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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 4mo ago

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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org I bet for like $5M, $10M on the outside, and a good lobbying firm, you could get the entire text of "A Modest Proposal" copied verbatim into the Republican Party Platform for 2028. And honestly, if some billionaire decided to do that, I would eat them last.

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 5mo ago

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@chaudum@mstdn.social It turns out there are a *lot* of people who want custom software / HTML / whatever written, but didn't have the ability to do it themselves or the financial means to pay someone else to do it. The bar was suddenly lowered on doing it themselves, so now they're doing it. I think it's actually quite a good thing for serious programmers, because the net result is people are eventually going to run into the limits of what the LLMs can do and need help maintaining / migrating / deploying it. It was before my time, but from things I've read, a smaller-scale version of this basically happened when compilers and machine-independent "high level" languages like C were developed. Suddenly you didn't need to know the intricacies of the instruction set of the computer you were writing for; you could punt on all that and move up to a higher level of abstraction. #LLM #AI #programming

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 5mo ago

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@jepyang What if you convince the LLM to help you distribute union materials?

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 5mo ago

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@btdorn @yaelwrites @eric

Everyone involved is listed at the end with their job title.

There's a lot of what might be called "politics" involved in that too, although much been codified over decades (particularly due to unions). Whether or not someone gets listed in the front vs. end credits, in what order, and what they're listed as, is a big deal and can be subject to some fairly intense negotiations.

Some of the titles, e.g. "Associate Producer", "Best Boy", do not necessarily mean what I suspect viewers unfamiliar with the industry think they mean, too.

It is a bit surprising, given that print journalism is not a new industry, that it doesn't have very well-codified rules as well. Maybe that's because of the lack of an overarching union to push for uniformity?

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 5mo ago

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@Perrin42 @adhdeanasl i mean he did like dogs, so that's more plausible

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 6mo ago

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@Cyberoutsider So you're telling me that in other countries, their political leaders *don't* always sound like they are either about to have, or have just had, some sort of brain injury?

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 4mo ago

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@MissConstrue@mefi.social That too. But I meant more that, because the graph is out of 100%, the bots could be a constant number but you'd get the same sinusoidal pattern purely from people sleeping. But for some reason my brain decided the color on the bottom should be the driving quantity.

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 4mo ago

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@MissConstrue@mefi.social My first reaction on seeing that chart was to wonder why there was the bots had so much of a daily pattern—why do the bots *sleep*?

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 6mo ago

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@theleftistlawyer@mastodon.social They could just admit they're really into Lycra, but no, they have to get all *weird* about it.

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 10mo ago

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@henk@waag.social Wow, they really decided to speedrun the enshittification process. The "Arduino" brand will probably end up tainted, but I don't see why the community can't fork the last pre-Qualcomm version of the toolchain and preserve the ecosystem, even if it has to be under a different name. (Freeduino? Libduino? Hopefully someone can come up with something better...) It's not like they can retroactively close off the releases that were already open source, they can only do it going forward, as they try to build more shitty corporate "cloud" features into the IDE. There's nothing special about the Arduino-brand hardware, though. The concept of a really cheap dev board (as opposed to the $250+ ones traditionally made by for commercial developers) was a game-changer in its time, but now there are lots of them, including from Adafruit, and the barrier to producing new ones is a lot lower than in the past. The challenge will be steering new users away from the "brand name" hardware/cloud.

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 5mo ago

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@docpop Looks like a target for an autonomous drone, to me.

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 5mo ago

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@bvibber@wikis.world s/trashed/cemented/ Microsoft is where ideas go to die.

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 5mo ago

@hannah@posts.rat.pictures
and people say journalism is dead

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 6mo ago

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@alexmu Yes, Stappers ran and steered the model, but it was Knuth's problem and he validated it. But I think the interest has mostly come from his statement in the opening para ("It seems that I’ll have to revise my opinions [...]"). At least at one point, Knuth's platform of choice was reportedly the VAX-11/750, and honestly I hope that's still the case.

