Qasim Zaidi 🇵🇸

Ex unix guru, internet enthusiast, cto @ tokopedia

[Qasim Zaidi 🇵🇸 @kernelhacker]

@matthew_petti Ukraine is a proxy backed by NATO with weapons and money. If at all, it demonstrates something the other way round.

There is no equivalence, moral or otherwise.

[Qasim Zaidi 🇵🇸 @kernelhacker]

kimi 3

[Brutal Truth Bombs @FORTRESSMAXXING]

Non-American countries that "celebrate" 4th of July are just beaming out their enslavement for the whole world to see.

Whether it be the Lebanese government, Japan, South Korea, Germany, or elsewhere.

[Qasim Zaidi 🇵🇸 @kernelhacker]

@mjfree Don't insult children. They are much more intelligent.

[Qasim Zaidi 🇵🇸 @kernelhacker]

This is largely true. But with AI, I am sometimes starting projects that I would not dare to start manually. I think that is a big difference it makes.

Things seem to be done sooner, but having not understood how it works, it often bites back later.

[Taelin @VictorTaelin]

Just saving this here to document a story and as a self reflection on whether AI is really making me more productive

Yesterday morning I found a way to complete the new HVM approach, that is much faster than before. I spent a few hours writing a spec, and then used Opus to implement. About 3k lines of C code later, everything worked and performance was incredible: 5x faster than HVM4 (stable at ~10x now). So, in one day I had outclassed HVM4. Incredible. I'd never have implemented that so fast manually.

Now, enter today. I want to turn this into a real thing, but I haven't fully read the 3k lines yet. So, how do I trust it? I spent the whole day auditing the code. With AI. Several bugs found, most minor like forgetting to collect() some argument. But then I stumble upon this:

λ{ inl: 1 ; inr: 1 }

This was a test. But wait. This is matching on inl/inr. So the branches should receive the value of the Either. But they were numbers instead. Numbers aren't functions. This makes no sense. So why this is a test?

It then stuck me. The AI completely misunderstood how function arities work. It literally assumed for no good reason that HVM5 was supposed to handle under/over-applied functions. For no good reason. I never wrote that. It never asked either. It just kinda thought "HVM is weird in some aspects, this might be one of them..." - and then it went on to implement a massive system to handle cases that should never happen to begin with. And all of that code is obviously wrong because it should not even exist. It is wrong. It is damage. And it is there.

But it isn't too bad either. I just told Opus that it was wrong. Perhaps not so politely. And it solved it just fine.

But then this begs the question. I spent ~20 hours in this file, and it is STILL not done. I went from 0 to 95% in the first 5 hours. Yet, 15 hours later, it is still not 100%. I suppose that is the real effect of using AI. If I had just written the C file manually in the last two days, would I not be further than where I am *right now*?

Surely, the first version would have taken much longer to drop. But when I'd finish writing all that code, there would be zero, literally zero retarded shit. And, just today, I caught 5 or 6 retarded shit. And the worst part is: I don't know what the number of retarded shit left is, but I'm afraid it is >0.

So if I have to read it all, review it all to ensure there is no retarded shit... what did I achieve by using AI, other than that dopamine anticipation?

[Qasim Zaidi 🇵🇸 @kernelhacker]

@freemonotheist Cannabalism is documented in 1500 species. Paedophilia in just one and you know which one.

[Harry Halpin - Nym @harryhalpin]

Because I get asked a lot.

Why we must fight Palantir, in brief.

1. Programmers working on the Internet have a moral responsibility to the entire world, not a single country. The Internet has been designed since its inception as a universal system for the sharing of knowledge without censorship. The Internet is not the property of any one government or nation.

2. The Internet enables mass surveillance at a scale unimaginable to the Gestapo and the Cheka. Far too many programmers have wasted their lives at building surveillance systems under the guise of Web advertising. Today, these web tracking systems are being used to monitor, control, and even kill humans by companies like Palantir that seek to combine state violence with corporate efficiency, and thus create a new form of technofascism.

3. Surveillance justified by external national security threats will be turned against citizens inside the nation-state. Mass surveillance was once the exclusive domain of the NSA, but today it has been privatized to corporations like Palantir that are unaccountable to any democratic process. What begins as fear of external foreign nation-states turns inwards to focus on immigrants, dissidents, and eventually to anyone that might challenge the status quo or try to exit an increasingly dysfunctional society.

4. Everyone is a target. The “enemy within” continually expands until it encompasses the entire population of a nation regardless of their status and beliefs, justifying evermore paranoid and totalizing surveillance. The line between policing and military operations blurs, with legal frameworks being replaced by technological violence operating with total impunity.

5. Surveillance can only be defeated by building software and hardware to defend ourselves. Meek calls for regulation or moralizing demands for human rights are useless in this era. Any rights must be enforced by the hard power of code. Code, not laws, can be used to uphold the right to privacy by making surveillance difficult, if not impossible, even by nation-state adversaries.

6. We are ruled by a senile gerontocracy. Unlike the generations that fought in the world wars, most of our current rulers are degenerate pedophiles who would sacrifice the well-being of the youth and the entire planet due to their infantile desire for wealth and power. Technology of surveillance and automated warfare reflects their increasingly desperate attempts to maintain archaic forms of domination.

