Mastodawn

@pfish.zone so much of the maintainer community right now is handwringing about "but if we ban LLM use, how will we tell?" and I am exasperated because the answer is not some sophisticated word-probability detection machine, it is "they will be blindingly obvious about it, and if they manage to not be obvious for a second, they will brag about it, they can't stop themselves"

chx 1d ago

So, who is forking rsync?

chx 2d ago

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The Seven Voyages Of Steve 2d ago

@JeremiahFieldhaven Christ if it’s coming for rsync of all things software is clearly done

chx 2d ago

Jeremiah Fieldhaven 2d ago

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.

chx 4d ago

Rob Ricci 5d ago

Going to start calling all my blog posts "encyclicals" so that people take them more seriously

chx 6d ago

What's the best summary I can give to a near 80 year old couple to convince them to stay out of the OpenAI IPO?

cc @davidgerard

chx May 20

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦May 20

RE: https://mstdn.social/@amydiehl/116607408114944788

this Breslow guy is the is giving Apartheid Musk and Dead Eyes Zuck a run for their money as the face of White Male Mediocrity™

chx May 14

I have an absolutely terrifying thought: OpenAI / Anthropic gets people addicted to their shit, their cognitive abilities significantly decreased and so when the inevitable tenfold price jump happens people will feel they have *no choice* but to pay it.

cc @pluralistic @davidgerard

chx May 7

OMG @davidgerard have you seen this startup which intends to place extremely expensive GPUs in the backyards of ordinary people? https://www.span.io/blog/span-announces-xfra-a-distributed-data-center-solution-to-close-the-speed-to-power-gap-for-ai-compute-demand 1) we will have blackouts everywhere 2) was this invented by the Thieves Guild or fucking what

SPAN® Blog | SPAN Announces XFRA, a Distributed Data Center Solution to Close the Speed-to-Power Gap for AI Compute Demand

Today SPAN announced the launch of XFRA, a distributed data center solution designed to deliver gigawatts of new compute capacity amidst today’s growing power infrastructure constraints.

chx Apr 28

Charles Oliver Nutter Apr 27

There's a disturbing trend of developers I've known for years now suddenly being unable to discuss even basic aspects of software development. They have become so dependent on LLMs, they can't even describe how to design a system anymore. Feels like losing friends to dementia. 😢

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