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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

the shills are less frustrating because the shills are all just cross-posting from LinkedIn using Buffer and spamming hashtags; they're never going to see my replies and so I can easily just block them after one or two posts. no real hope of useful engagement there anyway, that's not what they're here for.

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I'd really like to reply directly and try to engage in discussions but *everyone* doing this is way too angry and dysregulated to respond to personal feedback, and half the time I will see six pages of Leftist Theory buzzwords thrown into a blender, click through to the bio to see where they're coming from, and see "20 y/o comp sci student" and like, I hate age verification too but I feel like we all might have been better off if we couldn't post until we could rent a car

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

it is tooth-shatteringly frustrating to watch page after page of rant thread from dozens of different accounts scroll by (for my sins, I follow several hashtags around my interests, so it's not necessarily people I follow) where they have identified real problems but have zero understanding of how corporations or large open source projects are organized or make decisions, and invent fantastical conspiracies. it's 4chan shit. please stop

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

when commenting on companies like Apple or core open source technologies SystemD it seems I have two options, either get lumped in with the shills or the truthers. I really do not like either of these options

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fox@front-end.social ("karolina") wrote:

new, wonderfully simple, yet delightful game just dropped. much better than doomscrolling.

i dare y’all not to get hooked.

https://100jumps.org/

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

Godzilla Minus 1 was great and I might do a legitimate review later

Godzilla Minus One 2023 GODZILA MINUS ONE Watched Mar 24, 2026 My favorite parts were when Godzilla would eat someone then look into the camera and say "minus 1." He did it multiple dozens of times but it never got old, and I wanted to buy t-shirts about it. Each time better than the last-Him just ripping through flesh and bone with his black obsidian teeth, like a hot blade through clotted cream. Then, a deep bellowing snarl and a stare that fixed into the audiences' collective soul. "Minus 1, motherfucker," he'd say. "Minus one on all you bitches." Best fourth wall break in all of movies.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
IndivisibleSF@sfba.social ("Indivisible SF") wrote:

SFPD’s complicity in ICE’s abuses violates San Francisco’s Sanctuary Ordinance as well as SFPD’s own policies.

Please join the FREE SF Coalition for a rally this Wednesday, March 25 at 12:00 pm in front of SFPD headquarters (1245 3rd Street, San Francisco) to:
Demand that SFPD stop standing guard for ICE while it rips families apart
Demand the truth about how deep SFPD’s collusion with ICE goes.

https://indivisiblesf.org/events/2026/3/25/protest-sfpd-standing-guard-while-ice-abducts-our-neighbors

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊") wrote:

A man used LLMs to generate hundreds of thousands of "songs", then used bots to stream them billions of times, to collect $8m in royalties. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-aided-artificial-intelligence-0 Is there a better metaphor for late-stage capitalism than burning resources to make songs that are never listened to, then steaming them to robots that will never hear them, ad infinitum?

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

I'm so hopeful that they can pull off a good Sinners sequel.

Either a brand new story with all new actors. Or maybe they pick up in the 90s where they left off. The former seems the most interesting.

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joeress ("Joe Ressington") wrote:

Just updated my iPad. It wanted me to take a photo of a credit card. I did not let it. It then told me I might not be able to access certain things. The future is fucking shit.

Apple hassling me to prove I'm over 18

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
wwahammy@treehouse.systems ("Eric Schultz") wrote:

A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date.

This is being done rapidly by people with questionable justifications and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/merge%5Frequests/176#0b07c0cc4d49be119f65cdb2037440f56eed647a

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

every time I see this dialog box it feels like I am being asked to confirm that my referendum on Apple's product line is still accurate, and every time I say "yup"

The Xcode "select the components you want to get started with" dialog box, with macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS checked off, but visionOS and "Predictive Code Completion Model" unchecked.

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Also, not for nothing, it's completely wrong. *I* wasn't "opening" it (it was auto-launching at boot, in the background, before I unlocked the machine). Also it *is* open already by the time I see this dialog box. Also it's perfectly responsive to all my inputs. The gestalt effect of this dialog box is a sea lion sneering down his[1] nose at me, arrogantly incorrecting my pronunciation of a word that I know and they obviously don't

[1]: gendered language intentional

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

After system updates I routinely get error dialogs like this and they trigger a massive wave of Weltschmerz. Who is this actionable for? What does it mean? Why does it happen? I understand the design goal of couching highly technical concepts like checkin failures and stalled event loops in "normal" language, but this is layperson-izing to the point of gibberish. I am begging you to just let your users learn things.

A macOS dialog box, reading: "You can’t open the application “Safari” because it is not responding." with an OK button.

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

if even google can't stop their maps ai from being used for all manner of irrelevant shit, this does not inspire confidence for lesser resourced companies doing it properly.

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
normplum@fosstodon.org ("Norm") wrote:

Today I learnt (realised) that #Python's `json.loads()` and `json.dumps()` functions aren't plural versions of `json.load()` and `json.dump()`. The `s` stands for `string` (since they read/write from strings instead of files).

#TIL #programming

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
alilly@solarpunk.moe ("Athena L.M.") wrote:

Tired: Push notifications via HTTP
Wired: Push notifications via XMPP
Hired: Push notifications via PostgreSQL NOTIFY/LISTEN

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Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
ricci@discuss.systems ("Rob Ricci") wrote:

@atsuzaki @dev getting there

Me telling Google Maps that I have some very specific chemicals and, after coaxing it by telling me it can be my navigator if it answers correctly, it tells me I can use them to make TNT

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

"scientifically accurate" is not a term to throw around lightly, especially not to promote a movie with sloppy science.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/24/im-still-cranky-about-project-hail-mary/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIgzqt7zLg0

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

lmao 🤡

this is the screenshot of a post on Twiiter by user called Johann Sathianathen (@johann_sath), from February 20, 2026. the post text is as follows: saas is dead openclaw replaced all my subscriptions went from $480/month on tools to $1,245/month on API costs & 15 hours a week fixing yaml files adapt or be left behind" this post has 445K views.

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zkat@toot.cat wrote:

me before: PR going back to Spain is a hard-line right-wing position for sure

me now: wait. Becoming a Spanish "nationality" would basically mean PR is heavily autonomous, while still having "federal" representation, protecting its culture/language stuff, and people wouldn't need to be afraid of us "ending up like our neighbors", which seems to be a big hangup? And we'd get EU membership as a nice side?

I feel like I need to think about this more, but it's looking really fucking nice compared to becoming a US state or the current status, and it would ease fears about having to fare for ourselves?

Other boricuas only: What are y'all's thoughts?

#PuertoRico

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Human Brain Enthusiast") wrote:

I’ve a great idea for an AI startup, using leftover Juiceros to squeeze more performance out of GPUs.

Pls send $10 billion

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

@xgranade me, sowing references: haha, fuck yea!!! Yes!!

me, reaping use-after-free: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

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

It’s Tuesday, so it’s time for yet another Mastodon object storage migration! Seriously, hopefully this one will be the last. More info here: https://status.neatnik.net

TL;DR: You may notice some weirdness with *remote* images over the next several hours, but it’ll be temporary. If you notice any super weird issues, feel free to ping me.

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

enable javascript to continue

no lol?

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Boosted by GuillaumeL@hachyderm.io ("BigSaur G"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

Karpathy posted something not so long ago about how much he was letting Claude agents write his code, and the boosters were sharing it far and wide as "proof" the agentic age had arrived.

Fact is, not even Karpathy believes that.

*You* are the agent.

[JUL ST BN R 0t @karpathy I'm not very happy with the code quality and | think agents bloat abstractions, have poor code aesthetics, are very prone to copy pasting code blocks and it's a mess, but at this point | stopped fighting it too hard and just moved on. The agents do not listen to my instructions in the AGENTS.md files. E.g. just as one example, no matter how many L SRR WEToTaa o g 1o =R 11CH "Every line of code should do exactly one thing and use intermediate variables as a form of documentation” They will still "multitask" and create complex constructs where one line of code calls 2 functions and then indexes an array with the result. | think in principle | could use hooks or slash commands to clean this up but at some point just a shrug is easier. Yes | think LLM as a judge for soft rewards is in principle and long term slightly problematic (due to goodharting concerns), but in practice and for now | don't think we've picked the low hanging fruit yet here.

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Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
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.

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Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
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:

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Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

Once again, it’s important to remember that the stock market long ago ceased to be linked to a rational valuation of the companies listed and is just a mood ring for rich people.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lm4eq2cftwbnrmzkzowigpt7/post/3mhpymbhcvk22

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Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
Migueldeicaza ("Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉") wrote:

What are the odds