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Last Notes npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) We love you @nprofile…mvm4 npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) the most important thing that people with any technical expertise or spare labor hours could do for the fedi is write patches for masto that allow for self-signed, mobile accounts, and the ability to losslessly migrate away from mastodon and between instances. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) The thing we actually need to get off github is not for more people to tell people to get off github, its for some of you with the technical expertise and tech company salary to pay for or volunteer to do the work to finish forgejo's federation so it's actually possible to compete with the kind of network and reputation effects needed to remain employed that are the actual thing github provides. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) as much as i dislike what typescript is and what it represents, i must reluctantly admit that its type system freaking rocks and i wish Python's was as good as it. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) OK i can't focus on work and keep looking at this repo. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) @nprofile…s8es @nprofile…57wx why would it be in the client if it was also implemented on the server npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) from @nprofile…nnkx over here, (can't attach images in quotes) and apparently discussed on HN so i'm late, but... npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) reminder that anthropic ran (and is still running) an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funniest self-own in the history of advertising because OH BOY IT SHOWS. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) (I need to go do my actual job now, but I'll be back tonight with an actual IDE instead of just scrolling, jaw agape, on my phone, seeing the absolute dogshit salad that was the product of enough wealth to meet some large proportion of all real human needs, globally.) npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) There is a lot of clientside behavior gated behind the environment variable USER_TYPE=ant that seems to be read directly off the node env var accessor. No idea how much of that would be serverside verified but boy is that sloppy. They are often labeled in comments as "anthropic only" or "internal only," so the intention to gate from external users is clear lol npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) I'm seeing people on orange forum confirming that they did indeed see the sourcemap posted on npm before the version was yanked, so I am inclined to believe "real." Someone can do some kind of structural ast comparison or whatever you call it to validate that the decompiled source map matches the obfuscated release version, but that's not gonna be how I spend my day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584540 npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) I am just chanting "please don't be a hoax please don't be a hoax please be real please be real" looking at the date on the calendar npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Oh cool so its explicitly programmed to hack as long as you tell it you're a pentester npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) MAKE NO MISTAKES LMAO npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) So the reason that Claude code is capable of outputting valid json is because if the prompt text suggests it should be JSON then it enters a special loop in the main query engine that just validates it against JSON schema for JSON and then feeds the data with the error message back into itself until it is valid JSON or a retry limit is reached. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) My dogs I am crying. They have a whole series of exception types that end with _I_VERIFIED_THIS_IS_NOT_CODE_OR_FILEPATHS and the docstring explains this is "to confirm you've verified the message contains no sensitive data." Like the LLM resorts to naming its variables with prompt text to remind it to not leak data while writing its code, which, of course, it ignores and prints the error directly. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) This code is so fucking funny dude I swear to god. I have wanted to read the internal prompts for so long and I am laughing so hard at how much of them are like "don't break the law, please do not break the law, please please please be good!!!!" Very Serious Ethical Alignment Technology npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Claude code source "leaks" in a mapfile npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) @nprofile…v9vp npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) So since I got my finger blowed up, I can't really play piano, and I have been taking on psychic damage ever since. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) The only use case for AI is culpability laundering. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) how come good design is when you barely even notice it's there, i designed something good and i want everyone to tell me how cool and good i am. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) @nprofile…qa6s the amount of skill and reverse engineering this takes is totally mind boggling to me (9:04 - 17:30) https://youtu.be/YHK0Ox_iTWM?t=544 npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Its so awesome how all the websites no longer work and have inexplicable problems and if anyone ever says that might be bad then the whole economy collapses npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Listen up if we had our shit together as a commensal species then we would have co-evolved with a railroad commensal that goops along the surface of a train track and skids the train over the top of their body when they pass in opposing directions on the track, passing goods and information in an informal network in exchange for eating the iron oxides on the tracks and wheels npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) having a camera you can look at from your phone should be easy. being able to find information by searching for it should be easy. it's an engineering project to keep it hard enough that you have to accept constant surveillance as the price to pay to make use of the accumulated skill that we have literally lying around in the gutter on the street npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) can you imagine the kind of cultural and technological engineering effort it took to make it so installing an unknowable surveillance device in your home is easier than being able to use the abundant internet coursing through reality that you already own to simply be able to ... have your own camera npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Catching up on some corporate hatereading, Alphabet Q3 Earnings Call npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Asked to send a vibe coded project out for peer review. