New Discord clone (“Harmony”) with a suspiciously AI-looking website, a single contributor, and blistering development = AI. Took me a minute to find it but it looks like they were scrubbed from a few places ~3 weeks ago.
Wow.
well corporations are people!
Yes the new frontier model from EvilCorp: people2.0
If someone hasn’t already tried that, they will.
$ git clone https://github.com/y4my4my4m/harmony && grep -R "//.*—" harmony | wc -l 1717 em dashes in comments… yeah that’s slop
You’re right to push back — this does appear to be AI generated.
Em dashes in comments though?
I’m sorry about that – I’ll adjust my responses accordingly.
🤣
I’ve been using an em-dash for ages. Now people think I’m either a bot or use an AI to write for me. This is ridiculous.
You use em-dashes in code comments? It has its place in regular prose, but a comment is not a novel
Definetly not in code comments. I mean in general.
There’s a movement to reclaim it, and LLMs will probably use it less and less as time goes on
Thank you for your training data. o7
I hate genAI so much.
I understand your frustration. It helps me personally to remember that it’s not quite GenAI that is the problem—it’s the greed that surrounds its implementation/usage. GenAI could have been just a tool, occasionally useful, but our obsession with productivity and the capitalistic goal of replacing workers to get even more profit for the owning class—or in other words just personal greed—is the real problem, not GenAI.
It’s not the em-dashes, it’s the feelings we have about them. Concern, trepidation, confusion. We don’t need to stop using them, we need to take a breath.
generated by the slopinator 5000And honestly, you’re right to feel that way. Em-dashes are a genuine indicator of AI usage.
So are words. 🤷♀️ Em dashes are only well-represented in LLM output because they’re well-represented in the training data. There’s no simple litmus test, the scummy LLM companies would just tweak their models if there was one.
gonna make this an alias for shits and giggles lol
I think you could use
-oinstead of regex? not sure :D$ git clone https://github.com/y4my4my4m/harmony && grep -Ro "—" harmony | wc -lThe regex is to match only em dashes in comments (following a
//). If you want to search for all em dashes you can just do that (though there’s no need for the-osince grep matches lines andwc -lcounts lines).no need for the
-osince grep matches lines andwc -lcounts linesgrep -oprints each match on a separate line, so thewc -lcount will be higher if there are any lines with multiple matches.And grep -c spares the wc -l
Very true
makes sense, thx for the explanation :)
Discord alternatived are appearing like fungi and apparently vibe coders notice that, i discovered about 2 new vibe slopped discord alternatives in less than 2 days
Yeah there was nothing for years and years and then Discord introduced age verification and they were popping up like crazy, every one of them cuck coded. Sharkord, Chatto, Roomy, I’m sure others I’m forgetting. And now this.
Luckly there is still stuff like Stoat that does not seem vibe coded (or at least it wasn’t last time i checked?)
Last time I ckecked, Stoat had a closed source Android app. I also feel like of you can, you should just run Matrix. It works, and feels a lot more versatile than those attempted Discord clones, especially due to federation.
Tbh i don’t really like Matrix, especially because the most selling feature of discord for me is the guild and role system with granular permission management
Yeah. From what I heard around the c10y community, that is something people are aware of, and might be improved/expanded, but I agree that the current power level solution is not very flexible. It is, however, sufficient for my usecase.
Cinny is amazing
It’s alright. As far as Matrix clients go, I like Sable. But Fluxer is on another level, I’ve really been enjoying it.
Fluxer has a permissive LLM policy, it’s why I chose Stoat over it.
Well Stoat has been in development limbo for the last decade and has no plans for federation.
It looks like recently they finally sifted through a lot of governance and dev team issues, we now have screenshare and a much better client
Dunno about federation, but people have been self-hosting for a long time
I guess that’s a fair point, Matrix is also an option if federation is important.
Matrix is a terrible, buggy option, sure. And with Fluxer being similarly open source and federated we may run into similar problems down the road.
terrible, buggy option
Can you elaborate? It’s nowhere near perfect but it works well enough to daily drive in my opinion.
I mean the list is long. Login issues, random decryption issues, it’s incredibly slow, everyone is using a different software so things that work on one instance don’t appear on others. It’s a shitshow.
