Clammy Sammy

It’s unlikely to be anything close to what the headline fuels to the imagination, but it’s good to read about some nice actual scary stuff instead of the calculator that Sam Altman put googly eyes and a miniskirt on and keeps claiming will kill us all.

It’s buried deep in the article, but they seem to recommend:

the LEAP method. Developed by Xavier Amador, it stands for Listen Empathize Agree Partner, and is meant to help better communicate with people who don’t realize they’re mentally ill or are refusing treatment.

They link to https://namiga.org/resources/about-mental-illness/leap-assist-someone-accept-help/ which unhelpfully tells me my IP is blocked by CloudFlare because accessing that link is considered an “attack”

They are pushing the “scarily unsafe” angle not because it is, but because that implies it is powerful.

As with everything else with Claw that sounds mildly interesting: A shithead human wrote that, or prompted it and posted it pretending to be his AI tool.

Meanwhile, at HQ: “The userbase hallucinated that they don’t want AI. Maybe we prompted them wrong?”

We are?

Hey I am not in need of convincing haha. Am Linux gamer and genuinely find it easier than Windows already.

It is.

And honestly, remembering the stuff I had to do to play the original Doom at a LAN party back in the day.

• Buy a sound card (some PCs came with, mine didn’t)
• Install the sound card drivers correctly
• Edit the computer’s config.sys file to assure the operating system drivers were loaded in such an order as to allow enough of Bill Gates’ 640 kb RAM available to load a game
• Borrow (!) a network card from my dad’s computer, and open up the PC to jam it in there
• Install network drivers
• Path the physical coaxial network cables through all PCs and terminate them correctly
• Configure the game to know which direct memory address (bank 1) and hardware interrupt request id (5) it needed to talk to the sound card
• Yes hello also find a smaller mouse driver and load it correctly because by now all the networking and audio stuff is making those 640kb tight

We all did that back then!

If someone was a “gamer” they were not afraid to do this because they either knew how or knew a friend who was happy to help.

Compare that to what I do today that most gamers consider “mind-numbingly super nerd impossible bullshit lol linux sux”, running GNU GUIX:

• Find a channel for the nvidia drivers. Add it to my system config, 2 lines.
• Find a channel for Steam. Add it to my system config, 2 lines.
• Oh no I had to add 2 more lines for nvidia by following clear documentation.

O hey everything just works. Proton kicks in automatically.

Instead of waiting a few more years for Linux to reach the level of ease-of-use needed to overtake Windows, MS is being sporty by moving the goal closer.

I can totally believe that nobody else felt like bribing paying out of their nose to have a Guinness employee fly over and look at a small computer and go “yep its small”.

Wow so next time I have a burning need for agentic experiences in my life I know a product exists to serve my need.

Liar

An economic bubble isn’t when something is fake and ceases to exist when the bubble bursts.

We use the term when the market is inflated way beyond its value.

A bubble bursting is when people realize the market is inflated way beyond its value and pull out, leaving debt-ridden companies to their debt.

Some go bankrupt, stock prices fall, economy news outlets insist nobody could have predicted this, investments go elsewhere, people are laid off, and the people responsible fail upward to another grift.

Please step into the Science to be cleansed, human

The stereotype is of the haughty Linux user, but fuck me all I ever see in these discussions is Windows users being belittling assholes.