What was the story with the JCS video?

These are just the first two I could find, but there are plenty of similar stories that have passed by.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/replit_saastr_vibe_coding_incident/

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/googles-agentic-ai-wipes-users-entire-hard-drive-without-permission-after-misinterpreting-instructions-to-clear-a-cache-i-am-deeply-deeply-sorry-this-is-a-critical-failure-on-my-part

I wouldn’t give my rubber duck access to my system and then cry on twitter when he deletes my filesystem.

sudo rm $(which sudo)

Get a UPS.

I learnt of his shows through the Old Timey Computer Show.

I’ve spent many hours with Computer Chronicles and Net Cafe episodes running on my second monitor from that stream.

RIP Stewart.

Narkoslop

That sounds expensive. Is it making money?

Discussion
Our main finding is that using AI to complete tasks that require a new skill (i.e., knowledge of a new Python
library) reduces skill formation.
…
The erosion of conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging skills that we measured among participants using AI assistance suggests that workers acquiring new skills should be mindful of their reliance on AI during the learning process.
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Among participants who use AI, we find a stark divide in skill formation outcomes between high-scoring interaction patterns (65%-86% quiz score) vs low-scoring interaction patterns (24%-39% quiz score). The high scorers only asked AI conceptual
questions instead of code generation or asked for explanations to accompany generated code; these usage
patterns demonstrate a high level of cognitive engagement.
Contrary to our initial hypothesis, we did not observe a significant performance boost in task completion
in our main study.
…
Our qualitative analysis reveals that our finding is largely due to the heterogeneity in how participants decide to use AI during the task.
…
These contrasting patterns of AI usage suggest that accomplishing a task with new knowledge or skills does not necessarily lead to the same productive gains as tasks that require only existing knowledge.
Together, our results suggest that the aggressive incorporation of AI into the workplace can have negative impacts on the professional development workers if they do not remain cognitatively [ sic ] engaged. Given time constraints and organizational pressures, junior developers or other professionals may rely on AI to complete tasks as fast as possible at the cost of real skill development. Furthermore, we found that the biggest difference in test scores is between the debugging questions. This suggests that as companies transition to more AI code writing with human supervision, humans may not possess the necessary skills to validate and debug AI-written code if their skill formation was inhibited by using AI in the first place.

The great thing about Lemmy is that if we don’t like the moderation policies of an existing community, we can just make a new one with the same name on another instance. With blackjack and VPSs.

Real people be posting slop too.

Two crypto thieves decided to settle an argument over who was wealthier by screensharing as they transferred crypto between wallets to prove ownership. In doing so, one of them — known online as “Lick” — revealed a wallet address that crypto sleuth zachxbt quickly tied to the theft of around $90 million from US government wallets containing seized crypto assets, including a $20 million theft zachxbt reported in October 2024.

hahahahahahahaha

whatever the non binary version of dudes is

I believe the term is “enbies.”

Wouldn’t want unmoderated* information and opinions appearing in Microslop search results now would you?

*unmoderated by Big Tech Fascist AI Filters

The system was reverse-engineered almost as soon as it was released. You can do the reverse of what OP is asking using OpenHaystack (track a non-Apple device using Apple’s Find My Network).

speech-dispatcher on linux now supports piper which is a pretty good modern TTS engine.

07/08/2025

Well it’s a couple of things.

First off, a wireless transmission speed of 120Gbps sounds really impressive but remember from the Shannon-Hartley theorem that the maximum channel capacity is just a function of bandwidth and SNR. This means that you can get an arbitrarily high transmission speed by increasing bandwidth to an obscene amount and/or by increasing SNR (by transmitting at an obscenely high transmission power).

In the paper they say that the transmit power was 15 dBm which is a normal transmit power for WiFi, so it’s the 40GHz bandwidth that’s doing the heavy lifting in allowing that data rate.

The second thing is that WiFi 6 (for example) uses 1.2 GHz of bandwidth in the 6GHz range, divided into seven non-overlapping 160MHz channels. WiFi 5 uses about nine 80MHz channels in the 5GHz range, and so on. So if you want to use the technology demonstrated in the paper for WiFi (as the headline of the article is suggesting) then you’d need a bunch of 40GHz channels in the higher ~200-300 GHz range which would be in the very high microwave range, bordering on far infra-red!

If you want to imagine how useful that would be, just think about how useful your infra-red TV remote is. You would only be able to do line-of-sight point-to-point links at that frequency.

IR point-to-point links already exist, and the silicon they invented for this paper is impressive, but the hype around it being a possible future WiFi standard doesn’t really hold up to basic inspection.

Paper: https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10584545

40GHz bandwidth LOL

Wow I didn’t think my list would take effect so quickly!