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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt ("Nina Kalinina") wrote:

When I first watched War Games (1983) I thought "wow, so weird, not only they had terrible password management, but their test 'AI' system was directly linked to the prod".

Ha-ha. :blobcat_thisisfine:

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@db/116277084342844159

The "all software is now fast fashion" view is also incredibly reductive of both fashion and software. Fast fashion is a major problem, yes, but it's still only one part of that industry. There's more to both software and fashion than "fast"

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

My biggest problem with the concept of LLMs, even if they weren’t a giant plagiarism laundering machine and disaster for the environment, is that they introduce so much unpredictability into computing. I became a professional computer toucher because they do exactly what you tell them to. Not always what you wanted, but exactly what you asked for.

LLMs turn that upside down. They turn a very autistic do-what-you-say, say-what-you-mean commmunication style with the machine into a neurotypical conversation talking around the issue, but never directly addressing the substance of problem.

In any conversation I have with a person, I’m modeling their understanding of the topic at hand, trying to tailor my communication style to their needs. The same applies to programming languages and frameworks. If you work with a language the way its author intended it goes a lot easier.

But LLMs don’t have an understanding of the conversation. There is no intent. It’s just a mostly-likely-next-word generator on steroids. You’re trying to give directions to a lossily compressed copy of the entire works of human writing. There is no mind to model, and no predictability to the output.

If I wanted to spend my time communicating in a superficial, neurotypical style my autistic ass certainly wouldn’t have gone into computering. LLMs are the final act of the finance bros and capitalists wrestling modern technology away from the technically literate proletariat who built it.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
adactio ("Jeremy Keith") wrote:

It feels like all my peers are experiencing Deep Blue and having to choose their future career path:

expert in a dying field

or

collaborator in a fascist project.

🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22482

Boosted by GuillaumeL@hachyderm.io ("BigSaur G"):
marick@mstdn.social ("Brian Marick") wrote:

“The success of pundits and bloggers is inversely proportionate to the wellbeing of a society. If they’re having a good and interesting time it generally means everyone else is getting fucked.” – Ian Dunt

https://iandunt.substack.com/p/killing-populism-what-australia-has-b87

(This is cute, but it’s a structural – and societal – problem for all sorts of media.)

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

i left all the hard tasks for future me, today i am future me

past me is a jerk

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

Computer, am I burning out? Or is the industry burning down around me?

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

lol, a 6kloc vibe coded pr, let me get right on that.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

blogged: Top ten Figma betrayals

https://dbushell.com/2026/03/23/top-ten-figma-betrayls/

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

I start a big work project in the morning, and woke up 2 hours ago with a devastating leg cramp.

Yayyyyy :/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Bwee@meow.social ("🩵 Bwee the Fluffdragon 🩵") wrote:

Not sure who needs to hear this, but...

It wasn't your fault.

You're a good person regardless of what happened to you, despite what your inner demons tell you.

You didn't deserve the abuse you went through.

Your hurt is valid.

I hope your pain eases soon, sweetheart. You've made it so far. Just keep going. It will fade, if you stop revisiting it and punishing yourself. You've got this. I believe in you so much.

Much love, friend.

🩵🩵🩵

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

yeah just shut your brain off during your McCode shift, you can always write a poem after work https://nolanlawson.com/2026/03/22/the-diminished-art-of-coding/

— I continue to be amazed at Nolan's willingness/insistence to accept such a fate. Do you think fast-code will continue to pay the same salary? give yourself more credit!

anyway, why not throw a rhyming couplet into the chat box?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ilovecomputers@xoxo.zone ("ℹ️❤️🖥 aka Compy-chan") wrote:

Sums up my experience growing up

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Finally finished watching Critical Role campaign 3. I'm free now!

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mischif@mischivous.com ("Jeremy") wrote:

@soatok Necessary? Of course not. Make me feel cooler and more important than I am, like a named extra in Hackers? Absolutely

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
tiff@social.lol wrote:

BREAKING: TECHBROS STILL FUCKING THE 99%

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Too many people's instinct is to figure out how to get others to do their bidding before learning how to be understood.

And it's so annoying because I've been in the corporate world in some capacity for over two decades and I know all the silly tactics.

I want to be like—before you try to Makaveli me over Zoom, can I interest you in literally any project management book?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The problem with the corporate world is everyone's reading the 48 Laws of Power before learning basic communication concepts.

Like, stop trying to amass an empire from your cubicle, Travis, and go read Bird by Bird so people can understand your emails.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
shom@gts.shom.dev wrote:

I realize some people will prefer the "vivid" look, I'm not a fan, it's just too much.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
andrewjweinstein.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Andrew Weinstein") wrote:

Welcome to Donald Trump’s America where parents sit in plastic chairs with needles in their arms just to buy baby formula.

The Middle-Class Suburbanites ...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
krinkle@fosstodon.org ("Timo Tijhof") wrote:

Tony Hoare passed away.

This quote stuck with me since I first read it as a teen. It sparked a decade-long obsession with simplicity, later expanded by Rich Hickey's Simple vs Easy.

"I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C.%5FA.%5FR.%5FHoare#The%5FEmperor's%5FOld%5FClothes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%5FHoare

Hickey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Eric_G@chattrbx.com ("E.G. for Example") wrote:

The next time some Republican howls that voting by non-citizens has doomed our sacred elections, refer them to the right-wing Heritage Foundation's election fraud database, category "Ineligible Voting," subcategory "Alien" = 99 cases in all elections since 1982. There is voter fraud; it's called the SAVE Act.

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

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna mentioned: "As Pres. Trump said, we are winding down the #IranWar."

I say: As long as American Marines are traveling towards Iran, the #IranWar is not winding down.
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #military

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

RATM

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
UnicornRiot ("Unicorn Riot") wrote:

Federal Agents Bust Down Teachers Door, Arrest Him in His Boxers for Protesting ICE

Drew Edwards, a school teacher and business owner, woke up to commotion outside his north Minneapolis home on Feb. 27. Peeking through the blinds, he saw an agent holding a gun, directing him to open the door.

“The brother kicked the door open and broke down the door,” said Edwards. Agents wouldn’t let him dress and pulled a Taser on him.

Full story: https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/trump-admin-targets-press-and-activists-in-minnesota-indicts-the-righteous-39/

Attachments:

• video: cb330bc9305412e7.mp4

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

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960852426003159

kimchi!

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jkmartindale wrote:

@soatok personally if I were an evil HACKER who wanted to steal your DATA I would do it at a conference full of turbo nerds who would catch me immediately instead of a random cafe where nobody is looking

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bloor@bloor.tw ("🆎") wrote:

If SQL is pronounced "sequel" then surely DNS is pronounced "Dennis"?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ra6bit@infosec.exchange ("Rabbit") wrote:

@soatok It’s the security equivalent of cargo cults. If the ritual is complex, the protection must be strong!

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
hynek ("Hynek Schlawack") wrote:

Posts by PMs claiming they can now contribute complete features by vibe coding is the scariest shit ever. Not as an engineer but as an inhabitant of this world.

I understand Dunning-Kruger is not a thing but we NEED a term for this kind of ignorance-based overconfidence.