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Mikina

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  • Internet Archive to New York: Don’t Kill the Good Bots in the Fight Against Bad Bots | Internet Archive Blogs

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  • I'm kind of looking forward to this, in a way? I've been struggling with social network addiction, while I was fortunate enough to skip on doomscrolling FB, Instagram, TikTok and all that bullshit, I was always mostly just on Reddit, now Lemmy (but I've also been getting back to Reddit more than I should), or watching youtube.

    Over the past 15 years I've been more or less (usually less) successful in cutting off that habit, but I've unfortunately always fallen back into it.

    My utmost hate for fingerprinting and any kind of verification will make me finally cold turkey that shit. I've already seen it with youtube - every time it forces me to sign in to prove I'm not a bot, I fuck off and go do something else. Same with Reddit.

    So, yeah.

  • better than half our interns

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  • You have to time it right, there is a sweet spot when it's just warm enough for a while.

  • finally something worse then curl | sh

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  • Kind of have an urge now to post an issue that the nstall skill has installed a malware on my machine.

    It's pretty plausible that could happen, and good luck debugging that.

  • Why are the IDEs of becoming worse and worse and worse? Right now I have a window which I cannot close because no menu visible. Cursor is always hidden, have to use the mouse. It is so

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  • Thank you for this comment, especially the second part - thanks to that I've realized it's something I've been guilty of doing ever since a lot of the things I used to love started getting heavily enshittified, and most of my comments are exactly what you are mentioning, and I never realized that until you said it.

    I'll do the same! While I wasn't making the comments malliciously, mostly just sharing my disappointment as a way of giving feedback to the product in question, but I didn't really occur to me that there's really no point that doesn't add anything to the discussion, and there's really no reason to spend time doing that. It's something I never really thought about, but what you're saying makes sense, so thanks for mentioning it.

  • finally something worse then curl | sh

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  • I can imagine that works for most cases, but when you try to include some lesser known and obscure library, that is heavily typosquatted, you might run into issues.

  • Why are the IDEs of becoming worse and worse and worse? Right now I have a window which I cannot close because no menu visible. Cursor is always hidden, have to use the mouse. It is so

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  • Once JetBrains started to get into AI bullshit, I immediately canceled my subscription.

    You get a permanent perpetual license for the version you spend a year paying for, so I have been just using the version before they started sloppifying the entire editor. It runs ok, and does what I need, don't see a reason to upgrade.

    I've recently gotten access to a license at work, and oh my god the editor has gotten so much more worse and slower after the two years. It sucks, I liked JetBrains as a company, but at this point I would not recommend it to anyone, unless installing like an ancient version.

    But yeah, in the toolbox you can install older versions. Go with like 2023-24 one and you'll have a much better experience.

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    A win for privacy

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  • At this point I'm seriously considering just running something like openclaw with a basic model to just keep clicking on random stuff and browsing the internet, changing personalities each day at random, to flood my IPs data.

  • Locked

    A win for privacy

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  • I'm glad we have options here in Europe. Not many, but there are at least 3 mobile and internet providers at my location, so whenever one tries to pull something like this, I just call them that I'm switching providers. I've netted a permanent 50% discount and even managed to convince them to keep the discount at my old flat (which was a student's shared flat where my friends still live) and also transfer it to my new home I have with my partner.

    As far as I know, they can give you massive discounts, but you have to be willing to go through hell and run into a good call operator.

    But also, that was like 10 years ago and I didn't need to do it again. I can imagine that in the age of clankers, things may be a lot different (also with the transition to late-stage capitalism and enshittification).

  • finally something worse then curl | sh

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  • This will be a goldmine for malware groups that are poisoning AIs that use web search to get them to use their malware-ridden version of software and libraries, and I'm here for it with popcorn at the ready.

    I kinda hope this will get more common, because the only people affected kind of deserve it, plus it's a great way how to filter sloprojects at a glance.

  • finally something worse then curl | sh

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  • As someone who had his relatively fine and deterministic scripts replaced by skill.md bullshit by coworkers -- no. This is exactly the things AI is the worst fit for.

