I just got back from a trip to a substantially less developed country, and really living in a country, even for a little bit, where I could see how many lives that money could improve, all being poured down the Microsoft Fabric drain, it just grinds my gears like you wouldn’t believe. I swear to God, I am going to study, write, network, and otherwise apply force to the problem until those resources are going to a place where they’ll accomplish something for society instead of some grinning clown’s wallet.

Amen. We always need more insiders who are ready to take up the cause of not doing stupid shit with the ungodly accumulation of resources our society has permitted, especially when we are currently leaving so much of the world to play catch-up while we continue to leech them dry.

@> By the end of the decade, American electricity production will have grown tens of percent

… don’t worry guys AI will totally save us from climate change! /s

Maybe it’s just because it’s all actually real, but there’s a mind-melting yet quiet horror to this article that I feel Lovecraft could only dream of imagining.

Like some sort of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros mixed with a reverse Kafka’s Metamorphosis, grotesquely stretched over Primo Levi’s If This Is A Man.

That’s probably too convoluted of a metaphor to mean much to anyone else, but, fuck, I don’t have the energy or the will to unpack it further than that.

To think, when I first read the post title, that my initial reaction was “here we go, techtakes has finally gotten too edgy for me”.

I need a cigarette and a scalding hot shower.

Ah, thank you. I didn’t see the other thread go by.

Forgot to include: I found this GH issue & discussion from the Gentoo mailing list : https://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg99042.html

that I found thanks to the orange site, funnily enough (given this comm/instance’s tone): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40038372

Copy-pasting the alt-text from one of the screenshots because I can’t be assed to type it out myself:

Discord convo from 07/15/22, Vlad: people who really need anonymity are very rare. Probably less than a 100 in the entire world. Definitely not typical Kagi users. Unless they are criminals, in which case we don’t care they don’t have full anonymity (nor we want them as customers)

yikes, double yikes and triple yikes.

I guess he doesn’t care to help women find a safe way to have an abortion in 14 out of 50 US states (source), for starters. Nor to help the doubtlessly more-than-100 queer folk in places that outlaw homosexuality.

Or maybe he’s such a genius that he knows how to keep them safe without actually keeping them anonymous - and in that case, he should start selling such a technique as its own product /s

“But look how convincing [it] sounds!”

… how did we get to the point where the ai bros are un-ironically telling us, as a selling point, that their shiny toy literally gives false yet convincing-sounding medical diagnoses ?!?!?!

If I were working on Claude and wanted to hype it up, I would not talk about this experiment online or in public. If I were working on Claude and wanted to be responsible towards “the public”, I would use this example as a cautionary warning, not to further hype up the tool.

This feels like the slight period at the beginning of the NFT craze when I wasn’t yet comfortable dismissing out of hand anyone excited about them, because surely there was a least some useful application that wasn’t for scamming people, and surely this many people couldn’t all be so deluded about the same idea.

Fuck, that’s disappointing. I remember being quite impressed with her “a truly universal binary execution format” blog post detailing a way to compile c code into a sort of self-executing portable archive (unless I’m mixing things up - she is the person running justine.lol, is she not?).

Thanks for sharing those articles.

Yes, this is more of a “read and puzzle it out together” type of book club. Hopefully the result will be closer to a lecture or workshop, just without a formal “educator” role. Of course, you’re more than welcome to read ahead yourself if, for example, that makes it easier to follow along during the reading club sessions.

Would prefer just a regular schedule instead of an accelerated schedule though.

Good to know. If you don’t mind sharing, why? Is it a pacing thing, time commitment, or something else entirely? I want to keep the schedule flexible enough that we don’t feel hampered by its pace, yet predictable enough that people can plan ahead/around with regards to attendance. We’ll have to see how it goes.

Besides the frequency, is there a different day of the week that you would prefer over Monday? Especially if we aren’t trying to catch up to the main sessions, there’s no real need on my part to hold these any particular day of the week.

lol yeah seems like that bot could use a pull request to exempt threadiverse.link from its detections