Not so fun fact about Hegseth, he never washes his hands because he thinks it makes you weak. The man walks around with shit covered hands everywhere he goes.

Epic is worth a lot more than $1.5b

Yep, I grew up being taught Catholics were fake Christians who worship Mary and their saints instead of god, and in so doing are actually worshipping demons because “Satanists” control the Catholic church.

Elon and his brother both used to be very open about working illegally in the US in violation of their visas. There’s also his use of illegal drugs which he has never made a secret of. The evidence is a lot more solid than this bizarre nonsense about Omar.

Regardless of whether your ISP is leveraging their ownership of your router to violate your privacy, they are using it to exploit you financially. Owning your own equipment is always going to save you money compared to what an ISP will charge you in rent.

It amazes me how profoundly stupid these people are. This is almost too dumb to believe. The Strait of Hormuz risk has been talked about for decades, no one at the Pentagon or NSC should be surprised right now.

It is kind of funny that Iran already replaced Khomeini with another Khomeini. Except this one is extra shitty, and now also extra pissed off too.

It gives you more control over when and what Google can do on the device. If you run Google software with network access you have to assume they can track you, but having it sandboxed minimizes what it can do while running and gives you more control over what it does (e.g. you can deny it network access entirely whenever you want).

The supply chain risk designation and threats of imprisonment are completely insane. It’s effectively the corporate death penalty for Anthropic. I expect the stock market would be crashing right now if it were open.

It’s weird to me how controversial this take is here. It seems obvious that lots of people are learning to leverage LLMs for their dev work and that this isn’t going away. I’m personally skeptical we will ever get rid of human in the loop or even that we will improve output quality much from here, but I don’t think either is necessary for LLM use to become standard practice in software dev.

The output quality seems like it is already good enough for the industry so I don’t think the “ouroboros” problem will stop the trend. Even if LLM-generated code quality doesn’t improve at all from here they will continue to be adopted. I think the jury is still out on what impact LLMs have on learning but I do agree it is not looking good. I don’t think this will stop the trend though, just potentially produce an outcome where even fewer programmers understand what they are actually doing. I can see the risk of that resulting in a scenario where the capacity to keep the LLMs going becomes lost, it seems not very probable though and that instead a kind of stagnation would take over in which the capacity for progress via software development becomes much more limited. Regardless, I don’t think that the trend potentially resulting in everyone becoming too dumb to continue the trend would actually stop the trend before that failure state was reached. I think even knowing that LLMs taking over the software industry could result in the collapse of the industry is not enough to stop the people making these decisions or change the economic forces driving LLM adoption. It is a risk they are happy to take.

Setting all of that aside, my original point was that it is becoming impossible to avoid LLM-generated code and I don’t think we need LLM-generated code to become the majority of code produced for that to happen. Depending on how you want to count things we’re probably already at a point where one way or another you are interacting with code that came from an LLM. I think it’s probably kind of like trying to avoid AWS or Cloudflare and still use the web like a normal person, those days are gone.

I think for too many having code that simply works is enough, and LLM-generated code quality is likely to continue improving over the coming years at least to some degree. Claude Code is already hugely popular and used at a lot of companies. I don’t expect things like that to go away, they certainly won’t be getting worse and currently a growing number of devs apparently find them useful enough. I think it’s probably just a matter of time until the majority of devs are using tools like these at least to some extent. Do you think the trend of devs taking up LLM tools will stall out or reverse for some reason?

From everything I’ve seen, I don’t think you can realistically avoid vibe coded software going forward. We’re fast approaching the day when the majority of all new code is LLM output.

Another one I saw mentioned by the NYT is his missing tattoo. Epstein apparently testified in a deposition that he had a tattoo of barbed wire on his upper arm, except it is not visible in pictures of his corpse. Not sure what to make of that but it’s odd and hasn’t been explained yet.

Random super markets can license access to their data. I could easily imagine a company like Palantir or Flock leveraging systems like these in their government contracting. Whether or not these things are privately owned by creepy corporations or under the direct control of a government agency feels like a distinction without a difference, either way the infrastructure of totalitarianism is being constructed around us with these technologies.

The descriptions I’ve seen said there are at least 40 nude pictures of Epstein victims and that some of the subjects do appear to potentially be teenagers. It sounds like the DOJ released CSAM, yes.

There isn’t really any reason to think the Fediverse won’t be used for AI training, if it isn’t already. Everything is in the open here, it’s easy enough to scrape all the data.

Eventually the reddit thread would probably balance out, and incorrect information should get downvoted and replaced by corrections from people who know better.

This seems optimistic.

When I first saw this headline I thought it meant he was going to make them compete in the Olympics.

It doesn’t take a million shell commands or sketchy scripts to deploy Windows without a Microsoft account. I literally did it just last week. I think you are being pedantic and moving the goal posts, the claim was that you need a Microsoft account to use Windows and that is not true. You may be coerced into using one depending on the version and install method but that’s not the original claim that was made.