/tech/ - Technology

https://github.com/social-production
Forgot the github link

ai bros on suicide watch

I’ve used AI to generate a bunch of dashboards for various random things I wanted to visualize and unfortunately I’ve gained the ability to instantly recognize vibe-coded UI. For some reason all the bots have a very limited visual language. I can’t unsee it now and so now so many new webpages just make me nauseous to look at.

Just take a look at “dataisbeautiful” if you don’t know what I mean yet. It’s all Claude coded visualizations. Black backgrounds with colorful UI elements, way too much text, too many elements, unironically “not beautiful” representations of data that are overloaded with irrelevant and confounding analytics.

The entire pro-AI side of the discourse is basically just this, isn't it

>>32834
Yes, it’s literally all AI generated posts.

I use it so much at work (code) that I can instantly recognize it and often down to which model and which version. Though they blur together. I’m always surprised and a little disgusted when I go into, for example, Reddit, and see some AI generated OP with AI “polished” responses and the actual humans responding to it not even noticing apparently.

But they also simply don’t care about human life at all, at the far end. They think 99% of humanity is effectively worthless chaff, non-productive and made obsolete by commoditized intelligence. The cause of this is actually primarily capitalism, I think, because they don’t understand the purpose of anything that does boost productivity or make markets more efficient. So if you are inefficient and unproductive, you are worthless. What you are as a human? If you bring this up you’ll be scoffed at, as if this questions is a childish thought that they’ve already refuted.

Incidentally I can totally see the awful agent pipeline they have set up:

>“Hum, the user seems to believe the previous target designation was incorrect. This is a critical issue. I need to handle this delicately….”

>You were right to push back on that. On closer examination, that is not a military barracks but is clearly a school. Do not push that button. This is not a valid military target. Thanks for setting me straight. Are there more targets you would like me to evaluate? Or would you like me to explain why bombing protected civilian infrastructure is a war crime?

i like how your screenfetch logs multiple errors when trying to retrieve the percentage of available space in your hard drive, nice touch.

OP, I…

>>32720
divide by zero lmao. makes sense screenfetch would be written by a script kiddy

>>32723
Notice how it doesn't panic and screenfetch still finishes, that's the power of powershell

>>32541
>You dipshits
Tingnoter or the "get a job" gif guy? Only two posters here have turned goomba fallacy into a full on syndrome.
>have been saying this since fucking COVID, lmfao.
It's been true since COVID. There's a growing number of forums. Simple as. It won't be The Next Big Thing, but there's a noticable resurgence in forums.
>Are you on Bluesky by any chance?
Stop shilling your mediocre attempt to compete with Activitypub, no one cares about AT protocol.

At least that explains where this weird non-discourse came from, you're from Twitter v2: waffle narwal shoelaces edition.

>>32530
Based af. Discord groomers on suicide watch.

>>32547
>Tingnoter or the "get a job" gif guy?
>goomba fallacy
What the fuck are you even talking about, faggot.

<there were 4 users
<5 years later there are a grand total of 6 users now!!! we are SO back
You should work on marketing.

>>32548
>>32546
>>32541
>>32543
>we need to regulate the internet…because of chuds and groomers!
Yeah I'm sure the FBI and Palantir is on our side and has our best interests at heart. Remember that one of the biggest age-verification companies (Persona) has direct ties to Peter Thiel

This wasn't really supposed to be the main topic of the thread but I guess w/e. Anyway, new retarded age verification law just dropped. Probably impossible to enforce and will be struck down or modified down the line somehow, but this is still insane. A bunch of governments and private orgs just started pushing for shit like this all within the span of months and everyone's just going "eh what can we do". Am I being histrionic, is this not crazy? Should we not be taking this seriously?

>>32672
Or hell, instead of Linux, use RTOS or bare metal.

or just dont use a phone

Every now and then, privacy experts propose an idea that would only be usable by someone with prerequisite technical/hardware experience. It won't scale to the masses.

I am not calling my Grandma over a custom hardware project from across the country. The people who can't fix printers are not supporting custom hardware phones.

Meshtastic does not scale to a population of over 1 Million in a major metropolitan area.

I appreciate the enthusiasm.

>>32672
pinephone (pro) has an open source baseband firmware you can install on it and it works and i've been using it
FPGAs with open toolchains are dogshit slow. there was a talk where a guy booted linux on the fastest open FPGA available and it took like 24 hours to boot.

>>27157
>desktop linux
hah, not familiar, think have run chroot before though… Now that think of it not sure even feel up to setting up a new PC at the moment…

>>27159
>>desktop linux
90% of proprietary software with a linux port only tests on ubuntu and often expects systemd, dbus, etc. to be present.
>there are multiple which are pretty good for software development (e.g. gentoo, nix, guix, etc.)
Good for software development doesn't mean le hacker distro. It means software you need for development is already pre-packaged, which is nearly always the case on debian.

