jaschop

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[–] jaschop@awful.systems 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I've never seen that, but it was my first guess as well. People here are already doing Doner-boxes with fries, meat and sauce in a takeout box, I'm assuming for people under doctor's orders to eat a veggie-free high-grease and high-sodium diet.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 2 points 6 days ago

Den Dönz werd ich mir wohl auch mal beibringen müssen, so gern ich auch alles auf Debian bastle aktuell.

Mein letzter Stand war, dass das Nix Projekt ziemlich AI- uns fash-friendly unterwegs ist. Hoffentlich kann ich mich über Lix oder Auxolotl etwas davon abschirmen.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 3 points 6 days ago

You can download an executable and surf websites with it, which will frequently break I guess.

Not sure how much help one can offer atm except donating or contributing directly.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago

Derping around on TF2 trade servers. Not even trading. Just not being in the mood for a competitive game and rather fucking around with randos.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I can tell you the two languages I would learn right now if I had the spare cycles.

  1. Zig is a C-replacement language that took a no-AI stance early on. It doesn't have compiler-assured memory safety like Rust, but it does try to revamp structures (like alloc or error handling) in a way that makes it more obvious to the programmer what is happening. I'd love to learn more, but cycles...
  2. Gleam is a language that is part of the Erlang/BEAM ecosystem. It's a functional language, so it's a bit of a mindfuck if you come from a Python-/C-esque perspective, but if you like formal logic it might well be up your alley. It has a good web tutorial if you're interested. Neither Gleam nor its runtime Erlang-OTP have taken a stance on AI as far as I know (Elixir has a permissive stance), but at least I've seen no red flags as of yet. The people at Gleam just generally give me a vibe of being deliberate and careful with their code.
[–] jaschop@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ich weiß nicht was der betroffene Remmo beruflich macht, aber sich in die DMs von einem MdB zu schleimen der das Konzept Clan-kriminalität kritisiert und dann damit auf Insta anzugeben, wär schon so ein Arschlochmove den ich vom Mitglied eines kriminellen Clans erwarten würde.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Sorry for being late to the party, but I had to give my two cents on AI detectors. (specifically GPTZero & co., watermarking is different) I think it's a bad idea to recommend them. These companies are overpromising their accuracy and essentially selling false certainty. This will also not fade over time since the inaccuracy is baked into the tech.

Currently the performance may be good for basic use cases, but recent papers seem to indicate you can still dazzle them by burning more tokens or explicitly prompting against detectors. But from what I understand about GenAI training* this is an eternal cat & mouse game, since the AI vendors don't want their output to be detectable.

what I understand about GenAI trainingA basic technique of training a generative model is training a discriminative model alongside it. The gen model tries to synthesize output and the discriminative model tries to distinguish it from actual training data. The models are then trained alongside each other, building better and better discriminator models to sus out better and better generative ones.

If these detector companies had some kind of breakthrough (better techniques, better datasets, whatever) to sus out generated output, they would be bought up to improve GenAI training. More likely, they don't. Maybe they can dial into some typical usecases for specific models and perform highly there, but that will fail to generalize for the edge cases.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 33 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Debian dads of lemmy, join me in an approving grunt.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think it's impossible that the underlying tech of LLMs will be evolved into something undeniably useful. But I don't think "helping with Python" will be that.

I think on !fuck_ai I can suggest, you could also just learn the relevant bits of Python? Learning to express your thoughts in code and understanding the tools you use feels way more empowering than relying on blackbox-extruded code.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In my book socialism is about workers controlling the means of production, and historical socialists did not agree how that would work in detail.

Libertarianism on the other hand is primarily about the rejection of personal restrictions, stuff like: "I should be allowed to freely copy and share media I have legally acquired." or "I shouldn't be forced to pay taxes." This individualist thinking makes it usually unable to adress structural inequality.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (16 children)

But he also literally has a book titled "Information Doesn't Want to Be Free".

That sure sounds like a zinger, but going off Wikipedia he does argue in that book for a loosening of copyright, which is pretty much what I meant. I don't hate those positions though I'll note they're more libertarian than socialist. He has a whole personal freedom + monopoly control shtick, which works great for me in a lot of scenarios, but doesn't quite work on GenAI tech.

You can call me exceptionalist, but I think LLMs stand out because the adoption of the tech basically requires very capital-intensive and thus centralized operations for model training. This makes whoever runs them (likely capital or a state) a powerful arbiter of information space, maybe best comparable with algorithmic feeds in monopolistic social media.

