Posts by cassidy@blaede.family
(DIR) Post #B4FaZnuLuF44FP3Dwe by cassidy@blaede.family
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@gnome @jonathan favorites count as an interaction which is used to calculate the “trending” posts on instances, so it's not completely useless! It also helps us know what posts resonate with people. No it's not the same as legacy social media but it still has its purposes.
(DIR) Post #B4KBPYcWMdBysGWlZA by cassidy@blaede.family
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(DIR) Post #B4VRrc9YYg6BwdwIIy by cassidy@blaede.family
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@gruber/116261867124540631Liquid Glass bRiNgs mOrE fOcUs tO cONtEnT aNd a nEW lEVeL oF viTaLiTyRT: https://mastodon.social/users/gruber/statuses/116261867124540631
(DIR) Post #B4auJN248iNhfDG6EK by cassidy@blaede.family
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RE: https://floss.social/@gnome/116285045391826432“So what does the GNOME Foundation do, anyway?”So much work is behind the scenes—and frankly, in the past the Foundation has not been as efficient as it could have been.With the relaunched Friends of GNOME and now the Fellowship program, I hope it’s obvious what the role of the Foundation can and should be.I’m super proud of the GNOME Foundation board for putting this together. And I am forever grateful to the Friends of GNOME who make this possible. ❤️#GNOME #OpenSource #LinuxRT: https://floss.social/users/gnome/statuses/116285045391826432
(DIR) Post #B4blK1RDCwFiYADU4O by cassidy@blaede.family
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@itsfoss no thanks
(DIR) Post #B5UcYexoppuNIYAXHE by cassidy@blaede.family
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@omgubuntu yessss the GTK emoji picker is a great addition!
(DIR) Post #B5j3weUrdmTzm7jIC8 by cassidy@blaede.family
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@gamingonlinux the Force is strong with this one.
(DIR) Post #B68JKvMUwbm5INqXJI by cassidy@blaede.family
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LLMs aren’t conscious, even if giant companies incentivized to keep up the charade continue to name features after human experiences. LLMs are designed to trick you into thinking they’re conscious and human-like. They’ve encapsulated the worst qualities in the process: they know nothing and don’t think, yet they appear to be confident while outputting falsehoods. They output that they’re smart because they regurgitate the likely text response of being told they’re smart.https://www.wired.com/story/i-am-begging-ai-companies-to-stop-naming-features-after-human-processes/
(DIR) Post #B68JKwhnwsPbSkp49w by cassidy@blaede.family
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It turns out: LLMs *are* a pretty powerful technology for certain use cases! The frankly bonkers amount of data and training and power and scraping and iteration and ingesting copyrighted works and tuning and tooling has led to a technology that can often convincingly imitate humans and do lots of text-based stuff. But you must always remember that it fundamentally is a technology built around text prediction. It is nondeterministic. It does not think. It cannot be blindly relied on.
(DIR) Post #B6m2oz8g19csA9HGIS by cassidy@blaede.family
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@simple_sabotage/116655058624456803I think this is part of what drives me crazy with LLM-powered code review: too often it feels like they’re following the US counterintelligence strategy for simple sabotage. Except I’m the target.RT: https://mastodon.social/users/simple_sabotage/statuses/116655058624456803
(DIR) Post #B6m2p9jYct4L1QbrAe by cassidy@blaede.family
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To be clear, I think automated code quality tooling is great; CI with automated workflows, test suites, and linters are genuinely super helpful! But off the shelf LLMs reviewing my code might find a typo, but completely miss that I’m trying to solve the problem completely the wrong way.And so far, they have been *tedious* in a way (most) human reviewers aren’t.
(DIR) Post #B6m2pGBQeAvd1bhCRk by cassidy@blaede.family
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@simple_sabotage/116621792027803705Ask Claude, then Copilot, then Gemini, then CodeRabbit—and then double-check yourself because you can’t fully trust any of them. 😅RT: https://mastodon.social/users/simple_sabotage/statuses/116621792027803705
(DIR) Post #B6m2pMPTUrjGKuJVAm by cassidy@blaede.family
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@simple_sabotage/116563753026003439I meanRT: https://mastodon.social/users/simple_sabotage/statuses/116563753026003439
(DIR) Post #B6m2pcBspAMdHO4sD2 by cassidy@blaede.family
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Maybe my more optimistic framing is: LLMs can often resemble simple sabotage. As can any bad tooling.If you’re building something, contributing to an open source project, or organizing a community, familiarize yourself with simple sabotage to be able to identify if/when you are actually slowly sabotaging yourself with bad tools.
(DIR) Post #B6m4Ot1SKsXPZWaClk by cassidy@blaede.family
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@drq “measure twice, cut once” is good advice for woodworking. Measuring four times “just to be sure” is how you slowly destroy the enemy from within.
(DIR) Post #B9Ne6AOw3sLKyyWG8G by cassidy@blaede.family
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@gardiner_bryant 💯I would go further and say that if you have to try to describe the concept of the fediverse itself instead of focusing on the people and experience, you’ve already probably failed.But if you must: it’s a social network. You can find your friends and make new ones from thousands of smaller sites because they all work together. 🤷
(DIR) Post #BAIke0Uoml8K2CKz0i by cassidy@blaede.family
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@gnome I’ll be there, too!