Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

"AI is giving attackers a huge advantage!"

"Yes, it is. It's amazing how quickly it has destroyed dev, sec, ops, management, company missions and priorities, regulations, information literacy, and civil society, making everyone more vulnerable."

it's free ~~real estate~~ compute

It’s already tempting notably for smallish projects to resort to genAI:
https://toot.aquilenet.fr/@civodul/116132543248503962

But I think a race to the bottom has started in #FreeSoftware, with this rationale: if “we” don’t use genAI in our project, then we will lose to the competition, whether free slopware or proprietary.

Garak: I’ve grown too mellow. I need to become lewd and immoral again.

Jesus fucking Christ, Cory, this is patently ridiculous.

He doesn't engage with Audre Lorde's actual intention & meaning. No, he brings up a Black woman thinker/writer/activist, assures us he knows how "smart" she was, & then dismisses her words out of hand without even superficial engagement by using a cute little analogy.

I'm not trying to nitpick: that is some real colonizer bullshit.

I do not worry about being "left behind" due to the adoption of LLM coding agents. I worry about a massive dip in the quality of software that's already been moldering for years due to the adoption of LLM coding agents. I worry about the FOSS maintainers who are already under-compensated for their work burning out entirely having to deal with the adoption of LLM coding agents. I worry about the environmental impact of the adoption of LLM coding agents. I worry about the laundering of FOSS (and non-FOSS source available!) code into projects that are now legally culpable due to the adoption of LLM coding agents. I worry about the people who can no longer write code without leaning on an LLM coding agent becoming helpless without spending ridiculous (and increasing) amounts of money to companies that may or may not exist in a year due to the adoption of LLM coding agents. I do not worry about being "left behind" when it all comes crashing down and people who are actually skilled have to pick up the pieces and rebuild due to the adoption of LLM coding agents.

Liberation isn't something you rent. Or buy. Liberation is about us together embracing each other's dignity and our duty to take care of each other.
Nobody is free until everyone is free.

People like Sam Altman want the opposite.

That's why there is no "leftist case" for "AI".

We need more people in this world willing to make illegal large tensegrity icosahedrons

TIL. In April 1974, in the middle of the night, a small group of conspirators secretly installed a large tensegrity icosahedron made from discarded telephone poles on the campus of Twente University in the Netherlands.

It’s still there. People call it Het Ding (“the thing”).

https://www.utwente.nl/en/alumni/inspiring-alumni/ut-canon/stories/het-ding/

Looks like they're also using Claude for PR review https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/9a70fdcb741fc62af82427696c05560f4d70e4de

Which probably means systemd is now the most attractive target in FOSS for an AI prompt injection attack to insert a backdoor

🤮 Don't buy Palmer Luckey's 'retro N64 style' clone console- if you see one, steer clear. Palmer is a shitty fucking warmongering asshole, and you can read about his shitty warmongering in this very article. Fuck this bullshit.

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/oculus-founder-seeks-1bn-valuation-for-modretro-as-n64-console-launch-nears

#RetroGaming #FuckPalmerLuckey #assholes #WarmongeringAssholes #gaming #emulation #M64 #ModRetro