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Grumpy Northerner ex-🇬🇧, now in 🇳🇱 where there are fewer Brexiters, TERFs and other nutters [citation needed]. Spends most waking hours swearing at computers. Thank Cthulhu for beer! Got a Rust, Perl, sysadmin or other related gig? Ping me.

Account is only locked to keep out bots etc, and follow requests from humans are almost always accepted, even if I don't know you. Try not to look like a spambot.

#NoBots

BALLS OF STEEL on this manager 😂
The CornHub popcorn service is switching to kernel-based billing. Cardboard-flavoured snack bills have risen a hundredfold overnight in part because it's just too joyous watching all of those sloperators burst out in tears as they realise they might have to try to remember how a computer works before they get found out and fired.

@davidgerard I assume you've seen the story where Meta have decided to give an AI chatbot free rein to modify accounts and then let the great unwashed chat to it, with the obvious result?

https://x.com/QuinnyPig/status/2061259665376493851

[Edit: tyop.]

Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) on X

Somewhere a Meta product doc says the support agent has “account modification capabilities to better assist users.” In other words it can hijack your Instagram and the only auth check is whether you typed a convincing sentence. Can’t wait for their “cloud.”

X (formerly Twitter)
Civil servant here who writes replies on behalf of a government minister. It's blatantly obvious when you use AI to write in, and I put you to the back of the queue for any response.

I have replaced
the tests
with llm
slop

and which
were working
just fine
for years

Forgive me
but my brain
has become smooth
and full of worms

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/116665647121476321

Such lies also count as fraud by false representation. While extremely unlikely since the CPS would decide it's too much like work, this can be tried as a criminal offence which carries a prison term of up to ten years in the UK.

But just because the CPS is as useful as a fishnet condom doesn't mean that someone can lie about LLM use with impunity: they can still be pursued in civil court for the potentially quite substantial costs of auditing and excising all of the code which the sloperator falsely claimed was their own work.

If you feel like you need to use llm codegen, consider using drugs instead, they are better for you and people around you...

An AI consultant tells Axios one of their clients recently spent half a billion dollars in a single month after failing to put usage limits on Claude licenses for employees..

The even more satisfying bit is that Anthropic would have also lost around $10 billion on the deal.

(Note that this is clearly one of those "too good to check" stories. Caveat lector.)

AI sticker shock hits corporate America

Companies begin to question the payoffs of toxenmaxxing.

Axios

Bring it on!

I'd stand out in it naked to cool off, but don't want to horrify the neighbours…

rsync was basically done until the maintainer discovered vibecoding