Bringer of Pants

@Enfors
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#Linux user, #Python developer, #Emacs enthusiast, secular humanist and Shorinji Kempo practitioner. I also enjoy fantasy TTRPGs, including solo play.

Since filtering by language doesn't work on your personal timeline on Mastodon, I'm unlikely to follow people who primarily post in languages other than English or Swedish - sorry.

Pronounshe/him
TTRPG websitehttps://TTRPG-Hangout.com
TTRPG Mastodon accounthttps://ttrpg-hangout.social/@enfors
Bringer of Pants4d ago

I don't suppose anyone is able to provide an invite to the #Fosstodon instance?

I've been a dedicated #Linux and #OpenSource user since 1995, and I've recently started making contributions as a contributor liaison for #orgmode, an #Emacs mode for taking notes. I'm learning more #ELisp, hoping to be able to make code contributions soon as well.

Bringer of PantsApr 9
Paris MarxApr 9

Google’s AI Overviews are providing “tens of millions of wrong answers … every hour — and hundreds of thousands every minute.”

wow, i love the AI future!

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-misinformation

#tech #ai #google #generativeai #artificialintelligence

Analysis Finds That Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization

A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

Futurism
Bringer of PantsMar 31
Mikko Koski 🇫🇮Mar 31

Two Ukrainian drones drifted onto Finnish soil. Helsingin Sanomat, the main newspaper in Finland, used #AI to write the headline, where it stated that those were Russian drones.

A bit too delicate a matter to let AI write the news, eh??

https://www.hs.fi/paakirjoitukset/art-2000011912865.html

The en💩ification of journalism, thanks to AI.

#ai #helsinginsanomat

Helsingin Sanomat julkaisi virheellistä tietoa drooneista – Taustalla tekoäly­virhe

HS julkaisi sunnuntaina Kouvolan drooneista virheellisen tiedon, jonka taustalla oli tekoälytyökalu, kirjoittaa HS:n vastaava päätoimittaja Erja Yläjärvi.

Helsingin Sanomat
Bringer of PantsMar 27
Is there really no good, built in way of searching through all your #OrgRoam files from inside #Emacs? I mean... that seems like basic functionality for a #SecondBrain, does it not? Sure, I can open a command line and run grep manually, but I would expect that there was something Helm-like for this out of the box?
Show threadBringer of PantsMar 24
Like a comment on that video said: we should Uno reverse this, and use the same method to create clean room copies of commercial software and release it as #OpenSource. THEN, things would start happening. THEN the companies suddenly won't be as fascinated by this.
Bringer of PantsMar 24

This is really, really bad. A company as set up a service that uses AI to make a "clean room" copy of #OpenSource software, so they can replace the license. Probably technically legal in most countries, but morally f---ing egregious.

This needs to be stopped. We can't have commercial interests "legally stealing" Open Source software just to be able to profit off of the efforts of unpaid volunteers (who aren't even volunteers in this context).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6godSEVvcmU
#FOSS

This Is Crazy

YouTube
Bringer of PantsMar 20

Oh brother. Apparently, #ChuckNorris has died.

Brace yourselves. The "no, actually, Chuck killed death, not the other way around" jokes are coming.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/20/entertainment/chuck-norris-death

Chuck Norris, action hero and ‘Walker, Texas Ranger’ star, has died

Chuck Norris, veteran, martial arts world champion, action hero and early 2000s Internet meme inspiration, whose rugged demeanor was immortalized on hit show “Walker, Texas Ranger,” has died.

CNN
Show threadBringer of PantsMar 17

But anyway - while others use #AI to write code for them, I (and many others, of course) use AI to teach me to write code in a new language.

Since I'm an experienced software developer, I sometimes catch the AI making mistakes, and contradicting itself. Then I point that out, and ask it to explain itself. This is a benefit of experience which a more junior dev might not have, so I'm not saying that this is something which everyone should be doing from now on. But for me, it seems to work.

Show threadBringer of PantsMar 17

I think, at least for me, this is the perfect use for #AI in coding. It avoids the problems of #AISlop, because I'm the one writing the actual code so I know what every single line does. Nothing is #vibecode. But I'm still getting benefits from #AI.

However, there are obviously still the environmental effects and ethical concerns about #GenAI to take into account, and I can't exactly say that my conscience is clear in that regard...

Show threadBringer of PantsMar 17
To be honest, this has been a lot of fun. I have a #Lisp project I'm working on, and sometimes I ask the AI to give me a challenge - a feature to add to my project - which is of a suitable difficulty based on what the AI knows of my abilities to write Lisp. The AI then gives me the task, explains what functions I should look into and learn to be able to accomplish it. Sometimes I end up doing that task, sometimes I end up doing something else.