you can view them on home timeline if you really want to, but probably you'll regret it
agreed, far too much chan shittery attached to it
I’ve (irl) met a “part-time” LW reader and tried to have a conversation about some of the shit, and … same experience
just utterly had no ability to even receive the information about the longstanding sexual abuse or statements of yud being a charisma-for-nerds grifter
(had an earlier conversation with ‘em some many months prior calling out many of issues in coiner world after they’d gone laser-eyes having read the bitcoin paper, and they eventually got their head out of their ass, so…. I’m hopeful it’s not all lost yet)
GAs went out of the limelight before the rest of the beaus of current “AI” branding came to be, suspect that might be part of it
(Another suspicion is that it’s because they’re…fairly observable, ito operation? So it’s far less easily claimable that one of these has gained sentience, or all the other dumb bullshit that the cluster has spun in recent years)
nah, that kinda asshole doesn’t leave a great taste in one’s mouth, not my kinda diet at all
you won’t find me disagreeing with systematic redress to remove the possibility of these fuckers from ever being able to exist, nor for figuring out how to reverse the total bullshit we’ve already landed in from 40~50y of post-bork/-reagan nightmares, tho
I can’t tell whether their intended point with that last one was “I said all the dogwhistles and none of you agreed instantly!”, or a genuine intent at stating that there was a perceived shallowness in our communal reading comprehension
and either case just makes no goddamn sense whatsoever, what the fuck
“keep me banned though”
the fuck? they thought a pestering third-avenue dm would have resulted in a different action?
“that community is full of people who really have a low level reading ability”
absolutely fucking perfect, 300/10, no notes
what the utter belligerent fuck
let them eat stock
I'm guessing that "obscurantist proponent" is not exactly an ideal option, sorta lacks that punch for precise poignant use in an enraged soliloquy
I'll give it a ponder see if my brain delivers an option
(.de too but you covered that)
heh curious, I often see it with .be/.nl/.bg ones (but from IPs very clearly not in eurozone (as in, not even under RIPE))
also
without making it too obvious because you’re fairly certain they’re armed. they will later go on the internet and call you an NPC who refuses to wake up
ZA has many problems (and oh christ could I wax lyrical), but thank fuck I do not live in fucking eaglecountry
it's a whole fucked-up 'ole dynamic when you need to "watch your back" in the most very literal sense because you didn't eat some bozo's shit :|
you only find out about their interest in UFOs because it’s the reason they want to get into radio or whatever and they want to see if you can recommend them a setup to communicate with satellites and other stuff in orbit
you know, I don't know if I've actually run into this kind of conversation. I don't think I have. or if I almost did, I fairly likely applied a conversation logic-shortcircuit way before it got there (because of ambient red flag count). but fuck me, if I don't know exactly the kind of person you're referring to.... :|
"ah ah but he wrote books - that surely can't be the works of a person frothing in racism!" is something I've heard from a surprising number of people I've met
ah yes, ireland, the land of just-close-enough to LIXP/TH(D|E)/etc but with different-enough property prices and power capabilities to make it very attractive to the discerning dc builder
(there's also some of the tax regs shit but aiui that isn't as gaping a hole as it used to be)
is your post missing a /s
I guess that is the same duration/timeline as the guardian downslope arc
there's some ZAians on this shit too
a "Dennis Kriel" under verdan.tech
(and goverdan.tech
(and as "Bert du Preez" dupco.co.za
sending email as dupcoconsulting.site
)))
got some shit from them october last year, and then again last week. and despite previously being told to fuck off, and again told to fuck off now - to which I got a generated-from-AWS-sent-via-their-mailserver-in-ZA "hey we've removed you from our contact list" email (yeah, super normal origin, totally not an autoreply generated by a fucking chatbot). and, well..
I'm old-hat - I actually run my own servers, and report spam and contact abuse@
s instead of clicking gmail buttons. I rather hope they enjoyed the pain that came from all of their providers for every one of their assets being notified of their spam operations
(e: obscured the domains incase these fucking creeps run google alerts, then decided "fuck that" and added it back again. let them come)
given some of the other things I've seen from the guardian, not sure that would've necessarily been a contraindicator
I think there's a bug with your post button, it sent the same message twice
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
> The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be) > Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
There is an unavoidable tension between the aims of decentralization and onboarding everyday users.
