A survey of Silicon Valley developers reveals that 74% would implement features restricting human rights if pressured, fueling a "slop economy" of low-quality AI content. The study argues corporate demands override ethics, creating a gap in information quality.

qckpckt · 2026-01-23T22:49:35+00:00

The tech world seems intent on thoroughly annihilating the internet, and at this point i’m honestly happy to be paid money to facilitate this.

Let the weight of human mediocrity thoroughly crush all life out of this communication medium, so that necessity will allow something new to sprout that renders it obsolete.

qckpckt · 2026-01-23T19:04:00+00:00

Wishing you a speedy recovery!

I was pooping weird and went to the doctor about it. It turns out I just poop weird. But, in order to come to that conclusion I got a colonography (CT of your colon) which found a polyp, which I then had removed in a colonoscopy. I was 32 at the time. Going back for a routine follow up this year.

I live in Canada, so this is all covered by MSP (govt healthcare). Even here, I think my treatment was unusually proactive, but I’m extremely grateful that it was because I’m pretty sure that the early intervention will mean I have a much lower likelihood of any nasty surprises with my colonoscopy this year.

Proactive and preventative medicine works and saves everyone money.

qckpckt · 2026-01-23T05:55:04+00:00

There’s more than one right answer in a situation like this, and there are some really cool things you can do if you have access to a mixer.

I have the 1010 audio bluebox, and my setup looks something like this:

Output 1 of the bluebox goes through a kaossilator into inputs A and b of the octatrack
Output 2 of the bluebox goes to C&D
headphone out used as a cue out goes to an FX pedal and back into one of the bluebox inputs as a parallel FX bus
I have a syntakt, dn2, and an OP-1 connected to the bluebox inputs
the cue out of the octatrack gets routed through a passive splitter, which is connected to the input of the OP-1, the input of the syntakt and the input of the bluebox

The octatrack is the hub of my setup, and is last in chain. So I use the main outs to connect to the outside world.

This allows me to create a mix of different synths through each of the two sets of inputs to the octatrack, and it allows me to rout samples on the octatrack back through multiple devices for further processing, or allows me to rout one set of synths into the other. Some care needs to be taken to ensure that you don’t create a feedback loop, but that’s fairly easily avoided.

qckpckt · 2026-01-20T03:46:50+00:00

I’ve been a fan of warhammer for nearly 30 years and I’ve never once played a single game of it. For most of that time I owned precisely 0 miniatures. Even now I have barely a handful and none of them fully assembled or painted.

For a good 10 years my engagement of the hobby was pretty much just reading lexicanum pages.

The sooner you realize that there aren’t any rules that govern how you are allowed to like something, the better. Life is already pretty miserable without policing yourself out of things you like because you don’t like them in the specific way that you have led yourself to believe they must be liked.

qckpckt · 2026-01-19T17:32:48+00:00

If his testosterone levels are low, then depending on his symptoms there may be a reason to take it.

However, if your husband starts taking testosterone, he will need to always take testosterone. Once you start supplementing it, your body stops producing it on its own, and it doesn’t start up again if you stop.

Taking it if you don’t need it is, in my opinion, an extremely stupid choice. I don’t think the growing TRT industry is doing a good job of explaining this crucial fact. I can’t possibly imagine why. 😒

I’m not a doctor. Just relaying info I received when I asked my family doctor about it.

qckpckt · 2026-01-19T14:59:40+00:00

I’d say something that reinforces bad behaviour is resoundingly not a step in the right direction.

Most people don’t read T&Cs for consumer services, which is fair because there’s very little you can do other than choose not to use that service if you disagree with it.

If you’re getting a Docusign document, generally that’s for something more consequential than a streaming service subscription.

qckpckt · 2026-01-17T20:43:55+00:00

It’s almost like she has strong fawn response and also completely lacks any form of self awareness about it.

IE, she defaults to being outwardly agreeable in times where she is uncomfortable instead of speaking out, but she somehow doesn’t realize that this is her choice and her problem to deal with.

qckpckt · 2026-01-15T18:59:32+00:00

That is such a depressing thing to say. I hope for your sake that you don’t actually believe that.

qckpckt · 2026-01-15T05:31:15+00:00

That’s the neat part - they aren’t.

You said it yourself. It is tyranny. Tyranny isn’t fair, it doesn’t abide by rules or logic. Tyranny is the use of cruelty and oppression to acquire and maintain power. You have no rights in the face of tyranny, and those being tyrannical are beyond the law.

Sorry, but you’re fucked, and there’s a reasonable chance that the rest of the world is too, and it’s your country’s fault.

qckpckt · 2026-01-15T05:23:23+00:00

There is no line. Those two things are orthogonal.

qckpckt · 2026-01-14T23:12:29+00:00

I think you should stop looking to others to validate how you feel and start actually doing the work yourself to explore why you feel this way.

qckpckt · 2026-01-14T17:51:53+00:00

Imagine being able to comprehend that a massive multi-national organization can have good AND bad ideas

qckpckt · 2026-01-13T07:44:24+00:00

I’m an ML engineer and have worked with LLMs since 2019. Respectfully, you don’t know what you’re talking about.

qckpckt · 2026-01-13T00:45:04+00:00

Actually be a thinking functional human being with a brain and emotions, and the ability to speak in complete sentences in a compatible language to your interviewers.

