cley_faye
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- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 6 hours ago:
It could be aggressively persistent without sounding like a psycho, too, no? I mean, I have no frame of reference, but I sort of assume that constant reminders would work as well as constant belittling reminders. Maybe I’m wrong.
- Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄 16 hours ago:
Come to think of it, an application threatening, shaming, and guilt tripping you into coming back might not be the healthiest thing ever.
- Comment on Ai Code Commits 1 day ago:
I see some problems here.
An LLM providing “an opinion” is not a thing, as far as current tech does. It’s just statistically right or wrong, and put that into word, which does not fit nicely with real use cases. Also, lots of tools already have autofix that can (on demand) handle many minor issues you mention, without any LLM. Assuming static analysis is already in place and decent tooling is used, this would not have to reach either a human or an AI agent or anything before getting fixed with little resources.
As anecdotal evidence, we regularly look into those tools on the job. Granted, we don’t have billions of lines of code to check, but so far it’s at best useless. Another anecdotal evidence is the recent outburst from the curl project (and other, following suite) getting a mountain of issues that are bogus.
I have no doubt that there is a place for human-sounding review and advice, alongside other more common uses like completion and documentation, but ultimately these systems are not able to think by design. The work still has to be done. And can’t go much beyond platitudes. You ask how common the horrible cases are, but that might not be the correct question. Horrific comments are easy to spot and filter out. Perfectly decent looking “minor fixes” that are well worded, follow guidelines, and pass all checks, while introducing an off by one error or suddenly decides to swap two parameters that happens to be compatible and make sense in context are the issue. And those, even if rare (empirically I’d say they are not that rare for now) are so much harder to spot without full human analysis, are a real threat.
Yet another anecdotal… yes, that’s a lot. Given the current hype, I can only base my findings on personal experience, mostly. I use AI-based code completion, assuming it’s short enough to check at a glance, and the context is small enough that it can’t make mistakes. At most two-three lines at time. Even in this context, while checking that the generated code matches what I was going to write, I’ve seen a handful of mistakes slip through over a few months. It makes me dread what could get through a PR system, where the codebase is not necessarily fresh in the mind of the reviewer.
This is not to say that none of that is useful, but if it were to be, it would require extremely high level of trust, far higher than current human intervention (which is also not great and source of mistakes, I’m very aware of that) to be. The goal should not be to emulate human mistakes, but to make something better.
- Comment on You really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your car 1 day ago:
Please. I had a cassette with built-in storage, that could play in a cassette deck player AND had an headset jack plugged in for music on the go.
- Comment on AI Training Slop 1 day ago:
- Comment on AI Training Slop 3 days ago:
And what if there’s no photograph of myself online?
- Comment on No looky for you! 4 days ago:
I’m not sure… as my current washing machine don’t have one. It’s a top-loader. I do see washing machines with a round door, though. Maybe the difference is that the whole door is the glass part, so there’s no seal to make with the rest of the “door” part, but that’s not satisfying.
I’d be curious to ear from an expert about this.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 4 days ago:
I’m self-hosting my mails; no need for another third party that will decide whatever whenever. The major difficulty is the decades of things that are reliant on the old one.
And I just said that google works fine for search, despite people claiming it’s on the decline, broken, unusable, etc. That’s not to move toward qwant, who are no less shady, burn money (sometimes coming from public money…), and despite wonderful claim of an autonomous index, completely stop working when Bing is down. As far as recommendations for search engine goes, google (and Bing for that matter) are far less disingenuous. All usable search engines these days are backed by the big ones anyway. Something like openwebsearch.eu would be a better alternative, assuming it follows on its promises.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 5 days ago:
The two thing I use most, by far, from Google, is gmail and basic search.
Gmail, I’m looking to move away from it now, but I currently have every little addition to it disabled. Basic inbox and tags, no automatic filtering, no categories, no nothing.
Search, my browser is set to open the “web” tab with the query, no transformation, no summary, no “for you”, no AI garbage, no “we thought you wanted video so there’s only video in the replies”. It still works fine.
Basically, none of what they added for years… maybe decade at this point, had held a glimmer of interest from me. It feels like this trend will continue. I just want something very basic that works.
- Comment on No looky for you! 5 days ago:
Knowing how “fun” it is to make a truly watertight window, even with low pressure, matching both cold and hot and detergent and whatever’s flying in there, I’m glad there isn’t a glass pane to view into the dishwasher.
Also, I’m usually doing things that are not reliant on seeing what’s happening in a dishwasher when it is running, so the cost effectiveness would not be great there.
