Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

It's so refreshing to use the Fediverse where there are no fucking ads distracting you from the friends you're here to catch up with

Every year, this network becomes more and more important IMHO. Glad y'all are here with us.

Important XScreenSaver policy update.

25: No contributions built with, or assisted by, LLMs or any kind of "generative AI" tools will be considered. If you didn't bother writing it, I'm not going to bother reading it. XScreenSaver is art by humans for...
https://jwz.org/b/yk56

Priest: And what do we call those who believe not in the miracle of Transubstantiation?

Me: *raising hand* Cisubsantiationists?

Priest: ... How did you even get in here?

It’s such a good printer it can actually print kittens

@domi @videolan In space, nobody can hear you stream.

@domi @videolan inside you, are two outlooks. neither of them are working. But VLC works every time

\o/ VLC in space

@videolan

The kids are alright.

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The company that - last week - accidentally published the source code of their flagship product, which was in turn discovered to be a contraption riddled with security holes and included instructions to deliberately mislead people, is telling us this week that they've got a new product that is _too good_ at finding security issues so they need to make a special secret cabal and only share it with them because it would be too dangerous to show anyone else.

This is definitely all very believable.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/116370960046107139

more specifically, these sloperators are behaving like a protection racket. they are drowning us in slop reports, and then trying to sell us slop-based solutions to manage all of it.

There's one very important thing I would like everyone to try to remember this week, and it is that AI companies are full of shit

Only rarely do their claims actually bear scrutiny, and those are only the mildest of claims they make.

So, anthropic is claiming that their new, secret, unreleased model is hyper competent at finding computer security vulnerabilities and they're *too scared* to release it into the wild.

Except all the AI companies have been making the same hypercompetence claims about literally every avenue of knowledge work for 3+ years, and it's literally never true. So please keep in mind the highly likely possibility that this is mostly or entirely bullshit marketing meant to distract you from the absolute garbage fire that is the code base of the poster child application for "agentically" developed software

You may now resume doom scrolling. Thank you