I have a lot of thoughts on large language models in general, but it has come a little close to home recently with the submission to hacks.guide of a “90% vibe coded” (author’s words, not mine) installer for isfshax, an low-level exploit for Wii U, and the follow-up information that some parts of isfshax itself were made this way.
This is a follow-up post to my previous one on the use of AI coding for homebrew projects. I provided some technical arguments on code quality and maintainability there; but in this post I will discuss one of the impacts on the world I have observed from the use of AI, and why I consider continued use to be unethical and dangerous. You are welcome to skip this one if you believe technology is seperate from politics - though please look up “persona openai id check” sometime.
One of the biggest benefits of IPv6 is that your computer’s address is a real, actual, global IP, rather than being a super-secret private IP that only your LAN knows about. I’m most excited for port forwarding to be a process that makes sense and the benefits to p2p gaming that will result. I am, however, saddened by the inevitable death of “hey join my minecraft server it’s 192.168.1.12”. (Note that you can still have a firewall in your home router, as is the norm with v4!) Anyway, I digress. There are Privacy Issues that arise from this.
I have a h-card on my aboutme page, since it’s a nice way to mark up the info I have anyway, without having to duplicate it all in the way some other structured data formats want. Also, if it can be slightly less friendly to Google, that’s a plus in my book. I s’pose the idea is that someone’s feedreader can have a little card with info about me next to my posts, which is cute, but I’m not actually aware of anything that does this. In any case, I was making some little tweaks to it and was tagging up my pronouns and gender, which, wow, what an experience!
I went in to the update a bit later than most, only trying it out when my SMP of choice moved over. I had previously been playing in older 1.17 chunks, so I effectively got Caves and Cliffs at the same time too. I also, unlike most, went in completely blind. I knew that there was a difficult mob named the Warden, and something about frogs, and very little else.