- Comment on Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry 1 week ago:
Oh, so it’d be ok to get movies, pictures, books, etc. without asking the right owners for us too? GREAT.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 1 week ago:
I’m mainly interested in Japanese, so I’m currently looking at www.renshuu.org . In addition to just throwing random stuff at you, it gots some more in-depth training, explanations of stuff (something that never happened in duolingo), additional hints for alphabets including some mnemonics, and years of dedicated experience in the language. I can’t tell how it would feel long term, but so far even having some basic explanations is a great improvement.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 1 week ago:
People are unfair with this “CEO”. Its statement helped me move on from duolingo, which has seen significant decline in quality while never going beyond “a moderately bad way to start learning”, toward better, more developed, more cared for, cheaper, solutions.
So, thanks for that.
- Comment on openDAW is a next-generation web-based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) designed to democratize music production. 1 week ago:
It could be nice. People complaining about it being web based are missing the point of such tools.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 1 week ago:
I’ll grant you vertical tabs. Unfortunately, the new focus of Mozilla is AI everywhere and advertisement, so I’m mildly concerned.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 1 week ago:
Shutting down two things that had no business being built in their browser, to replace them with more stuff that have no business being built in their browser.
Mozilla really embraced the “corporation must corporate” motto.
- Comment on When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans? 1 week ago:
Don’t worry. For most of them when they start understanding that their very existence is seen as a burden, they’ll be happy to say “I’m sacrificing myself for America!”. And die forgotten in a gutter.
Brainwashing can go very far.
- Comment on Grieve with me 2 weeks ago:
Phones are not that dumb. Mine will actually charge slower at night because it is set up to be “ready” when the alarm goes off in the morning, many hours later.
- Comment on They're unstoppable 2 weeks ago:
And Chiaotzu is not bald. This definitely proves this. :D
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’d say your sexuality is “I like traditionally feminine people”.
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 2 weeks ago:
I simply do not allow an open bag of bread to be left unless all the bread have been eaten. Problem solved.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 2 weeks ago:
Between that, price hike, and some weirdly low quality content because you don’t use this or that browser, netflix really wants people to stop their subscriptions it seems.
- Comment on i broke 3 weeks ago:
“I think you should come here twice a week to work that out”
I’m not sure how that helps you though.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 3 weeks ago:
When NFT started getting popular. Forums were full of idiots saying “now I can really BUY something and HAVE it!” as opposed to, say, game publishers having their server with user accounts on it and their item there. There’s even people that touted “we will be able to bring items from one game to another!”. Pointing the silliness of the idea to them was a lost cause.
And, since that’s not how any of this works, it crashed and aside from some big publisher being incredibly late to the party, the idea is now buried deep and forgotten.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 3 weeks ago:
This is the TYPICAL AI use case :
- have situation that’s not perfect, but works fine and is understandable (old control panel and some hidden settings)
- improve on the old control panel, create subsections that makes sense, make it searchable, everyone is happy
- someone decides that “control panel” and “old looking UI” have to go, create a cluster-a-doodle-fuck of a garbage mess labeled “Settings”, put only half the old settings in there, and half the time conflicts with other well-established ways to do things
- keep pushing the new thing despite it being so horrendous a kitten litter dies every time it is used
- pretend “there is a problem with settings, but we can solve it with AI”
- ???
- nothing, whatever, definitely not profit
It seems that people keep forgetting we just, did stuff. Changing most system settings wasn’t an incomprehensible chore reserved to the most elite of people. And changing the fringe ultra rare and hard to find setting only happened with half-decent competent people. No need to throw AI at that… unless you dismantle everything that works before, of course.
I swear, it’s not long ago that people were touting that we could finally have decent microtransactions in games thanks to blockchain, despite microtransactions being a very lucrative thing for decades before. And don’t get me started on people saying “but it’s the only way artists can get paid”.
As a collective, humanity is dumb.
- Comment on French culture 3 weeks ago:
We did that to stop English from stealing from us. They didn’t get the joke, and here we are.
- Comment on ‘How come I can’t breathe?': Musk’s data company draws a backlash in Memphis 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, not many people are willing to step in the horrific realm of nudified fat bastards.
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 4 weeks ago:
Well, now you have :)
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 4 weeks ago:
I only buy boxes of 2x2. I suppose the only way is to get all four out at the same time.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience 5 weeks ago:
Firefox, the software mainly driven by Mozilla, which is heavily investing in AI and ads ventures? That Firefox?
But, maybe “it will be different this time”, I guess.
