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blibbleon DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?'

turns out this function works just as well for that too

blibbleon Productivity gains from AI coding assistants haven’t budged past 10% – survey

the amount of people that work in technology and have never heard of amdahl's law always shocks me

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law

a 100% increase in coding speed means I then I get to spend an extra 30 minutes a week in meetings

while now hating my job, because the only fun bit has been removed

"progress"

blibbleon South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection

don't worry, I suspect there will be a 2nd attempt on Jan 6th 2029

blibbleon DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?'

    def accept_grant(application):
        return random.choice([True, False])

blibbleon Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails

azure is just as bad, if not worse

blibbleon Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed]

it's even better than that

the merge commits in those repositories are all digitally signed by GitHub public key, so the previous history is fully authenticated and non-repudiable

so any copies now can be trivially proven to be genuine output by Microslop

hoisted by your own petard

signed merge commit is: 987eee6af61788647ae0cab82ae8a5d9402a5bd0

PGP signature (using GitHub's key: B5690EEEBB952194) is:

for posterity:

blibbleon Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed]

"but it's fair use"

Rowling is known for actively protecting her rights as an author, they couldn't have picked a worse author to slop up

blibbleon Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed]

> Why is Microsoft endorsing the use of generative AI

ftfy

blibbleon Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed]

brb poking Rowling on twitter

(done, contacted her lawyers too)

blibbleon The Future of AI Software Development

> And it's hard to imagine that the hardware costs don't come down quite a bit.

have you paid any attention to the hardware situation over the last year?

this week they've bought up the 2026 supply of disks

blibbleon Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32

you are confusing the ntdll interface (which is undocumented and subject to change), and win32 (which is stable, mostly)

they tell you not to use ntdll, and say they will change it whenever they want

and they have in the past

(they have had to moderate this policy with "containers", but it's still what they say)

blibbleon AI has fixed my productivity

no matter what, the booster's answer to the tool being shit is always "you're holding it wrong"

blibbleon 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

it's not public domain, it's copyrighted

what's the bet that the intention here was explicitly to attempt to strip the copyright

so it could be shoved on the corporate website without paying anyone

(the only actual real use of LLMs)

blibbleon 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

LLM infested crap, directly pushed to customers without any pushback

so standard Microslop

blibbleon Claude Sonnet 4.6

there's no reason to believe this trend will continue forever, simply because it has held for the past hundred years or so

blibbleon Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware?

verilog

blibbleon Gentoo on Codeberg

for [1] he's right for his specific use case

when he's working on his own project, obviously he never uses the about section or releases

but if you're exploring projects, you do

(though I agree for the tree view is bad for everyone)

blibbleon Can a Computer Science Student Be Taught to Design Hardware?

the design of FPGAs was certainly part of my CS degree!

they even made us use them in practical labs, and connect them up to an ARM chip

blibbleon Why I'm Worried About Job Loss and Thoughts on Comparative Advantage

there is no more connection with your favorite human influencer than there is with an "AI" influencer

they're both a scam, just the "AI" influencer isn't a pretty woman

it's a 45 year old balding guy, with 25 accounts

blibbleon Why I'm Worried About Job Loss and Thoughts on Comparative Advantage

> Have you ever run a business?

yes

> Literally all anyone cares about is profit.

I would agree there's a lot of people that this is the case for

but it is not everyone

if my back was up against the wall I would rather shut down than e.g. dump PFAS into watercourses (3M style)

or fly-tip

or use AI

blibbleon Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD

the "value" of nvidia to the "AI" companies is their tsmc fab contract

they don't need CUDA, they don't need the 10 years of weird game support, even the networking tech

they need none of nvidia's technology moats

exactly same as the crypto, where they just needed to make an ASIC to pump out sha1 as quickly as possible

which is really, really easy if you have a fab contract

at which point their use of nvidia dropped to zero

blibbleon Breaking the spell of vibe coding

bored at the weekend, are you sama?

blibbleon Breaking the spell of vibe coding

Windows

blibbleon Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism

moving the goalposts

blibbleon 7zip.com Is Serving Malware

modern windows features?

I imagine an electron rewrite, with DirectX 12 and Copilot buttons everywhere

blibbleon Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism

most of the anti-AI community have already migrated their repos from Slophub

blibbleon Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism

maybe a preview of what's to come when the legal system rules the plagiarism machine's output is a derivative work?

blibbleon Driverless trucks can now travel farther distances faster than human drivers

congratulations! you're invented an inefficient railway

blibbleon I ditched OpenClaw and built a more secure AI agent (Blink and Mac Mini)

"more secure AI agent" is like "most secure version of Windows yet"

blibbleon Open source is not about you (2018)

codeberg is run as a foundation with the explicit aim to help open source projects prosper

github is run by microsoft to sell tools to your CEO with the ultimate aim of making you redundant