The world is where it is because we decided to let everbody have the same voice.

We clearly live in different realities.

I personally like Rust fine, it’s not my favorite or my strongest language but we’ve suffered stuff like Java for decades.

Backdoors through model poisoning is so evil, I love it.

People hate AI because they were told they would not be able to get a job anymore, and many people got fired over it.

I’ve gone through a few automated security reports out of curiosity and they were bizarre rather than useful. I’m sure for stuff like the kernel it’s actually very useful and important, but I’m skeptical that the economics of agents make sense for anyone other than big governments and corpos running them, so rather than random hackers I expect corporate espionage to make use of these tools, considering how expensive it is to get the hardware you need to run open models, then how expensive it is to keep it running and cooling, and then the fact that it will degrade with use.

I’m sure it will get more efficient eventually, or at the very least it will be much cheaper to acquire the hardware needed for these models in a few years as China keeps developing its silicon industry, then it will be cheaper for random folks to use these tools for detecting vulnerabilities on random systems, but as it stands today these machines burn absurd amounts of money, and for the applications I’ve interacted with, the bugs were very much irrelevant as they required giving the end user access to internal apis and not use any sanity checks, which is absurd with everything that’s user input related.

100%, or we’d commit prompts instead of code lol

That’s how I feel about autocompletion and scaffolding, we’ve had LSPs and code generators for years, and they’re exponentially less wasteful

I mean, I use it because I’m forced to, but I don’t feel much in productivity gains (not using agents though). Sometimes it’s very, very handy, but most of the time it’s like talking to the stupidest rubber ducky, and the frustration it gives me is not worth that imo. Others might make a different calculation, but ultimately if search engines didn’t enshitify themselves into obsoletion, and LLMs didn’t produce the worst, most verbose, and sometimes objectively wrong documentation, I’d not see an upside at all. But here we are.

You need better reading comprehension.

Pain has a scientific definition, right?

Scientifically speaking, pain requires pain receptors, nerves and the like, so trees feel no pain. But the point that other people are trying to make, if I understand correctly, is that plants have agency and can perceive their environment and adapt in a way that’s not too dissimilar from animals, and you may think of the stimulus that causes them to adapt to survive as analogous to pain. Personally I find where we draw lines in scientific knowledge arbitrary at times, such as with some taxonomy, or how viruses are often not thought of as alive because they don’t fit a definition that’s man-made. So I can see why people would say plants may feel some kind of pain, just not the way we do as animals, and that depending on how we agree to define pain it may or may not count.

Sounds like he may be a socially progressive liberal.

Depending on what you mean by saving us, I don’t think China will, but they’re not invading random countries, staging coups, droning civilians, etc, so these two countries are not even remotely comparable.

I spent every other evening for a week trying to install fedora.

Skill issue.

It’s okay, Comrade Sharkfucker

It’s still transphobic. Less reactionary, sure, but transphobic.

No one is arguing for the hypothetical that if you’re somehow linked to a nazi by an infinite number of degrees of separation you’re literally a nazi, as that would make the term nazi, calling people out, and so on, useless. Read it in the only way it makes sense: those with the most power, such as big businesses, platform owners, politicians, and so on, have the responsibility not to platform them, definitely not to fund them, not to normalize them, not to launder their ideas or their acts. And regular people like me or (I assume) you, we still have a responsibility not to tolerate nazis. We have a responsibility to call these people out, to protest, to defend those who are marginalized the most, to organize and stop the worst from happening. Because our politicians sure as hell won’t stop them, and big corporations are already showing their hand.

He’s not simply “against immigration”, he finds Tommy Robinson “heartwarming”. You may not know a whole lot about the far-right, but it doesn’t take a genius to see what he’s doing.

Communists that support Russia have critical support, which means we support some of what they do, such as supporting Cuba during a genocidal blockade, but we still have valid criticisms. You won’t see any of us claim Russia is morally good or some nonsense.

Communists don’t judge countries based on their perceived moral character. Russia, like all countries, acts in the interest of its own ruling class. Right now the interest of their ruling class is aligned with anti-imperialist forces. We understand that imperialism is the primary contradiction, and that as long as we live under a unipolar world order the global majority will only get poorer and more exploited, that climate change will inevitably kill most of us and that those who survive will be tied to the same exploitative forces.

The only reason why some of us come across as “pro-Russia” is because we’re often debunking imperialist propaganda. As long as people are willing to read beyond wikipedia or a genocide-denying newspaper, we’re fine discussing events with a lot more nuance than we get credit for. But it’s a lot easier to pretend we’re crazy Putin-loving tankies, so that’s what you see here.

Everyone to my right that I don’t like is a Nazi.

No, nazis are nazis. If you argue for ethnic cleansing the bare minimum you can expect is some pushback, no one owes your opinions any respect as a baseline.