In the past, OSS projects were self-selective because you needed to be able to make working code, and if you did, you probably also reasonably did the right things as you spent years learning this, and have some sort of reasoning behind your feature, need, etc.

Today, even if the LLM was perfect and could reason well, it still does the bidding of the prompter - and you no longer have self-selection. Heck, it'll be difficult for zig devs to decide what's actually made by an LLM or a human anyway, I'm sure there's already LLM generated code in there - but at least these [human submiters] still need to be reasonably good at code.

I wonder if we'll end up with "only human with trusted badge of honor" can commit, and/or "LLMs now reason well enough to tell you: 'no, f off, this feature, plan, idea is garbage I'm not generating it" hehe.

I ended up brute forcing most of it as I did not really understand what I was doing, but it turns out, with enough time, you get things going.

Wish the pages were still up, I lost that software long ago, and I'm sure my code was garbage (not that its much better today, but at least I can blame Claude..) and fun to read.

The 90's were fun.

- verifying isn't asking "is it correct?" - verifying is "run requests.get, does it return blah or no?'

just like with humans but usually for different reasons and with slightly different types of failures.

The interesting part perhaps, is that verifying pretty much always involves code, and code is great pre-compacted context for humans and machines alike. Ever tried to get LLM to do a visual thing? why is the couch at the wrong spot with a weird color?

if you make the LLM write a program that generate the image (eg game engine picture, or 3d render), you can enforce the rules by code it can also make for you - now the couch color uses an hex code and its placed at the right coordinates, every time.

just like humans, actually. fe: grow up in a world where chopping one of peoples finger off every decade is normal and happens to everyone.. and most will think its fine and that its how you keep gods calm and some crazy stuff like that.

right now, news, reddit, Wikipedia, etc. have a strong authoritarian and progressive bias, so do the models, and a lot of humans who consume daily news, tiktoks, instagrams.

Same for ; "" vs '', ex, eg, fe, etc. and so many more.

I like em all, but I'm crazy.

I think that there's also inherent trust in "hardware security" but as we all know its all just hardcoded software at the end of the day, and complexity will bring bugs more frequently.

This is because MTE facilitate finding memory bugs and fixing them - but also consumes (physical!) space and power. If enough folks run it with, say Chrome, you get to find and fix most of its memory bugs and it benefits everyone else (minus the drawbacks, since everyone else has MTE off or not present).

trade offs, basically. At least on pixel you can decide on your own

Dan passed away in 2021, rip.

if you search for it its hard to find. his blog is down (hea dead...), and many companies and people talked about it on his behalf to drive traffic (hi duo sec..), so you can see the internet forget, rediscover, and rewrite some history even in a few years.

ive a x elite and a bunch of other laptops

i like the mba 13 (but barely) and the zbook 395+

the x elite is just a bit slow,.incompatible and newer x86 battery life isnt far off

there has been countless western and non western wars with slightly different patterns and a taste of "winner writes history".

one i find interesting is the french revolution. its also fairly recent, but not as tampered with as ww2 history. for example, there still are records of how terrible and cruel the revolutionaries were, how everyone was a royalist that needed to die and how the populace started to be ready to revolt - again - right after the change of power. thankfully, things eventually calmed down - as they were cruel, but not dumb.

either way I'd basically recommend expending the reading curriculum a bit.