jneen

@jneen

digifu jam band, video game composer, puzzle designer. trans. sacto -> oakland -> tokyo -> toronto jneen.ca | automaphoni.ca | queercomputerclub.ca music: jneens.newgrounds.com/audio support my art:

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jneen@jneen· 27d

ok bsky devs i have a gripe about the video player. see that volume slider? see what's right behind it? guess what happens when you click the volume slider

A bluesky video player showing the picture-in-picture button overlapping the volume slider

jneen@jneen· 29d

it really do be like that

github file display screenshot, showing two files with commit messages.

.claude (Initial import.)
.github (Funding update.)

jneen@jneen· Jul 2

this is what being a musician is like. both of these companies are making bajillions.

Paypal history:
Bandcamp Ventures LLC +4.81 CAD
SoundCloud Global Limited & Co. KG -47.32 CAD

jneen@jneen· May 28

there's a reason we called out programming specifically in Automaphonica's AI policy: automaphoni.ca/ai-policy/ and the reason is that programming is a creative task. the "routine work" in programming is no different than the "routine work" in any other art.

Works created using Generative AI, Large Language Models or Diffusion Models are NOT accepted in:

* Composing or producing Automaphonica music
* Programming or producing video for Automaphonica
* Producing art for Automaphonica
* Hosting or promoting Automaphonica releases

jneen@jneen· May 26

Mayor Mamdani sits down with violence

jneen@jneen· May 24

is signal's username feature real or is it like, an elaborate hoax

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jneen@jneen· May 23

picture of RetroArch trying to open a GBC file:

[0: jneen@lavender ~ ] $
; /Applications/RetroArch.app/Contents/MacOS/RetroArch
Segmentation fault: 11 /Applications/RetroArch.app/Contents/MacOS/RetroArch

jneen@jneen· May 23

what on *earth* is this supposed to do other than tell me no program can open files with your random ass extension. the app has no "open" feature. do people know how to write software?

Obtain your patch file and create your ROM

When you join a multiworld game, you will be asked to provide your config file to whoever is hosting. Once that is done, the host will provide you with either a link to download your patch file, or with a zip file containing everyone's patch files. Your patch file should have a .apladx extension.

[highlight]Put your patch file on your desktop or somewhere convenient, and double click it.[end highlight] This should automatically launch the client, and will also create your ROM in the same place as your patch file.

jneen@jneen· May 22

Tweet from Goku @outingpredators, 19 Oct 2017

I don't care which came first the canonical existence of a Young Sheldon means Sheldon is aged up character & that means you get the chair

1 Reply, 224 Reposts, 412 Likes

jneen@jneen· May 22

Extremely good and concise summary of the statistical/methodological shenanigans involved in measuring the so-called "AI boost" Here's a couple of my favourites:

Timing Artificial Tasks

A widely cited study found that developers who used GitHub Copilot completed a task 55% faster than those who did not [Peng2023]. The task was implementing an HTTP server in JavaScript from scratch, in ninety minutes; the developers had no other obligations that day. Real software development involves navigating a large codebase you did not write, understanding a requirement described ambiguously in a ticket, coordinating with colleagues, and attending meetings. Speed on a greenfield toy task does not predict speed on any of that. A randomized controlled trial with experienced open-source developers found the opposite of what participants themselves predicted: giving them access to AI tools increased task completion time by 19% [Becker2025].

Comparing AI to Nothing

Studies that compare AI-assisted developers to a control group using nothing have chosen a baseline that does not exist in practice. Developers without LLM assistants use documentation, colleagues, and the time they would otherwise spend thinking through the problem themselves. The relevant question is whether LLM tools outperform the alternatives developers already have, and that comparison is rarely made [Peng2023]. Choosing a weak baseline makes any tool look good; it does not make the tool useful.

jneen@jneen· May 22

i hate this fucking picture

Norman Rockwell Guy Standing Up meme, commonly seen on the worst fucking takes you've ever laid eyes on

jneen@jneen· May 22

jneen@jneen· May 21

one of the best parody accounts to ever do it. i wish they were here. nitter.net/outingpredat...

Tweet, 16 Jun 2018 from "Goku" @outingpreditors

Slammming my fists onto my Microsoft Surface 2 with 64GB Memory because the Croc wikia refuses to tell me how old he is .

1 Reply, 115 Retweets, 212 Likes

jneen@jneen· May 20

this the right one?

The Next Revolution In Industrial AI Has Arrived.

Because The Best Intelligence Isn’t Artificial. It’s Human Intelligence, Amplified.

