Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

here's the magnet link for the Amnesty report on transphobes that they're now actively issuing DMCA notices against, because they've moved from victims to being active collaborators

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Grades exist to produce a metric which is used to certify your worth to people which gatekeep your right to life. What on earth did you think would happen? People wouldn't game the system? That the metric wouldn't replace the practice? If that's the case, students aren't the only one losing the ability to think critically.

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New bootloader lets you take the "Meta" out of the original Meta Quest

Privilege escalation attack grants "full control" and freedom from Meta's servers/apps.
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RE: https://beige.party/@Lana/117151861219500149

Cory Doctorow, inventor of "enshittification": This machine that eats kittens to produce often incorrect answers is terrible! I have such great ideas about that in my new book. I'm so smart! I am *the* most important tech critic!

Oh, I use the kitten eating machine to check my writing for typos. Which is totally not a part of the editing process! And it's my own local kitten eating machine! So it's okay! Facts don't care about your feelings, Kim!

(Yes, Cory Doctorow really said that to me, I have proof.)

#NoAI

@davidgerard this is where a lot of people in tech are right now and the cognitive dissonance is incredible

“oh I’d never do slop because I” type lgtm in all the PRs, type the code myself on the chatbot’s instructions, only use it for tests, only use it for docs, blah blah blah

and meanwhile the project is broken in ridiculous ways and they haven’t noticed because the slopbot says it’s fine and they’ve cognitively offloaded all validation to the LLM. I haven’t met anyone who uses the slopbot and doesn’t cognitively offload to it; all of them do the glass-eyed “here’s what claude said” more and more til that’s the only thing making decisions and driving conversations in the project.

@JennyFluff @davidgerard

"hey, claude you must guarantee you don't make the code worse when refactoring"

I find this absolutely mind boggling. If you know how an LLM works, it's obviously nonsense, sure.

But if you buy into the marketing that ascribes intelligence to these machines: what does that even mean? How are you defining 'worse'? And why would you need to explicitly state that? And these are people who, apparently, have experience using formal language to instruct machines built around systems of logic!.

@davidgerard ohno, this made me look into a slop project similar to my non-slop floppy recovery software and the last commit was "hey, claude you must guarantee you don't make the code worse when refactoring"

I am just..
How can you seriously use this as a professional.

@davidgerard like no, you aren’t carefully reading thousands and thousands of lines of LLM output to make sure they’re not slop.

yes, the parts of the codebase you’re offloading to the LLM are important, and allowing any part of your project to be slop makes the whole thing slop because of how LLMs work in practice.

no, I don’t particularly want “your buddy claude” (all of these guys use this exact non-joke for some reason) to be part of the discourse. I don’t think lazily consulting the slopbot adds anything positive. I keep watching negative outcomes happen unacknowledged when you consult it. the codebase is now a disjoint mass of a hundred broken abstractions and non-abstractions because that’s what “your buddy claude” recommends.

big push to try to push "responsible" AI coding as "not *slop*"

just hit another one

"oh no they're very anti-slop here's their CONTRIBUTING.md"

list of ways to use the slop bot in their project

come off it with this bullshit

One of my favorite student proofs was written by a student who was just learning to speak English. He'd get frustrated with long explanations and just switch to equations or diagrams and write "it is like this:"

Then demonstrate his point.

He could have run the final draft through and LLM and it would add some pointless sentences to pad out the proof so it was less terse and more like every other proof ever written.

It would have been worse.

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your attitude toward the currently proliferating "AI" technologies (as you define it) is mostly...

please boost to include others.
comments open for context and perspective sharing.

@miss_rodent yes, to be clear I am extremely angry at the social construction of the “support agent” role in this case, not at all angry at the actual human being whose interactions with me are mediated by 10 layers of baffling and dysfunctional automations

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it’s really weird to see people post about Apple not betting on AI as Apple rushes the release of the ear cameras that can only feed photos into an LLM, right after Apple started a fight with the EU over the API they designed that lets an LLM access all the data on your device