Linux user, dev, bogan The original 69x programmer

A Land Down Under
Joined December 2023
You can't take pride in work that you just told a computer to do for you
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CLAUDE CAN CENTER A DIV HOLY SHIT
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Python is just so... inoffensive
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fark, this the second KVM escape in a few MONTHS
Introducing PwnEscape 🦉: a full KVM guest-to-host escape via a Linux kernel networking flaw affecting industry standard hypervisors. CVE-2026-99999 went from untrusted VM code to host-kernel memory reads, controlled writes, and root command execution. More below:
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Yet another company claiming they can build a foolproof AI detector Spoiler: it's not possible to make one that's nearly reliable enough to be useful
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Actually I should have thought of audio/video/image generators; they are PROBABLY harder to make undetectable, but I'm not sure how much Regardless, any tool like this could be hooked into an advesarial learning thingy to make its work undetectable to that tool
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The progress AI has made at generating code has revealed just how lazy some programmers are
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If you think AI is so great Find ONE online business worth anything at all that lets AI anywhere NEAR their production infrastructure
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One of the things not talked about much is how one of the features of art seems to have historically been to convey the work put into the piece, either the piece itself or the practice required to be able to make it AI is making this more and more difficult, at least online
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Gentle reminder, the New York Times vs. OpenAI (and also Microsoft) lawsuit is still undecided
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I think it's perfectly legitimate to hate AI, and AI-generated "art" and such, simply because it is so soulless. It's perfectly normal to feel insulted when someone throws something at you that they took no care in "creating", and then expects you to spend time ingesting it
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99% of users of gen AI couldn't give two shits about quality
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The replies to this cover just about everything 😆️ So why are (some) people raving about vibe coding then? Maybe it's better with guidance But apparently it needs guidance for everything
What are some coding tasks that AI is still really bad at?
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Is there a way for a program to ask the OS for a contiguous chunk of space on a disk? Basically reserve the space for a file so it can be accessed efficiently I know the OS tries to do this anyway but what if you want a guarantee? (Yes I know about partitions btw)
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What do enterprises do these days when they want consistent performance out of their storage? The performance of SSDs in particular can vary by a factor of 10 or more, particularly on writes Is there a guaranteed minimum? If so just how low is it?
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This is not because Anthropic think they have created something concious This (yet again) a calculated move It conveys the idea that their AI IS concious, or at least has some human-like value or worth Whether they will enforce it at all is another matter
Anthropic may start banning people for bullying Claude Their upcoming Usage Policy prohibits “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models”
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But we're ACCELERATING!!! Look how much CODE we are generating!!!
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Fun fact: the hallucination rate of LLMs is not evenly distributed It depends on the subject matter In particular how commonly known (as expressed in its training data) the fact is The more obscure, the more likely it is to make shit up AND the harder it will be to validate
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There are three levels to learning a programming language - How to use it - How it works - Why it works that way (That last one might not seem helpful but will help you understand the language better as well as other languages)
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Actually I think this can be applied to just about any tech, not just languages
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