The_Decryptor

It has been wild to see Linux users hope that the GPL is rendered unenforceable.

And there’s https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ac/?q=%25s&type=list for the suggestions URL.

Edit: same deal with the %25 lol

Alanah Pearce has talked about this a bunch too, she uses the A/B system to try accurate vs. clickbait title/thumbnail combos, and without fail the clickbait ones do better.

https://bsky.app/profile/alanahpearce.bsky.social/post/3miu2as4ln225 https://bsky.app/profile/alanahpearce.bsky.social/post/3mrb7yhd5hc2l https://bsky.app/profile/alanahpearce.bsky.social/post/3msedlnxrls2o

I hate it, she hates it, everybody else hates it, but viewers love it.

You got a spare $80 million laying around to train one?

Corporate stuff and things like IoT devices were already exempt from the law, they didn’t need any changes.

It’s Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, physics was never invited in this story.

This is where “notebook full of passwords” works better, those accounts are technically “shared corporate property”. Protect it like you would any other equipment, with a physical lock.

iiuc it supported a nicer workflow than git did, but that’s not out of the ordinary as so does Darcs, Pijul, Jujutsu, Mercurial, etc. git is just “good enough” for people to put up with the rough edges, rather than learn a new tool that never has them to begin with.

It just never had the dev mindshare to catch on, it’s been a GNU project for over 18 years at this point and that hasn’t helped.

At one point their browser extensions would scan search terms entered on pages and spider any results that appeared. The Bing team found that and created a honeypot where Bing would produce nonsense internal links for certain search terms, and then they’d see the Googlebot crawl those pages within a few minutes.

The big one for me was rsync, maintainer started vibecoding it and the first release with those changes had a huge amount of regressions.

Yet it keeps getting held up as an example of “using AI tools properly”.

If one day clang of gcc ships with a local LLM to lint code for security problems I would probably run it occasionally even on my hobby code despite being an AI hater.

Compilers already have deterministic linters built in, devs often turn them off anyway.

Quite a lot of the bugs being found in existing codebases show up as soon as you re-enable them.

More individual participation, less corporate involvement, zero corporate ownership of essentials.

I’ve got some bad news about Linux then, the main contibutors are companies, and the infrastructure is owned by them.

It’s not individuals who paying Linus $1.5 million a year (Under “Compensation”).

Using an LLM to review patches does that, which is why he was receptive to the Sashiko bot.

Funnily enough, I was just reading a post from a dev complaining about the review bot and how it makes developing patches harder.

Previously review comments were from somebody who had experience with the code or subsystem in question, who understood how the whole thing worked. The LLM bot has none of that and will spit out nonsensical comments that the developer now needs to try to understand and verify, so they still have to ping other developers to see if the LLM output makes sense.

I switched to it on Windows because it supported PWAs (Unlike Firefox), then when I switched to Linux I went to switch back to Firefox just to find Firefox can’t import from Edge under Linux.

I can switch back soon, I reported the bug and it got fixed, and the remaining PWA I use is now being vibecoded so it’s not super important anymore.

And it’s also not like the hardware is improving much either, we’ve effectively hit the wall performance wise with processors and RAM.

That’s literally what all these datacenters are for, we can’t scale the individual computer performance up, so instead we build more and more of them.

Put an exclamation mark in front of it, with the “handle” of the community rather than the display name.

!fuckcars@lemmy.world

Something like this?

Apple used Pascal up until the System 7 era anyway, C was just one of many choices of the time.

If we didn’t have C, we’d probably have eliminated things like buffer overflows and out of bounds memory accesses decades ago.

The LLMs are wicked fast at reviewing code

That’s because it’s not actually reviewing the code, rather just producing text that statistically looks like review comments.

So it does look vaguely useful, e.g. if code has null checks, review comments usually won’t ask for them to be added, but it’s never actually reviewing, or understanding, or reasoning, or anything else people claim.

It’s like an actor playing a doctor in a TV show, they’re not actually diagnosing patients, they’re just following a script that looks like it.

Also shows how flawed and politically compromised the Jedi were at the time.

For all it’s (many) flaws, I enjoyed it overall, didn’t think it needed a second season though so no big loss IMO.