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 6mo ago

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But if you want *my* hot take: anyone who reads that paper is going to be lost without a pretty strong background in modern math, at least a solid undergraduate level. The part that #Claude did seems pretty mechanistic; it literally tries a brute-force approach, but all of its attempts in general could be considered a sort of brute force, something that I'm confident Stappers or Knuth could have done by hand if they wanted… it just does them faster. More importantly, though, is that it takes someone of Stappers' or Knuth's caliber to recognize that the solution is, in fact, valid and generalizable. Although the model does stop for one partial solution, there was a significant amount of steering getting it to that point. Also, being able to ask the question in a rigorous way, or realize that it's even interesting, is itself a creative act that the machine can't do. I think there's an analogy here to compilers and compiled languages.

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 8mo ago

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@BasicAppleGuy@mastodon.social Cannot say that I like even one of the 'Creator Studio' versions better than the Originals. Showing them against a black background is admittedly in keeping with current dark-mode fashion, but does a disservice to the originals which IIRC had nice clickable 'shadow' areas around the icons with more irregular shapes. The whole "tile" thing wasn't necessary on a light background.

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 10mo ago

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@dalias@hachyderm.io @henk@waag.social Yeah, I haven't actually written anything using the Arduino IDE for an 8-bit microcontroller in a long time; stuff like the ESP8266, ESP32, and RP2040 (via arduino-pico) are just too cheap in comparison.

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 13mo ago

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@k3ym0@infosec.exchange Corporate America basically only responds to crises, real or imagined. So if they want the companies that benefit from NTP to get their wallets out, they need to have a crisis. It can't just be "please let's prevent this bad thing"—if stuff like that worked, we wouldn't be staring down the barrel of global warming—it needs to be "THE INTERNET DIES TOMORROW UNLESS..." Then the gears will turn. Capitalism doesn't respond to pleas, it responds to threats.

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 13mo ago

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@tolmasky@mastodon.social Phew. I'm sure glad someone got paid a solid Bay Area Tech Junkie salary to code that. No wonder what these "AI" tools could do if they weren't on the ball.

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 6mo ago

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@Garwboy One thing I will never forgive LLM "AI" for is ruining the emdash. I loved a good emdash, and now it's a one-way ticket to someone claiming you're actually a robot.

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 6mo ago

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@Crovanian Certainly the strongest argument for monarchism I've come across.

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 5mo ago

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@gildilinie Kids these days don't even know how to not fold, spindle, or mutilate.

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 5mo ago

Welp, so much for #Github #Copilot Pro — it was a pretty good deal at $100/year, and the billing based on prompts made more sense to me than billing based on "tokens".

Just to ensure anyone who wants to ride out their annual plan gets thoroughly screwed, they're doing away with the "0x" (free, mostly older) models and increasing the multipliers on the remaining ones. Nice touch.

Quite the #enshittification speedrun. Bravo, guys.

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 5mo ago

Dominos Pizza apparently DDOSed their own website to death with their NFL Draft promotion.

How do you think they apportion the blame between the Marketing department and the IT department?

#fail

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 5mo ago

@CrabbyIT@infosec.exchange I am not normally a fan of developing in virtual environments but this strikes me as a potentially valid use case.

Discourage running LLM tools directly on developers' real hardware; instead, have a template VM that you can spin up, with all the tools pre-installed (make it easy and low-friction!), and then sandbox those virtual workstations at L2 (VLAN) / L3 (subnet) on the network.

I am not sure if I would trust purpose-built LLM sandboxing tools currently, and LiteLLM in particular concentrates valuable API keys in a way that seems risky. I'd want per-user API keys, I think.

The controls come at the border between the LLM workstation network and the broader corporate network, with firewalls and reverse proxies to control hits to internal APIs and other resources.

Basically, they are locked in a dev/sandbox network and code gets promoted "out" via a PR process with human review before it can touch actual production systems.

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 5mo ago

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@monorail@glaceon.social A fun thing you can do in your pediatrician's office is yell "dear god, at this rate she's going to kill us all!" when they tell you your kid's updated stats.

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Kadin @Kadin2048@mefi.social

· 6mo ago

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@RikerGoogling@mas.to Pretty sure he was some guy with a *lot* of oil of bergamot sitting around that he needed to create a market for.

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