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db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:
🎄 blogged: Wrapping up Advent of Code 2025
https://dbushell.com/2025/12/12/advent-of-code-2025/
— nothing like waking up at 5am every morning for two weeks of coffee and code!
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Time’s Person of The Year cover makes more sense if you imagine the construction workers who occupied that beam are now splattered across the sidewalk below.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
The "nice people" of Minnesota have been welcoming immigrants of all nations to live here, and we've been thriving. Most of us lack the racism of Donald Trump.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/12/wheres-his-white-hood/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Rule #34: There is porn of it, no exceptions.
(see also Disney/OpenAI deal)
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
https://media.paperblog.fr/i/704/7046200/calvin-hobbes-L-rOYNza.jpeg
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ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:
Nice blog in the discussion about AI & coding,
"AI can replace most of programming, but programming isn’t the job.
Programming is a task. It’s one of many things you do as part of your work. But if you’re a software engineer, your actual job is more than typing code into an editor."
https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/12/11/ai-can-write-your-code-it-cant-do-your-job/
#AI #coding #software #engineers #programming
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"Marconi left a team at Poldhu in Cornwall, England, to transmit the signal, while he made his way to Signal Point in Newfoundland. Marconi set up his receiver and used a kite to raise his antenna."
https://its.ntia.gov/this-month-in-its-history/december-1901 📡 🪁
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
A fraud, a vicious criminal, a white supremacist, and Luigi Mangione make Penn's Year in Review.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901 📡
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: E.G. Robinson born, 1893
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jalict@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Frans") wrote:
@fromjason Absolutely hate this picture
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Like, the plug-in installs, they see the admin, but there's no trace of it in the actual rendered site, as if all the 'the_content' filter hook was never called at all. Or any of the plug-in hooks for that matter.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Anybody know what could cause a WordPress plug-in to fail, but only on WPEngine? Works everywhere else. All other hosts. Local and whatever. But just plain doesn't seem to run on WPEngine.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I do like how thoughtful Time was in not accidentally revealing that AI is whiter than a Mississippi golf club by throwing in some diversity.
Also, the subtle working class imagery as if these fucking losers contribute anything meaningful to society.
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PaulieMoosh@eupolicy.social ("Paul Musiol :verified:") wrote:
I'm a #Linux guy now, thanks Mastodon
💚 Made by a community, not a corporation
💚 Designed for my comfort and control, not for someone else's profit
💚 No company pushing weird crappy products I don't want
💚 No auto-launching bloat killing the computer's performance
Why did I wait this long?! I LOVE IT
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
On Time’s Person of The Year write-up (spoiler: it’s AI), is a persistent, non-dismissible AI chatbot that makes it difficult to read the article.
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freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:
Learn about the recent DebConf Video Team Sprint, updates regarding rebootstrap, SBOM tooling in Debian and many other contributions from #Freexian collaborators in our November Debian contributions report.
Read the full report here: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-11-2025/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social
We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) for making this possible.
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
"AI" as it is implemented today will *always* generate errors and "hallucinate," it's baked straight into the model. Pushing out AI-generated podcasts without (apparently) prior editorial oversight is a very fine way for the Post to dilute the credibility it has as a fact-based entity - which the staff very well understands, even if the management doesn't. "AI" sucks for accuracy.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Myndasagan sem ég gaf út er á jólatilboði í Pennanum sem stendur
„Falleg og vel sögð saga.“
— Sjón
„Bókin Kötturinn og ég er sannkallað gleðiefni fyrir unnendur teiknimyndasagna.“
— Ragna Gestsdóttir, DV
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
If they were churning out tools that let newbies experience the joy of building their projects on insecure systems, you wouldn't take them seriously as "critics" when they turn around and say the systems they're advocating have fundamental security flaws.
At least, you'd think so, but a lot of you seem to disagree judging by what I see in my feed reader and social media
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand:
"The house that mouse built, and which has been notoriously protective of its intellectual property, opened up the video generator, saw the videos featuring Nazi Spongebob and criminal Pikachu, and decided: We want in."
I’ve worked with executives my entire adult life. One thing I’ve learned: never underestimate the draw of the CEO dick-measuring ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/12/12/disney-invests-billion-in-the.html
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
For example, anybody who truly believed that React had fundamental security issues wouldn't also be churning out open source projects designed to make it easier for people to use React, tools that helped newbies adopt it, or libraries that extended it and consequently its attack surface.
No, they'd be focused on solving the security issues, especially if they were keen on using it in their own work.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Code is advocacy.
To put it more plainly, there are people out there who wring their hands about how egregious “AI” issues are, but churn out code to help make and use said egregiously bad “AI” systems
Those people are assholes
Best case is they’re too oblivious to notice they’re being assholes
But they are out there, doing one thing while saying another and that’s not something you see people do who aren’t assholes
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
I have never once heard a story of anyone involved with this company being a chill and pleasant human, but lots of stories of someone from this company being an absolute public dickhole, why is that I wonder
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:
Advent of Code day 12 status: done ★★
https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-12-12T09:57Z/
— full blog write up later today :)
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I just ordered Dunkin' Donuts at 5am in the morning from my bed this is a cry for help
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
How's everyone holding up in their liminal space between Thanksgiving and Christmas?
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
“Nothing But Flowers”
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/nothing-but-flowers/
> "artificial intelligence" has dominated almost every conversation, hijacking everyone's plans for today and tomorrow
The entire first paragraph of Audrey's newsletter also perfectly describes my past month.
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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:
I promised I'd have more to say about the Calibre situation; I didn't realize it'd come out to be over a thousand words, but I wrote them all the same.
And yes, it has em-dashes. I like em-dashes. AI can take my em-dashes from my cold and decomposing corpse.
https://blog.rereading.space/rereading-because-books-are-art-and-art-is-labor
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timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:
She continues:
"Today the white supremacist views of many of the wealthiest and politically ambitious tech billionaires is on display almost daily. The recent release of some of the Epstein emails and files has confirmed the explicit nature of some of these connections."