![Mass Adoption Would Ruin Crypto. Keep It a Niche](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/86240aaa-7e6b-40b9-ad6b-9ba9403297e7.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
there is some strong copium in the article, combined with a total description of having a massive gambling addiction without, y’know, actually realising it’s an addiction
remarkable stuff
People participate in online communities to share experiences and sympathy. AI chatbots that join the conversation can only pretend to offer either.
![AI chatbots are intruding into online communities where people are trying to connect with other humans](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/f600730f-70ba-4e69-86c1-4787a6c2fbf1.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
there are some remarkable instances of bad behaviour in there already, but imagine being the sort of product team that thinks users being gaslit by a chatbot that they couldn’t even consent to choose to use is totes something to deliver without any modification or remark
this time in open letter format! that'll sure do it!
there are "risks", which they are definite about - the risks are not hypothetical, the risks are real! it's totes even had some acknowledgement in other places! totes real defs for sure this time guize
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> The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be) > Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
since I haven't touched AP before (and figure other possible contributors may not have either), going to use this post as wayfarer bathroom graffiti
feel free to contribute your own learning and investigation as well
And perhaps sidestepping its own policy in the process.
![Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/7e0ed0ec-8c51-4cfb-a42d-ce5243920471.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
It’s been a long couple of years with people going hard on building all their communications on the gamer chat company, disregarding all warnings and concerns because of shiny creature comforts
Soon: “we trusted you! We moved from slack to you! 😭”
Guess it’s only a handful of months before the tortured handwringing starts?
The surge in venture funding and public excitement has DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis thinking about crypto parallels.
![Is AI the new crypto? DeepMind cofounder says ‘hype’ and ‘grifting’ threaten the emerging sector](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/9a2d988e-4e09-4227-ba15-a89928b78eef.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Unfortunately I can’t snip from mobile easily now, but maybe someone else can archive it and comment with archive link?
Kara Swisher made a career of dumbing down tech reporting and criticism. She’s a little sorry!
![The Miseducation of Kara Swisher | Edward Ongweso Jr.](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/33ea03fb-1dc3-4448-afdb-1b5f35458375.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Too tired to sneer at the book myself right now but the article doesn’t pull punches either
Figured it’s worth posting since the book author has featured here more than once recently and has definitely been an enabler to The Shit
retr0chat telnet server. Contribute to 9001/r0c development by creating an account on GitHub.
![GitHub - 9001/r0c: retr0chat telnet server](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/dedac6f3-1858-4362-b3af-07c7bad69bd0.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
found via someone running a server at revision
retro fun. quite slick, too!
how one little joke can get so, so out of hand
![npm install everything, and the complete and utter chaos that follows](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/9ac4e66d-12ae-44e3-8178-125ec4c54cfe.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Not entirely the usual fare, but i figured some here would appreciate it
I often rag on the js/node/npm ecosystem for being utter garbage, and this post is a quite a full demonstration of many of the shortcomings and outright total design failures present in that space
Invite up at https://2024.revision-party.net/blog/04-invitation/
~2 weekends away (who cares about the week)
Prepare for watching mathematical black magic!
Maybe we have some time before AIs conquer the world
![Top AIs still fail IQ tests](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/695abf39-fa75-4526-9d30-49513738afd4.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
starting out[0] with "I was surprised by the following results" and it just goes further down almost-but-not-quite Getting It Avenue
close, but certainly no cigar
choice quotes:
> > Why is it impressive that a model trained on internet text full of random facts happens to have a lot of random facts memorized? … why does that in any way indicate intelligence or creativity?
> That’s a good point.
you don't fucking say
> I have a website (TrackingAI.org) that already administers a political survey to AIs every day. So I could easily give the AIs a real intelligence test, and track that over time, too.
really, how?
> As I started manually giving AIs IQ tests
oh.
> Then it proceeds to mis-identify every single one of the 6 answer options, leading it to pick the wrong answer. There seems to be little rhyme or reason to its misidentifications
if this fuckwit had even the slightest fucking understanding of how these things work, it would be glaringly obvious
there's plenty more, so remember to practice stretching before you start your eyerolls
One for the sidebar, in the spirit of incident-day-free counters[0], tracking how many days since the last time there was a dipshitted thing from the tescrealtors
Could do it with flap-counter or nixie-clock numbers for a bit of feel?
