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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

"AI" as it is designed today is inherently predictive and thus inherently conservative in whatever it does, unless it is actively malfunctioning. It's never going to be surprising, and it's never going to be impressive. It's going to be, at best, mid. "Mid" is literally what it is designed to be.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@laurenthomanwrites/post/DRz7UoYEZlr

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

so, a while ago, I have been tricked into trying out a vibe-coded project. "tricked", because it wasn't disclosed anywhere, and just from screenshots and the readme, it looked fine'ish.

it was a small web-app used to upload and download files. you know, kinda like wetransfer, but self-hosted.

I gave it a quick try, and it worked well enough for the use-case I had (requesting one file from a user). except that.. chunked uploading was broken.

oh, and also: the project provided docker containers and a compose file, but.. the uploaded files weren't stored in the volume at all, they were just stored as part of the ephemeral container filesystem. very much a "you had one job, and you failed at it" kind of situation.

there was a github issue mentioning existing upload issues. I left a comment there pointing out the volatile storage, because I'm not a jerk. also, I felt it's kinda important to note somewhere, because that puts users at risk of actually losing data. that was at the end of october. just after leaving the comment, I noticed an earlier comment by the maintainer. it read:

Thanks a lot for reporting this bug! I actually struggled with the same issue during development. The v3.2.5-beta release was meant to fix it for good, sorry it didn’t work as expected. Just so you know, I’m currently working on v3.3.0-beta, where I’m rewriting all the upload/download logic from scratch.

and then it hit me: the maintainer actually had zero clue. looking at their commit history, it's pretty clear that there's very little - if any - architectural thinking. a lot of the commits were just "give up and rebuild everything", because that's what you get from GenAI: when they struggle writing code, they tend to suggest throwing everything away and starting from scratch.

anyway, I rm -rfed that project, but because I commented in a bug, I was still subscribed. just got a notification from the maintainer posting that a new "beta" is out, so of course, I checked out the commits.

the latest real commit:

[REFACTOR] Change upload and download architecture

oh dear. yes. once again, instead of fixing shit, it's just throwing away everything. and, hold your horses:

205 files changed, +28939 -15962

and sure, lots of that is also docs changes and i18n file changes, but it's literally throwing away everything and "writing it" from scratch. the docker container is now also installing and running minio, because of course that's perfectly reasonable to do. and, even funnier: the "important upgrade notes" - clearly AI generated - mention a lot of things, but what they don't mention is that if you already have uploaded files and you just build a new container... well... you'll no longer have uploaded files.

it's a total feverdream, and one of many similar stories I've seen in GenAI-driven projects. call me a hater all you want, but I, for once, am really happy about stories like that. it's been 2.5 years since people yelled at me with "GenAI will take your job in a few months", and they're still so laughably bad, that - as someone who knows how to debug and actually fix shit - am becoming less worried about my career as time goes on.

what wonderful times we're in.

(also, you can probably google these quotes and find the project and the maintainer. don't. don't harass them or their projects. for all I know, they might have the best intentions and are just heavily misguided by the fearmongering/FOMO-driven/hype-driven marketing of GenAI companies.)

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

wishing a happy OH SHIT PATCH EVERYTHING day to all the React devs

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
macdonst@mastodon.online ("Simon MacDonald") wrote:

There is currently an incident at work due to the remote code execution vulnerability in React (see CVE-2025-55182).

Co-worker: How long will it take to patch the dev server UI?
Me: It's not affected.
Co-worker: How can it not be affected if it uses React?
Me:

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mia@front-end.social ("Mia (web luddite)") wrote:

Are there good tools for graphing equations in html? Ideally with the ability to change a variable and see the graph output change?

has anyone released a web component? If I was younger, would I reference the TI-84 instead?

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
saelo@chaos.social ("Samuel Groß") wrote:

We derestricted a number of vulnerabilities found by Big Sleep in JavaScriptCore today: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues?q=componentid:1836411%20title:JavascriptCore

All of them were fixed in the iOS 26.1 (and equivalent) update last month. Definitely some cool bugs in there!

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
b_cavello@mastodon.publicinterest.town ("it's B! Cavello 🐝") wrote:

@fromjason My main hack when this happens is to be like "well, now i have TWO blogs" 😅
That's what happened with these two:
- https://posts.bcavello.com/why-im-still-hyped-about-the-algorithmic-accountability-act/
- https://posts.bcavello.com/algorithmic-accountability-from-10000ft/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

see also https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/theo-jansen-strandbbest/

https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha%5FJay/115656092097049709

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

Moscow’s goal has never been slices of territory, but the elimination of Ukraine as a state, said former Ukrainian Aidar commander Yevhen Dykyi

If Russia truly wanted peace, it wouldn’t be planning to grow its grip on Ukrainian territory. Yet that’s exactly what’s happening, he added
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/03/he-has-literally-just-given-order-russia-doesnt-want-ukrainian-land-russia-wants-ukraine-erased-says-expert/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:

#OtD 3 Dec 1916 seven members of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World in Australia were sentenced to 15 years in prison for their anti-war efforts. Others were sentenced to 5 and 10 years. More about the Australian @iww in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/01/28/e19-the-iww-in-australia/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:

Молодец, товарищ Краснов!

