A contact just told me that my old "LLMs generate nonsense code" blog post from 2 years ago is now very outdated with GPT5 because it's so awesome and so helpful. So I asked him to give it a test for me, and asked it my favorite test question based on a use-case I had myself recently:

Without adding third-party dependencies, how can I compress a Data stream with zstd in Swift on an iPhone?


and here is the answer from ChatGPT 5: chatgpt.com/share/68968506-183…

Very confident, very bold, even claims "Works on iOS 16+".

Problem with that: Just like any other LLM I've tested that provided similar responses, it is - excuse my language but I need to use it - absolute horseshit. No version of any Apple SDK ever supported or supports ZSTD (see developer.apple.com/documentat… for a real piece of knowledge). It was never there. Not even in private code. Not even as a mention of "things we might do in the future" on some developer event. It fundamentally does not exist. It's completely made up nonsense.

This concludes all the testing for GPT5 I have to do. If a tool is able to actively mislead me this easy, which potentially results in me wasting significant amounts of time in trying to make something work that is guaranteed to never work, it's a useless tool. I don't like collaborating with chronic liars who aren't able to openly point out knowledge gaps, so I'm also not interested in burning resources for a LLM that does the same.

europesays.com/uk/331473/ British Police Arrest Hundreds of Pro-Palestinian Protesters #Britain #England #GreatBritain #News #NewsDesk #NorthernIreland #Scotland #UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales

"A new psychological study has found that people who report favorable views of Donald Trump also tend to score higher on measures of callousness, manipulation, and other malevolent traits—and lower on empathy and compassion. The findings, based on two large surveys of U.S. adults, shed light on how personality traits relate to political beliefs, including support for Trump and conservative ideology."

~ Eric W. Dolan

#Trump #authoritarianism #empathy #psychopathy
/1

psypost.org/trump-supporters-r…

Iran welcomes Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal, warns of foreign interference in region presstv.ir/Detail/2025/08/09/7…

I thought the ability to "pin" a given model to a character/profile in AgentV3N would be a gimmick, not a real selling point

Then GPT-5 dropped and a few subreddits are flooded with people mourning the loss of something they've grown attached to. Obviously, I can relate to that.

While we're obviously in no position to capitalize on GPT-5's release, we think that the people affected by this will remember it. And while they'll be reluctant to trust again, or will have already put their trust back into OpenAI, we want to build reliability into the system from the start.

We will be strategically selecting "Forever Models", open-weights models that demonstrate consistency, are available on a large number of inference providers and, if absolutely necessary, can be run in-house on our hardware.

If you pin a character to a Forever Model, the model won't change. It will be able to call nicer, newer models as a tool call, but ultimately, the response will be written by the one you chose.

The whole point of digital anything is that it can be backed up and replicated. You should never have to say goodbye to something that's digital. That's the whole point.

Sensitive content

Two protests in one day… I found myself wondering why the 250,000 on the 29th National March for Palestine did not defend those being arrested on the Palestine Action protest less than a 100 yards away… More pics and vid after I have had my supper… A momentous day…
#protest
#genocide
#Gaza
#FreePalestine
#PalestineAction
#StopArmingIsrael
#StarvationAsAWeapon
independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim…
in reply to Gary Hill

Indeed... It's a coalition for the National marches...
stopwar.org.uk/events/national…
I don't want to knock the actual marches but it is a bit of a closed
shop, very in bed with the Palestinian Authority... In the space of 29
marches it's gone from being branded as hate marches to praise
yesterday from Yvette Cooper for being peaceful... The truth is
the only thing that makes them fearful is direct action and BDS
both of which they have made illegal...
gov.uk/government/news/uk-publ…

London Erupts: Hundreds Arrested Over Palestine Action Ban | Ranjeet Brar


youtu.be/PHjc7sJZ-oA?si=1yUP_F…

#RanjeetBrar #PalestineAction #Palestine #UK

Acaba salir la audiencia pública para el RD de Centros de Datos en España. En pleno Agosto para que la gente no participe.

Si os apetece echarle un vistazo y decirnos si veis algo que podamos sugerir os lo agradecemos

miteco.gob.es/es/energia/parti…

miteco.gob.es/content/dam/mite…

elpais.com/clima-y-medio-ambie…

Compartimos lanzamiento de nueva campaña contra la burbuja de los centros de datos en Aragón. Desde El Juncar es Vida hemos querido contribuir con nuestros esfuerzos y formar parte de esta iniciativa, pues defendemos que ni Aragón, ni nuestra agua, ni nuestra energía, puede ser vendida a grandes fondos de inversión y empresas tecnológicas para su enriquecimiento individual bajo la promesa de falsos empleos.

Anota la fecha: 27 de septiembre, manifestación en Zaragoza.

@nocentrosdedatosaragon

#Centrosdedatos
#Aragón

eljuncaresvida.wordpress.com/2…

This entry was edited (1 month ago)

#MidiLibre
Bitchat : le cofondateur de Twitter lance son nouveau réseau social révolutionnaire qui fonctionne sans connexion Internet

> Bitchat, un réseau social fonctionnant sans Internet grâce au Bluetooth basse consommation. Les messages, chiffrés et éphémères, transitent dans un rayon de 300 mètres sans compte utilisateur. Si la plateforme mise sur la sécurité, elle suscite des inquiétudes sur la modération.

midilibre.fr/2025/08/09/bitcha…

Editor’s Note: This release was edited Aug. 9, 2025, to update the International Space Station docking port for the Crew-10 mission. The first crew to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program completed the agency’s 10th commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station […]

Is Donald Trump really “ruling the world”? en.reseauinternational.net/est…
in reply to bronze

@bronze @jeff black ops 6 is literally why bf6 has so many players right now, there's serious cod fatigue
but at least unlike bf6 if you install Windows it'll run on the deck
youtu.be/MA_yAwum7bI?t=231

Original Footage | The First Footage of D-Day WW2

youtube.com/watch?v=jWZJK59xXw…

youtube.com/@thehistoryexplore…

On the night of June 5, 1944, before the first wave stormed the beaches of Normandy, elite paratroopers from the 101st Airborne Div were already deep behind enemy lines. Their mission was critical: secure key crossroads, disrupt German defenses, and pave the way for the beach landings at dawn.

This video uncovers rare original footage and firsthand accounts from the paratroopers who landed near

in reply to HunDriverWidow

Marmion Farm, a vital objective just outside Carentan. What they encountered there was brutal, chaotic, and decisive. Facing fierce German resistance, the battle for Marmion Farm became one of the earliest and most dangerous engagements of D-Day.

Through restored archival film, maps, & testimony, this video brings you as close as possible to the experience of the first soldiers on the ground. These men weren’t storming the beaches—they were already fighting for their lives behind enemy lines.