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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116161415651095950

many brew install and virtualenvs and pips later it script is working!

@ftranschel did I ask for advice?

My wife is currently trying to get a python script working on her computer and she's encountering the "fun" of python not having any package manager built-in

Is there a slow software movement?

as in a pledge to ship only well-tested and polished software and only do it very occasionally instead of deploying slop multiple times a day that your users will have to ingest like a king's food taster

Pretty sure I just got my first AI-bot spam question about an item I have listed on eBay.

The account was from 2017 and had 0 feedback.

If you're a seller on eBay, I recommend not answering "weird" questions and immediately block the account via the buyer blocking feature. (https://www.ebay.com/bmgt/BuyerBlock)

What if we drank bleach in moderation?

The Guardian writing about AI

@pikesley srsly

Thinking about all the rich assholes who moved to Dubai, which is in an ethnostate run by a minority of anti-democratic religious fanatics (90% of people in the country are immigrants), built on slave labor, without freedom of association and fueled by corrupt oil money who are now whining about “but I don’t care about politics why do I have to flee, I’m not one of the poors!!1!”

I can't overstate how transparent this is—it's simply market manipulation to enrich themselves and their buddies.

These people have no regard for human life or suffering or even "the economy".

It's simply greed. That's it.

@paddyduke the iPhone 17 Pro Max has a 6.9" screen btw

@vees They don't sell that one anymore.

ugh why do they have 4 different iPads but can't make a small phone

So fed up to have to go through this for the 3rd time in my life.

@johntinker no it’s not because authors say the same thing; please read the paper I linked

It can reproduce books verbatim.

"We didn't start this war" says guy who renamed the Department of Defense to Department of War.

At least have the fucking spine to stand for your convictions, however awful and twisted they might be.

@dascandy Yeah, the paper made the LLMs fill in between a starter and end text. However commercial LLMs have various restrictions in place and need to be jailbroken; the paper is a really interesting read.

All you need to know about “AI” is the companies providing it did so by using massive amounts of copyrighted works, without compensation to the authors or even asking, for commercial purposes.

People went to prison just for downloading music for personal use.

This alone should completely disqualify it as everyone using it is an accessory to crime. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You can literally (pardon the pun) reconstruct the training data works using the LLMs, to a high degree of completeness.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.02671

the Internet was a better place when every website took 2 minutes to load

when I’m president, I will outlaw broadband and limit speeds to V.32bis

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116157534855930472

I will also make it illegal to use your real name, age or gender online