thanks 😇

Google‘s lack of respect for privacy

That’s their fundamental business model.

What film is this from?

tl;dr: Google search’s inbuilt LLM thought the searcher was having emotional problems because the search phrase was “hes never coming over dario”.

Apart from that it did find what the author was looking for.

Don’t use Artificial Unintelligence. Don’t use Google either. Don’t support the tech bubble that is driving fascism.

That’s a great story.

I learned early on that it’s me who has power over the machine, not the other way round.

It was a choice to stay ignorant. Sometimes even a perverse badge of honor.

Yep. Like they’d somehow get their fingers dirty if they bothered to learn how that machine worked.

Codeberg themselves are taking a stance against LLMs in their TOS.

I wish they’d made it even stricter. It’s not like there aren’t any code hosting platforms that are happy to both take it and push it on you.

I have been using a niche project and posting to its community for many years. Suddenly there was an influx of new users and people started “developing” apps with the help of LLMs, left and right. At first the community was skeptical, but not absolutely against it. The idea was that you still review everything, and also mention your use of LLMs for code generation.

Suddenly it all goes down the drain. An app that clearly can’t have been coded from scratch in such a short time is announced, no mention of LLM assist. Even asking for it is met with derision. “You don’t tell a carpenter not to use powertools, do you?” Larger ethical concerns are actively ignored, it’s all about painting me as a Luddite.

People just love shiny new apps for their niche OS, and those sensitive concerns are easily squashed.

It’s not just the US congress.

I always like to cite a relative, who’s turning 90 soon, who had to learn computers & internet in the 90s to stay afloat in his business. And he did, and did it well. Why does the same not apply to politicians all over the world? It’s beyond me.

Of course younger people will have it easier there, but this is not purely a question of age. I suspect it’s a question of wealth and hubris, like: I can’t be arsed to learn technology, one of my employees will take care of it. Oh and print out these emails, will you, doll.

Born before 1971? That’s barely the required entry age (I jest).

Seriously though, it’s possible to learn “computer stuff” even after you’re born (I jest again).

Which for some reason many politicians - often somewhat older - refuse to do. “We have people for that, and anyhow, PR and polls are more important”.

The goal of the touchHLE project is to engineer a highly potent microbial substance that causes immediate and persistent intense hallucinogenic effects in the subject, which is transmissible by skin contact, and which can be directly added to the water supply. This will be used to usher in the singularity. In plain English, the goal is to create a psychedelic epidemic as an act of biological direct action.

Where can I sign up?

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Drm panic provides different panic screens. The default is “user” which will display a simple friendly message telling the user to reboot the computer. But for kernel developers, you can also set it to “kmsg”, to see the last kmsg lines (so this is equivalent to the current fbcon). You can select the panic screen in Kconfig, or as a module parameter (drm.panic_screen=user) or at runtime with “echo -n kmsg > /sys/module/drm/parameters/panic_screen”

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In other words, cat /sys/module/drm/parameters/panic_screen will show you what the current status is.

Those who would like to make extra sure their data stays private.

Yes, well, exactly. You know not every question is a literal question, right?

what kinds of data could be considered confidential in said log?

I was wondering that myself. It’s “the kmsg log”, something to do with kernel mode switching or “graphics”. My guess: the log itself is not problematic, but there might be some metadata added. Or then one creates that metadata by submitting the QR code.

I get what you mean but this is not fediverse-specific.

I have meanwhile found out that the screen above was not produced by systemd but rather by the drm_panic kernel module. Makes sense since systemd wasn’t running when it happened.

Next time it happens (hopefully not) I’ll try to switch ttys, maybe the logs are still visible, white on black.

I should’ve tried to switch ttys, might have helped.

My picture looks like that (on one monitor of course) and it wasn’t created by systemd, which wasn’t even running when that happened, but by the drm_panic kernel module. I’ve edited the OP.

It’s possible to use QR code reader apps that do not automatically go to the WWW.

But who’s going to go to that effort on their slab of glass?

I agree that the whole concept of QR code scanning is problematic.

it’s leaking information

No.

Scanning the QR code (on a different device presumably) might do that though.
It’s kinda what QR codes do.

But I agree, it’s not a good idea. Because people will scan that code and let their slabs of glass do their thing.

Thanks for the info, but this is not that.

The picture above is generated by Drm panic which is part of the kernel itself, or maybe a separate module. The data in the QR code is the kmsg log.

Not systemd, which makes sense considering systemd was not running when that happened.

“This just in - running commands that induce a kernel panic causes a kernel panic, we’ll have more at 11.”

What’s with the snark? I’m just sharing what is funny (to me): that somebody gave a Linux kernel panic this aesthetic, referencing a familiar “feature” of a less loved OS.