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

@xgranade me, sowing references: haha, fuck yea!!! Yes!!

me, reaping use-after-free: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

It’s Tuesday, so it’s time for yet another Mastodon object storage migration! Seriously, hopefully this one will be the last. More info here: https://status.neatnik.net

TL;DR: You may notice some weirdness with *remote* images over the next several hours, but it’ll be temporary. If you notice any super weird issues, feel free to ping me.

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

enable javascript to continue

no lol?

Boosted by GuillaumeL@hachyderm.io ("BigSaur G"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

Karpathy posted something not so long ago about how much he was letting Claude agents write his code, and the boosters were sharing it far and wide as "proof" the agentic age had arrived.

Fact is, not even Karpathy believes that.

*You* are the agent.

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Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

My biggest problem with the concept of LLMs, even if they weren’t a giant plagiarism laundering machine and disaster for the environment, is that they introduce so much unpredictability into computing. I became a professional computer toucher because they do exactly what you tell them to. Not always what you wanted, but exactly what you asked for.

LLMs turn that upside down. They turn a very autistic do-what-you-say, say-what-you-mean commmunication style with the machine into a neurotypical conversation talking around the issue, but never directly addressing the substance of problem.

In any conversation I have with a person, I’m modeling their understanding of the topic at hand, trying to tailor my communication style to their needs. The same applies to programming languages and frameworks. If you work with a language the way its author intended it goes a lot easier.

But LLMs don’t have an understanding of the conversation. There is no intent. It’s just a mostly-likely-next-word generator on steroids. You’re trying to give directions to a lossily compressed copy of the entire works of human writing. There is no mind to model, and no predictability to the output.

If I wanted to spend my time communicating in a superficial, neurotypical style my autistic ass certainly wouldn’t have gone into computering. LLMs are the final act of the finance bros and capitalists wrestling modern technology away from the technically literate proletariat who built it.

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt ("Nina Kalinina") wrote:

When I first watched War Games (1983) I thought "wow, so weird, not only they had terrible password management, but their test 'AI' system was directly linked to the prod".

Ha-ha. :blobcat_thisisfine:

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

Once again, it’s important to remember that the stock market long ago ceased to be linked to a rational valuation of the companies listed and is just a mood ring for rich people.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lm4eq2cftwbnrmzkzowigpt7/post/3mhpymbhcvk22

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
Migueldeicaza ("Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉") wrote:

What are the odds

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

i'm a little confused. my system load just jumped by about 4. i am running a single threaded program.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mattround@crispsandwi.ch ("Matt Round") wrote:

How is this already over 5 years old?! *crumbles to dust*
https://vole.wtf/kilobytes-gambit/

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

Someone commented on my post on LinkedIn using the term "enterprise-grade AI" and I had such a visceral reaction like sucking a lemon.

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
dougiec3@libretooth.gr ("Wokebloke for Democracy") wrote:

" A report published last week by the Cato Institute, written by director of immigration studies David J. Bier, found that the State Department and Department of Homeland Security were receiving millions of applications from immigrants whom Trump has made ineligible for legal status and pocketing the fees without ever processing the requests."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/immigration-fee-fraud-state-dept

#TrumpAndEpstein #Money #Grift #Immigration #GrandTheft #USTreasury

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

a part known as the 'flange'

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
dalias@hachyderm.io ("Cassandrich") wrote:

@elilla "Signal-shaped noise" is an utterly brilliant characterization of what "gen AI" produces.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
hannah@posts.rat.pictures ("historic drystone sheep dyke") wrote:

I really hope pete hegseth got the same windows 11 login screen as me today

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

This post by @mozilla's VP of Engineering (Andrew Overholt) is welcome news.

For far too long, Mozilla has been nearly silent as Apple suppressed real choice in browsers, and any break with that inglorious pattern should be celebrated:

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/03/23/competition-innovation-and-the-future-of-the-web/

/via @owa
/cc @jaffathecake

Boosted by jwz:
AmyZenunim@unstable.systems ("★ Amy Star ★") wrote:

in case you need a taste of how fucked the tech industry is right now, I'm being required to use AI at work. if I talk about how it fucks up or overcomplicates basic asks, it's because I "don't know how to use it" which indicates a "lack of growth mindset", and thus poor performance. I've been told this directly to my face, starting immediately.

so not only must I use Claude, I have to cover for Claude's mistakes, and then go the extra mile to pass off my own work as Claude's.

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

hey look at all those amazing WebKit features in Safari 26.4

shame Apple doesn't support iOS 18 🫠

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

What ICE is doing in US airports today, it will be doing at US polling places in November. These photos aren’t funny or incongruous; they should be giving us nightmares. This has to end now.

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

okay i have heard some bad british accents in my time but this is a whole new level 😂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcRxa6E1MUw&t=1050s

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
javi@goblin.band wrote:

Firefox updated their Terms of Use? Let's see!

