One has a lowercase L, the other one an uppercase I

Stop, you’re being too reasonable and engaging with the real world.

I’m not happy about the war in Ukraine, but it’s a war, not a genocide. You need to be serious when discussing topics like this, especially when we have the example of genocides happening right now, livestreamed for all of us to see.

I love the detail of python2 lmao.

Agreed. Plus most people pay companies for the support and trust they have, rather than for the simple functionality of a component or product. There’s always been cheaper and even free alternatives to lots of established products, but companies understand there’s value in having support when things go badly, and in having a different set of eyes handling that component instead of having to dedicate your own workers in house. So even from a business proposition cloning these apps doesn’t do shit. We need either more work in existing foss projects (if they’re designed well enough) or make new ones with extreme care if we ever want to make good replacements for proprietary stuff.

I disagree, it can be invaluable for disabled people, but this service is very badly paid and that’s obviously bullshit.

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The far-right generally take popular talking points from the left. That’s what the fascists and the nazis did. That’s the whole reason why the nazis called themselves “national socialists”, despite being ultra-capitalist and not socialist at all. Socialism being popular again means the far-right can (once again) take leftist talking points to appeal to the sense of disenfranchisement produced by capitalism. Even Trump used some leftist arguments here and there in his campaigns. We can argue all you want that Trump (just like these losers) would never do anything to benefit workers, but my point here is that we can’t just judge a party’s left-right alignment based on simple rhetoric, we need to judge them based on their broader context, broader platform, and on who’s actually backing it. To consider them leftist based on empty rhetoric would force you to conclude Hitler was also “very left leaning except for their views on” ethnic cleansing. Come on lol.

If you’re the target of the neo-nazis, or you have enough empathy to care about people who are their target, of course it matters. Wtf are you on?

The world is where it is because we decided to let everbody have the same voice.

We clearly live in different realities.

I personally like Rust fine, it’s not my favorite or my strongest language but we’ve suffered stuff like Java for decades.

Backdoors through model poisoning is so evil, I love it.

People hate AI because they were told they would not be able to get a job anymore, and many people got fired over it.

I’ve gone through a few automated security reports out of curiosity and they were bizarre rather than useful. I’m sure for stuff like the kernel it’s actually very useful and important, but I’m skeptical that the economics of agents make sense for anyone other than big governments and corpos running them, so rather than random hackers I expect corporate espionage to make use of these tools, considering how expensive it is to get the hardware you need to run open models, then how expensive it is to keep it running and cooling, and then the fact that it will degrade with use.

I’m sure it will get more efficient eventually, or at the very least it will be much cheaper to acquire the hardware needed for these models in a few years as China keeps developing its silicon industry, then it will be cheaper for random folks to use these tools for detecting vulnerabilities on random systems, but as it stands today these machines burn absurd amounts of money, and for the applications I’ve interacted with, the bugs were very much irrelevant as they required giving the end user access to internal apis and not use any sanity checks, which is absurd with everything that’s user input related.

100%, or we’d commit prompts instead of code lol

That’s how I feel about autocompletion and scaffolding, we’ve had LSPs and code generators for years, and they’re exponentially less wasteful

I mean, I use it because I’m forced to, but I don’t feel much in productivity gains (not using agents though). Sometimes it’s very, very handy, but most of the time it’s like talking to the stupidest rubber ducky, and the frustration it gives me is not worth that imo. Others might make a different calculation, but ultimately if search engines didn’t enshitify themselves into obsoletion, and LLMs didn’t produce the worst, most verbose, and sometimes objectively wrong documentation, I’d not see an upside at all. But here we are.

Yes, let’s harass children and let them know their religious background makes them subhuman in the eyes of the state. Brilliant idea.

You need better reading comprehension.

Sounds like he may be a socially progressive liberal.