[0] - is this an insensitive idea? I know the counters tend to form part of safety culture and their reset indicates harm, but those clowns are exactly dangerous, so..
Gemini is our most capable and general model, built to be multimodal and optimized for three different sizes: Ultra, Pro and Nano.
![Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model](https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/aa4888a4-095a-4105-ae87-05de1d82b61b.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
[open scene]
> background: a brightly lit airy Social Gathering space with multicoloured furniture (meeting rooms are so 2010). people have been arriving in clumps of 2~5 for over 30 minutes, and the presentation can start soon
sundar: I want to thank you all for coming. this one should be quick today.
* sundar briefly sweeps his eyes across the room before continuing *
sundar: guys! GUYS! we made the prompt VIDEO CAPABLE! it can follow A STREAMING SEQUENCE OF IMAGES!! you can immediately start testing this from your corporate account (whispers if you're in the right orgs). for the public scoff, we'll start with Ask Us pricing in a few months, and we'll force it on the usual product avenues. the office and mail suites stand ready to roll out the integration updates before anyone can ask. you know how the riffraff gets....
* some motion and noise in the back *
sundar: ... sorry melanie, what's that? speak up melanie I can't hear your question. you know how much that mask muffles your voice...
* a game of broken telephone for moving a handheld microphone to the back of the room ensues *
melanie: hi sundar, congratulations to the team for their achievement. I wanted to ask: how does gemini pro solve the issues other models have faced? what new innovations have been accomplished? how is it dealing with the usual issues of correctness, energy consumption, cultural contexts? how is it trained on areas where no datasets exist? were any results sourced from cooperation with the AI ethics and responsibility workgroups that have found so many holes in our previous models?
sundar: * smiles brightly, stares directly into middle of crowd. moves hand to the electronic shutter control, and starts pressing the increase button multiple times until shutter is entirely opaque *
[sundar walks off into the fake sunset, breaks open the boardroom whiskey]
[inside the private exec room]
sundar: FUCK! that was too close. didn't we fire those types already in the last layoffs...? someone get me HR, we need to do something
[end scene]
this is in part because it's for (yet another) post I'm working on, but I figured I'd pop some things here and see if others have contributions too. the post will be completed (and include examples, usecases, etc), but, yeah.
I've always taken a fairly strong interest in the tooling I use, for QoL and dtrt reasons usually (but also sometimes tool capability). conversely, I also have things I absolutely loathe using
- wireguard. a far better vpn software and protocol than most others (and I have slung tunnels with many a vpn protocol). been using this a few years already, even before the ios app beta came around. good shit, take a look if you haven't before
- smallstep cli. it's one of two pieces of Go software I actually like. smallstep is trying to build its own ecosystem of CA tools and solutions (and that's usable in its own right, albeit by default focused to containershit), but the cli is great for what you typically want with certificate handling. compare
step certificate inspect file
andstep certificate inspect --insecure https://totallyreal.froztbyte.net/
to the bullshit you need with openssl. check it out - restic. the other of the two Go-softwares I like. I posted about it here previously
- rust cli things! oh damn there's so many, I'm going to put them on their own list below
- zsh, extremely lazily configured, with my own little module and scoping system and no oh-my-zsh. fish has been a thing I've seen people be happy about but I'm just an extremely lazy computerer so zsh it stays. zsh's complexity is extremely nonzero and it definitely has sharp edges, but it does work well. sunk cost, I guess. bonus round: race your zsh, check your times:
% hyperfine -m 50 'zsh -i -c echo' Benchmark 1: zsh -i -c echo Time (mean ± σ): 69.1 ms ± 2.8 ms [User: 35.1 ms, System: 28.6 ms] Range (min … max): 67.0 ms … 86.2 ms 50 runs
- magic-wormhole. this is a really, really neat little bit of software for just fucking sending files to someone.
wormhole send filename
one side,wormhole receive the-code-it-gives
the other side, bam! it uses SPAKE2 (disclaimer: I did help review that post, it's still good) for session-tied keying, and it's just generally good software - [macos specifically] alfred. I gotta say, I barely use this to its full potential, and even so it is a great bit of assistive stuff. more capable than spotlight, has a variety of extensibility, and generally snappy as hell.
