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Making an account on something today when I came across a novel to me password restriction

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@xeno@hexokina.se · 2d ago

@benjojo@benjojo.co.uk what if it’s a command injection they were too lazy to actually fix, I would try backticks lol

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@xeno@hexokina.se · Mar 15, 2026

at this point I think it’s advisable to CW general discussion of AI being stupid. Maybe not of it’s something especially new and not well-disseminated, but general “ai sucks” “ai is unethical” etc. posting should probably be CW’d

don’t get me wrong those statements are true and it’s not a bad thing to make those posts but a lot of us are getting tired of the waterfall of them

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yes their setup.py downloads all the data from dropbox and the dropbox got like rate-limited for an indefinite amount of time nobody ever should have to open setup.py and see urrlib2.urlopen('https://

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@xeno@hexokina.se I really want to know what library this is. I am deathly curious to browse the rest of the source if this is what is considered Sane.

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@xeno@hexokina.se ah, curie. I’d post a link but I don’t want to encourage people bothering the repo.

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@xeno@hexokina.se · Mar 11, 2026

@NullNowhere@sakurajima.social yeah I didn’t put the name of the repo in the original posts since I don’t want people harassing them we’ve all pulled dumb stunts and it’s on 0.0.29, I’m annoyed for sure but not actually mad

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@xeno@hexokina.se · Mar 10, 2026

yes their setup.py downloads all the data from dropbox

and the dropbox got like rate-limited for an indefinite amount of time

nobody ever should have to open setup.py and see urrlib2.urlopen('https://www.dropbox.com/s/

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@xeno@hexokina.se · Mar 10, 2026

This library is fucked

install library
seems okay
"Error: file is not a database"
nervously opens database file

the SQLite database file is actually the HTML code of the Dropbox 404 page

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@xeno@hexokina.se · Mar 04, 2026

I spent the summer living and working in SH and this is gold

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@xeno@hexokina.se · Feb 26, 2026

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@xeno@hexokina.se · Feb 26, 2026

found on an actual theoretical cosmology paper lol

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@xeno@hexokina.se · Feb 21, 2026

This is a rather rhythmic post, and look at the random note ID my instance picked:

https://hexokina.se/notes/aiz0gs1cr8l91osu

It ends in osu!

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@xeno@hexokina.se · Feb 21, 2026

:floofHappy: am creature

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@xeno@hexokina.se · Feb 12, 2026

Here’s a little story. Back when I was doing CS stuff instead of physics, I was presenting a malware detection model I had come up with. I'm still kinda proud of it, it's derived from like functional programming theory and showed some promise.

A guy who works at facebook listens to me explain it and asks a very good question. I had a big dataset of malware samples, which I divided into training and test samples. He asked if because malware is often derived from other malware, these two sets are not entirely independent. There's a chance that some of the malware in the test set was a small variation on malware in the training set, which would "leak data". The model could just memorize that example in the training set and on the test set it would recognize and it and would look like wow it generalizes.

I didn't really have a great answer for that, I had done some sorting with the way the samples were tagged but this was a real problem. I did have some other signs of generalization though. He still thought it was a cool project, and I thanked him for making such a good point I had totally missed.

That's how it used to work. Data leakage was a problem, it was a thing that would mislead you. It was a sneaky way models appear better-performing than they really are, and it was something to be very careful of.

Now the LLM folk are training giant models on the entire internet and claiming some world-changing generalization when they recreate things that already exist on the internet.

It's all just data leakage. Of course LLMs have some capacity for generalization, but that capacity is nothing in comparison to their capacity to just compress information that exists out on the internet.

The hype, absurd amounts of capital, and callous disregard of law and ethics that surrounds LLMs is not based on their capacity to generalize. It's based around an entire industry and their investors making galactically more egregious versions of the same mistake I made.

LLMs are extremely inefficient adaptive compression algorithms, indexed via natural language input and capable of interpolating.

They are systems that maximize data leakage, because a failure that makes a model look better than it really is turns out to be a fantastic way to get investment.

They are the most resource-inefficient con ever devised. A model will look more impressive the more it leaks. So make it leak everything. Every book ever written, every GitHub repo, every screenplay, every painting, every art piece uploaded to the internet, every blog post, every tweet, every reddit post, every documentation page, every website, everything.

We launder the world, at the expense of the world.

I don't think I've ever seen such a perfectly evil dystopian sci-fi premise, so give the LLMs one point for beating humans at that.

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@xeno@hexokina.se · Jan 29, 2026

I’ve never heard of this before that is absolutely genius

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