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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
osnews@mstdn.social ("OSNews") wrote:

How Microsoft vaporized a trillion dollars

This is the first of a series of articles in which you will learn about what may be one of the silliest, most preventable, and most costly mishaps of the 21st century, where Microsoft all but lost OpenAI, its largest customer, and the trust of the US government.
↫ Axel Rietschin

It won't take long into this series of articles before you start won

https://www.osnews.com/story/144729/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion-dollars/

#Microsoft

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

“Miseducative Experiences”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/miseducative-experiences/

> But to frame any opposition to technology as a "moral panic" is a rhetorical sleight of hand in which one side gets to invoke "science" and "research" while dismissing the other as mere "hysteria."

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

Web eco-design

Best practice guidelines

Our digital uses already represent 40% of our annual sustainable budget, both in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the depletion of the last reserves of non-renewable resources (abiotic resources). That's 10 times too much!

Eco-designing digital services allows us to better control and limit their environmental and health impacts...

https://rweb.greenit.fr/en

#smolweb #ecodesign #smallweb

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
KitsuneofInari@sakura-star.net ("宮城巴惠") wrote:

Krita’s Maintainer is awesome!

Krita Maintainer Halla posting that reads: “Speaking as the Krita maintainer, I don’t want us to accept any LLM-generated code into Krita. Some may say, as long as the contributor understands the code it’s fine, but that’s a fallacy. No programmer really fully understands the code they are working with (otherwise bugzilla would be empty); but with LLM-generated code they haven’t even put any thought into it. That code will be unmaintainable. And that’s even completely apart from the fact that using LLM’s to generate code lowers your cognitive capacity, burns up the planet, destroys water sources all over the world and takes away from people what fits them best: being creative together with other humans. The right thing to do could be to, after you’ve experimented in this environmentally-disastrous way, to describe the feature you reached and wanted and make a wish item in bugzilla, or discuss it here, and then let people who can code implement it in a responsible way.”

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

It was only a matter of time before some AI-addled guy saw me quoting fucked up parts of the Claude code source, thought it was my code, and say it was just a skill issue and I just need to {prompting superstition} but it finally happened.

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

man what is going on.

[conversation thread between tuban__muzuru (t for short) and me] t: Well, what can you expect from a code vending machine anyway. I've been writing with Claude for a year. See, n00bs ask for code. Pros ask for spec. I've been coding for 40 years now and Claude writes great Rust and C t: Show me the spec you gave Claude to write this menu. me: Bro before you try going down the skill issue route, fucking anthropic wrote this menu and this is the Claude code source. t: After all that work defining EFFORT_LEVELS as the single source of truth, this function just... writes them out again. The includeMax branching is the tell — whoever wrote this didn't think to reach for EFFORT_LEVELS.slice(0, -1) vs EFFORT_LEVELS. const levels = EFFORT_LEVELS.slice(0, includeMax ? undefined : -1);
me: Yeah! It sucks really bad! Anthropic must really suck at using Claude code to write Claude code and they should have just written more markdown files that tell it to write better code! t: Say there, little buddy - you're sposta write the spec. But I use Claude to hammer our my spec before I do things. You should, too. t: Here's why you need the training, not the LLM: this is no different than riding a big horse. Data first, talk to the LLM about your data and your users and their needs and what the work you're doing is trying to solve. Then you start writing spec. The LLM will restart each time, like fucking Groundhog Day. You will have to lead this new instance to your decisions/ and tell it to read everything. That is the ONLY WAY TO DO THIS. me: Man what part of THIS IS THE CLAUDE CODE SOURCE CODE AND IT WAS WRITTEN BY ANTHROPIC is not getting through here
t: Stop yelling. You fucked up and left some dead code and had the temerity to paste it in here me: Man. This is not my code. This is anthropic's code. This is the source code of Claude code. How many different ways can I say this. t: You asked for the code. In two passes. It also explains why the crack is so localized. If the values were scattered everywhere you'd be looking at the "fractally bad" scenario. Instead it's one function that predates the abstraction. That's a totally normal and forgivable state for a codebase to be in — it just needs a one-line cleanup and ideally a lint rule or PR comment culture of "if you touch EffortLevel, check for strays." me: I did not ask for anything. this is the source code for Claude code. this code was written by anthropic. i am reading their code. I did not write this code. Anthropic wrote this code. This is the source code for the Claude code tool. This is the Claude code source code. This is not my code. I did not write this code.

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Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@jef Happy Whitey on the Moon day for all who celebrate

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

r/programming bans LLM discussion

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1s9jkzi/announcement%5Ftemporary%5Fllm%5Fcontent%5Fban/

comments a sea of "oh fuck finally"

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

it's been a week since i packed in smoking.

where is all the praise from the people who hate smoking, damnit?

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Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x%5FG0ct4

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Boosted by jwz:
youranoncentral.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Anonymous") wrote:

Iran has shot down at least 16 MQ-Reaper drones in the last 30 days, each valued at least $30,000,000, approximately $480,000,000 not counting cumulative costs. This is the most expensive loss in US drone warfare history so far, it also represents 10% of the US aircraft allocated to the region.

One of the United States’ MQ-9 Reaper drones that was successfully shot down by Iran.

