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Cake day: July 24th, 2023

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  • it’s an opinionated distro, man. /s

    When I had the intense displeasure to work on larger Ruby on Rails projects a few years ago I immediately knew something is off with this guy. His Holier-Than-Though-attitude is not only visible on his blog, but everywhere in the code. Like Omarchy, Rails is also opinionated from top to bottom and things start to go wrong as soon as you leave the DHH approved path. Which basically means, if you use the default configuration (aka Convention over Configuration) everything works fairly well. But as soon as you need to customize anything, things go terribly wrong. For example, DHH hates Javascript and therefore Rails has a grotesquely complicated wrapper that generates Javascript from Rails code. If you have a need to do integrate Javascript beyond that it quickly becomes Trainwreck on Rails.



  • “Mark Zuckerberg is realizing there’s a limit to ruthless efficiency”.

    Cost cutting is not synonymous with efficiency. It’s sad that a business focused magazine doesn’t see through the bullshit.

    • Losing 70+ billion on the failed VR experiment and laying off workers related to VR has zero to do with efficiency. It’s just stopping losses without having any other positive effects. No efficiency gain here because the whole thing is mothballed.
    • Putting AI bros in decision making positions and demoting highly payed engineers who actually know how the platform works to AI training babysitters: Not very efficient so far because the fuck ups are getting costly quickly.

    There is more, but why should I give a fuck about Meta. Let this dumpster fire burn.








  • Derzeit wird der Begriff “KI” in den Medien in den allermeisten Fällen synonym mit LLMs verwendet. Andere ML Anwendungen kommen meist nur dann ins Spiel um die Nützlichkeit von “KI” darzustellen. Ein lustiges kleines Täuschungsmanöver und es funktioniert jedes Mal. Weil der durchschnittliche Deutsche immer noch ein Faxgerät im Kopf hat.

    Ich will damit nicht sagen, dass LLMs generell nutzlos wären. Die Mystifizierung und Anthropomorphisierung (uff, was für ein Wort) der Technologie und der direkt daraus folgende Missbrauch/Falschnutzung sind ein wesentliches Problem. Die Modelle selbst als Wissensspeicher zu missbrauchen führt genau zu der angesprochenen Zementierung des Status Quo.