Mastodawn

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@teledyn/116652708401285794

"every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at scale"

1. The hallucination problem before anyone had a word for it.
2. Bias amplification
3. Environmental cost
4. Documentation — the training datasets being assembled were too large for anyone to actually audit

#AI #GenAI

quelsh 1d ago

David August ❌👑1d ago

doge by another name is building…ability to own your data forever from within White House w/zero oversight or legal permission.

“…taking…parts of…federal government that touch you directly…prescription…voter registration…passport…federal login, out of…agencies that…own them & rebuilding…on White House infrastructure. Vote(dot)gov belongs to…EAC…studio built…copy. Passports…to…State…studio…building…replacement…Login(dot)gov…to GSA, &…studio’s guy runs…now.”

https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-second-votegov-and-its

#USpol

I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House

There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.

The Drey Dossier

quelsh 4d ago

Jeremiah Fieldhaven 4d 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.

quelsh 6d ago

Grantscherm 6d ago

Auch Volkswagen arbeitet an autonom selbstfahrenden Autos. Erste Prototypen wurden in freier Wildbahn gesichtet.

quelsh May 18

jonny (nonvenomous)May 18

I regret to give anyone this information that didn't already have it, but "the left for AI" as a cluster of ideas both a) exists and b) is infopoison of the highest order

quelsh May 12

Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)May 12

dATa cETeRs dOn't rEaLLy uSe mUCh wAtER

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/georgia-data-center-used-29-million-gallons-of-water

AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before detected by residents complaining about low water pressure — officials refuse to fine builders of massive 6.2 million-square-foot facility over unauthorized water use

County's soft touch is attributed to the data center being 'our largest customer, and we have to be partners.'

Tom's Hardware

quelsh May 12

The Seven Voyages Of Steve May 12

Warhammer 40K: we will implore the machine to do our bidding by reciting the litanies, and will castigate those who would try to understand the underlying technology as vile heretics

Tech 2026: hold my beer

Is your company currently hiring for a role that includes using Rust?

Reply with a link to the opening and any relevant context.

If you're not, we'd appreciate a repost for visibility

#rust #rustlang #programming

quelsh May 7

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅May 7

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

Everyone should read this.

Programming Still Sucks. — Writing

Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.