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@sotolf@polymaths.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run definitely hard to look away from
I'm at a point now where some of my clients are sniffing around the AI Bros behinds and getting interested - so I feel I need to be informed of the latest piss-poor choices AI psychos are making so I can give them example of how it can, and has, gone wrong
Look... this just isn't funny any more. If you're going to vibe-code your interface at least fucking look at it and test it and then hurl yourself off the nearest cliff and I'm not even joking.
@sotolf@polymaths.social close to doing this myself
But also, I want to be aware of the security fuck-ups it's performing.
Dilemma! (but yeah, I'll probably mute it all soon)
EchoesOfTheEye comments - NO SPOILERS PLEASE
Oh wow, the new location is beautiful!
Much to see. Much to do. I could just play more and more DLC for this game forever and ever
@atax1a@infosec.exchange it's the "AI" way!
Scrape the web continuously
Find work humans have done
Throw tonnes of compute (and by extension, money, power, water, and so on) at it
Claim result as "the future" instead of just paying half the money to human effort.
Frankly I'm expecting a cost-saving future in AI systems where their performance gets gradually worse and worse because they can't afford the costs, to the level they can't compete with human effort, but all the humans with the skills are gone
@davidgerard@circumstances.run Sorry, I can't read it, I have thrown all of my computers into the sea and never wish to touch one again.
Helping a client with a PowerBI data connection today.
They were trying to use an API that didn't allow connectivity to a table unless you provide an ID parameter. I wasn't overly clear myself so I read a little documentation about it. When coming back to them, they had asked ChattyPeePoos how to do it, and it had given them back some BEx which it confidently said would do it.
It wouldn't, at least not providing some more context.
But, the person quite happily copy and pasted the code, replacing the code PowerBI already had (you know, the stuff that defines the datasource a few navigation steps to provide the table view) and, lo and behold... Fail. And because it's PowerBI/Query no going back.
I talk them through how to do it via the documentation, and done.
Tell me again how this shite is here to stay.
@chadmccullough@bsd.cafe the more people we have using it, the more effort we have in making things work!
@chadmccullough@bsd.cafe @mj1982@23.social @atoponce@fosstodon.org at one point in the past, the "metaverse" was "here to stay"
And cryptocurrencies...
Arguably, cryptocurrencies have stayed around, but only used by criminals and illegal porn peddlers which, coincidentally, is the same final destination for AI too.
@mj1982@23.social @chadmccullough@bsd.cafe @atoponce@fosstodon.org Ah, the old "AI is here to stay" mantra...
Well, we know how far down the "let's burn the planet" rabbit hole this person is, don't we!
@stefano@bsd.cafe probably good you didn't touch it - they would definitely blame you for the dataloss AI caused.
@andyc@yakshaving.social yeah, it's not clear. I can't remember if I read it or just stumbled across it on my own snac... I think I must have "open[ed] profile in browser" from another account, then noticed the padlock/private or something. Can't remember... long time ago now!
@andyc@yakshaving.social you go to {url}/{user}/admin or just {url}/{user} and click "private" or the padlock icon and you should get a login prompt and away you go
But yeah, phanpy, enafore (or other -fores), etc. all work pretty well.
@rl_dane@polymaths.social 2 and a half times the size of my first hard disk!
And I guess the answer is pretty much "bundled web browser"
Any #MIT license nerds out there?
Quick question: I've discovered a client has thrown together a bunch of different AI generated "apps" (hosted around the planet on Vercel, Netlify, etc. On public links...but that's another story). These apps seem to use chunks of React JS - not React JS as a whole, just parts of it.
Now, the whole thing does not include the MIT license so I suspect it's in breach anyway, but I was wondering what the situation is around tearing some parts of the project up and using just those parts without accreditation to ReactJS? Seems a bit iffy, right?