Deestan
@Deestan@lemmy.world
- Comment on AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming 1 day ago:
No bro the new model from 3 months ago is infinite gooder than what they tested. In 12-18 months we get agi or some shit i dunno just 10 more billions$ bro.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 3 days ago:
Kim: Aw shit I regret my contract. Maybe I can get out of it by lying. I need tons of lies. I need to lie and bullshit like a madman. I nees to spout tons of absolute unhinged bullshit with a straight face.
ChatGPT: This. Is. My. Moment.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 3 days ago:
If everything on Windows is a vibe-coded web app then everything is going to look like different, feel like shit to use, and perform like shit.
I am happy to report: Windows apps that look different, feel shit to use and perform like shit are already available!
E.g. Teams, the CPU warmer from hell, was rolled out to Windows long ago. It was coded in Electron and couldn’t even integrate with Microsoft Windows’ taskbar popups. They had to fake one by creating a window that moved itself up from below the screen. Did this break when you changed resolution? Yes it did. Did it break when you moved the taskbar? Yes it did. Did it break when- YES IT DID
- Comment on xkcd #3220: Rotational Gravity 3 days ago:
www.explainxkcd.com is an excellent resource when xkcd feels confusing
- Comment on Biological computer with real human neurons learns to shoot in Doom 1 week ago:
Clammy Sammy
- Comment on Biological computer with real human neurons learns to shoot in Doom 1 week ago:
It’s unlikely to be anything close to what the headline fuels to the imagination, but it’s good to read about some nice actual scary stuff instead of the calculator that Sam Altman put googly eyes and a miniskirt on and keeps claiming will kill us all.
- Comment on AI social platforms like Moltbook are potential accelerators of existential risk that should be regulated as critical infrastructure 1 week ago:
AI doomerism is pure fiction and a marketing ploy.
- Comment on Warning: Your AI-Generated Password Is a Major Security Risk. Here’s What to Use Instead 1 week ago:
Python is really good for golfing. The flexible types are ripe for abuse.
print([“fizzbuzz”[n%3and 4:8-(n%5and 4)]or n for n in range(1,101)]) - Comment on Warning: Your AI-Generated Password Is a Major Security Risk. Here’s What to Use Instead 1 week ago:
print(‘’.join(__import__(‘random’).sample(etc…for one-lining it :) - Comment on Warning: Your AI-Generated Password Is a Major Security Risk. Here’s What to Use Instead 1 week ago:
What do you mean. Why would it be a problem that my password is the most statistically likely sequence of characters in the world? And that the password is stored in plaintext in a chat log? And used for training LLMs on password conversations?
- Comment on Meta has acquired Moltbook. I am starting to doubt myself. 1 week ago:
Previously from the same decision makers:
The Metaverse
Hiring the guy who fucked Apple’s UI design to shit
- Comment on How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis' 1 week ago:
It’s buried deep in the article, but they seem to recommend:
the LEAP method. Developed by Xavier Amador, it stands for Listen Empathize Agree Partner, and is meant to help better communicate with people who don’t realize they’re mentally ill or are refusing treatment.
They link to namiga.org/…/leap-assist-someone-accept-help/ which unhelpfully tells me my IP is blocked by CloudFlare because accessing that link is considered an “attack”
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 1 week ago:
According to mousetrap manufacturers, putting your tongue on a mousetrap causes you to become 33% sexier, taller and win the lottery twice a week.
While some experts have argued caution that it may cause painful swelling, bleeding, injury, and distress, and that the benefits are yet to be unproven, affiliated marketers all over the world paint a different, sexier picture.
However, it is not working out for everyone. Gregory here put his tongue in the mousetrap the wrong way and suffered painful swelling, bleeding, injury and distress while not getting taller or sexier.
Gregory considers this a learning experience, and hopes this will serve as a cautionary tale for other people putting their tongue on mousetraps: From now on he will use the newest extra-strength mousetrap and take precautions like Hope Really Hard that it works when putting his tongue in the mousetrap.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 1 week ago:
We don’t need cautionary tales about how drinking bleach caused intestinal damage.
The people needing the caution got it in spades and went off anyway.
Or maybe the cautionary tale is to take caution dealing with the developers in question, as they are dangerously inept.
- Comment on Reddit users hate NordVPN. Are their criticisms legit? 1 week ago:
I mean… Deloitte is mercenary, and hired by the company wanting a passed audit.
They get paid to check pre-agreed spots A, B, and C and keep their eyes closed outside those areas.
