Well I can tell you the Python code was written with the help of an AI
A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub
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Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can even tell that's ChatGPT rather than, say, Claude. Redundant obvious comments are a stylistic signature of their models.
I make comments like this all the time because I write code for people to read, not robots. Well-commented code allows you to skim very quickly, and gives a sanity check, allowing others to ensure a line or block of code does what it is expected to do.
This is not a case of "code for people to read". If you want that, maybe try literate programming[0]. I prefer in the case where the code is blindingly fucking obvious for there not to be an extra comment above it that adds no value whatsoever. I much prefer for comments to be about the theory of the code rather than to explain in a worse way what I can already clearly see simply by reading the code. In other words I much prefer comments about, say, why some particular data structure was chosen, over comments that only say shit like "create a new linked list".
Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub
#53According to official documentation submitted to the court by the current US Administration, the person running DOGE, was on holiday in Mexico when nominated.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
I clicked the twitter link. Perhaps because I don’t have an account, I don’t see any Community Notes nor can I read any other posts in the thread, so no point in using the “official” link. And it’s not like Community Notes will remain reliable. https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-says-hell-fix-community-notes-...
Because it is a pending note. Which often already are extremely relevant. Many see these as prominently as other CN's as becoming a "Community Noter" is not too hard. >And it’s not like Community Notes will remain reliable. That's as useless like saying your house might burn down in the next hour so might as well not go inside during a storm. CN's are the best weapon we have against misinformation given they require…
No, it’s not like that in the slightest. Read the link, my comments was within its context, not made in a vaccumm. The point is precisely that one person, the owner of the platform, wants to change Community Notes to agree with his own opinions and world view.
Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's just a copy of nitter on a different domain.
it does look like nitter but I thought it was dead after twitter changed the api after musk took over?
It’s a nitter instance
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That's the good thing about conspiracy theories. Hard to falsify.
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#59Sadly his github is now private and the archived pages are mostly previews, not full repos.
Just search for forks: https://github.com/PatrickFanella/x-dm-downloader for example. We will probably have a short while (day or two) before false DMCA notices about this are actioned by GitHub
ah, obviously, thanks a lot
Re: A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub
#60A surprisingly large amount of data one might think is classified is not at all. In this case all the examples listed are from freely available public data outside of the Twitter thing which seems to be just setting up the environment for some local tool. Here are the sites:
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datacatalog.worldbank.org
opendata.arcgis.com
mrdata.usgs.gov / www.usgs.gov
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Sharing things like this isn't very useful because it just causes further divides. People who think DOGE is not a big deal will use this to confirm that 'oh no the worst they could dig up is somebody posting publicly accessible data in public!' And those who do think it's a big deal will often just double down on stupid and insist this was leaking secret information, even when they probably know it wasn't. So you end up with people living in two different worlds, but only one of them is real.