It is kind of funny that Iran already replaced Khomeini with another Khomeini. Except this one is extra shitty, and now also extra pissed off too.

Yes, they have gone through multiple waves of enshitification over the decades. The ones you can buy now are a shadow of what they once were.

They can get into most phones for sure, and even if you have GrapheneOS in a paranoid config they can get you if they put in significant effort. They will come at the data from a direction that doesn’t require compromising the phone itself if that’s too much challenge. You need to think about the total attack surface, the phone itself is just one thing. Ultimately it’s about what resources are necessary to get what they want, for most phones the resources are relatively minimal but also most people are not worth the resources to them.

No, the biggest satellite networks are privately owned. The best aren’t obviously because that stuff is all classified but there’s more privately owned satellites monitoring the planet these days. There’s more going up regularly too, it’s a growing industry.

There’s already multiple satellite networks the public can hire. You can pay a company like Planet Labs or Spire Global and get access to thousands of satellites right now if that’s what you want to do. It would be great if the public had access for free but it costs a lot of money to keep satellites in orbit. I think having free access would save some NGOs money but otherwise not much would change.

It’s weird to me how controversial this take is here. It seems obvious that lots of people are learning to leverage LLMs for their dev work and that this isn’t going away. I’m personally skeptical we will ever get rid of human in the loop or even that we will improve output quality much from here, but I don’t think either is necessary for LLM use to become standard practice in software dev.

The output quality seems like it is already good enough for the industry so I don’t think the “ouroboros” problem will stop the trend. Even if LLM-generated code quality doesn’t improve at all from here they will continue to be adopted. I think the jury is still out on what impact LLMs have on learning but I do agree it is not looking good. I don’t think this will stop the trend though, just potentially produce an outcome where even fewer programmers understand what they are actually doing. I can see the risk of that resulting in a scenario where the capacity to keep the LLMs going becomes lost, it seems not very probable though and that instead a kind of stagnation would take over in which the capacity for progress via software development becomes much more limited. Regardless, I don’t think that the trend potentially resulting in everyone becoming too dumb to continue the trend would actually stop the trend before that failure state was reached. I think even knowing that LLMs taking over the software industry could result in the collapse of the industry is not enough to stop the people making these decisions or change the economic forces driving LLM adoption. It is a risk they are happy to take.

Setting all of that aside, my original point was that it is becoming impossible to avoid LLM-generated code and I don’t think we need LLM-generated code to become the majority of code produced for that to happen. Depending on how you want to count things we’re probably already at a point where one way or another you are interacting with code that came from an LLM. I think it’s probably kind of like trying to avoid AWS or Cloudflare and still use the web like a normal person, those days are gone.

I think for too many having code that simply works is enough, and LLM-generated code quality is likely to continue improving over the coming years at least to some degree. Claude Code is already hugely popular and used at a lot of companies. I don’t expect things like that to go away, they certainly won’t be getting worse and currently a growing number of devs apparently find them useful enough. I think it’s probably just a matter of time until the majority of devs are using tools like these at least to some extent. Do you think the trend of devs taking up LLM tools will stall out or reverse for some reason?

From everything I’ve seen, I don’t think you can realistically avoid vibe coded software going forward. We’re fast approaching the day when the majority of all new code is LLM output.

Definitely suspicious behavior. It’s plausible she didn’t notice them, or that she noticed them but had some other intent besides theft. I wouldn’t jump to any conclusions without further evidence.

Life is a bitch, and then you die. You have to get the good times while you can.

Launched from the solar system on a path out of the galaxy. Or left in the wilderness for nature to have it’s way.

Random super markets can license access to their data. I could easily imagine a company like Palantir or Flock leveraging systems like these in their government contracting. Whether or not these things are privately owned by creepy corporations or under the direct control of a government agency feels like a distinction without a difference, either way the infrastructure of totalitarianism is being constructed around us with these technologies.

They skipped the weirdest one, the VC formerly known as Masha Drokova.

I find it depends on my mood and the method of brewing. I enjoy fruity and berry flavors, and chocolate and nutty flavors, and really kind of anything that isn’t too funky or burnt. I seem to be a little strange and fortunate in that I love light, medium, and dark roasts. I always have multiple bags going and switch between them depending on what I feel like in the moment.

There isn’t really any reason to think the Fediverse won’t be used for AI training, if it isn’t already. Everything is in the open here, it’s easy enough to scrape all the data.

Eventually the reddit thread would probably balance out, and incorrect information should get downvoted and replaced by corrections from people who know better.

This seems optimistic.

It doesn’t take a million shell commands or sketchy scripts to deploy Windows without a Microsoft account. I literally did it just last week. I think you are being pedantic and moving the goal posts, the claim was that you need a Microsoft account to use Windows and that is not true. You may be coerced into using one depending on the version and install method but that’s not the original claim that was made.

Holy shit