I find it kind of hilarious how almost every prompt I've seen leaked from various apps almost always has a similar clause, as if it would have any effect at all on the result.
Seeing engineers resort to this level of basically praying and wishful thinking that in reality has no factual value is pretty funny.
"Please, don't give me wrong results 0_0"
I'm running Freetube for all my YouTube viewing in both Fedora and Windows at work, since it can subscribe without having a perosnalized feed and doesn't requires an account. It can also download in variety of formats, so I suppose it does run ytdl in some capacity in the backend.
I admit I'm kinda disappointed. He pulled out almost perfect assassination that looked well thought out, managed to get away with only a few hickups in his plan as far as his face is considered, and then walks around with a murder weapon and a manifesto in his bag? Shame, really. All he needed was to lay low for a while, grow a beard and he'd probably be OK.
I mean, that's literally how research works. You make small discoveries and use them to move forward.
I still think it's a good thing. Fediverse still hasn't solved the moderation issues, and from what I've heard moderating a social network with tens of millions of users is a nightmare, even without considering the possible legal problems that would arise for instance owners.
Also, based on the little I know about ActivityPub, it would be pretty easy to monetize and exploit. Since everything gets sent everywhere, having an instance that simply gathers data to sell wouldn't be much of an problem - or rather, due to the nature of how instances work, you have to agree with your data being sent to other servers, and if those in turn gather and sell the data, wouldn't the blame fall upon the instance owners, that they did not disclose it? Tbh I have no idea how would the GDPR/etc laws work in this case, but I bet they are not ready for this federated case.
Fediverse has also been a really good filter for content, thanks to it's relative niche. As of now, someone who choses fediverse instead of other platforms seems to match my values and outlook on digital life, and I'm more interested in content they produce, be it on Mastodon or here. It's also why I don't mind there not being any kind of algorithms for content feeds.
If people started flooding the fediverse, it would bring with it so many problems that would basically ruin it, due to legislative issues, content moderation, and more.
So, as far as I'm considered, it's good.
I shudder at the thought of "Programming Inquisition", that would drive around doing PRs and exterminating anyone whose code shows signs of heresy against The One SOLID God.
None of us would make it :D
I think that simply knowing about PGP and using it with traditional platforms will go a long way. If you add some steganography to the mix, it can go a long way.
Oh, I totally forgot about this bit. Maan, I really want to write "a practical guide for programming with the Omnissiah.", a book of fun rituals and litanies to support your software development. I always felt like computers are kind of really literally magical, and adopting a more spiritualistic approach to programming sounds like a lot of fun. Unfortunately, I didn't find any existing spiritualism that would match this, Tech Priests being really close to what I was going for.
I need to add more litanies and copious amounts of censer into my programming workflow.
It took me a long time to realize the worth of having a CS degree. When I was leaving the school, I felt like it hasn't tought me much. I was already a pretty ok programmer, since I was programming most of my highschool, and it felt like I've wasted a lot of time on languages I'll never see in my entire life. Which is kind of true - I'm still pretty confident that I'll never use Lisp, Prolog, Lambda Calcul, base assembly or Pharo ever again, but after a few years I've realized something important that I was missing - the school wasn't trying to teach me how to be a "pharo/lisp/prolog programmer", but to be "a programmer".
I noticed it on my pentesting colleagues who didn't have formal programming education, how they mostly spoke about programming in relation to languages - "I know a little bit of python, but wouldn't call myself a programmer. What programmer are you?". That question felt wierd, and I eventualy realized that's because the lines between languages eventually blured for me naturally, and I paid no mind to the language of choice - I was simply able to naturally pick up any language, and write anything I needed in it pretty quickly.
Only then it occured to me that I have my education to thank for that. Sure, I might never use Lisp again, but I do vaguely remember the concepts and workflow the language has, so now I can more naturally pick up any lisp-like language. Same goes for the prolog-style of languages, or the more OOP-focused languages, like Pharo. Since I had to drag myself through hell to pass an exam in most of the flavours of languages, it made me a versatile programmer that can just naturally pick up anything I see, to the point where I don't have to think about it - I just subconsciously detect what kind of basic workflow style is it going for, google the basic syntax and standard libraries, and I can write whatever I need in whatever language is available in a reasonable amount of time.
I don't see this "ascendance" mentioned in the post, and I think that it's a really important point in learning to be a programmer. It's also a piece of advice I try to give anyone unsure about whether his degree is worth it, because it feels like you're learning useless stuff. I have no idea how to teach it, though. It kind of happened naturally for me, and I can't identify the point when it happened or why, or how would I go in teaching it to someone else.
It's important to keep a wide field of view when learning programming, and not just lock yourself into one language. You can always google for syntax pretty quickly, but seeing the wide array of workflows and flavours different languages use to accomplish the same thing will go a long way in making you a better programmer.
Thanks for this, it actually made me realize that there is another MMO I spent more of my childhood with - Stat Wars Galaxies, and more importantly, that I can still play it on private servers. Which also extends to WoW, playing on a private server might acually be a good compromise, when I get the urge again.
But so far, I'm falling for FFXIV. Hopefully Square Enix isn't as bad as Blizz. I remember hearing some NFT writings on the wall, but so far it doesn't sound too bad.
I just got through whole of ARR and started HW, so I should be past that point. Haven't really noticed it too much, but the difference in pacing is kind of apparent in the hindsight. The story is interesting enough and the game never ceases to amaze me with variety of side activities or QoL things that I don't mind a slower pace and am greatful for the game as is. Especially comparing it to WoW, its such a breath of fresh air. So far it feels like the game SWTOR wished to be, and it's great.
I also think that they heavily cut through the amount of slog required for ARR, judging by the list of removed mandatory MSQ quests on wiki.
What's the state of LLM detection algorithms? Is there any with a higher sucess rate and with OK-ish amount of false positives? Is there even a FOSS solution for detecting chatgpt? Would make for a great tool to have, I'm getting tired of this.