jaschop

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3d ago

Ireland Rules
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jaschop @awful.systems 3d ago

I've never seen that, but it was my first guess as well. People here are already doing Doner-boxes with fries, meat and sauce in a takeout box, I'm assuming for people under doctor's orders to eat a veggie-free high-grease and high-sodium diet.

5d ago

Niederlande bauen souveränen Behördendesktop auf NixOS-Basis

Den Dönz werd ich mir wohl auch mal beibringen müssen, so gern ich auch alles auf Debian bastle aktuell.

Mein letzter Stand war, dass das Nix Projekt ziemlich AI- uns fash-friendly unterwegs ist. Hoffentlich kann ich mich über Lix oder Auxolotl etwas davon abschirmen.

5d ago

Firefox’s biggest priority: rounding corners

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jaschop @awful.systems 5d ago

You can download an executable and surf websites with it, which will frequently break I guess.

Not sure how much help one can offer atm except donating or contributing directly.

5d ago

fun rule

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jaschop @awful.systems 5d ago

Derping around on TF2 trade servers. Not even trading. Just not being in the mood for a competitive game and rather fucking around with randos.

5d ago

As a programming newcomer AND a dyscalculic, which ones are the best programming languages to learn that aren't tainted by AI and the best resources to learn them?

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jaschop @awful.systems 5d ago

I can tell you the two languages I would learn right now if I had the spare cycles.

Zig is a C-replacement language that took a no-AI stance early on. It doesn't have compiler-assured memory safety like Rust, but it does try to revamp structures (like alloc or error handling) in a way that makes it more obvious to the programmer what is happening. I'd love to learn more, but cycles...
Gleam is a language that is part of the Erlang/BEAM ecosystem. It's a functional language, so it's a bit of a mindfuck if you come from a Python-/C-esque perspective, but if you like formal logic it might well be up your alley. It has a good web tutorial if you're interested. Neither Gleam nor its runtime Erlang-OTP have taken a stance on AI as far as I know (Elixir has a permissive stance), but at least I've seen no red flags as of yet. The people at Gleam just generally give me a vibe of being deliberate and careful with their code.

6d ago

Unionsländer drohen Berlin bei Linksregierung mit Konsequenzen bei Finanzierung

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jaschop @awful.systems 6d ago

Ich weiß nicht was der betroffene Remmo beruflich macht, aber sich in die DMs von einem MdB zu schleimen der das Konzept Clan-kriminalität kritisiert und dann damit auf Insta anzugeben, wär schon so ein Arschlochmove den ich vom Mitglied eines kriminellen Clans erwarten würde.

6d ago

On AI-generated articles

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jaschop @awful.systems 6d ago

Sorry for being late to the party, but I had to give my two cents on AI detectors. (specifically GPTZero & co., watermarking is different) I think it's a bad idea to recommend them. These companies are overpromising their accuracy and essentially selling false certainty. This will also not fade over time since the inaccuracy is baked into the tech.

Currently the performance may be good for basic use cases, but recent papers seem to indicate you can still dazzle them by burning more tokens or explicitly prompting against detectors. But from what I understand about GenAI training* this is an eternal cat & mouse game, since the AI vendors don't want their output to be detectable.

what I understand about GenAI training

A basic technique of training a generative model is training a discriminative model alongside it. The gen model tries to synthesize output and the discriminative model tries to distinguish it from actual training data. The models are then trained alongside each other, building better and better discriminator models to sus out better and better generative ones.

If these detector companies had some kind of breakthrough (better techniques, better datasets, whatever) to sus out generated output, they would be bought up to improve GenAI training. More likely, they don't. Maybe they can dial into some typical usecases for specific models and perform highly there, but that will fail to generalize for the edge cases.

1w ago

sudo apt rule

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jaschop @awful.systems 1w ago

Debian dads of lemmy, join me in an approving grunt.

1w ago

I really think that the term "Reverse Centaur" is underused

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jaschop @awful.systems 1w ago

I don't think it's impossible that the underlying tech of LLMs will be evolved into something undeniably useful. But I don't think "helping with Python" will be that.

I think on !fuck_ai I can suggest, you could also just learn the relevant bits of Python? Learning to express your thoughts in code and understanding the tools you use feels way more empowering than relying on blackbox-extruded code.