I think it is necessary to say: "Hey, we as a society shouldn't run things like that. There are better ways of distributing information that work just fine." A tech-neutral attitude can't achieve that.

[–] jaschop@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (21 children)

Funny horse-butt-creature notwithstanding, Dotcorows AI takes have been rather mid. Quoting from Guardian...

In this book, at least, he isn’t animated by the headline-grabbing concerns, whether existential risk or AI psychosis, deepfake porn or election disinformation, because those are unintended consequences. His target is the revenue model and the bubble it has created: “To be an effective AI critic, you need to strike at the source of AI’s power, which is the investment capital it attracts.”

He isn't falling for AI doom and he is aware of the bubble, which puts him near the better end of the spectrum. But he's also unwilling to fully criticize community damage resulting from LLM use. That may be because he's fond of LLMs himself for his text editing and is repping the "it's just another tool" defense. So he isn't willing to go all the way when it comes to criticizing the global theft of labour that continues to power this industry. Information wants to be free, dontcha know?

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by jaschop@awful.systems to c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

moments that make you think, things sure could suck even harder if I wasn't such a nerd

 

For reasons of my own to be revealed in due time, I was searching for the term "programmer mysticism" and found this essay by Kenneth Reitz: Programming as Spiritual Practice

I was slightly intrigued at the start, since it was going in the "subjective experience of programming" angle I'm interested in.

This understanding deepens when we recognize that consciousness itself might be a linguistic phenomenon. If consciousness emerges from patterns of language and mathematics, then programming isn't just creating tools—we're literally crafting the linguistic-mathematical structures from which conscious experience emerges.

Well this concious approach to digital tooling sure didn't result in any scruples about LLM usage. Kenneth seems to have delegated most of his essay writing to Claude for some time (the article above is likely Claude-extruded). The piece continues to trudge through a basket of spiritual metaphors to hammer home how programmers should be more concious and do good things instead of bad things. This is all framed as a personal ethical issue without a shred of societal or structural analysis. Extra sneerable bit:

The emerging understanding that LLMs contain humanity's digitized collective unconscious adds profound depth to conscious programming: when we collaborate with AI systems, we might be interfacing with the archetypal patterns that have guided human wisdom throughout history. This makes programming with AI a form of accessing collective spiritual wisdom rather than just advanced tooling.

In another (likely slopped) article, linked in the same section, he goes into how he designed the API of the requests Python module to be far more convenient to use than the builtin HTTP resolver urllib2. The reasoning given strikingly reminded me of Intention Revealing Interfaces from Domain Driven Design. And I can personally confirm that library is a pleasure to use and a de-facto default for a reason.

Took me a while to catch on to the sloppedness. I gave him some credits for requests and wanted to get a gist of the guy when I stumbled on his full-throated AI posts. Essays credited to Claude with himself as "editorial director". And of course this handy self-report: How I Write Now

I guess this doesn't stand out that much by itself. It did kind of hit home when he describes in detail how his AI use is linked to his history of mental health problems, which he was quite public about. He describes being moved to tears by LLM writing, seeing "his thoughts" clearly articulated for the first time after years of brain fog. He made this accessibility argument explicitly. I won't waste my breath sneering about it. He gives plenty of fuel to that himself.

 
 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/33039120

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Sind die so tief in ihren ausgedachten Phishing Tests verbuddelt, dass sie die echten nicht erkennen oO

 

Leftist streamer Vaush applies his unifying "everything I don't understand is Epstein shit" thesis to the fediverse.

Article from the clip: https://medevel.com/why-the-fediverse-isnt-mainstream-and-why-it-might-be-the-future-of-safe-private-social-media/

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by jaschop@awful.systems to c/drehscheibe@feddit.org
 

Hier sehen Sie, inmitten diversen Tinnefs am Bahnhof München Laim, einen Güterzug voller Tunnelsegmente (vermutlich) für die 2. Münchner Stammstrecke, gezogen von einer ÖBB Lok.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by jaschop@awful.systems to c/the_pack@lemmy.world
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/41886055

I drive rule

 
 
 

...which is of course, because they should be prompting harder. Unusually savage heise remarks:

Whether the hallucination-prone generative AI itself is even suitable for unleashing the hoped-for productivity revolution does not seem to be a question for the consultants.

 
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