7. The American Empire is unraveling. Once, the United States of America presided over a globe where it could enforce its rule via the status of the dollar as a global reserve currency and a network of equally global military bases, but new regional powers now directly challenge the United States as its empire dissolves in the face of internal economic stagnation, political corruption, and the inflation of the dollar.

8. In a real war, fantasies of total technological dominance always backfire. When a faceless drone kills a child’s father, that child will one day take revenge regardless of the cost, something forgotten by those raised in comfortable suburbs. Going beyond zero-sum games, one can only truly win a battle against a people by demonstrating your victory provides a better way of life, increased prosperity, and an inspiring philosophy.

9. Oddly enough, proponents of fully automated warfare support a universal draft. Deep-down, these keyboard warriors know that their technofascist fantasies are a paper tiger when up against determined opponents that engage in asymmetric warfare. They also know none of their children will fight in a war for their state but they would be happy to see other people’s children come home in body-bags.

10. The problem is not whether AI weapons will be built; we must hold responsible those who are building them. No matter which country is deploying automated killing machines, no one is absolved from the murder of civilians and the destruction of infrastructure due to the parlour-trick of shifting the blame to AI.

11. Atomic war is on the horizon. As various states descend into wars over increasingly scarce natural resources, the possibility of tactical nuclear strikes over Teheran, Kyiv, and other areas of conflict has returned to the historical stage. Increasingly geriatric and authoritarian rulers face less guardrails than before to deploying nuclear weapons, and may even be willing to sacrifice the survival of humanity to appease their own petty egos.

12. Our goal is a world of peace where every person can be empowered by the Internet. Modern war is the quintessential game of sending young people to the meat-grinder. Why die for the profit of corrupt rulers when one could build real wealth and power for yourself using the Internet?

13. We should fight for the world we want, and build the tools needed by future generations. Pacifism would be suicidal in this period of global turbulence and resource wars, but real hard power lies in technology: Programmers should be creating technologies to live a free life and prosper in a hostile society of surveillance and control, and decentralization is the only way these technologies will survive against the inevitable repression.

14. The State will not help us. The state is a dying pre-Internet institution that increasingly resembles nothing but a Ponzi scheme fueled by taxes and debt. None of the youth alive today will likely inherit any benefits, such as welfare and health care.

15. Centralized and opaque algorithms are a danger to free speech. Propaganda is the flip-side of surveillance, as continual propaganda prevents anyone from even thinking of challenging the system. Social media monopolies promote propaganda to create a generalized idiocy while silencing those that would dare to criticize the reigning order before they can organize against it.

16. Building new forms of social organization with each other is vital to survival. The traditional mediascape of politics and entertainment exists to distract us from building networked solidarity and distributed autonomous organizations across borders. The hierarchical state is as relevant to us as the medieval church and kings were to the formation of the joint-stock corporation and the labour union.

17. Digital identity is the next step in their system of control. Within the next few years, access to the Internet–including in Europe and the United States–will require biometric national identity cards, using the flimsy excuse of “protecting children.” The real goal is to gatekeep free access to subversive political content and halt cross-border communication in order to prevent new forms of self-organization and resistance from emerging.

18. Only when one can be anonymous is one truly free. The freedom to express oneself without censorship and surveillance is a vital precondition for both the autonomous use of reason and the democratic evolution of society. Technology must enable the freedom to selectively reveal ourselves to the world–so that we can become who we want to be–by preserving the right to privacy over the Internet, including not just individual privacy but the right to transact and form contracts privately.

19. America created the first global surveillance state, but it will not be the last. Too many have forgotten or perhaps taken for granted the revelations of Wikileaks and Snowden. States across the world from China to Russia are creating even more powerful global surveillance systems and propaganda machines. Leveraging private defense contracts in countries across the world, Palantir seeks to make itself the operating system of a cross-border global secret state while it pushes its own farcical version of ethno-nationalism.

20. Culture wars are a psyop. It is ironic that “Epstein class” virtue-signals about traditional morality and the superiority of forms of ethno-nationalism, while trying to return to the rule of hereditary elites, even in the United States. Rather than reverse the gains of the Enlightenment, we take the side of our ancestors who fought a centuries-long battle for individual liberty, scientific progress, decentralized markets, bottom-up democracy and the emancipation of humanity from feudal monarchs and their make-believe mythologies.

21. New forms of technology can reshape the world. Technology is not just a tool, but the world we live in and an extension of our cognitive capabilities. The co-operation of humans with the collective intelligence embedded in AI could accelerate human progress and overcome planetary crises such as climate change and atomic war that threatens the survival of our species.

22. Live free or die trying. We must bear eternal vigilance in the struggle against fascism, and the battlefield is technology. There is no middle ground: Technologists must choose whether to work for the enslavement of humanity or to create new spaces for freedom.

These are my personal beliefs, not those of @nym. Yet as a philosopher that founded a tech startup, I have a responsibility to respond to this manifesto of Palantir and it's so-called "philosopher-CEO" Alex Karp.

