Reposted by bcjheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 27mthe defining games story of the last decade is when the dead cells team got a bunch of positive press for being a workers co-op but then the game was a huge hit and so they made a private company for all the new employees to scale up into while the “co-op” remained about ten people large lol 914124
bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 10mBabies are small adults. If they’re old enough for solid food, they’re old enough to drive 000
bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 17hmore and more people are talking about the importance of smoking Hydrogen Bomb cigarettes 000
Reposted by bcjabsolute horses @jcoglan.com · 23hthe root access thing isn't a zero day, it's intended behaviour. stop making a face 1162
Reposted by bcjjezza @extremelywet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I know I've been fooled in the past but I'm certain the next big thing in tech is a key chain with a screen and camera on it that allows you to verbally ask an animated creature questions in public. I cannot wait to give mine all my personal and financial information 1348
Reposted by bcjCamille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 28/09/2026Most people never really cared about doing their jobs well but man lazy AI just makes the things they don't care about so much more visible 1285
Reposted by bcjJake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026i do not think it is ok for "full album" youtube playlists to include music videos for some tracks. those have sounds in them that are not from the album. 1292
Reposted by bcjRyan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 27/09/2026This shit is so depressing, man. Carney must go to bed thanking god every night that he gets to exist in a context opposite Trump. 1288
bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026If you’re not blasting choosing texas on a bluetooth when you go to the interview you should get get blasted with a gun 030
Reposted by bcjMike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman. 149120951987
Reposted by bcjStella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 26/09/2026Have I played “Control Resonant”? Sorry…I’m too busy reading the story of a man who “Controls Rocinante”…that’s right, Miguel Cervantes’ immortal tale “Don Quixote de La Mancha”. So you enjoy your strange “Federal Bureau”…I’ll be delighting in the adventures of Sancho Panza and his “Friendly Burro” 552617596
Reposted by bcjBruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 26/09/2026All of the broader things that we're losing thanks to AI—from being able to trust others to cheap GPUs—are a much bigger issue but what really gets to me personally is just losing respect for people I used to like. Ah it turns out that a shiny toy and flattery overrides your moral compass. Okay. 116632
bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I just found out the game is called Wetrix, not Wetris. I guess because it's a wet matrix and not because it's like water tetris. I feel like they wanted me to make this mistake 000
Reposted by bcjabsolute horses @jcoglan.com · 25/09/2026"I love to post in public about rejecting job applicants for non merit reasons" ought to be a confession to a crime not get you written up in vapid newspaper thinkpieces 1274
Reposted by bcjParis Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.disconnect.blogThe media has the AI threat all wrongGenerative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios. 271738583
Reposted by bcjbijan @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i think about this post all the time. you might too 3269221735
Reposted by bcj👼™ @cooltimesonline.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If its pics you wish to peep, 'tis my website you seek coolpicsoffline.blogspot.com 031
Reposted by bcjPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ringen.wikipedia.orgIron Ring - Wikipedia 2073042276
bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My big markdown complaint: • why is this not a valid list symbol. it's the list symbol My big markup complaint: • people add strike-through but they really should have a removal and addition. like ~~before~~after~~ should put after in red or italicize it or something 110
bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's cool how the Canadian government response to racist attacks from the guy trying to hold the country hostage is "actually we're already really racist" 110
Reposted by bcjParis Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026some genocide and war crimes are ok as long as you’re part of the International Community 517033
bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A thing everyone is always saying about systems thinking is there is absolutely no need to know or understand how anything works at a basic level. 170
bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's so cool that all these companies are doing ML-based age verification so that we can properly replicate "prematurely balding guy who buys beer & cigarettes for high school friends" 010
Reposted by bcjabsolute horses @jcoglan.com · 24/09/2026it's not just that LLMs replace making an effort with making shit up, it's that they make the former *read as* the latter. they're fractally destructive to the conveyance of information 2236
bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I have an iPod with the hard drive replaced with SD cards. Fairly regularly, after it's played an album or so, it will start immediately skipping through songs and will continue until I hard reset it. Playing that album will then work so it isn't that those songs are missing. Any ideas? 100
bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026this is our faults for sharing the IBM slide online. Hope everyone's ready for when Boeing starts saving money by cutting out the parts of the plane where there's a red dot 060
bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026them: I'm a pretty big George Eliot fan. I'm currently rereading Middlemarch me, trying to show how sensitive I am: Oh, I could never read that. I just think it's so tragic that Brutus would betray his friend like that them: ... me: oh, sorry, spoilers for something that happened like 500 years ago 010
Reposted by bcjAura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It would not be an exaggeration to say Microsoft has singlehandedly obliterated a large % of the North American AAA industry at this point 4711169
bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I am so sick of software that is sure it knows what I want better than I do. I crop a screenshot to the correct size and slack decides to cut off the edges in the preview. So I replace the screenshot with one that has a margin and Slack cuts off the exact same section 030
Reposted by bcjheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026halo and doom should be public domain. the first person shooter belongs to the people 272724458
bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It does seem like it would be cheaper to just buy game studios that don't exist than buy existing ones to lay them off 010
bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I don't even really pay attention to the NHL and I know field hockey is older but still whenever I hear a Brit say 'ice hockey' it's kind of like hearing someone refer to it as the "sky moon" to differentiate from other moons 130
Reposted by bcjRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Blanchet points out Carney cancelled the digital services tax on tech giants to placate Trump and it didn't work -- so will he now reimpose this tax? Carney says we don't need taxes that impact affordability for Canadians (??) Thank god the Bloc is here (lol help) to ask some actual questions!! 1132053
Reposted by bcjheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 21/09/2026damn if only there were 300-500 devs who could help with that 213451784
bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I know programming is the most "I'm management actually" field but it does kind of blow my mind that so many programmers have so little sense of self-preservation that they're willing to go all in on a technology that promises "your job will be made miserable up until it can be made redundant" 050
Reposted by bcjBruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 21/09/2026Right this is what I find so maddening. As far as I can tell, the problems LLMs are "solving" are caused by a combination of increasingly constraining application design and learned helplessness. MS office used to ship with a version of Visual Basic! 417037
Reposted by bcjPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Software developers think "if AI automates coding, I will be able to spend less time on producing widgets, and more time on strategy and architecture." Bosses think "if AI automates coding, I can get my devs to produce 100x more widgets." 7698148
Reposted by bcjJoachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026We don't live in slop world because of AI, we live in slop world because the purpose of everything is to generate a return on investment for capital. We evaluate everything along metrics designed to serve that purpose over any other. AI is just the best way we found of optimizing for these metrics. 9834308
bcj @bcjbcj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026continuity error: multiple characters refer to Jabba as _the_ Hutt but there's a whole Hutt species. They should be saying Jabba a Hutt 120
Reposted by bcjshaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't 3371911952
Reposted by bcjheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent 7359071661
Reposted by bcjchimera aunt @strangelittlevine.bsky.social · 17/09/2026these people are fundamentally bad faith operators. the button in their office is clearly labeled "make everything everywhere much worse for everyone and get $$$," they all read the label carefully and understood it, and they are hammering that button. they are knowingly hostile to all life and love 082