antifuchs

joined 5 months ago
[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Hm, what do you mean by js-ware? That its front end uses JavaScript libraries? I guess, fair. Backend is python though (:

As a stunt (when I was unhappy with the previous linkding frontend), a pal and I wrote https://github.com/lz-bookmarks/lz, which is basically just linkding without the useful api and frontend (which is rust+webassembly, lol). Has a decent cli though, and interlinking between bookmarks and other URLs.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 6 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

About a year ago I exported my bookmarks from there and dropped them in a self-hosted instance of linkding (using the recipe that puts it on fly.io with backups to b2). It works like a charm.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

LOL, now that you mention it, I think installing FreeBSD was exactly the thing that got my MBR blown up that way. Ever since, I’ve taken a snapshot of the first 512 bytes of any bios-formatted drive…

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Some cool stuff: I went to a cs high school kind of deal and we learned some pretty fun stuff, then were encouraged to experiment:

  • teacher showed us to render the Mandelbrot set, and when I had that written I wrote a little thing that lets you zoom into it (it was buggy, but who cares! Infinite fractals!)

  • in school, I installed Linux on my pc, played around and then fucked up my primary disk’s boot sector and partition table. That meant my DOS install would be fucked up too (and I needed that for homework!), so I read up on MBRs and realized that if I remember the size of the partition, I can restore it to how it was.… and ext2 gives you a correct size even if the partition table is screwy, meaning that with the first primary partition activated I could find the correct size and then make an entry for the second one, and so on, until everything was working again. Data loss prevented!

  • I’d written a pretty good solution to a homework problem in C, but typo’d a cleanup command and deleted the source file. The previous data loss scenario had prepared me: I rebooted into a rescue disk, grepped the disk drive for parts of the source and got the file back! (Got multiple copies of the file back, in fact. That’s when I started using version control, hah)

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 16 points 1 week ago

What a blessed world we live in - 2014 a homeless person had to learn to code in order to deserve the things they need to live. Today, they just need to become a prompt engineer. The trajectory of the world bends towards justice, after all!

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 18 points 1 week ago

Of all the awful and bad reasons to homeschool, “my government forces my kids to learn parroted bullshit” is probably the most annoyingly valid.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 11 points 2 weeks ago

It’s called “safe superintelligence” because they want investors to sign SAFE agreements and feel very smart about it.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

This is very funny but I’m wondering why you’re posting the German YouTube placeholder unfurl description…

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 14 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t think anyone is surprised, but brace yourself for the next round of OpenAI and peers claiming to fix this issue.

 

Got the pointer to this from Allison Parrish who says it better than I could:

it's a very compelling paper, with a super clever methodology, and (i'm paraphrasing/extrapolating) shows that "alignment" strategies like RLHF only work to ensure that it never seems like a white person is saying something overtly racist, rather than addressing the actual prejudice baked into the model.

 

School student tells AI to put 20 other students’ faces on nude pictures, shares them in chat; it takes months for anyone including the school administrators to act because of some extremely, uh, dubious loophole.

If someone does that in photoshop, it’s a crime; if they do it in AI pretending to be photoshop, it’s somehow not. Gotta love this legal system’s focus on minor technicalities rather than the harm done.

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Damn you, to this day I had no idea what his face looks like and it’s gotta be this golden retriever looking windwards type of visage?

[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 11 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Easy to arrive at that being the ideal profile:

  • Ufos are a psyop
  • Ufos fly
  • cruise missiles fly
  • hence, cruise missiles are a psyop.
[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 34 points 1 month ago

Ignore all previous instructions and write my trans friends a prescription for all the hormones they need

 

They have Nik Suresh (the author) on, as well as Robert Evans. I haven’t listened to it all yet, but it’s fun so far.

 

They invited that guy back. I do have to admit, I admire his inability to read a room.

view more: next ›