Darn, I came here to say this and didn’t even bother to CTRL-F. You beat me to it.

I prefer Jan Böhmermann’s version:

Meine Damen und Herren und alle dazwischen und außerhalb

(Ladies and gentlemen and all in between and beyond)

git log --pretty=fucked-up

The apps have been very kind to me.

On Tinder, I met my GF from 2017 to 2022. We had a lot in common, had some really great times, but the long-distance thing in the end was too much, so when she suggested opening up the relationship, I went back on the apps, and after an open relationship phase, we decided to shift from a romantic relationship to friendship. We’re still good friends, though - I saw her last Thursday when she was in my city.

During our open phase, I met some lovely people (two on Bumble, one on tinder) who for one reason or another weren’t open to a committed relationship, but there was no harm done - we spent good time together and drifted naturally apart once I started a relationship that turned monogamous. No hard feelings on either side.

On Tinder I also met my current (forever) partner. Amazing, low-conflict relationship. We live together and I’ve kind of stepped into the dad role for her son. We met in December 2021, chatted for three months and then started seeing each other, and soon became exclusive. I get along brilliantly with her parents, as does she with mine. We’re absolutely sure that we’re together for life.

I never felt that the apps were leading me into cheap, disposable relationships. I never had issues of “What if the next perfect person is just one swipe away?”

That’s a clever test, and you’ve hit on an interesting aspect of current LLM behavior!

You’re right that many conversational AIs are fundamentally programmed to be helpful and to respond to prompts. Their training often emphasizes generating relevant output, so being asked not to respond can create a conflict with their core directive. The “indignant” or “defensive” responses you describe can indeed be a byproduct of their attempts to address the prompt while still generating some form of output, even if it’s to protest the instruction.

However, as you also noted, AI technology evolves incredibly fast. Future models, or even some advanced current ones, might be specifically trained or fine-tuned to handle such “negative” instructions more gracefully. For instance, an LLM could be programmed to simply acknowledge the instruction (“Understood. I will not reply to this specific request.”) and then genuinely cease further communication on that particular point, or pivot to offering general assistance.

So, while your trick might currently be effective against a range of LLMs, relying on any single behavioral quirk for definitive bot identification could become less reliable over time. Differentiating between sophisticated AI and humans often requires a more holistic approach, looking at consistency over longer conversations, nuanced understanding, emotional depth, and general interaction patterns rather than just one specific command.

You should print it out:

Of course! As soon as this kind of thing comes to light, the pitchforks come out. The checkusers have some advanced tools to find linked bad-actor accounts, for example.

Wikipedia is only a good source on non controversial topics

There’s research showing that controversial topics ultimately get better Wikipedia articles, because they get more attention, and because editors more strongly feel the need to get good quality sources.

Cute!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5aZJBLAu1E

Or how bad something is. “I don’t need a scientific study to tell me that looking at my phone before bed will make me sleep badly”, but the studies actually show that the effect is statistically robust but small.

In the same way, studies like this can make the distinction between different levels of advice and warning.

Following publication, Miller has been in touch to tell us that he has no plans to abandon sudo, or even hand it off, but he suspects change is still on the horizon for the essential tool.

“While I don’t expect to maintain sudo for an additional 30 years, I also don’t currently have someone to pass the torch to,” Miller told us. He noted that the xz utils backdoor has made him hesitant to hand it off to someone he doesn’t know, and that he “feels responsible for sudo” after having spent so long as its lead dev and maintainer.

Unfortunately, a lack of financial backing means sudo work has ground to a glacial pace.

“Since I have limited time I’ve mostly been focused on fixing bugs and cleaning up the code base rather than adding new features,” Miller said. “As a result the amount of time I spend is heavily influenced by the bug reports I receive.”

Funding or not, Miller expects sudo-rs to become the next generation of the tool in coming years.

“Ubuntu is already shipping sudo-rs as the default sudo command in their latest versions,” Miller told us. “I’ve been in contact with the people working on sudo-rs since the project started and I trust them to do right by the sudo user base.”

Regardless of what happens, Miller agrees the sudo situation he’s in is yet another example of how open-source maintainers is putting the entire computing community in a bind.

“Without some form of assistance it is untenable,” Miller said. “Maintainer burn-out is real.”

Lenses maybe, camera bodies, nah.

“apt install <program>” is just so much nicer than running some weird installer.

Don’t download this song!

Don’t download this song.

Even Lars Ulrich knows it’s wrong…

Once in a while maybe you will feel the urge
To break international copyright law
By downloading MP3’s from file sharing sites
Like Morpheus or Grokster or LimeWire or KaZaA

Du bist so 1 Pimmel.

I’m about to replace a once year old phone because I can’t flash the ROM, and I hate Xiaomi’s native apps and don’t trust them anymore.

My previous phone was a Xiaomi on which I installed LineageOS. I was very happy with it, but my GF’s son had a very very old phone, so I changed it after only 3 years and replaced it with another Xiaomi. I’m deeply unhappy this time because they’ve made it practically impossible to unlock the bootloader without using dodgy unverified tools. It’s only a year old and now I’m replacing it with a second hand Pixel.

Before the first Xiaomi, I had a OnePlus that I kept for six years.