Posts by pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
 (DIR) Post #B5tmJ7ZyX4BnuKFBDc by pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
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       chat, is it a good sign when someone feels a need to juice the stats hard? like, say, by making it so every user of a popular editor gets a ‘co-authored by copilot’ annotation in their git commits, even if they never used it at all?
       
 (DIR) Post #B66DWlF3PN4RLIho5Q by pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne it's a shame things can be both better than what came before and still have problems
       
 (DIR) Post #B6P7H0htEYbox4XQyu by pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne obviously, life is too short to do things you don't like doing if you don't absolutely have to
       
 (DIR) Post #B6zVOkAuCQzjukRHOa by pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
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       one thing the rsync thing is revealing is that the whole “rely on the sense of responsibility of some clever guys from decades ago” model of open source software maintenance is crumbling under load, and some people are seeing LLMs as an out
       
 (DIR) Post #B8PbCS8o8S6iOQh9yC by pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne apparently already finished, because he is an 80 year old man
       
 (DIR) Post #B8RBUirAW7suxJPp0i by pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne it just feels kinda insulting this is what it took for a lot of applications to even get programmable interfaces
       
 (DIR) Post #B8oQexm1qEX5s3LcBs by pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne about an image that was widely reported on in the mainstream press, no less
       
 (DIR) Post #B8qeZDvceXrDuWucgy by pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne even fucking bill gates knew better. why do people want to be worse at this than bill gates
       
 (DIR) Post #B9iFTWX78dLtxdxej2 by pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne it would appear we in the US are playing stupid games and winning stupid prizes still
       
 (DIR) Post #B9jvmA9ix1Q9IIYDa4 by pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne i'm sad i don't get to see the artists but i am not exactly fond of the person who runs the instance and unfortunately i have to actually care
       
 (DIR) Post #B9jwjbL9WX7ogrEsV6 by pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne *low whistle*
       
 (DIR) Post #B9mI0SzOJQfv4BraXg by pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne thinking that a phd means more than "knows a lot about an extremely specific topic, which may not even be something anyone else cares about in the slightest" is, i think, the biggest sign of not knowing a single thing about academia
       
 (DIR) Post #B9mI9XAq7hlOeRXfPc by pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne alas i am a mere math undergrad, which is how i know enough to never post on linkedin :P
       
 (DIR) Post #B9w9VHHVIIlAqdjiJk by pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne ultimately, the copyright Thing with genAI illustrates a simple truth: the law is meant to constrain _us_, not _them_
       
 (DIR) Post #BACl0fR0AH6JbTuVYO by pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne i guess my current plan of “keep my current shit running as long as i can” is proving correct
       
 (DIR) Post #BAGtoBdMU2mxXTiMq0 by pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne arguably capability systems are what is needed for any form of secure computing, and agents are just _really_ forcing the matter since using an agent system without a capability system is just YOLO
       
 (DIR) Post #BAJP9FAgGmSSgzMsHg by pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne > to avoid making a new accountokay i know it felt like we were barely held together at folx but what are they even doing over there
       
 (DIR) Post #BAWC7wh7N3dTTPpF2m by pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne i'd be lying if i said that a very similar emotion had nothing to do with my own experience with gender, that's for sure
       
 (DIR) Post #BAXgZJPWDEL3WnWEMa by pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne oh this is. uh. going to blow up _bad_, huh
       
 (DIR) Post #BAXhj9AHGEdUbKdwye by pikhq@social.treehouse.systems
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       @ariadne @barometz that's definitely one way the shit could hit the fan. pretty likely even, given, uh, current eventsin either case, there are feces flying rapidly towards fan blades at this very moment