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jwz wrote:

You need more Curve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ7%5FufLazwM

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
susankayequinn@wandering.shop ("Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱") wrote:

Today (and every day) I refuse AI (and the "it's inevitable" tech industry narrative).
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/refusing-to-accept-big-tech-s-ai-poisoned-future-of-journalism

In a November conversation at the Urban Consulate in Detroit, the great writer and thinker Tressie McMillan Cottom was asked by host Orlando P. Bailey, “Do you have a daring idea for us to ponder and sit with for our collective future?” McMillan Cottom replied with this: “When people try to sell you on the idea that the future is already settled, it’s because it is deeply unsettled. I think that this promise of an artificial intelligent future is really just a collective anxiety that very wealthy, powerful people have about how well they’re gonna be able to control us in the future. If they can get us to accept that the future is already settled—AI is already here, the end is already here—then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” Today, I refuse.

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Boosted by jwz:
larsmb@mastodon.online ("Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@luckytran/116343068001927591

Reconciliation after this regime ends will be very very hard.

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

Got a piece out while on holiday, taking journalists and regulators to task for failing to clock the importance of legalising browser competition:

https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/

...but I'd missed that Brussels was discussing full surrender. WTF:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/04/digital-subjugation/#greenlands-next

/via @pluralistic
/cc @owa

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊") wrote:

TIL that Charles Dickens first published "A Tale of Two Cities" in two English local newspapers. It was the Bicester Times. It was the Worcester Times.

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adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

version française accidentelle

A McDonald’s sign at night, with only “McDo” lit

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
jmcastagnetto ("Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪") wrote:

A good article on the #Claude #code #leak:

"The Snake That Ate Itself: What Claude Code’s Source Revealed About #AI #Engineering Culture"

'... The Uncomfortable Truth

The company that sells AI coding tools cannot build a quality product with its own AI coding tools...'

https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-snake-that-ate-itself-what-claude

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
petergleick@fediscience.org ("Peter Gleick") wrote:

Trump’s $1.5 trillion military "Guns, No Butter" budget will destroy what little is left of US science, environment, & health:
Cuts:
NIH -$5.8 billion
NASA -$5.6 billion
NSF -$4.8 billion
EPA -$4.6 billion
CDC -$2.9 billion
NOAA -$1.6 billion
It also includes $$ for 130,000 beds at ICE concentration camps.

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

I'm driven to distraction by the persistent failure of our regulatory and reportage classes to understand a simple fact: browsers are the most successful alternative app store ever devised.

https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/

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Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
vicfroh ("Victator") wrote:

#NoBillionaires

Tweet from MTEUZI: You cannot afford rent. You cannot afford groceries. You cannot afford to get sick. They found a billion dollars a day for bombs. The money exists. They just decided you don't deserve it.

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Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@voteinorout/116343001877841067

allegedly, quite a number of NYPD retired or quit because of Mamdani. i would bet that's why crime is down.

historically, cops who would quit because their new boss is a muslim man born in Africa of Indian parents, are the type of people who become cops to cover up their crimes.

NYPD has a looong history of cop gangs.

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
yaelwrites ("Yael Grauer‪") wrote:

dungeons AND dragons? in this economy?

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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

extremely mad because my relative in American prison has let me know that from now on, instead of being charged once per book or per song and having the files added permanently to his account, he's going to ALSO be charged by the minute to read or listen to music on the tablets that are the only things they're allowed to use.

reminder that paying prisoners (vastly) less than minimum wage is legal in the US because they're defined as an exception to anti-slavery laws.

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Spreadsheets, but for people who use Ctrl+C 😍

"Sheets", a terminal based spreadsheet tool by @maaslalani

https://github.com/maaslalani/sheets

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
flipper@mastodonapp.uk ("Flipper 🐬🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@blogdiva I'm an atheist, but I celebrate the Christian version of Ēostre: I pretend to be dead and don't answer work messages until Monday.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange ("AN/CRM-114") wrote:

I had a hunch that the US Army was reluctant to kiss civilian leadership’s ass or to play any part in Operation Epic Fury, and now Hegseth’s sacking generals

If I were an English speaking nation adjacent to the US or a blue state governor looking to strengthen my negotiating position with Washington, DC, I would be salivating at the opportunity to pick up some top shelf retired officers to start bulking up my army / militia

EXCEPT all parties who would actually do this lack the imagination or temperament to start building up separatist militias / Canadian Foreign Legion

- Blue state governors still think they can ride this out until midterms / 2028 and then it’s business as usual angling for a presidential nomination
- Any general who is inclined to do a coup or do anything other than speaking gigs and book deals in early retirement is A-OK with what Hegseth’s doing and would not have been sacked

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

The FAA quietly imposed a nationwide drone restriction that prevents filming ICE and other federal agents within half a mile. It’s an attack on the First Amendment. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/faas-temporary-flight-restriction-drones-blatant-attempt-criminalize-filming-ice

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TheViking@newsie.social ("Lillian") wrote:

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/hegseth-holds-protestant-only-religious-service-at-pentagon/

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jmorris@social.kernel.org ("James Morris") wrote:

Transequatorial propagation (TEP) on 6m is strong today. It follows Earth's magnetic field lines for certain distances across the equator for complex reasons, allowing N/S America or JPN/AUS communication on VHF at times.