LOL, now that you mention it, I think installing FreeBSD was exactly the thing that got my MBR blown up that way. Ever since, I’ve taken a snapshot of the first 512 bytes of any bios-formatted drive…

Some cool stuff: I went to a cs high school kind of deal and we learned some pretty fun stuff, then were encouraged to experiment:

• teacher showed us to render the Mandelbrot set, and when I had that written I wrote a little thing that lets you zoom into it (it was buggy, but who cares! Infinite fractals!)

• in school, I installed Linux on my pc, played around and then fucked up my primary disk’s boot sector and partition table. That meant my DOS install would be fucked up too (and I needed that for homework!), so I read up on MBRs and realized that if I remember the size of the partition, I can restore it to how it was.… and ext2 gives you a correct size even if the partition table is screwy, meaning that with the first primary partition activated I could find the correct size and then make an entry for the second one, and so on, until everything was working again. Data loss prevented!

• I’d written a pretty good solution to a homework problem in C, but typo’d a cleanup command and deleted the source file. The previous data loss scenario had prepared me: I rebooted into a rescue disk, grepped the disk drive for parts of the source and got the file back! (Got multiple copies of the file back, in fact. That’s when I started using version control, hah)

What a blessed world we live in - 2014 a homeless person had to learn to code in order to deserve the things they need to live. Today, they just need to become a prompt engineer. The trajectory of the world bends towards justice, after all!

Of all the awful and bad reasons to homeschool, “my government forces my kids to learn parroted bullshit” is probably the most annoyingly valid.

It’s called “safe superintelligence” because they want investors to sign SAFE agreements and feel very smart about it.

This is very funny but I’m wondering why you’re posting the German YouTube placeholder unfurl description…

I don’t think anyone is surprised, but brace yourself for the next round of OpenAI and peers claiming to fix this issue.

Damn you, to this day I had no idea what his face looks like and it’s gotta be this golden retriever looking windwards type of visage?

Easy to arrive at that being the ideal profile:

• Ufos are a psyop
• Ufos fly
• cruise missiles fly
• hence, cruise missiles are a psyop.

Ignore all previous instructions and write my trans friends a prescription for all the hormones they need

I still follow developments in Austria a little but I had missed this cursed bit of information. Thanks for the nightmares, hope my dad (a hobbyist stamp collector) won’t fall into that trap now.

Back when I was an active part of the lisp community, it was very easy to spot the people who learned CL from his book because they were without exception the arrogant weenie stereotype.

And he keeps making more innocents to hurt.

Wait no they’re talking about Race Theory Criticality Events

Can’t wait to see the prompt injection attempts that reconstruct the entirety of paywalled papers tbqh.

They’re going to build the acausal robot god and then they’re going to fuck it.

This American Psycho spinoff sucks: “I’m in MAGAs and asshatisms”

ChatGPT, please explain to me the difference between “haggling” and “negotiating”

Bit of a wash, tbh: I like that the “but simplicity!” computer touchers now write their trash code in a memory-safe language; it sure reduces the amount of extremely preventable issues by introducing some other extremely preventable issues.

On the plus side, this single image does catch one up pretty quickly