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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

welcome to enterprise IT support ... 😅 https://xcancel.com/f%5Fa%5Finfinityy/status/2044868607822135728

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

Holy shit, I mastered border-image!!! #css

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
fedify@hollo.social ("Fedify: ActivityPub server framework") wrote:

Naru, the Korean version of #Neocities, reportedly added an #ActivityPub implementation in just an hour using #Fedify. If you also want to implement ActivityPub quickly, give Fedify a try!

https://hackers.pub/@jihyeok/019da3d9-45b8-7629-96a8-b26bd62867c2

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

as some of you know, I was raised in a fundamentalist proto-maga environment, and so I have extensive first hand experience with cognitive dissonance and cult tactics

I wanted to point out that if someone wildly disagrees with you: they’re not lying. No matter how stupid or obviously wrong you think their take is, they’re not lying to you about what they believe; almost no-one does that.

To be clear, I’m not talking about national politicians or billionaires or obvious influence campaign bots. I’m talking about real, normal people that you know perfectly well are real, normal people but their take is so ridiculous or extreme to you that you feel tempted to conclude they’re lying.

There are real, actual reasons they believe those things and real, actual reasons they feel the need to tell you about it. If you can’t engage with that, you’ve not only already lost any chance of convincing them, but you’re setting yourself up to believe patently untrue things yourself, because you have taught yourself to shut down contrary thoughts with “they’re lying.”

accepting that the people I was told were agents of Satan *weren’t lying about their beliefs just to hurt me* is a big part of how I got out of fundamentalism.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
venelles ("Philip Wittamore") wrote:

After testing the demo I now have my own smolfedi instance up & running.

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

https://codeberg.org/adele/smolfedij

#smolfedi #smolweb

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
tim@union.place ("Tim W RESISTS") wrote:

The "logic" of blocking content from being archived on the Wayback Machine to prevent it being used for AI training blows my mind.

Locks only keep the honest people out. In this case, all you're doing is restricting access for quite probably the best, and possibly the only, long-term durable archive of the Internet. The downsides for society are countless.

Breathless headline, but good piece, from Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-most-powerful-archiving-tool-is-in-mortal-peril/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io ("Jeff Miller (orange hatband)") wrote:

@jchyip Theory of Constraints looms very large in my picture of model-generated code. Anything upstream or downstream of the augmented procedure is now under stress.

One obvious danger is that the temptation to ship the prototype becomes more of a plague than it has been.

With probabilistically assembled code trained from an overall mediocre and miscellaneous corpus, a boost to static and dynamic analysis looks to be in order.

Maybe liability case law is going to shape the landscape.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jwz @mjg59 I feel like it would be cheating somehow to quote Abelson from SICP, but ultimately that is what we're angling toward, and as much as the sentiment may be trite it is nevertheless correct

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stevelieber ("Steve Lieber") wrote:

Character-defining moments for #SupermanDay. My favorite scene in my favorite project.
We managed a small restock of Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen hardcovers in the Helioscope etsy shop- 5 copies- and if you order one today I'll send it out Monday AM. https://helioscopepdx.etsy.com/listing/4311530238/back-in-stock-supermans-pal-jimmy-olsen

Boosted by jwz:
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

District Court judge permanently enjoins the “Kennedy Declaration,” voiding the regime’s effort to heavily curtail gender-affirming care. As always nowadays, we can’t count on higher federal courts to uphold this judgment. But no matter what we have another example of a trial court judge showing what it is to do justice in the face of fascism. 1/ https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ord.191371/gov.uscourts.ord.191371.93.0%5F1.pdf #LawFedi

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

let me know if this feels like a real thing from your own experience or if I am, myself, merely spiraling into delusions because I am ass-deep in news articles and academic studies which are alternately deprressing because of their dire conclusions or their trash methodology. cite-sick if you will

