@xgranade Relevant article: LLMs use a lot of the same techniques as psychics' "cold reading" to convince people they know more than they do.
If it annoys you— as it somewhat does me— that the precise definition of the Rust programming languages is "vibes" and "three separate PDFs, none of them authoritative" and "well, whatever the reference compiler does is the language", this is pretty neat news. https://mastodon.social/@rustfoundation/114229759326166359
When you do this, you think you’re showing how savvy, smart, or “realistic” you are. What you’re actually doing is wasting the time of, and demoralizing, the people who are actually working to try to stop the thing you’ve already surrendered to.
Protip: if someone posts a technical or legal analysis of something the administration is doing or proposing and your response is that legalities are irrelevant and a waste of time, the problem is YOU.
You know who wants you to think laws don’t matter anymore and that pushback is hopeless? Fascists.
Don’t act like a fascist.
Conservative folklore peeps in Hungary: "Folktales carry our Traditional Values and the Ancient Wisdom of Our Ancestors. They follow a strict set of Traditional Rules"
Literal Hungarian folktales I found in archives:
- Princess Rosalia Lemonfarts
- The Diamond Prince in a Rubber Suit
- The Magic Flying Penis
- Rapunzel, but it's a bloke who makes a rope from his body hair
- Saint Peter got drunk and puked the first 🌈
- The Princess who became a Prince
CodeQLEAKED – Public Secrets Exposure Leads to Potential Supply Chain Attack on GitHub CodeQL https://www.praetorian.com/blog/codeqleaked-public-secrets-exposure-leads-to-supply-chain-attack-on-github-codeql/
Day 421. Following up on the no longer available sustainability fact sheets of #Azure data centers from day 420, we have added those that we know of to the Internet Archive.
The AI bots that desperately need OSS for code training, are now slowly killing OSS by overloading every site.
The curl website is now at 77TB/month, or 8GB every five minutes.