why is robot lady in queue with springy legs so darn sexy
seriously though, good piece. Hopefully the fever breaks soon (yeah right)
Anecdata: if you're working in IT in Sweden you can get away with just English. I know a guy living in Berlin who hasn't botheredgot around to learning German yet, he also manages with English.
But it's a big Community and different parts have different requirements and of course different expectations.
LWer asks: "what if property-based suffrage, but with crypto?"
Stupid sexy robot judge...
One thing an adversarial judicial system like the American one is that if one party sloppily use GenAI to write their documents, they can lose, because the other party can point that out. A lot of the excuses to use LLMs in software development is that modern software development is terrible anyway, so if you can get your slop to market faster than some other schlub, you probably won't lose customers. When there's a balanced incentive to point out hallucinations, they (hopefully) won't get that far.
"Free speech" is now a rightwing dogwistle, at least for me.
I have downloaded the relevant page from an open tab in Firefox ("Save as HTML), but it doesn't contain the latest craziness. If anyone is interested, let me know the best way to host such content.
What's scary is the raw number of upvotes he got for basically admitting to defrauding a FLOSS maintainer.
Well that took a turn.
The initial comment spawned a GIANT THREAD which I haven't had time to parse, but after 2 days or so the initiator (username Kerrick) ragequit.
Here's the modlog message (timestamp 2025-05-15 23:02)
User 7u026ne9se
Action: Banned
Reason: Was ~Kerrick from kerrick.blog who picked and lost every fight in /s/gkpmli, deleted/disowned all his comments, lied about stalking bc someone told a maintainer he admitted to misleading them, and asked us to delete his username change from the modlog. No.
Here's the old profile:
http://web.archive.org/web/20250312141826/https://lobste.rs/~Kerrick
I suggest open source projects keep an eye out for this username and maybe take an extra look at their contributions.
Edit found the last comment they made before deleting. Textbook DARVO, considering they have almost unmerited amounts of positive karma in the thread itself.
I came here to give a simple explanation of why people aren’t noticing as many open source vibe coded contributions as they’d expect. Fights were picked with me by others: I was called a sneak, incapable, a pedant, an ignorer of consent, and a threat to human expression. All through that I’ve worked extremely hard to steer it away from such abhorrent behavior and towards the free expression of ideas, rather than engaging in the same kind of name calling.
Even so, I’ve been emailed, text messaged, and even called on my cell phone about this thread. Someone stalked me to other social media to bring it up there. This thread has brought about the most toxicity I’ve ever experienced on any forum, and these last couple days have been the among the worst in my life.
This broke containment at the Red Site: https://lobste.rs/s/gkpmli/if_ai_is_so_good_at_coding_where_are_open
Reader discretion is advised, lobste.rs is home to its fair share of promptfondlers.
Of all the people he could choose to sell out to, he chose Worldcoin???
LWer suggests people who believe in AI doom make more efforts to become (internet) famous. Apparently not bombing on Lex Fridman's snoozecast, like Yud did, is the baseline.
The community awards the post one measly net karma point, and the lone commenter scoffs at the idea of trying to convince the low-IQ masses to the cause. In their defense, Vanguardism has been tried before with some success.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qcKcWEosghwXMLAx9/doomers-should-try-much-harder-to-get-famous
Expect the "AI safety" weenuses to have a giant freakout too.
New eugenics conference just dropped
"Chatham House rules" so they can happily be racist without anyone pointing fingers at them.
I don't know anything about Abe apart from him being a right-winger. Was he also very very worried about Japan's birthrate (just like Hackernews is)?
"Gross thrice-married orange man wants you to bonk more" is gonna be a hard sell but rest assured, his pals in tech will make sure their ad selection supports it.
As previously mentioned, the "Behind the Bastards" podcast is tackling Curtis Yarvin. I'm just past the first ad intermission (why are all podcast ads just ads for other podcasts? It's like podcast incest), and according to the host, Yarvin models his ideal society on Usenet pre-Eternal September.
This is something I've noticed too (I got on the internet just before). There's a nostalgia for the "old" internet, which was supposed to be purer and less ad-infested than the current fallen age. Usenet is often mentioned. And I've always thought that's dumb because the old internet was really really exclusionary. You had to be someone in academia or internet business, so you were Anglophone, white, and male. The dream of the old pure internet is a dream of an internet without women or people of color, people who might be more expressive in media other than 7 bit ASCII.
This was a reminder that the nostalgia can be coded fascist, too.
snrk
https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/113228461302575676
I’m going to start replying to everything like I’m on Hacker News. Unhappy with Congress? Why don’t you just start a new country and write a constitution and secede? It’s not that hard once you know how. Actually, I wrote a microstate in a weekend using Rust.
@BasedBeffJezos replying "cracked" to this is the rancid cherry on a shit sundae.
It’s slowly refining its approach. No-one went for the pizza glue or eating rocks, so…
Reddit still delivers sometimes.