MrBadAxe

@mrbadaxe
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Software engineer job seeker by day.
Quartermaster of the Pirate Haus Gaming Discord by night.
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The US administration wildly mismanaging the maintenance of a pool less than a metre deep, at the same time attempting to deal with the Strait of Hormuz crisis, is more pointed a metaphor than the collapsing garden wall from "In the Loop".
"The UK's proposed social media ban misses the point" STOP ENGAGING WITH IT ON ITS TERMS, THEY'RE NOT ARGUING IN GOOD FAITH, NEITHER SHOULD YOU

#linux gamers have dealt with hidden input lag for years, and someone finally figured out why.

The power of #opensource

https://share.google/64ycjADOxJFvtiWRe

#kde #linuxgaming

Linux gamers have dealt with hidden input lag for years, and someone finally figured out why

Bad news comes in threes.

XDA
This is fashy garbage. We don't cheer for this.

Any country playing against the US team right now has one job: win. This is more important than Commonwealth countries beating England. Let England win. Save your strength. Beat the USMNT.

Guide for patriotic US citizens:
In football, we cheer *for* the US Women's National team. We cheer *against* the US Men's National team. Nothing against them, but you don't give Trump the satisfaction.

Same in ice hockey: Cheer *for* the US women, and *against* the US men.

In basketball, we cheer for both the men's and the women's team.

Because patriotism is supporting the 64% of US people that *don't* like fascism, and that care about other people.
♥️🇺🇸

Americans, if in doubt about whether to support a US team, ask yourselves, "If this team won gold, would they turn down the invite to go take fashy selfies and eat cold hamburgers in the oval office? Would they use their platform to speak out against fascism? Would they even get an invite?"

@cstross
From 20 years ago, eh?

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@lina/116779058863273132

If anyone wants to prevent LLM contributions, it seems like symlinking CLAUDE.md to /dev/urandom might do the trick: by default, claude code unconditionally reads CLAUDE.md if it is present in the repository root. The reading function checks if the files to load are block devices among a few other things, but does not mind at all if they are symlinks in general, including directory traversal to anywhere.

There are ways to run claude without reading CLAUDE.md, but they require manual intervention, and startup stalls before any of the "try whatever" self healing attempts of the LLM kick in. indeed there is no indication why startup stalls in stdout or debug logs: nothing for an external "agent" harness to diagnose either.

I have not confirmed this part: but it looks like the file read tool checks if a path is a system path like /dev/urandom, but it only checks the string of the path without expanding symlinks. Many of the tool and agent prompt texts say to read CLAUDE.md first, bypassing any config settings that would prevent that since it happens in LLM modality not program modality. so even if you do get it booted up, you would likely get inexplicable stalls at any point those tools/agents are invoked.

Google workspace threatening to block firefox access

Google workspace threatening to block firefox

Tales from Prod

very cool illustration of ranked choice voting and how it worked in Maine’s gubernatorial Democratic primary

via Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comments/1ua4e7n/sankey_diagram_of_the_democratic_gubernatorial/)

#USpol #USpolitics #MEgov

Yes, genAI is going the fuck away!

They stopped putting lead into (road vehicle) fuel! They stopped putting CFCs into sprays and refrigerators! They stopped putting asbestos into buildings! They are going to stop shoving genAI into fucking everything!

They are paying influencers and celebrities to try to convince you that you have to accept it, but if they weren't losing already, they wouldn't need to pay anybody!

Hang in there, 6 more months or so!

#noAI #AI #LLM #LLMs #technofascism