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on Software for One · c/aicoding · 3 pts · 1d

I've been saying this since the LLM explosion. What used to be the domain of hard-core UNIX ricers exclusively is now accessible to most people. Are their apps secure? Fuck no! Are they riddled with subtle bugs? You bet! But that's true of most custom software I've written to rice my desktop too. When the userbase is all within yelling-shot, and fixes take minutes, rough code is fine.

Its the safety critical and/or large scale applications where LLMs aren't quite ready to "be in charge" just yet... Plus domain specific areas where lack of training data really shows through (I had to write a handler for an unusual non-ethernet layer 2 protocol recently, claude was happy to help me ... by writing a decent ethernet parser)

That they are fluent enough in Arabic and they purposefully lied?

Umm, yeah? I know this may come as a shock, but sometimes Bibi is less than truthful.

I know that any criticism of Hamas immediately brands me as some kind of Zionist shill, but I'm under no delusions about the fact that Bibi is a war criminal. I am surrounded by many extremely pro-Israel family members. The amount of times I've heard "technically its not really a genocide" and had to tell them that "technically I only committed manslaughter, not murder" isn't exactly a good thing is ridiculous.

For the record, I personally believe the Israeli government is probably committing a genocide, even by technical terms. But even if by technicality they aren't, I don't think that absolves their government at all. I just dont think that millions of people should be kicked out of their homes, on either side. Sadly that seems to be a largely minority opinion these days.

Fair. I guess what really prompted this question was a chat with a "normie" relative who was self-hosting jellyfin on their main computer, no security (username: user, password: pass, SSL: disabled). I had to explain all the issues (even no fail2ban on their server with an exposed port 22). They thought I was paranoid. But even my suggestions weren't as extreme as many people put.

I never equivocated the Israeli actions and the Palestinian ones. I would say anyone arguing in good faith should agree that both sides have done bad things. The scale may be wildly different, but that doesn't magically make it okay. The axis powers did the most wrong in WWII, but internment of japanese civilians by allied powers is still not okay.

Not to mention Israel doesn't really make those kinds of translation mistakes. Most Israeli's are at least partially bilingual, and almost all signage/packaging/etc is written in hebrew and arabic. I would be extremely surprised if anyone who has lived in Israel for more than about a year didn't know the names of the week in arabic. Any more than someone living in Canada not knowing them in french. They may forget whick ones correspond to whick, but they should recognize that that is what they are.

Not to mention the obvious anti-synergy of other people's eyes and book sword. Reading from other people's eyes would be tricky to say the least.

on What is SSH ? · c/ask · 1 pts · 51d

Someone should create a new internet that uses SSH to access it. Call it An SSH On-Line Environment.