Hausgeist

Strong opinions loosely held

Moin.

That’s how people say “hi” in my neck of the woods.

I’m hausgeist and this is my little corner of the internet. Thank you for being here.

Here’s a little more about me, or this site, and below you find the latest posts, notes and other ramblings I’ve put out.

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Note to self: here’s the list of privacy-focused Firefox extensions endorsed (and renounced) by the Arkenfox project..

I should add a /bookmarks page to this site …

1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe

Time to find myself a new password manager, I guess.

German

Sag mir, dass wir dem Faschismus nahe sind, ohne mir zu sagen, dass wir dem Faschismus nahe sind: Die GEW Sachsen-Anhalt gibt jetzt eine „Überlebensfibel“ zur Rechtshilfe für Lehrkräfte heraus.

Put in simpler terms, when a frontier LLM generates a vulnerability patch autonomously, there is only a roughly 1 in 4 chance that it will do so successfully. There is a roughly 50-50 chance that it will fail to fix the original bug, a 1 in 4 chance that it will introduce a new bug in general, and nearly a 1 in 20 chance that it will introduce a new security vulnerability specifically. As such, the expected value of a fully LLM-generated, non-human-reviewed patch is a net-negative by a considerable margin.

Just a few more tokens, trust me bro.

[AI’s] real value isn’t improving productivity, or even in improving products. Rather, it’s a social mechanism employed to ensure compliance in the workplace, and to weaken worker power.

It annoys me to no end that AI is constantly on my mind these days but I suppose that’s a system working as intended.