Badabinski

omg, I never realized that kitty and calibre were maintained by the same person. I’ve avoided each one independently because the dev is a dickhead, and boy howdy am I even more sure that I’m never going to use either tool.

I’ve found that the quality of code produced by my team has dropped significantly since my org pushed everyone to use LLMs. “Let me throw an agent at it” usually means “here’s another headache of a PR for me to review.” Engineers with decades of experience are writing such utter fucking crap now, and it doesn’t matter how many docs I write for their fuckass agents to ingest, the quality doesn’t seem to be getting better. They can make their agent loop on it for functionality/bug and hallucination squashing, but that usually just means I get a bloated fucking mess to review. It’s miserable and it makes me want to go shovel actual hog shit.

Sincerely,

a very sad and tired senior dev who used to enjoy his job

I’d argue that humanism is a bit different from, say, Christianity. It has ancient philisophilcal roots, but it’s not like humanists are following texts from some crazy asshole tripping balls in a desert 2000 years ago.

I host an instance for my own personal use. It lives on my local network and nowhere else. I just use wg-tunnel on my phone to automagically VPN home when I’m out. It’s just not worth the headache to expose it publically IMO.

You’re absolutely right, I had shit all mixed up in my head. Oops 😅 thank you for the correction.

MITM HTTPS traffic without a key doesn’t really let you do much of anything, especially with stuff like HSTS. You can mess with DNS, but the whole certificate authority thing is meant to make it so you can’t redirect someone’s traffic to a malicious server.

This leaked private key completely destroys that guarantee, making it extremely scary. ~Plus, saved traffic for any site signed by this key which didn’t use PFS will be subject to post-facto decryption.~

edit: I don’t know wtf I was thinking, the decryption thing is nonsense.

At least according to Ed Zitron, they only appeared profitable due to creative bookkeeping. They timed the announcement of their shitty “annualized revenue” to coincide with the few months of vastly reduced rent at the datacenter Musk rented to them as well as the shift to token based billing for enterprise customers. Their inference is likely not profitable.

I do on occasion. I was very frustrated when I learned that left and right comes as naturally as up and down for most people.

Having dealt with mountains of frontier-LLM-generated slop from once-good senior engineers, I’m feeling pretty competitive.

I use one of those every night and they’re awful. I buy them 5 at a time because they’re not very durable, and you end up with this especially irritating tangle of cables.

Look, I get it. It’s Q3 2026, and we should expect that everyone is utilizing AI at SOME point in their process (sourcing ideas, creating outlines, refining prose, etc.).

Should we?

If you want to use your own power and not give it to the grid, then don’t use a grid tie inverter. Get some batteries and only accept power from the grid, never feed back into it. If you’re feeding into the communal system, expect the rules to not always be exactly what you want. Don’t we all want people to use clean daytime solar power instead of dirty fossil fuel-based nighttime power?

I will continue to pray for Slate to not completely suck. There’s a “smart” module that has a cellular modem, but it’s something you have to opt into and pay for it.

Only possible AI thing I see is .zed in the .gitignore, but that’s not an indicator of LLM usage. Plenty of people use zed with all AI features disabled.

Try putting two spaces are the end of the line, or leave a blank line between each line.

two spaces at the end
of the line test.

blank line

test.

Man, they need to hold another vote to get the verbiage of this cleared up.

The title of this post is incorrect. They are not banning cryptocurrency projects. See this message for why: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1254#issuecomment-19923979

edit: man, I have no idea anymore.

What do you mean? His hair is glorious, especially for someone who is 66 years old.

OpenAI has a trillion dollars in financial obligations they need to meet by 2030. I doubt Clear Channel’s financial obligations were in the same order of magnitude.

I’ll say that given the way OpenAI and Anthropic have hideously overextended themselves (they have over a trillion dollars of financial commitments to companies like Oracle), it’s not impossible that the current crop of American LLM providers do just kinda… poof away. Traditional banks want nothing more to do with them, they’re getting majorly spooked. All that needs to happen is for private credit to lose confidence in them, which is already happening. When they’re out of cash, they’ll be on the hook for an absolute ridiculous amount of money and they’ll probably just get liquidated.

I’m sure there will be new companies that pop up, but they’re going to have to charge 10x what Anthropic is making enterprise customers pay, since inference likely still isn’t profitable at the price Anthropic is charging.

I don’t use LLMs as a knowledge base because if the problem is bad enough for me, I’m likely just grepping through kubernetes source code or something. That being said, I don’t necessarily have an issue with folks using an LLM that way as long as they fully understand exactly how bad it is at what it does. You’ll be fine if you lose access to LLMs, and that’s the number one thing in my book. Your friend? Not so much.

(As a fun bonus to all of this, Oracle is very likely to die if OpenAI can’t meet its commitments. Either way, Larry Ellison will probably stop being a billionaire, since almost all of his wealth is in Oracle stock).