It staggers me that “vibe coding” is even a term. I wonder if the people behind that sort of thing would take the same attitude to, say, bridge design. “Oh yeah, move that support over there. It’ll be fine, haha. Here, have a beer while you’re at it!”

Accurate. I wish we had better terminology for this, though. I get tired of saying things like “executive dysfunction” because it’s a technical term that only means something to some people, and even then it’s vague. Other descriptions I’ve seen like the “really heavy door” analogy are better, but still don’t feel quite right for what I experience, and I have no idea how better to explain it.

I’ve clued in to a few hints that feel a bit more accurate, such as noticing that I tend to get distracted extraordinarily easier when doing a task that isn’t outright fun, but that’s still not the whole picture. And not only is it frustrating not being able to explain the problem, but people tend not to take you seriously (or offer unhelpful advice) as a result. Maddening.

If it ends the stupid AI bubble then I don’t think it qualifies as petty vengeance; that is some real change. There won’t be meaningful legislation to aid the day-to-day person against this garbage, no, but it’d still seriously reduce the degree to which this shit has invaded our lives.

You bring up people fighting a war as a comparison, you invite the idea that you expect others to do the same, bullets and all. If you didn’t want to make that implication, you shouldn’t have made that comparison. This is on you.

This goes double when the suggestions you’ve offered are so vague and unhelpful as “Organize. Disrupt. Disobey.” Do you have any concrete ideas for how that’ll work? Because right now, you’re just yelling at people in an entirely different country to you to do a bunch of Stuff™ all while you hypocritically whine online yourself about what we are doing.

Again, if you want to be frustrated, do it differently. As it stands, you’re just fighting your own allies because the work they’re doing isn’t what you specifically want to occur. You’re going to have deal with the fact that sometimes activism isn’t flashy, and sometimes it isn’t easy to spot. That doesn’t mean it’s not useful, and it doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Besides, even if you were right, shame doesn’t tend to be a useful tool for growing action; it just causes infighting and encourages spite and doomerism. So save the crit for the Democrat politicians, aye?

I’m sorry, but the problems with modern-day LLMs and GenAI run far deeper than “who hosts it.”

Your grandparents stormed the beaches at Normandy

Oh, so what you actually want is for us to dash our bodies upon the stones and get shot to death by cops, is it? What a completely reasonable ask! One that I’m sure you won’t be doing yourself, of course. That’s our job.

I’m not your footsoldier. I’m not throwing myself into a fire just because you’re unsatisfied with the action being taken. I have a life to live, and I’m barely managing that as it is. Your criticism is less than worthless.

Your advice wouldn’t fix America. It’d just get us all killed. If you want to be frustrated, find a more productive way to do it.

I shudder to think how much electricity got wasted so you could get fooled by an LLM into believing nonsense. Let alone the equally-unnecessary followup questions.

And with any luck, he’ll turn it into the formerly-largest police force.

It’s not because it was Joe doing it, though. They’re just fine with pretty much all of it, pretty much all of them.

Well, yes. But that was rather my point. It’s not specific to Biden—the idea is that they’re all fine with it so long as their personal political capital benefits from agreeing with it, which it did, so long as a Democrat was in the White House. It’s two-faced. We agree on this.

I mention Joe specifically because he was in office when this particular era of the genocide started, and so there was a lot of people (not just politicians, either) who were perfectly comfortable backing his support of human rights violations for over a year. Does it need him to happen? No. But he was there, and he made things worse, so he is who gets called out.

On an optimistic note, however: I don’t remember specifically what article it was, but I do distinctly remember support for Israel has been dropping slowly over the last couple years, even before Trump started taking shits on everything. So not all the change in sentiment is temporary, thankfully.

I can’t help but feel we’re in the “I have suddenly agreed this is bad now because it’s a guy I don’t like doing it” phase of politics.

I mean, sure, I like that resistance to the genocide is growing, but that’s not enduring. The matter of the fact is there were a lot of people who were fine with this shit back when Joe did it, and who will likely pretend it suddenly stopped if a blue president makes office in the future. This is political convenience.

Dan Olson’s documentary is as true as ever. Stop recommending an environment-destroying investment scam to people. You aren’t helping, and I’m not going to be left holding your bag.

Edit: lmao they edited their crypto hawking out of their post

I am very glad we live in the universe where that didn’t happen!

Plenty of the ostensibly better alternatives are covered in the same documentary. I have no faith in them either.

new owners

Do you mean Itch or something else? Because Itch is, as far as I can tell, still run by Leaf Corcoran, the same guy who launched it.

Honestly, even if it hadn’t been abused as a speculative investment, I don’t think Bitcoin (or any other cryptocurrency) would’ve worked basically at all as a decentralized payment alternative. Dan Olson’s investigation of it is too damning for me to believe that.

Probably because it’s a hell of a lot easier than trying to figure out how to manage payment processing without those processors. Visa and Mastercard are extremely large, and by-and-large the only way to pay online in the US. Add in Paypal and Stripe’s limitations (which are also notoriously shitty) and you don’t really have many options left, so it’s really not worth it. I know the EU has better options, but Steam isn’t based there and I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t want to find a way to jump through those hoops.

For anyone wondering if the article has anything new to say regarding whether or not the Trump admin will actually listen to this judge: No, it doesn’t. This article is largely pointless.

In fact, I’d argue this article is worse than pointless, since it still calls this a “crackdown on illegal immigration,” which is blatant lies that no reputable news organization has any business repeating. The last goddamn thing we need right now is the BBC spreading Trump’s excuses for what is increasingly becoming literal murder.

Probably worth mentioning that another alternative called TopAnswers.xyz exists as well—both Codidact and TopAnswers mention each other in their homepages, which I find pretty neat.

Definitely interested to see how both of these sites pan out. StackExchange has been a powerful force for good over the years, and it’s been sad to hear it starting to slide down recently, not that I should be too surprised since they got bought four years back. I’m eager to see what a properly open-source and nonprofit community can do on the good template that SE once set.

I do wish either of these sites could host in a different country than the UK though; I’ve heard more than enough by now to feel that hosting a tech project in the UK is scarcely any better than doing so in the US, privacy-wise. (Though for that matter, TA uses Amazon for hosting, which is probably the worst of both worlds.)

This is a very fair point and I agree that a solid, proven assurance of information survivability is vital to something like this. Frankly, though, if StackExchange is shitting the bed (as it seems to be if GenAI is being accepted there) then I think it’s important to get a good alternative running regardless. Still, that in turn makes it all the more important to keep the pressure up on the survivability issue so it doesn’t get ignored.