Nick Lockwood

iOS. 3D graphics. Retro games. He/Him.

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2026-02-22 10:05:52 UTC

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pretty sure for some of them it was Mein Kampf

2026-02-13 08:34:42 UTC

People pontificating about whether codebases containing LLM-generated code are subject to IP protection all seem to be forgetting the key point that the law always sides with capital
When big media decided that pirating an mp3 file should be a criminal (not civil) offence, the law sided with them
When big tech decided that pirating every piece of media on the internet for AI training was fair use, the law sided with them

2025-11-14 10:14:06 UTC

I am begging my fellow brits to understand that every initiative to "tackle the immigration problem" or "crack down on benefits fraud" is designed to do exactly two things:
1) make your life worse, for the benefit of those already better off than you
2) ensure that you place the blame on people who are powerless, instead of questioning why the people with the power to improve things keep making them worse (while you inexplicably cheer them on and demand that they do it even more)

2025-09-28 08:55:40 UTC

So quote boosts have arrived on Mastodon (after already existing in client implementations for several years) and so far 100% of the posts I've checked have had them disabled
I guess the anti-QB messaging of the community that lead to the feature being delayed so long in the first place means that now it's here everyone just disables it by default for all their posts and then forgets it exists
So what was the point of this exercise?

2025-09-14 09:06:37 UTC

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The media constantly tells us that better things are not possible, and this messaging is so effective that people eventually reject even their own memories of a time when they were
Moderates leap to the defence of extremists, designers leap to the defence of bad design, developers leap to the defence of bad software
Perhaps it's a kind of imposter syndrome - the fear that once the worst in their field are routed out it will remove the buffer that protects their own failings from being noticed?

2025-09-14 08:59:41 UTC

Have you noticed that the ratchet on the quality bar only ever goes down? Whether it's software, politics, customer service, ethics, etc
Once we accept something worse, even once, that becomes the new baseline. It's like the Overton window, but for everything, not just politics
Individual people, products or movements may aspire to be better than the baseline, but the public mostly dismisses such claims as naive or virtue signalling

2025-07-23 08:16:48 UTC

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Is this based on insider knowledge, or just observed behavior from the outside? (either way it seems very plausible)

2025-06-15 17:52:56 UTC

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There's literally no mention of AI on that page apart from in the title. Are they hoping that overspill from the AI hype cycle might translate into investors accidentally throwing money at their totally unrelated QC division if they put "AI" in the name?

2025-05-21 20:33:27 UTC

Eww 🤮 https://openai.com/sam-and-jony/

2025-03-05 09:37:50 UTC

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In b4 "why not just get a Mac?" 🙃

2025-02-21 08:43:27 UTC

Apple Lawyers: "are we sure it's OK to train our LLM on this code? The license says 'attribution required'…"
Apple Engineers: "no problem:"
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/040/989/703/128/908/original/e6c3317beb018531.jpg

2024-12-05 08:36:53 UTC

Is there a client app that attempts to create a nice curated/algorithmic timeline from mastodon/bluesky/etc?
I think I'm ready to admit that unfiltered linear just isn't working for me - I miss too many interesting posts

2024-11-20 21:34:18 UTC

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I wish `some` and `any` worked for generic types, not just PATs

2024-09-26 09:50:35 UTC

Apple is adding java interop to Swift 🤯#ServerSideSwift2024
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/203/231/375/648/777/original/ba8b850cd24539b1.jpeg