1w ago

I really think that the term "Reverse Centaur" is underused

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jaschop @awful.systems 1w ago

In my book socialism is about workers controlling the means of production, and historical socialists did not agree how that would work in detail.

Libertarianism on the other hand is primarily about the rejection of personal restrictions, stuff like: "I should be allowed to freely copy and share media I have legally acquired." or "I shouldn't be forced to pay taxes." This individualist thinking makes it usually unable to adress structural inequality.

1w ago

I really think that the term "Reverse Centaur" is underused

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jaschop @awful.systems 1w ago

But he also literally has a book titled "Information Doesn't Want to Be Free".

That sure sounds like a zinger, but going off Wikipedia he does argue in that book for a loosening of copyright, which is pretty much what I meant. I don't hate those positions though I'll note they're more libertarian than socialist. He has a whole personal freedom + monopoly control shtick, which works great for me in a lot of scenarios, but doesn't quite work on GenAI tech.

You can call me exceptionalist, but I think LLMs stand out because the adoption of the tech basically requires very capital-intensive and thus centralized operations for model training. This makes whoever runs them (likely capital or a state) a powerful arbiter of information space, maybe best comparable with algorithmic feeds in monopolistic social media.

I think it is necessary to say: "Hey, we as a society shouldn't run things like that. There are better ways of distributing information that work just fine." A tech-neutral attitude can't achieve that.

1w ago

I really think that the term "Reverse Centaur" is underused

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jaschop @awful.systems 1w ago

Funny horse-butt-creature notwithstanding, Dotcorows AI takes have been rather mid. Quoting from Guardian...

In this book, at least, he isn’t animated by the headline-grabbing concerns, whether existential risk or AI psychosis, deepfake porn or election disinformation, because those are unintended consequences. His target is the revenue model and the bubble it has created: “To be an effective AI critic, you need to strike at the source of AI’s power, which is the investment capital it attracts.”

He isn't falling for AI doom and he is aware of the bubble, which puts him near the better end of the spectrum. But he's also unwilling to fully criticize community damage resulting from LLM use. That may be because he's fond of LLMs himself for his text editing and is repping the "it's just another tool" defense. So he isn't willing to go all the way when it comes to criticizing the global theft of labour that continues to power this industry. Information wants to be free, dontcha know?

2w ago

Nate Graham doubles down on sloppification

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jaschop @awful.systems 2w ago

You're right. The grammer is right, but it still sounds off. Like, idk, someone fully capable of english leaving threats in his second language to be sneaky?

2w ago

Nate Graham doubles down on sloppification

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jaschop @awful.systems 2w ago

Je, wrong gramnar and the german feels totally off. Much too wooden amyway for a proper death threat.

2w ago

Nate Graham doubles down on sloppification

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jaschop @awful.systems 2w ago

I think he realized it too and sockpuppeted a better example. Check the comment by "Gerard"

2w ago

Sloperators declare: slopping kinda sucks

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jaschop @awful.systems 2w ago

I bumped heads here before on that take, but I can empathize deeply with these people.

I expect that interacting with most of them will be infuriating, since they probably accepted the "this is just how things are done from now on" narrative of AI and are some level of infatuated with the fancy demos.

But this acceptance is also where the inescapable soul-crushing comes from. If you can adopt an internal posture of resistance, the prevalence of AI is still grating but you can adopt a perspective that doesn't devalue your own skill and makes personal impact conceivable. Many of these folks are pretty far gone, but a pipeline of recovery should be possible from a starting point like this.

2w ago

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th September 2026

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jaschop @awful.systems 2w ago

The concept seemed interesting to me, but they did seem to enjoy making everything as complicated as possible.

I did find a CLAUDE.md when I was browsing their core repos a while back. That was only the web frontend I believe, not the core algorithm. Though it seems generous to assume they weren't slopping up that one too.

2w ago

Nachfolger von Windows: Staatskanzlei Kiel stellt auf Linux um

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jaschop @awful.systems 2w ago

Gonicus sind stabil

2w ago

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th September 2026

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jaschop @awful.systems 2w ago

First time I heard of this guy, but this slaps! Main post material

2w ago

ich🗳️🐻iel

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jaschop @awful.systems 2w ago

Das musste ich 2mal lesen, befors geschnallt hat. Hoffentlich wird wieder seriösere Politik gemacht, wenn die Spaßparteien FDP, BSW & CDU außerparlamentarisch bleiben.