Mii @ mii @awful.systems

I wrangle code, play bad music, and write things. You might find some of it

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Jesus Christ, this guy read A Modest Proposal and took it as fucking inspiration.

Why is it always eugenics and euthanasia with these chucklefucks? The idea of exterminating large amounts of humans seems to tickle something in some people’s brains.

From my uneducated perspective, LLM hype seems to me more like any other tech bubble than Bitcoin. It is actually built on the promise of return on investment. But somehow the whole industry seems to burn way more money than it can rake in, and this has to, at some point, raise some eyebrows with the investors. Normally, they prop up dozens of startups, calculating with a high failure rate because one successful venture would cover the losses plus turn a profit. AI companies however burn so much money and still have no way to make that back, so this concept doesn’t work.

I don’t think you can keep this alive just by convincing the next idiot to pump in more money than you did, like you can with Bitcoin.

Oh for fuck's sake. They depend on postgresql@16 but in their official documentation they say to use brew install postgresql, which installs 14 as that's the current stable/LTS/whatever in the brew repos.

    
brew remove postgresql
brew install postgresql@16
brew services start postgresql@16
$(brew --prefix postgresql@16)/bin/createuser -s postgres

  

And then run the Lemmy db-init.sh script. Now it works.

At least I didn't have to use Docker.

I'd love to help when I have the time. I know a bit of Rust but am fairly confident in TS/React.

I just spent an hour trying to get the backend run locally on my macOS machine without success so far. First, cargo build failed because of a linker error, but that was pretty straightforward. So for anyone running into the same error, just do this:

    
brew install libpq
brew link --force libpq
cargo clean
cargo build

  

Then there was an error connecting to the database. Which is strange, because I was pretty sure I had postgres installed. After some digging, it seems that this is a problem with postgresql@14 specifically and does not occur with earlier versions, so I downgraded to 13. With that, cargo run finally executed, but I ran into an actual error here.

    
>> Error: LemmyError { message: Unknown("Couldn't run DB Migrations: Failed to run 2023-07-08-101154_fix_soft_delete_aggregates with: syntax error at or near \"TRIGGER\""), inner: Couldn't run DB Migrations: Failed to run 2023-07-08-101154_fix_soft_delete_aggregates with: syntax error at or near "TRIGGER", context: SpanTrace [] }

  

I gave up for now. Debugging database migrations is probably the closest thing to the Basilisk torturing me for all eternity that I can imagine. If anyone knows what this is and how to fix it, I'd appreciate it.

I stand by my opinion that SEO basically ruined the internet. First keyword optimization made me scroll through seventeen paragraphs of someone's life story before getting to a recipe for boiled eggs, and now this.

Why would someone go to the trouble of making a law firm out of NameCheap, stock art, and AI images (and seemingly copy) to send quasi-legal demands to site owners? Backlinks, that's why.

Oof, back in the day all we had to do was write a nice email to get someone to put a backlink to our page into the sidebar of their Geocities page.

I smell bullshit written by spicy autocomplete, or at the very least it has LLM drivel pasted into it in various places.

In Europe, GDPR directives are important drivers which will become more stringent in the coming years. Better decentralization will enable higher security especially in terms of availability for this critical domain.

Lol what? The EPRS has quite unambiguously stated that there are multiple points of tension between blockchain tech and the GDPR, and that "decentralization == security" is a false assumption for various reasons. There's also the elephant in the room that every person maintains the right to all copies of their data at all times (mainly articles 16 and 17 GDPR), which is a problem if it exists in an uneditable distributed ledger.

The conclusion of that study was, and I quote, "that it is not possible to assess the compatibility between 'the blockchain' and EU data protection law", and the only reason why it even might be compatible is mainly because of "the uncertain definition of 'erasure' in Article 17 GDPR". But even then they only admit that there could by hypothetical beneficial use cases but fail to find any with current blockchain tech.

Source: Blockchain and the General Data Protection

I swear, OpenAI is just a bunch of clowns LARPing as a company from Shadowrun and somehow it works and no one questions it.

I’m actually at a loss of words for this. What the actual fuck …

From here. The article is pretty interesting, though.

He seems to have the same amount of brain cells as a GPT at least.

The fucking comments on the live chat, lol.

I'd like to see him a free man. With his skill-set think of the contribution he could make

I would actually like to see him to less but use his knowledge to help other exchanges and crypto whales

​​Hope he gets the least amount of time

​​i feel bad for sam, i don't think he's a threat to society. only thing is they may want to make an example out of him

I suddenly feel like Hackerman because my PGP-encrypted file with Steam backup tokens is infinitely better secured than some crypto bro's detailed confession of crimes that could land them jail for 50 years.

These clowns are so fucking incompetent at being evil geniuses that they need a document outlining their Evil Plan™ and not once think how that might be a stupid idea.

