Steven Willems

@willemsst
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For the love of god can we stop anthropomorphising LLMs. No, ChatGPT did not "come up with an excuse" or "think about its mistakes". Gemini did not "lie about its reasoning" or "struggle to understand basic concepts". Grok didn't "decide to praise Nazis" or "express it's support for genocide".

They're mimics designed cynically to trick you into assigning them a humanity that they'll never have, and giving them false agency allows their designers and creators an innocence they don't deserve.

I really wish you all weren't so cocksure about letting shit like HTTP/1.1 die.

Gonna miss the last vestige of the web that doesn't require wireshark to fuckin' parse it.

I kinda hate that HTTP/2 is straight binary and requires wireshark to make any sense of it, and that http/3 is basically just quic, which is google's love child of weird shit.

I'll just leave this right here.

It's been 3 days since I put in these numbers and just to make sure I am super angry as I go to bed, I checked again.

There area now 8,093 Starlink satellites in orbit, out of 12,308 total active satellites. 1,243 Starlink satellites have burned up.

As with almost everything else happening, this is so fucking stupid, and I'm going to keep yelling about it. To calm myself down, I'd go outside and look up, but guess what I'd see?

Who needs post-apocalyptic scifi books?

I want to shout one more thing about personal info leaks that I haven't seen enough.

YOU CANNOT RESET YOUR FACE

If you get a text password stolen, yeah, it's a pain. But you can reset all passwords and five years from now it will be little more than a fun anecdote.

If you get your face, fingerprint or iris scan leaked when you are 30 years old, your face stays leaked when you are 70 years old. You cannot reset that shit for your whole life.

RealIDs are ticking time bombs.

#leaks #cybersec

I sure wish you wouldn't post LLM output.

Not even to make fun of it.

The fact that you're sharing it means that you're using it. The fact that you're using it means that you're counted as a user. The fact that you're a user means that you're helping extractive-capitalist con men steal money while simultaneously worsening the climate crisis.

Take the pledge, kids:

"I do not use LLMs in coding and I do not kiss boys who do.'

Belgian Authorities Arrest and Interrogate Israeli War Crimes Suspects at the Tomorrowland Festival.

This sets a precedent, and hopefully more of this to come.

https://www.hindrajabfoundation.org/perpetrators/breakthrough-belgian-authorities-arrest-and-interrogate-israeli-war-crimes-suspects-following-complaint-by-hind-rajab-foundation-and-glan

#genocide #warcrimes #europe

BREAKTHROUGH: Belgian Authorities Arrest and Interrogate Israeli War Crimes Suspects Following Complaint by Hind Rajab Foundation and GLAN

Boom, Belgium — In what may become a turning point in the global pursuit of accountability,  Belgian federal police have arrested and interrogated two Israeli soldiers  credibly accused of war...

THE HIND RAJAB FOUNDATION

Dat uitgerekend de koning zich stilaan het scherpst als moreel geweten van ons land laat horen over ondraaglijke schendingen van de mensenrechten, zou veel anderen die wél politieke verantwoordelijkheid dragen tot introspectie moeten dwingen.

En tot woorden en daden.

Niet wanneer het onherroepelijke later plechtig herdacht zal worden, maar vandaag.

https://www.demorgen.be/meningen/gedreven-door-morele-verontwaardiging-stak-filip-zijn-nek-roekeloos-en-royaal-uit~ba5b1614/

Gedreven door morele verontwaardiging stak Filip zijn nek roekeloos en royaal uit

Dave Sinardet is professor politieke wetenschappen (VUB/UCLouvain). Zijn column verschijnt tweewekelijks op dinsdag. Zelden klonk een Belgische vorst zo uitgesproken, schrijft Sinardet over de toespraak van koning Filip.

De Morgen

Gaza killings denounced as ‘disgrace to humanity’ by Belgian king

Belgium’s King Philippe said Europe “must show stronger leadership” on the crisis in Gaza, adding that “the current situation has gone on far too long” and “is a disgrace to humanity.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/gaza-israel-war-belgian-king-philippe/

Gaza killings denounced as ‘disgrace to humanity’ by Belgian king

The EU’s top brass has not publicly responded to the reported deaths of over 100 aid seekers in Gaza over the weekend.

POLITICO