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Cynthia Dunlop: Report: How developers react to AI-scented blog posts

So if readers think your article is AI-assisted or AI-authored, most will immediately leave (78%), avoid you forever (71%), and try to downvote you if they can (57%). 17% try to finish but lose interest, and around 15% will only continue if the underlying insights seem authentic.

All of the caveats about sampling bias and self-reporting and all of that...

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Lace Safety Vest (dot) Com. Probably not for those "I want to look official so nobody bugs me while I do this illicit modification", but definitely for those "I want to look fabulous while I do this potentially dangerous activity" situations.

Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests.

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Ugh. I'm running the Ubuntu LTS on my server, which has Perl 5.28.2. Sanko Robinson's Bluesky module wants 5.40.0.

Guess POSSE for Bluesky waits for a while yet.

(I need to move Flutterby.net to a static server anyway, probably do the posting from my home server...)

More in the "LLMs are an attack on human perceptual weaknesses" front: LLM- impersonated debate contributions are more authentic, relevant and coherent than their original: A representative study using BBC1’s Question Time Steffen Herbold, Alexander Trautsch, Zlata Kikteva, Annette Hautli-Janisz

Based on a cross-section of British society, we show that LLM-generated responses to questions drawn from a broadcast political debate programme in the UK are judged to be more authentic and relevant than the original responses given by the panel members who were impersonated. We also show that stylistic differences do not influence these judgments, meaning that the distinction of original and generated content is challenging for the general public. Taken together, this means that LLMs can be made to deceive the public regarding the nature of statements in the political domain, with the consequence that there is a dire need to inform the general public of the potential harm this can have on society.

Via 404 Media: Scientists Asked AI to Impersonate 112 Public Figures. What Happened Next Is a ‘Dire’ Warning

Brian Krebs reports that Boeing may be dealing with a "rapid disassembly of their company-wide IT network".

San Francisco supervisors balk at 362-page city code rewrite

‘I ran it through Claude,’ San Francisco supervisor says of lengthy legislation

JFC.

The ordinance is itself a product of AI research — the result of a collaboration between the city attorney’s office and the Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab, or RegLab, at Stanford University. The research group used AI tools to identify and analyze redundancies, which were then manually reviewed by city attorney staff.

That's not terror inducing at all.

I mean, sounds like there's some stuff that needs to get cleaned up, but this appears to be an epic clusterfuck.

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A week or two ago we picked up a puzzle at a garage sale. Charlene really liked it, got it, dived in (forbidding me from helping), and last night after I went to bed completed it.

Except that it was missing a piece.

This morning the seller left the missing piece with a "sorry" note on our mailbox.

ellie @ellie@social.lol

github doesn't support ipv6, but judging by their uptime they're at least doing their best to also not support ipv4

)(Malaysian) Man jailed (in Singapore) after joining Cambodia scam syndicate that fired him in 3 days for poor performance

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smoltcp

smoltcp is a standalone, event-driven TCP/IP stack that is designed for bare-metal, real-time systems. Its design goals are simplicity and robustness. Its design anti-goals include complicated compile-time computations, such as macro or type tricks, even at cost of performance degradation.

Via ✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark@treehouse.systems's note that it now follows NLnet Labs' LLM policy.

Godot Foundation — Changes to our Contribution Policies

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx@mastodon.social

The fight against root-based remote attestation and mandatory code signing with vendor-provided keys are the defining software freedom issues of our time. Nothing else even comes close

NPR: World Cup bike lane sparks fury from Mexico City sex workers

Before, the sex workers stood right on the street, and their clients could slow down, they could loop, they could negotiate. Now, in parts of Tlalpan, the sex workers are separated from the street by the bike lane and in some cases even huge concrete planters.

Via Momentum Mag.

Because so so many people have been linking to it, and I've got a gift code: New York Times: The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week, Adam GrantMarissa Shandell and Courtney Elliott. The money paragraph:

Over the past six years, we’ve studied why some leaders continue to support remote work, while others resist it. We surveyed thousands of executives, middle managers and frontline supervisors on a host of personality traits. When we later asked them about their stances on hybrid and remote work, their answers didn’t correlate with how much they trusted their employees or how much they loved being around people. The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism — the tendency to be self-centered and entitled. The higher the opinions of themselves leaders expressed, the more they coveted power and status — and the more they favored return-to-office mandates.

Sometimes it's hard to tell until I get deeply into a community, but I'm gonna get really obnoxious about judging communities by how core people in those spaces advertise their events and wares.

Meanwhile, I've actually become a pretty good Modern Western Square Dance caller, and I'm wondering why.

JavaScript was a mistake.

JavaScript was a generation-scale mistake.

I don't do streaming music, but if I did, this closes the deal: Variety: Tidal to Label AI-Generated Music, Ban Royalties from AI Song Streams

Tidal AI Policy.