Weldon @weldon@librem.one
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Heh. I misremembered the date--thought it was today, but looks like it was October 5. On that day, 10 years ago, I posted a link to Mastodon on Hacker News, with the title "Show HN: A new decentralized microblogging platform". That it made it to the front page ended up bringing the first 5,000 users, setting the project on the trajectory it's on today.
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Them: Our model is so powerful. It has now gained supernatural powers.
Me: Go away.
Them: It escaped and started hacking other companies. We tried our best to lock it down in jail. This is scary. We are scared. Humanity is doomed.
Me: You left the door open, didn't you?
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1622 out of 114279 packages (1.4%) seem infected and we're still counting...
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“You cannot move a thirty-year watershed study. You cannot relocate a decades-long old-growth monitoring program. You cannot box up a forest and ship it to Colorado. When these facilities close, the experiments die. The datasets end. The partnerships with universities that took generations to build collapse.”
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
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Your password must contain chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer.
"Claude summarize this document from the Internet for me" is probably the worst infosec antipattern of my lifetime
I've been wondering lately if the excitement about AI coding tools stems from the fact that people younger than ~40 have only ever had text editors with catastrophically bad ergonomics. Because I really can't understand why you would pay for snippets and skeletons otherwise.
