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duskdozer··on Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude
I'm not sure I'd say voting with mush for brains is a feature exclusive to the elderly (:
duskdozer··on Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer
The summarization is the main issue here. A fuzzy search is far less controversial. The LLM companies have done a good job synonymizing "AI" with their products however.
duskdozer··on Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center
Overall opposition is at 70%, and opposition of "MAGA supporters" and Republican men is around 55% (~45% support). It's a difference but it's not like many issues where these numbers could be opposing 90/10s in these groups.
duskdozer··on AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn't Exist
I'm not sure that that is an obvious claim these days, with the whole "agents going rogue" press releases.
duskdozer··on Bringing uv and ty together
Maybe? I still don't really fully understand what issues people had with it unless they'd only ever used the system python installation for everything.
duskdozer··on Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center
>By a 40-point margin, voters oppose building data centers in their area to support artificial intelligence (30% favor, 70% oppose).

>MAGA supporters (46% favor) and Republican men (45%) are the groups most likely to favor data centers, while White women with a college degree (84% oppose) and liberal voters (80%) are the most opposed.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-cool-your-ser...

Would Fox News have reason to overestimate rightist opposition here?

duskdozer··on AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn't Exist
So the type and content of what fiction I write should be controlled so that LLM companies may choose for the sake of maximum profit to haphazardly collect any data they please and to neglect the safety and validity of the content they choose to serve users?
duskdozer··on AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn't Exist
On the contrary, I'm saying is that it's not okay that the world becomes worse-off, as long as it's not [the LLM companies'] fault. If it means they don't have a viable business model by only ingesting data that they have permission for and is verified, and by being held fully responsible for the content they serve their users - in order to prevent the world from becoming worse-off - then they should not operate.
duskdozer··on AI-Assisted Paper on Z-Library Cites a TorrentFreak Article That Doesn't Exist
If I write a story that includes a character mixing bleach and ammonia for curing asthma and publish it on my website, am I responsible for an LLM company ingesting my story without contact or my consent and then at some point in the future providing a user instructions to mix bleach and ammonia for curing asthma?
duskdozer··on A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents
When your work depends on people using online LLM services, you probably don't want to encourage people to use their own hardware.
duskdozer··on Bringing uv and ty together
It's not something I really relate to, having working on a fairly large project with significant dependencies that is used as both a library and an application. I see uv often used just to try to paper over bad dependency and compatibility management, which ends up being self-reinforcing. I guess if it's being used strictly for final deployment, sure, but that doesn't (shouldn't) remove the need to pay attention. It's hard for me to see it as anything but an attempt to eventually make the state of Python tooling be "everything breaks, unless you use uv by Astral™"
duskdozer··on Bringing uv and ty together
This shouldn't be surprising. Astral has wanted to create lock-in with uv for years and obviously they'll want to bring everyone into their "ecosystem" as much as possible. Stand by for more divergences from main python or use of their "market" capture for leverage over it.
duskdozer··on Claude Duet
A source for what exactly? I've seen others but here are a couple random repos I found just searching now which look to do these things:

- https://github.com/theclaymethod/unslop

- https://github.com/MohamedAbdallah-14/unslop

- https://github.com/jere-mie/unslop (why not just use tr? who knows)

duskdozer··on Claude Duet
How do tokens and copyright things play into this? I don't really understand. You can just pipe the audio straight from yt-dlp into whisper and it just transcribes it directly.
duskdozer··on mitmproxy adds --emudhra option
Oh wow. Do people think they got it from xkcd?
duskdozer··on Claude Duet
Why not just use a script with yt-dlp and whisper?
duskdozer··on Claude Duet
You'd end up needing to click through pages more, but it's trivial to write a ublock filter for whatever keywords you don't want.
duskdozer··on Claude Duet
He's supposedly trying to buy a house with an LLM without knowing any of the language and presumably the culture, so this kind of behavior seems right on point.
duskdozer··on Claude Duet
No, people now have postprocessors that replace the emdashes with other punctuation marks. It's subtle but you can tell when this has happened because it doesn't change the structure, and the LLMs misuse the emdash in a relatively consistent pattern.
duskdozer··on Using thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological data
They don't see them as a "coding tool," they see them as your replacement. Everyone's replacement. Even if everything gets worse. Just a coding tool doesn't drive up massive valuations.
duskdozer··on Using thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological data
Who cares about them? OC is surely going to be in the elite 20%, so it's not their problem.
duskdozer··on No more icons in every menu by default
I really hate the new trend to "clean up" UI everywhere which has the effect of not using screen space and forcing you to perform more actions in submenus.
duskdozer··on No more icons in every menu by default
I don't think it helps if they're just random icons. Look at https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions . I went there a few days ago and immediately was distracted by all the random emoji icons scattered everywhere, and none of them provided me any useful information. I swear this is a new thing because it was just that noticeable. I had to put them in my adblock list.
duskdozer··on The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
It's tough to say the exact multiplier but I've walked around at night a lot for years, and there has been a very significant increase in the number and intensity of outdoor lights, as well as a move away from motion sensors toward permanently on.
duskdozer··on YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops
This is difficult when you have a single-winner FPTP system.
duskdozer··on Computers Cannot Make Decisions
If you don't have one, then obviously that sentence is not referring to you. If you do have one, then yes, you are funding it.
duskdozer··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
1. They can gain at least a temporary advantage by using a proprietary version. They'll have the original devs who can continue where they were before. 2. I wouldn't be surprised if we end up with a situation where LLM-based copyright laundering becomes illegal/enforced, but only in favor of large corporations' copyright, in which case they could maintain the advantage

What would they miss out on? A bunch of PRslop? The "open source community" is now dead.

duskdozer··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
I guess "joining" was the key word here. But I'm not particularly surprised now that I see it meant acquihire.
duskdozer··on ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)
No? I guess I can't speak for most, but one of the things I most notice being different, other than the light of course, is the noise.
duskdozer··on I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities
This has given me a great idea: I have a modest proposal on how to reduce net CO2 emissions while not reducing token consumption at all
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