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- Comment on Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online 1 hour ago:
Speaking the truth about the fascists in power.
Laws don’t matter anymore, there is no more order. They are not being followed, and the ones used to hard you are being made up.
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 2 days ago:
Dude, my team members put out code that’s like this or worse on a regular basis that gets caught in PR review without using AI tooling…
I’ve supported legacy projects that of course were built without tooling that didn’t exist. That are structured and written in ways that are far far worse than this.
Nothing here screams vibe coated.
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 2 days ago:
Completely agree. If this is a skilled Dev who’s built products like this before and you can build something like this in your afternoons and weekends in like 6 months without LLM tool assistance.
With basic assistance you can definitely cut that time down to 4 months or less easily.
And if this is a full-time project, you can probably get it out the door in 1 to 2 months with llm assistance. (Not vibe coding, two very different things)
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 2 days ago:
I’ve built projects of the size in 5-7 months before we had LLM coding tools.
With tabbed completion (Which most devs enjoy), and before full LLM code gen, 4-6 months.
With llm assistance, not vibe coding, it’s possible to build projects like this in 1 to 2 months without sacrificing quality or safety. If you are an experienced engineer and have built projects like this before. A lot of these are boring, boilerplate, stuff.
So the time spent doesn’t necessarily say that it’s vibe coded but if this is an inexperienced engineer then it very well might be and may be full of holes and issues.
- Comment on Discord Alternatives, Ranked 4 days ago:
This is misinformation.
You can self host it, for free.
- Comment on Discord Alternatives, Ranked 4 days ago:
Trash guide to be fair.
Discord has more functionality than all of these, yet it gets ranked lower than… Rocket chat??
If we’re objectively finding alternatives then we need to be objective, this guide seems sus AF.
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 1 week ago:
They taste like it too
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 1 week ago:
Do… Do you not know what price manipulation is?
- Comment on Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” 1 week ago:
It’s not just license plate readers anymore. They have cameras that perform facial recognition and other identifying recognition.
Your car is in many ways uniquely identifiable by its markings and its model that vehicle with many pictures of it and that license plate are already in a database. If you have stickers, if you have big dents or additions and changes from the base model of your vehicle than you are quite identifiable within a particular geographical area depending on the urban density.
- Comment on Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” 1 week ago:
It’s always projection with Republicans
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
For real.
$2800/m total with insurance, taxes.
$400 of that goes to principal. The rest is burnt.
120 year old house.
- Comment on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft 1 week ago:
We have ours configured pretty well at this point and it does an absolute bang-up job at code review. It will point developers towards tools and utilities that our monorepo has If they appear to be reinventing the wheel. It will catch common problems and issues that we have in our instruction file, and does a pretty good job of catching bugs and small issues like typos and what not.
Perhaps you need to tighten up your instruction file?
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 1 week ago:
How would they though?
They cannot learn and do not have memory. Which means they cannot actually follow a “decision”, and remember that an action has been taken. All information is limited to the context window, which is only an illusion of memory. Not actually memory.
They are effectively RNG’ing incredibly capable word generation machines.
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 1 week ago:
They don’t have short memory, they have NO MEMORY AT ALL.
These are statistical word generation machines, that’s what LLMs are right now. They are REALLY good at this.
But they do not have memory, they do not learn, they do not make decisions. Which means they are incapable of cooperation as such a thing cannot exist without memory or the ability to learn, and decisions cannot be made without either of those.
These tools provide the illusion of such attributes.
- There is no memory, the whole context is sent on every request, the LLM does not have knowledge of prior conversations. It only knows what it is provided in that request only.
- Lots of tricks and hacks to make this illusion really good in incredibly small scales. But it’s still an illusion. Outside of fine-tuning and retraining new LLMs, which is not feasible to do on a frequency of communication.
- There is no learning.
- Without memory learning is impossible. Learning requires retraining a model, and to a degree fine tuning. Both of these are resource intensive and are static. And only provide the illusion of learning
- There is no memory, the whole context is sent on every request, the LLM does not have knowledge of prior conversations. It only knows what it is provided in that request only.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 1 week ago:
That doesn’t conclude anything.
Are these the same games that are part of this lawsuit? If they are not, then what does Epic giving away different games conclude that this is a false premise for the lawsuit?
Critically think about that statement, it’s not logical.
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 2 weeks ago:
Probably GitHub Copilot.
The rest just sucks.
- Comment on if portals are invented, will I be able to eat out myself? 3 weeks ago:
Love this
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 3 weeks ago:
You can’t fix stupid, it will only drag you down with it.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 3 weeks ago:
It is, just not for the pleb class.
- Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers 4 weeks ago:
I assume that the gitea instance itself was being hit directly, which would make sense. It has a whole rendering stack that has to reach out to a database, get data, render the actual webpage through a template…etc
It’s a massive amount of work compared to serving up static files from say Nginx or Caddy. You can stick one of these in front of your servers, and cache http responses (to some degree anyways, that depends on gitea)
Benchmarks like this show what kind of throughput you can expect on say a 4 core VM just serving up cached files: blog.tjll.net/reverse-proxy-hot-dog-eating-contes…
90-400MB/s derived from the stats here on 4 cores. Enough to saturate a 3Gb/s connection. And caching intentionally polluted sites is crazy easy since you don’t care if it’s stale or not. Put a cloudflair cache on front of it and even easier.
- Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers 4 weeks ago:
This is assuming aggressively cached, yes.
Also “Just text files” is what every website is sans media. And you can still, EASILY get 10+ MB pages this way between HTML, CSS, JS, and JSON. Which are all text files.
A gitea repo page for example is 400-500KB transferred (1.5-2.5MB decompressed) of almost all text.
If you have a repo with 150 files, and the scraper isn’t caching assets (many don’t) then you just served up 60MB of HTMl/CSS/JS alongside the actual repository assets.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Fair fair. I missed that
- Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers 4 weeks ago:
I can get a 50Gb/s residential link where I am, and have a whole rack of servers.
Sounds like a good opportunity to crowd fund thousands and thousands of common scrap able instances that have random poisoning.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 4 weeks ago:
Low key win for kink communities.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Yeah but that was before you had billionaires of this size able to manipulate entire markets in this capacity.
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- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 4 weeks ago:
Controversial opinion’
This is kind of a valid take or use I suppose.
And it’s something I struggle with as well.
I know how to program and I can make games with really shitty assets that no one would want to play because it looks like crap. I’ve tried many times and I don’t seem to have the skill set for making good assets. I’ve tried dozens of times to find and pay people on sites like fiverr, with extremely disappointing results.
And as a hobby I can’t just afford to pay thousands of dollars to have someone make passable art either.
So what do???
- Comment on The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones—and It’s So Much Worse Than We Thought 4 weeks ago:
This is also a strategic way to prevent resistance from Americans against an authoritarian regime.
Drones would be a significant part of that.
- Comment on Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, it should balloon out to 15TB or more I think
- Comment on Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever 4 weeks ago:
It’s literally says in the link.