antihumanitarian

@antihumanitarian@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had some similar and obscure corruption issues that wound up being a symptom of failing ram in a main server node. After that, only issues have been conflicts. So I’d suggest checking hardware health in addition to the ideas about backups vs sync.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some details. One of the major players doing the tar pit strategy is Cloudflare. They’re a giant in networking and infrastructure, and they use AI (more traditional, nit LLMs) ubiquitously to detect bots. So it is an arms race, but one where both sides have massive incentives.

  Making nonsense is indeed detectable, but that misunderstands the purpose: economics. Scraping bots are used because they’re a cheap way to get training data. If you make a non zero portion of training data poisonous you’d have to spend increasingly many resources to filter it out. The better the nonsense, the harder to detect. Cloudflare is known it use small LLMs to generate the nonsense, hence requiring systems at least that complex to differentiate it.

  So in short the tar pit with garbage data actually decreases the average value of scraped data for bots that ignore do not scrape instructions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently removed in editor AI cause I noticed I was acquiring muscle memory for my brain, not thinking through the rest past the start of a snippet that would get an LLM to auto complete. I’m still using LLMs, particularly for languages and libraries I’m not familiar with, but using the artifacts editors in ChatGPT and Claude.