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Skjeggtroll

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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online · Mar 08, 2026

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-SoFnnPjqYg

#EleanorMorton #tulipVases

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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online · Feb 04, 2026

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2026/02/04/liver-me-timbers

#pennyArcade #llm #writing

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RE: https://techhub.social/@rayckeith/115891885954410747 Also: you give someone free rein (as in, what you use to control horses), not free reign (that's what Donald Trump wants for himself).
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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online · Jan 14, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop https://xkcd.com/326/
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Just noting that "terrorist" has become so over-used and diluted that today it's a generic bad word, much as "communist" was in the 1950s, that denotes dislike on the part of the speaker. Unless there
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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online · Jan 11, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop My personal lithmus test for what consitutes terrorism is that it has to a) involve the use of violence or the threat of violence, b) directed against civilian targets, c) for the purpose of effecting political change. It's not a precise definition (one can quibble a lot about what does or does not count as a civilian target, for example) but to me it seems to cover the gist of it.
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Eleanor Morton pitches new British reality TV shows for 2026: https://youtube.com/shorts/mtNYQK0M_OQ?si=FY-AG0d1Ov4EYvCJ
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@cstross@wandering.shop The Great British Tank Off, set in scenic Castlemartin. Like Bake Off, but with more explosions.
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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online Surely that happens every year at Bovington?
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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online · Jan 09, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop Yes, so we basically just have to add Paul Hollywood and give him an RPG.
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Eleanor Morton pitches new British reality TV shows for 2026: https://youtube.com/shorts/mtNYQK0M_OQ?si=FY-AG0d1Ov4EYvCJ
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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online · Jan 09, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop The Great British Tank Off, set in scenic Castlemartin. Like Bake Off, but with more explosions.
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POLL: Never start a ...
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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online · Jan 03, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop War on Emus. They're mean.
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AAAHGH GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN I suddenly feel a compulsive need to write a thinly-disguised knock-off of Heinlein's "I Will Fear No Evil" about a dying billionaire who has his brain transplanted int
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Additions: make the billionaire a thinly-disguised Peter Thiel/Elon Musk hybrid, complete with transphobia. Make the "secretary" angry and resentful but needed the job (to cover a relative's medical i
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Footnote: imagine Peter Thiel waking up after a car crash to discover he's (a) female and (b) trans, and (c) his new body *hates* everything he stands for. THAT'S how "I Will Fear No Evil" would come
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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online · Jan 02, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop There was a bad 80s comedy with Bob Hoskins and Denzel Washington that attempted something sort of (but not very) similar to this: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099750/
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@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz But remember, as George W. Bush reminded us, French has no word for "entrepreneur"!
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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online · Dec 22, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz Also, as the saying go, English has no word for "Schadenfreude" in the same way that fish have no word for "wet".
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Because it's nearly Christmas, BUY THIS SINGLE MAKE IT NUMBER ONE IN THE CHARTS AGAIN THIS YEAR: https://youtu.be/rNkgDJpcuwU?si=lHJM7K9JEFfa-0DU
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@cstross@wandering.shop You're trying to immanentize the eschaton again, I see. You know that never ends well -- we could end up with an incursion of elder gods or, worse, Maggie Thatcher's zombie bei
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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online · Dec 17, 2025
@wordshaper@weatherishappening.network @cstross@wandering.shop Mr. Blobby is what _ends_ incursions of elder gods. He is Britain's final, inescapable, remorseless line of defense. May God have mercy on our souls.
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Betteridge's Law clearly applies: if this growth rate were to keep up for two decades the entire planet would be covered by a shell of red-hot glowing servers expanding at close to escape velocity. ht
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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online · Dec 16, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Huh. I always figured Grey Goo would be either nanomachines or bioengineered bacteria. Data centres weren't on my bingo card at all!
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Metaverse today, "AI" (actually just grand theft autocomplete) tomorrow. https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115663189943069630
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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online · Dec 05, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop I'm actually surprised the current AI hype bubble is going to outlive the Metaversa, but apparently the Metaversa just didn't have legs for it.
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oh dear chulhu the nineties were 35 years ago /me: crumbles to dust https://thecanadian.social/@MostlyHarmless/115641842232215523
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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online · Dec 01, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Nonsense. The Matrix came out in the nineties and that was, what, eight, nine years ago? Top.
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Bah. It's sunny outside and I wanna go out for a walk, but it's also blowing a strong gale (literally Beaufort Scale 8 winds) and I live on a street with lots of slate roof tiles of questionable vinta
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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online · Nov 28, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Old enough to know better _and_ to be grumpy about that?
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Oh dear Cthulhu, it's REAL: https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/reversible-meat-tenderizer/ "The disk on this impressively weighty pounder reverses, giving you two tools in one …" They really nee
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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online · Nov 28, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Future ER conversation: "He put a _what_ up there?" "It's actually not as bad as it sounds. In the ergonomic sense, anyway."
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@alper@rls.social @HighlandLawyer@mastodon.social @skjeggtroll@mastodon.online @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org Aaaagh, now trying to imagine Redcap Linux. Obviously has applications to mayhem and violen
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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online · Nov 20, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop @alper@rls.social @HighlandLawyer@mastodon.social @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org So Kali Linux? https://www.kali.org
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Be fair: AI-bear didn't tell its owners to vote for Trump! https://mastodon.social/@Julf/115582326145840546
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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online · Nov 20, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop "gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives" -- Yeah, no, that tracks. Bears.
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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online · Nov 20, 2025
@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org @cstross@wandering.shop Faery rings are trouble, but it's the Faery _token_ rings that keep system administrators up at night.
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Incoming urban fantasy story premise (via this Threads user): the Fae created Github, now Microsoft are trying to take over the Summer Kingdom in order to fill it with AI data centres. Of course, the
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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online · Nov 20, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop "To protect our users true names from Fae hackers, all user information is stored in a dedicated database running on an IBM z16." "Why on a m... No, please don't say --" "Yes. The Fae are weak to Big Iron."
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A clear sign that the AI Winter is approaching fast ... https://mastodon.social/@preya/115539102794649854
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@cstross@wandering.shop While I agree that the next AI Winter is likely just around the corner, I'm not sure Valve not talking about AI means much in that regards. Valve as a company has always been r
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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online I'm using the term not only in the context of it's 1980s meaning but to refer to the investment bubble (investment in AI was notoriously slack during the first AI winter).
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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online · Nov 17, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop It's difficult to divine, and in particular about the future, but I suspect the AI bubble popping might spell the end of cheap money for the tech industry in general and Silicon Valley in particular even _outside_ of AI. For Academia, the Winter might be Nuclear when it comes to anything AI related. For the tech industry my guess is it'll be status quo ante bellum, where developers will just quetly use established AI techniques where they make sense -- like they have for 30 years.
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Just your friendly, neighbourhood bearded troll. Toils in the software mines for kroner. Plays games. Reads the odd book. Knits. Reminiscences about the good old days when computers were eight bit, men were _real_ men, women were _real_ women and small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were _real_ small, furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

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@skjeggtroll@mastodon.online · Nov 17, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop While I agree that the next AI Winter is likely just around the corner, I'm not sure Valve not talking about AI means much in that regards. Valve as a company has always been rather unexciteable. A bit like Nintendo, Valve seem perfectly at ease with just doing their own thing and ignoring whatever mechanical hare the rest of the industry is chasing after at the moment.
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