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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 1w ago

nate graham of the @kde@floss.social fame thinks that bringing up ethical issues with the confabulation machinery should be generally avoided because it can make the fans of synthetic text extruders sad: I have a recommendation for everyone: in the future, either don’t discuss the ethical dimensions of the topic, or do it only with an extraordinary amount of empathy for diversity of opinions and value judgments. Anything else is just gonna devolve into negativity and broken relationships. i'm but a simple motherfucker, but to me this looks like nate graham wants to block any conversation about ethical impact of allowing use of the plagiarism generators. as much as i dislike chomsky, i think that “manufacturing consent” is what nate graham is doing here, and that it is disgraceful.

KDE Discuss

KDE and AI, and you, and me

Discussing ethics requires nuance and tact to avoid everyone ending up accusing everyone else of being unethical for this, that, and the other thing. Frankly, I don’t think very many these days are capable of doing it for a topic as charged as AI. I see Paul has closed the thread. Probably for the best at this point. I have a recommendation for everyone: in the future, either don’t discuss the ethical dimensions of the topic, or do it only with an extraordinary amount of empathy for diversity

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 1w ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

RE: https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/117344152985017612 and that brought me a ban fron the @kde@floss.social account, which is reportedly managed, inter alia, by nate graham. so, folks, better do not talk about ethics in kde nate graham's hearing.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦

@mawhrin@circumstances.run

nate graham of the @kde@floss.social fame thinks that bringing up ethical issues with the confabulation machinery should be generally avoided because it can make the fans of synthetic text extruders sad: I have a recommendation for everyone: in the future, either don’t discuss the ethical dimensions of the topic, or do it only with an extraordinary amount of empathy for diversity of opinions and value judgments. Anything else is just gonna devolve into negativity and broken relationships. i'm but a simple motherfucker, but to me this looks like nate graham wants to block any conversation about ethical impact of allowing use of the plagiarism generators. as much as i dislike chomsky, i think that “manufacturing consent” is what nate graham is doing here, and that it is disgraceful.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦: "nate graham of the @kde@floss.social fame [think…" - GSV Sleeper Service

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2w ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

there's not many things that get me going so fast as hearing that LLMs are useful as accessibility tools. they aren't. where they somehow work, they are at best adequate. and it's never done with accessibility as a main goal, usually just something half made-up to make the detractors shut up. now imagine what we could have, if a promille of a promille, one-hundred-thousandth of the money put into the autoconfabulators was spent on fucking actually developing accessibility tools.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2w ago

Boosted by @trending@homestead.social

RE: https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/117302336573323503 think i'm exaggerating? the money put into the the autoconfabulator investments goes into fucking multiple trillions (order of magnitude: 10¹²). divide that by a million, and you get the order of magnitude of fucking millions. and instead we're getting things of the quality of the whisper model, famously trained on subtitle databases, and the extremely costly pervert glasses, neither of which is actually targeted at or half-useful for disabled people.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦

@mawhrin@circumstances.run

there's not many things that get me going so fast as hearing that LLMs are useful as accessibility tools. they aren't. where they somehow work, they are at best adequate. and it's never done with accessibility as a main goal, usually just something half made-up to make the detractors shut up. now imagine what we could have, if a promille of a promille, one-hundred-thousandth of the money put into the autoconfabulators was spent on fucking actually developing accessibility tools.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦: "there's not many things that get me going so fast…" - GSV Sleeper Service

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2w ago

RE: https://mas.to/@alternativeto/117319524866786422 it is so nice that the fash always announce themselves

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AlternativeTo

@alternativeto@mas.to

🍬 Peppermint OS is transitioning from Xorg to Xlibre for its ISO releases, maintaining X11 compatibility while addressing stalled Xorg development. There are no immediate plans to transition to Wayland in the foreseeable future. https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/9/peppermint-os-shifts-from-xorg-to-xlibre-display-server-delays-wayland-transition/

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AlternativeTo: "🍬 Peppermint OS is transitioning from Xorg to Xli…" - mas.to

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 1w ago

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@drew@social.freebitcoin.gay that's an awk-ward trajectory

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

having a genuine “cryptocurrencies can be used by marginalized people, so saying that main use case for cryptocurrencies is financial fraud and extortion is a sign of privilege” conversation in the common era year of 2026, and i'm fucking tired.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

it's really fascinating how angry the slop peddlers can get just because someone says “no”.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

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sometimes you just need to appreciate that rochko is not a fascist – even if we know it's a low bar. because right now it's a bar that most media and tech ceos in the u.s. are unable to reach.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

“and what will happen if i lie about the code being generated by claude and commit it as mine?” “then you'll be the person who lies about provenance of the code you ship”

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

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@keesjanb@mastodon.vlaanderen only if one prefers libertarianism over convenience, because it's actually useful that you don't need to keep the bloody thing in the other hand when you're drinking straight from the bottle. @remaster@mastodon.social

