Dang that judge was angry.

Here’s docket #170: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mied.384571/gov.uscourts.mied.384571.170.0.pdf – the complaining about not being allowed to use AI is on page 14 and 16 (it’s pretty awful reading I almost gave up before reaching that point)

a pro se litigant should not be threatened with per-citation fines before any violation.

lmao

The documentation for “Turbo mode” for Google Antigravity:

Turbo: Always auto-execute terminal commands (except those in a configurable Deny list)

No warning. No paragraph telling the user why it might be a good idea. No discussion on the long history of malformed scripts leading to data loss. No discussion on the risk for injection attacks. It’s not even named similarly to dangerous modes in other software (like “force” or “yolo” or “danger”)

Just a cool marketing name that makes users want to turn it on. Heck if I’m using some software and I see any button called “turbo” I’m pressing that.

It’s hard not to give the user a hard time when they write:

Bro, I didn’t know I needed a seatbelt for AI.

But really they’re up against a big corporation that wants to make LLMs seem amazing and safe and autonomous. One hand feeds the user the message that LLMs will do all their work for them. While the other hand tells the user “well in our small print somewhere we used the phrase ‘Gemini can make mistakes’ so why did you enable turbo mode??”

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Oh yeah I got that no worries.

As a C++ programmer some Rust people can come on a little strong, as if I’ve never thought about the importance of memory safety before and don’t know how to write secure code (well excuse me for building on top of decades of libraries that no one thought to write in rust in the '80s).

But that’s normal programmer flame war stuff. Rust people tend to be young and enthusiastic about security which is all good.

Based Linux is another non-Woke option if you want a Debian based system that supports systemd, Wayland, XLibre and the GNU tools.

Do… do you think he realizes that Debian is “woke”?

Also I wonder what his beef with Rust is? Is Rust woke?

I saw this food on social media the other day which was allegedly caused by a Chat-GPT recipe: https://www.reddit.com/r/shittyfoodporn/comments/1p60tfw/my_wife_tried_a_chatgpt_crockpot_recipe/

Wow highly recommend reading all his comments where he doubles down on how everyone else is in the wrong (for wanting maintainable code that isn’t a legal liability) while he is in the right (for being brave and bold enough to type prompts into an LLM to create code that he won’t stand behind).

It’s almost as if he went in there looking for a fight.

Lool, look at these two quotes next to eachother:

One caveat, though: even if I didn’t type the code myself, I own it — and it’s my responsibility now.

vs.

Beats me. AI decided to do so [write the copyright as someone else] and I didn’t question it.

There is no need to give transphobes the benefit of the doubt really.

You don’t believe in gender? I mean you’re wrong IMO but we’re cool. But if someone says the words “I don’t believe have an attribute called gender” as part of a bunch of totally obvious anti-trans dog-whistles when butting into a discussion about transgender day of remembrance? Now it’s a problem.

We regret to inform you that one of Google’s "AI leader"s is a transphobe:

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/googles-2-7-billion-ai-hire-tests-companys-speech-limits-inflammatory-posts (paywall)

https://bsky.app/profile/alexhanna.bsky.social/post/3m52bffg2222x (screenshot of relevant section)

More bias-laundering through AI, phrenology edition! https://www.economist.com/business/2025/11/06/should-facial-analysis-help-determine-whom-companies-hire

I couldn’t actually read the article because paywall, but here’s a paper that the article is probably about: AI Personality Extraction from Faces: Labor Market Implications

Saying the quiet part out loud:

First, an individual’s genetic profile significantly influences both their facial features and personality. Certain variations in DNA correlate with specific facial features, such as nose shape, jawline, and overall facial symmetry, defined broadly as craniofacial characteristics

Second, a person’s pre- and post-natal environment, especially hormone exposure, has been shown to affect both facial characteristics and personality

To their credit the paper does say that this is a terrible idea, though I don’t know how much benefit of the doubt to give them (I don’t have time to take a closer look):

This research is not intended, and should not viewed, as advocacy for the usage of Photo Big 5 or similar technologies in labor market screening.

Half the time the trucks are driving on the left side of the road. That’s fine I guess; except half the time the trucks are driving on the right side of the road.

🙃🙃🙃

NotAwfulTech and AwfulTech converged with some ffmpeg drama on twitter over the past few days starting here and still ongoing. This is about an AI generated security report by Google’s “Big Sleep” (with no corresponding Google authored fix, AI or otherwise). Hackernews discussed it here. Looking at ffmpeg’s security page there have been around 24 bigsleep reports fixed.

ffmpeg pointed out a lot of stuff along the lines of:

• They are volunteers
• They have not enough money
• Certain companies that do use ffmpeg and file security reports also have a lot of money
• Certain ffmpeg developers are willing to enter consulting roles for companies in exchange for money
• Their product has no warranty
• Reviewing LLM generated security bugs royally sucks
• They’re really just in this for the video codecs moreso than treating every single Use-After-Free bug as a drop-everything emergency
• Making the first 20 frames of certain Rebel Assault videos slightly more accurate is awesome
• Think it could be more secure? Patches welcome.
• They did fix the security report
• They do take security reports seriously
• You should not run ffmpeg “in production” if you don’t know what you’re doing.

All very reasonable points but with the reactions to their tweets you’d think they had proposed killing puppies or something.

A lot of people seem to forget this part of open source software licenses:

BECAUSE THE LIBRARY IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE LIBRARY, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW

Or that venerable old C code will have memory safety issues for that matter.

It’s weird that people are freaking out about some UAFs in a C library. This should really be dealt with in enterprise environments via sandboxing / filesystem containers / aslr / control flow integrity / non-executable memory enforcement / only compiling the codecs you need… and oh gee a lot of those improvements could be upstreamed!

Grokipedia just dropped: https://grokipedia.com/

It’s a bunch of LLM slop that someone encouraged to be right wing with varying degrees of success. I won’t copy paste any slop here, but to give you an idea:

• Grokipedia’s article on Wikipedia uses the word “ideological” or “ideologically” 23 times (compared with Wikipedia using it twice in it’s Wikipedia article).
• Any articles about transgender topics tend to mix in lots of anti-transgender misinformation / slant, and use phrases like “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” or “biological males”. The last paragraph of the article “The Wachowskis” is downright unhinged.
• The articles tend to be long and meandering. I doubt even Grokipedia proponents will ultimately get much enjoyment out of it.

Also certain articles have this at the bottom:

The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.

Check out the graphics on their homepage. It has that terrible “scroll driven” web-design but the graphics look like placeholder art cooked up by a programmer.

Usually these sorts of VC bait companies at least hire a graphics designer but I guess that’s not actually necessary.

Crypto Investor Proposes 450-Foot Statue of Greek God on Alcatraz Island is a story making the rounds in the press lately and aaaaaah I hate it. I’d say something more coherent than that but it’s already given me quite a headache.

He has a personal website as well as a website for his stupid statue idea. Both of which are buggy / ugly – apparently after saving $450 million for a dumb statue he has none left for good website coding.

Yet another billboard.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1ob2l2o/replacement_ai_billboard_in_san_francisco_who/

https://replacement.ai/

This time the website is a remarkably polished satire and I almost liked it… but the email it encourages you to send to your congressperson is pretty heavy on doomer talking points and light on actual good ideas (but maybe I’m being too picky?):