dgerard

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 16 points 1 week ago

author here - there is of course a good chance Disney will want to squash them like a bug.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

oh yeah, "they're making a bundle bootlegging our clearly in-copyright shit" is rather more clear cut

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago

honi soit dude honi soit

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

AI->Cocaine replacement, in which AI really is God's way of telling you you have too much money

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

originally old soviet/post-soviet saying but highly applicable here also

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 17 points 1 week ago

it was entirely to appease Wall Street and not in any way because they had a product, let alone one consumers would be interested in

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

speaking as someone who uses bash all the time, it's a fully equipped programming language and you absolutely should not use it as one because it's made of footbullets. Use Python. For extra sysadmin flavour, make it a Python script that does all the hard bits with a system call to bash.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

many ideas cribbed from rants by our valued comrade @fasterandworse, who rants about Hooked at the slightest provocation

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago

fly.io is closed source, of course he's not gonna show you the engineering excellence. trust me bro, you fool, you poltroon,

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He did fuzzing but boiling more oceans to find a vuln he'd already found

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 3 weeks ago

I could, but why? It's almost certainly actual Adobe(tm) Creative Suite(tm) Photoshop(tm) Subscription Edition.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Baldur Bjarnason (who hates AI slop) has posited precisely this:

My current theory is that the main difference between open source and closed source when it comes to the adoption of “AI” tools is that open source projects generally have to ship working code, whereas closed source only needs to ship code that runs.

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