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Rachel Appel

@rachelappel.bsky.social

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.NET & Rider developer 🥑 at @JetBrains • shenanigans🍀• shitposts 💩 • MSc Software Engineering 🖥️ • 🧙‍♀️

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Rachel Appel @rachelappel.bsky.social · 4d

Next time you see something on social media that makes you angry, listen to what Hank says in this video.

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We’re getting duped by AI outrage bait

YouTube video by Hank Green

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Rachel Appel @rachelappel.bsky.social · 5d

It’s a propaganda technique used to create an atmosphere in which people cannot tell what is reality or truth by constantly distorting the truth and outright making shit up.

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Rachel Appel @rachelappel.bsky.social · 7d

DOOM FTW!!

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Mark Fraser @mfraz74.bsky.social · 8d

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Rachel Appel @rachelappel.bsky.social · 18d

It used to go straight to Google Maps but this functionality recently stopped working (Germany at least) and now it just shows up in the search results. Someone moved my cheese and I don’t like it. Dunno why it’s like this now.

Rachel Appel @rachelappel.bsky.social · 25d

I immediately updated my talk on Dark Patterns with this. I have a section about lawsuits & governments making laws about deceptive UX. And just in time, because I'm giving this talk at @azuredevsummit.bsky.social.

Rachel Appel @rachelappel.bsky.social · 25d

Text: 4 out of 5 people enjoy code reviews.
Image is of 4 people in Roman style attire beating one person with sticks.

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Tara Walker @taraew.bsky.social · 27d

Since there is an entire discourse going on about #GenAI.🧵

I feel compelled to share sone of the Black Women Data Scientists/Engineers that are in AI and fighting tooth & nail for #EthicalAI even at the cost of their jobs & livelihood.

Nothing is ever just one sided.
1st up: Dr. Joy Buolamwini

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Laurent Kempé 🚀 @laurentkempe.com · 27d

🤖 Decouple your app from LLM vendors with Dapr Conversation — swap Ollama, Azure OpenAI, Mistral, etc. without changing app code. Plug-and-play AI! 🔌 #Dapr #LLM #AI #DotNet #DevTips

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Laurent Kempé - Decouple yourself from your LLM commodities using Dapr Conversation

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Marit van Dijk @maritvandijk.bsky.social · Mar 16

Schrödingers documentation:
If there are docs, noone will read them.
If there are no docs, everyone will complain.

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Rachel Appel @rachelappel.bsky.social · 28d

I love when this happens.

Rachel Appel @rachelappel.bsky.social · Sep 15

"In this book I will not attempt to answer the question of whether or not computers can be programmed to think. I sometimes ask people if people can think. Human intelligence may also be an illusion.”

-Timothy J. O'Malley

A book cover that says "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROJECTS FOR THE COMMODORE 64." Author: Timothy J. O'Malley
On the cover is an abstract picture of a human head with lines going through it to represent AI, and below the head is a Commodore 64 keyboard.

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Rachel Appel @rachelappel.bsky.social · Sep 14

Come see my talk about this at @azuredevsummit.bsky.social next month.

Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · Sep 13

Computer scientists believe that soon every home will be able to have their own artificial intelligence machine on their own desktops (Source.)

A book that reads in block sans serif font, "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROJECTS FOR THE COMMODORE 64." The text is red, switching to gold for the words 'Commodore 64'. Cover bottom, a Commodore 64 - a light brown all-in-one microcomputer with dark brown keys - appears. In the center, a gold PCB in the shape of a human head radiates gold wires in the way wires might radiate from a chip, creating the silhouette of a head; in the center and neck of the head-shaped PCB, chips appear.

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Rachel Appel @rachelappel.bsky.social · Sep 8

I like how it also maps out to SOS, the international cry for help. 😂

Rachel Appel @rachelappel.bsky.social · Sep 8

Pretty cool demo tho

Rachel Appel @rachelappel.bsky.social · Sep 8

Nope

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Rachel Appel @rachelappel.bsky.social · Sep 8

Is the Singularity near? What do you think?

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Rachel Appel @rachelappel.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ever wonder what happens when you send the wrong file to that AI recruiter at Meta? 😂

An email conversation between a candidate and an AI recruiter. The candidate (inadvertently?) sent a dick pic, and the AI "appreciates his confidence" and replied with it must be "meant to spart a conversation, I'm game, what's the story behind it?" 🤦‍♀️

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Rachel Appel @rachelappel.bsky.social · Sep 2

10 REM WORKING ON MY TALK
20 FINISH SLIDES
50 FINISH DEMOS
100 GIVE TALK

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Rachel Appel @rachelappel.bsky.social · Aug 26

Same vibes as: "Won't somebody think of the little AIs?!?"

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JetBrains Rider @jetbrains-rider.bsky.social · Aug 25

Level up your Rider setup!🚀🔝
The latest plugin guide for JetBrainsRider from @jguadagno.com covers AI tooling, Azure integration, structured logging, #OpenTelemetry, .NET Aspire, and presentation tools.
Thanks, Joseph, for the detailed breakdown!🔗 jb.gg/rd-plugin-br...
#dotnetaspire #azure #dotnet

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Rachel Appel @rachelappel.bsky.social · Aug 21

He's going to keep forcing this kind of thing until blue states say they've had enough and decide to break away from the union.

Rachel Appel @rachelappel.bsky.social · Aug 19

Best thumbnail 😂😂😂

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War and Peas 🧿 @warandpeas.bsky.social · Aug 17

4-panel comic by War and Peas Panel 1: A female teacher stands beside a yellow humanoid robot in front of a chalkboard that says "Welcome Class." She announces, "As of this year, all teachers have been replaced by AI." Panel 2: A single human student raises his hand and asks, "Won’t the quality of our lessons suffer?" He sits alone at a desk in an otherwise empty classroom. Panel 3: The same teacher, now standing by the door, responds sternly, "All pupils have also been replaced by AI." Panel 4: Sitting next to the human student is a robot in a red cap, carving into the desk with a knife. It’s etched the words "Screw school". The human student looks sideways, disturbed and speechless.

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Rachel Appel @rachelappel.bsky.social · Aug 12

That was THE place for ALT.NET purse fights.