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The AI.gov repository and staging site vanished when we asked questions, but don't worry – we captured backups

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[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 163 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They are even dumber than Leslie Nielsen as American president in his parodies.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 72 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This was the feeling!!! I couldn't put my finger on just how this entire thing felt to me, you've cleared the skies and allowed the light of recollection to meet my shores!

It feels like 70s-80s slapstick!

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think part of that is that it conjures up cold war era associations.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago

Definitely! Those "outside time and space"/"post-modern purgatory" vibes are strong nowadays. Every day feels like making busy until the storm hits.

[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Obligatory fuck Trump

Releasing your code and related resources is SoP.

We had a guy who fixed up no less than 20 repos in our small company cleaning up API keys that were accidentally published. This isn't uncommon at all.

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 98 points 2 weeks ago

Well good luck to you guys in the US. This AI government will be extremely dangerous. An all knowing advertisement algorithm reaching deep in government data with an unsafe LLM on top? Ouch.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 73 points 2 weeks ago

Move fast and break things is not good when government is involved.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 71 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (32 children)

Only silver lining right now is these idiots might just be too stupid to pull off creating their evil empire.

[–] PTSDwarrior@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 weeks ago

This reminds me of an interview with a Ukrainian soldier, who said of the Russians “we are lucky they are so fucking stupid”. If only that translated into less air superiority by Russia, because that's where Ukraine struggles.

[–] match@pawb.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

Second term same as the first?

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[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 66 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I dream of the day the People collectively have had enough and just drag the bastards into the street and beat them until they can bastard no more.

One can dream…

[–] neuromorph@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

He's hiding behind glass. He won't know fresh air ever again.

[–] titey@jlai.lu 61 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

DB_PASS="postgres" 😬😬😬

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

so, uh... can you ELI5 this for those of us that don't know anything?

[–] crookfingerjake@lemmy.world 38 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The type of database they are using is called "postgres", which is also it's password.

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[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Postgres, SQLite, etc are tools for database management, things like user data, application data and so on are collected here.

Edit: the DB_PASS=“postgres” is the default password when setting up a Postgres database.

Take Reddit’s Karma system or Upvotes/Downvotes for example, they’re stored in a database and however Reddit wants to utilize that data Postgres makes it easy to call upon it.

I’m sure others can give more detailed responses, I’m typing this out in a rush.

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Interesting that you chose Reddit as an example. They have a fascinating origin story with respect to data mart. Early Reddit had just two tables: Thing and Data, where Thing was metadata about types and Data was a three column table with: type, id, and value.

Wrap your head around that. All of Reddit, two tables. A database couldn’t be less normalized (final boss of normal forms) and they did it in an rdb. So horrific it’s actually kind of cool.

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[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

It’s like having your password set to “password”

[–] forgeddit@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 weeks ago

The person you replied to doesn't know what they're talking about. It's just an example password used for running a local empty DB for development and has nothing to do with production or even test databases.

You can see this in the readme: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fgsa-tts-archived%2Fai-gov-api

See my longer previous comment if you want to know more. And again, not defending this project, but this whole comment chain was just misinformation.

[–] Nobilmantis@feddit.it 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean it is called ".env_example" afterall... Probably a env file to use for testing, no?

[–] forgeddit@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 weeks ago

I'm really shocked by the confidence people have here with clearly zero knowledge.

".env_example" is literally just the example/template which is only updated if new "config" items are needed and it doesn't contain actual secrets.

Developers copy ".env"/prod and ".env_local" files, which are used for the specific environments. These are in .gitignore so that they're not accidentally pushed to .git.

For production the ".env" is generated during deployment from secrets in a locked up environment. (I mean they COULD fuck this up, but there's no evidence of this AFAIK)

The example postgres password is simply a "hello world" type password that is often used when running a local docker image of the DB so you can get a full dev environment running in a couple minutes, as mentioned in the readme.md: https://github.com/gsa-tts-archived/ai-gov-api

It's not even a testing environment, it's a temporary local/dev DB just so you can test your code.

I am NOT defending this project, but holy shit this thread is full of misinformation and I had to correct this.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Unfortunately no, it seems. Somebody at least had the bare minimum sense to let GitHub generate the .gitignore for them, which includes most common environment files. https://github.com/gsa-tts-archived/ai.gov/blob/main/.gitignore

[–] stm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 2 weeks ago

I want off Mr Bone's wild ride

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The stupid is intensifying. They both a) know they can’t run a government and b) are in a rush to make something that will do all the work so they can sit back and rake in the money. No, this is not about actually making the country better because objectively LLMs suck and were never intended for such tasks.

[–] kinther@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

They are too generic and lack the specialization needed to do such tasks. It will only end in disaster

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 38 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

"all-in-one API" that will allow agencies to connect their systems to models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic

This is a huge red flag to me.

It means:

  • They are ignorant of existing APIs and standards that are exactly this. Uh, MCP or OpenAI API? Which everyone already uses?
  • They have zero interesting in models they can host themselves, or from cheaper providers. Or, heaven forbit, finetune for their own work.
  • They have zero interest in actually useful tools. Like, say, SGLang's cached hosting and fast fill-in-the-blanks formatting which is perfect for say, processing government forms.

In other words, it's just full corporate AI Bro capture. And shitty.

One of the consequences is that it will be very bad, unfortunately.

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[–] cmder@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Super earth's managed democracy was supposed to be satire...

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

whats wrong with managed democracy? did you see how quickly a new president was elected when the previous one perished during the invasion?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I hate that all of the worst things Donald is planning are slated for July 4.

[–] kerntucky@infosec.pub 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm out of the loop; what's being planned for the 4th of July?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

That's the deadline Donald set for the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill as well.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What do we want? sKYNET!!!!

When do we want it? As soon as it can beat beginner atari chess?!?!

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I consider this as the final confirmation that he wants to bring the government down.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Trump just wants people bowing to him. His handlers are the ones with real plans. Don't let Peter Thiel run away to Argentina.

[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Trump is the disposable face of something much darker. He is a tool.

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[–] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago

Just waiting for the first decision made because of AI hallucinations.

With this government? You might get disappeared to a black site because a LLM "decided" that you probably are a terrorist...

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can't wait for some serbian hacker with Xx69 in their name multiple times to destroy the US government because one of Elon's script kiddies left 42,069 security holes in the fucking system.

Gonna be awesome. lmao.

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