aww those got turned off by the time I got to look :(

a couple weeks back I had a many-rounds support ticket with a network vendor, querying exactly the details of their regex implementation. docs all said PCRE, actual usage attempt indicated….something very much else. and indeed it was because of . that I found it

good morning awful, I found you the first thing you’ll want to scream at today

palantir and others offering free addictions, all in the name of “productivity”

ah, a fellow 1937 poster that gets it

(I still don’t understand how people that post on/across the modern internet haven’t picked up the habit)

In my experience even simple LLM changes are wrong somewhere around half the time. Often in disturbingly subtle ways that take an expert to spot.

I just want to add: sailor’s reference to “expert” here is no joke. the amount of wild and subtle UB (undefined behaviour) you get in the C family is extremely high-knowledge stuff. it’s the sort of stuff that has in recent years become fashionable to describe as “cursed”, and often with good reason

LLMs being bad at precision and detail is as perfect an antithesis in that picture as I am capable of conceiving. so any thought of a project like this that pairs LLMs (or, more broadly, any of the current generative family of nonsense) as a dependency in it’s implementation is just damn wild to me

(and just incase: this post is not an opportunity to quibble about PLT and about what be or become possible.)

so, ever watched Godzilla? and then did a twofer with a zombie movie? I think that’s essentially the plot here

Chlorofox (the oxidized version)

while wikipedia-diving the other day I learned about Basilisk

so, y’know, why not this too

bring back vrml and the browser can become a room you can diy on

I’m sure this plan will go perfectly with absolutely no issues

I became a member this year! and then immediately got to notice how it’s oozing out every pore

what’s kinda wild for me is that there’s also an ethics pledge involved, and I do not understand how they square that with the mass theft all LLM services and progress are/is based on

them automatically fucking with authors’ papers….ew

….this made me twitch

……snrk

iykyk. this comment is sublime

just came across a wild banger:

(An aside — In their official docs, Apple refers to the menu bar always in lowercase, because it’s just a menu bar. The ‘desktop’ is the same way. This is interesting, because we live in an era where everything is a branded product whose name is a proper noun– see the Dock– and we are not allowed to merely use things, we are forced to experience using them and you legally can’t ‘experience’ a regular ‘ol noun. Everybody knows it’s gotta be a proper noun in order to be experienced. The Las Vegas Demon Orb Experience. The Microsoft Windows Desktop Experience. The ESPN Experience Brought To You By Sports Gambling. The 6th Street Hostel Bathroom Experience. But our friends “menu bar” and “desktop” are just two things, average, normal, unobtrusive. This says something about how the people who created these things thought about them.)

I learned yesterday that Helsinki’s uni is also on the list: prompts not only tolerated, but encouraged

been starting to wonder whether these are like the google etc plays there: “suuuuure you can get a sweetheart deal for our systems” [5y later and much storage on the expensive rentabox] “hey btw we’re renewing prices, your contracts are going up 400%. oh and also taking data out of the system is $20/TB. just…in case you wanted to try”

we can mock the orange man and his dancing circus of pliant sycophants and wannabe successors without having to become complicit propagators of their bullshit

besides, a good novel joke has wit and nuance. maybe a dash of historical insight. why on earth would I want to go to the averaging-everything-prior machine if I wanted something new?

I ran across it when it was still pitching “cozy twitter”, but rapidly also saw that a lot of that was driven by some of the homesteader and natalist types. then after a few rounds of looking into some histories and bigger posters, started backing away… can imagine it’s more mask-off now

I regret to inform you: is*

please enjoy the calibre dev repeatedly stepping on rakes that smack him in the face when multiple computer security professionals showed him 10+(!) severe vulnerabilities in a setuid root mount program nobody asked for that he implemented for frankly fucked personal reasons over the strong objections of his own community

I’d heard of these but never looked into it (hadn’t needed to), opened now and saw who the bug was reported by. imagine getting that report from that source and then your first answer is to start arguing

double up that multiple distros going back older than that report have had support for automatic user mount systems (and that calibre could’ve just used that)… goddamn

recently I ran into the term “outsider programming” and I really like it as a frame for the kind of inexpert contributors (driveby or otherwise) that you get in a project like calibre, people who just trying to make their own little thing work as best they can - you could look at e.g. the code for the dedrm plugin if you want some examples of this. but then you also get whatever the fuck goyal is doing here, which is … far the other way

do you want to try again, but making your own post this time?

Heh yeah, “infrastructure” in the same way that moneyed bayfuckers are “builders”

It is also a useful study in just how little they fucking by get about how anything works, and what models of reasoning they apply to what they perceive. Depressing, but useful