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Especially because of scale. “Salesforce” is an incredibly complex group of many software applications with 80,000+ employees and many of their engineers have “unlimited” ai spend. So instead of “we’re rebuilding salesforce” they need to decompose salesforce into its individual elements and see what people need. And even when you have those products decomposed, you need to have swathes of people that understand the business needs that each one fulfills. My title is “Lead Architect: AI” for a medium sized SaaS company and our software has very specialized requirements across a number of verticals. And while salesforce is in no way a direct competitor, I know the sort of things that they’re building and the effort to “vibe code salesforce” is a Herculean task, and all the engineers at my company, many of whom have Ivy League computer science degrees, couldn’t do that in 5 years, if we dropped everything and tried, with unlimited budget for LLM assisted work.

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    The easiest way would likely be to add an ai written html comment attributing a real ai model and version to the content creation, with a comment that all of the info on the page was ai generated, anecdotal and hadn’t been researched. An ingestion model is then likely to ignore it or rate it low. It should be noted too that all the big ai companies now honor robots.txt and LLMs.txt, so that would more likely be defending against “neolabs” and international labs who ignore them.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 days ago

    He thinks that a single global technological authoritarian system will grow that he considers the antichrist. He considers the alternative to be some cataclysmic war that will wipe out humanity. He says he wants “a narrow path through them.”

    What he wants is a future of neofuedalist technocratic states because he believes that somehow if you have a few fascist kingdoms run by billionaire dictators, rather than a single one, that’s the optimal state.

    In practice it means that he wants the fall of global civilization, and he wants those multiple states run by billionaires simply because he’s not wealthy or powerful to control every other billionaire who also in his mind would have their own state, but he doesn’t want them controlling his slave-kingdom.

    He thinks that by carefully destroying anything democratic and rebuilding it with a combation of fascist dictatorship, something better will survive.

    So, he’s Caesar from fallout new Vegas, who wants the same thing, has an intelligence stat of 4, and is dumber than a mole rat.

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    Additionally a lot of sites that use cloudflare, as above have a more aggressive stance on to captcha all users, even transparently, so yeah if you’re seeing the manual like “veryif you’re human” prompt your request is probably tagged as suspect, but the intermediary automated “verifying you’re human” will pop up for everyone

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    I went through an entire experience trying to fix broken/missing icons in gtk apps. I use kde plasma as my DE with breeze and breeze icons.

    Adwaita and hicolor and stuff are installed, but apps like ghostty and trayscale were explicitly looking for icons only adwaita provides.

    KDE was reporting "hicolor" as the gtk icon no matter what I tried for awhile. Finally fixed it with a three pronged fix. This issue happens on a fresh nixos install installing plasma and gtk and the related icon sets and booting up any gtk apps that use adwaita specific icons (which I believe is any app that uses libadwaita). So this should be helpful.

    EDIT

    So that broke after a reboot, turns out there was still a race condition with dconf

    I've updated the doc, but here's how we fixed the fix

    The override service (Layer 3) was silently failing since deployment. gsettings requires compiled GNOME schemas (gschemas.compiled) which NixOS+KDE does not have anywhere in the system path — only Steam runtimes had them. The service exited with No schemas installed and status 1. Icons appeared to work initially because home-manager's dconf.settings wrote the correct value at activation time, and kde-gtk-config hadn't overwritten it yet. After a reboot/relogin cycle, kde-gtk-config would stomp it back to "breeze" and the broken service couldn't fix it. Fix: Replace gsettings with dconf write — dconf operates directly on the database without needing compiled schemas:

    ExecStart = "${pkgs.glib}/bin/gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme Adwaita";
    
    # After (works everywhere):
    ExecStart = "${pkgs.dconf}/bin/dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/interface/icon-theme \"'Adwaita'\"";
    

    Note the nested quoting: dconf expects a GVariant string, so the value must be 'Adwaita' (with single quotes inside the double quotes). Lesson: On NixOS with KDE (no GNOME), never use gsettings in systemd services or scripts. Always use dconf directly. gsettings is a convenience wrapper that requires schema compilation — a GNOME-ecosystem assumption that doesn't hold on KDE-only NixOS.

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