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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
faden ("Andrew Faden") wrote:

Famous quotes from NASA mission comms:
- Apollo 11: "The Eagle has landed"
- Apollo 13: "Houston, we have a problem"
- Artemis 2: "We are still updating Outlook so everything but email is go"

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• video: e71399ffc6b87456.mp4

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
cate@hachyderm.io wrote:

It's a hard time to be an OSS maintainer. I see why many have taken a no-AI PRs stance. In general the worst part of AI is spending more time to fix something than someone spent "doing" it - whether that's a document, a PR, or a process.

Steve Yegge's "Vibe Maintainer" piece proposes an alternative: using AI agents to triage ~50 PRs a day, fixing contributors' code yourself, cherry-picking the good parts, making rejection the last resort rather than the first.

It's interesting and worth a read. I don't think no-AI PRs is a sustainable strategy, and - as Yegge notes - there are real downsides to "just fork it".

But the token cost to do this at scale seems very high. This is my continual complaint about many of the most bleeding edge AI workflows - how much do they cost, and how well does that cost translate to value?

In this case if the maintainer is going to spend tokens reconstructing your contribution anyway, the highest-value thing a contributor can do is write a really good issue. Describe the problem clearly, show your reasoning, let the maintainer's agent do the implementation.

In this time, being able to produce the specification seems higher value than producing the artifact. That's harder and requires more critical thinking. But with output abundant, critical thinking is now the scarce resource.

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/vibe-maintainer-a2273a841040

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Social media is the modern message in the bottle?

https://youtu.be/t9UsFbCuM7I?t=136&si=HIVBdDeyOCPnmMUP

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

i have been watching a lot of aviation videos recently and you know aviation is problematic from a climate perspective, but one thing i am consistently impressed by is how seriously safety is taken by the industry on the whole.

like swissair 111, there was light smoke(? vapour?) that ultimately proved fatal and that led the authorities to just decide that for any sign of anything that could potentially indicate fire, they should prepare to land immediately.

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

I'm quite amused that ML-DSA-44 public keys are 1312 bytes.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
floreana@poliversity.it ("Floreana") wrote:

What happens when you put up one of those cute bird houses.

Source: https://theycantalk.com/
#birds #birdsofmastodon #comics

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

everybody stand back, i know the wives of henry viii

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

Fiber unites the worlds of networking, category theory and nutrition.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

We started with binary, invented programming languages so we wouldn't have to think in binary. Then we built AIs so we wouldn't have to write those languages either. Now we describe code to an AI in English so it can eventually be turned back into... binary.

incredible efficiency gains all around! 👍

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

so they did anything they could to open up new sources of revenue. one way to do this is by innovating.

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

I did not know that Daði Freyr had moved to Hveragerði. https://www.ruv.is/frettir/menning-og-daegurmal/2026-04-05-oradi-ekki-fyrir-thvi-ad-hann-myndi-sjalfur-ferdast-sem-tonlistarmadur-471690

(Hveragerði has a bit of a history and reputation for being an artsy town)

Boosted by jwz:
jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter".
he's full fash at this point. totally gonna deliver AGI by 2030 though.
increasingly disgusting that he named his shitass company after Commander Keen, a joyful little video game from before he became a millionaire and was empowered to become his worst self.

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

You know what, my upcoming book starts off in the second-person, from the point of view of a fucking rabbit, and it absolutely kills. I'm not in the slightest bit worried that readers won't read it.

Write your stories how they should be best told.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@illia.builds/post/DWyBHuwDF9p

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
joeposaurus@chaos.social ("joep schuurkes") wrote:

Blogged: On the acceptance of GenAI

https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

MAGA: DEI is weakness!! diversity is bad!

SEATTLE: *chuckling* The most diverse neighborhood in America is Federal Way in Seattle.

MAGA: socialism never works!

SEATTLE: *folding our arms* just for that we're going to socialism even harder. we just elected a socialist Mayor.

MAGA: feminism is the downfall of society!

SEATTLE: *wiping our brow* our female socialist mayor just built the world's first floating train system.

MAGA: but you can't just raise minimum wage to $10/hr. All the job creators will leave!

