David Gerard @ dgerard @awful.systems

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you may also appreciate this port of Bad Apple to Siri

Wordpress plugins pull this shit too, WP Dark Mode attempts to paywall the custom CSS that's built into Wordpress

c/techtakes is n-gate now

If this is true, then it’s a remarkable bit of SF foresight

who'd think a commie could see right through a billionaire's PR hype

ya know the Nicole the Fediverse Chick spam? this poster thinks it's a revenge Joe job:

https://transmom.love/@elilla/114178587075613485

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the user has been given a month to consider things

yeah, you can fuck off now

HN is a site for temporarily embarrassed billionaires who desire nothing so much as the blessing of Paul Graham and Garry Tan, so there's a lot of competitive bootlicking

Hacker News, one of the sites this specific discussion community is about, per the sidebar

I did this one today too:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/19/ai-coding-tools-fix-bugs-by-adding-bugs/ - text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnzkgDt-d3o - video

This is proof lesswrong needs more biologists!

last time one showed up he laughed his ass off at the cryonics bit

well that was a waste of frickin time. i spent this evening making a lovely vertical video and it can't be a youtube short cos it's over 3 minutes. same limit on instagram/facebook reels.

i put it up unlisted for the curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91MXv2MthMk

i mean it misunderstands the assignment, but hopefully it amuses

at least I can avoid for a bit longer having to contemplate lines like

ffmpeg -i out-sq1.mp4 -lavfi "[0:v]scale=1920/1080*iw:1920/1080*ih,boxblur=luma_radius=min(h\,w)/40:luma_power=3:chroma_radius=min(cw\,ch)/40:chroma_power=1[bg];[bg][0:v]overlay=(W-w)/2:(H-h)/2,setsar=1,crop=w=iw*1080/1920" -crf 10 -x264-params keyint=10:scenecut=0 out-vert1.mp4

^-- statements dreamt up by the utterly Deranged

tiktok's limit is 10 minutes but the edit has to be completely different (no title cards or branding) and not clear i can say the website url in the video. also UK monetisation kicks in at 10k followers and 100k views in the past 30 days. i am unconvinced as yet.

the other two answers are correct, but also they totally do. In particular, the blockchain analysis companies alert companies using their services to the transaction touching tainted coins. This is variably effective, of course.

But also, there are plenty of non-US/EU exchanges that don't give a hoot and once tainted coins hit an exchange they're washed because these exchanges are very good at having pretend KYC/AML.

Leo certainly didn't gatekeep his app's security, hem hem

coding with vibes

ChatGPT as the Sybian of coding

because they sell that! e.g. Kagi resells Google's actual-search-results API

I'm an "is it art?" maximalist. But I think it's the wrong question about generative AI. The right question is the corporate incentives.

especiall when it goes into mangled, uncanny-valley territory

GPT-2 was the peak of LLMs, because it was interestingly broken shit