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• It’s not an agent, it’s whoever used whatever piece of software in whatever which way to connect to those systems, that’s who is responsible and both them and the people who set up an insecure Medicare network should be in jail. For a long time.

  on OpenAI agent hacks Australia's Medicare in world's first known AI breach of government body in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5h ago

• Bullshit. They are bad because EU legislation is written by incompetent and/or corrupt (pick one) morons and accordingly full of loopholes. It would have been trivial to order web sites to respect browser ‘do not track’ settings.

  on EU’s new social media child protection rules to require all social media accounts to produce state ID - Leaked documents suggest that some existing accounts will also be subject to identification che… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago

• Imagine Hitler was a tech bro and everyone gave him money. Basically billionaires investing in concentration camps. This individual demonstrated its serious need of psychotherapy with a double(!) Hitler salute in front of a worldwide TV audience, and somehow people think it’s a great idea to throw money at it.

  on Sam Altman says OpenAI will not go public this year as AI fears grow in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026

• bit of a ridiculous sentiment when there’s so many guides for stuff online that I wouldn’t know which category to put myself in. I definitely didn’t take classes nor read books on it, yet I absolutely took a guided approach.

  on Wait, there's books and classes on linux? in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026

• And you have missed the part where I explicitly mentioned that LLMs are NOT “sapient” or “sentient”, which would preclude “consciousness” also.

  I am inclined to believe that people who use the word "sapi*"anything are just very very gullible and/or Dunning-Kruger-victims.

  You completely missed the point I made that links understanding and conscience in humans.

  on AI Didn't Steal the Mathematician's Work, Sam Altman Did in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• I was only speculating, never mind me. So in other words, Eliza is entirely deterministic :)

  on AI Didn't Steal the Mathematician's Work, Sam Altman Did in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• My main point is that the use of the term “intelligence” to describe sometbing that is absolutely without any understanding, by people who don’t try to sell the snake oil and should have the interests of others in mind, is a disservice to educating people about the dangers.

  on AI Didn't Steal the Mathematician's Work, Sam Altman Did in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• The theft is built-in and foundational how this technology works

  Aye, this is one of the key takeaways.

  Another being that the technology is good enough to mass-manipulate people. And for statistically “helpful” surveillance tasks in a totalitarian police state.

  on AI Didn't Steal the Mathematician's Work, Sam Altman Did in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• It was already difficult to find people who know how to phrase good requirements and / or design an architecture before the slop machines got introduced. It will be so much worse for the next couple of decades, with idiots bullshitting their way past HR into a position.

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• with biological neurons that produce probabilistic results

  Ah, so you understood neurons better than neuroscientists, eh? You have missed the part where no scientist worth their name claims to be able to fully explain how consciousness works and whether or not it affects our decision making.

  LLMs are absolutely intelligent.

  Okay, I think we’re done here. You clearly have no idea what you are talking about.

  on AI Didn't Steal the Mathematician's Work, Sam Altman Did in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• But that doesn’t mean LLM’S don’t fit some of the technical definitions of AI

  When faced with slop vendors arguing in bad faith, we shouldn’t get caught up on technicalities. The “technically it is (a subset of) AI” argument is used to sell gullible people solutions that are already getting people killed - and not necessarily those who were gullible enough to believe the “AI” bullshit.

  So for LLMs, it should be common sense to call them slop / dangerous bullshit generators and refuse to talk with anyone who sells them as “AI”.

  on AI Didn't Steal the Mathematician's Work, Sam Altman Did in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• The randomness in Eliza (I never reviewed the code) would have been of the sorts “out of x possible answers indexed starting with zero, do a truncate( ran( 1.0 ) * X ) and select the answer with that index”. But yeah, apart from that it was deterministic. Same input history = same output.

  on AI Didn't Steal the Mathematician's Work, Sam Altman Did in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• Nah, Eliza had a programmed logic, all phrases she reacted to had been implemented deterministically by a human. There was no training data.

  on AI Didn't Steal the Mathematician's Work, Sam Altman Did in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• LLMs clap are clap not clap AI clap.

  Try to get that into you sycophant brain, and you will understand why this bullshit happens in the first place.

  Plagiarism is the core and only mechanism of LLMs that produces anything that people get impressed by. The pre- and postprocessing logic for grammar rules is not the stuff that makes gullible people believe there is “intelligence” involved.

  on AI Didn't Steal the Mathematician's Work, Sam Altman Did in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• Best of luck!

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• LLMs use a new way of data processing (focused on language rules) which is what brought the boost. Not more training data. More training data is needed for an LLM to reach “maturity” but it also increases cost due to resource usage. And current LLMs have already absorbed basically all of the internet and most books, and since the internet is now full of slop, more unpoisoned training data does not exist. That’s why more does not help anymore.

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• I’m with Linus Torvalds

  you mean the guy who started losing his marbles like 5 years ago?

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• Then, what makes the process between product managers and software developers very often a bit friction-loaded is that good developers always want to have clear specifications what they are supposed to build.

  Excellent observation, which aligns with my observation that fans of “coding assistants” can’t wrap their head around algorithms, not to mention a sound software architecture.

