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Heil Seitan

Look, Nazis know they’re fucking Nazis, they just keep telling you they aren’t so you’ll argue with them about it instead of stopping them.

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Inspirational Skeletor💀
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AI dystopia 

The real AI revolution will come when sloppy programming makes it dirt cheap and idiot easy for random activists to hack war drones mid-flight and redirect them to LLM datacenters.

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[object Object]

ethical AI? of course! it’s always ethical to bamboozle an elderly CS legend into releasing a paper about LLM coding that doesn’t stand up to even basic scrutiny, instead of spending his limited remaining time on this planet finally finishing his book series on algorithms.

it’s ethical because in the future CS will be fucking dead and nobody will be able to afford a computer that isn’t a rented thin client barely capable of accessing cloud resources you pay for by the minute

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ethical AI? of course! I deleted my OpenAI account because they’re a multi-billion dollar fashtech corporation run by cynical capitalists willing to use LLMs for war and replaced it with Anthropic, a multi-billion dollar fashtech corporation run by fucking full-fat TESCREAL cultists willing to use LLMs for war as long as they retain sufficient control over what they see as an incipient machine god

why aren’t you clapping

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Mozilla's instructions for installing on ChromeOS don't mention Firefox ESR.

I forgot that this kind of ESR was an option.

`sudo apt-get install firefox-esr` works just as well as `sudo apt-get install firefox` does. Today, it installed Firefox ESR 140.8, and it seems as stable as 148 should've been.

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@atax1a True. But its sloperator is the very small shellscript.

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@atax1a The slop machine convinced them that replacing themselves completely with a very small shellscript was anything better than an insult.

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Alexis

Any hug from a plural system is a group hug.

The more you know.

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RE: muffin.industries/@wayback_exe

We used to have Web search engines, instead of SEO sales & ad engines.

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wayback.exe

Lycos, Inc. Information
Oct 1996
web.archive.org/web/1996102512
oldweb.today/random/1996102512

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After a dozen years of happily perusing the Web using browsers with decent ad blockers installed, just 15 _minutes_ of trying to find stuff with Google Chrome feels like a dystopian television nightmare. Like, any second now, Google will save me from the sea of animated overlay ads by happily letting some random malvertizer show me a full-screen error message telling me to call Windows Support at 1-800-FLEECE-ME urgently.

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)

RE: kolektiva.social/@Hex/11616995

jorge luis borges would nut

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hex

I especially like the essay "Farming regurgitated dogshit for fun and profit: Deepseek and other tools," but my favorite is "Making Google AI Barf dogshit for Imaginary Internet Points."

While neither essay exists, Google provides an excellent summary of both.

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bimbo savant (cow arc)

machine vision, OCR, text to speech, speech to text, automated captioning, automated upscaling

these are all things that machine learning models did and did fairly well years before chatGPT even existed. we don't need LLMs for this stuff, and LLMs do them far worse than previous non-LLM methods

the big reason everyone uses an LLM now is because it's a ready-to-use interface that's been marketed into everyone's subconscious for years

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Nina Kalinina

CLAUDE.md on your machine? It's more likely than you think...

I kind of want to pour my laptop with gasoline and light it up now, but... uhh, yeah, maybe I'll start with installing Asahi again.

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And it happened again, same descent, but starting with multimedia/ffmpeg4, a dependency of emulators/vice. This being the third time in as many days portmaster has burned me, Handbook section 4.5.4.2 is set to permanent distrust.

I need to either find a large enough block of time to shave the poudriere yak, use a ports management tool stupider than portmaster, or babysit a sequence of long-running make commands, to get my software back to last Saturday.

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Steven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️

Exactly as I predicted… AIs are routinely being compromised to not act in your interest. schneier.com/blog/archives/202

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While I slept, portmaster descended thousands of levels deep into a circular dependencies loop: deskutils/zim > devel/xdg-utils > textproc/xmlto > www/w3m > graphics/imlib2 > graphics/libheif > multimedia/ffmpeg > graphics/libcaca > graphics/imlib2 > graphics/libheif > multimedia/ffmpeg.

Make-installing zim and restarting portmaster without zim somehow broke the circular dependency loop, despite nothing being functionally different.

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