mask-militant anti-LLM-absolutist non-white mostly-coyote genderterrorist // casually self-hosts our own email from our house // plural, not an entire SRE org // kween of the ambiguous parse // used to work at the bird site once upon a time // eventually disassembles everything xe touches // they them // xe xer
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Last Notes npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) we have a shirt that says "noncompliance is a social skill" for a reason npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) swear to fuck, if you showed a late-90s/early-2000s open source dev what people are doing today (uploading all their code to microsoft, using microsoft's protocols, and paying money to, in part, microsoft to deskill themselves with slop) their heads would explode npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) you're making a terrible first impression, hth npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) rsync is ruined, linux is ruined, macos and windows are ruined, freebsd and openbsd are ruined, the TeX ecosystem is ruined. all for what? npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) so, years and years of "ai is good now" and what do we have to show for it other than a bunch of previously-stable people suffering mental breaks, a bunch of fascists churning out dogshit code, a bunch of fascists churning out at-scale misinformation, and a complete loss of the ability to search the fucking internet? hm? npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) perhaps the solution is "stop serving git over the web" npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) tbh we feel like a lot of the foss npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) "use the bullshit machine that makes shit up and produces an infinite cascade of sewage runoff, and just clean up the poop" npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) when we used BeOS it was in college and the various instant messengers were still in vogue. there was something called IMKit, which used a Tracker window with a query on your contacts as your buddy list, and the backend component signed in and maintained the metadata on those. it was really quite something. npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) appropriate that this guy would work at a sewage plant npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) our dad was an under-the-table contractor in our hometown and we tagged along while he was doing work at the sewage plant, so we have *some* idea npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) "ablabulaublubul but you have to admit it *works*" no bro we do not, the thing that churns out endless amounts of slop does not "work" because of the kernels of corn you found in the sewage plant npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) slopbot compagny oneshots prominent tech dorks with cherry-picked examples, tech dorks uncritically hype the slop, this is just a pump-and-dump campaign by slop compagnies tbh npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) rip to freebsd security, died 2020 (6) when colin percival turned into a claude shill npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) sounds like freebsd's security officer got oneshotted by claude npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) the other option we see is to allow transition on no tokens, analogous to the difference between DFA and NFA npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) additional alphabet for untokens, more rules for transition npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) we also didn't like lighttpd, thought caddy was untroubleshootable dogshit, and stopped using apache when we stopped having a need for mod_php, maybe we're just irascible npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) yes. that's not the annoying part. the annoying part is that the config language won't let us proxy_pass on user-agent when the other locations are for static files npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) nginx starting to get a little too annoying, unfortunately our next instinct is to go "fuck that shit" and write our own static-service shit in ocaml npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) RE: https://social.fungalhalo.com/@arachnixe/116320022477993119 npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) slop purveyors are arsonists with technical-debt accelerants npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) friend of ours pointed out that the LLM "new model is so much better" effect is analogous to a [Shepard tone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone ) — there are differences between each note but the actual net progress sums out to 0 npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) what the fuck mirror-universe shit have we gotten ourselves into where the goddamn pope of catholicism is to the left of most democrats and the franciscan order is calling for peter thiel to be burned at the stake for heresy npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) indigenous anarchist xenofeminist take on how to engage with slop:<li>directly using the slop machine in ways that validate the capitalist delusion that they are fit for any purpose is a horrible idea</li><li>social opprobrium towards those who use the slop machine is a necessary but insufficient form of resistance</li><li>best to engage with the <em>psyche</em> of LLM users, with an aim towards disrupting their cognitive landscape</li> npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) we're tired of hearing "it's just a tool" because, well, a) we disagree and npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) surely there must be some smtp queer who works at google who we can establish a back-channel with npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) there was a working internet here. now there is not. the people who did this insist that this is good because now they don't have to do any of the pesky, hard parts of thinking and making decisions. npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) we object to the current state of affairs not out of some notion of copyright or soul of the artist or whatever, we object to the slop machine because this bunch of gazillionaire cultists who have made everyone's lives measurably worse by scraping the internet and blasting its modeled outputs back out onto it at hyperscale have pulled a nuclear-scale dick move on the infosphere npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) https://www.reuters.com/investigations/ai-enters-operating-room-reports-arise-botched-surgeries-misidentified-body-2026-02-09/ npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) so, before we transitioned, way back in 2013 we did something self-destructively stupid: went to go work at the urbit company with curtis yarvin. npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) like, we can't feasibly review every line of slop, it is a DDoS attack on human reasoning, and everyone else sees "oh the tests passed" and clicks ship. augh. npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) RE: https://mastodon.social/@nateberkopec/115979440969064170 npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) llms do not have the buddha nature, worst thread in the history of buddhism, closed after 12,793 pages of vicious debate npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) my cat is enshittifying the litterbox npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) buffer overflows? lockpicking npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) alignment chart for lockpicking that includes "lockpicking radical: any kind of bypass of any kind of security device is lockpicking" npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) stop all the downloadin'! npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) accept their offer, take their money, post "The slop purveyors gave me 1000 dollars to post this crap" on top of their post npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) the npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) hes being especially photogenic today npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) the existence of statin island implies the existence of cholesterol mainland npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) the existence of battery park implies the existence of generator drive npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) gee everyone on the timeline who has done unmasked travel recently seems to be getting sick with "not covid", "probably just strep" npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) imo some people need to learn that defending a guy from accusations of being abusive by harping repeatedly on how he's your friend is really, *extremely*, not helping your case npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) oh, you asked an LLM? well we posted an offhand question on mastodon and an autistic cat-type entity infodumped to us about it npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) your occasional reminder that it seems highly specious to us to assume that intelligence can be obtained by modeling language npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) gwyneth paltrow being paid to flog apache airflow wasn't on our bingo card and i think we're going to go walk into the sea npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) you asked chatgpt? well we asked our tarot deck and drew a 7 of wands, a 9 of cups, and the Empress npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) Watt Wullenmeg seems like the kind of guy to do that, yeah npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) the existence of sam altman implies the existence of sam controlman npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) tfw spam altman is posting like a channer on main npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) just one more public key in a TXT record, that'll fix email, just gotta add one more TXT record bro npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) ubuntu 25.03 handwringy heteros npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) gavin newsom's grave is going to be a gender neutral restroom npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) the AMD 29000 has a weird way of doing system calls: you use the asneq instruction to assert that a register isn't equal to itself (always false, thus always causing the assertion trap) and the instruction also encodes the syscall number npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) the npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) apropos of nothing npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) dayum that is some beautiful postscript, did you write it by hand? npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) Joy Division Day npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) algorithm with a big-o the size of a small-o is completely blocking east-bound bus on cpu 7, please use caution and watch for pipeline stalls in the area npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) for those who don't know, cuil was an ex-googler's attempt to try and do basically this same LLM bullshit back in the 2010s, and it went exactly the same kind of sideways, only, we didn't all collectively fucking fall for it back then: https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2010/06/09/cpedia-a-spam-blog-disguised-as-an-encyclopedia/ npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) my god. we've hit Peak Cuil https://mas.to/@pjie2/113030674867405430 npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) they call it printf even though it prints all of the other letters too npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) yall realize that cory doctorow is an entertainer whose job is to sell sci-fi books, not an anticapitalist tech visionary, right? like part of how we got here is people treating sci-fi concepts as tech visions, doctorow is part of the problem, not the solution npub1dwjn90e4z4kxg6wcu0t50xpjamv6p8xqjyu5s5ve457e7vueq3nspf65l0 mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) fucking miss me with this "time will tell" about bluesky, jesus christ
