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Cake day: June 18th, 2023
  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•rsync is being vibe coded now. We are so cooked.English
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    3 days ago

    No, we’re talking about companies scraping hundreds of millions if not billions of labor hours of output to train their models for the sake of developing software products which they then sell for profit.

    Every model that was trained on legally acquired free public data and open source code should be freely publicly available and open source.

    Every model that was trained on not legally acquired public data (e.g. Meta’s models) should be taken out of production until all of the lawsuits are concluded, and hopefully the parties responsible are put out of business.

    I’m not talking about future, potential labor that AI might replace. I’m talking about the labor which was stolen to produce these models in the first place.

    But, please use AI.

  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•rsync is being vibe coded now. We are so cooked.English
    49·
    3 days ago

    Please identify the issues with the LLM generated code.

    Why would the issues be obvious and easy to point out? Most issues with code aren’t. If they were, we wouldn’t have Patch Tuesday, a direct code review would prevent issues from shipping in the first place.

    Throwing this out as if it means LLM code is acceptable and ends the argument is ridiculous. Do you have any grasp of how software vulnerabilities are discovered at all?

  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubtosolarpunk memes@slrpnk.net•Let's get radical!English
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    14 days ago

    Common currency and measurement standards can and do arise without the imposition of state fiat.

    This was not the argument. You are moving the goalpost. The argument was:

    the fundamental functioning of people does not require ordering to be viable.

    Self-ordering is still ordering. Whether a government is involved in enforcing it or not is irrelevant, there will be enforcement of agreements even if the only ones conducting the enforcement are the concerned parties. That is order.

    No grand plan has to be drawn up by any central authority

    Sure, they don’t have to be planned and regulated in advance, but eventually common agreements will produce a regulating group with enforcement authority because organizing in this way is more efficient for the market overall.

    That group doesn’t have to be a government per se, but it will have regulatory authority.

  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubtosolarpunk memes@slrpnk.net•Let's get radical!English
    2·
    14 days ago

    Yes, I always form my socioeconomic conclusions based on television sitcoms, they’re the best source of opinions.

    Sarcasm aside, the idea presented here doesn’t work for any more complex form of cooperative labor (e.g. public water systems, telecommunications infrastructure, hospital services, large research projects, bridge construction, etc). Someone has to perform administrative duties to organize the work being done and ensure that the needed materials and experienced personnel show up at the right places at the right times.

    Like, try telling the head surgeon of an OR that the staff can be left to figure things out for themselves, and all the operations will get done correctly as scheduled without killing any patients. They’d laugh you out of the building. The surgery schedule would be chaos by the end of a single shift.

  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubtosolarpunk memes@slrpnk.net•Let's get radical!English
    1·
    14 days ago

    Hmm, are markets self-ordering?

    I think in the purest sense, just having some form of common currency would be considered “order” - unless you’re suggesting that only pure barter is necessary for a functional society - but then even that requires some broad agreement on weights & measures in order to function (e.g. how long is a board-foot? how much flour is 1 kilogram?). Collectively the market must agree on some standards in order to function.

    Also, unregulated markets always end in monopolies, with or without a capitalist economy. Sooner or later someone will try to establish themselves as the sole supplier of some good or service. Only active oversight and regulatory enforcement can prevent it.

  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubtoFlippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Best system possibleEnglish
    22·
    28 days ago

    “…and yes, somehow this assembly of three aluminum tubes will cost you $2000.”

    Communism breaks your leg, then “Oops, sorry comrade! No crutches produced in factory this week! Maybe new crutches in six months! Have new toaster instead!”
    “Also no bread unless you have a roof!”

    Stalinism breaks both your legs, then issues you a pair of state-sanctioned non-Western shoes and asks why you’re so lazy you can’t get up and go to work for glorious motherland.

  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubtoDIY@slrpnk.net•Things too look at for a sewing machineEnglish
    2·
    28 days ago

    Every time you pick up a new tool, you learn things about working with it that teach what you want from your next tool. Gotta start somewhere.

    When you reach that point, and you know what you want, what’s important to how you work, you should replace the tool. Just do it, because it’s wasting your time and effort, and possibly also material if it’s failing in ways that a better tool would not. It’s preventing you from doing better work.

    Pass it on via Goodwill if you can’t find a better candidate.

  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubtoDIY@slrpnk.net•Things too look at for a sewing machineEnglish
    15·
    28 days ago

    So I want to try making my own patches

    If you mean small pieces of already patterned fabric to sew onto larger textile products (clothing, bags, etc), that you can just cut and sew by hand.

    If you mean stitching complex patterns or symbols with multiple colors of thread, that’s something you do with an embroidery machine. These are mechanically complex - they are more work to set up, more fragile, and more expensive than a standard sewing machine. They are also not very good for basic productivity stitches (e.g. seams) as they are intended to make very fine stitches on relatively lightweight fabric. They are not good starter machines.

    For general sewing work, and especially for learning, I recommend any machine that does not have a screen like this one:

    https://www.brother-usa.com/products/ps700

    These types of machines are common at entry-level prices, and they offer a wider variety of stitch options, but realistically you won’t get much use out of those, and in my experience the embedded computer parts make the machine less reliable.

    I prefer something purely mechanical like this:

    https://www.brother-usa.com/products/st531hd

    All the controls are physical knobs, dials and switches - no touchscreens or touchpads, no computer components, no vague error messages. It’s mechanically simple to the point where there is very little that can go wrong with it - it just does the job.

    This model is also heavy duty, which means it has a stronger metal frame, a stronger motor, and more metal parts in the construction in general (over a standard duty machine). It should last basically forever. Other machines may be able to take heavy duty needles, but that doesn’t mean the machine itself can actually punch through 4 layers of denim without stalling or twisting the frame. Even if you don’t end up working on a lot of heavyweight fabrics, a heavy duty machine will suffer less wear and tear from normal use.

    Why would you need to punch through 4 layers of denim? Because when you make a seam in a pair of pants like this:

    you overlap the two pieces of fabric and then fold it over and stitch through it like this:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felled_seam

    In the places where multiple seams come together (like where the pocket meets the side seam) there will be even more layers, and an otherwise easy project can suddenly become very difficult to complete when your machine just can’t handle 8 layers in a double-over seam.

    Um… one possible downside of a heavy duty machine is that it will sew through your finger if you’re not paying attention, where a lighter duty machine might jab you and then get stuck. It’s also heavier to pick up and move around. It may also have less throat space:

    than a similarly priced standard duty machine, because the longer the frame pieces are the more flexible they are. More throat space makes every kind of project easier because there’s more room to feed the fabric through, but it also makes the body of the machine more fragile. If you think you might work on larger projects (like blankets/quilts) you may want to prioritize larger throat space as a feature (dedicated quilting machines have longer arms to accommodate larger pieces of fabric).

    Don’t be afraid to buy a used machine, but try to find a copy of the user manual for it before you buy it. Especially starting out, you’ll want the instructions for how to set up your particular machine, and how to do basic maintenance and troubleshooting. All mechanical devices require occasional maintenance. Looking at the manual should also help you figure out if the used machine has all of its parts.

    Whatever you buy, keep in mind: simple is good, simple is reliable, simple is difficult to break accidentally and easier to fix if necessary. Extra fancy features do not make a better machine.

    *Edit: also don’t buy one of these cheap portable/handheld type machines:

    https://sewingmachineguide.co.uk/guides/best-handheld-sewing-machine/

    Don’t waste your money. The little handheld ones can have a use to get into weird angles or small spaces that would be impractical with a normal machine, but only in very specific situations. They aren’t general purpose machines.