the chair of my cs department at a public university expressed this sentiment

“the cat’s out of the bag, now we must teach students to use it responsibly”

BECAUSE THAT HAS WORKED SO WELL BEFORE

(sorry for shouting)

something i was thinking about yesterday: so many people i respect used to respect have admitted to using llms as a search engine. even after i explain the seven problems with using a chatbot this way:

1. wrong tool for the job
2. bad tool
3. are you fucking serious?
4. environmental impact
5. ethics of how the data was gathered/curated to generate^[1] the model
6. privacy policy of these companies is a nightmare
7. seriously what is wrong with you

they continue to do it. the ease of use, together with the valid syntax output by the llm, seems to short-circuit something in the end-user’s brain.

anyway, in the same way that some vibe-coded bullshit will end up exploding down the line, i wonder whether the use of llms as a search engine is going to have some similar unintended consequences — “oh, yeah, sorry boss, the ai told me that mr. robot was pretty accurate, idk why all of our secrets got leaked. i watched the entire series.”

additionally, i wonder about the timing. will we see sporadic incidents of shit exploding, or will there be a cascade of chickens coming home to roost?

tom sawyer literally rolling in wealth

but he never helps huck finn out financially?

pretty shit story, mark

as someone who identifies greatly with diogenes, i say: do not trust anyone who compares themself to diogenes

Here is what I could find. It isn’t problematic enough to get me to switch to self-hosting, but I am open to being wrong about this (read: I perused the shared links and then did a line of copium — here’s hoping BW is internally saying “enough people want this, here is how we can provide it to these dipshits” and not “let’s hop on the train y’all”)

https://bitwarden.com/blog/bitwarden-mcp-server/

To help drive secure authentication forward, Bitwarden introduces its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, which provides the infrastructure for secure AI agent integration with password management. The new Bitwarden MCP server allows AI assistants to access, generate, retrieve, and manage passwords through a local-first architecture where credentials remain on a user’s machine, maintaining zero-knowledge encryption.

IMPORTANT SECURITY NOTE

MCP servers are on the frontier of the AI wave, enabling new, to-be-imagined applications. At the same time, frontiers, when not explored carefully, can be risky. Users of the Bitwarden MCP server are encouraged to keep security and care in mind. Some examples that Bitwarden demonstrates may not be appropriate for all users and use cases. It is strongly recommended to leverage a local self-hosted LLM option when using the MCP server.

https://bitwarden.com/blog/use-bitwarden-to-keep-track-of-your-ai-agents-credentials/

https://bitwarden.com/data-security-in-age-of-ai/

Like a complete fucking idiot, I paid for two years of protonmail right before discovering they are fascists. I would like to move to another provider. I have until August. I have been considering Forward Email. Anyone have thoughts on this provider or recommendations?

I just saw this. I sent an email to Framework a few days ago asking if they would delete my account and letting them know this was the reason.

from the folks who brought you

we’ve trained a model to regurgitate 19th century pseudoscience

the field of computer science presents: How to destroy a public good by skipping all the required reading in your liberal arts courses

The lost art of testing your websites.

i run with javascript disabled by default, and it’s actually refreshing when a website at least displays “this shit requires javascript lol” instead of just not working

the modern web sucks, let’s all train ravens like asoiaf

oh fuck, i didn’t think of that! thank you for the idea 💖

i’m trying to sell mine now

but also i don’t have any other computers and probably can’t afford anything

time for me to learn to use a pencil

i had a feeling about FUTO because of rossmann’s involvement. became leery of him after this youtube bullshit from 2018:

Let’s discuss why journalists are afraid of Elon Musk right now(and why they deserve to be)

Elon Musk wants to come up with a way to rate the credibility and accuracy of media organizations & individual journalists. This blatant misrepresentation of his words, given in the middle of this conversation, is a PERFECT example of WHY this is so badly needed in modern society.

I’m not a fan of Tesla for being, in many ways, the “Apple of cars.” That being said, whether or not I like Tesla when it comes to a repair standpoint has nothing to do with the hate being thrown at Elon for something he never meant in the words he said, and is entirely separate from my agreement with him on the idea of a media credibility rating platform.

It’s worth noting that, unlike a real function, a complex function that is differentiable in a neighborhood is infinitely differentiable in that neighborhood. An informal intuition behind this: in the reals, for a limit to exist, the left and right limit must agree. In C, the limit from every direction must agree. Thus, a limit existing in C is “stronger” than it existing in R.

Edit: wikipedia pages on holomorphism and analyticity (did I spell this right) are good