Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)F

FauxLiving

@ FauxLiving @lemmy.world

Posts
1
Comments
1758
Joined
9 mo. ago

  • Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters

    Jump

  • But the equivalent would be to take tutorials, examples and small open source projects and tinkering with them, rather than asking a machine to do it for you, no? I

    I've found that using LLMs to research/summarize eases the friction of entering a new hobby and having to learn the tools, techniques, vocabulary, etc. You can just use Google (As an aside, nobody worries about how dependent we are on search) but the answer may not be in a answered in a way that is understandable to you or that fits into the context that you're working with.

    I'm going to RTFM eventually, but right now I need to figure out what the hell 'Hello World' means, who is World? Where do I type this text? What does compile mean?

    Of course, none of this changes anything about the fact that it requires actual mental effort and problem solving in order to learn. LLM agents provide a new tool for people to use to avoid making that effort which can injure their own education, I can agree there. However, if deployed intelligently, they're a useful tool/tutor if you can't afford a, fairly incompetent, human expert in every field to be on call 24/7.

  • Linus Torvalds is OK with vibe coding as long as it's not used for anything that matters

    Jump

  • Using LLMs as a semi-incompetent tutor is a good use. They know the basics well enough to explain it to you and have an idea of how to do the more complex stuff.... but if you actually needed the thing done, you'd hire a professional.

  • Effective tax rates before and after the Trump tax law

    Jump

  • Textbook DARVO sequencing.

    (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO)

    On top of that, hypersensitivity, projection, victim-role adoption, blame pre-loading.

    While these are effective rhetorical tools for manipulating people, this isn't how reasonable people engage in conversation.

    If you're not a bot then you're a narcissist or have picked up narcissistic behaviors from reading social media arguments and should, as the kids say, touch grass.

  • Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug'

    Jump

  • The moth was not okay.

    They didn't tell us this part when they taught it in school #RIP Bug, the OG bug who died to the OG pull request.

  • Internet Infrastructure These Days

    Jump

  • I’m not sure about Cloudflare but it might be as well.

    Cloudflare was a chain of unfortunate events.

    The TLDR is, a permission change caused a poorly written SQL query (without a properly filtering 'where' clause) to return a lot more data than normal. That data is used by an automated script to generate configuration files for the proxy services, because of the large return the configuration files were larger than normal (roughly 2x the size).

    The service that uses these configuration files has pre-allocated memory to hold the configuration files and the larger config file exceeded that size. This case, of having a file too large for the memory space, was improperly handled (ironically but not literally ironically, it was written in Rust) resulting in a thread panic which terminated the service and resulted in the 5xx errors.

    So, it's more similar to the Crowdstrike crash (bad config file and poor error handling in a critical component).

  • Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk

    Jump

  • Yeah, manifestv3 killed anything but the most basic ad blocking.

  • Effective tax rates before and after the Trump tax law

    Jump

  • I thought you were setting up the "He’s famously from Ypsilanti Michigan, everyone knows this!" line, lol

  • Trump Told a Woman, ‘Quiet, Piggy,’ When She Asked Him About Epstein

    Jump

  • bulletin board

    I haven't used a BBS since the 90s, dialing in to play MajorMUD and later PvP MUDs (Chaosium/Static Chaos).

    I'll check it out. I use lynx already, because I use Arch(, btw) and break literally everything including my DE.

  • Effective tax rates before and after the Trump tax law

    Jump

  • Yes, exactly. They use a lot of bad faith arguments, logical fallacies, etc. They're all just literary devices to amp up the messaging and they all follow roughly the same kind of bad faith argument templates.

    Of course, these could be people. The problem is that they seem to simultaneously be completely ignorant of how reality works while also being an encyclopedia of pop culture political references and grievances. If it's a person then it fits the 'chronically online, touch grass please' stereotype, but there are so many others that argue exactly how it does on the exact same topics across all of social media so I just assume it is a bot or a bot-affected person.

    We know there are information operations that exist to shape public perception that are happening on all social media. This is what it looks like, very hard to tell apart from real people (made even harder by real people mimicking them).

  • Trump Told a Woman, ‘Quiet, Piggy,’ When She Asked Him About Epstein

    Jump

  • Trump Told a Woman, ‘Quiet, Piggy,’ When She Asked Him About Epstein

    Jump

  • What in the 1980s program are you getting your e-mail through?

  • Effective tax rates before and after the Trump tax law

    Jump

  • BabyTron meme unless my Internet sense is failing me.

  • Effective tax rates before and after the Trump tax law

    Jump

  • Pretty obvious the person you’re arguing with isn’t a trump voter

    Is that really obvious though? It reads like a troll trying to create pointless division among progressives.

    I always read these people as either political bots or children (or adults, similarly intelligent) spreading a meme created by a political bot.

  • An artist with his work

    Jump

  • That is 100% the cat's chair, and also a warning as to what will happen if it is ever disposed of.

  • CVS style

    Jump

  • This is some ancient bash.org-tier knowledge

  • Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug'

    Jump

  • It was kind of fun walking in to the tech support area and them asking your login name with no context knowing what the issue was.

    I see this zip bomb was owned by user icpenis, someone track that guy down.

  • Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug'

    Jump

  • If you want a technical breakdown that isn't "lol AI bad":

    https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

    Basically, a permission change cause an automated query to return more data than was planned for. The query resulted in a configuration file with a large amount of duplicate entries which was pushed to production. The size of the file went over the prealloctaed memory limit for a downstream system which died due to an unhandled error state resulting from the large configuration file. This caused a thread panic leading to the 5xx errors.

    It seems that Crowdstrike isn't alone this year in the 'A bad config file nearly kills the Internet' club.

  • Cloudflare blames massive internet outage on 'latent bug'

    Jump

  • It's always depressing when you ask the AI to explain your code and then you get banned from OpenAI

  • Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk

    Jump

  • Challenge them to watch 10 YouTube videos or browse 10 websites on their machine vs your machine. Then ask them to save the YouTube video as an .mp3 file.

    It's always horrifying when I start up a default Edge browser and load literally any webpage. Popover frames, video and audio ads that autoplay, floating ad windows. They'll all technically have the ability to close them as long as you can touch the 3 pixel wide X button that is directly over the ad so mis-clicking loads a different web page or starts the Windows Store or some other nonsense.

  • Ye Power Trippin' Bastards @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    FauxLiving @lemmy.world

    Dogma and "Transphobia"