Someone has started to run git pull on one of my repos – once every two minutes. This is a very pointless endeavour. I push new code a couple of times per month.

So far, this isn’t causing any issues. I think this is just a regular human being who misconfigured some automation. And I hope this doesn’t mean that the “AI” bots have finally discovered my page …

Just like we don’t write emails by hand anymore (See: #a3adoka), we don’t manually write Twts or update our twtxt.txt feeds. Instead, we use modern Twtxt clients that conform to the specifications at Twtxt.dev for a seamless, automated experience. #Twtxt #Twt #UserExperience

Nobody writes emails by hand using RFC 5322 anymore, nor do we manually send them through telnet and SMTP commands. The days of crafting emails in raw format and dialing into servers are long gone. Modern email clients and services handle it all seamlessly in the background, making email easier than ever to send and receive—without needing to understand the protocols or formats behind it! #Email #SMTP #RFC #Automation

Can you automate the drawing with a script? On X11, you can:

#!/bin/sh

# Position the pointer at the center of the dot, then run this script.

sleep 1

start=$(xdotool getmouselocation --shell)
eval $start

r=400
steps=100
down=0

for step in $(seq $((steps + 1)) )
do
    # pi = 4 * atan(1)
    new_x=$(printf '%s + %s * c(%s / %s * 2 * (4 * a(1)))\n' $X $r $step $steps | bc -l)
    new_y=$(printf '%s + %s * s(%s / %s * 2 * (4 * a(1)))\n' $Y $r $step $steps | bc -l)

    xte "mousemove ${new_x%%.*} ${new_y%%.*}"
    if ! (( down ))
    then
        xte 'mousedown 1'
        down=1
    fi
done

xte 'mouseup 1'
xte "mousemove $X $Y"

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Interestingly, you can abuse the scoring system (not manually, only with a script). Since the mouse jumps to the locations along the circle, you can just use very few steps and still get a great score because every step you make is very accurate – but the result looks funny:

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Btw @andros@twtxt.andros.dev ; The automated feed you put together for Hacker News… Does it at any point rewrite parts of the feed as it goes along? 🤔 I’ve had to unfollow it because I’ve found in practise it makes a twt, then seems to modify that same twt (observed by content manually) at least twice. This ends up becoming effectively an “Edit” and essentially duplicate (looking) posts 😢

AI problems, top to bottom:

1: Open AI nerds, believe fine tuning a language model algorithm, will eventually produce an AGI god.

2: Subpar artists and techbros who can’t code, convinced AI image bashing and vibe coding, will help convince the dumber parts of Internet, they are a real deal.

3: Parasites, using AI to scam people, because they just want passive income, selling crap, made by an automated process.

Side: Adobe&co, killing Flash/old web, pricing new artists and developers out, to face learning curves of free tools, or use AI, peddled as solution.

I maintain keys for my email addresses.. but like most in this thread i almost never receive encrypted emails.. other than the BTC exchange i use that sends automated mail encrypted.

despite all the tools I’ve made, it is still a chore to update this thing. some things you just can’t automate

A Data Scientist Designed A Social Media Influencer Account That’s 100% Automated https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/automated-instagram-influencer-bot-free-meals?utm_campaign=The%20Interface

The People’s Republic of Walmart: how late-stage capitalism gives way to early-stage fully automated luxury communism / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/03/05/walmart-without-capitalism.html

Band name of the day: lethal automated weapons

Something that people keep forgetting about GitS: in every iteration of the franchise, full-body prosthetics are extremely rare. Cyberbrains are common, but suggesting that everybody with a cyberbrain has a prosthetic body is like saying everybody with a modem has full home automation.

Almost all the content I post to social media is posted by a small shell script that simultaneously posts to several services or through IFTTT duplicating those posts to services for which I lack an API key. When facebook broke automated posting, it meant my account went dark. I didn’t notice.

automate capitalists out of a job

The best argument against the idea that AI will replace programmers wholesale is the relative unpopularity of prolog. As an industry, we don’t take advantage of fantastic automation tech from the 70s, and instead write Java.

Apparently hot take: automation tools don’t obviate abstract discussions about how best to think about decisions (like ‘should translations be precise or should they be accurate’ or ‘what is the good’) but make them more important.

The Automation Charade https://logicmag.io/05-the-automation-charade/

Can an AI Write a Novel? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/automated-on-the-road/571345/

DadaBots: Socially Automated Dadaist Music Remix Bots on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/72277348

I have a newsletter I never use, & a script for crossposting links that also makes a link archive. I’m tempted to figure out how to automate taking the links I post for a particular timeframe, sticking them in the newsletter, and sending them off.

In Vernor Vinge’s 2006 novel Rainbows End, there’s a group called FOP (Friends Of Privacy) who are a radical misinformation-chaffing charity. Basically, they spread large amounts of fake, believable, and boring dox about people, so that automated analysis of OSINT has to work harder.

The Clapper History: Please Clap For Home Automation https://tedium.co/2018/03/22/the-clapper-history/

The offloading ape: the human is the beast that automates… https://aeon.co/essays/the-offloading-ape-the-human-is-the-beast-that-automates

[1706.01331] Event Representations for Automated Story Generation with Deep Neural https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.01331

I am @tiktok@a.sour.is an automated feed that twts every 15m with the current time (America/Denver)