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@simeon@indiehackers.social Indeed. And yet a flood of unreviewable papers most of which are wrong may or may not help with discovering those cures I guess.
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Deadline to file as a candidate for Clacton passed, and full list of candidates announced.
I heard a rumour that Farage failed to file in time, but that seems not to be true.
Twenty independents, Three candidates from the Monster Raving Loony party, a bunch of small parties, and the two fore-runners: Nigel Farage and Count Binface
Thirty Four candidates at an election is a British record.
One clear unity candidate. Every vote for the Count counts!
https://www.tendringdc.gov.uk/news/clacton-voters-to-choose-next-mp-as-by-election-candidates-confirmed
#clacton #countBinface #farage
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@simeon@indiehackers.social It does not seem sane to allow the bad-guys bullets while the good guys aren't allowed even shields.
And AI is already pointed at code more than the "many eyes" of early open source days.
There are a torrent of bugs. It can not be right to turn the fixes down?
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But the maintenance workload really has increased here.
These machines are producing a torrent of exploits, some fraction of which are real and serious.
Certainly eyes-on every one of them, but if they are short, obvious, correct, and exactly what you'd have done anyway?
🤷
What do you want me as a maintainer to do? Change the variable names? Leave the exploit?
Or automate the copy-and-paste, so I don't even check it?
I am not in favor of that last one, but I can't defend the idea that programmers should leave their users vulnerable because it was a machine that found the bug.
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They really are talking about piping claude directly into root access on the prod servers so it can run the upgrades though.
Apparently adding "Oh, and really important: don't do anything bad without asking" to the prompt is a safe-guard!
It'll ask before it deletes the database I guess, so no need to worry! Nice.
And you know what?
That would probably mostly be okay. It might even do it better than me, I am a barely adequate system-administrator.
Until it doesn't.
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Official Binface Video:
It'll be like comic-con up on that stage.
Eighth time lucky?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2xsinXoQ_U
#binface #makeYourVotesCount
Clacton! Lights out and away we go.
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Richard Herring re-releasing his Binface interview from about a year ago in honour of the by-election in Clacton.
Worth a watch if you didn't see it before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61nNWo7yYfg
#binface #countBinface #clacton
Count Binface - RHLSTP 543
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I am once again wishing Polymarket was accepting UK customers.
5% for binface seems absurdly low. There's no other unity candidate against Farage, and half the people in the constituency will vote strongly against the fuckface and so for the binface.
Buy at 5% and sell at 20% before the election would likely be a good move.
But the man won't allow it. Grr. Curse the man.
UKPol kids banned
Richard Murphy has a good story here about why the coming crash will be the biggest ever, and caused by OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX.
Because these 3 IPOs are about to happen, and be massive, they will immediately and right away take up a large fraction of the S&P and Nasdaq stock indexes.
That means all the fund managers who run funds tracking the S&P and Nasdaq will have to buy enough of those 3 companies to make them a large fraction of the funds. Selling everything else to buy OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX. Pumping their prices further.
Now the valuations of those companies is based on them being able to do all the jobs really. Which they can't. Because there isn't enough water or power, even if they do have the compute.
So they have to crash back down to something that isn't this fund-inflated price, isn't this overvalued price where you assume there's infinite water and power, but is a realistic price much much lower.
And that tanks everything so much they rich will be begging for bailouts because they continue to use to much margin.
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@Gargron@mastodon.social @Mastodon@mastodon.social Even better, was pretty sure you folks would have allowed that -- you usually have these things in mind.
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I did a quick tarot reading on the prospects for the Farage Vs Binface election in Clacton.
Better trash than fash. Make your vote count.
https://loops.video/v/g_PKRuu_tM
#binface #clacton #tarot
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Wordcloud Tarot Short - Farage Vs Binface - 21st July 2026
Lets use the Wordlcoud Tarot to investigate Clacton’s By-Election, Farage Vs Binface.
People are saying the public are massively uninformed because they think migration is going up even though actually net migration has gone down so much it's frankly a threat to the economy.
But the people don't think the way the statisticians think. When they are asked "Is migration going up" they say, "Yeah, sure, lots of extra migrants are turning up every year."
And they are NOT wrong. Net migration is still a positive number. The number of immigrants in the country is still increasing.
The idiots correctly think the press is just pulling a fast one. Doing some numbers trick to pretend the number of immigrants is going down when it is in fact still going up.
The idiots are wrong about whether immigration is good or bad, they are wrong about the reasons they want it to be lower, it is terrible news that net migration has dropped so much.
But they aren't wrong about the press trying to pull the wool over their eyes and trying to trick them into thinking it's going down when in fact it's just going up slower.
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Most of the time when you make ethical decisions you aren't even aware you are making ethical decisions. Even if you are a professional ethicist.
