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Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
atax1a@infosec.exchange ("mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)") wrote:

@ireneista and if software developers had any kind of solidarity they would be meeting this moment with anything other than the mass capitulation that we're seeing

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

Holy shit, y'all. If we're going to communicate, I need you to meet me halfway, here.

I fully recognize that the chatbots can usually converge in runnable code, for a couple of iterations. What it doesn't do, ever, is produce systems that can be operated safely or efficiently, or that are open to further development. There was a time (like 18 months ago) where we broadly agreed that's what "good" means when we're talking about code. That for code to be "good", it must be responsive to the ecosystem in which it exists, including the people who build and run it, and their present and predictable future needs.

So there, now I've said it explicitly. If you pretend I meant something else, I will just assume you're a bad faith troll and block you

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

@jenniferplusplus there seems to be this thing where, because people arrive at code that seems to do what they asked for, they just assume that it's, like...

1. not stolen wholesale from a source they don't know about
2. possible to keep adding to over time

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

I don't understand how we managed to collectively concede the claim that AI is good at generating code. I've seen the code they generate. I've worked on the code they generate. It's horrifying.

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

these are the things that keep us up

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

there's a plausible future in which software development ceases to be a viable business model because executives are unable to restrain their own greed, and push to race as fast as possible by using generated code, while refusing to believe that there needs to be somebody at the company who understands how it works

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/117271327519433700

Folks, if you want to know what's *really* up with "AI", where the harms lie, and contextualize the nonsense du jour, this film is must watch.

Boosted by jwz:
cmconseils ("Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

#Meme #Humour

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
alpine@social.lol ("Zachary") wrote:

Another masterpiece by @robb !!

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

the american idea of a british accent

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

somehow the quality of our goose worker factory diagrams has even gone down

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The Streamer Awards are back and I think I know who deserves "The Sapphire Award".

97% of the top streamers are male. @bashbunni is out here proving code doesn't care what gender you are!

Nominate her. Boost this 🙌

https://thestreamerawards.com/nominate?category=183

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

@soatok and the worm should be harmless except it installs artwork of minorities having fun living their lives as the desktop wallpaper, and things like that

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

We abandoned it because the joke had pretty much run its course, but full auto "agents" are still wandering into the AgentPipe honeypot. Despite the arrival of AGI, the quality leaves much to be desired

firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)") wrote:

Periodic check in.. who is hiring programmers but not forcing them to use LLMs? #FediHire #jobs #noai

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Suppose, hypothetically, you discovered a 0-click RCE in Omarchy. What would be the maximally funny thing to do with this knowledge?

("Never disclose it to DHH" being table-stakes.)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

this was incredibly annoying but I've added 1Password SSH key import to ChiPass! this is our first significant feature work

https://codeberg.org/ChiPass/ChiPass/pulls/150

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("Joe Groff") wrote:

When the successor to iPod mini came to Japan, our customers couldn't believe their eyes. Again and again, they kept asking, 「iPodなの？」

Boosted by jwz:
mcc wrote:

ACLU Finally Just Says Fuck It

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

i know people say AI is incredibly innovative, but i didn't think they meant in terms of cheating.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
tomkalei@mathe.social ("Thomas Kahle") wrote:

Talking to different mathematicians working with #ChatGPT in the last months, we noticed two things that were true for all of us:

1. it’s basically impossible to run out of tokens. Every time we approached the limits we got free/automatic usage resets and could keep going.

2. We all got access to GPT-6 astra on the first day, when influencers and podcasters still reported of some staggered release and that they did not have it.

Given everything that happened last week, the picture looks very much like #OpenAI knowing exactly who is a mathematician and making sure they use their system as much as possible.

#ai #ai4math

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

plant-based salad

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
leaverou@front-end.social ("Lea Verou, PhD") wrote:

🎨 Ever wondered why oklch() is so odd?
Why adjusting L doesn't produce good color ramps?
And why TF is L=100% not white?!?

