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[–] self@awful.systems 4 points 6 months ago

definitely! that sounds like a great first Rust project.

[–] self@awful.systems 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Like many here on awful.systems I have a pretty thick skin, but reading the above put me in a really weird mood all day.

same here. the thing is, I think a lot of us are on awful.systems because we’ve seen far too much of how fascism operates and spreads online. this is an antifascist place; it’s so core to the mission that we don’t publish it as a policy (because a policy can be argued against and twisted and the fash kids love doing that), we just demonstrate it in a way that can’t be ignored. so seeing the first or second (I don’t keep track of these things) most popular social media platform publish a policy whose only purpose is to be used as a weapon against marginalized people, for it to be written in a matter-of-fact “this is just how it is” way, and for essentially nobody outside of the fediverse to push back on it in any real way — that is shocking.

[–] self@awful.systems 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

define a meta-format for specifying the variables, default values, allowed values, etc., for an arbitrary[0] program’s config file, and create a program that reads a meta-format file and presents a GUI for editing the config.

I’d kinda love this even if I’m editing config files in a text editor. emacs could use this with a major-mode or LSP to provide suggestions, validity checking, various rendered versions of the config, and guarantee interoperability with graphical tools (so that changes you make in an editor don’t get trampled by the UI, and vice versa)

[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)
  • MS-DOS and Windows, of course…
  • but, and this will get some boos, Unix as a workstation OS compared with every other non-windows workstation OS
[–] self@awful.systems 17 points 6 months ago (6 children)

a few people have been posting along the lines of “we all knew Facebook was evil, why are you surprised” which seems to miss the point — this is happening so fast and blatant that we’re almost definitely seeing the early stages of a playbook being executed. and even if not: Facebook was already the fash pipeline targeting mom, dad, and grandma. should I feel good that the pipeline is getting much more efficient and pervasive? none of them are ever gonna be on something like the fediverse.

[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago

You are making assumptions about my stance on AI. I was making a general statement about tools.

since apparently you decided to post about fucking nothing, you can take your pointless horseshit elsewhere

[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago

Obviously, if you are dealing with a novel problem, then the LLM can’t produce a meaningful answer.

it doesn’t produce any meaningful answers for non-novel problems either

[–] self@awful.systems 2 points 6 months ago

yep, original is still visible on mastodon

[–] self@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

guess again

what the locals are probably taking issue with is:

If you want a more precise model, you need to make it larger.

this shit doesn’t get more precise for its advertised purpose when you scale it up. LLMs are garbage technology that plateaued a long time ago and are extremely ill-suited for anything but generating spam; any claims of increased precision (like those that openai makes every time they need more money or attention) are marketing that falls apart the moment you dig deeper — unless you’re the kind of promptfondler who needs LLMs to be good and workable just because it’s technology ~~and because you’re all-in on the grift~~

[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 6 months ago

and it deleted my Optimus Subprime fan fiction!

[–] self@awful.systems 3 points 6 months ago

they are when Anduril and DetSys do them

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