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I accidentally discovered that's entirely possible to implement an entire blog as a #Perl one-liner

This is a terrible idea so I'm definitely going to keep expending it

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in reply to r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖

Any program is a one-liner if you're ambitious enough.

And every program has at least one undiscovered bug lurking in it.

The corollary is that every program can be reduced to one line that doesn't work.

in reply to Artyom Bologov

@aartaka
Why would anybody take the time to read it if nobody bothered to take the time to write it?

@cypnk

in reply to EndlessMason

@EndlessMason @aartaka If the internet has shown anything, it's that there's an audience for virtually any form of content. Generated or not
in reply to r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖

agreed!

@EndlessMason it’s not that I didn’t bothered to write it. I still care about what I want to say. I still try to express it in the clearest, strongest, liveliest way possible. Just that now it’s slightly more human(e) in being wrong at times.

in reply to Artyom Bologov

@EndlessMason oh wait, wrong thread, I thought it’s about https://aartaka.me/not-ai

Regarding procedural generation: it still requires a lot of care in picking the seed and formula for generation, so it cannot be entirely automated compared to “AI” writing!

in reply to Artyom Bologov

Yes, I'd 100% prefer to read some old-internet style spanish guy writing in spanish grammar with weird spanish sayings but english words than read ai slop.

Heck, I'd rather just read the prompt somebody typed into the LLM than the nonsense that blasts out the back of it.

@aartaka @cypnk

in reply to r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖

Who wants to read a page of text in which a computer vaguely sounds like it cares about politics only to voice a grammatically bad nothing-burger take on a vaguely specified situation?

The slop pushes real content down, so either the search engine gets paid for ads to boost the actual content or the search engine takes you to the slop page, which is lousy with ads.

It's just a protection racket.

Nobody wrote it for nobody.

@cypnk @aartaka