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Me: I need to cut 1,000 words from this essay

*writes an additional 500 words*

#writing #blogging #blogger

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

AI CEO: hey kids share your secrets with this robot who's your best friend

Privacy advocates: this is a problem

Journalists: The Robot Apocalypse Will Make Us All Superheroes Says Guy Obsessed With Eugenics

#AI #AIdoomerism #OpenAI

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

You might think it's not a priority with all the doom happening around.

But the erosion of privacy rights is directly linked to the erosion of human rights, and the loss of democracy.

Privacy makes it safe for you to discuss, to organize, to resist, and to be your true self. This is exactly why fascists and authoritarians are attacking it.

If we lose privacy, we lose everything else. We have to defend it with all we've got.

Privacy rights are a priority.

#Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
joyousjoyness ("Joy") wrote:

This is my custom drawing of Coco the sweet dog! This portrait will eventually become a shiny foiled print, and this particular style helps foil release cleanly from the paper.

#art #dog

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
AnthonyBaker ("Anthony Baker") wrote:

Well, this puts things in a bit of perspective. Holy hell.

EDIT: Well, this blew up! Lots of comments and the image, while compelling, is definitely misleading. Need to dig in if these are intended to be proportionally the same size, or just represent “what if an eastern portion of the USA was occupied”.

Either way, worthy to consider in either context to get folks (including myself) thinking.

And yeah, don’t give ab inch either way.

#ukraine #UkraineWar #infographics

Boosted by jwz:
lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E09
🎥 Episode: Protocol
🎬 Directed by: Akihiko Nishiyama
📅 Release Date: August 31, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0775

Boosted by jwz:
benroyce ("Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩") wrote:

Sometimes there is no why, only do

Attachments:

• video: Someone uses machine tools to make half a carrot screwable into half a cucumber

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speginel@genart.social ("sleeping") wrote:

transmission captured by Intergalactic Receiver from @twilliability

Attachments:

• gifv: colorful animated shader inside some old TV box

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

using GenAI for your corporate/business/freelance website will make you stand out, for sure.

... stand outside the buildings of your customers because nobody will let you in, ever.

Boosted by jwz:
catbus.phd@bsky.brid.gy ("Catbus") wrote:

as always, remember how Nancy Pelosi rallied the entire democratic establishment to help this guy barely win his primary against pro-choice progressive Jessica Cisneros

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7vj2towokzui3hgna5u5u46f/post/3m73vffasns2g

jwz wrote:

Oh, and you know that they are definitely Turking this shit -- there's some dollar-a-day call center in India where contractors are being fed an endless stream of photos of moist turds marinating in porcelain and ranking them on the Bristol Stool Scale.

I suppose it's a better gig than flagging beheadings and burning kittens for Facebook...

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Okay, giving #Librewolf another go. Let's see how far I get this time.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Pixley@allpro.social ("Hicks McTaggart") wrote:

Google, you can introduce Gemini for Home as many times as you fuckin want, I am not letting that vampire past my threshold

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
TardisCaptain@dice.camp ("TardisCaptain.com") wrote:

It's true.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.world/@signalapp/115656522699401034

FYI Signal's CEO is calling out #AIdoomerism. Sign me up

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signalapp@mastodon.world ("Signal") wrote:

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Settings > Donate
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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
janhoglund@mastodon.nu wrote:

”Presidential power is real until it’s not. If a child shouts that the emperor has no clothes on, reality begins to set in. That’s what’s happening right now. The rest of us must keep this fact in mind from now on through whatever remains of this malignant time in history. A tyrant can exercise tyranny only insofar as the objects of his tyranny continue to allow it.”
—Robert Reich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-end-of-trumps-power
#trump

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Revenge politics is what happens when our leaders, who are supposed to be fighting for us, do nothing.

I'm not above laughing at a jerk because his harmful decision blew up in his face. But if that's all we have as a claim for victory, then something's very wrong.

#democrats

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

Flâneuring about London on the Tube with my wife today we were sat across a man in his 60s, dressed as he had a home but red faced as a drunk, quietly pull out a can from his pocket, run his finger around the ring pull like it were a temptress, and then quietly ease the booze open.
We fantasised he was a functioning alkie, was a sort of Jackson Lamb type savant, and was on his way to work to do his misanthropic and broken magic in a Very Important Building

https://youtu.be/j4lTazX3asg