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jneen@jneen· May 13

you don't need AI for this. we have grep

The developers I talked to found AI useful for some tasks. Several developers said that it was good for experimentation, allowing them to quickly prototype an idea or to implement something in a domain they’re unfamiliar with. One developer said it was a good information interface. Specifically, he said, [highlight]the AI helped him find where on the server a certain request is handled, summarize logs, or find documentation related to code changes.[/highlight]

jneen@jneen· May 13

this is what i've been SAYING

“We've been told performance evaluations are tied to AI adoption,” the UX designer told me. “This has led to most of my teammates using it performatively, even if most of us implicitly know that the output is flawed. [highlight]The actual quality of output doesn't matter as much as our willingness to participate.”[/highlight]

jneen@jneen· May 8

"pseudoscientific" is in the first sentence of the wikipedia page on polygraph tests btw

A polygraph, often incorrectly referred to as a lie detector test,[1][2][3] is a pseudoscientific[4][5][6] device or procedure that measures and records several physiological indicators such as blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and skin conductivity while a person is asked and answers a series of questions.[7] The belief underpinning the use of the polygraph is that deceptive answers will produce physiological responses that can be differentiated from those associated with non-deceptive answers; however, there are no specific physiological reactions associated with lying, making it difficult to identify factors that separate those who are lying from those who are telling the truth.[8]

jneen@jneen· May 4

RHETORIC [Heroic: Failure] - Alright, here we go. We're devoting all your available brain cells to coming up with a question about communism. Scratch that, to coming up with *the* question about communism, the alpha and omega of communism questions, and that question is:

1. (Whisper) "Are [begin edit]trans women kiwifarms?"[end edit]
2. Oh god, that's bad. Surely I can think of something better.

jneen@jneen· May 3

linux discourse on the tl today

tweet from @shaun_vids 28 Jan 2020: brigaded by the vile trolls again, simply for deliberately provoking them with lies and insults

jneen@jneen· Apr 29

absolutely wild

VERSIONS:
0.0.3 April 28, 2026 (8.5 KB)
0.0.2 November 10, 2013 (7.5 KB)
0.0.1 November 10, 2013 (7.5 KB)

jneen@jneen· Apr 24

that's it? that's all we get? "some pull requests may have been merged incorrectly"?

Update
We have resolved a regression present when using merge queue with either squash merges or rebases. If you use merge queue in this configuration, some pull requests may have been merged incorrectly between 2026-04-23 16:05-20:43 UTC.

jneen@jneen· Apr 22

if i become a math teacher i'm using this tweet to explain injections and surjections

tweet by Kusi Constanza @AntifaConstanza:

There are more grains of sand on the beach than atoms in the universe

jneen@jneen· Apr 19

Also, HAPPY PRIDE, y'all

(italic) The author is an engineer at Palantir

jneen@jneen· Apr 18

job postings at home:

A model is only as good as its data, and beneath every breakthrough in AI, there's an orchestra of human expertise powering that data.

micro1 conducts that orchestra, finding the sharpest minds and forging their expertise into the datasets that shape how AI reasons, adapts, and integrates into the future of humanity.

jneen@jneen· Apr 17

i know it's not the point, but what is this kind of journalism called

We have both ordered crab chowder as a starter. Two waiters arrive and with a dramatic flourish pour the soup over the shredded crab and deposit a shared plate of four mini rolls between us. The chowder is spectacularly good, both smooth and zingy. Both of us stick monastically to sparkling water.

jneen@jneen· Apr 16

bsky post by Baldur Bjarnason, followed by grey boxes indicating a failure to load replies:

> If Bluesky engineers insist on crediting their successes to "AI" while praising vibe-coding, it's only reasonable for the rest of us to blame their failures on "AI" and vibe-coding as well.

bsky error page:

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jneen@jneen· Apr 15

average computer user looking at a new tool

"this better not awaken anything in me" meme with the Dean from Community, but captioned "this better not make me learn anything..." in green monospace text

jneen@jneen· Apr 1

And in this thread you seem to dismiss what is fairly clearly the only reasonable course of action - reverting the theft of the repository - as "not serious" with precisely zero justification.

Reddit comment by scheems (OP)

My position is that giving RubyGems.org to gem coop won't be happening. My position is that the suggestion that Ruby central fork RubyGems.org codebase to run it was not an intellectually serious proposal. And not a good idea.

jneen@jneen· Mar 26

there is truly nothing new under the sun

If there is such a person as a program coder, and I have heard of *one*, then he is going to have to change his job — perhaps running The Last One on behalf of the analysts? The analyst/programmer should welcome this development because it means that he can spend more time on ideas and less on tedious coding and debugging. System designers [cut off]

jneen@jneen· Mar 26

job adverts at home: