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

Don't love the computers more than you love people.

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

I was rereading Wirth's "A Plea for Lean Software". As I was reading, this evocative quote from Ellen Ullman came to mind.[2]

"We build our computers the way we build our cities -- over time, without a plan, on top of ruins."

Then I see people unleashing "petulant" "AI" on open source projects complete with a ranting blog post.[3][4]

It occurs to me that many of the practitioners of building computing systems want to skip the step of building anything on top of ruins and want to just go straight to laying ruins on top of ruins. Automating it so it is "efficient".

What a mess.

(Also, I assume github probably has the equivalent of sockpuppet accounts? Imagine defending the rights and feelings of a program used to harass an open source community.)

[1] https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20210428114927/https://www.salon.com/1998/05/12/feature%5F321/
[3] https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132
[4] https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-two-hours-war-open-source-gatekeeping.html

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

did I ever say what my plans were for bankrupt.dev because I honestly don't remember buying it

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

there are days I hate the snowplow for what it does to the entrance to our driveway

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

We were also briefly using "acceptance rate" as a metric, until I pointed out that I had been experimenting with AI agents, letting it code, trying to correct it with feedback like I'd give to a Jr. Developer... only to throw away the entire branch of work after I deemed it a dead-end time sink.

"Acceptance rate" doesn't mean the LOC actually ended up committed, or merged unmodified. Or survived contact with production environments. 😅

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

The post is mostly good, but it suggests tracking:
> What percentage of production defects trace back to AI-generated code versus human-written code?

Unfortunately, a problem with IDE-based AI suggestions is that, AFAIK, there is no way to trace which lines of code were written by the developer vs. suggested by an LLM.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

And today I just discovered a great post that delves into that much more deeply:
https://www.thepragmaticcto.com/p/lines-of-code-are-back-and-its-worse

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

unpopular opinion: email is perfect and always was

now we're stuck with a dozen electron apps because someone had to "solve email" - yeah, thanks

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

It's feels like a miracle that song like DtMF broke through pop culture. Not just because it's a Spanish-language song, or because it's so distinctly Puerto Rican. But because even in Reggaeton, the song is a bit avant-garde (that electric piano is foreign to the genre).

But, its lyrics are so fundamentally human you can't help but be drawn to it.

Debí tirar más fotos de cuando te tuve
I should've taken more pictures when I had you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5FKf16tU3EaA

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
adriano@lile.cl ("Adriano") wrote:

AI agent is instructed to contribute PRs to matplotlib
PR gets rejected
AI agent's further instruction is to blog about it, angrily. So it posts a screed against the maintainers
Maintaners address agent as if it nevertheless had a consciousness.

FUCKING FUCK

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132

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

“Moltbook Is Pure “AI” Hype • Buttondown”

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/moltbook-is-pure-ai-hype/

> What is surprising, however, is the number of people who mistake what is at best interactive fiction for an indication of machine "intelligence" or "autonomy".

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
flod@fosstodon.org ("Francesco Lodolo") wrote:

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@flod/115558206019752783

My team is still hiring (currently interviewing). It's proving hard to find the right candidate for this role.

If you're a strong Python and JS developer, with experience in localization or even an interest on the topic, please apply. We're mainly looking for people located in Europe or Canada (East Coast), to maximize time zone overlap.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
thezoq2 ("TheZoq2") wrote:

🏄 Today we released Surfer 0.6.0 🎉 This release contains a bunch of improvements including configurable key bindings, mapping translators, new commands and much more! Oh, and we have a new icon!

Also, some students will work on better annotations in Surfer soon. They asked for opinions here: https://forms.gle/CKqtgemjrNsfE7XY7

You can read the full change-log for the new release over at https://gitlab.com/surfer-project/surfer/-/releases/v0.6.0

Oh, and we have a new logo!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca ("Broadwaybabyto") wrote:

Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by CBP/ICE.

Agent Charles Exum shot her five times. She miraculously survived.

DHS accused her of being a domestic terrorist.

She went to court to get the body cam footage released.

It shows Agent Charles Exum driving with his gun drawn.

Saying “do something b*tch”.

Ramming her car.

Shooting her.

Hours after the shooting, Greg Bovino emailed the agent and offered to delay his retirement in light of his excellent service.

The email said “you have much left to do”.

Other agents praised the shooting.

Said they should celebrate.

Exum bragged… “5 shots, 7 holes”

Ms Martinez showed incredible courage by fighting to ensure this footage was released to the public.

Everyone should watch it. Make sure the world sees this.

She’s standing up for Silverio Gonzalez.

For Keith Porter.

For Renee Nicole Good.

For Alex Pretti.

For everyone murdered by this regime.

She’s exposing ICE/CBP for who & what they are.

Thank you Marimar.
#uspol #ice #abolishice #cbp #immigration #fascism #marimarmartinez

Attachments:

• video: CNN video showing agent Charles exum’s body cam footage from the shooting of Marimar Martinez

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

so basically Deno can't handle concurrent HTTP connections, I'm hitting bugs and errors trying to do batch upload

Node and [runtime that shall not be named] handles it no problem 🫠

maybe this one is part of the issue
https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/21789

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CIO@social.schleswig-holstein.de ("Sven Thomsen") wrote:

Mastodon in, aus und für Schleswig-Holstein: https://www.schleswig-holstein.de/DE/landesregierung/ministerien-behoerden/I/%5Fstartseite/Artikel2026/I/260210%5Fmastodon

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
szadkowski@social.lol ("Michaël Szadkowski") wrote:

Ongoing personal project : (re)opening a personal blog. Text only posts - with some pics embedded sometimes if needed. The lightest and most privacy oriented as possible (no bs, no tracking, no AI crawling, etc).

