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  LLM advocates still don’t seem to be able to comprehend that ordering the machine not to ‘make stuff up’ doesn’t help. It doesn’t know when it’s making stuff up, and it couldn’t change that even if you told it to. (In fact it’s always just making stuff up, and is only ever true by chance.) Part of why I’m so negative about them is that their advocates simply do not understand how they work and do not seem to want to. https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116653425489923041

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  @josh@vickerson.me @codinghorror@infosec.exchange Yes. Someone else earlier was arguing (as far as I could tell) that because some people break the speed limit, speed limits are worthless.

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  Why is it that pro-LLM people always respond to bans (or potential bans) of LLM-generated code by suggesting that LLM users will simply continue to use LLMs but hide the fact that they’re doing so? You’re just announcing that you’re a fundamentally dishonest and untrustworthy person who thinks rules don’t apply to you (and/or that you think most of your fellow LLM-lovers are). Who is this meant to persuade?

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  @rozeboosje@masto.ai not saying you’re necessarily wrong, but Labour’s strategy hasn’t even been to call Farage a gobshite, it’s been to copy all of his policies that they think they can get away with. The parties that have been more likely to call him a gobshite outright are also the ones proposing meaningful policies.

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  kobo’s recommender algorithm thinks i want to read a book about jeremy corbyn by someone who wasn’t old enough to vote in the 2010 election cannot emphasise strongly enough how much i do not

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  the 'have i been pwned' guy has succumbed to AI psychosis and has instituted an 'anti-robophobia policy' https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-501/

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  @chiefgyk3d “Linux’s version of .exe files” is not remotely correct.

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  Yanks on Bluesky are wild. "Oh, I thought this was about the US, my mistake" — in response to an article in the Guardian, with a British flag in the header image and references to Labour, Tories, and Brexit in the first paragraph.

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  Seen a bunch of people on Bluesky recently claiming that the Green Party is 'bad at being green' because it's letting the perfect be the enemy of the good etc etc Followed, obviously, by a list of things they should do instead. But since there isn't actually another party proposing to do any of these things, isn't opposing the Greens itself just letting the perfect be the enemy of the good? (make u think, etc 🤔) #gpew

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  Go easy on Claude users right now. They're all mourning the loss of their imaginary friends. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/45596

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  american conservatives: "we want our leaders to be pro-life!" the pope: "war is bad" conservatives: "no not like that"

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  Seeing the Linux kernel’s LLM policy being summarised as ‘puts the responsibility on humans’ or some such, and… so? First of all that’s what every LLM user tells themself whether it’s true or not. Actually making them take responsibility is harder, because the task of enforcing that gets placed on the project, which is why a bunch of FOSS projects are being overwhelmed with slop. But aside from that isn’t that an incredibly low bar? The definition of ‘responsible’ LLM use is that the patch sub...

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  @trashheap I’ve used Hetzner for a while, and although they don’t provide *bsd images I’ve had good luck running FreeBSD and OpenBSD with a custom image. I would expect NetBSD to be fine too.

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  Honestly I have zero sympathy for anyone running OpenClaw because they absolutely all should have known better, but maybe this latest gaping security hole will finally teach some people some sense. https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1sbdw29/if_youre_running_openclaw_you_probably_got_hacked/

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  I've never liked the autocomplete suggestions — I turned off even the individual-word suggestions in iOS years back, and the phrase suggestions are much more obnoxious than that. Apparently they're even worse than I'd realised, though. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-autocomplete-doesnt-just-change-how-you-write-it-changes-how-you-think/