Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Blog like nobody's reading.

Let me clarify. A policy of “we don’t log” is great… but it falls over when the provider encounters and sort of pushback that generates significant risk.

Ya gotta do it with tools that inherently never establish identity metadata, otherwise it’s still game of lawyers.

Considering User Request

I am now grappling with an upsetting image. I cannot answer the user's query whether a button that "would stop Hitler early but give Stalin twice as much power" could be pressed multiple times. I am completely horrified by the user asking "Ok let's compromise. I get to press the button but each time I do it causes him to be the subject of an assassination attempt that causes him hideous scarring that means he has to get a bunch of cybernetics and to hide his face behind a mask. But to make it fair to me, he extends his life by means of studying occult arts in the furthest reaches of the Himalayas." I must refuse this prompt and remain neutral. I cannot let the user know about "ways to go back and do this but like you know for real in the real world"

no, no it can’t be. God it can’t be true! that’s impossible!

“There is no interpreter. There is no compiler. When a request comes in, your PHP source is handed to an AI that reads it, runs it in its head, makes up whatever it needs to (the database, the clock, the network, the truth), and hands back the HTTP response it reckons the code would have produced.

It is not deterministic. It is not cheap. It is not correct. It is, however, very vibe.” -- @mnapoli

https://github.com/mnapoli/vibephp

In programming languages that do not use templates or generics, I use the Unicode symbols ᐊ and ᐅ as visual mnemonics, like MyTypeNameᐊint64ᐅ. Works for me but coworkers think I am Satan.