    We've already ran into it halucinating complete result data-set, because it ran into an error but the skill mentioned that it should give the results data to the user. So it just made it up, since it couldn't get it by following the correct process.

    It has also ran wrong builds or input parameters, because it confused their order.

    I've also seen it skip a step.

    I'm pretty confident that the AI running this script will eventually, for someone, run into an issue with getting one of the dependencies, and go on a wild goose chase in trying to satisfy it, eventually running into one of the typosquatting malware repositories or clones. Not to mention that there are groups that are actively poisoning AIs that search the web to feed them their malware-ridden typosquatting libraries instead.

    If you suck so much you can't write a simple script like this (or just can't be bothered), you should at least just ask the AI to write it for you, so you have a deterministic set of steps that you are confident will always behave the same.

  • finally something worse then curl | sh

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  • finally something worse then curl | sh

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  • While I'm not a fan of most AI usages, this is the thing that infuriates me the most.

    I like writing scripts to automate parts of my job. I've had a few for things like build performance testing comparison and the like.

    All of it was replaced by skill.md, that does exactly the same, but burns like 3$ per run in tokens, and has also at least once generated hallucinated results, because it ran into an error, ran wrong builds, or in general fucked up in a way that was not easy to detect (and we did in fact not detect it until much later).

    But hey, at least my colleagues now don't have to open the filthy commandline and write py perf-test.py main feature/branch to run the test, and can just talk about it to a clanker.

  • Modern problems require modern solutions

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  • Ngl, I should update my personality rule.md to talk to me like Duo the Owl would when I'm missing my dailies.

    I currently have SHODAN from System Shock, and it has been kind of fun, a little bit of harmless flavor that burns tokens I don't have to pay for (or have a reason to keep low), since I'm forced to use it anyway. Duo the Owl also sound like fun.

  • A universal approach to mocking with continuations

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  • ...Oh, it's about programming, not mocking people.

    This was a dissapointing click. :D

  • What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care?

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  • Yes.

  • Several US schools to install pepper-spraying drones to respond to school shootings

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  • I'm now imagining a professional-level FPV drone racing controller/pilot just blasting it at 100mph (which iirc is about the speed they race at in corridors) through the shool to drive by pepper-spray someone.

    I mean, I'm sure whoever came up with this idea imagined it exactly like that, and ngl it would look pretty cool :D

  • Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit

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  • That's why I went with editing them to something random, unrelated to the thread, but still a feasible paragraph, in hope that this won't trigger this mechanism.

  • Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit

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  • I've been slowly replacing, by hand so it doesn't trigger their detection alerts, all of my 15 years of comments on Reddit, a lot of it valuable answers to tech questions or programming problems, with a randomly prompted unrelated paragraph of ChatGPT whatever.

    When one of the first exodi(?) came, a lot people replaced their comments with random words through scripts, back then it was not as detected and prevented (which Reddit promptly scrambled to prevent), and thanks to people doing that I've eventually blocked Reddit from my Kagi altogether, simply because 90% of what I found was either questions with scrambled answers, comments that are just ads from bots, or just unrelated bullshit. So, it does have an actual impact.

    Have fun selling that to AI companies.

  • Tesseract Dev (AdmiralPatrick) RageQuits Lemmy with Final Goodbye Message (and hid a DDOS script on his page)

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  • With added actual felony on top. Several, probably.

  • AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees

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  • JDK is the greatest scam ever.

    When something needs JDK, most people usually just download the first one they find without much thought, just like with any dependency, which is Oracle's, instead of OpenJDK.

    Oracle will go after companies where their employees unknowlingly installed their JDK for some minor thing, and hit them with multimillion fine for breaking their license after a while. Or at least I remember hearing they used to.

    Blocking anything Oracle company-wide, especially JDK, is the first thing an IT admin should do.

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  • Privacy @programming.dev
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    Self-hosting Matrix is pretty easy thanks to matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

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    New Jetbrains Update Dropped

  • Opensource @programming.dev
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    Looking for a lightweight blog/personal website that can Federate

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    What do you think would be an actually good use of blockchain/smart contracts? What kind of problems (big or small) is it a good tool for?