yep I think so too. as I think I posted here a while back:

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and now suddenly it's Launched Again! but with limits. gotta whet those appetites just a bit more! sales will totes follow soon!

it is funny as fuck, though

on which note: I would love to see a kind of "double-blind" experience where a pile of (ideally, more clever/clueful) muskrats get to interact with felon (without knowing that they are), and then watch the fallout as they all go "wtf is this dumbass I'm speaking to"

I'm thinking something in the survivor-y format of shows

probably wouldn't ever happen, felon's too fucking proud (and would 10000000% rig the game to own image advantage). but in a perfect world where this happened, oh wouldn't that just be some great television

what... what exactly do you think people like dreamhost and bluehost and such do? in your mind, do they have special dreampress and bluepress "vendored" versions of wordpress?

good lord

yay calling him felon is catching on, i'm so proud :D

to get on my developing-nation[0] soapbox for a little bit: it is, and it's also hilarious how often this sort of shit happens with things developed by people who you could largely handwave as "their smallest computer is a 3yo max-spec mbp" (I know this isn't precise but ygwim). "talk to your users" is obviously useful and it's often largely clear that a lot of these orgs don't, but it's even more clear in places further down the economic ladder. the one thing people in such markets often have is bucketloads of time. I do like that the phrasing used in the article was "you do not actually have to spend any money" rather than calling it "free" - this is still work. but you will readily find maaaaaany people who will do this sort of thing

[0] - speaking from experience, large consideration in stuff I have to design for in services

you know

I actually meant to post that (a friend sent it to me earlier, and it was why I even got around to starting the new stubsack)

adhdbrain is a fuck

(it is a fucking hilarious tweet tho)

also, just ito "things to pick by which to point out dirtrag as a Shining Beacon", it's pretty fucking out there

was one of the very first things I noticed when I ran across ~~cozy twitter~~ TPOT

this is not the place to satisfy your desire for degradation

I'm going to start trolling these dipshits with "I bet you don't even understand something as basic as how BGP makes the internet work" and watch the bad takes fall out

for the viewers at home: BGP operates on (relatively) simple rules, but with hella emergent complexity with a loooooot of intermingled state and subjective truth from the point of view of each actor AS in participation. and table stakes on the internet is edge filters, MEDs, communities, RRs, (sometimes) RPKI, etc. and that's before you get into the more esoteric shit you can do.

The syntax of a programming language you don’t know, and would be trivial to google

yeah so I tried that already, and it turns out these things are both dogshit and insidious in those cases - if I were a less informed user, I would've had bugs baked in at a deep level that would've taken hours to days to figure out down the line

it feels like throwing more hardware/data at it is no longer the correct answer

it was never the correct answer

Mainly the issue here is trust. You never know when LLMs switch from being a decent teacher to being a convincing liar. And that’s kinda the whole thing with teachers, you’re supposed to trust them

wat. I don't really understand this point/mention - what did you mean to convey by bringing this up?

You never know when LLMs switch from being a decent teacher to being a convincing liar.

well.. no? 1) it's always synthesising, there is no distinction between truth and falsehood. it is always creating something. some of it turns out to be factual (or factual enough) that you're parsing as "oh it gave me true bits", but that's because your brainmeats are doing some real fancy shit on the fly because they've been tuned to deal with information filtering over a couple millennia. handy, right?

but the LLM is much more likely to describe a common viewpoint that it’s been trained on a lot.

you mean the mass averaging machine is going to produce something that might be an average of the mass data? shock, horror!

why not just find a scientist to become friends with? it's so much easier (and you get to enjoy them going fully human nerdy about really cool niche shit)

I didn't even go exploring. on the one hand I feel this is good (in the sense that it didn't depress me even more), on the other it would've made the who clear earlier