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Jean-Baptiste "JBQ" Quéru
@jbqueru@floss.social

I'm JBQ / Djaybee, Husband, Immigrant, Veteran, Highly Sensitive Person #HSP. He/Him. I write about tech and other things. I'm fluent in French and English, I live in Greece, previously France, UK, USA.

I like:

#skiing, #hiking, #biking, #games, #photography, visual #astronomy, #RetroComputing, #DemoScene, #PixelArt, #painting, #knitting, #weaving, #crochet, #BeadWeaving, #CrossStitch and #BlackWork


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Jean-Baptiste "JBQ" Quéru
@jbqueru@floss.social

Hello again, World! An #Introduction

I'm JBQ, 50-ish, he/him, French-born, currently moving from Spokane, WA, USA to Preveza, Greece.

I have worked on operating systems, browsers, SDKs, and similar tech, mostly for mobile. Most visibly, I managed the Open-Source aspects of Android from 2009 (1.6) to 2013 (4.3).

I am currently active in the Atari ST #OpenSource #DemoScene, as Djaybee from the MegaBuSTers.

My strongest languages are C and assembly (especially 68k). I've touched many more.

Jean-Baptiste "JBQ" Quéru
@jbqueru@floss.social

If PhD-level coding means submitting code that doesn't even compile, crashes once you get it to compile, doesn't do what you requested once you fix the crashes, and is very hard to read and even harder to scale and maintain, then, yes, GPT5 has reached PhD-level.

Me, I'm staying at the high school level, where I actually run my code, make sure that it works, and use my years of coding experience to make it ready for likely future evolutions.

(apologies to the real PhDs out there)

Jean-Baptiste "JBQ" Quéru
@jbqueru@floss.social

My dad, in his 70s, bought a book on Amazon, published by Amazon, to try to better learn how to use his latest camera.

Within a few pages, the book started to explain features that don't exist on the camera.

My dad, on his own from what I taught him, figured out that the book was AI slop.

Amazon refunded immediately, no questions asked, and did not even ask to get the book shipped back.

Jean-Baptiste "JBQ" Quéru
@jbqueru@floss.social

GitHub Copilot terms of use in 3 acts:

-"GitHub does not own suggestions."

-"You may not use GitHub Copilot to generate suggestions whose use you [...] reasonably should know [...] would infringe on the rights of others."

-Uh, you've just told me that I reasonably should know that the suggestions are likely to belong to someone else who hasn't authorized me to use them.

Jean-Baptiste "JBQ" Quéru
@jbqueru@floss.social

Hello again, World! An #Introduction

I'm JBQ, 50-ish, he/him, French-born, currently moving from Spokane, WA, USA to Preveza, Greece.

I have worked on operating systems, browsers, SDKs, and similar tech, mostly for mobile. Most visibly, I managed the Open-Source aspects of Android from 2009 (1.6) to 2013 (4.3).

I am currently active in the Atari ST #OpenSource #DemoScene, as Djaybee from the MegaBuSTers.

My strongest languages are C and assembly (especially 68k). I've touched many more.