I just wanna go slow, sit still, and come undone.
Everybody wants to be a warrior,
nobody wants to be a nurse.
Move slow and make things.
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These dudes are literally crawling out from everywhere to make damn sure we all know they are the problem.
I’m thankful for small blessings, I guess.
Oh, and blocked right here right now, of course.
As a human rights lawyer representing survivors of domestic and sexual violence for 15+ years, I've learned a hard truth. One that will make some men uncomfortable. This is good. Discomfort is the beginning of accountability.
Women are not safe around men. This is a documented, data-driven, empirically supported fact our society has spent generations refusing to confront. Let's Address This.
@ra6bit @munin same, when used in very specific domains where you need a tool to quickly fill up the problem space with as many likely solutions as possible, and then prune it aalllll the way down with bare intelligence. With sufficient space for “whatever, that was BS”.
I’m currently only coming up with protein folding, exotic materials, and generating software errors (not vuln discovery! That requires interpretation.)
Disclaimer: although these are not my fields of expertise, I’m feeling pretty confident we can easily find less expensive and less resource hogging tools.
PS: thinking about it a little more, I’d say genAI only works if making semi plausible shit up is what you want it to do. Where “works” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
I actually worked at the same place as Andrew Tridgell, over a quarter-century ago. I got to know a few of the OzLabs folks during their immediate post-IBM years, and always had the highest respect for them in that way where you feel acute impostor syndrome when they're in the room.
Tridge almost walked backwards into implementing the Windows SMB protocol (he was just debugging some funny NetBIOS extensions IIRC). But his paper on the #rsync algorithm was groundbreaking, and actually writing the tool to implement it was brilliant. It's become one of those tools like #curl that just forms one of the major structural supports of the modern Internet. I still remember the day that the SSH transport became the default, and I remember being able to thank him in person when he came to the San Francisco office (although IIRC by that point he'd handed control of rsync over to mbp).
I remember at my next job he came to a summit of folks working on print driver/spooler software. When he pointed out that some problems were effectively a cache-consistency algorithm, we all kind of put our fingers to our temples and said "Oh wow, you're SO right!" He was always insightful and sharp, while being gentle and approachable.
I write in the past tense because I haven't crossed paths with him in two decades, and only know what I see him put out. A friend of mine in Australia noted that he hasn't posted to the Canberra LUG list since 2020, thanking someone for congratulating him on receiving the Medal of the Order of Australia. He's very much alive, but from what little I see I grow concerned for him.
In 2024 he took over maintenance of rsync once more. The 3.3.0 release was the last one from the previous maintainer, and Tridge is currently working on 3.4.x releases.
Well... Tridge and #Claude, it seems: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@JeremiahFieldhaven/116654345332213390
The issue tracker for rsync has recently lit up with regressions, showing features that worked reliably for almost 30 years are suddenly coming crashing down in 3.4.2 and 3.4.3. People are scrambling to find ways to pin rsync to known-good versions. The considerate, incisive mind I briefly knew is letting the stochastic parrots do his work for him, and it just seems so astonishingly *unlike* the person I met back in the day.
I am still willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. I hope all is well for him, but I will not cast aspersions on his goals or his abilities. No, instead I draw this conclusion:
If TRIDGE of all people can't handle #LLMs without a slopocalypse, no one can.
That means you. That means someone you admire who is intelligent and careful and considerate. Not even someone whose opinions on technology you respect a great deal.
No one.
So my systems recently updated to rsync 3.4.3, and as soon as that happened my backup system - which does incremental backups using multiple --compare-dest= arguments - started to fail on anything but a full backup. Revert to 3.4.1 and it works. So I go look at the source in GitHub to see what might have changed, because there doesn't seem to be anything relevant in the changelog. Since 3.4.1, 36 commits by "tridge and claude" Oh for fuck's sakes.
Between ICE, Palantir/ OpenAI/ Google/ Oracle (etc.) and this, I am convinced the Regime is almost done building the panopticon.
https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-second-votegov-and-its
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
I'm stunned and I recommend a very close read on this article...the more you read, the worst it gets.
https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-second-votegov-and-its
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
We konden deze zomerregen hier in #Amsterdam prachtig zien aankomen zonder de RTL cookies (en alle anderen) van #Buienradar, dankzij de recent verworven digitale autonomie van de @knmi
Zo moeilijk is het niet:
1. We besluiten samen dat deze informatie voor ons allemaal relevant is
2. We betalen samen voor de meetapparatuur en dataverzameling
3. We betalen samen om de resultaten op een mooie, simpele manier toegankelijk te maken.
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