#y2038 — Public Fediverse posts

@arcaneoverflow @thomasfuchs It is 2037, the distant grim future of programming. The oceans have been boiled by #slopfondlers in order to, well, fondle slop. The cities, animals, stars, everything else really have also been boiled. You are right to call me out on this #error but there you have it. All code on the Internet is #slop. LLM #training has ground to a halt: any new model is worse than all previous ones, combined.
Programmers live alone, in caves. Nobody wants to live with them. Their communication networks all collapsed after the great AI-assisted revolution tried to unify #Fediverse and #ATProto. It failed, but auto-upgrades enforced at the #hardware level make reintegration impossible.
Suddenly a #ITU session recalls - the #y2038 problem is looming! But: it is impossible to communicate with programmers, and — surprising nobody — no model can produce code. But in the ashes of a dying world lurks a #diamond: #INTERCAL! INTERCAL code has never been touched by LLMs. Devoid of a multi-quadrillion dollar #valuation, the codebase is entirely slop-free. There are even binaries for a working #CIntercal implementation!

This is the future: train an LLM on all INTERCAL code, free of previous LLM influence. A brave group of rebels strips GPUs from fallen datacentre #satellites - remains of a dumb investment humanity made nearly 15 years ago, but whose remnants are still falling back the #earth. A @ed1conf member manages to code a list of #curl commands to download all INTERCAL programs. It might not work, but at least #humanity will not go down without a fight.

Unfortunately, it fails. 2038 arrives, #int32_t wraps around, and humanity is no more.

@arcaneoverflow @thomasfuchs In the grim future of LLM training data (the year 2037), the Internet is a desolate wasteland. The oceans, the night sky, and all the volcanoes have been boiled away by #slopfondlers fondling their slop. Corporations have wasted quadrillions of dollars and destroyed all code. Programmers have been cast out of society and live online in isolated #fediverse servers. An LLM updated #RFC9421 incorrectly, some servers auto-updated incorrectly, and all communications are down.
Suddenly someone remembers the #y2038 apocalypse! But programming is no longer possible: all LLMs have been #trained_on_trash. Humanity's only chance is to train a new LLM, on non-trash code. But where to find such code? #INTERCAL is the only possible way. Sextillions of dollars are spent training a top-tier LLM model on INTERCAL alone.
It fails. Humanity is gone.

Ist das der Startschuss? Ein Gerichtsurteil zwingt Alstom ihre Züge in Paris #y2k38 sicher zu machen. 1/3 der des Verkehrssystems würde komplett ausfallen. Alstom hat in den letzten 6 Jahren keine Lösung gefunden. Das ist nur die Soitze des Eisberges. y2k38 kein Problem?! Das sieht Alstom mittlerweile anders. Mehr werden folgen #Y2038 #jahr2038problem
https://www.leparisien.fr/info-paris-ile-de-france-oise/transports/un-bug-informatique-menace-de-bloquer-le-rer-a-et-huit-lignes-de-metro-en-2038-09-12-2025-AN63SZ64XFBYDFEXV3FTWNFI6A.php

Noch 13 Jahre bis zur Epochalypse! Wenn das nur nicht Unglück bringt...

Internet Hoax oder digitales Armageddon. Am 19. Januar 2038 wissen wir definitiv mehr.

Wir haben zum Thema eine neue Website https://www.y2k38.ch aufgeschaltet. Mir persönlich gefällt die Aluhut-Zone am besten 🙂

#y2k38 #y2038 #jahr2038problem