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by username223 8mo ago
> If we want to keep shipping at this speed Do we? Spewing features like explosive diarrhea is not something I want.
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by username223 8mo ago
So open source development should be more like job-hunting and hiring, where humans feed AI-generated resumes into AI resume filters which supposedly choose reasonable candidates to be considered by other humans? That sounds... not good.
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by username223 8mo ago
"We have initiated the process to remove your content from the Common Crawl Dataset. This is a multi-step process, involving first a nocrawl directive, followed by removal of the URLs from the primary index files, and finally removal o
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by username223 8mo ago
I don't care. Is blocking your bot and requesting removal sufficient? If not, what is?
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by username223 8mo ago
Hopefully my site is no longer part of Common Crawl. I'm not interested in participating in your project, block CCBot in robots.txt, and have requested deletion of my data via your form.
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by username223 8mo ago
I'm part of that small but (hopefully) growing percentage, because Common Crawl is a deeply dishonest front for AI data scraping. Quoting Wikipedia: """ In November 2025, an investigation by technology journalist Alex Re
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by username223 8mo ago
Don't be sad! NetNewsWire has been my newsreader for well over a decade, and I only consider "upgrading" out of idle curiosity, because the version I have now does what I want, and does it well. The version treadmill is a mac
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by username223 8mo ago
Thanks for confirming this! I read the speculation, and traveled fairly close to Dankova. Actually climbing it is a serious land expedition from the nearest international airport.
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by username223 8mo ago
We used to have an endless supply of new search engines, so "SEO" was not viable. Then Google got a monopoly on search, DoubleClick reverse-acquired Google, and here we are.
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by username223 8mo ago
Become a plutocrat, or be useful to plutocrats. I don't have the moral flexibility for the former, but plutes tend to care about their images, legacies, and mewling broods. A clever person can find a way to be the latter.
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by username223 8mo ago
"Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-developed 0-days" would be much more interesting and useful. Try harder, guys.
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by username223 8mo ago
That's different: you're using bots to create software that someone finds useful, so you're entirely on the producer end. People using Copilot 365 are on both ends, both producing and being inundated with generated content. S
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by username223 8mo ago
> Microsoft 365 Copilot | Create, Share and Collaborate with Office and AI That's some insight into Microsoft's brain rot, isn't it? "Imagine spending every day for the next year dealing with robot office software.&qu
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by username223 8mo ago
> consumers realising the limits of "AI", This is my guess for the demand side: most people will drift away as the novelty wears off and they don't find it useful in their daily lives. It's more a "fading point&q
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by username223 8mo ago
Mozilla is grouping a bunch of unrelated stuff in with the one thing people don't want.
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by username223 8mo ago
> bespoke little programs that do one thing and can be discarded after use. That's my best-case scenario as well: LLMs are scripting languages for a broader audience. They just barely automate busywork, but are not a reliable founda
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by username223 8mo ago
I had the option to get a "Real ID" the last time I renewed my driver's license, and did not. I forget which stupid bit of paper gave me trouble, but I had a valid passport (the Mother of All IDs), which was both insufficient
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by username223 8mo ago
If accurate, this strikes me as something like malicious compliance. > Translations, which help you browse the web in your preferred language. Machine translation can be useful when you want to get the gist of something in a language you
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by username223 8mo ago
How's Windows 11 treating you, my man?
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by username223 8mo ago
Disable auto-updates, just like you should with every piece of software on your machine. This was the result of letting other people silently replace your programs. Don't allow that.
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by username223 8mo ago
Machine translation is best used on the receiving end. Let me decide if I want to run your message through a machine, or read it with my own skills.
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by username223 8mo ago
An no one believes that Sam Altman thinks of much more than adding to his own wealth and power. His first idea was a failing location data-harvesting app that got bought. Others have included biometric data-harvesting with a crypto spin, an
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by username223 9mo ago
"Paid data," in the sense of cheap text, is a mature industry, and you can have as much as you want for pennies per word.
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by username223 9mo ago
> It's so much faster. A lot of things are "so much faster" than the right thing. "Vibe traffic safety laws" are much faster than ones that increase actual traffic safety: http://propublica.org/ar
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by username223 9mo ago
So it's just the Yegge pump-n-dump again? We live in a nation with an "AI and Crypto Czar," so it's not exactly surprising to see multiple versions of this grift.
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by username223 9mo ago
> It feels like the only solution is to go live in a forest, and disconnect from everything. As much as I approve of living in forests, you don't need to go that far. Tech bros are fond of things being "frictionless," so a
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by username223 9mo ago
> Wouldn't that be quite challenging in terms of engineering? Not necessarily. For example, they could implement keyword bidding by preprocessing user input so that, if the user mentions a keyword, the advertiser's content gets
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by username223 9mo ago
> For years now, proponents have insisted that AI would improve at an exponential rate. Did they? The scaling "laws" seem at best logarithmic: double the training data or model size for each additional unit of... "intellig
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by username223 9mo ago
Pairs well with this: https://hegemon.substack.com/p/the-age-of-academic-slop-is-u... Taking CV-filler from 80% to 95% of published academic work is yet another revolutionary breakthrough on the road to superintelligen
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by username223 9mo ago
> turns out plenty of people say they write for others to read, but they care more about tracking and controlling the audience. I couldn't care less about "tracking and controlling the audience," but I have no interest in

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