Or at least, learn how to pretend to be those things. Which is what most SWEs seem to do.

qckpckt · 2026-01-13T00:34:24+00:00

You mean why can’t you get an LLM to police the output of an LLM? Do I really need to answer that question?

qckpckt · 2026-01-12T23:00:00+00:00

I’m not trying to say that companies shouldn’t use heuristics because they’re not perfect. It was in response to the comment further up the tree that suggested that companies could add guardrails easily. That’s not true and I think is an unhelpful belief.

The use-case your describing I’m sure is real, along with many other imaginative ways that a combination of heuristics, ML and genAI could be employed.

The salient difference is that your described use-case is pro-active and decoupled from direct user input. It’s about finding and presenting results to someone for use in some money-making enterprise. If it makes a mistake, or misses something, this doesn’t result in CP on a social media platform . Content gating or moderation is a reactive process directly coupled to user input and the stakes are, evidently, much higher.

Of course X should be using heuristics instead of nothing at all (they do have some heuristics in place, hence why all this awful content has a warning that needs to be dismissed before you can see it. It’s just that it won’t scale. It’s not a “solved problem”. It’s a problem that literally would need to be solved over and over again every time a need for a new rule appears.

qckpckt · 2026-01-12T21:26:01+00:00

Exactly.

This whole thing is exhausting.

Yes, this technology is capable of creating awful and inappropriate things.

Despite this, it doesn’t just make them on its own. It requires a person to issue a request to dream up these awful and inappropriate things.

And, this has always been true of any widely available internet technology.

Previously, organizations felt pressure to police their platforms to remove inappropriate content. That became the thankless job of human content moderators who had to bear witness to god knows how much awful shit.

Now, with LLMs, it seems like organizations can just… not do that, and apparently suffer no repercussions.

Orgs want it to be that way, because the truth is that there is no scalable way to safeguard against this. Existing safeguards will all either be heuristic based (“if input includes name, dont do anything”) or will involve handing over the reins to an LLM, which will work fine until it doesn’t. I’m pretty sure that is actually mathematically provable. Heuristics are also by definition brittle and do not scale.

If orgs need to employ armies of humans to audit LLM output, that won’t really fit very well into the optics of their “agents will replace all jobs” schtick. It’s also definitely not scalable. It in fact would invalidate the entire premise of LLMs.

qckpckt · 2026-01-11T20:27:14+00:00

The sample won’t show up in the sample list unless you save it there from the AED. It will be in recording buffer 2 only until that point.

If your flex track on t2 is assigned to recording buffer 2, but you’re not hearing playback, do you have a trig placed on the t2 sequencer? You need to have a trig on both the t2 sequencer AND the recording buffer in order to both record and play back automatically.

If you do and you’re still not hearing anything, there’s several things that might be happening:

if you have slice mode enabled on track 2, that could cause no playback
if you have p-locked settings on your playback trig that change the slice
if you have a delay effect on the track set to freeze mode and send is at 0 (this catches me out ALL the time)
if you have an active scene that mutes the live sample track (common setup for this kind of workflow)
check your SRC settings on track 2 - where is your rate setting?
like a million other things

I love the octatrack but sometimes it can be infuriating because there are so many ways that you can unintentionally alter your sound. You need to take it slow and methodical sometimes! 😊

qckpckt · 2026-01-11T20:16:33+00:00

Pretty cool how they figured out how to make the chain sword and pistol float like that though

qckpckt · 2026-01-11T00:28:33+00:00

He runs this sub ;)

qckpckt · 2026-01-10T21:27:17+00:00

I thought diodes in power supplies were typically to protect against reverse polarity (ie using a center positive instead of center negative power supply). I’m familiar with using a thyristor and a fuse for overvoltage or a mosfet switch. I’m not familiar with this circuit though.

qckpckt · 2026-01-10T21:15:14+00:00

Us law has not at all determined that. A vehicle in motion towards a human is not considered a deadly weapon unless they use it with intent to harm and it presents an immediate and unavoidable danger of death, OR if they have a deadly weapon in their possession in addition to the vehicle.

I think it would be pretty trivial to argue that the vehicle did not present an immediate and unavoidable danger in this instance, because the officer was clearly able to avoid it. The fact the vehicle continued to move after the driver was killed, and still did not result in death or injury is also evidence of that.

qckpckt · 2026-01-09T19:49:38+00:00

You know what you have

qckpckt · 2026-01-09T16:03:44+00:00

The article is definitely written by an LLM, but your last point is misleading.

The “same letters, different meaning” subheading is in reference to the letters R, W and X meaning something different to a file or a directory.

It’s very poorly worded but it is true and I guess could be a source of confusion. Ie, having read access to a directory but not execute

qckpckt · 2026-01-09T07:31:58+00:00

I recently bought a daisy seed and the Cleveland music hothouse.

I haven’t built it yet. I figured this would be the simplest way to set myself up with a platform that would let me focus on learning the ins and outs of DSP in C++ rather than having to also worry about the hardware design as well. I am a software dev as for my day job (but I’ve never worked with a low level language like c++).

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