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I tend to agree - for whatever reason tech heavy internet communities tend to be filled with Luddites.

My organization has found LLMs really useful for interdisciplinary collaboration. Subject matter experts can generate and check code examples, while software engineers can ask questions about what the code is meant to be doing. It really lowers the friction in these kinds of interactions

Look, fool me sixteen times, shame one you. Fool me twenty six times, shame on you. We won’t get fooled again.

Something, something, the industrial revolution and its consequences…

I think a lot of people are confused by this. If you order sex toys on Amazon, they don’t then flood your feed with more sex toys because they have it marked as “embarrassing.” I think the article is saying this product got a similar classification, not that it isn’t available.

I suspect the barrel of lube is largely a joke.

This isn’t a new thing. Dilution of “programmer” and “computer” education has been going on for a long time. Everyone with an IT certificate is an engineer th se days.

For millennials, a “dev” was pretty much anyone with reasonable intelligence who wanted to write code - it is actually very easy to learn the basics and fake your way into it with no formal education. Now we are even moving on from that to where a “dev” is anyone who can use an AI. “Prompt Engineering.”

When I’m out and about and looking for a drink on a hot day I’d love if regular unsweet tea was widely available. I hate buying bottled water but I also hate sweet drinks.

The unsweetened tea fight is a losing battle. The only way to get it is to make it yourself.

Right, these are likely people with fully vested pensions basically taking terminal leave above and beyond their accumulated leave. Most feds can accumulate 240 hours of leave to be cashed out on retirement. Trump basically offered people nearing retirement the opportunity to cash out 1280 hours. Much efficiency. Very cost savings.

Most people don’t actually like real security as much as they claim they do. SELinux and its derivatives are pretty much the only real option we have for properly robust security these days.

Yeah I’ve been there a bunch and this city centers are definitely impressive. There is plenty of dystopian shit though. Obviously the Internet situation is weird, but I’ve been basically told I can’t go up to my hotel room without my Chinese sponsor.

Imagine being this fragile

You could say the same thing about Time Cube

This absolutely expands the threat surface in a few different ways though. It’s relatively low stakes, but it’s non zero. I have not dug into the implementation but I am curious how this doesn’t technically violate forward secrecy. A single session key will ostensibly be used to encrypt the entire session key database? Which means if that key is compromised in transit then the entire key history is compromised. Using the long term secret directly for data in transit is definitely not compliant either.

We haven’t been infested by the vain Facebook crowd yet.

Pretty sure they already did. Turning it into a right wing boomer platform is going to chase all the kids away and with it whatever broader cultural relevance it might have had.

Unfortunately, Lemmy demonstrates pretty clearly that decentralized systems are just as vulnerable to propaganda and brain rot.

The solution here is distributed trust by proxy. You start with a single exchange between two trusted peers, and build from there. As long as every individual link within the network is trusted, then any route between two disconnected endpoints can be trusted as well. As the network grows there is a very high statistical likelihood that there will exist many individual trust graphs between two nodes, which provides redundant validation.

I have always thought this would make a cool chat app. You enter the network by scanning someone’s QR code to become their validated peer, and then you can theoretically communicate with anyone else on the network by exchanging keys via trust graphs. You could then build a social network on top of it which shows you how many hops it takes you to get to some celebrity or some shit.

There’s no way GenZ can possibly be this stupid, right?

In a real coffee shop you’d get a fixed amount of espresso and milk. A proper latte doesn’t just add milk to fill the cup, and “no ice” isn’t some hack to get an extra shot.