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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@aredridel you are technically correct here (and indeed any automated tool with repeated human interaction my provoke _some_ measure of vigilance decay, one could argue that "flaky tests" cause it too) but I feel like you're talking past the actual argument here.

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

@glyph Actually search and replace _does_ do that and in fact I was bit by vigilance decay in a search and replace problem literally yesterday. the comparison was intended.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@aredridel "search and replace" is not a fair comparison because search and replace does *not* cause vigilance decay, or risk of unknowing copyright infringement, etc. in the same way that "raw milk" and "grass fed" are just like… completely different disclosures with different consequential implications

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@aredridel "raw milk" isn't ingredients either, the difference is one of process, which is why I used it as an example. Raw milk contamination is more likely because the processes to keep it safe are harder to follow, require more continuous diligence on the part of the operators of that process, and thus contribute to more frequent failures. LLM output is exactly the same: it provokes vigilance decay.

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

@glyph Yeah, I disagree. Code isn't ingredients and it's not “contamination" any more than you should label “I used search and replace on this”

What you want to know is whether it was well engineered or not.

And in fact, this is almost entirely orthogonal to "safety”. This is an engineering product. The safety comes from processes and whether or not _anyone checked the work done was right_, not the inputs.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@aredridel @aral I really can’t agree with this, because it’s a question of accurate labeling not of “responsibility” or “authorship”. co-authored-by is perhaps the wrong method for labeling such things, but consider raw milk. ultimately, it is indeed the producer’s responsibility to ensure their product is free of contamination. but disclosure of its method of production is explicitly the kind of requirement that allows consumers of said product to make safe choices

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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

So Anthropic employees are using Claude Code to contribute AI-generated code to open source repositories and hiding the fact using their own internal “undercover mode”.

Totally trustworthy people.

(Any open source project that at the very least requires disclosure of AI-authored contributions should immediately ban Anthropic employees on principle.)

#AI #Anthropic #ClaudeCode #subterfuge

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i know people have gotten defeatist and like to think you can't do a decent job putting out believable-looking bollocks without an LLM,, but i'm here to tell you you can.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
Kaliah@dragonscave.space wrote:

Your friendly reminder, since it's April Fools Day. It is only a joke if you, *and* the person you're joking with, find it funny. If only you find it funny, that is not a joke. That is you being a jerk under the excuse of joking. Please do not try to pull "jokes" that could actually hurt someone. And yes, emotionally hurt does count as hurting someone. Not everything has to become something you play with, and there are likely many things you should absolutely not play with. Take care of yourselves and those around you. Have a good rest of your day. This is not a subpost, I just tend to see people pulling things on April fools that are far from funny to all parties and I feel this needs to be said.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

boolean, boolean, i'm begging of you please don't take my man

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

OK yeah 430 boosts means my mentions are annoying and it’s time to delete

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
realtegan@wandering.shop ("Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸") wrote:

@riley @soatok
I've noticed that furries tend to figure out a lot of things first. They do seem to be ahead of the crowd in lots of ways.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
realtegan@wandering.shop ("Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ 🐸") wrote:

@soatok
My god, this is such a good idea! For any convention - not just fan ones. Offering STI testing is simply an awesome thing that makes perfect sense when large groups of people get together for a weekend/days of fun and mingling. Why doesn't every convention offer it?

Oh right. Puritan moral values among the American public. Bleh.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
notthatdelta@furry.engineer ("Delta Sierra") wrote:

@soatok @ariarhythmic @FurryBeta Yeah, I meant hotel rooms. It's nice to not have to worry about post-coital towel/sheet laundry for once, I get that. Plus it feels pretty decadent to order room service and eat/drink in bed!

And also yeah, ALWAYS tip your hotel staff, even if they don't turn over the room daily they still have to clean everything up at the end of your stay. It's also not bad form to leave any (unopened!) leftover snacks, drinks, booze out in plain sight. Never know what might help someone. Plus a bit of pre-cleaning (get all your trash in one spot, towels in one pile, flush the goddamn toilet, etc).

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harpaa01 ("Aaron") wrote:

@getajobmike I worked at GitHub for six years starting in 2019. There's this persistent rumor that after the MSFT acquisition they got pushed onto a bunch of Microsoft infra.

For the entire time I was there github.com continued running primarily on bare metal. Newer stuff like Actions and Copilot do use Azure, and there are some new enterprise cloud offerings that run in Azure.

