nightsky

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[–] nightsky@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

please hate this article headline with me

I'm right there with you

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

Nice rant in the entry on OSNews about this... love the phrase "MLMs for unimpressive white males".

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago

I really enjoy the bingo card. Let's see when I can find an opportunity to use it...

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

"K9: scom", just need to figure out what scom is.

But my favorite part is in the upper left, the brain that just says "Autism" and "Autism" around it.

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 8 points 3 weeks ago

Next step: "I'm sick of having to press the 'new prompt' button, why doesn't ..."

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I was only describing a specific kind of person, certainly wasn't trying to imply that C/C++ devs generally have no care for security!

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 9 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Also I wonder what his beef with Rust is? Is Rust woke?

I've seen this before. There is a special type of person out there who feels emasculated (yeah it's always men, isn't it) by the idea of a language statically enforcing memory-safety. Because, you know, real men write C or C++ with no safety rope and no seatbelt, juggling with raw pointers and chainsaws with their bare hands. They think that the only reason why C/C++ has produced an infinite abundance of bugs and security holes is because other programmers just suck. But they are different, they can handle it, they are very clever after all. And they won't let some wusses take away their powers with all these ideas of memory safety by design.

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 4 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

I keep wondering: is this really a need which many people fundamentally have, or is AI usage doing something to their brains?

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 9 points 4 weeks ago

“What if we accidentally trans one of the cis??”

They always like to dress up these statements as medical concern. But it shines through that, despite whatever the person may express otherwise, deep down they think being trans is not really acceptable. Maybe partially acceptable at best, but should be avoided if possible. Very similar thought model to classics like "oh I'm fine with gay people, but what if my child sees two men holding hands and then wants to try it too??"

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is there already a term for the extreme opposite of impostor syndrome? Techbro syndrome maybe?

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

Congratulations!

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

OpenAI has already threatened to leave Europe if it gets regulated too hard. Imagine GEMA being the ones to drive the chatbots out of Germany.

...I didn't think I'd ever end up cheering on GEMA.

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