Yet another LLM guy claiming it solved a problem when in fact it was already solved, with it being told almost exactly where and what to look for. Cold reading for use-after-frees.

rsyslog goes "AI first", for what reason? no one knows.

Opening ipython greeted me with this: "Tip: IPython 9.0+ has hooks to integrate AI/LLM completions."

I wish open source projects would stop doing this.

The developer of an LLM image description service for the fediverse has (temporarily?) turned it off due to concerns from a blind person.

Link to the thread in question

Good for them

Samsung developer sends AI slop to linux mailing list

This github bot arguing with itself for over 5000 comments over an issue label

https://github.com/...

I've never heard of a function being called entire out of complex analysis. But still, it is zero at i.

Thanks for the work you do on Newgrounds! This sentence stuck out to me

No more worrying about lack of content or fickle UGC creators

Oh they're just publically advertising their company to be anti-union. Bold.

clanker's dozen

I tried using Fluidsynth only to find that drums don't work. I looked around on github and found that they are toying with copilot to fix a related issue and that vibe code has already been merged 🙃

It's hard to come up with analogies for AI because it's so goddamn stupid. It's like if asbestos was flammable.

Just here to note that @dgerard had a clippy pfp before it was cool

o7's already posted it! https://awful.systems/post/6746032/9903043

the legal system is presently committed to treating similar numbers radically differently. No one can tell, simply by looking at a number that is 100 million digits long, whether that number is subject to patent, copyright, or trade secret protection, or indeed whether it is “owned” by anyone at all

If you look at data in the way that best obscures what it actually means, of course it can't be told apart from other data. Binary is simply a way to encode information that most often has an analogue equivalent. You can of course question the copyright of all works, but looking at them in a hex editor is almost a distraction.

Certainly, all around the world, legal systems have assumed that bits are a medium. But perhaps bits have no color. Perhaps homomorphic encryption implies that color is unmeasurable.

This is getting pretty close to technolibertarianism. Corbin, I like your posts but i can't get behind this

Projects that continue to prohibit AI-generated vulnerability reports are no longer suitable dependencies for GNOME

How. That is (E: was) the policy of curl and they are AI centrists.

Vibe coding would go just great in a theorem prover

Was checking out the QOI image format and the politics of the dev and found that he is pretty comfortable around the ladybird people. (sigh) Also the r slur on twitter.

Really amazing that such a simple format achieves PNG sizes and faster encoding speeds. 1-page specification, though it's more like 2 with a bit bigger text, for bragging rights.

The flipside to that quote is that computer programs are useful tools for mathematicians. See the mersenne prime search, OEIS and its search engine, The L-function database, as well as the various python scripts and agda, rocq, lean proofs written to solve specific problems within papers. However, not everything is perfect: throwing more compute at the problem is a bad solution in general; the stereotypical python script hacked together to serve only a purpose has one-letter variable names and redundant expressions, making it hard to review. Throw in the vibe coding over it all, and that's pretty much the extent of what I mean.

I apologize if anything is confusing, I'm not great at communication. I also have yet to apply to a mathematics uni, so maybe this is all manageable in practice.

Does this mean calibre's use case is a digital equivalent of a shelf of books you never read?

I misinterpreted this reply as the guy in the post being hired as a police officer. Thank god.