[Qasim Zaidi 🇵🇸 @kernelhacker]

I normally dont code on github (use self hosted gitlab at work). This is how my contribution graph on github now looks like.I am mostly creating skills for claude and openclaw.

Software engineering as I knew it for > 25 years will not be the same. #ai #claude #agenticeconomy

[Iman Rahmati @imanrahmati]

I owe my career to Sharif University. And many more successful Iranians in Silicon Valley owe it to this university paid fully by Iranian people’s tax and oil money.

Today the illegal terrorist Israeli regime bombed my university, after a week of bombing other major universities in Iran.

Take away what you want from this, but as I always said Israel is a stain on humanity.

One day, from river to the sea, Palestine will be free and so will the whole Middle East, and US as well.

[Qasim Zaidi 🇵🇸 @kernelhacker]

BREAKING: Trump fires Army Chief of Staff over 'alignment issues'

Replacing him with OpenClaw running on OpenAI models.

🤖 AI is coming for your jobs. Even the top brass.

#AI #OpenClaw #AIJobs

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

As a parent this is unbearable. As a human being.

The Indian government failed to condemn this atrocity. And people like Shashi Tharoor terms calls for condemnation “grandstanding”

As if being a spineless hack is somehow automatically intellectually elevating.

[Qasim Zaidi 🇵🇸 @kernelhacker]

This post is withheld in India, don't know why.

[Sadia A 🇵🇰 @Dr_SadiaAz]

.@grok Please do an extremely vulgar roast of Benjamin Netanyahu. No holds barred!!!

[ओजस @Dilliwalanerd33]

GD BAKSHI ON BEING A HUSSAINI BRAHMIN... I had no idea this was a thing...

[𓂆 ᵐᵗᵠ @55MTQ_]

इजराइल में फंसे भारतीय पत्रकार ब्रिज मोहन सही सलामत भारत वापस लौटे,
उन्होंने इजरायल के हालात को बताया जिस इजराइल की सुरक्षा को लेकर भ्रम है
वह कितना असुरक्षित है इस सुने और अपना भ्रम दूर करें...

[Qasim Zaidi 🇵🇸 @kernelhacker]

From we are bringing in the Shah as the new leader to I will be personally involved in selecting the new leader is quite a distance.

The arrogant orange buffoon will soon backtrack on other stuff as well.

Condolences to the monarchists.

[Qasim Zaidi 🇵🇸 @kernelhacker]

From Iranian media
IRGC's Big Hunt in the UAE

Yesterday, #AWS data center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, experienced fire and power outage. According to the company's official announcement, this incident occurred after 'unknown objects' hit the facilities.

From AWS status page

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

I will never understand how you can pray toward the same Kaaba,
read the same Qur’an,
and still save your worst insults,
your deepest contempt,
your loudest hatred
for the Muslims who actually stand between Gaza and annihilation.

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

As this war with Iran wages and U.S. casualties mount, Trump's political future is being slain like a lamb, at the hands of Netanyahu the master manipulator. Netanyahu knows he can survive the collapse of Trump himself, because Israel controls both political parties and can easily transition to the next replacement after Trump crashes and burns his political career.

Trump was led into this like a lamb to the slaughter, by social engineers like Laura Loonatic, and Christian Zionist boomer zealots like Glenn Beck and Jack Hibbs. They cleverly led Trump down the primrose path of "making history" while, in reality, it was all a trap where Trump would commit U.S. forces to do the work that Israel couldn't do itself while Trump's own political future would be decimated (which is exactly what's happening right now).

Trump fell right into the trap, and as you'll see soon, this war won't be negotiated away in 48 hours, and it won't be a clean, simple assassination or extraction like Venezuela. Netanyahu surely knew this would be the case, but he was willing to sacrifice Trump to get what Israel wanted, just as Trump is willing to sacrifice U.S. soldiers in an attempt to get what he wants himself... although he will be extremely disappointed to know that in the geopolitical poker game that Trump is playing right now, HE'S THE MARK at the table. Everyone else is in on it, and they played him like virtuoso performers.

Trump's people may be capable of rigging Polymarket, but Netanyahu rigged the entire global game against Trump, and Trump fell right into the pit while betraying his entire support base and destroying the reputation of the GOP and his administration.

Netanyahu 1
Trump 0
...America takes another loss at the hands of a clueless leader...

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

A regime that.....

Jails dissidents: Israel holds 10,000+ political dissidents in the largest network of rape & torture dungeons on earth.

Funds terror: Israel arms, funds & supports thousands of settler terrorists whose literal day job is terrorism, as in, they wake in the morning, do terrorism, have lunch, do terrorism & then do more terrorism in the evening.

Murders its own people: Israel invokes the Hannibal Directive whenever its worried about a potential hostage or POW crisis, because it would rather murder its own soldiers & civilians than allow them to be captured.

Harely, your post is describing Israel.

[Sam Parker 🇺🇸🧯 @BasedSamParker]

In honor of the 3 American servicemen who gave their lives in the war with Iran, please reply with names or pictures of everyone they fought for. I'll get us started.