Even if everyone around me would use AI, I still will not. Many people around me run Windows or MacOS, yet I'm a Linux user, have been one for years, and will remain a Linux user. The "everyone uses it so I should use it" argument is just worthless. Why use Linux then? Free Software? ActivityPub? IRC/Matrix/XMPP? Wayland? the list goes on

I want to reiterate, there is *NO* way I EVER use LLMs to write code. For me, programming is more than just a task, it's my dream hobby, and I can't afford having it taken by unethical dumb AI bots

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116341703108645603

Thats a sign that the software engineers need more psychology, not less

(signed a software engineer with a psychology degree)

@ariadne it's your account, so I am completely OK with personal content (alongside technical content if you want, but you don't have to be technical all day)

IQ and other psychometric assessments are not actually backed by hard science but vibes

so when someone brags about having a "genius level IQ", just write them off as a narcissist

sincerely, your local psychologist turned software engineer

@ariadne IMO the only place where Trump should be is in a psychiatric hospital

It's so cool that anthropic is setting up a double-sided protection racket where it will profit from the massive token burn of attackers and defenders with a tool specifically designed to generate exploits and their only observable mitigation is a clientside system prompt that sternly warns the LLM to be good and not do malware
https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/

I can confirm Creative Cloud has added to my /etc/hosts file.

Adobe secretly modifies your hosts file for the stupidest reason: https://www.osnews.com/story/144737/adobe-secretly-modifies-your-hosts-file-for-the-stupidest-reason/

@ariadne looks great!

finally got my old powermac G4 going again...

AI is good at finding bugs, they say.
Everyone uses AI, they say.
No one cares about the ethical issues of AI, they say.

...

How about writing less code and thus introducing less bugs in the first place?
You're working on a Linux-first app, no one uses Linux, everyone runs on Windows. Why not switch to Windows too?
This is truly evil that speaks, "who cares about AI needing large amounts of energy to operate, and operating on stolen data?"
I thought FOSS was about building a more ethical computing ecosystem.

@famfo GREAT SUCCESS!

driver written in bash, of course. source

tldr: nintendo nunchuck connected to an i²c bus stolen from a DVI port, read with a bash oneliner, then thrown over the network, then parsed with another bash script. it works really well, except for the scroll

Not enough is made of the fact that ‘ChatGPT passes the Turing test’ isn’t news because ELIZA already passed it, and *really* not enough is made of the fact that it should be bloody obvious that human intelligence is flawed in ways that we clearly do not want to recreate in a machine to the extent of being indistinguishable from a human

@rhandos that new client doesn't even work...

The Jellyfin project started working on a new desktop client. They've deprecated the current Qt-based one and are working on a new CEF-based client.

Opened the new repository and… well fuck, looks like Jellyfin is going down the AI slop route now:

#jellyfin #ai #aislop #slopware

People keep assuring me that LLMs writing code is a revolution, that as long as we maintain sound engineering practices and tight code review they're actually extruding code fit for purpose in a fraction of the time it would take a human.

And every damned time, every damned time any of that code surfaces, like Anthropic's flagship offering just did, somehow it's exactly the pile of steaming technical debt and fifteen year old Stack Overflow snippets we were assured your careful oversight made sure it isn't.

Can someone please explain this to me? Is everyone but you simply prompting it wrong?

It's a good thing programmers aren't susceptible to hubris in any way, or this would have been so much worse.

No kidding: Gentoo GNU/Hurd

https://lwn.net/Articles/1066241/ #LWN #Linux #Gentoo

Finally tried to hook up an AM4 chipset to a raspberry pi (someone suggested this on the pi-pci repository a few years ago), and it turns out it mostly just works.