A RAM-only server can still send metrics, metadata, “anonymized” metadata…
- Comment on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips 2 weeks ago:
As a long time Firefox user, I believe Firefox sees orders of magnitude more RAM issues than other apps because it is using orders of magnitude more RAM than other apps.
- Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age 2 weeks ago:
Zero-knowledge proofs are a good concept. They’ve been possible for a long, long time, and allow age check without surveillance.
So why are they not being used? Because age check is just a cover. These people want to do surveillance, not protect kids.
So it’s a good counter. Want age check? Do it like this. Oh, you don’t want it that way? Why not, pray?
Whether it works (it has, previously) or not (as with the current bullshit from the US), it does bring to the public debate that this is unnecessary surveillance.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 2 weeks ago:
Proton works great. I now play all my windows-“only” games on Linux.
Not out of principle. I’m just lazy. My coding laptop is always within reach and Proton works. The Windows laptop is, like, way over on the other side of the living room and I don’t feel like spending the evening disabling more ad shit or ai shit or whatever they did to Windows since I used it last.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 2 weeks ago:
Not to mention that one time he saved all those trapped kids with his custom-built submarine.
- Comment on Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 2.5kB of data into 64-byte space 2 weeks ago:
I hope there’s more to it than presented here, because this can be summarized as “64 bytes is too weak, so we make it bigger. Solved. The big is too big so we reduce it to 64 bytes. Solved.”
The strong certificate is not part of the end check, but proven via merkle tree reference. At the end of the day the end user check is only verifying 64 bytes of proof.
So it is kinda pointless? Can I attack the merkle tree reference to claim the strong certificate is used when it is not?
What am I missing?
- Comment on A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox 3 weeks ago:
Brb, I have decided to dunk my laptop in gasoline, and then throw it into the fireplace as hard as I can. This will make it run super fast and make me effective.
…
Hey guys. Guys! Listen up. I have something important to tell you all.
Ok. So…
This. Damaged. My. Laptop. Turns out the gasoline damaged its internals and the fire deformed it into a solid lump of badly-smelling plastic. The toxic fumes from the battery gave me permanent lung damage.
I know I KNOW it is easy to judge me in hindsight, but literally there was no way to know and I hope this warning helps you avoid doing the same understandable whoopsie I did.
Now, I have learned my lesson. For my next laptop I will use diesel instead.
- Comment on A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox 3 weeks ago:
What is it with AI users that make them comfortable outing themselves as utterly incompetent?
- Comment on ‘It was ready to kill and blackmail’: Anthropic’s Claude AI sparks alarm, says company policy chief 4 weeks ago:
They are pushing the “scarily unsafe” angle not because it is, but because that implies it is powerful.
- Comment on Ask AI: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? 4 weeks ago:
What are you on about mate
- Comment on Ask AI: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? 4 weeks ago:
Got same from newest chatgpt (cue “bro you need to use $model-from-last-week it is a zillion times smarter it’s pure cocaine bro”), but the fascinating part was confronting it with the missing car. It doubled down and went all Pissy Redditor With Thesaurus at me, it was glorious.
- Comment on Claude Desktop Extensions 0-Click RCE Vulnerability Exposes 10,000+ Users to Remote Attacks 5 weeks ago:
What is the phrase? Kicking in open doors?
- Comment on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, a bit. But that still has more autonomy than usual with these Claw thing.
The decision to write the piece, the complaints, the tone and the decision to published it were initiated by the slopherder.
- Comment on ai;dr | (ai; didn't read) 5 weeks ago:
Yeah he decides “AI is good actually for coding” but the same reasons apply there.
LLM code lets people shit out systems with no intent. And those systems are a waste of time. They just feel “90% there” for people who never had to finish a project in their life.
In the small scale, I get PRs of 200 lines of JS from someone who felt super productive because Claude wrote it for them. What did the JS do? Replicate the CSS “transition” property badly.
In the large scale, you get thousands of lines of RPC middleware instead of someone saying “hey at this point, should we move this responsibility from module A to module B and get rid of a lot of code?”
And I refuse to be on the defense of luddite or hater like the author does. Because I have never heard that claim from anyone who is capable of actually shipping stuff better or faster than me.
- Comment on Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash 5 weeks ago:
Their stock valuation relies on leaving partnerships like this open.
Watch the incentives, not the face.
- Comment on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me 5 weeks ago:
Sockpuppeted, not autonomous.
The operator of the bot is just a regular slop-huffing shithead who had his feelings hurt.