antifuchs

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[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just saw this post on DHH, it’s really good: https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html

If you’re not careful, one day you will wake up and find that you’ve pushed away every person who ever disagreed with you.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Living a life as if it was able to bear a “I bought one before I knew he was a jerk” bumper sticker.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fuuuuuuck. Thanks for the info but i hate it ):

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Im very very happy on Fastmail. They are sensible people who offer mainly email (and calendar stuff) with no overpromises. Their servers are hosted in the USA tho, so that may affect your choice.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Oh don’t worry, in the second Dyson sphere datacenter they’ll just heat up a metal heat sink per request and then eject that into the sun. Perfect for reclamation of energy.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 5 points 3 weeks ago

That’s how you know a human wrote it

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 12 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

In lighter news, this anti-LLM rhyme made me chuckle:

I will not talk with a chatbot
I do not want it while I shop

I do not want it on Windows X-box
I do not want it in Firefox

I do not want it in my house
I do not want it on my mouse
I do not want it here or there
I do not want it anywhere.

I do not want AI and Spam
I do not want them Sam-Alt-Man

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 13 points 3 weeks ago

I love a good thorough takedown of fash tech; not sure it’s effort well spent, and I’m not agreeing with the author’s suggestions on some specific security matters (gnupg, argh, please avoid it), but damn, they actually installed it and used it. That’s some commitment to the bit.

 

Got the pointer to this from Allison Parrish who says it better than I could:

it's a very compelling paper, with a super clever methodology, and (i'm paraphrasing/extrapolating) shows that "alignment" strategies like RLHF only work to ensure that it never seems like a white person is saying something overtly racist, rather than addressing the actual prejudice baked into the model.

 

School student tells AI to put 20 other students’ faces on nude pictures, shares them in chat; it takes months for anyone including the school administrators to act because of some extremely, uh, dubious loophole.

If someone does that in photoshop, it’s a crime; if they do it in AI pretending to be photoshop, it’s somehow not. Gotta love this legal system’s focus on minor technicalities rather than the harm done.

 

They have Nik Suresh (the author) on, as well as Robert Evans. I haven’t listened to it all yet, but it’s fun so far.

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