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Mbwagava commented on Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI   wired.com/story/meta-laws... · Posted by u/mekpro
Mbwagava · 4 months ago
Whether or not Meta wins this case, I'm never going to support any government that supports both LLMs and IP. Like we have to put up with IP despite having no clear value to a digital society but as soon as it becomes inconvenient it goes out the window? Nah, let's just trash the state and start over.

It's going to take centuries to undo the damage wracked by IP-supported private enterprise. And now we also have to put up with fucking chatbots. This is the worst timeline.

Mbwagava commented on Driving Compilers (2023)   fabiensanglard.net/dc/ind... · Posted by u/misonic
lynx97 · 4 months ago
Nitpick: Almost all Hello World C examples are wrong. printf is for when you need to use a format string. Hello World doesn't. Besides:

> puts() writes the string s and a trailing newline to stdout.

int main() { puts("Hello World!"); }

Mbwagava · 4 months ago
Eh, not a fan of puts. It doesn't add any value over write or printf and it should be named "printLine".

But if you're still using raw libc in 2025 that's a problem you willingly opted into. I have zero sympathy.

Mbwagava commented on AWS Built a Security Tool. It Introduced a Security Risk   token.security/blog/aws-b... · Posted by u/simplesort
gwbas1c · 4 months ago
Depending on what the metadata is, it can be a huge security risk.

For example, some US government agencies consider computer names sensitive, because the computer name can identify who works in what government role, which is very sensitive information. Yet, depending on context, the computer name can be considered "metadata."

Mbwagava · 4 months ago
I don't the US government is representative of any kind of advisable behavior. Perhaps if they weren't doing stuff that makes people want to murder them we wouldn't have to light piles of cash on fire to protect the perpetrators.
Mbwagava commented on On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots   hedgehogreview.com/issues... · Posted by u/pseudolus
vasco · 4 months ago
I've noticed the "live in the moment" crowd is funnily enough the one that least lives in the moment. They are the first to notice how many people around them are taking pictures or posing or looking "ridiculous", worrying how themselves would look if they did the same, sometimes wanting deep down to do the same but held back by their own perceived judgement of others potentially turning on them.

I had a friend that spend a concert mad that someone was filming with an iPad on his peripheral vision. Kept talking about it and was the main topic when reviewing the concert to other friends.

Just live your life, you want to take pictures do, you don't don't, you want to post your whole life in Instagram do. Life is whatever you want it to be.

Mbwagava · 4 months ago
How is this comment any better than the attitude its commenting on?Just live your life, you want to take pictures do, you don't don't, you want to post your whole life in Instagram do. Life is whatever you want it to be.

> They are the first to notice how many people around them are taking pictures or posing or looking "ridiculous", worrying how themselves would look if they did the same, sometimes wanting deep down to do the same but held back by their own perceived judgement of others potentially turning on them.

This is incredibly arrogant & entirely projection.

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Mbwagava commented on Technical analysis of the Signal clone used by Trump officials   micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the... · Posted by u/micahflee
_djo_ · 4 months ago
There are not just government e2e apps, but government-provided and customised smartphones specifically for them, like the DMCC-S programme. [0]

Some of the apps are listed in that brochure.

There's no excuse for using Signal on personal devices for classified conversations.

[0] https://www.disa.mil/~/media/files/disa/fact-sheets/dmcc-s.p...

Mbwagava · 4 months ago
Are the apps usable? The jargon seems intentionally impenetrable. The editor of that document should be shot every time they used an acronym. Like i get the DOD is a profitable dick to suck but this is just embarrassing for a document intended for the public.

Anyway can you link the source? That's presumably the useful half. The marketing bit doesn't add anything.

Mbwagava commented on I'd rather read the prompt   claytonwramsey.com/blog/p... · Posted by u/claytonwramsey
concordDance · 4 months ago
Honestly, a future where diplomas are just noise and employers stop caring about them and thus young people stop wasting years of their lives "learning" something they don't care about sounds like a huge improvement.

LLM cheaters might incidentally be doing society a service.

Mbwagava · 4 months ago
I don't think diplomas have mattered for decades, at least in tech. Let's not pretend anything improved with the introduction of chatbots.

Annyway, any advantage is entirely offset by having to live in a world with LLMs. I'd prefer the tradition of having to educate retarded college graduates. At least they grow into retarded adults. What are we gonna do about chatbots? You can't even educate them, let alone pinocchio them.

Mbwagava commented on I'd rather read the prompt   claytonwramsey.com/blog/p... · Posted by u/claytonwramsey
nine_k · 4 months ago
In a medieval guild, to be admitted as a master, an apprentice had to create a chef d'oevre, or masterpiece, so called for this reason.

In the computer engineering industry, you increasingly have to demonstrate the same: either as a part of your prior work for hire, or a side project, or a contribution to something open-source.

A diploma is still a useful signal, but not sufficient, except maybe for very junior positions straight from college. These are exactly the positions most under pressure by the automation.

Mbwagava · 4 months ago
Apprentices were supported, tho. We just chuck kids out in the cold with college debt and hope they survive with little reason to think they will.
Mbwagava commented on I'd rather read the prompt   claytonwramsey.com/blog/p... · Posted by u/claytonwramsey
Mbwagava · 4 months ago
> If all we were interested in was moving the weights around, you’d be right to use a tool to help you.

Does the use of a quantifiable metric like a GPA not exacerbate this? In a world where people take a GPA seriously, you'd have to be irrational to not consider cheating a viable option.

You could say the same about credit score and dating apps. These institutions assist the most predatory and harm the most vulnerable.

Mbwagava · 4 months ago
Ooh ranked gaming, too. Also any kind of market activity.
Mbwagava commented on Thunderscope update: My take: Why open source is better   crowdsupply.com/eevengers... · Posted by u/ChuckMcM
dcrazy · 4 months ago
Plenty of closed source software packages are extensible and scriptable. The entire 3D modeling industry is a great example.
Mbwagava · 4 months ago
Why haven't people bludgeoned them into opening their software if its so useful? This is inevitable; in fact you could measure the long-term efficiency of an industry by how quickly this happens. Movie studios are famously bad at spending money (yes there are exceptions, but they can be counted on one hand).

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