after looking on from afar in horror at LLM code for many months, each example convincing me to never touch the stuff, somehow i am now responsible for reviewing a lot of LLM code for my job, and let's just say i am not having a good time.
with regard to Jay of bluesky suggesting they would [platform engineer away the dynamics that lead to people demanding jesse singal be banned]( ), reminder to our members that a) you can report me or any of the members of the social working group and the reported person will not be involved in evaluating that report, and the same options as any report are on the table. b) all instance business will be posted by the relevant instance account, not a personal account, so you can block me or any other instancemate c) any member can call a vote on any instance decision, including moderation decisions and suspensions. d) all members are welcome to join the social working group and take part in moderation. if the only recourse you have for moderation decisions is publicly pestering the mods, the process has failed. if there are people that can't be deposed, power isn't shared. if power isn't shared, decentralization is meaningless.
"What if someone uses an LLM to rip off my app that I ripped off with an LLM????" image
Putting backpacks on bugs to turn them into surveillance drones appears to be a real thing this company is trying to do
Fuck google pay, apple pay, any payment system linked to a phone. Fuck a cashless society. I needed to use google wallet for some event recently and couldn't because I'm running grapheneOS. Refuse to use this bull shit. The card processors are a cartel but they're nothing compared to Google owning all transaction data. image
If I was god of fedi quoting would be transclusion
What if the first instance of a federated system is not a generalist instance that inevitably weighs down and becomes a problem for the rest of the instances, and is instead a specific and focused instance that forces the creation of other instances and forces the software to develop a plugin architecture to accommodate instance differences?