mccFeb 21

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116108957641748718

I want this but as a Linux distribution. I don't think I'm asking for much here. I am just asking for the "open source community" to be to the left of Goldman Sachs

Show threadmccFeb 21

My understanding is that Bitwarden and KeePassXC, the two open source password managers, are *both* using random code generators at this point, which is terrifying as those are the exact tools where a small error could have the largest negative impact, and also tools that once you've committed to using it you can't quickly back out if they enter a code quality decline

https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/tree/main/.claude

clients/.claude at main · bitwarden/clients

Bitwarden client apps (web, browser extension, desktop, and cli). - bitwarden/clients

GitHub
Show threadGlyphFeb 21
@mcc the double (triple?) entendre of "random code generator" here is really upsetting
Show threadSteve Purcell
@glyph @mcc my current go-to is "rented code generator" but I like "random" too.
Feb 23 at 5:45pmWeb
Show threadmccFeb 23

@sanityinc @glyph the thing that makes it problematic is not that it is artificial or tool-driven the problem is that it is thoughtless¹

we spent a hundred years with fiction training people to think of "AI" as "a thing which thinks, but in a different way" and this is now serving as marketing cover for a thing which actually does not think

¹ and also, the other problems

Show threadSteve PurcellFeb 23
@mcc @glyph a billion typewriter monkeys in an unspecified datacenter
Show threadmccFeb 23
@sanityinc @glyph also at any one time maybe it's being puppeted by a human or a state intelligence service, who knows, the cloud service is a black box