“Your responses will be used to train the AI. By participating in the interview you give us an exclusive, worldwide, non-revokable license to your voice, likeness, and anything you say or write during the interview.”

BREAJING NEWS: Alzheimer’s is just an SQL injection in the brain being exploited!

LLM scraping is a parasite on the internet. In the actual ecological definition of parasite: they place a burden on other unwitting organisms computer systems, making it harder for the host to survive or carry out their own necessary processes, solely for the parasite’s own benefit while giving nothing to the host in return.

I know there’s an ongoing debate (both in the courts and on social media) about whether AI should have to pay royalties to its training data under copyright law, but I think they should at the very least be paying to use infrastructure while collecting the data, even free data, given that it costs the organisation hosting said data real money and resources to be scraped, and it’s orders of magnitude more money and resources compared to serving that data to individual people.

The case can certainly be made that copying is not theft, but copying is by no means free either, especially when done at the scales LLMs do.

Why Linux Mint specifically, why not just Linux? Or if they want to pick a specific distro, why not Trisquel or another FSF-endorsed distro?

It is in everyone’s interest to gradually adjust to the notion that technology can now perform tasks once thought to require years of specialized education and experience.

The years of specialized education and experience is not for writing code in and of itself. Anyone with an internet connection can learn to do that in not that long. What takes years to perfect is writing reliable, optimized, secure code, communicating and working efficiently with others, writing code that can be maintained by others long after you leave, knowing the theories behind why code written in a certain way works better than code written in some other way, and knowing the qualitative and quantitative measures to even be able to assess whether one piece of code is “better” than the other. Source: Self-learned programming, started building stuff on my own, and then went through an actual computer science program. You miss so much nuance and underlying theory when you self-learn, which directly translates bad code that’s a nightmare to maintain.

Finally, the most important thing you can do with the person that has years of specialized education and experience is you can actually have a conversation with them about their code, ask them to explain in detail how it works and the process they used to write it. Then you can ask them followup questions and request further clarification. Trying to get AI to explain itself is a complete shitshow, and while humans do have a propensity to make shit up to cover their own/their coworkers’ asses, AI does that even when it make no sense not to tell the truth because it doesn’t really know what “the truth” is and why other people would want it.

Will AI eventually catch up? Almost certainly, but we’re nowhere close to that right now. Currently it’s less like an actual professional developer and more like someone who knows just enough to copy paste snippets from Stack Overflow and hack them together into a program that manages to compile.

I think the biggest takeaway with AI programming is not that it can suddenly do just as well as someone with years of specialized education and experience, but that we’re going to get a lot more shitty software that look professional on the surface, but is a dumpster fire inside.

FOSS is not American. Foss belongs to literally everyone.

Why aren’t “alternate syntaxes” a thing? You can pretty easily just write code to convert between C-like and Python-like syntax. Why aren’t there IDE extensions that let you write in python syntax and automatically commit the standard syntax.

Why do they keep allocating land to wildfires if they’re so destructive? /s

fixes bug

bug fix uncovers code that was relying on the faulty behaviour to work properly

FUUUUUUUU

No rust?

Guess that proves it’s the best programming language with absolutely zero edge cases! /s

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Example code >>>> Documentation

IDK I didn’t think that much into it lol

Bypassing authentication or checks by incorporating a statement that always returns true, and doing an ‘or’ operation with the statement being injected. It manipulates the return value of the SQL statement to make it always return true, so if the website is checking if the statement returned true to indicate, for example, the password is correct, it will now think that was the case.

Aww did the snowflake get triggered by people’s use of free speech?

US doing exactly what they accuse Communist China of doing exhibit 420

Why do that when you can just score a deal with the government to give them whatever information they want for sweet perks like foreign competitors getting banned?

Hopefully it also means animal testing isn’t actually that important and can be easily phased out for alternatives.

Testing medicines on humans is basically testing in production

The windows kernel has hardly changed since XP.

Windows NNT when? Surely from a business/competition perspective they can’t let Linux get that many years ahead of them in terms of kernel optimisations?