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Even if you hate LLMs, you should pay attention to and maybe even get involved with LLMs — to try to mitigate and maybe even prevent some of the ways which they could be used in a harmful way.
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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #Privacy
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I don't think LLMs are going to go away — not in the way I suspect some of its hater wish it would.
Even after the AI hype-bubble pops — I think LLMs will still be around.
It doesn't matter if you hate them, or hate how they were created, or hate their social impact, or whatever — I think people will continue to use LLMs — both now and in the future.
But, here is the thing —
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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #Privacy
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Even if you hate LLMs, you should pay attention to and maybe even get involved with LLMs — to try to mitigate and maybe even prevent some of the ways which they could be used in a harmful way.
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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #Privacy
#trpg구인 혹시 12/22일 (월), 12/29일 (월) 저녁 9-12로 CoC 크툴루의 부름 입문 세트 수록 공식 시나리오 《어둠의 가장자리》같이 가실 분 계실까요~ GM 스나크님이고 PL 저 있음~
看到友邻吐槽生活在西方的女生在说什么remember your roots感觉很无语，我就想起来个事儿来
男人的老板虽然不是个CBC但是也很小就来加拿大了，只会讲一些零零星星的粤语方言。然后这两天他们聊天，男人每天都在讲中国的事情震惊他。
比如他之前不知道中国人出国需要很麻烦地办签证，他一直以为跟蓝本护照一样说走就走。再比如说他之前说感觉回中国探亲啥的看到街上没有吸毒的不像这边，男人：那是因为都抓起来了。再比如说昨天说起来我们学校这边有些地是原住民的，所以买的房子是有时限的产权，男人：中国的房子都是这样。老板：目瞪狗呆
跟我说我被笑死，我说挺好的，每天一点中国小课堂。help him remember his roots
there is nothing wrong with your television
do not adjust your receivers
we are controlling transmission
do not adjust your displays
Does the open web require competitive markets?
For folks who’re interested in 3d printing whistles: https://www.printables.com/model/417238-loudest-emergency-whistle is the best I’ve found.
They’ve been tested on canyoneering trips — we use whistles to communicate over the sound of waterfalls; nothing else is piercing enough to cut through the thunder. These work as well as the gold standard Fox 40 Classic.
I print it florescent orange PLA, with an 0.6mm nozzle and 0.3mm layer height, and make lanyards out of orange paracord.
some people spend their evenings playing video games or watching tv or having all sorts of fun. i spend my evenings recalling things like "video essay suddenly interrupted by heavenly chorus singing 'fear of god (fear of god)'" and being compelled by evil forces to find them again
heres a normal video about a healthy topic i saw while trying to find this
It’s clear that trans people face unique, advanced, and persistent threats—online and off. Here are some strategies for resisting the tech-enabled violence that trans people face. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/strategies-resisting-tech-enabled-violence-facing-transgender-people
Imperial Guards set #6277: Imperial Trading Post (1992), page 14
루비(Ruby)의 홈페이지가 새 단장했다고 해서 들어가봤는데 꽤 예쁜데? https://www.ruby-lang.org/ko/
Over 40% of Deceased Drivers in Vehicle Crashes Test Positive for THC: Study
Link: https://www.facs.org/media-center/press-releases/2025/over-40-of-deceased-drivers-in-motor-vehicle-crashes-test-positive-for-thc-study-shows/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337123
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Can any catgirl confirm or deny these allegations
Today I learned that a "cronut" is a cross between a croissant and a donut, and not a new Linux scheduling tool.
Normalize doing this: This software/feature is good, this software/feature is finished.
From now on, we will continue fixing security vulnerabilities and updating for compatibility, but that's it. The buttons will stay the same, because this is doing the job well already. Now, we start another software/feature.
Omg there are #Moopsy memes???
Pre-#39C3 pain …
Today I learned that a "cronut" is a cross between a croissant and a donut, and not a new Linux scheduling tool.
Von meinem Mann gekochtes Wurstgulasch #vegan
I dream that one day, rustup toolchain installs will be able to run concurrently without corrupting the shit out of each other
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Oh yes 😥 … prepare for that stupid world…
https://ploum.net/2025-12-19-prepare-for-that-world.html
Another great reading from 
@ploum
Although (imho) "stupid" should appear in the last line again :
"And the best advice about it is that you should probably prepare for that [stupid] world."
Ofenspinatpasta #vegan
Kürbissuppe mit Kokosmilch #vegan
Pure Silicon Demo Coding: No CPU, No Memory, Just 4k Gates
Link: https://www.a1k0n.net/2025/12/19/tiny-tapeout-demo.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337438
a hallmark movie where a high powered lawyer goes back to her home town for Christmas and meets a shitposter down on his luck but he teaches her about whimsy and they make sweet love and they start a bakery creating cakes with cute shitposts on them
I just want everyone to see the wonderful caricature that Luke McGarry drew of 
@KevBot and our old cat, Pixel.
おほーチッタ起きれるかこれ
#Caturday is for snuggling
브랜드화된 사람이름
“그로센디크“
Imperial Guards set #6277: Imperial Trading Post (1992), page 14
This year, Creative Commons became an official UNESCO NGO partner (consultative status) and launched its Open Heritage Statement, two huge steps forward in our work to make culture accessible to everyone and preserve it for future generations.
This momentum shows what’s possible when we work together. But we need you to keep it going. Join the effort with a gift today.
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Image: “Museum” by Karen_O’D, CC BY 2.0, Flickr.