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• I don’t see how the machine that generates code that must be assumed to be broken, and statements about said code that must be assumed to be wrong, until both have been manually verified, because the “hallucination” issue is inherent to the design of LLMs and cannot be solved, is supposed to make my life easier. Especially since a well known problem in computer science is that writing code is more fun than reading it.

  quoted for emphasis. you have more patience than I do in telling sycophants why their take is idiotic.

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• but blanket hate for AI in code is extremely frustrating

  you misspelled “extremely deserved”

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• that was previous commenter’s point. you missed it. LLM coding assistants are for people who can’t think their way through an algorithm.

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• and AI assisted code is fairly well crushing those metrics.

  Lol. You have zero understanding of efficient coding, don’t you?

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• Well capitalism is based on unethical practices so what’s the point of striving to be ethical!!!

  Is what I’m reading

  I am reading the same. A variation of “everyone’s doing it, why should I act ethical?” Fuck them.

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• The poor QA department (2 people) is now trying to figure out how to test all the slop.

  I’d hand in my resignation…

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• I have occasionally used anonymous browser sessions in the way you describe, and I still feel dirty for it and think it’s problematic. It did not affect the quality of my code because I never did the 2nd bullet, I never asked for drop-in code or used any, but the ethical implications suck donkeyballs so I hate that I do this occasionally - I blame really bad documentation of some build environments.

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• the only people getting a net use out of LLM garbage are sub-par programmers. and I say that partially as a self burn because I have consulted slop chatbots to get some keywords / usage examples for functions I didn’t know yet. Even though I never used any drop-in code, and verified the usage of all that I “learned” from such conversations, the output was incredibly shitty and had to many holes in it that most people wouldn’t even spot because “it just works”. Using slop bots in coding / vibe-coding is offloading your incompetence as work onto future programmers.

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• Ai is here to stay whether we like it or not.

  stop. calling. slop. ai. It’s a shitty subcategory of it. Just like actual dog poo is a subcategory of organic chemical compounds.

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• Machine learning isn’t going anywhere.

  As someone who despises the current slop hype with a passion, you’re correct on this. But only when you exclude LLMs. Because they are garbage with a net negative for mankind. Machine learning as a field however has very useful applications. Typically such that complement human assessment of data, e.g. re-viewing radiology images to flag potentially anomalous images for a second doctor to look at - not in place of the first doctor.

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• the more data you feed into it, the better the output becomes.

  And that’s bullshit. The slop machines have already peaked. More input will not improve the results.

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• I always wonder where this sentiment comes from. Whether or not AI is going anywhere is still very much up in the air

  It exclusively comes from either snake oil vendors or people who are less smart than they think they are. Where the former are typically part of the latter group.

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• AI is a new technology that is not going anywhere. I would put my faith into their decisions to improve this project by whatever means they think are best.

  Aaaand just like that you disqualified yourself from having an opinion worth listening to on what “insanely talented engineers” are.

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• Just to name the takes that made me dislike today’s Linus:

  lore.kernel.org/…/CAHk-%3Dwi4zC%2BZe8e%2Bp3tMv8Tt…

  Quote:

  It seems like [1] expresses a very anti-LLM position in general

  Yes.

  And no, that’s not the position of the Linux kernel.

  I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I’m willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.

  Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.

  Or just walk away.

  AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it’s clearly a useful one.

  It may not have been that “clearly” even just a year ago, but it’s no longer in question today.

  There’s a lot to unpack here, and it’s even worse than the shortened quote I had in mind when I wrote the above.

  1. When he clearly had the good example of referring to LLMs in plain sight, he chose to refer to the slop machines as “AI” - especially in a context where it serves as a straw man. Most people opposed to LLMs do not have a problem with proper AI research, it’s just the statistical word prediction snake oil that we despise.
  2. Using a straw man as someone who clearly has (at least for now) the intellectual capacity to understand that he is doing so is a really dirty way to argue.
  3. For a project like the linux kernel, which has really become larger than just Linus, he threatens to override all opinions he doesn’t like on the topic (this is not the first time he’s done that). As we can see from the disappointing outcome of the debian vote on LLM contributions, this was a completely pointless hill to die on.
  4. “Or just walk away” is children level of bickering
  5. Again with the misnomer AI, to claim “[LLMs are] clearly a useful [tool]”, and to claim this “is no longer in question today” is a statement so dumb I have trouble believing he wrote that. I’ll give him that in some aspects LLMs can be useful, but the net effect on society (and that’s the larger picture he’s completely ignoring) may very well still be a net negative. This planet - even humanity - doesn’t need digital infrastructure to thrive. And 99% of the “usefulness” of LLMs is in maintaining or upgrading digital infrastructure and processing data. Something completely irrelevant to a thriving ecosystem. He’s clearly locked into “tech bro think” where it doesn’t even occur to him to consider impacts on the environment and weigh them against the perceived usefulness of LLMs. Not to mention that you do not know whether an LLM will be useful in a particular case until after you have solved the case - at which point you may say “oh great, it helped me” or “oh shit, the LLM wasted a lot of my time on this”. And if you can’t tell in advance whether for a particular scenario a given tool will be useful or not, then using it will also waste people’s time and it’s absolutely fair to expect that people - even when isolating their views to the tech sector - weigh the perceived usefulness against the time wasted and evaluate whether there’s actually a net positive.

  I am pretty sure - also from personal experience - that the next benefit of using LLMs for software development only marginally outweighs the downsides (wasted developer & computing time, wasted resources). And taking the social, political and environmental impacts into account, the currently hyped machine learning applications are a HUGE net negative for mankind.

  Plus which, LLMs have already peaked, because they are all out of unpoisoned training data. So things will get worse from here on out.

  Accordingly, my verdict is that Linus is losing his marbles. Because he once was smart enough to realise all those implications. And now he’s decided to gloss over them and join the hype train.

  on The Creator of Git and Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• indeed. The irony of the worst of the worst companies funding Linux development and not being told to fuck off is uncanny.

  on The Creator of Git and Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• I’m making a prediction: He started having some really bad takes, and it’s only going to get worse.

  !RemindMe 2 years

  on The Creator of Git and Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• Dunno about the jerk, but he’s become a weirdo and I second the notion that he should no longer be idolized. That’s gonna be embarrassing to walk back from in 2-3 years.

  on The Creator of Git and Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• Honestly? Best Linus? That’s a stretch. Maybe Linus from 10-20 years ago. But these days he’s becoming a senile old tech bro - his ideals are rapidly deteriorating.

  I am disappointed albeit not surprised he’s jumped on the slop train.

  on The Creator of Git and Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• I wanted to eventually try gentoo anyways, I guess I will have to advance that experiment. Never heard of Hyperbola, I will check it out. Thank you!

  on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• So this is how I hear about the outcome of the Debian vote. :( Is there a widespread distro that has a clear anti-Slop stance?

  on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
• 1. he didn’t use AI, he used a slop bot.
  2. if he did, it’s possible he just used it for analysis
  3. either way it’d prove that no one is immune to becoming a moron, especially as they get older.
  on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• That same thought just occurred to me: hype a McGuffin and get investors to lend you insane amounts of money which you then use to buy up a marker, causing artificial scarcity, then sell at massive profits.

  on OpenAI Hoarding Tens Of Thousands Of Apple Mac mini And Mac Studio Devices, As ASUS And MSI Burn Through Their Entire First Batch Of NVIDIA RTX Spark Chip And Beg For More. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• *Musk suck

  on Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026

• sounds like Shitler himself launched the “new site” for some extra money grabbing.

  on New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• isn’t that pitch then?

  on Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• to be fair, to Magastanians, the eyes are more valuable. That way they wouldn’t lose anything they’d miss.

  on Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• Between equals it’s not a class war though, it’s infighting. And agreed, we should avoid that. Rich parasites love to see us divided.

  on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026

• well, if they are indeed using similar amounts of cpu (my idle XFCE shows in top at a steady 0.3%, I have a hard time believing KDE can do that), then someone did indeed tweak KDE. When I last used it, KDE3 was freshly out and I hated the UI, so I stopped using it - only to realise that I had been missing out on a lightning fast Window Manager.

  However, that extra functionality may or may not be useful to people.

  The only thing that would make me consider switching would be if a window manager offered to organise multiple desktops on the inner(!) surface of a cube and I could swap environments having a concept of up, down, left, right, front, back.

  on different design philosophies in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• Scroll to the bottom, there’s a link to a spicier phrasing.

  Also, quote from there:

  You’re just making someone lose respect for you in real time, in a way that’s hard to walk back.

  I feel that, I have lost respect for people that way and don’t want to be friends anymore :(

  on Don't paste the AI. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• Having worked in a smartphone after market organisation, I can assure you that phones do break due to user error also in the first few years. Screen breaks, phones are dropped, charging ports are subject to user violence…

  Having not worked in a smartphone after market organisation, I can assure you that is pretty much exactly what I wrote up there.

  on Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026

• They deliver security updates for the pre-installed OSes they support. Those updates are no good for most users that load their own flavour of OS. What counts is hardware that has open source drivers (Also - holy fuck - the homepage almost gave me a seizure and I am not an epileptic). Where they are doing OKish, but not great.

  As for “7 full years of stocking parts” - the first 3-4 years are next to useless, almost no phone breaks that fast unless physically damaged. And it only becomes relevant for most people who take care with their phone after 5+ years. And that’s exactly when the support period ends. Which is unfortunately, the opposite of the “sustainable phone” that they promise.

  As said, they do have a great team, and they do do Fair Trade, and they do engage with the community - all good things. But I am quite disappointed in the “by the time you need a replacement part, it’s out of stock” lesson learned.

  on Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026

• They have a great team, sadly they continuously aimed for a broad target audience in lack of support for degoogled OSes (only doing the bare minimum) and the headphone jack indeed. Also, sadly, the long life thingie is a joke when you are a cautious user and you don’t break your phone. 5-7 years after purchase, spare parts are no longer available :/

  on Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026