SEATTLE: *nostrils flaring* you're right let's make it double that instead.

MAGA: but all the billionaires will leave!

SEATTLE: *eyes flashing* you don't have to sell us on it. it's $21.30/hr now.

MAGA: you'll collapse! this is the end of civilization! what the fuck are you doing??

SEATTLE: *levitating three feet above the ground* we just voted in a wealth tax targeting billionaires and became the fastest growing economy in the entire country while sheltering trans folks and immigrants what the fuck are you gonna do about it bitches

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
rmondello@hachyderm.io ("Ricky Mondello") wrote:

Madness is “asking” an LLM to review some code, seeing it very verbosely miss the point 80% of the time, and then replying to it to explain what it got wrong.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
beccadax@soincredibly.gay ("Becca Royal-Gordon") wrote:

Hot take: The Artemis livestream is a damning indictment of modern computing devices. It seems like half the radio chatter is troubleshooting email delivery problems, confusing user interfaces, or devices not booting or connecting. Literal astronauts with years of training can’t make our stuff work.
https://tech.lgbt/@quephird/116353383035378497

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Every JavaScript-centric YT channel/podcast for the last 15 years: we don't understand how browsers work. In fact, nobody knows, and Facebook says that if you get close enough to figuring it out, you'll get eaten by lions. Zuck's a trustworthy guy, and the Reactors haven't been eaten by lions, so we should listen to them. The alternative is getting eaten by lions, after all.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

if you're a fellow American, they could be your kids. if he keeps going with the war crimes that he has announced, they might _be_ your kids when a coalition of China and Europe has to invade Washington to take Trump and Hegseth into custody and stop us. it feels like we are all too panicked all of the time but given how bad this might get we are _really_ not panicked enough

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Modern software development:

solving yesterday's problems with tomorrow's complexity.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I feel like with all the discussion of oil prices we're kinda forgetting the murders of over a hundred schoolchildren at the Minab school. I really want some journalistic institution to run a profile of one of those children every single day. say their names, show their pictures, and remind everyone that the US military murdered them for no discernible reason.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Had missed @brucelawson's excellent "Apple at 50" post; nodded the whole way:

https://brucelawson.co.uk/2026/apple-at-50-my-top-five-apple-moments/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha :mastodon: 🇪🇺") wrote:

Is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

It's getting hot in here
So take off every 'ZIG'!!

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

this is disgusting

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/us/ice-detains-military-wife-soldier-deployment.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.YlA.L3KI.-xghJx04VPY5&smid=nytcore-ios-share

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Logging is just debugging for your future self.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
tilton@fursuits.online ("Tilton Raccoon") wrote:

This comment sums up why I’m so tired of programming in 2026 pretty well

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

stevie wonder get out of my bathroom

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Mudlark@bark.lgbt ("Mudlark :verified_trans:") wrote:

@soatok I think what a lot of Americans don’t realise (or don’t want to admit) is that trump is possibly the most ‘American’ president there’s been so far.

Like, this is what the American empire is about. Invading other countries and killing their people, as well as the absolute prioritisation of the wealth of the capitalist class over the needs and rights of the people. He is much more abrasive about doing it, but the presidents before him were doing the same things, just quieter.

I think this can be best seen in /why/ trump is so deeply unpopular. The issues that are dominating popular discussion for Americans are… cost of living and ICE. A lot of Americans are unhappy with government because the misfortune is pointed inwards at them too now. Hell, even the main concern people have with the Iranian war is an economic one, not the ‘killing people’ part.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

I love that there are, even in this advanced stage dystopia, little, quiet places on the internet where you can find a page where a celebrity just talks about some of their favorite records and that's it.

https://www.synthhistory.com/post/elijah-wood-s-favorite-records

I also enjoyed the little podcast series. It's the only one I've listened to in a while at 1x speed. Production is wonderful.

https://www.synthhistory.com/podcast

The articles look like a lot of fun too, but I haven't tried to dig into them all. But I did enjoy the interview with the creator of Synth History, Danz CM.

https://www.synthhistory.com/post/ela-minus-interviews-danz-cm