mawhrin

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[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 3 points 4 hours ago

indeed, but that “90% of my code is now from ai” piece is even sadder than the rest.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

seems like armin ronacher (originally of the flask, jinja & co fame) has also fallen into the vibecoding rabbit hole; which is generally a pity.

a good thing that the pallets projects are now independent from him (and if you build python clis, plubum is anyway much, much better than click).

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

spotify, which is a step away in the software catalogue of any distribution that includes flatpak.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

there's plenty to read; an incomplete list of authors just off the top of my head: nnedi okorafor, ann leckie, martha wells, kate elliott, annalee newitz, sarah gailey, malka older, sarah jane anders…

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 3 points 4 days ago

we did. we contain these in the “sneerclub” area.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

take care and step carefully. there's a moment where the stress from working for a company with goals that counter your personal ethics is going to be hard to bear, and the worst thing you can do then is to change your value system to reduce the cognitive dissonance.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

david heinemeier hanson of the ruby on rails fame decided to post a white supremacist screed with a side of transphobia because now he doesn't need to pretend anything anymore. it's not surprising, he was heading this way for a while, but seeing the naked apology of fascism is still shocking for me.

any reasonable open source project he participates in should immediately cut ties with the fucker. (i'm not holding my breath waiting, though.)

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

oh, and let's entirely ignore “consider phlebas”…

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

“let me be really brave and unique: let's imagine culture is how the azadians (or veppers, or the affront, or even the gfcf…) see them. let's ignore the basic fact that this misconception is the main reason why culture's opponents, ultimately, lose. i am very intelligent.”

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

“i have a theoretical doctorate in medicine”.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago

he's claiming he is taking no llm money with exception of specific cases, but he does accept api credits and access to early releases, which aren't payments only when you think of payments in extremely narrow sense of real money being exchanged.

this would in no way stand if he were, say, a journalist.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 13 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

simon willison, the self-styled reasonable ai researcher, finds it hilarious and a good use of money throwing $14000 at claude to create an useless programming language that doesn't work.

good man simon willison!

 

from the “i'll drm your arse” and “industrial sabotage r us” department, a true scandal: a polish train manufacturer used firmware to lock out trains at 3rd party service depots in order to disrupt the operations of the trains for the railways who did not choose to service the trains at the manufacturer's; at the same time they blamed the 3rd parties for their inability to properly service the trains.

further reading in polish (but translates via google well): more technical and less technical, but with more political/economical details.

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