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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
tinker@infosec.exchange ("Tinker ☀️") wrote:

If @signalapp put up a crowd-sourced project fund to create a native app for linux (to support the many linux phone initiatives), I guarantee it would be funded quickly.

#signal #linux #linuxphone #privacy

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

Makes me want to shed a tear of pride, it does.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/03/on-a-cheery-optimistic-note/

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

Would you pay $30,000 to watch Ken Ham eat? Only if you're in a cult.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/athenian

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
whyrl@furry.engineer ("Whyrl") wrote:

@pq1r @inex @soatok Survivorship Bias, but for programmers

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
finalstaticfox@pounced-on.me ("Goupilleau") wrote:

@soatok It's kind of crazy how there's crypto library devs that think non-crypto devs want to use something that will silently ruin the lives of users and end your whole career if you look at it wrong.
I know enough about crypto to know that I don't want to fiddle with crypto directly and I want boring libraries that will instead explicitly tell me to fuck off and try something else if I look at it wrong.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
lokigwyn@vintagepropagand.art ("Loki Gwynbleidd 😷🏴🎨") wrote:

🦔💨

#FediArt #Antifa #Herisson #ArtNouveau

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

#3GoodThings

1. Luxardo Maraschino cherries, plus a bit of the syrup mixed into a Coke Zero. Perfection. A friend and I would sit at the bar of this Italian restaurant and order appetizers and the bartender would make us cherry Cokes using Luxardo syrup. It was delightful.

2. Being the first to wake up in a household of family. This is an old-people pleasure lol but it's nice to sit with a cup of coffee and greet everyone as they wake up.

3. The tactile sensation of lighting a match.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
pq1r@tech.lgbt ("Arik") wrote:

@inex @soatok "Look, I only gave the user a foot-gun. Most users know how to not use the foot-gun. I mean yes, it is a gun; and yes, it is pointed automatically at their foot; and yes, it is loaded and has a hair trigger; but users should know better. I mean they are programmers, for heaven's sake, they should know about trigger discipline."

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
Mara@hachyderm.io ("Mara Bos") wrote:

website: choose a password
me: ,p?YG;qtChe?DAh@&o]`zg"k,
website: sorry, not strong enough. needs to contain a number.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
ErikUden@mastodon.de ("Erik Uden 🍑") wrote:

We can play the headline game every time their imperialist wars start.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Local Qwen3.5 and Nemotron aren't robust enough to even spell names and file paths correctly.
They're like 'oh it didn't work because there's an extra "z" in "strawberry", let me fix that'.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:

Don’t call it age verification. Call it centralised personal data collection. And understand that it serves surveillance, not safety for children. Thank you for your cooperation.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

For programming, gpt-oss20b was hilariously bad.

A task of "add doc comments to functions that don't have one yet […]" wasn't easy for the "AI".

It begrudgingly added a couple of comments, and told me it was taking too long, the edit tool was too inefficient, and gave up! It refused to continue.

It wasn't wrong, it was a waste of time, but I didn't expect programming skills would shift to emotional support for bots simulating being overwhelmed.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I've tried a bunch of local open-weights LLMs that fit under 64GB (I can't fix the social disruption they cause, but at least I can use renewable energy and the hardware I already have).

They're good enough for "fuzzy regex" automations and answering easy questions like Yahoo Answers.

But for programming tasks they're infuriatingly bad. All models I could run locally are net-negative for productivity, even on easy chore tasks.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

There's a long list of problems with the AI mania. I'm hopeful that locally-run LLMs will at least prevent some: surveillance, dependence on OpenSauron Inc., and environmental pollution from desperately racing to maximize shareholder value before the NVIDIA shovels they bought are obsoleted by shovel2.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
lady_alys@hachyderm.io ("Alys") wrote:

@soatok
OMG. These two paragraphs are one after the other in their documentation (https://monocypher.org/manual/#CAVEATS ). Do they not see how tightly linked they are??

> CAVEATS
> Monocypher does not perform any input validation. Any deviation from the specified input and output length ranges results in undefined behaviour. Make sure your inputs are correct.
>
> SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
> Using cryptography securely is difficult. Flaws that never manifest under normal use might be exploited by a clever adversary

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
inex@pony.social ("Inex Code") wrote:

@soatok making input validation (with many preconditions and requiring specific knowledge) a user's responsibility sounds like a recipe for disaster

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

LOL true Mastodon verification:

YOU MUST VERIFY YOURSELF ON MASTODON BY:

- Posting a picture of a cat in your lap
- Random photos of flowers
- Wax poetic about your favorite episode of Star Trek TNG (or your hate of the series)
- Random, undecipherable technical blabbering about ham radio electronics
- Mention something about your favorite Linux command line
- Say hello to your many LGBTQ followers/friends here, just because you're glad they're here
- Toot a picture of some mushroom you ran into while walking in the forst
- Something something astronomy
- Random gadget/device/bicycle post
- Post a random picture of a tree or window
- Photo of your sewing/mending project!
- Hand drawn art post

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Being Left Behind Enjoyer") wrote:

Is there a slow software movement?

as in a pledge to ship only well-tested and polished software and only do it very occasionally instead of deploying slop multiple times a day that your users will have to ingest like a king's food taster

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

so 3 courts + US Copyright Office say you cannot copyright nor patent anything made primarily with LLMs because automata aren't human.

#SCOTUS won't review these rules because copyright is meant to protect human creations, not software or automata.

this may mean #AWSlop #Microslop are “de-copyrighting” & “de-patenting” their own proprietary software as they let automata “code” 🧐

❝ AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule
https://www.theverge.com/policy/887678/supreme-court-ai-art-copyright

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

arse improves its Ai coverage

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes

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

every dot/config file in a project root is technical debt #ChangeMyMind

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

every time I'm forced to suffer Teams and Outlook I wonder how anyone lives like this 9 to 5

jwz wrote:

I have simple needs. "Statham was in hiding but then the commandos found him" -- shit man that's all you had to say.

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Oh hey it's almost Easter

Boosted by jwz:
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

You have been visited by the ARITHMETIC HAND GRENADE

Share for 2.718 years of good additions 🙏

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Boosted by jwz:
erkhyan@yiff.life ("Erkhyan") wrote:

Today in “a shitpost gave me perspective”:

The difference between one million and one billion is roughly one billion.

jwz wrote:

That one XKCD thing, now interactive.

This is so much fun... Craig S. Kaplan: In my online undergraduate P5.js course, students are about to begin the module on motion and physics, including a bit of physics simulation using Matter.js. It suddenly...
https://jwz.org/b/yk4B

Boosted by jwz:
ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

jwz wrote:

"I say no in the oldest formula - fuck this - and fuck you" https://youtu.be/U7lehP84SY0?si=x74R7zozeoFyl4JH&t=92