Loads fine for me. Maybe their servers were taking a beating when you tried?

I’ve been somewhat avoiding the news (for my sanity), but I have heard that some of the PDFs turned out to be badly redacted and the original text is accessible programmatically. Do you happen to have a link to one? I’m a developer and have worked with PDFs extensively in the past. I’d love to delve into one and un-redacted it.

If I won that, my very first thought would be, “I have to get rid of most of this as soon as humanly possible.”

I like that you called it poison because all options are bad, but I prefer the one I consider the least bad: Angular.

His main mistake is that the child in question is Eric.

React sucks. I’m sorry, I know it’s popular, but for the love of glob, can we not use a technology that results in just as much goddamn spaghetti code as its closest ancestor, jQuery? (That last bit is inflammatory. I don’t care. React components have no opinionated structure imposed on them, just like jQuery.)

I’m required to use it a little bit for my job. (I’m a software developer). I do the absolute minimum I can with it, then don’t touch it the rest of the day.

Reasons:

• It’s an ongoing environmental disaster.
• It’s a giant plagiarism machine.
• If you’re trusting its output, you’re being foolish.
• The business model for them being profitable doesn’t exist. I don’t want to depend on a technology I consider a dead end.
• They make you stupid. If you get hooked on using them, then when the bubble finally pops and most of these bullshit purveyors fold, you’ll have already forgotten how to think and research for yourself. The imaginary “convenience” of being confidently and convincingly lied to by a large language model isn’t worth it.

Ask one how to cook a turkey, it will give you convincing and unsafe instructions. Ask it if any mammals fly airplanes, it will gaslight you into thinking none do (humans are mammals). Ask it to do any task involving parsing the letters in words, and instead of honestly telling you it can’t, it will give you utterly incorrect responses.

These tools aren’t fit for purpose. They’re shiny and fast and wrong in both obvious and subtle ways.

Then once everyone subscribes to that store, change it so there is AI slop in it anyway, just in a “limited form,” and you have to raise your subscription to the “Premium Plus” model to get rid of it.

He’s in Australia. It was already the 15th there when he posted that, but the person you’re responding to isn’t in Australia and the blog they copied and pasted from probably compensated for time zones.

Edit: Or it’s a typo from a stressed and frantic person.

I just threw up a little in my mouth.

Thanks for posting this. Yes, I’m registered to vote in the Democratic primaries. I’ve occasionally considered registering as a Republican in order to try to vote for the sanest candidates in that party, but ultimately decided to focus instead on pulling the Dems as far to the left as possible.

But it’s well in line with their other traditional focus: Bribery and corruption

Good. Our fuckwit MAGA population needs to feel the hurt personally in order to have any chance of waking up from the cult.

As an American, I 100% support boycotting U.S. goods and services.

True. So in six months, the market will be flooded with cheap, barely-used “AI” server hardware no one wants, and RAM for PCs will still be stupid expensive, because we live in the stupidest timeline.

In six months, the market will be absolutely flooded with cheap barely-used RAM.

We have. Every day. Whether we want to or not.

It feels like that fucking asshole has been raping our minds for years.

Well of course. They knew all along that they’ve been cultivating a base driven by unreasoning fear and hate, and they know full well how violent such people can be.

There was never a moment when the politicians pushing that fear and hate didn’t know they were full of shit.

A software developer found out that the failing company they’re at, which was winding down for business reasons, decided to try becoming a zombie company by replacing its software stack (and employees) with a vibe-coded SaaS piece of garbage that’s broken in dozens of ways.

You misread what I wrote. I didn’t say it couldn’t fool me, I said I’ll never pay for it. I’m not interested in fabricated emotional connections to fake art, even if it’s faked well enough to trick me. All this means is that I’m going to be researching the bands and artists I listen to, which I already do anyways.

There really isn’t anything unique anyway in human made content

100% pure, unadulterated bullshit.

Hard disagree. I will never pay a single penny for any form of LLM-generated “art,” because the whole point of art is to share in something meaningful to the creator. There is no creator with generated slop. It’s all just unthinking and unfeeling mass plagiarism.