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  • May I ask, have ever actually developed anything in these “20 years”, you smiley person?

    It’s so fun right? Well, until your work gets defaced, fed into a yet another random LLM, and damaged to random particles not a single person will ever know or care about, and now sold being an LLM’s output, not yours idea nor human precious life time and love you invested into it to keep it all organized, careful, and with heartfelt gratitude to the miraculous, ineffably magnificent video-game, Universe (e.g., The Elder Scrolls Online, Fallout, World of Warcraft), dear Art… you discovered someone else brought to the light… and wanted to participate in hopefully improving it, or just… loving it…

    Have you actually ever participated in a video-game mod/development oriented Communities out there?
    I have. I have been since at least 2016. I am still, at this very moment.
    Your effortless unsupervised artless awful dead sorrowful “AI” fudging sucks, and your stance on it, and of people like you - sucks, too.

    I’ve been professionally into security, military, and both embedded and desktop software and web development for more than 20 years, too, now, so I have an idea who you may be.

    Yet… You? You are not a developer, I believe. It shows. You’ve been in it for 20 years for nothing, and learned nothing. I am sorry about your current views on art, people, a human attitude for discoveries and adventures, the dear infinitely marvelous Human History we all develop… as best as we all can… There’s no “AI” that damages the history and ruins human love. Fudge your “AI”.

    Some artists, including these very developers construct, shape, leave their dear expressions, unique ideas, miraculous art… for the very future… in hope… it will support someone else, too, to learn from and pass further.
    This is for a human by human. This is art. A timeless communication.

    You may join us right now on Discord, Matrix for ESOUI, and ask your questions about your awful “AI” or dead LLMs based on stolen art, effort, history of now unknown people. The fudging white noise machine of screams and cries of now defaced artists…



  • Of course, a tool, yet this tool is not deterministic. The algorithms output differs with every single iteration due to the feedback system “training it”. People using such a tool do always hope or pray to all Gods for the next output will be that one and pay a price for every iteration.
    And not to mention that this sorrowful tool is built on awfully stolen actual art, work, effort of now defaced/unknown artists/human…

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    The camera case is not an old debate, almost everyone I conversate on LLMs mentions, since there’s nothing to debate on, I believe.

    A camera only captures what it objectively senses, stores it in damaged/discrete sampled format, with no mind nor life experience. Its output normally has an objectified generic value, and is utterly rarely interesting if no fair human effort was involved in it at all.
    This tool is at least deterministic, and thus incomparable to LLMs.

    An Artist both captures and expresses an image, previously seen, heard, subjectively sensed, or described even, with an infinitely unique mind and life experience, which is invaluably precious. Such a work is what another human may learn from realizing its idea, shapes, shades, colors, attitudes, perspectives, viewpoints etc., in the infinitely magnificent world…



  • The following, found in the article references, is a freaking neat analogy regarding vibe-coded awful sorrowful nonsense out there…

    - Benjamin Burnley makes gaming mods?! The f*ck? That’s awesome!
    - Well he vibe codes gaming mods. idk if i would say he makes them. ~ That_Cripple
    - He made it. Constructed it. Whatever you want to call it. You didn’t. Vibe coding isn’t doing nothing.
    - He ordered it. When I order a steak at a steakhouse that doesn’t make me a chef. ~ SpacePrez

    Source: https://redd.it/1w9vfue (Benjamin Burnley interrupts a Breaking Benjamin concert with a rant about his True First Person 1.2 Fallout 4 mod…)

    Meanwhile, of course, the music/art of the Breaking Benjamin, the Fallout Community, and the art around all the Universes, including The Elder Scrolls, Starfield, Fallout… of the artists/developers at Bethesda, Zenimax, Id… is infinitely, ineffably magnificent…


  • Holy gracious smokes…

    I don’t believe this deserves a whole ban and shame…
    The person is 69, I read… He has possibly been a teacher for like… decades…

    It’s a grown up man who sure knows what he does, and these searches for “thongs” may be whatever. What if he searched for these to show someone else how it’s wrong to expose yourself to the Internet?
    What if these searches have nothing to do with anything sorrowful as child-abuse but just some non-serious searches that depend on some actually adequate context?

    What if he was framed even by some student, for a “joke” or to skip an exam?