- [macos specifically] choosy. I use this to control link-routing and link-opening on my workstation to a fairly wide degree (because a lot of other software irks me, and does the wrong thing by default). this will be a fuller post on its own, too
- [macos specifically] little snitch. application-level per-connection highly granular-capable firewalling. with profiles. their site does a decent explanation of it. the first few days of setup tends to be Quite Involved with how many rules you need to add (and you'll probably be surprised at just how many things try to make various kinds of metrics etc connections), but well worth it. one of the ways to make modern software less intolerable. (honorary extra mention: obdev makes a number of handy pieces of mac software, check their site out)
- [macos specifically] soundsource. highly capable per-application per-sink audio control software. with the ability to pop in VSTs and AUs at multiple points. extremely helpful for a lot of things (such as perma-muting discord, which never shuts up, even in system dnd mode)
rust tools:
- b3sum. file checksum thing, but using blake3. fast!. worth checking out. probably still niche, might catch on eventually
- hyperfine. does what it says on the tin. see example use above.
- dust. like
du
, but better, and way faster. oh dear god it is so much faster. I deal with a lot of pets, and this thing is one of the invaluables in dealing with those. - ripgrep. the one on this list that people are most likely to know. grep, but better, and faster.
- fd. again, find but better and faster.
- tokei. sloccount but not shit. handy for if you quickly want to assess a codebase/repo.
- bottom. down the evolutionary chain from
top
andhtop
, has more feature modes and a number of neat interactive view functions/helpers
honorary mentions (things I know of but don't use that much):
- mrh. not doing as much consulting as I used to, using it less. quickly checks all git(?) repos in a path for uncommitted changes
- fzf. still haven't really gotten to integrating it into my usage
- just. need to get to using it more.
- jql. I ... tend to avoid jq? my "this should be in a program. with safety rails." reflex often kicks in when I see jq things. haven't really explored this
- rtx. their tagline is "a better asdf". I like the idea of it because asdf is a miserable little pile of shell scripts and fuck that, but I still haven't really gotten to using it in anger myself. I have my own wrapper methods for keeping pyenv/nvm/etc out of my shell unless needed
- pomsky. previously
rulex
. regex creation tool and language. been using it a little bit. not enough to comment in detail yet
The president of tech giant Microsoft said there is no chance of super-intelligent artificial intelligence being created within the next 12 months, and cautioned that the technology could be decades away.
![Microsoft president says no chance of super-intelligent AI soon](https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/14734b72-79dd-49ee-a663-d314d2839d2e.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
> "There's absolutely no probability that you're going to see this so-called AGI, where computers are more powerful than people, in the next 12 months. It's going to take years, if not many decades, but I still think the time to focus on safety is now," he said.
just days after poor lil sammyboi and co went out and ran their mouths! the horror!
> Sources told Reuters that the warning to OpenAI's board was one factor among a longer list of grievances that led to Altman's firing, as well as concerns over commercializing advances before assessing their risks. > > Asked if such a discovery contributed..., but it wasn't fundamentally about a concern like that.
god I want to see the boardroom leaks so bad. STOP TEASING!
> “What we really need are safety brakes. Just like you have a safety break in an elevator, a circuit breaker for electricity, an emergency brake for a bus – there ought to be safety breaks in AI systems that control critical infrastructure, so that they always remain under human control,” Smith added.
this appears to be a vaguely good statement, but I'm gonna (cynically) guess that it's more steered by the fact that MS now repeatedly burned their fingers on human-interaction AI shit, and is reaaaaal reticent about the impending exposure
wonder if they'll release a business policy update about usage suitability for *GPT and friends
Chief technology officer Mira Murati appointed interim CEO to lead OpenAI; Sam Altman departs the company. Search process underway to identify permanent successor.
![OpenAI announces leadership transition](https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/b95b92f4-28e7-45f7-a35c-55f40b3a4b0b.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
> Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process [by the board]
"god, he's really cost us... how much can we get back?"
> which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board
not only with the board, kids
> hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities
you and me both, brother
C64 Demo: E2IRA by Arise! 29 May 2022! YouTube: https://youtu.be/q56-23D7omY Download: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=218343 #Commodore #Commodore64 #C64 #RetroComputing
I don't really know enough about the C64 to say anything one way or the other, but this comment on youtube did okay:
@eightbitguru 1 year ago 2021: We have definitely seen everything the C64 can do now. 2022: My beer. Hold it.
and I'm posting this without even having seen the whole thing yet