Chris Cowley

Writing a series of devotional and decided to use LLMs as my assistants to search for bible references.

They ALL need a lot of work. Even GPT-5 is very insistent that various fictional chapters are good sources (Galatians 16 for example).

I think I am gaining time, but we shall see.

I could really use your help looking for Senior++ Technical Writer roles or intermediate++ Developer Relations roles. I'm looking to stay in Germany.

I'm also considering building up a freelance pipeline but realistically full time work makes my visa situation way easier.

Please RT for reach 🙇‍♀️

I know, but it is still interesting.

I have an 8GB Radeon and a CPU/motherboard sat on my desk. Just need. Just need some RAM and I'll have PC just for LLMs 😉

Note to self: Playing around with @dagger.io on a local LLM running on a 5 year old CPU is not optimal

I got to Rennes station and discovered a 2.5 hour wait for a train.

My wife had to come and save me 🙂

Last step home after an awesome time at @sunnytech.bsky.social and big thanks to @yves.brissaud.name for making 3 hours at CDG enjoyable 👍

You presenting in french or English? I was told in no uncertain terms to present in french

a pixel art of a beach with palm trees and a sailboat at sunset ALT: a pixel art of a beach with palm trees and a sailboat at sunset

Incoming to @sunnytech.bsky.social

Is it supported in RHEL? IF it isn't, why would it be support in Rocky?

Fantomette always assumes she will have a second breakfast. Usually a third too

"I'm looking for the Spirit wherever it happens" - Bono, in conversation with Joe Rogan.

Something to remember as we arrive at Pentecost.

I feel attacked!

Cron page from the Wikipedia showing it was released 50 years ago

Happy birthday cron. #unix #linux

The management thing is interesting. We are doing RTO (apart from me 👍) and are very middle-management heavy because of very low turnover at that level. I am not sure what will happen to them, but the RTO may trim some fat I suppose.

I was Chakotay, which I will accept. Would have preferred Tom Paris to be honest

I discovered there is definitely loophole in France. Getting a "titre de séjour" to prove you are a long-term resident is incredibly awkward.

Unless you cross a certain salary threshold, then they basically just tick all the boxes and hand it to you.

Doing a webinar on backup this afternoon. I will shamelessly add this image to my slide deck 👍

Been playing around with Qwen3 the last couple of days and it is generally pretty good. However, watching the output while it is "thinking" reveals it to be hilariously indecisive.

We spent years searching for that perfect Brittany longère (traditional stone farmhouse). Last year we bought our forever home: built in 2010.

Old houses suck in reality.

Ubisoft in some countries (France at least).

Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Luigi Mangione, 26, pleaded not guilty Friday to federal murder and stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, as prosecutors...

If your industry feels the need to seriously evaluate C-level security, perhaps you should be asking yourself "are we the baddies?"

www.perplexity.ai/page/luigi-m...

Seems to be the basic plan

This image contains a thread of tweets. The first tweet from "Ace Rbk" calls the hiring of junior programmers at $145k "dumb" because a $200/month ChatGPT AI could do the job. A subsequent tweet from "DHH" announces that 37signals is hiring a junior programmer with a salary of $145,849. Another user, "Ashish Darji," replies that programmers are still needed to guide and review AI-generated code. "Ace Rbk" then insists that "all of you programmers are already cooked." "Rory Koehler" challenges this by asking "Show us what you've built." Finally, "Ace Rbk" admits they haven't personally built anything but still believe programmers are "cooked."

The ignorance of the wise is better than the knowledge of fools

I think King Charles may be the first person ever to be annoyed about cancelling a trip to Birmingham.

Unpopular opinions for tonight:

- dynamodb is utterly insane
- golang is ridiculously verbose

Neither is realistically any better than Python plus RDBMS of choice for 99% of use cases

That is the exact model I had back in '99!

Little did I know that I would end up working for the Guillemot family many years later

"Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly"

Why not just say "it blew up"?

True, but that is some serious legal gymnastics going on there. I am so sure he has a slew of (likely young female) lawyers lining up to defend him though.

IANAL but I do not understand why Luigi Mangione is being charged with terrorism. It has several definitions, but all are for a political purposes, but as far as I can tell this was personal.

You have not reached the stage where you have to take your glasses off to see said nano-screw? I can't see to tighten the screw WITH my glasses anymore, but I suspect my mum was secretly part mole.