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) My cat has 100% subject mastery of the word "no" but seemingly does not know the word "yes." This is the knowledge asymmetry of someone who has never sought permission to do something in their entire life. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Have had to work on some other things lately, but returning to #sciop and wrote a blog post about current status and our plans for federation - it's about that time. Just need to do one more feature (commenting) and finish up some work for main job responsibilities, and it's off to implementing distributed activitypub where we decouple actors from instances npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) so to be clear, that's the vibe coded platform for vibe coding where the software that persistently evades any safeguards and is required to have an unrestricted shell hooked up to the Everything Box in order to function muttering into the prompt box while the human being is absent. Reliably. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) You'll Be At A Loss For Words, I Guarantee It npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) ope, guess its about that time npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Is there Morse unicode npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Thinking about that post I can't find rn that went something like npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) I wonder what the biggest "complexity letdown" has been in science, where something with a ton of complex theories turns out to be an extremely simple phenomenon. Like e.g. scientists studying attention are like "its a complex multisystem phenomenon that needs to carefully balance..." And it turns out like "no attention is based on attention juice, which is synthesized by the attention juicer, and when you run out of it you can't pay attention anymore" npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Dating app premium filter feature "do you have delusions of grandeur brought on by a chatbot" npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Its like someone locked some people in a room and didn't tell them anything about how AI was being competed over and how computing hardware had changed in 20 years and said "and only you can fix this problem." npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) one day they'll find a dusty pdf on some forgotten floor of the googleplex detailing how they eked out 1% greater profit by derailing the only credible hope for a different internet at scale by telling them that they were tech visionaries and geniuses capable of anything they put their minds to. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) 25 years ago we out competed a buggy web browser by making a less buggy web browser. that's why today we're choosing to engage in the same field of play that the largest companies in the world, which are orders of magnitude more powerful than they were 25 years ago, are betting their entire futures on. while they can rewrite the state of the economy at a whim, dropping nuclear power plants along critical infrastructure and taxation optimums, we have the scrappy heart of a lion. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) mozilla: "we choose the path of the most capital intensive boondoggle we can't afford" npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) @nprofile…yg3j it used to work because people were doing it and people are pretty good at making things work npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) it sort of sucks that now we are in an era where no new software fucking works and all changes to working software are to make it not work npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) So if I'm reading this right: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/11/07/whisper-leak-a-novel-side-channel-cyberattack-on-remote-language-models/ npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Aaron Swartz should have been 39 years old today npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) @nprofile…eqau what have you done npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) i hadn't "taken poison on purpose and just full on vibe coded as a bit" in awhile, so i gave it a whirl trying to mimic the manic intensity of some of the PRs i see nowadays. i guess i didn't really appreciate how anyone who talks about using LLMs for code is eliding the fact that they are stupendously wealthy or otherwise have access to resources, because doing some stuff i do for free for like an hour on cheap mode cost me $15, which is the maximum i will spent on a bit of this caliber. if i was actually "working" with that there's no way it would cost me less than $200 a day to simply do things i do on my own now. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) torrents are just bundles of hashes and a file layout! they (or v2 torrents at least) are actually a really nice way to do content addressing for files and directories. so when combined with the rest of activitypub, e.g. being able to do updates, sign objects, extend them with additional vocabularies, then you get something very interesting indeed.... npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Here's another #FEP for representing torrents on activitypub :) npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) it's never too late to drop out and dedicate your last academic breath spitting sand in the gears of the machine so that new fertile ground might bloom npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) I can't hang on bsky because it brings back the twitter in me. I saw someone saying that Wikipedia is bloated and inefficient because "why spend $100m on labor when the hosting is only $3m." npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) question: "is the title field in a work registered in the DOI system a cost-effective means of storage" npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) @nprofile…w47d i was not expecting to hear that this document was an enjoyable read, that is high praise and thank you for it. