Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

4/11/2025, 7:32:11 PM

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Please do not respond to this thread to talk about Ladybird. This is a personal request from me. Just… please. Don't make me have a conversation about Ladybird today. Some other time

mcc @mcc@mastodon.social

4/11/2025, 11:00:23 PM

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By the way, I still think this paragraph I wrote is a pretty good paragraph.

My statements above are about code. I believe code is a uniquely dangerous deployment site for "AI", because in programming, the most dangerous thing is code which is almost correct. The human brain has a significant tendency toward seeing what it expects to see and a person can sometimes look directly at something that's mostly correct but wrong without noticing it. However, creating this almost correct code is exactly what "AI" is best at. The purpose of the content generators people now call "AI" is to create something which can plausibly fool a human into believing they are looking at a real picture, real paragraph of text, or real computer program code. So Copilot might as well be designed to generate bugs a human cannot catch.

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