Posts by zkat@toot.cat
(DIR) Post #B4gmlOB7q2Nwdr6ZsW by zkat@toot.cat
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RE: https://toot.cat/@zkat/116302181567094649Just gonna boost this up to the TL cause I think there's a conversation to be had about how much genAI centers around people desperately wanting the ability to be deceitful, and their need to defend it lest they lose their powers of deception.RT: https://toot.cat/users/zkat/statuses/116302181567094649
(DIR) Post #B4gmmDmnxhpQhU7tBo by zkat@toot.cat
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@xgranade it just gives away the game that they're just chomping at the bit to bypass anything the community/project might ask you not to do just because you don't feel like it. It's like they're commenting saying "I don't care what you put in this issue, I'm gonna do what I want and you can't stop me" lol way to go being a community member, dick
(DIR) Post #B4lM95zzM5XyEjm8Js by zkat@toot.cat
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I... guess I have workspaces in orogene now?#orogene
(DIR) Post #B4n7Vi3FRnHzd4XqGu by zkat@toot.cat
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idk if other trans folks experience this, too, but I find that I have a pretty hard time picking "pretend" names for games now, compared to before. I always just call myself "Kat" in every game that asks for a name. Sometimes I'll use the name I used to use for my "female selfsona" in the past?
(DIR) Post #B4rEqfSBmFeZxtzVdg by zkat@toot.cat
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OK yeah 430 boosts means my mentions are annoying and it’s time to delete
(DIR) Post #B4tqReqB6YLVOldJVw by zkat@toot.cat
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@petrillic/116337502667369228I can’t have a conversation with any genAI boosters that is remotely productive precisely because of this.RT: https://hachyderm.io/users/petrillic/statuses/116337502667369228
(DIR) Post #B4ufQ3TrcMaQtxBmDY by zkat@toot.cat
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RE: https://mastodon.publicinterest.town/@b_cavello/116338207761349739@b_cavello there are things that we can only make incremental progress on divesting from (coal, oil, cars, non-renewable energy, most plastics) because we’ve already made immensely costly errors in the past that make them largely unavoidable for many people. GenAI is different in that it’s completely avoidable, right now, and we are well positioned to simply… not let it happen.There may be a world where the technologies involved in genAI find their use without being deeply ethically compromised, and I believe we may very well find that niche in due time. Tbh I think it’s more a matter of when, not if. Take cars, for example: consider a world in which they became local, low speed, last-mile transportation infrastructure primarily used by those with additional mobility needs/emergency responders and which shared primarily pedestrian infrastructure or in smaller towns that had not yet built out more robust transit, and where regional and arterial transportation had been structured around public transit. We could’ve made that choice back then. We were already on track for it, too, and actually reversed course in many places.In the meantime, I can choose to not put my dollar into funding and my voice into promoting something that is harming the world as much or more than so many of the Big Ones.RT: https://mastodon.publicinterest.town/users/b_cavello/statuses/116338207761349739
(DIR) Post #B51gRNlBAJUG9ACioK by zkat@toot.cat
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boost to jumpscare a qud player#CavesOfQud
(DIR) Post #B5KQVPmhfmriJy3aAy by zkat@toot.cat
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some nerd: "I just want to have a discussion about LLM use in your project"me: "this is not the place to be having that discussion. I have already established a boundary"some nerd: "I am offended that you are not having this discussion right here, on my terms"fuck you, this is my own damn repothis is literally on one of the 1 or 2 open source projects I'm still willing to maintain at any level. Just absolutely not giving me any reason to keep doing open source at all. Fuck all of these people, and fuck open source.
(DIR) Post #B5MRZrfIRbcuDgCK4O by zkat@toot.cat
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@ermo @jzb it's giving "I don't have a concept of consent"
(DIR) Post #B5MmKPGTqrKypc3oga by zkat@toot.cat
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like jesus fuck I'm not even ragging on LLMs or fighting anyone. I'm literally just saying "this is not the space for this discussion" and marking replies as off-topic, including my own responses to them, so as not to detract from the completely unrelated issue.
(DIR) Post #B5MmKPXqoHERhUBglE by zkat@toot.cat
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ominous "something happened here"
(DIR) Post #B5SgWXDweTs6DN2BN2 by zkat@toot.cat
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RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/116433054140983153This is a good game and you should buy it. “Mario 3 with lesbians” doesn’t even do it justice. It would be amazing even if it wasn’t Mario 3RT: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/eniko/statuses/116433054140983153
(DIR) Post #B5WilDr3vPFd1jImvI by zkat@toot.cat
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at this point, literally the only reason I stay in tech is because of the money. because wow
(DIR) Post #B5WpX1hn01DQyF8u3s by zkat@toot.cat
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it should tell you everything you need to know about UBI that billionaires in the genAI field are pointing to it as a one-stop-shop solution to labor issues caused by their products.
(DIR) Post #B5WpX2kJ88pACLKQcq by zkat@toot.cat
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UBI is a system for helping people survive, not for helping them thrive
(DIR) Post #B5X9VxDwAqs5rhwgzI by zkat@toot.cat
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The thing that kills me about all this is that after years of building up kind/human/caring community around me, ppl I appreciated because of those traits suddenly drop all semblance of caring about them because.... they have the perception of coding a bit better/faster. That's all it took.I'll say it straight: you can't voluntarily and willingly use LLMs in a way that's aligned with respect for marginalized folks, with respect for the environment, with respect for labor issues and rights, with respect for art, and with respect for the community aspects of things like open source.It is simply impossible. Pretending you can is the deepest form of cognitive dissonance and I'm just beyond disturbed to see it happening all around me.I've already unfollowed so many folks I once respected, blocked some others, and just generally withdrawn from a community that used to be so personally fulfilling to be a part of. It's really sad.
(DIR) Post #B5YDtxTPUXrwZ1qPdQ by zkat@toot.cat
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we really had a thing going for a while there. Glorious years with some amazing community and conferences that centered our human relationships to one another and how they could be better.And all it took to kill it all was a lying machine that sucks your metaphorical ego-dick and spits out worse code than someone who just graduated college.
(DIR) Post #B5YDxNAGQeWL72W7E0 by zkat@toot.cat
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@jokeyrhyme sure, but these folks aren't looking for systemic or personal anything. They're absolutely just wanting to play with their new favorite toy and ducking their head when anyone might give them the stink eye about it. They're literally ashamed of it.
(DIR) Post #B5YXSCgvJfqCjjCxsm by zkat@toot.cat
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I’m begging mastodon to implement a feature where only people you follow (or nobody) can reply to your thread