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neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Happy Pride Month! :prami_pride:

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iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

This week's article: I've had some thoughts about competence, how it works and why it's best understood as a value-system threat:

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/attack-on-competence

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

the reason it looks scary is because it has stripped away all the safety and put it down to maintaining a single core invariant. if you can keep that invariant, everything is fine. if you even slightly break it, you are FUCKED.

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

although they literally said

The implementation does look scary

bows

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

okay i'm not quite ready to start calling myself a lock free algorithms god just yet, but someone who does memory models work on llvm was happy enough with my scary thing, so i'm feeling quite chuffed actually 😀

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

(The above is yet another attempt of mine to paraphrase the argument I made in the into to my book three years ago. It’s quite possibly the most misunderstood part of the book and I keep trying to re-litigate it as a result.)

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0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

more and more projects are adding an AGENTS.md that explicitly tells agents to stop, drop, and roll off a cliff, so if you see an AGENTS.md, remember to check what it specifically says before concluding it's there because the project is pro-AI

(and people who have done this have reported that writing the fuck-off message in that polite insipid tone LLMs use works better at getting them to actually stop: https://unstable.systems/@AmyZenunim/116672510693285709 )

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

The problem with positioning yourself as a sensible and reasonable moderate user of LLM software development tools is it means you’ll be the first up against the metaphorical wall if either the anti- or pro- sides truly gain the upper hand.

The idea that dev will settle into a stable “moderate” equilibrium is one of the riskiest strategic bets you could make today. Makes sense if it’s your only option, but otherwise pits you in a very precarious position

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

weewoo

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

“AImee – Hi, I'm Heather Burns”

https://heatherburns.tech/2026/06/01/aimee/

> That summary does not mention Aimee Mann at all: remember her, the artist who actually wrote and performed the song? It only mentions her producer.

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

“The attack on competence | deadSimpleTech”

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/attack-on-competence

> Understood in this framework, the LLM is simply the latest in a series of technologies that have promised the investor class that this time, finally, they can eliminate the need for competence and not have to consider or respect any value system other than their own.

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chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

'You can't encapsulate this rambling fucking nonsense with a description'

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/cruPKiUoidwmaATnCMwdjN

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
rotnroll666 ("Michael Simons") wrote:

Obviously, there's an innuendo towards #jqwik in the above post.

Think about it: I need to protect all my sites that don't just deliver plain HTTP files with #Anubis these days. Non of the fucking #AI scrapers obeys robots.txt (the equivalent of "pretty please"). Anubis is reasonable on my resources, but tough on users resources.

I can very much understand that people just have it and actively fight back. Can't win otherwise on unequal ground. The other party broke the moral contract first.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

"WordPress 7.0 introduces the foundation for AI across the platform..."

🫩

https://www.itsucks.fyi/disable-ai-in-wordpress-7/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
dianea@lgbtqia.space ("diana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱") wrote:

Pride month has begun, but #caturdayeveryday

#caturday

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

What do I want to program? I'm not sure! Just.... something that will make me like doing it again.

Since I have a backlog of issues on the slopfree index, going there might be a good place to start

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Now it feels like the tide is very much turning on AI, I need to get back to programming again

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

that is indeed a bit terrifying

bows

i write such great code

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

I am impressed that Amnesty International - a major human rights organisation which people have a snowball's chance in hell listening too - said that standalone generative AI systems need to be prohibited.

I think it's the first organisation I've seen calling for it, so many organisations before (and honestly, myself, most of the time) usually weasel it into "make AI safer" lest they get pushback from techbros.

But someone actually said it.

We need to prohibit that shit.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

do I know a Go expert who would be willing to review ~10kloc of OSS code? this would be a paid engagement, although since it's not for a business application and I'm paying out of pocket I can't promise high rates

edit: got two responses, I'm good for the time being

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eri@mk.moth.zone ("eri :fox_floofing:") wrote:

"I asked Claude" "I asked ChatGPT" I asked the other people in my head

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

re: LB: this is why i spent 3 days sandboxing the shit out of pi before i was prepared to even run it on my machine.

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haroonmeer@infosec.exchange ("Haroon Meer") wrote:

I’ve mentioned this before: this is one of the oncoming trains for corp-security. We’ve long failed at least-privilege, but weren’t often punished for it.

Helen in HR (or Bob in accounts) didn’t know what to do with the extra perms they didn’t know they had.

Their agents will.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

blogged: Challenge and opportunity
https://dbushell.com/2026/06/01/challenge-and-opportunity/

— there is nothing new here lol

( I'm back from a break and woke up feeling like death aghh! maybe I'll try again tomorrow 🤒 )

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

RE: https://hails.org/@hailey/116657391001259044

all the criticism has been said, all the takes been had. the only metaphor i have been finding consistently useful for understanding what is happening with people and "AI" is addiction, and specifically gambling addiction.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@aud @offby1 Days later, this made me snort-laugh. haha. Thanks for that.

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aud@fire.asta.lgbt (":: Asta ::") wrote:

@offby1@wandering.shop ah, the No True Slopsman fallacy

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
thestrangelet@beige.party ("TheStrangelet :bc:") wrote:

I've worked in tech for over 20 years, and I've never been threatened for not using particular tools until this year. I think that says a lot about where we are.

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tubetime ("Tube🌈 Time") wrote:

be sure to have that disk in hand!

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@dpk Relatedly, I gave notice last week, with no plans yet on what I'll do next. -_-