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

in other news, they are openly having trouble hiring at their budget. they explained this is because they budget for two trips around the world to head office each year out of the salaries and i wasn't surprised this made it difficult.

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

The future of UX is green: On the Web Sustainability Guidelines | 2026 | Talks | Events | W3C

A look at what the W3C’s new Web Sustainability Guideline are and how to apply them in practice.

https://www.w3.org/events/talks/2026/the-future-of-ux-is-green-on-the-web-sustainability-guidelines/

#sustainability #smallweb #smolweb

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

achievement unlocked: i convinced an australian i'm human at 1am.

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

NASA launches "bond style" "spacecraft"

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

okay it is almost 1am. i am now to pretend to be human shaped until i pass out, hopefully after australia have determined i am human shaped.

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

approaching 10,,000 miles per hour

yeah okay that's quite even faster

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

5000 miles per hour

yeah okay that's quite fast

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

launch is in 3 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs

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

the second between 10:00 and 9:59 of the countdown to artemis launch is longer than the last 3 minutes on a washing machine cycle.

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mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:") wrote:

This writer never uses AI.

The purpose of AI is to produce minimally viable text.

My purpose is to produce text that expands your mental foundations to be more skilled and more compassionate. Tech book, fiction, doesn't matter, that's the goal.

These purposes are incompatible.

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

so which aerospace company is responsible for today's impending fuckup?

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

A whole lot of our present moment boils down to resource cost externalities — externalities that in many society has intentionally created.

We made carbon emission and water use way too cheap, and we pay dearly for it every day.

/end

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

practicing talking to australians before interview

g'day sheila, didja throw a shrimp on the barbie while you were losing the ashes?

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sfbaykeeper@sfba.social ("San Francisco Baykeeper") wrote:

BREAKING: After a multi-year court battle, we've won a major case over bacteria pollution in the South Bay!

A court has ruled that Sunnyvale and Mountain View are responsible for over 1,200 Clean Water Act violations--and must stop pollution from reaching local creeks: https://baykeeper.org/press%5Frelease/court-rules-that-cities-pollution-of-local-creeks-violated-clean-water-act/

#sunnyvale #mountainview #waterpollution #bacteria #bacteriapollution #cleanwateract #southbay #stevenscreek #calabazascreek

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pikesley@mastodon.me.uk ("CYBER_RISK_MITIGATION_REMINDER") wrote:

INTERCAL: We have keywords like PLEASE and IGNORE because we think it's funny

Anthropic: We have PLEASE and IGNORE *baked into our source-code* because we have no fucking idea how this thing works

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
caroline@chaosfem.tw ("Caroline Kinlund") wrote:

@EmilyEnough warmly friendly, assertive, broken at least half of the time? checks out

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
2legged@mastodon.ie ("Claire McNab") wrote:

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Macrumors keeps using this color scheme in its iOS 27 stories, did I miss a report that Siri is a lesbian in iOS 27? Good for her.

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

Accurate

https://theonion.com/study-97-of-all-sounds-infuriating/

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

Eventually the AI industry believes "we will develop similar practices around unread code"[1].

They don't know how, they just believe.

It might even work out, given the amount of talent thrown at it. But right now nobody knows.

But what I'm saying is that "lol this code's a mess" is not such a slam dunk you might hope.

[1]: https://www.heavybit.com/library/article/write-only-code

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

Seeing a lot of hot takes on the ongoing #anthropic source leak hilarity bemoaning just how terrible the code is.

Folks, you're missing the point. Their idea is that code is now a low-level implementation detail, it's not for reading. You only program with prompts, and nobody cares how hard it is for agents to read their own code. That humans still need to review it is considered a temporary inconvenience, which they are solving (for now) in the usual way: hiring more bodies. (cont.)

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

yes i will definitely appear human at 1:30am to an observer when it's not even 10pm yet and i want to go to bed

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

wow i can't believe matrix is going to implement reading messages

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ OLLIE WRIDE at DNA Lounge tonight: Wed Apr 1, 8pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2026/04-01.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #olliewride #deloreanoverdrive #synthwave #synthpop #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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jwz wrote:

A major plot point of *Superman* was that Clark got a garbled answering machine message and didn't realize his parents were Space Nazis who wanted him to take over and eugenics-fuck his way to a new super-race (the plot of *Invincible* and also the plot of Elon Musk). But at the end Supergirl shows up, who left Krypton as a teenager. So couldn't the little blonde übermensch have just... *told* him about her time in the Krypton Youth and at Ku Klux Krypton rallies?
https://jwz.org/b/yk5i

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neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/116328001566273692

There are just a few slots left! :prami_distressed:

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

time to seize the means of computing?

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malwarejake@infosec.exchange ("Jake Williams") wrote:

ICE was checking IDs at the Atlanta airport today. The.guy said "your DL photo is super light, so facial recognition might not work."

I snapped back "that's so you know not to illegally deport me."

His buddy said "we can find a reason" and NOTHING could be more on-brand for an encounter with ICE.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@aredridel I am taking "measuring your guardrails" to be an empirical ongoing thing, the sort of dashboards and metrics where the sort of infohazard of repetitive plausible-but-bad code would show up, the sort of thing that would be structurally resistant to informal analysis

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jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com ("Jack William Bell") wrote:

@pictureman @Strandjunker

One side of my family has been in the Americas since the 1600s. That side also has native American blood two generations back. IOW? I can trace back my heritage to before the USA existed, in multiple ways.

I say that to say this: I am in favor of easy immigration and citizenship of people's from anywhere. I reject the unstated racism of the anti-immigration crowd – most of whom would not be citizens if their ancestors had come here under the rules they want.