    There’s a whole government-level paper published for it even:
    - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-misconduct-panel-outcome-mr-james-hindson

    Is that how they protect their teachers against possible mockery and framing?
    Though, I appreciate everyone involved who worked on this case. It shows a serious attitude.

    Yet, if he actually is a corrupt person, then it’s deserved and should be worse, but… if not… So many dear years, reputation, trust… to be ruined in a fudging 3 rows of a search history?




  • Peljidiin Genden… was a Mongolian politician and statesman who served as the first president of Mongolia from 1924 to 1927, and the ninth prime minister of the country from 1932 to 1936…

    His independent temperament, outspokenness (he became famous for fearlessly confronting Stalin during their public meetings in Moscow and was one of the few to stand up to Stalin’s strong personality), and growing nationalist sentiments ultimately led to his Soviet-orchestrated purge in March 1936. Accused of conspiring against the revolution and spying for the Japanese, he was executed in Moscow on November 26, 1937.

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    The “Great Terror” (colloquially “Yezhovshchina”) is a term in modern historiography that characterizes the period of the most widespread political (Stalinist) repressions in the USSR in 1937–1938. Scholars still disagree on the cause of the terror. Most historians believe that Stalin played a key role in organizing and carrying out the repressions.

    The period began with the appointment of N. I. Yezhov to the post of head of the NKVD and with the subsequent issuance by him of the Order of the NKVD of the USSR of July 30, 1937, No. 00447.

    It ended in September-November 1938 with large-scale arrests of N. I. Yezhov’s proteges in the NKVD and his replacement as head of the NKVD by L. P. Beria, and with the resolution of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of November 17, 1938 prohibiting the NKVD and the prosecutor’s office from carrying out any mass operations of arrests and deportations, with the liquidation of extrajudicial “troikas” created by special orders of the NKVD of the USSR, etc.

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  • 26 February 1955 - Although it was his day off, North American Aviation production test pilot George Franklin Smith stopped by the office at Los Angeles Airport (today, known as Los Angeles International airport, or simply “LAX”, its international airport identifier). The company’s flight dispatcher told him that a brand-new F-100A-20-NA Super Sabre, serial number 53-1659, was sitting on the flight line and needed to be test flown before being turned over to the Air Force.

    Smith was happy to take the flight. He departed LAX in full afterburner and headed offshore, climbing to 35,000 feet (10,668 meters) over the Pacific Ocean to start the test sequence.

    But it was quickly apparent that something was wrong: The flight controls were heavy, and then there was a hydraulic system failure that caused the Super Sabre to pitch down into a dive. Smith couldn’t pull it out of the dive and the airplane’s speed rapidly increased, eventually passing Mach 1.

    Smith was unable to regain control of the F-100. He had no choice but to bail out. As he ejected, Smith read the instruments: the Machmeter indicated Mach 1.05 - 785 miles per hour (1,263 kilometers per hour) - and the altitude was only 6,500 feet (1,981 meters).

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  • Holy smokes… Freaking awesome!
    Of course… Programming is normally a human art…
    Programming is of human for human to automate machines…
    It is as any of people to be left in the infinite history, to learn from and improve accountably, too…

    Thank you very much for the marvel… art you do…

    There’s the following book I recall on the subject that is an essential for every accountable, astute, and respectful developer, artist, I believe.

    …a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

    …the essential material to be addressed by a subject at this level is not the syntax of particular programming-language constructs, nor clever algorithms for computing particular functions efficiently, nor even the mathematical analysis of algorithms and the foundations of computing, but rather the techniques used to control the intellectual complexity of large software systems.

    Our traffic with the subject matter of this book involves us with three foci of phenomena: the human mind, collections of computer programs, and the computer.

    Every computer program is a model, hatched in the mind, of a real or mental process. These processes, arising from human experience and thought, are huge in number, intricate in detail, and at any time only partially understood.

    They are modeled to our permanent satisfaction rarely by our computer programs. Thus even though our programs are carefully handcrafted discrete collections of symbols, mosaics of interlocking functions, they continually evolve: we change them as our perception of the model deepens, enlarges, generalizes until the model ultimately attains a metastable place within still another model with which we struggle.

    The source of the exhilaration associated with computer programming is the continual unfolding within the mind and on the computer of mechanisms expressed as programs and the explosion of perception they generate.

    If art interprets our dreams, the computer executes them in the guise of programs!

    ~ Source: “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs” (SICP; or “Wizard Book”) by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman