I think I’m with Haunted’s intuition in that I don’t really buy code generation. (As in automatic code generation.) My understanding was you build a thing that takes some config and poops out code that does certain behaviour. But could you not build a thing instead, that does the behaviour directly?

I know people who worked on a system like that, and maybe there’s niches where it makes sense. Just seems like it was a SW architecture fad 20 years ago, and some systems are locked into that know. It doesn’t seem like the pinnacle of engineering to me.

(Those are my 2 reference points, if I’m ignorant of some cool org let me know.)

The era of useful Silicon Valley Non-Profits seems to be fizzling out. I wonder how long Signal is going to hold out…

Stewardship is under the Linux Foundation Europe, not FSF. Though it doesn’t matter as much, since the Servo steering committee is independent.

loopback interfaces to nowhere

Wendy’s automated AI order-taker is still in its experimental phase and has encountered an error. Please hold for a human attendant…

Dat’s a raw vein of untapped soyjak potential right there!

I heard the same complaint from leftist metal fans.

Recently my research lead recounted a meeting among the senior people, where they hammered out a bunch of project pitches. Some of the wording was still a little rough, but they were going to pass it all through DeepL anyway, to make it read good. Also everyone’s bad at spellling these days, since you got a thing that autocompletes for you, right? They were proud they remembered how to spell “continuous”.

Sure, everyone has days they can’t word good, but this starts sounding like worrying de-skilling. These people spend a good portion of their paid time working on and arguing over wording.

I think I heard a good analogy for this in Well There’s Your Problem #164.

One topic of the episode was how people didn’t really understand how boilers worked, from a thermal mechanics point if view. Still steam power was widely used (e.g. on river boats), but much of the engineering was guesswork or based on patently false assumptions with sometimes disastrous effects.

Fresh from the presses: OpenAI loses song lyrics copyright case in German court

GEMA (weird german authors’ rights management organisation) is suing OpenAI over replication of song lyrics among other stuff, seeking a license deal. Judge rules that whatever the fuck OpenAI does behind the scenes is irrelevant, if it can replicate lyrics exactly that’s unlawful replication.

One of GEMA’s lawyers expects the case to be groundbreaking in europe, since the applicable rules are harmonized.

You flatter me, I haven’t thought about any shit as cool as this in a while.

This sound like cyberpunk setting backstory, to explain how the continental US came to be managed by a fickle alliance between several corporate nuclear powers.

But I’m sure everything’s gonna be fine.

I got the calendar on order too. It’s a nice calendar.

So kurzgesagt put out an anti AI-slop piece 2 weeks ago. It’s hits good angles too, going hard on the society-eroding effects. The conclusion is a little mushy, but hey, I wasn’t expecting an instigation to machine-breaking from kurzgesagt.

Doesn’t matter if any of those projects come through. The aesthetic of the current US ruling clique is gilded toilet bowls and AI-generated poop videos, and always will be.

The search thing is in the works for a while now: https://openwebsearch.eu/

I’m kind of worried though, whether it will make the jump from an all-over-the-place research project to an actual production-ready digital service for public good. That hasn’t really been done before on an EU level.

It’s never too late to git merge --abort!

Awesome!

I keep getting analognowhere posts, where the image won’t load. Also seems to affect the sdf.org web client, so it’s not just local. Last happened for “What’s in a name” and “of wasps and beavers”. Wonder what does that.

Also: any chance this will go on RedBubble as a canvas print?