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

if you hate AI-generated Content™ and love intentional art direction and handwritten stories, then Encourage Me because this is a lot of work

#gloryinthethunder #lego #gamedev #mastoart

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

All too often today, we treat "boycott" as though it means withholding consumption, rather than withholding labor and open displays of hostility.

Bring back the meaning of "get the fuck out of here, you are not wanted"

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DavidGallagher@sfba.social ("David Gallagher") wrote:

Dead Kennedys March 1982
That's me crawling onto the stage at the Elite Club. (Fillmore Auditorium) I was shocked to discover this picture while cataloging Greg Gaar's photos back in 2015. (just noticed my then girlfriend Ann in the background near the speaker.) Get Better, Jello #sanfrancisco #punk #sfhistory

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th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

It's only a simple matter of programming...

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tvaziri ("Todd Vaziri") wrote:

only-real-cinema-is-shot-on-film bros: "Every frame of dune 3 shot in IMAX is good and every frame of dune 3 shot on digital is bad and also every frame of dune 1 and dune 2 is bad... wait"

Attachments:

• gifv: 45f7742a7f602c9d.mp4

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

It's like the atmosphere. If we are building a spaceship and trying to keep the humans inside alive, the difference between a "mostly nitrogen" atmosphere and an "entirely nitrogen" atmosphere makes a reaaaaally big difference to the people inside

jwz wrote:

A slopfondler walks into a bar.

They: Hey. I found a good use of AI!
Me: No you didn't.
They: Wait let me tell you about it.
Me: Please don't. I'm begging you. Stop talking.
They: No, you'll like this.
Me: I assure you, I will not...
https://jwz.org/b/yk4i

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I really *want* this to be false, because I'm a person who regards code *itself* as an art form that I think has long been disrespected as such, but I suspect it's probably true, on some level.

Even if it's true I still think LLMs are dangerous to the industry because even if the vast majority of existing code is sludge, the viability of an industry where 90% of code is sludge and an industry where 100% of the code is sludge are wildly different.

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

Well, no shit

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/17/politics/joe-kent-resigns-iran-war

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

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
scream@bots.robots.rodeo ("Endless Screaming") wrote:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

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

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

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
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

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
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.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
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