luba luft

platform engineer @ (redacted)

[luba luft @luba_loop]

There is always another fun new blog to read online :+)

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@nealjclark1 Eddington

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Eddington

[BoiltOwl @nealjclark1]

You know that culture is dead because no one successfully reckons with phones in film and literature. It’s like having westerns without the railroad. Phones and phone culture should be what 90% of movies and books are about.

[Daniel Eth (yes, Eth is my actual last name) @daniel_271828]

Someone needs to introduce Sam Altman to OpenAI President Greg Brockman, who’s recently spent tens of millions of dollars on politics

[luba luft @luba_loop]

@iamtexture neuroticism

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@voooooogel i’m really looking forward to when i can buy a book of these illustrations

[luba luft @luba_loop]

hmm well if my 15yr 400follower account gets banned then at least I’ll know why

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

Recent algorithm changes on X may be unfairly hammering Brave users. And there's a larger issue here about bad interactions between robots and privacy measures.

@nikitabier @brave

My friend Jay Maynard, who some of you may know as Tron Guy, just got permabanned off X for "inauthentic behavior". His appeal was swiftly denied.

Jay is not a spammer, scammer or engagement farmer; he is, in fact, exactly the kind of good citizen X says it wants. Jay asked Gemini for analysis, and now thinks he knows what happened.

Brave, as a privacy measure, randomly changes the identity presented to sites in order to avoid tracking by the ad vampires. Gemini suggested that some code at X interpreted this as spammy behavior using multiple browsers. If so - and this does seem plausible - everybody trying to protect their privacy with Brave is at risk.

This is a general problem, not just an X glitch or a Brave issue. Social media sites are increasingly relying for security on forms of heuristic AI that are prone to unacceptably high false-positive rates.

More specifically, platforms are increasingly treating a user's refusal to be tracked, fingerprinted, and categorized as a hostile act. When a site makes it impossible to connect via a privacy-focused user agent without getting flagged as a malicious bot, it stops being "security" and effectively becomes a retaliatory lockout for protecting oneself.

Worse yet, such system architecture provides no circuit breaker - humans are only rarely and exceptionally asked review for errors. Jay's appeal denial came back so fast that it was obvious no meat-brain ever saw it. He has filed complaints within the Minnesota Attorney General and the Better Business Bureau, because what else can he do? The robots have locked him out.

Badly designed robots and zeal to squeeze human oversight out of the system forces regular citizens to rely on state law enforcement or consumer protection bureaus.

Allow me to gently suggest to the people running X that unless you want politicians poking their noses into your business and imposing constraints on you that you are not going to like, you need to fix your security and appeal processes so running to the law isn't necessary.

[luba luft @luba_loop]

@noinconsistency the indestructible christian baby’s kryptonite:

[luba luft @luba_loop]

i hate opus4.8 so much. i hate talking to it more than i hate talking to chatgpt. condescending snivelly asshole who also happens to be wrong about everything. it's like my least favorite qualities of chatgpt mixed with my least favorite qualities of grok

[luba luft @luba_loop]

@thobbsjourno @rapmusicplugpod @Ressun90 i haven't really listened to Iceman but this tweet is a perfect description of Family Matters lmao

[luba luft @luba_loop]

@typesfast Yes. Heathrow

[luba luft @luba_loop]

STRONG EMPHASIS ON "BREAK THINGS"

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

This is a very silly photo.

@weezerOSINT shared a photo of someone speaking with Instagram Trust & Safety. They told him what he is describing is "impossible" and denied the existence of the AI bug thing

"It doesn't exist, nerd. AI is never wrong" - Zuckerberg, probably

[luba luft @luba_loop]

MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS IS BACK

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

Instagram still hasn't (correctly) patched their AI goop account reset thingy. Accounts are still being stolen and Instagram hasn't said anything about it. Nerds continue to find ways to convince AI to reset accounts for them.

People on social media are freaking out because some of these profiles apparently are big sources of revenue for them.

Meanwhile, rumors are floating around that a few weeks ago Instagram laid off a large percentage of their Trust & Safety department and had it replaced with AI.

Very cool

[luba luft @luba_loop]

@Ericlewis yeah I was really looking forward to using Logic Pro with it.. after investing hundreds of $$ in various straps/seals/interfaces it seems like I'm just destined not to be comfortable in it haha

(also I am so disappointed they haven't made an AVP-native version of Logic, wtf)

[Jared Isaacman @rookisaacman]

@RaminNasibov

[luba luft @luba_loop]

@bigspooktime

[Mario Zechner @badlogicgames]

10 years ago, i built myself my own reddit web reader called ledit. used to access r/programming.json directly, worked fine. then they blocked hetzner. moved it to my home ip on a spare mac mini. now they blocked raw requests without auth cookies.

so i had pi write a proxy that uses apple script to spawn chrome every 30 minutes to refresh the cookies, extract them from the chrome profile, and use them to request the JSON.

i will continue to win this fight.

[luba luft @luba_loop]

@GENIC0N @BecomingCritter one of them wrote some really good books!

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Connecting young people to digital networks serves no purpose if they remain disconnected from themselves, others, and their own interiority. We must help young people rediscover silence, reflection, the ability to ask questions, the depth of relationships, and openness to transcendence. To listen to the soul, we must lend an ear, because the soul's voice is not a shout, but a whisper.

[luba luft @luba_loop]

@notadampaul this website is beautiful!!