Still wondering which blogging tool I should use for that. Currently considering :
- Bear Blog
- omg.lol weblog
- Pika
- WriteAs
- WriteFreely (self-hosted, ActivityPub)
- Grav (self-hosted)

Any feedback or advice or suggestion will be appreciated !

Boosted by jwz:
Ttubretep@mstdn.social ("Ziggy Sawdust") wrote:

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
violetmadder@kolektiva.social ("Violet Madder") wrote:

@WeirdWriter

In my brain, morality has a structure to it. It's rooted in certain principles, which lead to a particular logic that branches out in ways that I strive to keep coherent and sensible. Shrugging off or doing certain things can be a major warning sign to me that the structure of a person's worldview has chains of logic in it that lead to-- or, at minimum, allow-- horrible abuse. Their foundations are fucked, full of holes and unreliable shifting mush, and they're not to be trusted.

People who don't see those chains of cause and effect, the way issues knit together, are piecemealing their morality mainly based on appearances-- and mainly the appearance of adhering to the most mainstream rules, at that. It's perfunctory. The deeper moral compass, the courage to ask deep questions and confront one's own failings, strong indignation at injustice based on principles-- it's not there. They don't even understand the concept, they don't have the empathy or generosity of spirit to comprehend it.

Morality is a game to them. A show. A toy. Turn it this way and that, arrange the arguments like this, posture and prod, goalposts moving. Look, I didn't do the things that break these rules over here so you can't say I'm a bad person, so there, nyah.

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0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

So You Want To Write An Open Source Discord Replacement

Things you don’t need:
- federation/distributed systems
- multiparty end-to-end encryption
- an entirely new operating system kernel specially designed to—

Things you DO need:
- a user interface that is Normal
- the ability to use languages other than English and writing systems other than Latin
- higher standards of user experience than how irc actually works in the real world
- any fucking clue how Discord works and why people use it

I have muted replies to this post due to the usual reasons

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@adam/116053511037729469

Tonight, these guys will be getting together so they can let their Furbies coo at one another: https://clawstin.com/

I’d love to be a fly on the wall, just to take in the sheer awkwardness of it all. You just know it’s going to be maybe a dozen white guys, all of whom think they’re the smartest in the room.

Oh, and you-know-who will be there. 🙄

Boosted by jwz:
ryanc@infosec.exchange ("Ryan Castellucci (they/them) :nonbinary_flag:") wrote:

The age verifier knows how old you are at all times. It knows this because it knows how old you aren't. By subtracting how old you are from how old you aren't, or how old you aren't from how old you are (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or remainder.

The verification system uses deviations to generate corrective dark patterns to drive you from a date of birth that isn't yours to a date of birth that is, and arriving at an age where you weren't, but now are. Consequently, the age you are is now the age that you weren't, and it follows that the age that you were is now the age that you aren't.

In the event that the age that you are is not the age that you weren't, the system has acquired a validation error. The validation error is the difference between the age the verifier thinks you are, and the age you weren't. If the validation error is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by by the upload of a high-resolution JPEG. However, the verifier must also know how old you were.

The age verification scenario works as follows: Because a variation has modified some of the information the you have input, it is not sure just how old you are. However, it is sure how old you aren't, within reason, and it knows how old you were.

It now subtracts the age you should be from the age you weren't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of the year you shouldn't be and the year you were, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called January 1st, 1970.

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

I'd love to try Safari 26.3, but Apple is withholding updates for my phone 🫠

iOS 18.7.4 exists but I'm not allowed to update, my iPhone 12 must suffer 26.3 or nothing

https://webkit.org/blog/17798/webkit-features-for-safari-26-3/

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

blogged: Declarative Dialog Menu with Invoker Commands
https://dbushell.com/2026/02/12/declarative-dialog-menu-invoker-commands/

before I publish the 3k essay, I shared a under-the-hood look at my new site. Including a very dodgy focus hack I'm sure I'll regret attempting.

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

#Freexian collaborators worked on cross building packages, rebootstrap, refresh of the patch tagging guidelines and many other contributions to #Debian in January 2026.

Visit https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-01-2026/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social for the complete list and details.

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.

#crossbuilding #ruby34 #python314

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

oops I've written 3000 words on the "visually-hidden" CSS class and I've still not answered the opening question

dare I end with "it depends?"

Boosted by jwz:
the_consequences@zirk.us ("The Consequences of MAGA") wrote:

February 10, 2026—Pardoned insurrectionist Andrew Paul Johnson convicted on five counts of molesting a child under 12 and another under 16, as well as lewd and lascivious exhibition. Trial testimony included a claim that he manipulated his victims by promising them a portion of the $10 million he expected to receive with his pardon for entering the Capitol through a broken window.

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

❌ spaghetti code
✅ hentai code

Boosted by jwz:
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Coinbase must be concerned I'm at risk of running out of material

Boosted by jwz:
elrohir@mastodon.gal ("Cogito ergo mecagoendios") wrote:

- Good Evening Mr. Randall this is the school. We have some inquiries regarding the enrollment form. We would like to ask if you really named your daughter ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86?
- Oh yes, absolutely. Little Anthy Numbers, we call her.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/11/the-anthropic-test-refusal-string-kill-a-claude-session-dead/