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CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk ("Prof. Catherine Flick") wrote:

Good chance I'll be on BBC News 24 after 21:15 but if I'm not it's because there's something more interesting on

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ubernostrum@infosec.exchange ("James Bennett") wrote:

So. I now have a few months' more experience with LLMs than I did when I wrote that post and everyone said I just needed more experience with LLMs. And my opinion has not become any more favorable.

The bottleneck still is not speed of code generation, and even if it did become the bottleneck, LLMs would not be a silver bullet for it because of the code quality issues that they continue to have and that have been widely reported in the literature across multiple generations of "oh, those older ones were bad, but THIS time it's the revolutionary leap" claims.

Put simply: the work that I am doing right now would probably be going *faster* if no LLM had ever been involved in the process.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

It's done now. Those of you who did not keep it down HAVE BEEN NOTED.

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

(a)bort, (r)etry, (f)uck up your computer forever

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I finally realized that there may be a more disturbing reason that every booster uses the exact same phrases, right down to the wording — "you'll be left behind", "it's here to stay", "it's a tool" — even when they are barely coherent and clearly out of context for the discussion at hand. That reason is hard to understand if you haven't played SUPERHOT though. You have to check out this game. It's the most innovative shooter I've played in years.

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ambv ("Łukasz Langa") wrote:

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya Bidniss") wrote:

The CSA swearing in some dumbass fuckstick tech execs as LTCs, 100% unearned, is the worst thing I've seen all day. All week. (This happened a year ago and GEN George, the former CSA, was fired by Pete Kegseth. He deserved firing for doing this brokedick circus act, not for being woke.) #military

Anyway, the article: The rise of the military-technology complex; How Silicon Valley tech firms remade US defense contracting. And then opened the Pentagon’s checkbook—wide.
https://thebulletin.org/2026/07/the-rise-of-the-military-technology-complex/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
PublicKnowledgeProject ("Public Knowledge Project") wrote:

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Nonilex@masto.ai wrote:

Parents & spouses of people in the #military have generally been shielded from #deportation under #bipartisan consensus for decades. But the AP found they’re now routinely being detained for months as they try to adjust their legal status through the policies available to #service members’ close relatives & even as the military continues to recruit by advertising #immigration benefits for enlistees’ families.

#law #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #Trump #SuckersAndLosers

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

I have posted this before. Every now and then I will post something entertaining I have said again

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
socketwench@masto.hackers.town (""Miss Movie Masochist"") wrote:

@cwebber "...please...tell my wife........chicken...buttt...." :blobdead:

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
ticky@slime.global ("Jessica🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

please enter the 4-digit code we sent to your email. you have ten minutes. our mail servers will deliver the code to you in seventeen minutes.

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

such a tragedy, fingergunned down in her prime

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Ves_the_undying@types.pl ("Dr. Apocalypse") wrote:

Received an obscenely large squash in my CSA today

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@cwebber this is giving me strong gacha game “whale” vibes. “Look at me! I’m so smart I beat the system and am only spending …” (pauses to look at bank account) “thousands of dollars a month to pull the lever on the slop machine!”

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stevegis_ssg@mas.to ("Steve Gisselbrecht") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ojcius/117044087064481222

The signage explaining (in French, évidemment) that you are *welcome* to jog here, but this is a way intended for promenading, and you must not annoy or inhibit the people using it thus, is perhaps the most Parisian part of it all.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

RE: https://flipboard.com/@pbsnewshour/headlines-81am25uuz/-/a-mqDvzaOFQSmncMLqyhypvg%3Aa%3A2651838374-%2F0

no! really? I yam shocked!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
miodvallat@hostux.social ("Miod Vallat") wrote:

@AnachronistJohn @tsutsuii Well you can try commenting out the assignment of 68881 in locore and see what happens...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thehardtimes@puntarella.party ("The Hard Times") wrote:

DNC Establishment Alarmed Over Growing Trend of Radical Muslims Hellbent on Providing Affordable Housing and Healthcare https://thehardtimes.net/blog/dnc-establishment-alarmed-over-growing-trend-of-radical-muslims-hellbent-on-providing-affordable-housing-and-healthcare/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
karelbrits ("Karel Brits 🔻") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
juliusgoat.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("A.R. Moxon") wrote:

No no no, unity is when leftists join with ME or it's their fault when Republicans win. Me having to join with leftists doesn't feel like unity, and if Republicans win it's their fault for asking me.

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

Alt text is more art than science. It's never going to be perfect; you get one field to enter one chunk of text and it has to work for all kinds of people with all kinds of personal preferences and worldviews.

This isn’t about obsessing over getting things perfect, but just remembering why we’re adding alt text in the first place.

Just making an effort is the most important thing here. ❤️

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

Still working on some more resources related to alt text, but here’s a little tool you can use to see how your media posts appear to people using assistive technology:

https://alt-text.social.lol/check-up

Try running it on your own account and see how things come out. Do you feel like your alt text is offering a good experience? If that’s the entirety of how someone saw your images, do you think they’d walk away with the right information?

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Cormorant island. Really, just a large piece of rock in the middle of the sea.

#photography #darktable

Boosted by jwz:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

there’s a lot of money and influence being poured into making the linux kernel utterly reliant on a bit of software that’s clearly unfit for purpose. that’s why all this shit is happening so quick: anthropic, OpenAI, and palantair pouring money into the Linux foundation, linus doing his little AI booster interviews, the Linux foundation pivoting even further into AI, linus using an alt-right meme to justify the kernel’s pro-LLM policy, the systemic exposure of maintainers to these tools

this is an attack, and all the people who assigned themselves the job of protecting open source against attacks are welcoming the attackers in

it doesn’t matter how obvious it gets that LLMs are a negative, because we are currently being betrayed by people with a financial and political incentive to betray us

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

Inside of you are two wolves. One hot-links images, the other never cites her sources.

jwz wrote:

Please keep this clown out of Congress, redux.

Scott Wiener, Ladies and Gentlemen: Wiener employs Anthropic's tech for an interactive attack ad, but all Chan's campaign sees is desperation: The Wiener campaign was in part inspired to create the...
https://jwz.org/b/yk-P

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

a third lab would like to announce that they, too, ran an AI model against a hacking capability benchmark while it had a real internet connection and they, too, were astonished to find out that it was attacking real people and organizations with the real internet connection that they gave it while asking it to pretend to be a cool hacker

https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/incident-report-unsanctioned-agent-behaviour-during-cyber-testing

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mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Some Stanford researchers dredge out the absolute dregs of r/AmITheAsshole for all those stories where _zero percent_ of humans supported the poster, where one hundred percent of them said, yes you are unambiguously the asshole, and fed them into LLMs as first person scenarios, to see what the LLM had to say.

Unethical, harmful, cruel, criminal, didn't matter: slopbots took the faux poster's side about half the time.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec8352

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Despite the name, VSCode is a surprisingly capable chat app with a built-in text editor.