Notices by Worik (worik@mastodon.social)

@strypey @evan @reiver

Mēh! We got the entire web, almost, on HTTPS.

How painful is that? (it was hugely painful in the day, but no more)

My point is encrypted by default can work.

The protocols already exist, and the libraries. I think it is a sensible default

But I (probably) am not the one to do it.

@bruces You'd look good in one...
...I want one

@Doomed_Daniel @glitzersachen @arstechnica

> Where are they gonna go?

In so much that external business analysis is required, they could use local firms, foster professionalism in their own communities and in their own ranks

These big firms cosplay competence. Their role is to provide cover for decisions already made.

There is a role for independent advice, the big consulting firms do offer it, but it is low quality and very expensive

@bruces that is what GPT showing creativity

AI indeed....

@bruces Norwich is in Europe IMO

@dalias @stovis @Siilwyn @kboyd @herzmut @vkc

That is slander with nothing to back it up

Very easy to sling mud like that

Very easy to back it up if it is fair, yet you won't

Reconsider backing it up?

@dalias @stovis @Siilwyn @kboyd @herzmut @vkc I see no evidence that person is significant in Ladybird.

Ladybird has a CoC

All see is piling on a beat up.

Is there more evidence on Nazi affiliations (not just context free accusations) of the Ladybird project?

@dalias @stovis @Siilwyn @kboyd @herzmut @vkc I read that complete exchange

I draw different conclusions

I saw https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@psychpsyo getting bullied

@bruces So far ahead of his time, eh!?

The first arrogant computist: "my ideas are too advanced for you to understand"

I have heard variations on that theme so often in computing...

@bruces It is so easy to miss the point

The obsession with "winning" worries me, there can only be one winner, it won't be me, or yous

I use LLMs every day. They are a good tool. Model_Context_Protocol looks interesting. Web search looks nearly dead.

But these are tools. They can make us better at our jobs, but they cannot replace us. So many resources are going into being the winner, and replacing us loosers with machines.

Impossible, but they could make life very hard through trying

@strypey To summerise:

* You do not accept the Turing Test as a benchmark for AI. Ok, I disagree but it is semantics

* LLMs are very, unbelievably (to four years ago me) useful.

I think you are do not agree.

I point to my lived reality, and an expert in the field of computing, that they are amazing technology. A "steam engine" moment.

Where we are in total harmony is the scammers, grifters, and greed merchants are out in force

AI cannot do your job.
Your boss bought AI.
You're fired!

@strypey you'll like this: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/

@strypey

What is intelligence?

Is my dog intelligent? A child? A baby? A tree?

I can hold a conversation with an LLM, I can correct it, and it corrects me

Close enough?

@strypey that is bad article

We have very little idea of how human intelligence (and what about my dog?) Works, so the entire premise is false.

For seventy years there has been a standard, amd a test, established by Turing (which is why his biographical film is The Imitation Game)

Now machines are closing in on passing that test, you are moving the goal posts.

Unfair

Whatever, LLMs (particularly transformers) are the greatest computer advance I have ever seen

@strypey

That was before transformers became known

It is out of date

My point is, and you refuse to listen, that semantic hair splitting aside I now have a machine I can ask questions of, in natural English, it gets my meaning o r I can correct it, and get the information I want

This is a huge deal. It will change history. It happened I 2022

The scammers are hard at work using AI to bolster scams, but that does not detract from the fact that we are witnessing an industrial revolution

@strypey

>> That was before transformers became known

> Which ones?

Transformers are the scientific breakthrough that made these LLMs (and other useful neural networks) possible.

I have not studied them. The main paper, which I have been too busy to read, is called "Attention Is All You Need"

@pluralistic

Why is your name attached to Free Our Feeds"?

This looks like a scam to me.

No structure or governance as Free Our Feeds pinky promise that they have "9 custodians", unnamed, to manage donations. They will have the foundation set up by "the end of 2025". But send money now.

And all the while activity pub exists and does what they want my money to do. What the actual fuck?

@MediaActivist There are plenty of fascists on Signal

I do not care, I am on Signal too

There is room for disagreement about political philosophy, and the paradox of tolerance. When it comes to tech, I count the bits, not the views

@MediaActivist

Thank you

I am not disturbed by what I see their

Encrypted "host proof" platforms must serve everybody. Freedoms are for people we hate, otherwise they are not.

@MediaActivist

> Andy Yen of Proton (who have had a lot of my money over the years, but not for much longer) spouting "both sides" bullshit,

What are you referring to?