Carlos (명준)

Look at older protocols like IRC, or at decentralized social media, and you'll notice something they have in common: neither one is popular. They get dismissed as obsolete, but not because they're inconvenient or broken. They work fine. The real problem is that they aren't profitable. There's no way for a corporation to sit in the middle of them and extract value from the people using them.

@kimhu@mastodon.social I really liked this one @Georgian@raccoonisland.social

@glyph@mastodon.social I understand, it's just that I despise this technology so much that I become overly aggressive and reactive to everyone that holds a position that isn't "I hate it" or, at very least, "I hate it under its current form".

@glyph@mastodon.social “I poisoned my own mind. Maybe I can go back to them in future, starting from scratch and doing them the right way, but for now, they’re shelved.” The door is still open, not a great ending for the post. I don’t get why people are so tempted by laziness and cognitive decay.

@glyph@mastodon.social read the quoted paragraph, I will quote it again, with emphasis: “back to them in the future (…) doing them the right way”. She suggests there’s a “right way” of doing LLMs. This kind of person doesn’t learn anything, they still think it’s “a tool”. They still jerk off to the false and despicable idea of compressing days of work in seconds regarding creative endeavors.

@nihkeys@mastodontti.fi @hetzner@mastodon.hetzner.social Anubis + iocaine. Prevent, punish if you fail to prevent. Best combo.

@failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to @texttheater@mastodon.social So, what?

@arteesetica@mastodon.social @ecosia@mastodon.social Fucking disgraceful.

@glyph@mastodon.social My bad, I misunderstood that paragraph’s idea by reading diagonally and fast. But I disagree, the only viable use of LLMs is multiline (5-10 max) autocomplete after extensive training with a specific repo tbh. They’re just glorified autocomplete, any other use out of this is pure brain rot that isn’t far from Markov chains garbage.

@jorijn@toot.community @hetzner@mastodon.hetzner.social Woodpecker CI.

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange Maybe security engineers like your see it differently, but for web and other kind of developers we used, and some of us still do, consider our work creative, exciting and stimulating intellectually. If you take that out you only leave the misery of the corporate politics and pure brain rot. I’m sure that you can understand that this is not about privilege, it’s about not falling into literal depression. Most of us were in love with our work.

@brib@bribstodon.xyz @glyph@mastodon.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run Uh, oh, excusing people because they're weak-minded or surrender to “convenience” is not the way to go, I believe.

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange If, in the software field, you must use AI to stay competent and keep your services safe then, at least for me, it’s time to leave the field. Is a really easy answer.

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange I’m not doubting my competence nor yours. I’m just saying that LLMs becoming the norm is a strong signal of an industry becoming rotten. No privilege here, there are trades, there is entrepreneurship, there is pursuing another career etc. I will always try to align my values with my livelihood. But that’s me.

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange Are you in the USA?

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange I’ve been following you for some time, I’m not attacking you. Just saying that you seem semi-open to the possibility of engaging in this new way of working. And I understand it, I’m compelled to use AI in my day-to-day work, we are all trapped. But I’m working in a plan to pivot aggressively. But worry not, I know what’s your stance and I share it partially. You’re more balanced than I am tho.

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange I totally understand. I don’t know your circumstances so nothing to say there.

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange My bad on my assumptions. Sorry for that, maybe I didn’t pay enough attention. About the weapon, I think it’s an overly simplistic metaphor. Duty of care? Well, ok, what about caring about the colleagues that are being fired because of “productivity gains” which is basically slop at scale? Using the weapon? The more you use the weapon the more you ruin things for you and for others. I don’t know man.

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange Did you face this dilemma already? In the workplace? The “tool” did something faster and better than you manually? Let’s say just faster, I doubt the “tool” do something better than anyone in general. Did you save any situation by using the “tool”?

@phreakmonkey@infosec.exchange @mttaggart@infosec.exchange Of course, everyone has a different situation. I’m talking about me. Hell, I hate this so much that maybe I would jump ship at 50, but I don’t know because that’s not my situation. But I also have bills to pay.

@JustinDerrick@mstdn.ca @GrahamDowns@mastodon.africa I believe that the solution to that is to promote self-hosting way more. Of course, that requires that almost every user becomes tech-savvy. For example, I’m the admin of this tiny instance, I just have my wife and friends with me. I also self-host Peertube. One tech-savvy user per 5 that aren’t, max costs 5-10$ split between 3-5 users (we all have enabled automatic post deletion). Seems like a good deal.

@JustinDerrick@mstdn.ca @GrahamDowns@mastodon.africa Maybe https://masto.host And just invite people that you trust?

@jackpearse@nrw.social @Tutanota@mastodon.social The EU lacks the balls to do that, sadly.