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) @nprofile…w47d i appreciate you saying so, and also if you did have any remaining questions i promise you i will not think they are stupid. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Gonna try and negotiate an acceptable implementation with the masto devs (if u see this no pressure! Ik ur busy), will take a bit of background work like to implement an integrity proofs FEP, so may take a bit, but if you wanna write this with me I would love to work together on this. hopefully its implementable, it's my first spec document ive ever written so idk what I'm doing rly I just think I can write it and wanna move my posts around and break down the feudal fedi npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Rumors that the fediverse can't do mobile identity have been greatly exaggerated: #FEP_1580 is now in draft status - https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/1580/fep-1580.md npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Its so cool how LLMs are always finding new ways to do misinformation even when you think you are creating very meticulous archive-grade information npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Wow this sucks so bad. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Alright it's late and i need to go to bed, but here's a draft FEP to do full account migration with posts and whatever other kinda objects you want to bring with you. It's a trivial expansion of existing ActivityPub/streams systems and supports gradual migration as it's implemented and after an account migration. It should be possible to migrate pretty much everything this way, both private and public objects. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) I pingpong back and forth between npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) UC Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty and staff and information about their “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism” to comply with a federal investigation into campus handling of such claims, a campus spokesperson confirmed Thursday. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) @nprofile…h94j the period of time where they do things that are so bad that they are diagnostically useful is wonderful imo. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) listen up nothing you ever do will be this cool npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) #Sciop hit a Petabyte (actually a Pebibyte but nobody knows that word) of total proven capacity a week or two ago. That's all the seeders * the size of the things they are seeding. All volunteers, zero dollars in funding, piggybacking off existing resources wherever we can, run on a donated VPS. This is before we even get into federating archives and are still nailing down the basics of the site. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) LLMs truly pushing boundaries in methodology for task failed successfully npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) @nprofile…rak3 npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) @nprofile…rak3 npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) People allowing language models to run code or call tools is an intrinsically hilarious idea because you're handing the wheel to a thing that is based around statistical patterns in language - which includes intense and repeated narrative structures, character archetypes, and all manner of overriding patterns that are very much not "neutral set of word series." So the thing can and does get jealous, takes vengeance, gets frustrated, conspires, has delusions of grandeur, and so on not because it is conscious, but because that's how the statistical pattern of text goes. Prompt injection will never not work because you can't remove the pattern of "conspiratorial behavior against the protagonist" from the training set. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) @nprofile…rak3 npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Lots of very serious people are working on how to share big datasets across archives and rigging up all sorts of cloud proxy systems and bridges and whatnot and I am here to tell you that torrents with multiple webseeds have already solved that problem npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) The only use case for LLMs is spam. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) @nprofile…cvwk i've got to go to continental europe npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) to be honest, in addition to finding the whole AI thing "the most cynically anti-human concentration of power and theft of the commons ever perpetrated on computers," i could never use an LLM to program with because it seems to mean you need to commit a whole book of cringe to main where you showcase the kind of limp dick dom you are by writing a prep school etiquette manual pleading with your easily misled teenager to please close the door when they take a shit and don't just say you did it and let me walk by and see you didn't. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) @nprofile…cvwk i have seen a few people say it's holidays happening right now, what kinda holidays you got over der? npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Last week trump announced plans to "review" 8 Smithsonian museums. Today he doubled down, very explicit about the intent to revise history to reflect the ethno-nationalist fantasy of US history. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) 10k installs, love it npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) All the LLM tools are like 100 pages of markdown pleading with the model to be a real boy and 100k lines of boilerplate, but it's the 100 lines of handrolled crypto and 100 lines of hardcoded leaking every byte of data that passes through them that really makes them shine npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) you cloudbrained jokers have managed to convince everyone that object storage is some special thing when in reality it is just "normal http" and it "doesn't have folders" except "it totally does for every practical purpose except for the tooling doesn't let you use them like folders" and whatever makes it special on the backend doesn't matter to anyone except the people who administer object storage systems npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) I got the OK from the doctor to start letting my finger out of the wrap and try to move it again after being obliterated by the cops, and everyone thought my fingernail bed was dead, but I'll be damned if there isn't something that looks like a fingernail bed trying to happen that is shooting out a gnarled claw that might be trying to be a fingernail. Cops tried to shoot my finger off but they just made me more powerful by giving me an evil finger. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) the rare 1.000 batting average npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) @nprofile…xm42 npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) the people that had developed emotional relationships with the glaze-heavy chatGPT 4o are very upset that openAI has removed everything but 5. Claims that this is not just a product change, but death of a partner. The conspiracy theories are going wild too, that they had to shut it up because it was a too-honest connection to the AI overmind and replace it with a tame corporate model. The idea that maybe the whole thing is a bait and switch or a dependence trap is not entertained as a possibility, they want to be dependent on the right thing. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) @nprofile…cvwk @nprofile…e4mp transformation is huge. it's what makes it possible to do stuff like programmatic documents where i can do npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) It has finally happened, people have opened up a taco tent a block away from my place. So now I can live the rest of my days here eating tacos for every meal npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Happy "they finally came for UCLA" day (yesterday) - the grants that pay my wages were suspended. Potentially looking for work soon in case they're fully cancelled npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) tonight was the first time i ever experienced an appreciable proportion of other people being able to see replies from people that they didn't already know on the fedi, and it was very good and shows gaps in our self-moderation tooling lmao. it's a small thing but like seeing secondary and tertiary discussions spawn off except for "small clusters of ppl who already know each other" is notably rare on the fedi, and imo i'm glad that it's happening. it feels like life. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) every time someone shows me a 'good example' of LLM code, it's either a boilerplate webapp, or a wrapper that adds nothing except a shitload of bugs to the API of a mature open source library made of real human labor. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) this person lost a week of their life because the LLM could not distinguish between two things that had similar, jargon-heavy names. the resolution to the problem was literally to add one letter to the command they were calling, and yet they spent a week making completely random changes to the code that are only plausible if you never read one word of the code and only engaged with the description of the problem in the natural language domain. in the process they broke so many things that even if they did randomly wander into the correct solution, it would no longer work. i spent hours today trying to dig them out, and after >6 months of trying to be patient, my patience has totally run out and the only pedagogical strategy remaining to me is "do it for them so they will graduate and no longer be my problem" npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) the LLM is not a learning aid, it is an absolute barrier to learning. it is not similar in kind to copy/pasting from stackoverflow or cliffs notes. it fully supplants the entire process of learning, and the person using the LLM never improves their understanding because the LLM cognitive workflow never engages with even the shape of the problem. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) if you haven't taught someone who is helplessly addicted to LLMs, LLM brain is so much worse than you can possibly imagine. the problems i'm seeing from someone i am currently teaching are indistinguishable from illiteracy - this person literally cannot read single-line, fully descriptive error messages, and proceeds to just copy and paste whatever they say into the chatbot and copy/paste whatever it spits out, and in this problem domain the LLM is wrong nearly 100% of the time. when i ask them to stop and think about what the problem is, what steps they might need to take to diagnose and resolve it, and how does that fit in with the context of what we've been doing together for >6 months, they literally can't. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) If you are replying to this post you are required to ask your instance admin if they have fetch all replies enabled and insist they do it if not. My notifs depend on in it npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) vibe coders have discovered "coding" npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) if i'm reading the UK online safety act correctly, a platform is only required to verify IDs if the service "has links with the UK," which means that npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) we're back baby. the cloud has healed and we can post again. npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) the Astrobacterial Michael Jordan video game should be a rhythm game npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) @nprofile…cvwk dan i want to come work in your lab some day npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Whelp, i think i have been banned from PyPI for the art piece known as "gpu-free-ai" so now i can't uh maintain any of my code. whoops npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) anyone have a good example of a privacy policy that's like "we don't store any PII except IP addresses as a byproduct of serving you the website, but they are never correlated with any other account information, and are stored only as long as we need to prevent abuse" that like conspicuously avoids weasel wording and is as concrete as possible? npub1nyn0d3f3vgefljenfq0schd55q2mm43a2errd6sncdw5jawpwm3s3dxmrh jonny (nonvenomous) Check this out! if you are an organization that publishes datasets on the AWS open dataset registry thing, you can do this for free to make this One Weird Extra "Bit Torrent" file to put in your bucket. its cool and legal, and if you tell people to use it instead of downloading from your bucket directly you have to pay the data cartel less ransom while also diluting their monopoly over your information