Idk if this even meets the lowest-quality bar, but I just saw something on Reddit's Buttcoin sub, and the fact that this is a real headline is making me question my sanity. The future of finance, everyone.

And the AI-generated image is the cherry on top.

This is the next level of “I put my symptoms into Google and WebMD told me I have cancer”.

My compassion goes out to any doctors who now not only have to explain to several idiots every day that a slight pain in their pinky finger does not, in fact, mean they probably have ball cancer, but also that some vaguely professional sounding fluff disguised as a diagnosis generated by a chatbot also doesn’t mean they probably have ball cancer.

People are increasingly turning to LLMs for a wide range of cognitive tasks, from creative writing and language translation to problem-solving and decision-making.

If this guy's circle of acquaintances includes an increasing number of people who rely on fancy autocomplete for decision-making and creative writing, I might have an idea why he thinks LLMs are super intelligent in comparison.

To achieve human escape velocity, we might need to leverage the very technologies that challenge our place in the cognitive hierarchy. By integrating AI tools into our educational systems, creative processes, and decision-making frameworks, we can amplify our natural abilities, expand our perspectives, and accelerate innovation in a way that is symbiotic rather than competitive.

Wait, let me get this straight. His solution to achieve human escape velocity, which means "outpac[ing] AI's influence and maintain human autonomy" (his words, not mine) is to increase AI's influence and remove human autonomy?

Just when I thought that Bitcoin could not possibly become any more stupid, I saw this on Reddit.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-bitcoin-halving-really-is-different-this-time/ar-BB1kb6o5

The halving will occur at block height 840,000 (a count of how many blocks have been hashed to the blockchain), and already people are predicting that will be the most valuable block to be mined to date. This is related to the point above: Ordinals works by assigning serial numbers to individual satoshis (or sats, the smallest denomination of BTC), which turns a fungible asset like bitcoin into something with provenance, identity and scarcity.

Tristan, the founder of Ordiscan.com, which tracks Ordinals projects, predicts that collectors of these “rare sats” could value the data in block 840,000 at $50 million dollars. Under the “Rodarmor Rarity” system, which assigns value to Bitcoin protocol events like difficulty adjustments and halvings, the first satoshi in the block alone could be worth upwards of $1 million, he wrote in a blog post.

They're turning Bitcoins satoshis into NFTs. And if you thought spending money on links to monkey jpegs was stupid, how about buying a random-ass hash?

Yeah, the joke is that he just assumes living a comfortable life without struggle equals falling down the consoomer rabbit hole and blowing your dopamine stores on watching porn the whole day or something, and not that you could use it for any number of fulfilling activities.

I'd take the boring, comfy life any time, and when I want something challenging to do, I pick learning to play the violin over going out and starting a race war, thank you very much.

This was worse than I imagined from the quotes. I feel like I need to take a shower, now.

[...] which would severely limit the Federal Reserve’s ability to control the economy while exporting inflation abroad, and likely bring our material standard of living down to a German or Dutch level

According to this Quality of Life index which I just searched up and have not critically assessed, but I doubt the guy did that either for his claims, so I guess it's fine, the Netherlands rank second and Germany ranks 12th, while the US is on the 15th place. In other words: what is he even talking about?

Every day in this country more and more Hispanics marry corn-fed blonde midwesterners and produce pale Castizo children who only speak English, consider themselves basically White, and vote like Irish and Italians.

Jesus fucking Christ, I can't even come up with a funny sneer here because this reads like he just pulled it out of the 1940s Nazi Party's bag of race laws for who's allowed to marry whom, and it's making me feel icky.

I also subscribe to the old fascist idea that adversity gives life meaning. A comfortable and easy life without struggle or conflict is miserable, and just makes you a slave to the hedonic treadmill. When you live for pleasure, no pleasure is ever enough, and continued success will just leave you so pampered that any task that’s challenging or outside your comfort zone will begin to feel onerous.

Ignoring the low-hanging fruit that this guy just flat-out said "well, fascism wasn't all bad", what kind of toxic consumer mentality is ingrained in these chucklefucks that they are seemingly unable so sit their sorry asses down on the couch and just say, yeah, I'm happy right now, to the point where they just postulate that other people must feel the same way, because they just can't imagine anyone being different?

Like, seriously, get a hobby or something.

Meanwhile, Tether has printed 11 billion tethers just since the start of 2024. It’s at 103 billion tethers and counting.

We suspect the tethers are being printed out of thin air and accounted as loans — the fresh USDT is “backed” by the loan itself.

I am not a financial expert by any means, so maybe I'm totally missing something here, but I really do not understand how Tether isn't the most obvious scam of all time.

It feels like the type of scheme a high schooler would come up with and call it an "infinite money glitch" while patting themselves on the back for just outsmarting Warren Buffett.

Once they finally opened I tried their food and it sucked.

So it was at least accurate advertising on their part.