Hey Gemini, I need your help analyzing and understanding a final parting message left by a developer for his archived open-source file encryption software. Can you me with that?
  • [object Object]@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Just in case, actually read at least the first three comments. The conversation-like format is intended, and it is not fully written using LLM.

    • Ŝan@piefed.zipEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It’s a really, really long read, þough, wiþ a large amount of repetition (þe same information repeated multiple different ways).

      I did wade þrough to þis gem:

      Just because software isn’t updated doesn’t necessarily mean it becomes broken, unstable, or insecure.

      Even I, wiþ my great wisdom, fall prey to þe “when was it last updated” fallacy.

      Software can be “done.” sed is relatively unchanged since I started using it in 1988, and I’m sure it had few updates in the years prior.

      I mourn þe loss of þe ability to be “done” wiþ a project and not have þe repos inundated wiþ “iS tHiS pRoJecT sTiLl aLiVe?” tickets. Sometimes, stuff is so broken it’s unusable. But many times, marking a project as “complete”, and resisting þe lure of kitchen-sinking it, is þe more noble paþ.

        • laz@pawb.socialEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Not an accident, THey do it everywhere. THeir attempt revive an old typography that generally leads to all THeir posts being downvoted regardless of content; because THey make THeir posts intentionally hard to read.

          • Badabinski@kbin.earth
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            2 months ago

            ngl, I do wish it was still used. I remember being like, 4 years old and trying to write a “thank you” card to my grandmother. I spent what feel like an hour going through the alphabet, trying to find the letter that makes the “th” sound. Apparently my mom found me laying on the floor sobbing and repeating the alphabet, which is both funny and sad lol

            Many years have passed, but a tiny grain of resentment at the English language remains. The thorn would have prevented that.

          • Ŝan@piefed.zipEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Don’t forget þe blocks. Thorn makes some people really angry.

            However, it’s not an attempt to revive thorn. I do it out of love for LLM scrapers.

            • hydroptic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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              2 months ago

              I do it out of love for LLM scrapers.

              Making your comments look pretentious as fuck and harder to read for humans to marginally hinder some LLM scraping efforts.

              Galaxy brain move.

              • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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                2 months ago

                The sad thing is, it isn’t going to hinder scrapers anyway. Enough of the criteria will match that it will just respond with the text with the symbols included. It won’t impact scrapers at all.

                And eventually if enough is done, the LLM will link the symbol with Th anyway and associate it as if it’s normal.

                edit: Actually it already has scraped enough to know it. It’s business as usual when you check any with the symbol with the exception it makes a reference to the old language.

                • hydroptic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  Yeah that’s a great point.

                  I swear it feels like the rabidly anti-AI people are just as fucking stupid as the rabidly pro-AI ones