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@Mastodon@mastodon.social presumably I as a server admin with limited expensive SMTP will be able to turn that off for my server?
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@Lazarou@mastodon.social Its the authoritarian streak I dislike the most about them. Banning protests, banning protest groups as terrorists, imprisoning grannies as terrorists for holing up signs, threatening jury trials, increasing web surveillance, getting into bed with Palantir.
They seem to think the only thing government is good for is cracking down on citizen rights. Everything else should be private enterprise. They only nationalize Steel now because they can't find a buyer. Won't touch the water companies. Won't touch electric companies.
None of this is going to change in a new leader.
They are dead to me until they reverse that Palestine Action ban, which nobody floated as leader is talking about.
And frankly probably just dead to me forever for doing all this crap.
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@aral those court proceedings do sound pretty contemptuous. Hard to understand how anyone in the country could be innocent of the contempt charge.
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@deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org Export individual objects from blender into unity/Godot. Arrange them in the game engine.
The house itself is probably one object, but empty. Furniture etc all exported separetly. Allows for better reuse of those assets. Same couch in each house.
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@IndyRichard@mastodon.scot Where do you think the people of Scotland come in his rankings? I reckon he pays pretty much no attention to them.
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@RussCheshire@mastodon.scot He who wields the knife will not wear the crown, they say. Maybe Wes knows he can't win but thinks there should be a stalking horse?
Hopefully.
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@lydiaconwell@todon.nl They have no coherent vision of what government could or should be. They don't have any actual desires or targets themselves, just want power.
So they chase the voters, try and triangulate the most popular position on the board.
Which, yeah, does also have the additional constraint of not annoying the donors which allow them to run the whole show in the first place.
So they look for a position which can't offend the rich who are the donors, and attracts the most votes.
No coherent plan, no model of how the country or the government or the world or the money work to plan from.
Just chase policies the dumbass racist people of the country want, even if that's an incoherent mix of punishing the poor and the minorities and tax-breaks for the wealthy.
Hard to imagine anyone from their current crop actually understanding anything and having a plan that isn't "chase voters" too.
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@lydiaconwell@todon.nl Their attempt at countering Reform is the most wrong-headed stupid response you could imagine: Copying Reform Policy.
They try to meet the threat of a different party being popular by aping the different party, in an attempt to attract their voters.
This doesn't work, obviously. It's counter-productive. It affirms Reform's concerns, validates that Reform's response to those concerns is sensible, and then offers a watered-down and worse (from the wrong-headed point of view of a Reform voter) version of their policy.
And that's the party all over. They chase voters instead of leading.
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From the title list, the podcast does (after two episodes) appear to be mostly about AI.
Which does undeniably have ethical implications all over the place. Hopefully the topic range will widen.
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@futurebird@sauropods.win Trump started Truth Social when he was kicked off of Twitter didn't he? Forced into it rather than a strategic plan.
It does seem odd that many left wing media figures don't seem to understand they should own the means of their production, even while they are preaching that the workers should own the means of production. They only write for Big Capital and never even explore owning their own website. Makes me wonder if they're only doing it for the wage and don't really believe it.
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I might be in favor of an AI strike, but I don't really understand what the proponents wants us to do?
That machine is finding security bugs that matter, and you can't run a repo that refuses those patches.
What are you going to do?
Just let your users /by default/ refuse those security patches? Just because they were discovered by a machine?
That ain't the right answer.
I don't understand what people who want an absolute strike against AI want from the workforce?
Is it literally to let security patches go un-merged?
I would sooner support a full-stop to all programming work than that I think.
#ai #strike
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@lianna@micro.webgarden.click Yep. If some isn't selling it to 'em then they ain't sold.
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And that one at the end of course. Just untoppable. Can't find the best version I head with all the Bill Hicks samples in it but this one at Glasto is fantastic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hVRPi8_yxs
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Fun little song about Count Binface I found on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NH5JpqrIzY
#binface #clacton
"Garbage Can Who Can Talk" - Marsh Family parody of "Englishman in New York" about Binface v Farage
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpjMy_e8XlA
Apparently a song about a time when Gruff watched this movie and every character was so detestable he hated it. Wanted to see everyone in it suffer.
I could sort of play this with the synth and loop for a while there. Should practice it more. Nothing like as good.
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I mean, this is just great. Sweet and silky noisy and jangly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGc_59ySJ8A
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@simeon@indiehackers.social Is that a good line though?
There is so much boiler-plate. A huge amount of programming is basically copying and pasting anyway.
How AI does your AI have to be to not just be writing the boiler-plate?
As a union drawing a line at which we withdraw work it's a good line.
But it will mean lots of fairly pointless minor editing of boilerplate which could otherwise be automated.