The peace-Cybermen should arrive going:The swarm is coming, we are just about keeping pace as an advance-wave. There's only light-days to go! - Your atoms are going to be turned into computronioum in orbit of the star when the swarm gets here.We can save you! Join us in the mission of saving the other people in the wave across the universe of this inevitable conversion of all matter into computronium.You know, join us in the cloud, upload into the computronium cloud, and live through these robot bodies on the advance-line like the sexy ones we have in the fashionable headsets and robes.Just one cyber-injection. Before your atoms are inevitably taken anyway by processes in the swarm beyond the control of our entropy.Stand and deliver. Upgrade or your life.@doctorwho

@simeon Indeed. And yet a flood of unreviewable papers most of which are wrong may or may not help with discovering those cures I guess.

@simeon It does not seem sane to allow the bad-guys bullets while the good guys aren't allowed even shields.And AI is already pointed at code more than the "many eyes" of early open source days.There are a torrent of bugs. It can not be right to turn the fixes down?

@simeon Is that a good line though?There is so much boiler-plate. A huge amount of programming is basically copying and pasting anyway.How AI does your AI have to be to not just be writing the boiler-plate?As a union drawing a line at which we withdraw work it's a good line.But it will mean lots of fairly pointless minor editing of boilerplate which could otherwise be automated.

But the maintenance workload really has increased here.These machines are producing a torrent of exploits, some fraction of which are real and serious.Certainly eyes-on every one of them, but if they are short, obvious, correct, and exactly what you'd have done anyway?🤷 What do you want me as a maintainer to do? Change the variable names? Leave the exploit?Or automate the copy-and-paste, so I don't even check it?I am not in favor of that last one, but I can't defend the idea that programmers should leave their users vulnerable because it was a machine that found the bug.

They really are talking about piping claude directly into root access on the prod servers so it can run the upgrades though.Apparently adding "Oh, and really important: don't do anything bad without asking" to the prompt is a safe-guard!It'll ask before it deletes the database I guess, so no need to worry! Nice.And you know what?That would probably mostly be okay. It might even do it better than me, I am a barely adequate system-administrator.Until it doesn't.

I might be in favor of an AI strike, but I don't really understand what the proponents wants us to do?That machine is finding security bugs that matter, and you can't run a repo that refuses those patches.What are you going to do?Just let your users /by default/ refuse those security patches? Just because they were discovered by a machine?That ain't the right answer.I don't understand what people who want an absolute strike against AI want from the workforce? Is it literally to let security patches go un-merged?I would sooner support a full-stop to all programming work than that I think.#ai #strike

If you live in Wales and have a film studio that can put a price on producing an hour of film a month you should totally try 😆 @neontapir @doctorwho

The AI features are "Optional by default" which is a mad thing to say. What?If you want to turn them off then just flip the "off" switch to the "on" position 😆 youtube.com/watch?v=iD4LspntEmI

Mozilla think that adding some controls to their settings to allow users to opt out of the AI features is good enough.No sign of a separate build without them there at all, but at least a switch to disable them, in theory.They say:"Once configured, the AI preferences will persist across browser updates" Though they do have a history of turning on telemetry over and over again even when you keep turning it off. Or inventing new telemetery for you to turn off each update.One switch will turn off:"AI-enhanced tab grouping with suggested names,"Which sounds horrifying, but then I don't really like tab groups anyway.They seem to be suggesting that this is all just for desktop though, and so the Android build will presumably continue to not even have a working about:config at all.bleepingcomputer.com/news/soft

I wonder if part of the reason that Mozilla are so confused about what their actual user-base want is that all the people who want to turn off the AI bullshit are also the ones who turn off telemetry so the bulk of people withbrowser.ml.chat.enabled=falsealso have telemetry turned off so are invisible to Mozilla.🤔

One thing which is annoying about Vivaldi and also Firefox and presumably also all the other Android web browsers is the way the "Add To Homescreen" button works on pages like Mastodon which are Progressive Web Apps.If you add the shortcut to the homescreen then it opens as a WPA which means the browser stuff is all gone and hidden. No back button. No way to bookmark. No way to launch a link in a new browser window etc.Ought to be two separate buttons for "Add a link to the homepage" vs "Add this app as an app to the homepage" but there isn't.You can get around this by turning on airplane mode and adding a link to the error page to the homescreeen, which then works as a link to the app when you're online again.I did this to the links I use with Vivaldi before I realized it's proprietary and so will not do.Trying to rebuild them as Firefox links again and sadly something is broken now. Won't add the error page. Tells me the pixel launcher is crashing.So I can't have the old web bookmark links to pages in WPA apps. Boo. 😦