redecentrist
@nyhan So, I have been slowly and reluctantly coming to the conclusion that LLMs are the One Ring:
• They are seductive by appealing to a person's best nature
• By convincing the user that what they most ardently desire is almost within their grasp and they are right and good to want it and deserving of having it, they slowly turn the user into Gollum
• They are probably feeding everything the user whispers to it right on to the evil guy on the back end of a Palantir
Study: When experienced open-source developers used current AI tools, work took 19% longer to complete. In spite of which, the developers *thought* they were working *faster.*
It’s just one study, and they don’t claim anything beyond what they observed. Their results are not predictive. Still....
(There must be a name for the psychological trick we play on ourselves to believe we’re being more productive even when we’re considerably less so.)
Hat tip: Dave Martin
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
Mystery goo discovered on ship docked in Cleveland, samples taken to Duluth. Because I have seen a #monsterdon before I'm a little worried for the microbiology professor. I hope he knows a square-jawed cop and a girl reporter, and has a good relationship with his university's resident crackpot, otherwise he's done for.
@david_chisnall
When I send my mind back to that recent era, what I recall most is ERROR 404 MEMORY NOT FOUND what were we talking about again?
@swetland
Relexing?
(3) THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND is in fact a citizen of Venezuela, over fourteen years of age, and a member of a designated terrorist organization, and thus is ineligible for return to the United States.
The U.S. DOJ has responded that (1) THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND lacks jurisdiction over THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND because it is no longer located in Maryland; (2) The United states cannot comply with the order because it lacks constructive custody over THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND, and
BREAKING: THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND has ORDERED the United States to facilitate the release of THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND from its detention in El Salvador and its return to the United States.
Following @bagder for several years now and only last week I noticed that the username is bagder, not badger
@micahflee See what you've done?
"the collection of mobile device data from some custodians [including "two cabinet-level secretaries" and other "senior White House officials"] has encountered logistical challenges, and Defendants are working with relevant IT personnel to understand the scope of those challenges and predict a likely timeline for resolution."
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.167.0.pdf
#telemessage #abregogarcia
Proposal: A “yes but only if there’s an agenda” option for meeting invitations.
I want the calendar equivalent of “come back with a warrant”.
Hey you. Do you like low level programming? would you like to contribute to a large and well established project? Because I'm always looking to help new contributors getting started on GDB! It uses C++, but you may also end up needing to remove abstraction layers, so there's tons of things not-C++ to think about, if you want to.
I know that contributing to the GNU Debugger may sound like it's something that would be incredibly hard, or that you need ungodly amounts of knowledge to improve, because that's literally how I felt before sending my first patch, but the truth is, the project was developed by people (humans and otherwise), so silly bugs will abound, and simple oversights will need correcting. There is stuff for every level of programmer to do, from "I've worked on the kernel for 20 years" to "this is my 1st year in college and I'm not scared of large projects"
And here's the kicker, I want more contributors to the GDB project. So, if you are interested in this at all, you can hit me up and I will do my best to help you get setup to contribute (from compiling locally, to setting up git-send-email, running tests) and then help you understand the bugs, the code, and how to make a good commit message (to GDB's standards anyway). I've literally done code-walks with other mentees in the past, I eager to share as much of my experience as you would like to have! and I do my best to be ADHD/autistic friendly, since I'm AuDHD myself and would have really loved a mentor that did that for me in the past...
So... yeah, don't be afraid to reach out!
Instead of storing my data in the cloud, I just store it in the bush. It's the same thing, only palette-swapped. More accessible, too.
@evmar
I'm sure that testing the task-completion flow is on their list and they just haven't gotten around to it yet
TeleMessage, the Israeli company that makes the modified Signal app used by Trump officials, was hacked. “I would say the whole process took about 15-20 minutes,” the hacker said https://micahflee.com/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/
@evmar
I hate to tell you, but I think your child may have been listening to Donald Trump's economic theories.
They should force this kid to make a replacement piece. It'd probably be better than the original.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/28/style/child-damages-rothko-painting-scli-intl
"Child damages Rothko [colorsmear named "Grey, Orange on Maroon, No.8"] in Dutch museum"
Just as "web log" became the even more awkward "blog", I suggest we change "newsletter" into "slet"
Then we can talk about the sletosphere, have startups like sletspot and sletlines, etc. It'll be terrible, as nature intended
This is important in ways we do not yet understand.
