cecilkorik

It’s the old-school term for the “Reddit hug of death”. In other words, huge popular site links to tiny unpopular site, and tiny unpopular site is overwhelmed by extreme levels of traffic it never expected to see and is completely unprepared for, server hosting it melts into a puddle of goo and website becomes inaccessible. (Realistically, server hosting it goes to 100% CPU or memory or both and the website just crashes and doesn’t restart or only functions intermittently and extremely slowly)

Server admin, seeing their server turning to a puddle of molten goo, decides to quickly throw emergency barricades in front of it to try to block enough of the traffic that the server can continue to function, often in vain.

Slashdot.org was the precursor to Reddit for old techies. It still kind of is, but it’s a shadow of what it once was.

its a corp it cant just make claims and not follow on them

oh, my sweet summer child… the winter is coming, and you will quickly find out exactly what corporations can “not” do.

I think there’s room for a little bit of nuance that page doesn’t do a great job of describing. In my opinion there’s a huge difference between volunteer maintainers using AI PR checks as a screening measure to ease their review burden and focusing their actual reviews on PRs that pass the AI checks, and AI-deranged lone developers flooding the code with “AI features” and slopping out 10kloc PRs for no obvious reason.

Just because a project is using AI code reviews or has an AGENTS.md is not necessarily a red flag. A yellow flag, maybe, but the evidence that the Linux Kernel itself is on that list should serve as an example of why you can’t just kneejerk anti-AI here. If you know anything about Linus Torvalds you know he has zero tolerance for bad code, and the use of AI is not going to change that despite everyone’s fears. If it doesn’t work out, Linus will be the first one to throw it under the bus.

Sorry, respect for trying, UK. But I’ll never be able to take it seriously with diesel fuel and that cope-slope.

It can be bad, but it doesn’t have to be. It’s not bad if you’re just using it as a tool and understand that it’s not your only tool. Heavy equipment operators use their machines like extensions of their body. It doesn’t mean it’s bad or that they forget how to use their arms and legs or that they don’t still exercise their arms and legs sometimes. Use tools when it’s appropriate to and don’t when it isn’t, and always make sure you can use a variety of different tools including the ones you were born with and you’ll be fine.

Maybe they should start making RAM /s

The absolute ego destruction of realizing that we are, in fact, the baddies, is an extremely painful and demoralizing but important part of the healing process that will eventually lead us to a better place. But be prepared to face the worldwide reckoning, because there will be one, and it’s going to be brutal and feel very unfair. Reconciliation will be hard. Endure the flagellation even when it feels like it’s undeserved and make a commitment to being better, that’s all we can realistically do, at least, that’s the only productive thing we can do. Many won’t, they’ll just resist reality, refuse to acknowledge it, try to defend it, making it worse and making the process even slower.

I am not an Iranian person, I don’t get to make proposals for them, nor do I want to. Go ask them. I won’t propose a right answer. I don’t know if there is one. But I can tell you with confidence that this answer is not right, and I am quite certain the Iranian people didn’t ask for what they’re equally certainly going to get.

The Iranian people, ultimately. Even if they will need outside help achieving it, I believe it still needs to be led by them, it needs to be both be conducted in a way and ultimately result in something the Iranian people consent to, and it needs to be done in good faith, not transactionally, and preferably with substantial international consensus. I don’t think good faith was even in the same timezone with what is happening here, and any possibility of consensus is weak and almost entirely post-hoc. I think genuine criticism is deserved for why it hasn’t happened before now, and even for why this kind of intervention became necessary in the first place, and maybe this is a better state than it has previously been in, but again, those ends still do not justify the means. The means have been wrong before this, and the new means are also wrong. None of it is justified, and none of it will justify the current situation or any of the places the current situation is going. I am not going to give it a “pass” just because it might end up in a better situation.

… that’s exactly what I meant. Did you… not read the rest of the comment? What did you think I meant by “the ends do not justify the means?” The means include who did it, and how. I am saying they are not justified.

We’ve got various opposing sides of governments at various levels all working together not just in one country but around the world protecting a laundry list of child traffickers and pedophiles, hiding and minimizing their crimes and refusing to investigate, and it’s still “crazy” to imagine that there’s any grain of truth to the idea of “illuminati” or the idea that there could be some secret cabals within our governments who work together across party lines or that those people might in fact be pretty powerful and have powerful friends? The reason it’s been labeled a conspiracy theory is so you assume it must be crazy so you reject it and refuse to believe it even when you can see it actually happening in plain sight.

Definitely don’t believe your lying eyes or the lying documents that are still in the process of being buried and that they’re trying to distract you from, believe what you’ve been told. The most sensible and believable conclusion must be the correct one because everyone in this world is always sensible and believable, and sensible, believable people don’t fuck children. Just ask them! They’ll tell you they don’t. Of course we should believe them, they’re sensible, believable people.

Iran’s government needed toppling, but the ends do not justify the means. How you do something is just as important as what you’re doing, and this is being done in a horrible, unjustifiable way for deeply nefarious reasons, and the fact that some sort of good may come of it (though that remains yet to be seen) does not excuse the fact that most of it is really, really bad.

When they make it law to have age verification in your operating system, only outlaws will have operating systems without age verification.

I guess I’m an outlaw then. Enjoy your visit to the wild west, we will always have illegal operating systems aplenty.

I have actively and deliberately chosen not to be the kind of person who just “gives up” anymore so I’m not really sure what it is you’re trying to convince me of, but I don’t think it’s going to change the direction of my efforts. The steering must continue, and even if the ship goes down anyway, it will go down with me still at the helm.

Systems are actually falling right now. It’s going to be chaotic and difficult, but there is also opportunity. Destruction is an opportunity for creation. We need to work together and focus on how we can create something better.

It’s being built inch by inch. You won’t even know it’s there until you realize you can’t squeeze through it anymore. The trend is extremely obvious: TPM, Secure boot, Windows Store UWP applications, forced updates without consent, or intentional opt-outs that conveniently get ignored or forgotten when it’s convenient for Microsoft to force something. They are intent on taking full control of PCs and locking them down exactly the same way Android phones are locked down, they will follow a few footsteps behind what Android is doing now by preventing third-party apps and app stores, but it’s obviously coming, because they are on exactly the same path for exactly the same reasons.

I don’t imagine we can save everybody either. But that doesn’t mean it’s not worth trying. The more they tighten their grip, the more will slip through their fingers, and all I care about is that the rebellion against Windows grows large enough to survive indefinitely, if not thrive.

Good luck, although I’d caution you with the general principle of “Don’t let perfect become the enemy of good”. Sometimes good enough is good enough.

It’s good in principle, and it’s good you’re learning to build and control your own software, but Windows is a dead end at this point. Start planning your escape to Linux before the cage door starts closing.

I think it’s more like expectations have been deliberately lowered in those fields to meet exactly what AI can deliver. Unpredictable, arbitrary, non-negotiable decisions are the point, and the goal. It’s not about enforcing any laws or achieving any actual outcome other than making innocent people fear for their lives. And it’s doing a fine job at that.

Yes, I think he likes it that way. The status quo is the goal. He’s not actually progressive at all, he just wears a progressive mask when he needs to, so it gets him votes.