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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@collinsworth If you zoom out a bit, this is actually a consistent worldview.

Companies: We are easily conned. We're looking for people who are a good cultural fit.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
treyhunner ("Trey Hunner 🐍") wrote:

Python Tip #99 (of 365):

Don't convert pathlib.Path objects to strings

Using a pathlib.Path object in an f-string or a print call is fine and I do this often.

But if you THINK you need to convert a pathlib.Path object to a string to pass it off to some other path-handling utility, you probably don't need to. Most path-handling utilities in Python support pathlib.Path objects just fine.

#Python #DailyPythonTip

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
greenpeace ("Greenpeace International") wrote:

Casual reminder: The war on Iran has already made six oil companies US $130 BILLION richer.

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jwz wrote:

@johnzajac I also like how their press releases are now framing data centers as "1.21 jigawatts of AI compute" or some such cringey phrasing. YES, please keep doing that! Please keep pretending that we measure computation in terms of how many lakes it boils! There is no way this framing will backfire.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cyanocophotos wrote:

Brum Furs Attendees! 20.01.2024
#furry #furryfandom #furryphotography #fursuitphotography #fursuit

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

Bruce Schneier was on today's edition of The Tech Report, talking about the newest wank out of Anthropic.

He made a claim that he'd seen researchers compare the asserted performance of the new model (in the "system card" etc.) against previously-available models, and they were performing at about the same level (finding the same vulns, it sounded like).

Does anybody know what research he was referring to? A web search is not pulling anything up for me, because the infosphere is currently flooded with credulous repetition of Anthropic's marketing materials (and I have no reason to believe those aren't just lies)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Misofist@girlcock.club wrote:

I love working within the ActivityPub ecosystem, it's so refreshing

#gotosocial

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Redfuchs@furries.club ("Jasper Fox :therian:") wrote:

RE: https://furries.club/@Redfuchs/116092820548721619

Are there any furry owned businesses looking for an IT Specialist or generalist labor? I've lost all hope in normal companies.

#Furry #FurryFandom

Boosted by jwz:
jackdaw_ruiz@normal.style ("Renewable Guydraulic Menergy") wrote:

Beetlejuice is an important libertarian folk hero. he's exists within weird contractual rules outside of our laws. he's turned "get off my property" into a career. he's trying to marry a teenager.

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

Progress in the genetics course!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/09/genetics-progress/

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

If you ever wondered why Texas so reliably sends Republicans to Congress, part of the reason is that Texas Republicans won control of the state legislature for the first time since Reconstruction in 2002, and they immediately set about gerrymandering the state so Democrats could never win a majority of the state's Congressional districts again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%5FTexas%5Fredistricting

#USPol

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spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon.ie ("Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives") wrote:

Can't even sell a Confederate flag on eBay thesedays smh

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mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

"We spent only ten billion dollars training a machine and now it can unreliably do a thing we never spent a goddamn cent training humans to do" fuck that and fuck you. "But I'm so much more productive" you know what you're participating in and what it costs the world and who you're enabling and fuck that and fuck you. "But I'm so much more productive" no you're fucking not, and even if you were fucking listen to yourself, listen to what you're saying. Look at the world you're building. Fuck you.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

"without ai, how can ordinary people do this?!?" asks the tech pundit about a skill many ordinary people have learned

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Turning an LLM into a crazed serial killer by commenting out the line in the configuration file that says "you are not a crazed serial killer"

Boosted by jwz:
MLNow@sfba.social ("Mission Local") wrote:

S.F. supe Matt Dorsey says he’d have deserved being evicted for drug-use, as his legislation now proposes

Supervisor Matt Dorsey says that he feels that, had he used drugs in supportive housing, he should have been evicted to the street. The caveat is, he was never in such a tenuous spot. A piece of legislation the supervisor shared last month would allow new permanent supportive housing to evict residents on the basis of drug use, and drug use alone.

https://missionlocal.org/2026/04/sf-matt-dorsey-evict-drug-use/

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

The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client

I love the Fediverse. I have been on it for years, and it remains the only social network where I actually enjoy spending time. No algorithmic feed pushing outrage, no dark patterns, no surveillance capitalism. Just people talking to each other over an open protocol.

But every time I wanted to recommend it to someone, I ran into the same wall: the clients are heavy. Mastodon's web interface ships megabytes of JavaScript. Elk, Phanpy, Ivory, beautiful apps, but they require a modern browser, a fast connection, and a device manufactured in the last five years ...