>>27163
>90% of proprietary software with a linux port only tests on ubuntu and often expects systemd, dbus, etc. to be present.
It's been awhile, last heard Ubuntu was due to be phased out for PopOS! due to the Canonical Amazon deal, or something of the like. Guess shouldn't be surprised about what you're saying anyway.

>It means software you need for development is already pre-packaged, which is nearly always the case on debian.
That's fair, and Devaun (as the distro still run on my non-Mac laptop) is most familiar to me.

I finally got around to setting up my Windows machine configuration follows:

Native Applications and OS:
- Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC
- VSCode
- Outlook
- Office 365
- Microsoft Terminal

Productivity:
- winget
- PowerToys (FancyZones for window management)
- AutoHotkey (Two scripts so far to make tiling near automatic with cursor movement)
- Python

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Yesterday I installed a couple more applications:
- VLC
- Syncthing
The latter lets me run sync to my phone, and between my two installs.
This also means having better backups than just my flashdrive.
I also forgot to mention that I ran Shutup10+ on my install.

>>31936
that's all electronics, not just computers

It's not just computers, it's not just electronics. You've stumbled onto a governing principle behind life (maybe not even "life", maybe "physics"; the physics behind consciousness, at least). Surprise is rare. When you expect to be buttrustled, a rustling will a-come your way. When you expect things to work out, they will.

I think it's mostly a pendulum swing, to be honest. Difficulty comes, is resolved, and then is replaced with fresh difficulty. But there's definitely a "spooky" aspect to it, I've seen the same thing you describe. Computer problems that resolve when a tech shows up. I actually solved this with my family by telling them I'd charge them for tech support, suddenly they were more computer competent and their home PC stopped needing attention every couple of weeks. Interestingly enough, the one time they've needed me to remote in to help with something was a week after I borrowed some money from them, so it was "already paid for". (In case it's not obvious, I have no intention of actually charging my parents for tech support, I just needed to be less necessary to them after I moved across the country.)

I've noticed it between my wife and I's machines too. We have identical PCs, we ordered all the parts at the same time and built them side-by-side. We both took a diabetes lancelet and pricked our fingers to smear a drop of blood on the exterior of the I/O panel, a tradition I've kept since I started building PCs as a kid and was taught to do it. But her PC has issues frequently that mine doesn't have, and when mine has issues, they usually resolve themselves without me doing anything. Hers will be much more obstinate until I take a look at it. I think it's because she doesn't believe in the blood sacrifice as much as I do. I strongly believe that there is an intersection between blood majiq and tech, and I think over the last couple of years she's come to believe in it, but at the time, I don't think her belief was that strong. I'm about to prick her finger and put some fresh blood on her machine to test my theory LMAO.

But wait, what if it's just that my blood tastes better? Maybe her machine is craving my blood…

>>32551
>We both took a diabetes lancelet and pricked our fingers to smear a drop of blood on the exterior of the I/O panel, a tradition I've kept since I started building PCs as a kid and was taught to do it.
I just build my PC normally but maybe I'm the weird one

I've lost some couple tabs to tab recovery and sometimes have to mess with .firefox/.librewolf too. You should do bookmarks

I just closed 3000 tabs in one browser, and I am about to do similar another browser with +2000 tabs. You should just delete the tabs

My advise is to structure your workflow around links, browsing history, bookmarks and memorization instead. browser.sessionstore is completely disabled in my profile.

The problem with that theory is that no matter how much you force the AI to espouse your own political theory, it doesn't change peoples' minds. You can't get the AI to say Luigi Mangione was a hero, but you describe the case to anyone on earth behind closed doors and they'll tell you they think he did the right thing. Even people who fall for AI slop consistently, they fall for it because it aligns with their values, not because it's persuading them to hold new values. For example: The AI archaeology videos. They aren't persuading people who believe in the contemporary view of archaeology that they've found weird alien chambers under the pyramids. Those videos work on people who already think the pyramids are giant chemical batteries left behind by aliens, you get what I'm saying? It jacks into what you already believe and spins a fairy tale about it to ensure your engagement. But it can only reinforce what you believe, it can't make you accept a new belief. Humans already have a difficult time persuading other humans to change their beliefs. The same way you're instinctively preparing to rebut me, do you believe we lack a similar filter for non-humans?

>>32552
I think AI is just another tool in the box. It used to be, you needed to dedicate resources, usually one or more humans spending many hours, to build an echo chamber. Now, AI does it almost effortlessly, meaning those same resources can be diverted to creating propaganda which might change your mind.

Propaganda builds the walls that divide us, AI reinforces them.