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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

perhaps the *biggest* bummer about the LLMs-are-good-at-coding-specifically craze is that LLM suitability is a good test for bullshit. LLMs reliably produce the kind of information (slop, disinformation, hero images for ad copy) that indicates a social problem. one of the hardest arguments to refute is from those that concede that LLMs extrude this kind of useless uniform gray sludge of information, but observe that most software is useless gray sludge already anyway, so why not do it faster?

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SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

Everyday is a good day to remember that the word "boycott" is the name of a british landlord and general agent of empire so revolting that the people of County Mayo shunned him so hard that his name entered the English language as a prototype

but today is a particularly good day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%5FBoycott#Lough%5FMask%5Faffair

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webhackfest@floss.social ("Web Engines Hackfest") wrote:

We're glad to announce that Arm is sponsoring one more year the Web Engines Hackfest 2026, this time as sliver and coffee & snacks sponsors! 🎉
Big thanks for the continuous support. 🙏

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fabienmarry/116245185706238450

My new favorite thing.

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fabienmarry ("Fabien") wrote:

That "linkedIn Speak” translation option on Kagi is quite good and funny

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

You must be 186 years old to use Linux

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igalia@floss.social ("Igalia") wrote:

WebXR on WPE WebKit is here! Igalia’s Sergio Villar breaks down the architecture, OpenXR backend, hand input, AR modes, and the road ahead.

https://blogs.igalia.com/svillar/post/wpe-webxr/

/ @WPEWebKit @webkit

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scream@bots.robots.rodeo ("Endless Screaming") wrote:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

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

I haven't written a single word in Word in fifteen years.

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misconceptions@a2mi.social ("Common Misconceptions Bot") wrote:

The Yellowstone Caldera is not overdue for a supervolcano eruption. There is also no evidence that it will erupt in the near future. In fact, data indicates there will not be an eruption in the coming centuries. The most likely eruption would be hydrothermal rather than volcanic. A caldera -forming volcanic eruption (and subsequent impacts on global weather patterns and agricultural production) is the least likely scenario and has an extremely low likelihood. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%5Fof%5Fcommon%5Fmisconceptions%5Fabout%5Fscience,%5Ftechnology,%5Fand%5Fmathematics#Earth%5Fand%5Fenvironmental%5Fsciences

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

One common problem among open source maintainers is they tend to be too damn polite. A guy comes and drops a huge review bomb onto a project, and the maintainers spend hundreds of words to politely tell him to do better: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369

Don't. Just close unreviewable PRs. He's likely very much aware of what he's doing, either wanting to bully you to merge his code out of vanity, or worse, he could be trying to xz your project burying a backdoor somewhere in the middle of the slop.

typst ("Typst") wrote:

Data scientists turn data into actionable reports, dashboards, and more. Jospeh shares how he goes from his analytics toolbox to complete deliverables by integrating #Typst.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hopZVpQSfoo

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AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

I wish disabled menu items and buttons would give a reason why they are disabled when you hover over them.

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endeavorance@astral.camp ("endeavorance 🕊️") wrote:

Sometimes I'll be responding to comments and I'll come by an angry commenter and when I go to block them I see that they've *been* leaving angry comments for weeks and I just never saw them

My dude has been trying to irk me for weeks and all it did was make blocking them funnier

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

There’s a lesson here, perhaps, about the tangled relationship between what is •typical• and what is •correct•, and what it is that LLMs actually do:

When medical professionals ask medical questions in technical medical language, the answers they get are typically correct.

When non-professional ask medical questions in a perhaps medically ill-formed vernacular mode, the answers they get are typically wrong.

The LLM readily models both of these things. Despite having no notion of correctness in either case, correctness is more statistically typical in one than the other.

3/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

is it a good sign that tons of political podcasts are switching to just be livestreams all the time because so much news happens so fast that they can’t possibly make time for an edit 🤔

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

This blogpost's sources are completely challenging my pre-existing assumptions about the methodological argument for using reverse-coded items on a survey. I might have to let the evidence totally change one of my scientific practices despite my intuitive feeling of what's "right." NEAT!

https://yannicmeier.de/2026/03/03/why-reversed-items-can-be-problematic-in-survey-research/

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Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

A.I. musicians are COOKED. I just recorded an ENTIRE SONG using nothing but my instruments and a few microphones. This would have cost upwards of hundreds of dollars in expensive A.I. subscription fees but for me it was completely FREE. Don't get left behind. This is the future!

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

My “brain fry” is artisanal and handmade. I don’t need any form of technology to spiral, just my own brain and homegrown organic anxiety.

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

Because mastodon is like a 99% male audience, I will say this: if you have an aging mother you are in relationship with and care about, do NOT make her go through medical stuff alone. I am skilled & mean enough to fight through medical stuff and even so you would not believe how bad it is. Just accept that you cannot imagine.

I talk to a lot of people's aging moms and they are abandoned & alone even in nice families. I don't care how awkward it is, you have to try to ask them about it.

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astraluma@tacobelllabs.net ("AstraLuma") wrote:

I spent the last week or two configuring a CI/CD runner for #TeahouseHosting on #Codeberg, here's how I did it.

https://qwertyuiop.ninja/2026/03/16/codeberg-runner.html

I wasn't really finding in-depth documentation and blog posts, and in particular none of the published examples would build container images--the biggest limitation of Codeberg's offering.

So I fixed it.

#Forgejo

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

The more I read from the pro-“AI” crowd among developers specifically, including but not limited to the “brain fry” talk, the more I worry that quite a few of them genuinely seem to be on the verge of a serious mental health crisis.

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fraggle@social.coop wrote:

@evan

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nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech. Reddit researcher exposes Meta’s $2B campaign to force Apple and Google into building surveillance systems while exempting its own platforms
https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech

Meta is pure evil who is pushing age verification laws to benefits from surveillance tech.

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

Texting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study Shows

Text me anytime. I’m on Signal fromjason.01 https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-loneliness-study-college-students-random-strangers-texting/

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

omg, duckduckgo just corrected my spelling of 'tiny' to 'tinymce'

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

Flame on!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/17/this-is-new/

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

Happy St. Patrick's Day. Man, I wish someone would drive the snakes out my country, too.

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georgemonbiot.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("George Monbiot") wrote:

It seems so obvious that I struggle to understand how people fail to see it. Starmer tells us that *WE* have to stop Reform by voting Labour, whereas *HE* could do it by introducing PR. But then we'd lose any remaining incentive to vote for his party.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I should probably have done this years ago, but here's my latest work on PineTime's font rendering.

Anti-aliasing, kerning, subpixel hinting. Dropped the monospace font. Looks so crisp on the watch's display!

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