Jerry's hot take of the day: the flap about the AI agent submitting a PR and being rejected by the maintainer of an open source repo was almost certainly a person guiding an LLM with the intention of creating publicity/drama

I went through some of the other pull requests of this bot. Like a merge request with 30k added lines and 123 individual commits. Yes, totally fine. Also, I might be wrong but my school chemistry disagrees with “hydrogen bonds do not add to valence.” 🤷‍♂️

Nonsensical submissions wasting the time of reviewers. Typical response by maintainers is “This does not fix the issue” or “Could you tell what you are trying to achieve?” In one case it replaced a file with 276 lines by a comment, a condition and a print statement (that’s 3 lines if you were counting).

And every now and then it would link to its blog post complaining about “unfair treatment” by the open-source community.

I’ve read somewhere that “AI” is already killing open source, quite effectively. It was about a different way open source projects are being impacted, but if such bots become even more widespread things will be looking very dire…

I think ddr5 ram is going to soon be worth more than bitcoin.

I just arranged my studio space to record a video and i sat and talked for an hour about my 35 years in IT. I haven’t looked at the video yet. Hopefully it’s worth posting.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@adfichter/116057480580052663

@briankrebs

Tech giant Palantir is taking the small Swiss media collective Republik Magazin to court for reporting facts.

How does this make the world more secure, as they famously claim their goal is?

https://sigmoid.social/@adfichter@infosec.exchange/116057480684207636