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GitHub programmer ports playable Doom to DSLR camera with 3-inch TFT LCD display — Canon EOS 550D with open-source Magic Lantern firmware uses camera's button as controls, even plays sound

A developer posted their Doom port for the Canon EOS 550D on GitHub. The game uses the Magic Lantern firmware add-on to run on the camera, and uses various camera buttons to play the game directly from the SD card.
#hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/github-programmer-ports-doom-to-dslr-camera-with-3-inch-tft-lcd-display-canon-eos-550d-with-open-source-magic-lantern-firmware-uses-cameras-button-as-controls-even-plays-sound

Apparently almost nobody got this pun. Perhaps it was too subtle.

Moving from the right of the origin to the origin simplifies the x position, as well as simplifying the exposition.

I like this post from 2017...

Edit: here's the related news story
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30100756

See you tomorrow morning in the Corgi Cafe in San Francisco 9 to 11 for a "Help me fix this" meetup.
https://luma.com/weared-zzo9

Jeebus this entire piece is a phenomenal piece of writing.

Just a reminder that AI detectors don't work. You don't fix one broken machine with another.

I am shocked. Nobody could have seen it coming. Nobody, I tell you!
https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai

> As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

Oh, the humanities!

#AI

A big issue with LLMs:

It makes some people believe they are more competent than they are.

Example: this company sent me some spam. At first I thought it was a scam. Then I dug into the company.

And I realised: oh. No. This company is not a scam per se. No, these people actually believe their own bullshit.

The CEO ran a web server as root. It got owned. He posted about it on LinkedIn. He used Claude to "fix" it. It was not fixed.

Now you see, before LLMs, if you didn't understand a domain, you'd hit a wall very fast. Documentation would use terms and concepts you didn't understand. Tools would require interpretation. You'd have to ask somebody more experienced. That friction produces a very useful insight: "Oh. I don't know this domain very well." So you'd find someone who did, or learn.

The thing about LLMs is that they can remove an enormous amount of that friction. That friction is not noise, it is signal. That friction is telling you that you need to learn the domain you are working with. Removal of this friction is a very, very bad thing.

The LLM can hold your hand, do a lot of heavy lifting for you, use a lot of tools, run a lot of commands, and make things appear to work.

And the thing is, all of the individual outputs along the way might be pretty good and it might look correct.

The issue is in aggregate. Before you know it, you've built a house out of sand.

And worse yet, people can emerge from the experience with a dangerously incorrect higher-order conclusion: "I am now a domain expert in this."

They are not a domain expert. They understand absolutely nothing about it. The LLM did everything for them and it's wrong. And worse yet, they haven't reviewed it, because they lack the competency to review it. Therefore, they assume it is fine. But it's all incorrect. A true expert would see that it is wrong, and correct it, or push back on the LLM, or do it themselves.

And this is how you wind up running web servers as root and getting owned.

I keep finding myself in situations where I explain my job to someone new to infosec and they look a bit disappointed that I emphasize active listening skills rather than increasingly difficult topics in mathematics or programming languages to study.

I sometimes joke that 50% of my job is "a weird form of group therapy", because I don't know how else to describe it to folks who never developed the requisite social skills.

Technical competence matters, but is not alone sufficient to carry you in most workplaces. Being an irritating asshole all the time is a net negative. Being an irritating asshole when you need to be is still useful, of course.

But I'm not exactly an extrovert, myself, either. And there are plenty of everyday social norms that frustrate the hell out of me.

For example: I cannot relate to people that routinely buy celebrity gossip magazines. No amount of communication skills will bridge this gulf. Y'all are a lost cause to me.