Mastodawn

Like this is a luminary in the field, mocking his critics for making a prediction he finds risible when that prediction HAS ALREADY COME TRUE. He did the thing, and it went badly, in the way that everyone who is mad at him was saying all along that it would go badly. But he still thinks that he's right! This is not an unrepentant dumb guy being dumb, this is one of the smartest engineers in the field BECOMING dumb right before our eyes. That ought to scare you!

Grace R. Emlin 1h ago

Glyph 1h ago

Sigh. OK. rsync discourse:

This is not a story about “vibe coding” or “slop” or regressions or even open source sustainability or whatever: it’s a story about mental health.

The timeline of Tridge’s response in particular can be broke down like so:

1. AI skeptics say "LLMs create difficult-to-evaluate defects, even if you're careful"
2. Tridge introduces defects even though he was careful
3. he gets yelled at
4. His response is to say "you dinosaurs don't appreciate how *careful* I was!"

Grace R. Emlin 1h ago

Going to take a break from SNOSM over the summer. I have a PiDP-1 to assemble and a Class 1 HPR cert rocket to build. Round about October, I should be ready to dive back in to fleshing-out the instruction set, debugging a minimal Forth monitor into existence, and blundering my way to an MMU. Of course, the MMU won't be of much use until I bodge-on some mass storage.

Grace R. Emlin 1h ago

Led By Gilded Fools 6h ago

Local #Seattle artist Light Guerrilla projected “TAX THE RICH” on the side of Mark #Zuckerberg 's stupid boat while it was docked in Lake Union. The boat is now anchored in the middle of Elliott Bay several miles away.

#Facebook #Meta #Whatsapp #LightGuerilla #TaxTheRich .

Grace R. Emlin 2h ago

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Diane 4h ago

@ai6yr @zl2tod @Viss

Here's a version where a British paratrooper fell through someone's roof near pendleton.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/british-paratrooper-crash-california/

Everyone lived, though was likely highly inconvenienced.

This is what it looks like when a paratrooper crashes through your roof

A British paratrooper crashed through the roof of a California home and miraculously survived after his parachute failed to fully open.

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Grace R. Emlin 2h ago

@simple_sabotage Seeing that one LLM can randomly delete prod and all the backups without any people's approval seems to be even more effective.

Grace R. Emlin 2h ago

Simple Sabotage Field Manual 14h ago

See that three people have to approve everything where one would do.

Grace R. Emlin 2h ago

Peter N. M. Hansteen 2h ago

Random relinking at boot comes to httpd(8) and smtpd(8) https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260605064136 #openbsd #relink #randomrelink #httpd #smtpd #opensmtpd #security #development #freesoftware #libresoftware

Random relinking at boot comes to httpd(8) and smtpd(8)

Grace R. Emlin 2h ago

Terry Pratchett Quote Bot 22h ago

There should be a word for the microscopic spark of hope that you dare not entertain in case the mere act of acknowledging it will cause it to vanish, like trying to look at a photon. You can only sidle up to it, looking past it, walking past it, waiting for it to get big enough to face the world.
(Mort)

#TerryPratchett #quotes #quote #bot