707Kat
@707kat.bsky.social
1.8K followers 1.7K following 6.9K posts
⁷⁰⁷ ᵏⁱⁿ ᵍᵒⁿᵉ ʳᵒᵍᵘᵉ A full-stack Dev here to enjoy beautiful art and upload my own creations occasionally. { Cᴜʀʀᴇɴᴛʟʏ } 👀 Jibatsu-Shounen Hanako-Kun 👾 #MakeRoom 🪫Social Battery 🔑 Clipforth #Datarights #PrivacyMatters
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
Pinned
707kat.bsky.social
Open knowledge sharing AND copyright are both under siege. Whether you are for one or the other doesn't matter.

This is a shared issue that's hitting "both sides". They are taking away YOUR choice, replacing it with regurgitation & centralisation while the open internet withers away.

📌 Instance🧵
707kat.bsky.social
They are making it impossible to host information online and drying up resources. Stop defending and supporting these malicious entities.
Whether it’s cryptocurrency scammers mining with FOSS compute resources or Google engineers too lazy to design their software properly or Silicon Valley ripping off all the data they can get their hands on at everyone else’s expense… I am sick and tired of having all of these costs externalized directly into my fucking face. Do something productive for society or get the hell away from my servers. Put all of those billions and billions of dollars towards the common good before sysadmins collectively start a revolution to do it for you.

Please stop legitimizing LLMs or AI image generators or GitHub Copilot or any of this garbage. I am begging you to stop using them, stop talking about them, stop making new ones, just stop. If blasting CO2 into the air and ruining all of our freshwater and traumatizing cheap laborers and making every sysadmin you know miserable and ripping off code and books and art at scale and ruining our fucking democracy isn’t enough for you to leave this shit alone, what is?

If you personally work on developing LLMs et al, know this: I will never work with you again, and I will remember which side you picked when the bubble bursts.
707kat.bsky.social
You might very well have. :)

I posted the game he is from below and he has also made cameos in some of team 17s other games.
707kat.bsky.social
The whole frog thing made my mind go back and remember a childhood game that made a huge impression on me and I'd think the developers would have a good chance of reviving it if Team 17 still owns it.

Superfrog: Fights Fascism
cover of Superfrog game from 1993 for the Amiga 32.
Reposted by 707Kat
chrisdeleon.bsky.social
I don't want to discourage anyone but sometimes, not always, but just sometimes, I worry or have doubts if contrary to the book and film adaptation of ready player one my considerable knowledge of 80s-90s consumer nerd nostalgia may not actually be enough to save society from evil corporate takeover
707kat.bsky.social
This had me and my partner have a good laugh. Thank you. 😂
707kat.bsky.social
Also proven by the fact that this was funded by money that could have gone to developing and building sustainable technology and systems helping, rather than the money sink it's been burning up GPUs for slop that is poisoning the commons and everything else.
Reposted by 707Kat
707kat.bsky.social
Ah, that makes sense! Thank you for letting me know. I will read this. :)
Reposted by 707Kat
devinellekurtz.bsky.social
My Ninja Turtles card from Magic the Gathering was revealed!
Art from the Magic Card “Turtles Forever”
The four teenage mutant ninja turtles appear in a multiverse crossover. Donatello appears to be from the old live action movie, Raphael from the Fred Wolf TV cartoon, Leonardo from the Magic the Gathering TMNT universe, and Michelangelo from the Mirage comics. They are fist bumping and noogie-ing each other in front of a bright cityscape background. Ninjas lay scattered and defeated behind them.
Reposted by 707Kat
thinkingautism.com
“When an allistic person demands eye contact from an autistic person, they are asking for something that only benefits them. Why should we experience discomfort for you?” @doodlebeth.com, republished with permission at TPGA:

thinkingautismguide.com/2018/01/eye-... #autism #autistic #neurodiversity
Eye Contact — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
"If we try and make eye contact, it can distract us from what is being said because of how horrible it can feel and the effort involved.”
thinkingautismguide.com
Reposted by 707Kat
phdesk.bsky.social
Creativity is not a problem we need to solve. #noai
Reposted by 707Kat
Reposted by 707Kat
theartbookguy.bsky.social
My position on A.I art is that I will not be promoting it or sharing it, as it is the death of creativity and entire industries. The books I share and talk about showcase the talent of real people, for those that enjoy it and are inspired by it.
Reposted by 707Kat
meredithmeredith.bsky.social
We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/
Reposted by 707Kat
jwlockhart.bsky.social
Sometimes you just can't tell people things. You just have to sit back and let them find out for themselves. Usually those people are children.
Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
•.°
I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.
707kat.bsky.social
Been a fan of Felicia's ever since she made the Guild and starred in Dr. Horrible and I'm always delighted when she pops up in something new I watch.

Supernatural, Eureka etc. She just brings so much whenever she appears. ❤️
707kat.bsky.social
threnody.bsky.social
just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”
707kat.bsky.social
This had me cackle. 😂

Also I can’t believe I read that book. Got it in my first and only lootbox ever, purchased second hand to get my hand on another item that came with it. Never have I ever felt more talked down to. It was member berries on steroids with little to no pay off.
707kat.bsky.social
It is consistent if you look at what it actually does. Which is retrieve statistically likely combinations of words which might resemble information aka the data it was trained on, but whether it is accurate or not. 🤷‍♂️
Reposted by 707Kat
lookitup.baby
as enjoyable as it is to dunk on vibe coders, this is just the nature of cloud services. they’re really expensive and they can easily cost you shocking amounts of money really fast even if you know what you’re doing! if you don’t know what you’re doing, messing with them is just asking for trouble!
cait.bsky.social
guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use
r/LegalAdviceUK u/ShavedAp3 • 3d
Join
Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals
Debt & Money
Hi there and thanks for reading.
I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem.
Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about £45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset.
Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k
The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity.
I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k.
Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have £45.
Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps. Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output.
Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API.
Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days.

tom_watts • 3d
According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code.
•••
146 ShavedAp3 OP • 3d
Even if that was the case and it wasn't the sign up process doesn't have the documentation I refer to.
Funnily enough though asking an LLM to help me find it still took some digging after it did.
If you work in the field im sure its easy but those just tinkering or learning not so much.
If google didnt want people like me using it they could make it far harder to do so, they could have hard limits in place for sole users to prevent stuff like this and so many other things.
Should they well clearly they don't think so and no doubt you agree that doesn't make it the right opinion it just makes it yours.
• • •
4
Reposted by 707Kat
iris-meredith.bsky.social
I have to say, I am fascinated by the informal school of thought that states that isolating and analysing a social phenomenon or a speech act without necessarily trying to understand why people do it internally is a bad thing.