The AI.gov repository and staging site vanished when we asked questions, but don’t worry – we captured backups

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    5 days ago

    Can’t wait for some serbian hacker with Xx69 in their name multiple times to destroy the US government because one of Elon’s script kiddies left 42,069 security holes in the fucking system.

    Gonna be awesome. lmao.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    “all-in-one API” that will allow agencies to connect their systems to models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic

    This is a huge red flag to me.

    It means:

    • They are ignorant of existing APIs and standards that are exactly this. Uh, MCP or OpenAI API? Which everyone already uses?
    • They have zero interesting in models they can host themselves, or from cheaper providers. Or, heaven forbit, finetune for their own work.
    • They have zero interest in actually useful tools. Like, say, SGLang’s cached hosting and fast fill-in-the-blanks formatting which is perfect for say, processing government forms.

    In other words, it’s just full corporate AI Bro capture. And shitty.

    One of the consequences is that it will be very bad, unfortunately.

  • PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social
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    I dream of the day the People collectively have had enough and just drag the bastards into the street and beat them until they can bastard no more.

    One can dream…

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    Only silver lining right now is these idiots might just be too stupid to pull off creating their evil empire.

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      This reminds me of an interview with a Ukrainian soldier, who said of the Russians “we are lucky they are so fucking stupid”. If only that translated into less air superiority by Russia, because that’s where Ukraine struggles.

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      That’s actually why I’d say the GOP is the “lesser evil” compared to Dems, because they ultimately want the same thing but the Dems are competent enough to pull it off without people noticing.

      For example, everyone’s rightly going after Trump’s deportation schemes, but very few of them realize Trump is still isn’t keeping up with Biden’s deportation numbers. So the Dems end up being better fascists by doing it quietly.

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      I mean it is called “.env_example” afterall… Probably a env file to use for testing, no?

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        I’m really shocked by the confidence people have here with clearly zero knowledge.

        “.env_example” is literally just the example/template which is only updated if new “config” items are needed and it doesn’t contain actual secrets.

        Developers copy “.env”/prod and “.env_local” files, which are used for the specific environments. These are in .gitignore so that they’re not accidentally pushed to .git.

        For production the “.env” is generated during deployment from secrets in a locked up environment. (I mean they COULD fuck this up, but there’s no evidence of this AFAIK)

        The example postgres password is simply a “hello world” type password that is often used when running a local docker image of the DB so you can get a full dev environment running in a couple minutes, as mentioned in the readme.md: https://github.com/gsa-tts-archived/ai-gov-api

        It’s not even a testing environment, it’s a temporary local/dev DB just so you can test your code.

        I am NOT defending this project, but holy shit this thread is full of misinformation and I had to correct this.

    • burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      whats wrong with managed democracy? did you see how quickly a new president was elected when the previous one perished during the invasion?

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    They are even dumber than Leslie Nielsen as American president in his parodies.

    • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      This was the feeling!!! I couldn’t put my finger on just how this entire thing felt to me, you’ve cleared the skies and allowed the light of recollection to meet my shores!

      It feels like 70s-80s slapstick!