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

I keep seeing people respond to observations that these tools seem to output highly vulnerable code with numerous flaws with claims that the output runs faster so it must be of a high quality. 🤷🏻‍♂️

jwz wrote:

One of the things that is amazing about AI derangement syndrome is that when you call someone out for buying into that shit -- someone you've previously been on quite good terms with for decades -- their response to you saying, "hey, you should stop doing that, there is no ethical use of this tech" is a level of offense as if you have just fucked their cat.

Some of you probably know who I'm talking about. If not, you probably have examples yourselves.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
requiem@masto.hackers.town ("requiem 🦫") wrote:

OK, so let's say me and some friends started a tech company/consultancy that refused to use "AI", would this encourage you choose us over others?

(boosts welcome)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
cdegroot@mstdn.ca ("Cees de Groot") wrote:

Well, today is the day. I'm finally "sorta happy enough to pull the trigger" on publishing the book I've been working on for a very long time. It's a technical history book: by a techie, for techies (although I think that between all the code samples, there is plenty of meat for "tech-adjacent" and "tech-interested" people). It tells the story of the Lisp programming language, invented by a genius called John McCarthy in 1958 and today still going strong (to the extent that many people see it as the most powerful programming language in existence).

And this is a time for shameless self promotion, even if you don't plan on buying the book, please repost :-). Self-publishing is self-marketing, so there we go.

If you do buy and read it, please let me know how you liked it!

The book landing page, https://berksoft.ca/gol, has links to all outlets where you can buy the book,

Boosted by jwz:
kimcrawley@zeroes.ca ("Kim Crawley 😷 (she/her)") wrote:

I want you to spread the word that Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media is forcing his editors to "use" Gen AI as much as possible. The book I wrote for them, Hacker Culture: A to Z, is probably the last non-tech manual they ever published that isn't tainted by Gen AI.

I quit my goddamn fucking professor position at OPIT because I would rather risk my ability to pay my rent than subject my students to Gen AI "e proctoring."

Please check out https://stopgenai.com, I beg of you.

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116089890698252684

Boosted by jwz:
iso7010@hacksrus.xyz ("ISO7010 pictogram of the day") wrote:

W028 – Oxidizing substance

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISO%5F7010%5FW028.svg
Author: Wikimedia Commons user MaxxL
Public domain

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

Anybody who thinks “quickly churns out high performing code!” and “mass-manufactures vulnerabilities and disaster UX designs” are mutually exclusive has clearly never met a programmer in their entire life.

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

thing is, you can't blame a vendor if they followed your corporate mandate, they probably used the tools you forced down their gullet

anyway, memes:

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

Cat kills mouse. News at the top of the hour.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/18/her-schemes-grow-ever-more-twisted/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
preinheimer@phpc.social ("Paul Reinheimer") wrote:

If an "AI" company can sell you access to software that will replace a $250k/year software engineer. They're going to charge $249k/year for it.

That's how capitalism works.

Well, they're going to charge $20k/year at first, during the land rush phase. Wait for some competitors to die off. Keep it low a while longer to kill off the incumbents. Then it'll jump up a bunch, before finally being even more expensive than the original thing.

See also: Uber & AirBnB.

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Hyperland users: you're gonna like this 🐁

🖥️ **monitui** — A TUI for wrangling your Hyprland monitors

💯 Move displays with hjkl, drag with mouse, save presets & live preview

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/nathaniel-fargo/monitui

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #hyprland #linux #terminal #opensource #monitor #config

Attachments:

• gifv: 9a3b465a3ac36556.mp4

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
heydon@front-end.social ("Large Heydon Collider") wrote:

I have failed to capture the scale and majesty of (mostly northern) Iceland. But I did take some shots on my phone.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/116091145441116888

I used to have a decent sideline as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for technical writing. All that work disappeared because LLMs took over and I refuse to use fabrication tools, esp. not for work where accuracy matters

So, now, when I see the people running tech writing teams complain that all their SMEs use LLMs to plagiarise and fabricate, I’m not particularly sympathetic.

This is specifically a mess you were warned about but decided to make and sit in anyway. FAFO.

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

People really can’t get their head around the idea that you can look at more than one possible scenario in an argument and that you can analyse the theoretical impact of outcomes you don’t believe are likely, huh?

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
dthompson@toot.cat ("dave") wrote:

too many programmers tell other programmers not to roll their own. not me. go ahead and implement that thing! it's fun! you control the stack! you learn a lot! don't tell me not to implement something myself because then I will probably do it out of spite.

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

I hereby declare that "morge" is now the official term for merging LLM slop (aka a GiHub PR)

https://kolektiva.social/@teun/116090389114312084

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

"15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"
https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/

this becomes less funny when you remember every Microsoft employee is mandated to morge 🫠

Boosted by jwz:
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Do not use Microsoft products or services. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/17/ice-microsoft-technology-immigration-crackdown

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

A recurrent theme across the arc of React's conquest of the frontend discourse has been the substitution of people who were unafraid to say when they didn't know things with confident-sounding imbeciles, *even as the price of looking around and finding out fell through the floor.*

I'm not sure that CSS-in-JS represents the absolute peak of this epistemic failure, but it's certainly in the running.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

New article on too many satellites and ways that we SHOULD be allocating orbits (by Gregory Radisic with me as second author) https://theconversation.com/too-many-satellites-earths-orbit-is-on-track-for-a-catastrophe-but-we-can-stop-it-275430

Been up for about 30 minutes and I already got a media inquiry. Nice.

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

What's the opposite of ADHD? What does that person look like?

Like, in a Mr Glass / Unbreakable sort of way.

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

Hopped out of bed to do a thing. Did four unrelated things. Hoped back into bed.

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

Ha! Despite my fears, my teenager didn't balk at green colored pasta. She even declared it to be "better". Not because of any difference in flavor (there isn't), but simply because it's green :-)

#cooking #darktable

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

I have no idea how to talk about this without sounding like the type of conspiratorial that gets you uninvited to parties.

Not that I have an urge to give my two cents. I don't think I have anything valuable to offer the discourse, other than pointing out that maybe the most egregious shit happening in the world has no political affiliation.

Maybe my one question is - do reformists still exist? lol

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

So, Eyes Wide Shut hits a little different now. Out of pure curiosity, is anyone suggesting the movie was about Epstein directly or indirectly?

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

If you ask social scientists about this theory they harrumph about how there isn't one single neat cause for crime. If you ask chemists, they say Oh my god, yes leaded gasoline obviously did that, how could we have been so stupid?

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
savetheclocktower ("Andrew Dupont") wrote:

Apathy and laziness are underrated traits in the workplace. Companies think they want the person in charge of sending these emails to be “passionate about email marketing,” but they should actually hire someone for that role who is a normal human being

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

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116087450282460037

Solidarity will get you the Activist Lifetime Achievement Award every time.

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

Anyone with hard opinions on TinaCMS?

I want to add a little CMS to an #11ty blog project. Not necessarily fromjason, I'm cool with my set up.

But it would be cool if I could one day make a static site blog for a non-techie friend.

Tina looks promising, right?

https://tina.io/docs/frameworks/11ty