I don’t love the title but it’s the best I could come up with to fit within the 80 character limit.

A half dozen people might still be reading hackernews on punchcards so they ha-

ve no choice but to argue about how to shorten “long” titles every day.

Lol talk about mixed messages.

Mozilla’s CEO yesterday:

[Firefox] will evolve into a modern AI browser

Firefox’s social media account today:

Firefox is not becoming an AI browser.

It’s most obvious on the cat which is all around nightmare material.

The image also comes with alt text:

a bizarre collection of ai-generated illustrations including a sign that reads wood of of year and a chyron that reads breaking news

It certainly comes across a little different when said by someone who thinks cisgender is a slur and that changing one’s sex is some sort of great moral evil.

Turning into a butterfly is a cool sci-fi future but those trans people are a bridge too far.

Also like it’s just hard to listen to, being drug hazed ramblings-- I want some actually fun sci-fi speeches!

This is old news but I just stumbled across this fawning 2020 Elon Musk interview / award ceremony on the social medias and had to share it: https://www.youtube.com/live/AF2HXId2Xhg?t=2109

It it Musk claims synthetic mRNA (and/or DNA) will be able to do anything and it is like a computer program, and that stopping aging probably wouldn’t be too crazy. And that you could turn someone into a freakin’ butterfly if you want to with the right DNA sequence.

It’s very meta for Yud to write a story all about how the story isn’t all about himself.

I was vaguely aware of the calibre vulnerabilities but this is the first I’ve actually read the thread and it’s wild.

There were like 11 or so Proof of Concept exploits over the course of that bug? And he was just kicking and screaming the whole time about how fine his mount-stuff-anywhere-as-root (!!?) code was.

I’m always fascinated when people are so close to getting something-- like in that first paragraph you quoted. In any normal software project you could just put that paragraph as the bug report and the owners would take is seriously rather than use it as an excuse for why their software has to be insecure.

It’s even way too long a read and full of footnotes, as is tradition!

Heck it’s even long enough that I just came across the second flashcard break, and I’m 1/4th of the way through part 1…

Dang that judge was angry.

Here’s docket #170: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.384571/gov.uscourts.mied.384571.170.0.pdf – the complaining about not being allowed to use AI is on page 14 and 16 (it’s pretty awful reading I almost gave up before reaching that point)

a pro se litigant should not be threatened with per-citation fines before any violation.

lmao

The documentation for “Turbo mode” for Google Antigravity:

Turbo: Always auto-execute terminal commands (except those in a configurable Deny list)

No warning. No paragraph telling the user why it might be a good idea. No discussion on the long history of malformed scripts leading to data loss. No discussion on the risk for injection attacks. It’s not even named similarly to dangerous modes in other software (like “force” or “yolo” or “danger”)

Just a cool marketing name that makes users want to turn it on. Heck if I’m using some software and I see any button called “turbo” I’m pressing that.

It’s hard not to give the user a hard time when they write:

Bro, I didn’t know I needed a seatbelt for AI.

But really they’re up against a big corporation that wants to make LLMs seem amazing and safe and autonomous. One hand feeds the user the message that LLMs will do all their work for them. While the other hand tells the user “well in our small print somewhere we used the phrase ‘Gemini can make mistakes’ so why did you enable turbo mode??”

The documentation for “Turbo mode” for Google Antigravity:

Turbo: Always auto-execute terminal commands (except those in a configurable Deny list)

No warning. No paragraph telling the user why it might be a good idea. No discussion on the long history of malformed scripts leading to data loss. No discussion on the risk for injection attacks. It’s not even named similarly to dangerous modes in other software (like “force” or “yolo” or “danger”)

Just a cool marketing name that makes users want to turn it on. Heck if I’m using some software and I see any button called “turbo” I’m pressing that.

It’s hard not to give the user a hard time when they write

Bro, I didn’t know I needed a seatbelt for AI.

But really they’re up against a big corporation that wants to make LLMs seem amazing and safe and autonomous. One hand feeds the user the message that LLMs will do all their work for them. While the other hand tells the user “well in our small print somewhere we used the phrase ‘Gemini can make mistakes’ so why did you enable turbo mode??”

Virus Alert! Hi, I am an AI generated virus but because of poor technology in my training data unfortunately I am not able to harm your computer. Please be so kind to delete one of your important files yourself and then forward me to other users. Many thanks for your cooperation! Best regards, AI virus. [Yes] [No] [Cancel]

Oh yeah I got that no worries.

As a C++ programmer some Rust people can come on a little strong, as if I’ve never thought about the importance of memory safety before and don’t know how to write secure code (well excuse me for building on top of decades of libraries that no one thought to write in rust in the '80s).

But that’s normal programmer flame war stuff. Rust people tend to be young and enthusiastic about security which is all good.

Based Linux is another non-Woke option if you want a Debian based system that supports systemd, Wayland, XLibre and the GNU tools.

Do… do you think he realizes that Debian is “woke”?

Also I wonder what his beef with Rust is? Is Rust woke?

I saw this food on social media the other day which was allegedly caused by a Chat-GPT recipe: https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyfoodporn/comments/1p60tfw/my_wife_tried_a_chatgpt_crockpot_recipe/

Wow highly recommend reading all his comments where he doubles down on how everyone else is in the wrong (for wanting maintainable code that isn’t a legal liability) while he is in the right (for being brave and bold enough to type prompts into an LLM to create code that he won’t stand behind).

It’s almost as if he went in there looking for a fight.

Lool, look at these two quotes next to eachother:

One caveat, though: even if I didn’t type the code myself, I own it — and it’s my responsibility now.

vs.

Beats me. AI decided to do so [write the copyright as someone else] and I didn’t question it.

Quadball is officially better than any sport that doesn’t let transgender people compete. There I said it.

Granted this is a particularly low bar nowadays.

(I also lament that this makes things really rough for the trans men for whom this is not a fad, and for whom earlier transitioning would be a huge quality of life improvement.)

Like dear cis people are you OK? Is society not transphobic enough for you? :'(

Are you worried that if a teenager is allowed to explore their gender a little that it will cause a bunch of precocious little cis girls to accidentally glance at a vial of testosterone the wrong way and grow a fantastic beard overnight?

When I started estrogen (later than I should have and fuck you Idaho) I was absolutely 100% sure that it was the right thing to try, and that I’d stop if I didn’t like it. Never looked back (estrogen is tasty and I encourage everyone to try it at least once), and I had years before there was much you could call permanent.

But of course it’s not the “permanent changes to bodies” that made me a 6ft tall amazonian beauty that people like Aella are concerned about. “What if we accidentally trans one of the cis??” fundamentally assumes it is OK to accidentally withhold critical medicine from countless trans people just to be “safe”.