I'm in the US and as we all know they're definitely planning on using ICE at the polling booths for voter intimidation. I look quite democrat/liberal (long hair, below average body hair, slightly chubby with low muscle, straight teeth) so I'll probably be a target for it. I've been thinking of dressing up as a Republican so I'll be less likely to be targeted. I don't wanna scare people or get in trouble so I'm not going to do something as obvious as wearing a Confederate flag. I also can't change my appearance that much so I don't get flagged for my ID. What I do to look like a Republican without scaring others or getting in trouble?

I used to love using image generation whenever I had a weird idea or wanted to see something, but after this place educated me on where the training data comes from and what those datacenters burn through, I stopped opening the app and writing prompts. Now I just make the image in my own head.

Recently I found out I have the ability to use a form of Image Gen internally for free. I'd generated so many AI images that I can almost entirely predict what the model would've spat out anyway.

For example, I was walking past a coffee shop and saw this orange cat sitting in the window with a tiny croissant next to it. Old me would've opened the app and asked it to make "a cinematic photo of a sleepy orange cat guarding a croissant in a cozy Parisian café," but then I realized it wasn't worth the water and just generated it in my head.

It gave me something like: warm morning light, shallow depth of field, tiny paws, slightly surreal but still realistic. No glossy plastic skin, no sixth toe, and it didn't scrape a single artist to do it. Then I imagined the cat wearing a little beret because obviously the model would've done that.

I just thought that was a pretty cool discovery I've made. Interested to see if anyone else has this ability.

Yo mama so node_modules

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@JeremiahFieldhaven/116654345332213390

I looked at the rsync commit log and basically every commit since March says "tridge and claude committed." Andrew Tridgell, the guy who literally invented rsync in 1996. Now hes using a chatbot to write the code and proudly displaying its name right there in the commit.

And before anyone goes "calm down its just a typo fix" no. The recent stuff is the security fixes for 3.4.3. The symlink race CVEs.. You know, the exact part where you want an actual human who understands what hes doing, not a machine that spits out code that looks correct but has correctness errors.

Do you get how insane this is? Rsync is the thing holding up basically every backup system on earth. Your NAS uses it. Distro mirrors use it. The server with you grandmas photos uses it. And now the plan is to let a token predictor that can't even count the amount of letter R's in "strawberry" write code for it.

"But the tests pass." The tests pass because the AI probably wrote the tests too you walnut. Its a loop of confident nonsense thats grading its own homework, and the first time it hits an edge case nobody fed it its gonna silently corrupt something and noone notices till the backups are already poisoned.

I'm pinning v3.4.1 and not updating again. If you defend this, dont say nobody warned you when the data loss posts start appearing.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/53377539

All I need to do now is find someone in Ancient Sumer to sell me some good quality copper.