New blog post :

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/the-fediverse-deserves-a-dumb-graphical-client.md

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

do you use a twinkjet or a loser printer?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ursuppe@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

lowkey: critical coding club is first and foremost a coding club - a series of hangouts for anyone who wants to write computer programs with other people. Whether you're new or experienced, need inspiration, or just want to throw on headphones and hack, you are welcome to join. Expect it to be laid-back and self-organised outside usual hierarchies: study groups, spontaneous pair programming, parallel working/body doubling, or just folks with laptops.

In lowkey we are focused on creating a space for diverse coding practices and building a community outside the usual institutions and sites with temporary contracts. E.g., academic institutions, businesses and entrepreneurship with ethical compromises, or "expert" meetups. Through the lens of critical technical practice, we are also open to address politics and social issues tied to coding, but rather than discussing them in the abstract, we focus on integrating this into our practice of coding.

We recognise the historically inequitable social reality of software and the patriarchal and capitalist structures and behaviours within it. We aim for an inclusive and soft space as a disruptive action to change this history. This event is inspired by community coding events happening all over the globe, and can be considered a friendly fork of Calm Coding by Varia in Rotterdam.

Come work on a project, follow a tutorial, or just code! Need inspiration? Check out our Resources on our website.

We would like to ask everyone who wants to join to read the Social Rules on our website.

lowkey is initiated by ursuppe.

Upcoming dates:
Sunday May 3 at 12:00 - 18:00
Sunday June 7 at 12:00 - 18:00
Sunday Sept. 6 at 12:00 - 18:00
Sunday Oct. 4 at 12:00 - 18:00
Sunday Nov. 1 at 12:00 - 18:00
Sunday Dec. 6 at 12:00 - 18:00

Location:
Valby Kulturhus
Valgårdsvej 4
2500 Copenhagen

https://dukop.dk/en/event/lowkey-critical-coding-club2O6OYNE779/9708/

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

would you like to know what i think is interesting to know about openbsd?

• it was started because the glorious leader was ejected from netbsd for being a dickhead.
• it didn't believe even in threads for the longest time.
• it still doesn't believe in async i/o. yep, today, 2026.
• nor can you have zfs. oh yeah, UFS baby. i managed to lose data on UFS in a fucking virtual machine last month.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Companies: "Coding is dead. AI writes all the code now."

Applicants: "Great! So this means we don't have to do code challenge interviews anymore?"

Companies: "You might hear back from us if you can rebuild the entire NYT games section, complete with unit tests, in 30 minutes all by yourself on the first try. Please save your questions until then."

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

has anyone else seen a MASSIVE uptick in "i'm an american and moved to europe and now i can't go back" videos?

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

what every IT person needs to know about openbsd

not much tbh

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
ediz@social.lol ("Ediz :prami_pride:") wrote:

omgram coming soon... 👀
@adam

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

I think the Nothing over ear headphones look cool as fuck. I wish more tech took bigger swings with design.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jfslowik@infosec.exchange ("Joe Słowik") wrote:

Reminder

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
oatmeal@kolektiva.social wrote:

The AI Great Leap Forward

Similar to the #Chinese Great Leap Forward's inflated grain production reports, companies are fabricating or exaggerating #AI adoption and productivity gains to please leadership, leading to increased investment based on made up numbers. The focus seem to have shifted from genuine AI development to "demoware" – impressive-looking prototypes and interfaces with little underlying validation, data infrastructure, or maintenance plans, creating future tech debt.

[…] Entire departments are stitching together n8n workflows and calling it AI — dozens of automated chains firing prompts into models, zero evaluation on any of them. These tools are merchants of complexity: they sell visual simplicity while generating spaghetti underneath. A drag-and-drop canvas makes it trivially easy to chain ten LLM calls together and impossibly hard to debug why the eighth one hallucinates on Tuesdays. The people building these workflows have never designed an evaluation pipeline, never measured model drift, never A/B tested a prompt. They don’t need to — the canvas looks clean, the arrows point forward, the green checkmarks fire. The complexity isn’t avoided. It’s hidden behind a GUI where nobody with ML expertise will ever look.

https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

#ai #aihype #theaicon #n8n

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
stefan@stefanbohacek.online ("Stefan Bohacek") wrote:

"The Orion capsule carrying the Artemis II astronauts will be travelling at more than 11 km/s (40,000 km/h) when it reaches Earth’s atmosphere. This is 40 times faster than a passenger jet travels."

Wishing the Artemis II crew a safe return home!

https://theconversation.com/artemis-ii-crew-will-endure-3-000-c-on-re-entry-a-hypersonics-expert-explains-how-they-will-survive-280042

#news #science #space #ArtemisII

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

aha, i was right, freebsd does this more conveniently than linux.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
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