holy fuck I just realized the diabolical part of this horseshit:

I only know about the mdn ads cause my development browser doesn’t have an adblocker as a matter of practice (which I’m very quickly considering revising)

mdn’s only job is to be better than w3schools but here comes Mozilla removing the value from another one of their own projects

also not pictured: there was a fucking side banner ad I didn’t feel like screenshotting too, of course

HTTP: famous for doing Google pay, Apple Pay, PayPal, and nothing else. no other use has been found for http

(also, FTP! as indicated by these apps that famously don’t use or support it!)

MDN has fucking ads now???

(also, image uploads are back, weird how pict-rs sometimes just shits the bed)

huh, pict-rs has been acting up a lot lately. I’m gonna give the whole node a quick reboot later and see if that fixes things

how else do you do agentic AI?

• has money in crypto
• skin is actively melting
• will keep monologuing even when unconscious, like a broken video game cutscene

holy shit you really weren’t kidding about how lazy it gets. there’s a bunch of frames that are just text I’m not gonna read on a black background???

here’s some interesting context on the class action:

They wanted an expert who would state that 3D models aren’t worth anything because they are so easy to make. Evidently Shmeta and an ivy league school we will call “Schmarvard” had scraped data illegally from a certain company’s online library and used it to to train their AI…

this fucking bizarro “your work is worthless so no we won’t stop using it” routine is something I keep seeing from both the companies involved in generative AI and their defenders. earlier on it was the claim that human creativity didn’t exist or was exhausted sometime in the glorious past, which got Altman & Co called fascists and made it hard for them to pretend they don’t hate artists. now the idea is that somehow the existence of easy creative work means that creative work in general (whether easy or hard) has no value and can be freely stolen (by corporations only, it’s still a crime when we do it).

not that we need it around here, but consider this a reminder to never use generative AI anywhere in your creative workflow. not only is it trained using stolen work, but making a generative AI element part of your work proves to these companies that your work was created “easily” (in spite of all proof to the contrary) and itself deserves to be stolen.

posting here isn’t working out for you

as usual, Nina said it more coherently than I did

definitely! that sounds like a great first Rust project.

Like many here on awful.systems I have a pretty thick skin, but reading the above put me in a really weird mood all day.

same here. the thing is, I think a lot of us are on awful.systems because we’ve seen far too much of how fascism operates and spreads online. this is an antifascist place; it’s so core to the mission that we don’t publish it as a policy (because a policy can be argued against and twisted and the fash kids love doing that), we just demonstrate it in a way that can’t be ignored. so seeing the first or second (I don’t keep track of these things) most popular social media platform publish a policy whose only purpose is to be used as a weapon against marginalized people, for it to be written in a matter-of-fact “this is just how it is” way, and for essentially nobody outside of the fediverse to push back on it in any real way — that is shocking.

define a meta-format for specifying the variables, default values, allowed values, etc., for an arbitrary[0] program’s config file, and create a program that reads a meta-format file and presents a GUI for editing the config.

I’d kinda love this even if I’m editing config files in a text editor. emacs could use this with a major-mode or LSP to provide suggestions, validity checking, various rendered versions of the config, and guarantee interoperability with graphical tools (so that changes you make in an editor don’t get trampled by the UI, and vice versa)

• MS-DOS and Windows, of course…
• but, and this will get some boos, Unix as a workstation OS compared with every other non-windows workstation OS

a few people have been posting along the lines of “we all knew Facebook was evil, why are you surprised” which seems to miss the point — this is happening so fast and blatant that we’re almost definitely seeing the early stages of a playbook being executed. and even if not: Facebook was already the fash pipeline targeting mom, dad, and grandma. should I feel good that the pipeline is getting much more efficient and pervasive? none of them are ever gonna be on something like the fediverse.

You are making assumptions about my stance on AI. I was making a general statement about tools.

since apparently you decided to post about fucking nothing, you can take your pointless horseshit elsewhere

Obviously, if you are dealing with a novel problem, then the LLM can’t produce a meaningful answer.

it doesn’t produce any meaningful answers for non-novel problems either

yep, original is still visible on mastodon

guess again

what the locals are probably taking issue with is:

If you want a more precise model, you need to make it larger.

this shit doesn’t get more precise for its advertised purpose when you scale it up. LLMs are garbage technology that plateaued a long time ago and are extremely ill-suited for anything but generating spam; any claims of increased precision (like those that openai makes every time they need more money or attention) are marketing that falls apart the moment you dig deeper — unless you’re the kind of promptfondler who needs LLMs to be good and workable just because it’s technology and because you’re all-in on the grift