As you type a search query within Firefox, Firefox offers search suggestions to provide you with faster and more direct access to what you’re looking for. Some of the search suggestions come from your search provider (“Search Suggestions”). Others come from Firefox, and are based on information stored on your local device (including recent search terms, open tabs, and previously visited URLs), or content from Mozilla and Mozilla’s partners, including paid sponsors and internet resources like Wikipedia (“Suggestions from Firefox”).

Here chat. Here. This is where Firefox dies.

"information stored in your local device" and "content from mozilla's parners" and "paid sponsors".

This is a very convoluted way of saying "we use your personal data to segment you into something we can sell to advertisers".

This is EXACTLY what chrome does, this is exactly why a lot of us stopped using Chrome and moved back to Firefox.

In some circumstances Mozilla’s partners will receive de-identified search and interaction data, in order to serve relevant suggestions and measure user engagement with suggested content.

This is making me really mad. THIS IS JUST CORPO-SPEAK TO DESCRIBE HOW THE ENTIRE INTERNET ADVERTISEMENT INDUSTRY WORKS. This is HOW FACEBOOK WORK. This is how GOOGLE WORK. This is how the entire programmatic advertisement industry work. This is what we call "sell your personal data". No, no one sells your address, no one sells your name. BECAUSE IT'S ILLEGAL IN A SIGNIFICANT PART OF THE WORLD.

We also work with advertising providers to deliver relevant sponsored content using programmatic technologies. To support this, we may share limited, non-identifying information — such as device type, IP-derived location information, and category of content viewed — to help determine which ads to display. We don’t share any information that identifies you. You can turn off sponsored content in your New Tab settings at any time.

Oh it's so nice of you Mozilla, to do THE MINIMUM LEGAL REQUIREMENTS when selling our data. You don't share information that identify me? so nice of you! you know how else does that? Meta! Google! Tiktok! Somehow big tech mega corporations are willing to comply with the minimum legal requirements as you do, mozilla!

In some cases, we may share or publish aggregated and anonymized data to facilitate research or as part of the lawful business purposes outlined above (such as sharing aggregated insights with advertising partners).

This is called "advertisement segmentation" and it's what it paid for Zuckenberg fortress in Hawaii!! Going places, Moz, you are operating exactly as how Facebook used to do in 2016!

To provide our services as described above, we may disclose personal data to: Partners, service providers, suppliers and contractors

"We never disclose your personal data!!! well, unless it's one of our partners who pays us for it, of course!"

oh wait! they include a table of what kind of data they share with partners!

Technical dataLocationLanguage preferenceSettings dataUnique identifiersSystem performance dataInteraction dataSearch dataBrowsing data

The SHARE FUCKING EVERYTHING. THEY ARE SELLING EVERYTHING. "Unique identifiers" is the closest to personal identifiable data they can sell. That's what advertisers can use to make a profile of you: They may not know your name, but they will know everything else about you.

This is the same information that google collects and sells from you. THE SAME.

Fucking ghouls. This is where Firefox died, folks.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

Looking forward to this response to "AI literacy day" on March 29, with other members of the cast of Ghost in the Machine

https://notaidoc.com/literacy

Virtual event 9am Pacific/noon Eastern/18:00 CET

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
sue@glasgow.social ("Sue Smith") wrote:

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
kouett@soc.kouett.net.eu.org ("Oomfie Snoofies") wrote:

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

xkcd 2347, but the dependency is a project some random person runs who replaced his brain with a clockwork mouse and is now tweeting 2000 words on how Claude Code is a game changer

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

successfully used "Hobbyless behavior" to refer to some bullshit in an appropriate context for the first time and I think this one's gonna stick around for a while

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mjd@mathstodon.xyz ("Mark Dominus") wrote:

It's 1986. You've built a limited but working time machine. Every week, it materializes a small slip of paper with a news headline from 2026.

You arrange a meeting with a millionaire who might be able to help you exploit your source of future information. She looks skeptical, but you ask her to be patient while you warm up the machine. Presently, a bit of paper materializes from nowhere. The millionaire is impressed.

You hand her the slip, wondering what wisdom it will impart. The outcome of a major sporting event? An election result? The name of a successful company that doesn't yet exist?

But the millionaire's expression changes to a scowl. She lets the slip flutter to the floor as she leaves your apartment without another word.

You retrieve the slip and read the headline that your machine has produced.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7142152/2026/03/23/cornhole-player-amputee-arrested-murder-dayton-webber/

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

typeof(void *(void *)) *start_routine

go home c, you're drunk.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
nemo@mas.to (":awesome:🐦‍🔥nemo™🐦‍⬛ 🇺🇦🍉") wrote:

@soatok :awesome: ✨ 💫 you mean canisbalism xD hahahah canis latin for dog… ok if I've to explain it, it ain't funny no moe…

😅 Thx for the boost & like/s 😁 🙏 💚
sincerely :)

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

RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116284279423585855

glorious thread. supply chain attack hits vibe-coded pile of rancid dogshit that just happens to be load-bearing for vibe-coded development