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116957571811403553 cancel your subscriptions, demand return of the money, don't do business with fascist supporters

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Mullvad VPN

@mullvadnet@mastodon.online

We would like to address the recent controversy about one of the owners of Mullvad making a donation to a Swedish political party. https://mullvad.net/blog/donation-controversy

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Mullvad VPN: "We would like to address the recent controversy a…" - Mastodon

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

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@ahltorp@mastodon.nu @keesjanb@mastodon.vlaanderen @remaster@mastodon.social or, and hear me out now because i will tell you the mysteries of magick, you can rotate the cap 180° and it will stay there.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 3mo ago

Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social

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@admin@burnout.cafe dude, stop making your fediverse porn searching habit a problem of everyone else, it's fucking unbecoming.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

i've just seen a vegan whitewashing of the use of vibe-coding, and as you could expect, it was hilarious.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

RE: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/117033084947697291 comparing steve yegge's essays from 2015 to his current ones gives a very sad example of how the LLM-mediated cognitive decline looks like.

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@davidgerard@circumstances.run

Gas Town fell apart at the seams with Opus 4.7. Up through 4.6 it was working brilliantly. With 4.7 we saw the introduction of the "just two more things" tic, which prevented Opus from ever converging on being ready to do real work—it always wanted to fiddle with Gas Town itself. The Opus tic never went away, so Gas Town effectively burned down. It had other problems, too, but 4.7 was the final straw.

next model bro

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

can't help but wonder if there are the so-called open weights models that are, all at once, (1) ethically sourced and (2) trained, (3) general purpose, (4) generally useful.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 1mo ago

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@davidgerard@circumstances.run he's reportedly getting ~$8K/m out of neovim only, which even for berlin is not bad at all.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@bodil/116974074736145592 ethics aside should be treated similarly to “i'm not a racist, but”, as a clear vice signalling ethics is the barrier between yourself and your acceptance of whatever atrocity you find personally convenient.

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@bodil@social.treehouse.systems

Lots of "ethics aside" people announcing their conscientious boycotts of Codeberg in my feed today, like I didn't have plenty of reasons to love Codeberg already.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 3mo ago

we're of course aggressively censorious shits here: we've defederated from at least six hundred instances in nearly four years of running circumstances. most of them are nazi or nazi-adjacent, some are pure terfery, and a two or three dozen either are openly supportive for pedophilia or at some point distributed csam. a lot of these domains is probably not functional anymore, but i never got to checking them back; it doesn't cost us anything to keep them on file.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116914138856256964 good news, everyone (enabling the reader view works around the nag screen)

social.heise.de

heise online English: „S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB- – only one notch ab…“ - Heise Medien on Mastodon

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

Replying to

recognizing the need to use cryptocurrencies in extreme situations has nothing to do with allowing crypto projects in a software repository you host

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 3mo ago

so, regarding #mullvad, not only the founders don't understand what's the problem with funding a fascist party, the employees don't understand either.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

RE: https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/116930424727064763 this isn't a compliment

circumstances.run

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 1mo ago

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@davidgerard@circumstances.run fwiw less than half of that in wrocław would allow me to quit the daily job entirely.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

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@ahltorp@mastodon.nu @keesjanb@mastodon.vlaanderen @remaster@mastodon.social i'm not telling that you're doing it wrong, i'm telling you why i don't mind. and you're still free to remove the cap and complain about the bad eu proscribing the banana curve.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 3mo ago

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@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe @rachaelspooky@cyberpunk.lol it's a single-user instance where he's receiving the reports for his own behaviour, better block the little shit away and even better, defederate.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 3mo ago

bitching about gay porn but not blocking known CSAM sources or even limiting naziverse servers is certainly A Choice.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

my enlightened take about russophobia is that russophobia simply does not exist. pushback against aggressive, domineering imperial culture of consummate colonizers, a culture where any crime done in support of the empire is praiseworthy – is not an irrational reaction. it is the only decent reaction.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 3mo ago

people who migrated from twitter post-2022 might remember an account called big serge, with a handle of witte_sergei, a smug motherfucker persona spewing russian propaganda, anti-ukrainian hate and, to the surprise of no-one, right-wing and nazi tropes.

the success of the twitter account was followed by branching to popular nazi-financed and nazi-financing blog aggregator substack, and media appearances on rabidly racist and anti-ukrainian podcasts like “russians with attitude”

as the investigatewest website reported recently, the big serge persona was driven by one sam wolkenhauer, a decade-long employee of the idaho department of labor.