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

proposed usage: it would be pretty awkward to go up to someone after a meeting and say "hey that was a bit dismissive I think that you are CYBER-PSYCHOTIC"

but maybe it could be a normal, non-aggro thing to say "I think you might be a little vibesick"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

going to try coining a new term

there's a genre of LLM usage side-effect where someone will start being ever so slightly more impatient, less curious, less able to think critically (by which I mean examine problems from multiple perspectives, use empathy, use doubt as an interrogative tool), more reliant upon LLMs for basic tasks. it's subtle but I think it's pretty clear in a lot of cases. but calling this "AI psychosis" is hyperbolic and probably pretty inaccurate.

may I propose: "vibesick"

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
minterpunct@gamemaking.social ("Sleepius Raccoonus") wrote:

How come it's called "D&D night" and not "THAC0 Thursday"

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

Seems like some big GC behaviour wins between Node 22 and 24. No upside to juicing the generational sizes in my main workloads any more!

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

why am I feeling all this torment though? it's a mystery

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

they said not to _invent_ the torment nexus but if somebody did invent one nobody said not to jam both my hands into it for months at a time

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

7500 words. now there's 13 sections, I think. I have been staring directly into the beam a bit too long

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

There are people usually tech adjacent but not "engineering" who feel a real sense of empowerment using LLMs.

But these are people who always wanted to make improvements. And these are very capable people who could have made serious improvements. It's not that it's "easier" to make an improvement by vibe coding a thing.

The thing that changed is that all the executives have FOMO and they've written a blank check and aren't saying no as long as the improvement involves "AI".

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

It's bleak, but the fact that Schrödinger was a serial child rapist who came up with the whole cat analogy to try and sow confusion actually works to this joke's favor.

https://beige.party/@StefanThinks/116428002409026120

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Human Brain Enthusiast") wrote:

Everybody knows what a squircle is but did you know sphubes are a thing

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I guess I'm going to go with the original research that I think coined the term, since it at least only broadly gestures at "context engineering" https://www.trychroma.com/research/context-rot

jwz wrote:

Pablo Escobar's Cocaine Hippos Are Doomed.

After two years of failed attempts at relocation and sterilization, Colombia's government has decided it will euthanize 80 of the at least 169 "cocaine hippos" that were once owned by notorious drug...
https://jwz.org/b/yk6e

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

this is a really interesting example of the toxic positivity that is pervasive, even in my own writing. everybody wants to have a CTA and a solution at the end of their talk. nobody wants to write a thing that just says "dang this is a big intractable problem" and kind of shrug at the end and look at the audience and say "what do *you* think we should do?" when that is often the state of the art and further claims are unjustified by the evidence

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I really don't want to link to any of these because they give an extremely misleading impression of the state of the art in "context engineering" (to wit: that it exists). has anyone written JUST the "to be sure" part, explaining what context is, what context rot is, and why you eventually hit a wall WITHOUT pretending that their non-solution to this is magic pixie dust?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

there are a zillion AI booster blogs that muddle through a big "to be sure" section explaining that context management is functionally impossible, and then introduce the term "context engineering" (a new thing, that the author of the blog thought of all by themselves, and not a thing that every single thinkfluencer in this space has independently invented simultaneously) and that they have now solved this intractable problem (often followed by a link to a github full of markdown files)

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Huh, heuristic for writing rust: if you get fields marked as unused code, that might need to be a separate crate, like a protocol implementation with a published struct as a core object.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

@mdhughes re: Mac IRC clients (a bit late), did you ever try Textual? That was my go-to until I gave up and started using weechat on my VPS.

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

For a while now, omg.lol has run the Now Garden (https://now.garden), making it easy to discover member /now pages that have been recently updated. Starting today, members can link to /now pages that are hosted elsewhere (not on omg.lol) in the Now Garden! Just pull up your omg.lol Now Page settings and drop the URL to your external /now page there. Have fun! :prami_happy:

Boosted by jwz:
helielo wrote:

@sabik @zzt @jwz “He also hacked his own machines, reprogramming them so that they’d never punch information from Column 11 [where citizens were asked to indicate their religion] onto any census card”

People who make software have a duty to follow his example.