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Lol this is a literal PR release content farm. That means reddit literally paid for this website to put this article up. They would have published “reddit cures cancer” if spez paid them

Alot of Lemmy users are like this

Around 825 AD, Persian scientist and polymath al-Khwarizmiwrote kitāb al-ḥisāb al-hindī (“Book of Indian computation”) and kitab al-jam’ wa’l-tafriq al-ḥisāb al-hindī (“Addition and subtraction in Indian arithmetic”). In the early 12th century, Latin translations of these texts involving the Hindu–Arabic numeral system and arithmetic appeared, for example Liber Alghoarismi de practica arismetrice, attributed to John of Seville, and Liber Algoritmi de numero Indorum, attributed to Adelard of Bath.[8] Here, alghoarismi or algoritmi is the Latinization of Al-Khwarizmi’s name;[9] the text starts with the phrase Dixit Algoritmi, or “Thus spoke Al-Khwarizmi”.

So in referring to what someone’s true soul is, you can say “Thus spoke The Algorithm”

Yeah also this thread is funny to me because it suffers from a thing I see on lemmy frequently, which is thinking that small business owners care at all what such a tiny microcosm of people like lemmy users care about. The vast majority of small business foot traffic is going off of word of mouth (in person or digital), advertising, or good reviews on aggregators like yelp or google maps, very little of their foot traffic comes from people just walking by and going “ew, AI ad, no thanks”

Lol my comment was in no way related to his intelligence, though I agree working at a big tech company doesn’t inherently mean you are intelligent. It was purely that if he is vehemently against LLMs he should seek employment outside of big tech

But nothing happened to him though of course. He probably got a promotion

Lol he’s a software engineer at cloudflare and was previously at meta. So no matter how much he hates LLMs, both of his employers have dumped boatloads of money into them

Generally it just means a collection of tools, patterns, ways of working, optimizations, testing systems, etc. I’ve been writing software professionally for 20ish years and the value of building a software factory almost always is only realized by the enterprise. Mainly because you also need enough smart engineers to upgrade and adapt the factory to the ever-improving and shifting software landscape and ecosystem and evolving business goals. I can’t imagine anyone who would have enough free time to build a software factory for hobby projects, except for those who hobby projects are their actual job, e.g. full time open source developers.

I think the biggest risk now is supply chain poisoning, where a system update or package installation runs executable code alongside it that can be malicious, as most supply chains for Linux distros don’t have automatic security checks in place but rather rely on the security of the identity of the package maintainer. If their setup gets compromised that’s the bigger risk rather than the traditional “virus” like you said

They don’t prevent you from asking the model about elections, they try to ensure the models can’t be used for election manipulation. The models currently refuse to provide information on where to vote until they connect the tooling with Democracy Works

https://www.anthropic.com/news/2026-us-midterms

Our latest models also engage more readily with political discussions and decline fewer requests, so people can get the information they came for. We’re continuing to refine these evaluations, and also looking beyond them for new ways to pressure-test how our models handle political topics.

Later this month, Claude will start drawing official voting information from Democracy Works into its responses on Claude.ai for users in the US. Someone asking where to vote or what ID to bring to their polling place will now get an answer specific to their state, without leaving the conversation. These responses draw on publicly available information that Democracy Works collects from state and local election sources.

Building on these findings and our own, we’ve added new classifiers to better identify novel and multi-step misuse, including attempts to build fake social media accounts and news sites aimed at political discussions, or to run financially motivated election schemes. We also enhanced our ability to detect election-related misuse by foreign state actors, and strengthened our cyber protections for election infrastructure and campaigns. Finally, we built targeted safeguards for localized risks identified in the US, Israel, and Brazil, which all have major national elections this year.

Ah yes the “non-profit” ETS

ETS has been criticized for being a “highly competitive business operation that is as much multinational monopoly as nonprofit institution”.[44] Due to its legal status as a non-profit organization, ETS is exempt from paying federal corporate income tax on many, but not all, of its operations.[43] It annually reports detailed financial information to the IRS on Form 990, which is publicly available.[45]

Americans for Educational Testing Reform (AETR) claims that ETS is violating its non-profit status through excessive profits, executive compensation, and governing board member pay (which the IRS specifically advises against[54]). AETR further claims that ETS is acting unethically by selling test preparation materials, directly lobbying legislators and government officials, and refusing to acknowledge test-taker rights. It also criticises ETS for forcing GRE test-takers to participate in research experiments during the actual exam.[55]

Yeah but clamav doesn’t have “a centralized dashboard with mdm and intune integration” e.g. a spreadsheet that says when everyone’s last scan was and that their definitions are up to date so the security theater can exist. Not to worry, more likely than not this is just built on a mountain of open source software like clamav that’s probably MIT licensed so MS can slap their logo on it and charge for it

It’s just gonna be part of security audit theater. “Prove your organization is [x] compliant.”

IT: you have to use windows so we can add your computer to intune

Developer: no

IT: Microsoft pls

Microsoft: Ok it’s on Linux now, that’ll be another seat license for clamav wrapped in our logo or something

IT: omg we’re so secure

Auditing company: omg they’re so secure

“Model trained by company that cheats to win and said ‘do not trust us’ cheats to win and cannot be trusted. More at 11.”

Yeah lol also reading through the actually interaction around the patch

> The uptodate check in filemap_read_rcu_can_copy() has to stay, though.
> The flag only says the folio was uptodate when it was marked. Some
> filesystems clear PG_uptodate on a folio that stays in the page cache,
> and that can happen after the folio got the flag.

Those filesystems are buggy.  We have assertions that the uptodate flag
is set on folios mapped into userspace, and filesystems going arund
clearing the uptodate bit will cause problems.  It's something I'm
working on removing, but since it's all connected to writeback errors,
it takes a lot of arguing with each filesystem maintainer.

So one of the reasons there’s so many changes in the patch series is to account for… human bugs

Were we? Perhaps in certain indie gaming projects, but the vast majority of things pre-ai in the tech world were like open source SaaS self hostable crippleware “community editions” with some very specific exclusions, and the majority of physical products that were popular were short lived influencer powered e-commerce dropships that lived through podcast sponsorships. Unless I’m missing something, outside of those there were a few diamonds in the rough, but certainly not a renaissance

But Ed Zitron makes me feel fuzzy and warm when he name calls everyone and therefore he must be right

Better meme:

Yeah also this:

Outlit’s goal is to amass as much real-time information about a company’s clients as possible. According to Earle, agents trawl internal records like call logs and sales data as well as external information like social media posts and the websites of people’s employers; they then compile that data into detailed customer profiles, often complete with “actionables” like outreach recommendations and sales guidance. Outlit argues this level of insight will help companies prevent “churn” — business jargon for lost customers — or find opportunities to upsell.

Isn’t new or novel in any way. Our sales team at the company I work for has a bespoke version of this. The model pulls in information from previous customer interactions, scours LinkedIn and the web and larger industry trends, and gives them a profile. There’s no benefit to having some long running agent that constantly watches someone’s online activity when you can ingest the log when it’s actionable.

They’re grifters who will grift people with no idea how this stuff works, they’ll get a valuation of x number of millions with some CLAUDE.md files omarchy style, then salesforce will eat them for their valuation and they go on to grift some more