into a small markov chain chat script, and thinking you have an employable future repeating what you asked the AI, is a joke

no one will notice?

no one will simply say:

"if that's all you do, what do we need you for?"

there is no way to "integrate AI into your workflow"

you have to have skills that *mean something*

turning yourself into a plastic moron means you're eminently replaceable

by #AI

@rysiek
My wife was at work one day, her colleague came to her with an issue: printer not printing. She asked him what had he done so far, and he says: "scatgpt just had me go down a list and nothing worked. "

She goes down to the printer and asks the user a question: "when did you start having issues? "

Turned out, user unplugged everything to move around, then plugged the cable in the ethernet port and not USB. Wife confirmed this, fixed it, and printer ejaculated jobs.

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This was the look she gave him when the user said that. " STOP IMPLICITLY TRUSTING SCATGPT YOU FUCKING MUPPETS!"

@rysiek
#slopheads

@rysiek This is not bad news.

... In fact, I'm going to be talking at my alma mater government-and-international-studies high school in October and I may work this anecdote in, because I already intend to say something to the effect of "they gave me an undergrad BS degree from one of the more prestigious tech unis with one class of intro philosophy, one class of intro econ, and a safety factors class I dropped before midterms under my belt, and maybe that's a problem."

@rysiek FFS... is about all you can say to that!

@rysiek As if "humanities" students were immune against using AI instead of thinking by themselves...

@rysiek

haha they know Jack Shit

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AI-modus "Know jack shit" is a common American English slang phrase that means to know absolutely nothing at all.Here is a quick breakdown of how the phrase works, its grammar, and where it comes from:💡 Meaning & Usage The Definition: "Jack" or "jack shit" is used as a substitute for the word "nothing". The Negative Form: It is almost always used in a negative sentence, such as "I don't know jack shit about cars". Because it is informal vernacular, speakers often use it with a double negative ("I don't know jack shit") to mean "I don't know anything". The Softer Version: If you want to be slightly less vulgar, you can drop the second word and just say, "You don't know jack".

@rysiek @briankrebs I have a BA in English, yet do DFIR and my incident reports are better for it. I always have a narrative with a protagonist and rising action, unfortunately there’s not always a satisfying resolution…

@rysiek but they want us to use AI and agents to code to keep our jobs?

@rysiek

The reason the techbros were pushing social media addiction and ai slop is because they want to infantilize the fucking masses. They do this because then they can feel superior.

Only what they're doing is destroying society as a whole, and soon the techbros will be facing a massive mob of violent people and none of their technology will work.

@rysiek I am even more shocked. Who could have known, possibly.

@rysiek when the plagiarism machines started doing well on some standardized tests we could have taken it as a sign that this way of teaching and grading is broken, instead it was used to fuel the bubble. Oh, well, at least they are creating some amazing value for shareholders.

@rysiek It is so incredibly depressing to think that there are however many thousands or myriads of colleges and universities in the United States, and let's throw in high schools as well because the hi-power high schools posture themselves as basically the onramp into higher #education, have gone all-in on this "AI literacy" nonsense. Can we please take the concept of literacy away from the techlords now? Please?

@rysiek 4+ years of job hunting shows that bosses, in fact, reject the concept of critical thinking as a general skill.

And oh boy do I have things to say about the depth of ideas coming out of long-established C suites 😬

@rysiek I don't think it's AI.

If you ask these kids what they want to be when they grow up, they don't say doctor or teacher or fireman. They say "I want to be rich". Money was always a means to an end, but now it's an end in itself. These kids have grown up in a world where the people who should be in jail are raping their classmates, because they are rich, because they are powerful. The people they admire and respect are barely scraping by. The mask slipped during covid and now they know the only escape from the capital monster is to be the capital monster.

These kids aren't AI pilled. They're CEO pilled. That's why they're dumb.

@rysiek This isn't totally new. Mumblemumble decades ago, a friend of mine in SF, who headed up the local office of international tech firm told me he'd rather hire humanities/artists than those who only trained to coder because you can teach a creative to code, but not the other way around necessarily. That's why this new focus on AI for coding - maybe the grunt work - but then how do people learn - has me rolling my eyes. It takes intelligence and creativity to build things. Not AI vibes.

@rysiek
I'm from the 80s and I am repeatedly confused as to why people think constantly connected devices would ever be fully secure.

Like, these devices are plugged in to the entire planet all the time, they're secure until someone on the planet finally breaks it's security. 😖

@rysiek in my experience most people claiming they were hacked had incredibly poor security practices, and vibe coding is making it worse

@rysiek

OH LAWD HERE THEY COME

EL1T3 HAXX0RS

it's easier to play at lazy stereotypes than convey accurate meaning

@rysiek

Those in power want the masses to view people with any skill or expertise (technical or otherwise) as the enemy. If our societies truly valued knowledge and expertise, those currently in power would be in trouble as they lack both.

@rysiek "And pretty soon anyone with a raspberry pi will be able to use an AI to break into your bank or your home video monitoring software to watch your kids change. We can't even barely keep a handle on the things ourselves!!! Something must be done and we know what that needs to be."

@rysiek shifting responsibility. Given it seems to be much worse than it was, it begs the question: is this intentional

@rysiek "locksmiths stealing cars" vibes

@rysiek Mostly the legislature, but same difference.

@rysiek A lot of Americans are surprised to learn that Venmo and similar popular commercial services don't exist in Canada, and then even more surprised to learn that they don't because there would be no market for them. Anyone with a bank account in Canada has access to Interac Direct E-Transfer, which has existed for ages, doesn't charge huge fees (I think some banks charge a small per-transaction fee, but many waive it), and is ubiquitous.

@rysiek

At least in the USA I can *use* my bank without needing a creepy proprietary phone app. I just need a browser, a password, and either an email or a phone, and if I choose the phone option then even a 50-year-old land phone will suffice.

I don't need a proprietary app to ride a bus, either. Cash or a bank card will do. I think there's a city or two where you don't even need that.

Don't act superior. You've got bigger problems than we do. We still have some privacy; you have none.