RAM is gonna be short because tech guys think your computer should be a thin client that you prompt GPT on, and it doesn't need no RAM.
the UNIX v4 tape reminded me of this story by Ali Akurgal about Turkish bureaucracy:
Do you know what the unit of software is? A meter! Do you know why? In 1992, we did our first software export at Netaş. We wrote the software, pressed a button, and via the satellite dish on the roof, at the incredible speed of 128 kb/s, we sent it to England. We sent the invoice by postal mail. $2M arrived at the bank. 3-4 months passed, and tax inspectors came. They said, “You sent an invoice for $2M?” “Yes,” we said. “This money has been paid?” they asked. “Yes,” we said. “But there is no goods export; this is fictitious export,” they said! So we took the tax inspectors to R&D and sat them in front of a computer. “Would you press this ‘Enter’ key?” we asked. One of them pressed it, then asked, “What happened?” “You just made a $300k export, and we’ll send its invoice too, and that will be paid as well,” we said. The man felt terrible because he had become an accomplice! Then we explained how software is written, what a satellite connection is, and how much this is worth. They said, “We understand, but there has to be a physical goods export; that’s what the regulations require.” So we said: “Let’s record this software onto tape (there were no CDs back then—nor cassettes; we used ½-inch tapes) and send that.” Happy to have found a solution, they said, “Okay, record it and send it.” The software filled two reels, which were handed to a customs broker, who took them to customs and started the export procedure. The customs officer processed things and at one point asked, “Where are the trucks?” The broker said, “There are no trucks—this is all there is,” and pointed to the tape reels on the desk. The customs officer said, “These two envelopes can’t be worth $2M; I can’t process this.” We went to court, an expert committee examined whether the two reels were worth $2M. Fortunately, they ruled that they were, and we were saved from the charge of fictitious export. The same broker took the same two reels to the same customs officer, with the court ruling, and restarted the procedure. However, during the process, the unit price, quantity, and total price of the exported goods had to be entered—as per the regulations. To avoid dragging things out further, they looked at the envelope, saw that it contained tape, estimated how many meters of tape there are on one reel, and concluded that we had exported 1k to 2k meters of software. So the unit of software became the meter.
I once read a story about the people writing the software for the NASA Apollo missions. There was a functionary in charge of weight accounting, who came to them and asked how much the software would weigh.
They told him it weighted nothing, but the functionary had heard *that* one before and insisted—everything had to be accounted down to the last ounce. He demanded to see it.
They showed him a stack of punched cards, and he was triumphant. “You see,” he said smugly, “it doesn't weigh only ‘nothing’!”
“No, you misunderstand,” they replied. “The cards aren't going on the spacecraft. Only the holes.”
the UNIX v4 tape reminded me of this story by Ali Akurgal about Turkish bureaucracy:
Do you know what the unit of software is? A meter! Do you know why? In 1992, we did our first software export at Netaş. We wrote the software, pressed a button, and via the satellite dish on the roof, at the incredible speed of 128 kb/s, we sent it to England. We sent the invoice by postal mail. $2M arrived at the bank. 3-4 months passed, and tax inspectors came. They said, “You sent an invoice for $2M?” “Yes,” we said. “This money has been paid?” they asked. “Yes,” we said. “But there is no goods export; this is fictitious export,” they said! So we took the tax inspectors to R&D and sat them in front of a computer. “Would you press this ‘Enter’ key?” we asked. One of them pressed it, then asked, “What happened?” “You just made a $300k export, and we’ll send its invoice too, and that will be paid as well,” we said. The man felt terrible because he had become an accomplice! Then we explained how software is written, what a satellite connection is, and how much this is worth. They said, “We understand, but there has to be a physical goods export; that’s what the regulations require.” So we said: “Let’s record this software onto tape (there were no CDs back then—nor cassettes; we used ½-inch tapes) and send that.” Happy to have found a solution, they said, “Okay, record it and send it.” The software filled two reels, which were handed to a customs broker, who took them to customs and started the export procedure. The customs officer processed things and at one point asked, “Where are the trucks?” The broker said, “There are no trucks—this is all there is,” and pointed to the tape reels on the desk. The customs officer said, “These two envelopes can’t be worth $2M; I can’t process this.” We went to court, an expert committee examined whether the two reels were worth $2M. Fortunately, they ruled that they were, and we were saved from the charge of fictitious export. The same broker took the same two reels to the same customs officer, with the court ruling, and restarted the procedure. However, during the process, the unit price, quantity, and total price of the exported goods had to be entered—as per the regulations. To avoid dragging things out further, they looked at the envelope, saw that it contained tape, estimated how many meters of tape there are on one reel, and concluded that we had exported 1k to 2k meters of software. So the unit of software became the meter.
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Bikeshed color query
In Rust, I want to create a vector of length `size.x` and I want to initialize every member to a new object of type SmolBitmap. Is there a cleaner/more idiomatic/"better" way of doing it than
let mut visited:Vec<_> = (0..size.x).map(|_|SmolBitmap::new()).collect();
저 곧 면접이에요 잘볼까요?
4일후 면접
ORDER BY and LIMIT
여자친구(아직아님₩ 보고싶다
The other day I learnt that enabling syncookies in pf on OpenBSD lights up your server like a Christmas tree. Or in other words, it made the server respond to _every_ incoming tcp syn packet with syn/ack, making the bots scanning the internet think the port was open, even though the final ack would be dropped when rules were then evaluated. This increased scanning by a lot! Or so it seemed to me at least.
The reason for this experimentation was I got to experience what I think was a tiny syn-flood attack, and I was trying things to see what I could do to mitigate on my end.
I'll maybe write more about this after the holidays.
it's like the iceberg meme
i wonder if anything wrote about that thing in the middle, like where it devolves into terrible abstract pseudosmart "thinking". what's that and why does it still recover into a good answer in the end
mcc
infinite love ⴳ
robb
잇창명 EatChangmyeong💕🐱
Em 
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nulta
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jnkrtech
