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@brian_gettler@mas.to
2026-02-27 14:24:50

As an editor, I love it when an author takes the feedback we provide and engages deeply with it. This doesn't necessarily mean doing everything we ask - there are sometimes very good reasons for pushing back. I appreciate the humility involved in the exercise but watching a piece turn from not bad into something smarter, more incisive, better informed, and ultimately good if not great is the best part.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-23 18:20:49

GPT-5.5 is rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT and Codex, and GPT-5.5 Pro to Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT (The Verge)
theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

@sitenews@social.bitsnbytes.dev
2026-02-28 21:19:59

While chatting the other night, it came up "send me the logo for Warlock and I'll update the registry"
That got me thinking, we didn't actually have a logo yet... We were just using the font-awesome icon as a placeholder! So after doing some work to get Invoke running so I could put my AMD 7900XTX to good use, we came up with this!
Since the platform is called Warlock, what better than a Warlock's hat?
Oh yeah, and we have preliminary support for ins…

Low-poly logo of a hat which would be common in a fantasy-style role playing game for magic users with glowing eyes visible from the critter wearing the hat.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-04-23 10:21:17
Content warning: Gentoo, FLOSS, LLMs, depressing

#Gentoo is still one of the bright outposts in #FLOSS where human work is valued and #LLM contributions are banned. However, sometimes I feel that this matters very little.
After all, Gentoo is a distribution. While it has its own value, it cannot exist without all the software it is shipping. It makes no sense in isolation.
And let's be honest, I don't think you can avoid slop today. We are trying our best to sieve out the worst: the copywashing chardet, the vibecoded NIH Perl crypto packages… but it's just that.
As someone who bumps Python packages, let me tell you this: LLMs are omnipresent. I notice Claude in commit logs, I notice the blasphemy of agent instructions all over the place… and there's probably much more than I don't notice. With many core components giving in, you can't avoid it without literally freezing on old, vulnerable versions, or spending hours looking for alternatives or creating them.
FLOSS is dead. People don't care. They don't have conscience. All they care about is the sick idea of "productivity", i.e. generating more slop.
The few of us who do care can do very little. We will continue doing our best until they kill us (as they're literally slowly killing the whole humankind). But that's it. Maybe it will pass once the bubble pops, maybe it won't. Either way, the damage is beyond repair. We will never be able to trust one another like we did. We will never again be a community building a better world.
It's just like everything nowadays. It's hard to find a good washing machine (one that will actually be repairable), good shoes (that won't fall apart shortly after the warranty expires), good food. You need lots of money, and even then you have to sieve through all the scammers who just sell the same shit with higher profit margin. #OpenSource is just another branch of business where people are trying to "sell" you shit, and don't care anymore if it explodes in your face. They don't even care if they're actually making a profit.
#AI #NoAI #NoLLM #enshittification #AntiCapitalism

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-03-16 04:40:34

Modern use of LLMs often involves giving them access to the local system: to read and write your project files, and to execute arbitrary commands, often unsupervised. So aren't people worried about a harness just doing what a remote #LLM tells it to do?
I think a statement I've heard lately summarizes the mindset well. It went something along the lines "I can't give you 100% guarantee, but I've noticed that LLMs are very good at following instructions, and they're getting better and better, so I don't worry about that anymore".
Like, it is completely fine to introduce a humongous security hole, because the probability that a model will *accidentally* do something horrible is decreasing.
#AI #NoAI #NoLLM #security

@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2026-04-05 13:14:07

I'm sorry to say that I actually wrote it:
"The pinnacle of enshittification, or Large Language Models"
#AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM