Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

year of the desktop pajamas

#unix_surrealism #technomage #openbsd #fvwm #comic #linux #runbsd

I finally found the secret asexual training base!

When you install KDE software on a Thinkpad, it turns into a Kinkpad

#KDE

You know, it's kinda goofy software is racing to "churn out endless code as fast as possible". When I feel like the goal would be "incredibly stable software you are only called up to fix periodically or commissioned to craft a new product for radically different needs". You'd think software devs would prefer to kick at the beach or cybercafe or whatever tech guys like doing and collecting royalties from their well made products they only have to periodically fix (with those moments growing ideal further apart).

Good morning

Software developers know this.

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If you're one of the people who knows why this hasn't been done before, let the vibecoders figure it out for themselves.

A'ight. The whole vibecoding thing deserves a chance to prove itself.

So here's something that I haven't seen done sufficiently well by regular coders; if AI is truly that much more innovative, it shouldn't have any problem.

One of the problems with compute is the whole billing and scheduling thing - a lot of places have specific cost-per-hour to run batch processing; a lot of large enterprises have complex pipelines that need scheduling in order to interleave things that need processing with resources available to process them.

So a vibe coder who's confident they can prove themselves could create a utility that can look at a given program's binary, analyze it, and determine how long it will take to run, and calculate the cost to run it. Do this within 1% of actual and you'll have a truly innovative new product.

Doctor: I can knock out the patient using gas, or a boat paddle.

It’s an ether / oar situation.

This should be obvious for everyone by now, but if you're not from US you must assume that all your use of US AI services (#ChatGPT, #Claude, #Gemini etc) is fed directly to US intelligence services.

"We may share your Personal Data, including information about your interaction with our Services, with government authorities ... in compliance with the law (i)" (OpenAI)

"We may disclose personal data to governmental regulatory authorities as required by law" (Claude)

"We will share personal information outside of Google ... to: Respond to any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request" (Gemini)

The amount of valuable information fed to the systems voluntarily is staggering. It's not a matter of "if" it is happening, but "of course it is". It would be outright negligent if they weren’t capturing and disseminating it all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act#Without_a_court_order
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act#Amendments

#privacy

Billy Joel Reveals ‘Piano Man’ Is About a Revolting, Cronenberg-Esque Piano-Human Hybrid Driven by Primitive, Uncontrollable Impulses https://thehardtimes.net/music/billy-joel-reveals-piano-man-is-about-a-revolting-cronenberg-esque-piano-human-hybrid-driven-by-primitive-uncontrollable-impulses/

havent seen anyone talking about how the whole point of all the "age"/identity verification stuff is to make it functionally impossible to communicate privately

this is a crackdown on communication
the thing the fascists, authoritarians, and neoliberals are scared of is you having a conversation with someone else and finding common ground

There's been a LOT of anti-trans stuff bubbling up this last week, but the worst one by far:

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sends-letters-to-trans-people

They're accelerating this stuff. And if you're like "whew, guess I'm glad I'm not in Kansas!"

There are people who *are* in Kansas and not everyone has an easy choice in the matter. And also they're invalidating birth certificates, too, and that's much harder to deal with.

And this is just the prototype. They want to roll this out nationally, and where they can, internationally.

We should all be alarmed.

With all the discussion around detecting when a code repo contains commits authored by an LLM, I think it is important to note commits like the following in Mozilla Firefox from 2 weeks ago:

"Bug 2011195 - When an agent commits, don't add itself as author"

https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/71cc24b6a400dbd434e4df37087960d94b764791

I don't think it's a good think that Mozilla seem to be explicitly encouraging unattributed LLM code in Firefox.

ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online

I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players

ssh snakes.run to join!

This is sad 😢

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e#diff-a24e74e4595fa85440a2f4e7e5dcfe68aba6e1e593aef05a2d35581a91423847

#firefox #privacy #mozilla #foss #opensource #web