What has changed and made a bigger contribution to this instability is that GitHub traffic grew by hundreds of %.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
riley@toot.cat ("Riley S. Faelan") wrote:

@soatok (For explanation, memes like this are often loopy in the sense that they seek to denigrate furries by connecting furries with STI testing, and they seek to denigrate STI testing by connecting STI testing with furries. Countering that with a reverse loop is the gentlest sort of mocking that this sort of "reasoning" deserves.)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
riley@toot.cat ("Riley S. Faelan") wrote:

@soatok When the question is "Why do furry conventions offer STI testing?", the proper answer is "because it's what conventions should offer, and furries just figured it out first".

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
riley@toot.cat ("Riley S. Faelan") wrote:

@soatok #MemeVaccine

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RandamuMaki@mstdn.social ("Maki 🔻 🌹") wrote:

@wronglang @silvermoon82 @soatok As an asexual person, let me just say that not *everybody* fucks. But STI testing is definitely something *a lot of people* need.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
tgpo@social.linux.pizza ("1hitsong") wrote:

It's April 1st.

Insert joke about me retiring from #jellyfin for #roku, using #ai to rework all the code, rewriting the Roku client in #rust, removing all features from the client except watching Jury Duty with Pauly Shore, accepting ad money so you must watch pre-roll ads, locking features behind $$$, or us merging with #Plex here.

#aprilfools

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
wronglang@bayes.club ("Krzysztof Sakrejda") wrote:

@silvermoon82 @soatok I hate to break it to you but 10/10 epidemiologists agree, even marketing people should get STI testing because *everybody* fucks, usually in more creative and interconnected ways than even the most lascivious of us have imagined. I would hate for a furry to get HIV from a marketer, sexual health has to be for everyone.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
silvermoon82@wandering.shop ("Mx. Eddie R") wrote:

@soatok
Furry conventions offer HIV and STI testing because:

1. furries are good and should be cared for, and
2. furries fuck

I agree more kinds of conferences should do this! Cybersecurity people fuck, too, and should be cared for. Python people, too.

Not marketers though. Marketing conferences should not offer STI testing because nobody should fuck marketing people.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

> The interaction between the two collateral layers creates a cascading risk. If GPU collateral loses value, the neocloud tenant cannot service its debt, which impairs the tenant’s ability to make lease payments to the data center SPV, which in turn undermines the cash flows backing the data center ABS that investors are relying on.

and

> ...if it materializes at scale, would propagate losses across every layer of the financing stack.

Oh joy.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

https://www.quinnemanuel.com/the-firm/publications/client-alert-emerging-litigation-risks-in-financing-ai-data-centers-boom/

> In a role reversal, this year Moody’s has warned that AI data center investments may be riskier than they appear, as current U.S. accounting rules allow companies to conceal tens of billions in potential liabilities. Moody’s noted that reported liabilities may understate likely cash outflows

No worries there, right?

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

https://www.quinnemanuel.com/the-firm/publications/client-alert-emerging-litigation-risks-in-financing-ai-data-centers-boom/

> Data center debt has increasingly been repackaged and sold to a wider pool of investors through asset-backed securities (“ABS”) and commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”).

This has never backfired, right?

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

This law firm memo provides a fairly detailed overview of the risks inherent in the "AI" finance bubble and it doesn't look good

https://www.quinnemanuel.com/the-firm/publications/client-alert-emerging-litigation-risks-in-financing-ai-data-centers-boom/

> The deeply interconnected AI ecosystem means that distress at any single node—a construction delay, a tenant default, unhedged energy cost differentials, a collapse in GPU resale values—can propagate across multiple counterparties and financing layers.

This is fine, right?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

“we also hate slop, which is why [deafening slop machine noises]”

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

If you want to see the 80 page preview and follow the progress of the book, you can buy the preview separately here:

https://payhip.baldurbjarnason.com/b/D70UH

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

I have an Easter sale going! First off, a bundle of all of my books, including the ones no longer available for sale elsewhere. It's more than 60% off the full price

https://payhip.baldurbjarnason.com/b/QHWZc

But the interesting part of this is an experiment where, included in the bundle, is a preview of the book I'm working on. Buying the bundle, or the preview separately, lets you join a newsletter where I'll be documenting my progress on the book.

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tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"The experience of workslop directly erodes social connection, erodes trust in one another and in the end erodes solidarity. Because why would you stand with a person who does not do their job and offloads their work on you?"

(Original title: Dissolving the social)

https://tante.cc/2026/04/01/dissolving-the-social/