Well good luck to you guys in the US. This AI government will be extremely dangerous. An all knowing advertisement algorithm reaching deep in government data with an unsafe LLM on top? Ouch.
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Move fast and break things is not good when government is involved.
Only silver lining right now is these idiots might just be too stupid to pull off creating their evil empire.
Second term same as the first?
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…
He's hiding behind glass. He won't know fresh air ever again.
DB_PASS="postgres" 😬😬😬
I mean it is called ".env_example" afterall... Probably a env file to use for testing, no?
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.
so, uh... can you ELI5 this for those of us that don't know anything?
The type of database they are using is called "postgres", which is also it's password.
They should've used "1234"
That's the combo on my luggage!
I will assume this is just the password they use in development. But they should probably be using pglite.
Postgres, SQLite, etc are tools for database management, things like user data, application data and so on are collected here.
Edit: the DB_PASS=“postgres” is the default password when setting up a Postgres database.
Take Reddit’s Karma system or Upvotes/Downvotes for example, they’re stored in a database and however Reddit wants to utilize that data Postgres makes it easy to call upon it.
I’m sure others can give more detailed responses, I’m typing this out in a rush.
Interesting that you chose Reddit as an example. They have a fascinating origin story with respect to data mart. Early Reddit had just two tables: Thing and Data, where Thing was metadata about types and Data was a three column table with: type, id, and value.
Wrap your head around that. All of Reddit, two tables. A database couldn’t be less normalized (final boss of normal forms) and they did it in an rdb. So horrific it’s actually kind of cool.
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It’s like having your password set to “password”
The person you replied to doesn't know what they're talking about. It's just an example password used for running a local empty DB for development and has nothing to do with production or even test databases.
You can see this in the readme: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fgsa-tts-archived%2Fai-gov-api
See my longer previous comment if you want to know more. And again, not defending this project, but this whole comment chain was just misinformation.
Is this real lmao
Unfortunately no, it seems. Somebody at least had the bare minimum sense to let GitHub generate the .gitignore for them, which includes most common environment files. https://github.com/gsa-tts-archived/ai.gov/blob/main/.gitignore
It's from another repo and literally just an example env for an empty local docker DB: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fgsa-tts-archived%2Fai-gov-api
I want off Mr Bone's wild ride
"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.
What's sad is that this is a consequence not just of this admins shittiness but of a long enshittification of our government.
Not only do government jobs pay a mediocre salary until you get really really far in the org, a fact that only gets worse as the idea of a middle class lifestyle gets gutted, but for decades now, working a government job has become less and less prestigious. It used to be that there were always plenty of loonies who found pride in being a "public servant" and thought the best place to use their genius was in government.
Now, as we see, there's no one in these positions with even cursory knowledge of how these programs work.
And there's definitely no millennials or zoomers fresh out of tech school that would debase themselves to working in government who would be able see these flaws in two seconds.
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The stupid is intensifying. They both a) know they can’t run a government and b) are in a rush to make something that will do all the work so they can sit back and rake in the money. No, this is not about actually making the country better because objectively LLMs suck and were never intended for such tasks.
They are too generic and lack the specialization needed to do such tasks. It will only end in disaster
Super earth's managed democracy was supposed to be satire...
whats wrong with managed democracy? did you see how quickly a new president was elected when the previous one perished during the invasion?
What do we want? sKYNET!!!!
When do we want it? As soon as it can beat beginner atari chess?!?!
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I hate that all of the worst things Donald is planning are slated for July 4.
I'm out of the loop; what's being planned for the 4th of July?
That's the deadline Donald set for the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill as well.
I consider this as the final confirmation that he wants to bring the government down.
Trump just wants people bowing to him. His handlers are the ones with real plans. Don't let Peter Thiel run away to Argentina.
Trump is the disposable face of something much darker. He is a tool.
More like don't let them bring Argentina here. Their current president is an ancap and the inspiration behind doge.
Speedrun to Idiocracy.
A new PB!
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.
I'm on it!
It is like a bunch of evil kids are in control
It's exactly like that.
Inb4 unpatchable backdoor in environment directory
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