Peter Thiel is going to declare VPNs the antichrist now

I just remembered that I’m the guy everyone in my family goes to when they need someone to scan their ID or passport for whatever stupid bullshit.

Guess it’s time to sign all my conservative family members up to gay porn websites!

Both. I’m strongly of the opinion that monopolies should not exist, and if they do it’s the result of illegal and/or unethical activity, and should be fixed immediately. They break the free market and end up hurting everyone in the long run.

In addition to what @Asterisk@lemmy.world said, they also include a forced arbitration clause in their terms of service to prevent class action lawsuits from customers.

Tbh, they’re very low on my personal list of monopolies to hate, so I don’t really have that many arguments ready to go. I’m sure others have made a good case against Steam somewhere on the internet already.

I think what’s important in this drama is that, despite their evil monopoly shit they’re guilty of, Valve really does do the right thing sometimes to win consumers. Gamers want AI disclosures, even if devs don’t.

That’s why it’s not surprising to see that statement from Sweeny, and why it’s not surprising that people still hate the Epic Games Store.

I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying. By “the commenter” do you mean the human or the AI in the screenshot?

Also,

For instance, many SoTA models are trained using reinforcement learning, so it’s plausible that its learned that spamming meaningless tokens can delay negative reward

What’s a “negative reward”? You mean a penalty? First of all, I don’t believe this makes sense either way because if the model was producing garbage tokens, it would be obvious and caught during training.

But even if it wasn’t, and it did in fact generate a bunch of garbage that didn’t print out in the Claude UI, and the explanation of “simulated progress” was the AI model coming up with a plausible explanation for the garbage tokens, it still does not make it sentient (or even close).

I hate that normies are going to read this and come away with the impression that Claude really is a sentient being that thinks and behaves like a human, even doing relatable things like pretending to work and fessing up when confronted.

This response from the model is not a reflection of what actually happened. It wasn’t simulating progress because it underestimated the work, it just hit some unremarkable condition that resulted in it halting generation (it’s pointless to speculate why without internal access, as these chatbot apps aren’t even real LLMs, they’re a big mashup of multiple models and more traditional non-ML tools/algorithms).

When given a new prompt from the user (“what’s taking so long?”) it just produced some statistically plausible text given the context of the chat, the question, and the system prompt Anthropic added to give it some flavor. I don’t doubt that system prompt includes instructions like “you are a sentient being” in order to produce misleading crap like this response to get people to think AI is sentient, and feed the hype train that’s pumping up their stock price.

/end-rant

The White House?

You can’t spell “INCEL” without “C”

TIL about bat! Looks awesome!

Wayback machine has captures from 2021 and it just looks like an abandoned WordPress site… So yeah, probably malware.

Wtf are you doing OP?

Lua is cozy, like a nice, warm dumpster fire.

Ackshually, the meme is encoded using progressively smaller images nested into the fourth panel of the comic. Each fourth panel is effectively a nested function call to the original comic procedure, which more closely represents recursion than an infinite loop.

For an infinite loop, one might instead lay out the 3 unique panels horizontally, and just memcpy them into rows below, creating a table. That’s a regression in humor, but it’d fix the bug.

So I agree with @ryannathans@aussie.zone’s review; The joke is about infinite loops, but the visual gag is about recursion.

This fascist wave is really bringing out all the cockroaches in our society. It’s a good thing you can’t erase anything on the internet, as this type of evidence will probably be useful in the future.

You’d better get in on a crypto grift, Kelly Shue of the Yale School of Management. I suspect you’ll have a hard time finding work within the next 1-3 years.

Because source maps show how shitty your organization’s code and overall engineering practices are.

Ape Escape!

some good old fashioned free market competition

This kills the billionare

What’s a party school?

Microsoft hasn’t been known for good engineering for… a long time, but this seems like the type of idea an undergrad with zero real world experience might come up with (or I guess AI).

This is why I avoid corporate languages like this. Swift and Go are also on my “hell no” list.

CouchDB (a no-sql db, but whatever) automatically provides a REST API that’s designed to be exposed directly to clients. It even implements its own client-facing authentication system. “queries” are configured in advance from the admin side, and clients just pull the results, allowing for very efficient caching. Basically, if you RTFM enough to get a couchdb instance running, you have 90%-100% of your backend complete. You could create an entire scalable full-stack app using only client-side code… and if you’re clever with HTMX, you might even be able to do it without writing any javascript at all! (I tried once, but failed because I’m not that clever, but it’s definitely probably possible)

So TL;DR: I like couchdb, and the idea of exposing your database directly to users isn’t unprecedented. I wonder if there are any SQL databases that offer a similar thing?

What’s the logo between Guix and C?