I just wrote a thorough explanation of why this happens¹: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/1394

👍 Upvote if you want this fixed in browsers in 2027!

¹ Spoiler alert: it’s the lack of gamut mapping

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
liberty@mathstodon.xyz ("Anna Liberty") wrote:

@octonion Absolutely. I also like refactoring Guile code. Because it's all lists you can just kinda move code, especially with paredit mode

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

Can't imagine doing the current project I'm working on at work without git-annex. The ability to commit large binary files, push them from place to place, and only fetch *some* of the files on different devices, it's huge

And magit-annex makes committing and managing the git repo a breeze

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cR0w@infosec.exchange (":rainbowCrow:") wrote:

Corpos: Our AI is amazing. Look at all these bugs it found in prod!

Me:

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

If you're in the US or Korea*, you can watch Ghost in the Machine RIGHT NOW on PBS' YouTube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLQzVLtvdv

* no I don't know why Korea

Boosted by jwz:
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

For people who still believe the GPL influences corporations in a meaningful way:

When I was at Microsoft, I worked on a product that used Linux. The product was cancelled for largely unrelated reasons before it shipped, so the exact details are irrelevant but anything that links Linux needs to loop in lawyers, so I spent a lot of time talking to them.

Maybe 10% of the total time was spent with the technicalities of the GPL. The fact that the GPL is ambiguous and poorly written and the Linux syscall exemption is even worse made me expect long discussions about the legalese. But instead the conclusion of the GPL-focused discussions was basically:

No one really knows what the GPL can actually enforce and half of the stuff that's done with Linux is technically in violation. Microsoft ships Linux images for Azure that come with a click-through license that prohibits running them on any other cloud and no one cares. We can make a convincing argument that this is okay. Only a handful of companies can afford a protracted legal battle with Microsoft and none of them are sufficiently motivated to take us to court over this, so it's unlikely to come up.

The remaining 90% of the discussions were around how the product would be perceived by Linux maintainers, the wider Linux community, and the broader F/OSS ecosystem. Microsoft had put a lot of effort into the 'Microsoft <3 Linux' marketing things. The Ballmer-era alienation of the most active developer communities had cost the company a lot of ecosystem market share. The risk of pushing developers away from Microsoft products and platforms was something that the lawyers regarded as a huge risk. If two of the senior Linux maintainers had said 'we think this is not an acceptable use of Linux' then that would have torpedoed the project instantly.

The moral of this story is that, if positive engagement with your community is perceived as valuable, you have an enormous amount of leverage over big companies. At the time, Microsoft was (by market cap) the largest company in the world. The legal text, in contrast, isn't worth the paper it's written on when your adversary can afford to outspend you in court by six orders of magnitude. When they happen to be aligned, the legal text may look as if it's working, but that's a coincidence.

Boosted by pixxl:
FediThing@chinwag.org ("FediThing :progress_pride:") wrote:

When CFCs were destroying the ozone layer they were removed from society.

When leaded petrol was rotting children's brains, it was phased out in favour of unleaded alternatives.

When asbestos was found to cause horrible deaths it was banned.

When radium was found to be incredibly dangerous for general use, it was restricted to just a small niche of medical applications.

Technology is not something that has to be accepted forever, no matter how popular it seems. It can be recalled and restricted if it is found to cause a lot more harm than good.

#AI #LLMs #GenAI

Boosted by jwz:
matdevdug@c.im wrote:

After years inside datacenters, it’s hard to be afraid of AI killing all humans. I've seen the "secure facility." It's a chain link fence and a guy named Gary.

Night shift is usually 10-20 people. Two hundred people could shut a datacenter down with nothing but a Wikipedia article on fiber optics and some enthusiasm. Start swinging and you’ll hit something valuable pretty fast.

The "secure cages"? Chain link. The lobby's got badges and mancatchers and a guard who checks your ID like it insulted him. Out back it's a sliding metal door, propped open with a folding chair by whoever's waiting on FedEx.

It's not a fortress. It's a strip mall with better cable management.