(source: eric levai on bluesky via seth kotlar's bluesky)

investigatewest.org

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 3mo ago

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re: Sexual assault referenced in link

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@ahills@hachyderm.io oh, no, that would be the canonicalware (don't forget to sign off your rights and your grandma via the CLA) @zzt@mas.to

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

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@spiegelmama@infosec.exchange this might just not work, bluesky bans really block any on-site interactions, so unless they force algorithmic feeds on people, direct provocations won't work as well. (and even then, only until the first shared blocklist including the annoyances gets popular) but the intent to increase engagement is there.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 3mo ago

the rule #1 during a public relation crisis is that you don't rush to help on your own but wait for the professionals to handle it. you will not help.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 3mo ago

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@davep@infosec.exchange a good toot never expires

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

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@mkljczk@pl.fediverse.pl @davidgerard@circumstances.run more than one thing can be wrong at once, and there is no need to excuse slavers in order to criticise the establishment. edgelordism is frequently a pipeline into totalitarianism, mind your steps.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

Replying to on pl.fediverse.pl

@mkljczk@pl.fediverse.pl @abaczuk@mathstodon.xyz i specifically said organized crime.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

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@avolha@infosec.exchange @didleth@mastodon.social no i zawsze jest nasza instancja (circumstances.run), z głównych zalet dla osób polskojęzycznych: tniemy tzw. dziesiony (z głównych wad, tniemy tzw. dziesiony). poza tym: limit 12021 znaków, markdown, ostro tniemy naziverse. więcej tutaj, w języku lengłydż. po zaproszenie można zawsze pyrgnąć mnie lub inne osoby administracyjne.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

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@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca hindutva.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe @rachaelspooky@cyberpunk.lol he's bragging now about being reported fwiw.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 3mo ago

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@masek@infosec.exchange this should be generally doable in elastic search/opensearch (it can be configured for handling suffix, prefix and substring search queries), and ES/opensearch is the only full-text search engine available. i don't know how much development effort would that require though.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 3mo ago

do we know any followers of the heresiarch lefebvre, or do they all congregate on the defederated naziverse servers? #heresy #lefebvre #SwissSchism #Schadenfreude #tradcath

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 3mo ago

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@paninid@mastodon.world and he wasn't very welcome in rome to the point where one of the pope's advisors on ai wrote a lovely article on thiel titled “american heresy: should we burn peter thiel on a stake?”.

Le Grand Continent

L'hérésie américaine : faut-il brûler Peter Thiel ? | Le Grand Continent

Le père franciscain et conseiller IA du pape explique pourquoi la religion de Peter Thiel n’est pas le christianisme — mais l’hérésie.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2w ago

RE: https://mastodon.com.pl/@m0bi/117304877302426798 how to behave in case of air attack alert, an official polish government's video guide

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@m0bi@mastodon.com.pl

Za MSWiA #PoradnikBezpieczeństwa "Słyszysz alarm❓ Dostajesz Alert RCB❓ Jest zagrożenie atakiem z powietrza ❓ Działaj z głową. 🎬 Obejrzyj film teraz. Udostępnij dalej❗ Zapamiętaj reakcję ⤵️" #bezpieczeństwo #ochrona #zagrożenie #alarm

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

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@zer0unplanned whataboutism is when… @markwyner@mas.to

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2w ago

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RE: https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/116216862870866670 @jaschop@awful.systems @Architeuthis@awful.systems aha.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦

@mawhrin@circumstances.run

RE: https://circumstances.run/@mawhrin/116216770988247289 an appropriate song for the moment: Gather 'round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun A man whose allegiance Is ruled by expedience Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown "Nazi, Schmazi!" says Wernher von Braun. Don't say that he's hypocritical Say rather that he's apolitical "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun. Some have harsh words for this man of renown But some think our attitude Should be one of gratitude Like the widows and cripples in old London town Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun. You too may be a big hero Once you've learned to count backwards to zero "In German, oder Englisch, I know how to count down Und I'm learning Chinese!" says Wernher von Braun — tom lehrer (text and music)

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦: "[an appropriate song for the moment](https://toml…" - GSV Sleeper Service

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 2mo ago

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@gmpalter@hachyderm.io do you know what does this bullshit mean: Productivity follows the architecture. A skilled programmer in the Lisp Machine environment routinely produces 1,000 lines of debugged Lisp in a day, functionally equivalent to 10,000 lines of C, or three man-years of work for the C programmer. Lisp wizards using abstraction-oriented programming inside a meta-circular operating system replace teams of software engineers without the coordination overhead Brooks called the mythical man-month. Add an LLM coding agent and productivity multiplies by another two orders of magnitude. As LLM technology evolves, productivity, scale, and automation will only increase.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin@circumstances.run

· 3mo ago

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@cwebber@social.coop the funniest parts is that the author of the blog believes that zuckerberg was just holding the llms wrong (“AI-assisted programming has developed in the last six months — contrary to Zuckerberg’s claim that it ‘hasn’t really accelerated’ — but indeed not in the way Meta expected, because Meta’s vibes-based management this time was just plain wrong. AI never had the potential to replace so many workers at an instant.”)

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