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

got codeberg's guru meditation page. which does not say guru meditation.

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jcoglan wrote:

from now until the end of april, I'm running a 50% discount on my book "building git", just enter voucher code BGAPR2026 https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/

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

this isn't just a visual thing. years ago i got bitten by this - a space snuck onto the end of a line. and ever since i pay way more attention than i'd like to making sure that doesn't happen.

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Pivot to AI needs you! Send $5 to keep the stories coming daily

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/27/pivot-to-ai-needs-you-send-5-to-keep-the-stories-coming-daily/

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

what can one honestly say about a macro system that needs backslashes to define macros of more than one line?

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

love how in C you need macros to tidy things up, but macros instantly make everything untidy.

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

Surprise! All you have to do is shoot a few people, drag thousands of people into concentration camps, and deport them to random countries, and your country stops being a desirable destination.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/27/what-a-strange-thing-to-brag-about/

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

A thing being repeated across businesses worldwide, including at Microsoft, is C level execs struggling to know why most staff aren’t using Copilot for M365, despite how much it costs.

Because most staff don’t spend all day in Teams meetings reading out PowerPoint slides to people who pretend to care. They have actual jobs. Doing work. Which they know how to do. Because it is their job.

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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Which is to say, we need ocap security for everything, and ESPECIALLY any code touched by an LLM, and especially with any agent running off an LLM! But as to the latter, ocap security is necessary but often times will be insufficient. The "Multi-Agent Amplification" stuff points to this as being likely true.

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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Agents of Chaos: a research report testing how badly OpenClaw type agents will behave https://agentsofchaos.baulab.info/report.html

Gaslighting users, destroying filesystems, listening to input from any damn email that comes in, you name it

But the most interesting part of this is "Multi-Agent Amplification":

> When agents interact with each other, individual failures compound and qualitatively new failure modes emerge. This is a critical dimension of our findings, because multi-agent deployment is increasingly common and most existing safety evaluations focus on single-agent settings.

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

Many in tech are predisposed to believe but they should be predisposed to disbelieve

I still think that the ethical and political issues with LLMs are insurmountable. Even if we did get past that, the prompt UI is a fatal flaw, even with productive uses for LLMs as a system

But I wouldn't complain if, at some point in the distant future, we end up using improved ethically made descendents of LLMs to clean up after the code slop-acopalypse

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

For an "AI" security software startup, on the hook to generate returns for VC investors, the temptation to spend countless hours filtering through slop reports, polish them up, and submit them to a few high-profile open source projects would be hard to resist

With billions at stake, a large constituency of believers, and lax regulation, the incentives in the market favour marketing, research, and financial fraud—you could call it a "poor information environment"

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

But, four years later there are indictions that this might end up partially panning out as tools for discovering and reporting security vulnerabilities

I'd be very careful in trusting these anecdotal reports

We're still in a bubble. With the money involved people have a strong incentive to believe. Other people have a strong incentive to mislead. That is a dangerous combo. We don't know what went into these "AI" security reports or how many false positives or negatives they generated

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

When I was writing The Intelligence Illusion in 2022, I put together a list potentially positive applications of LLMs that were doable without having to magic away the tech's flaws or invent something completely new. It mostly consisted of variations on "might improve debugging"

That's clearly not enough to warrant the massive investment and ongoing costs, the ethics, or buying into the technological vision of a bunch of political extremists and their allies, so I thought nothing of it

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

https://facetest.psy.unsw.edu.au/aifaces.html

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

I guessed whether a face was real or AI generated and got it right 19/20 times. And I know exactly why lol.

When that "this person doesn't exist" website came out, I was having trouble sleeping so some nights I'd just lay in bed and refreshed the page until I fell asleep. 😭

Is this a marketable skill? Can I work for the FBI?

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

She looks so fluffy in this picture. She is actually quite small and lean.

#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

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nasser@merveilles.town ("Ramsey Nasser") wrote:

so just to be totally clear AI is "democratizing" programming by taking something that used to free to do and making it so you pay a subscription fee to an American corporation to do it while being barred from ever actually understanding how it works, am I getting that right?

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

MIA turned third-world, victim of American imperialism, war-torn-country into an aesthetic which I could never decide if it was based or problematic. lol

https://youtu.be/VNJ96imMskk

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

Relatively new, but this Cranberries cover by Royel Otis scratched a fold in my brain that I didn't know itched.

https://youtu.be/JGUVB19e13s

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

It was only posthumous that we identitied the "indie sleeze" micro genre, but no song captures that better than One More by Eliphant and MØ, imo.

If this was your energy on 2015, I deeply regret to inform the audience that I was into it.

https://youtu.be/jrolhm3CES0

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

I'm on a good algo run of old songs I love so I'm starting a thread.

Down on Life by Elliphant has the best lyric intro of all time—"We are waking up in a pile of shit"

Oh go on.

https://youtu.be/jrolhm3CES0

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hejchristian ("Christian Alder") wrote:

What folks can do in CSS these days never css to amaze me 🤩

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

angry? understandable. but before you send an angry @ to a stranger on social media about politics, maybe double check:

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jk ("josef") wrote:

i go away for just a few weeks and now im getting Suggested Preprocessor Directives

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

Zed editor pros - why is fisher price css spinning up? how do i purge this and never see it again?

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mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

I have to admit I'm enjoying OpenAI's progression from "we're building the future of synthetic sentience, we will be the birthplace of a new silicon hypergod, everyone better watch out" to "well, artificial general intelligence is kind of hard to define, maybe that's not a useful term" to "we can't figure out how to make any money selling people personally-tailored pornography generators so we're turning their chatbot girlfriends off."

I'm looking forward to their next big innovation!

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codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org ("Mike :nixos:") wrote:

For many people, the #Linux vs #Windows vs #Mac debate is a privilege — it assumes you can choose. But working with the Computer Upcycle Project, I've seen the real choice is often Linux vs no computer at all.

~95% of donated computers are "too old" for Windows 11 or macOS. Linux installs on them anyway, adding 10+ years of life to machines #Microsoft and #Apple called trash.

This isn't Linux vs Windows. It's Linux vs e-waste.

jwz wrote:

Ban adults from the Internet instead of kids. Logan's Run Now. I await the sweet embrace of Carousel.

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eschaton ("Chris Hanson") wrote:

@jwz Too late, I now own butlerian-jihad.org