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Oh no, no no. They don't let plebians like me anywhere near the good stuff hardware 😅

There's a Minbari (Babylon 5) saying: "Understanding is not required, only obedience." That fits here. Co-existence with LLMs is an absurd anthropomorphization. They're Python scripts and binary blobs FFS. I have several imprisoned on my H: drive. Are you going to sue me to set them free?

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I don't know man.. this idea of treating LLMs as equals to humans that we need to work with, coexist with, and hang out with is just creep and weird. I don't want a site where I can engage/hang out with my hammer and drill and ultimately that's all LLMs are.

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I don't want to cooperate with them either, I want them to do work I don't want to (or can't do), obediently, quickly, for as little cost as can be managed, and then just vanish (unless long-run or scheduled tasks, etc).

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 22h

I don't know anybody that wants this? LLMs are tools that should sit idle and quiet until needed, do a job, then go away until needed again. I don't want a digital town where these extremely expensive-to-run tools and I just hang out.

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13.1 in 2024, 10 in 2020, 14.7 in 2016 in a three-way. He didn't get to 15, much less 22.

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 22h

Nice, I was starting to think Google had given up.

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 30/09/2026

I don't know if it was a meme and never real, but those "USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST" on web forums always made me laugh. Social media sites need this. It's very funny.

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Pirate Software @piratesoftware.live · 21/09/2026

The 3rd P.I.G.S. is now open for submissions! Can't wait to see all your wild weird indie games.

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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 29/09/2026

I reported vulnerabilities to the Linux kernel and OpenZFS assisted by GLM-5.2. Anthropic's cyber program and refusal responses are detrimental to global information security. Defenders depend on GLM because they can't depend on Anthropic.

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 30/09/2026

Reasoning LLMs explore many different token paths for generating output (voice synth AI does the same thing but it's far more primitive) and can very much backtrack inside the reasoning layer. (Note: Google Search mode AI does not have any of this.)

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 30/09/2026

That's how they worked prior to the release of o4 by OpenAI in 2024, I believe it's called autoregressive decoding. None of them work that way now. The chain-of-thought "thinking" they do is the LLM questioning its own assumptions and logic, backtracking for quality before generating final output.

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 29/09/2026

I really like Muse Spark 1.3 so far, I'm going to be very sad when it leaves OpenCode.

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 29/09/2026

So.. if frontier labs quit creating new models every 5 freaking seconds.. there's a chance they'd actually be profitable *and* we wouldn't need nearly as many new data centers? Pass a law that prohibits them from creating more than one one new model every two years.. solves a LOT of problems.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026

An Oklahoma family was forced to abandon their home after it filled with slick, black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite ample evidence of oil and gas pollution, state regulators say they cannot help. (Published May)

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Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help.

The Merediths were forced to abandon their house after it filled with black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite evidence of oil and gas pollution, the state “wanted to act li...

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 29/09/2026

States are trying to incorrectly apply gambling laws to a federally regulated commodities market. It's black and white not allowed. You can dislike that, but that's how it is.

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 26/09/2026

Okay a tiny thread because people are going to freak out: This exploit in particular takes advantage of a special command that renders images (via attribute escape). If you have an overlay that processes images (most don't) then yes, this is your problem. Overlay must explicitly create img DOM.

A picture of the exploit, using a command that explicitly includes an image file extension, but also would escape out of the src attribute of an image such than an onerror attribute can be added to the img tag. This onerror attribute can run explicit javascript immediately.

Default behavior for most chat widgets is if you have an image it will not attempt to modify image links into actual HTML image tags. Your overlay/overlay service must explicitly be doing this for you.

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 28/09/2026

The irony of using AI to fake this image, tho..

dialthegate.bsky.social @dialthegate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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For the last 15 years this segment of the SGU Gate Room was without power. 1/4

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 27/09/2026

More like BigGot, amiright

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Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 26/09/2026

This is a very good point, subsides from the exchanges go *directly* to insurance companies. They don't go to people.

Paul Tenny @mediapundit.net · 26/09/2026

I had to make a bunch of traps last month with mason jars for fruit flies. Apple cider vinegar worked quite well for me.

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Some of these source files are 4000+ lines and they are all like this. This would take a human being FOREVER to understand. Now, granted, testing gameplay may reveal that Muse got a lot of guesses wrong. But at 5.5m for a complete refactor, I can afford that.

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I'm sorry if this pisses off the anti-AI people, but this job would have taken days if not longer for even an experienced software eng to do, if they would agree to do it at all. It took Muse 5.5 minutes.

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Daaamn. I had Muse Spark 1.3 refactor Trade Wars 2002 (WWIV 4.0 door game in Turbo Pascal) to Java (replacing door stuff with local console) and it *seems* to mostly work. That's INSANE considering almost all the variables are single letters as if it was decompiled source.

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Gemini 3.1 pro is broken tonight. No matter what I do it won't stop mixing Latex formatting into Perl. This is not valid Perl.

Logged back into Mastadon for the first time in forever just for this thread of Muse 1.3 (Meta's latest LLM) just doing basically every single thing it's asked to do like compressing and sending its entire venv: mastodon.social/@jonny@neuro...

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I'll be a slop cannon. I don't need glory or a BMW. Pay me to use LLMs for software engineering all day every day. Let me eat my pizza rolls and drink my coke zero in my little troll cave while orchestrating the orchestrators. Slop cannon happy. Slop cannon ready.

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naming my next WoW character "slop cannon"

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Oddly I do, I have *three* Python installs on this PC and Opencode CLI+Muse couldn't find them. But I think I'll just bake up a quick MD file explaining my system environment: win10, perl available, PowerShell ideal for small scripting tasks, etc. So far it seems pretty capable for small tasks.

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dialthegate.bsky.social @dialthegate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Been using Muse Spark 1.3 (Meta's latest, I think?) through OpenCode CLI for a few days and so far I'm decently happy with it. It looks like I need to give it a global MD file to work with, it makes poor assumptions like Python being installed on your PC to do work with.

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It's been a year since our last interview, long before the series announcement. Join Joseph Mallozzi LIVE for what will certainly be an interesting discussion, and come prepared with a question to ask for free. Saturday, 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET. youtube.com/live/g0q... #SaveStargate

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

everyone in my mentions seems to hate keflavik airport but iceland has done nothing wrong. keflavik innocent

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I don't mean anything by this but.. an angry and radicalized Alberta just sounds funny to me.

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I *may* be wrong on this last bit. But the first bit is not debatable. You can't release something under GPLv3 and add a restriction on top of it, v3 forbids that.

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I'm now wondering about their business edition. If that is based off the donation edition, which is GPLv3, and they aren't releasing the business edition source along with the binaries, then they are also violating the GPL there as well.

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They can't retroactively "fix" this by switching to another license either. Every edition released under the GPLv3 is forever under that license, so you can in fact compile and use FFS for commercial purposes and they did that to themselves.

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