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

semiring? you mean a huawei doorbell?

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

it is impressive that github's downtime situation has gotten SO bad that:

1. they've suspended signing up for PAID llm usage. they cannot take your money because they know they can't deliver

2. if you are already a customer on the middle tier, they have reduced your access and you have to pay 4x as much if you want it back

3. they've removed the best models from mid-tier because they're simply too expensive to run at rates individuals can pay

this is WHILE being an internal user of one of the largest cloud businesses in the world; github should, in principle, have effectively infinite compute as long as the customers are paying

completely independent of all other concerns both practical and ethical, it turns out that trying to run code-generating LLMs at commercial scale is just wildly, impractically expensive and unreliable

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-20-changes-to-github-copilot-plans-for-individuals/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Aaron@front-end.social ("Aaron Gustafson") wrote:

Browsers crash. Tabs close. Life happens. Here’s a web component that saves form progress so your users don’t have to start over from scratch. https://www.aaron-gustafson.com/notebook/never-lose-form-progress-again/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I know I am just doing leopards eating faces here but that metaphor is starting to break down because leopards eat things other than their allies’ faces sometimes

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

“I have had such a good relationship with the Great Betrayer. I cannot understand why, at this particular time, he has chosen to betray me. I know that all the other appeasers who offered him gifts and abandoned their principles to accommodate his arbitrary demonic whims were betrayed but their gifts all sucked and mine were great. It doesn’t make sense that the Great Betrayer would betray *me*, I am built different!”

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
kittyboy77@tech.lgbt ("Chaotic Catboy") wrote:

I was recently in a study skills workshop where speech to text software was discussed as helpful if you can say words more easily than you can type them.

Obviously being mainstream education, there were recommendations for Windows and macOS, but nothing else.

I want to go back to the accessibility team with suggestions, because if I complain they didn't have any they'll most likely say something insincere and then never do anything about that.

So, if you have #recommendations for free or low cost Speech to Text software for #Linux users, please could you share them with me?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

If you are thinking about running your blogpost through an AI editor, don't! It almost always makes it more boring.

Whatever you have to say is what you had to say anyway. Just say that, you don't need more. And the mistakes are perfectly fine.

I spell check once, proofread once, then publish. When people point out errors, it makes me feel good, because it means people are reading what I write, and I correct it then.

I'd rather have your charming acoustic-performance words, even if you make mistakes! I love mistakes in writing. Rustic and cozy.

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

i have locally reduced the entropy of my bedroom

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

the ash would melt

i thought the point of ash was that it had gotten past the melting stage?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
chrysanthos@meow.social ("Chrysanthos") wrote:

@sudo_EatPant I can't believe you've done this

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

If you thought my teardowns of Matrix, Session, et al. were brutal, I never once made a Lockpicking Lawyer style video tearing them apart.

This is gold.

https://www.heise.de/news/TeleGuard-Sicherheitsexperten-entschluesseln-Messenger-Nachrichten-11261132.html

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

So what *is* Muskism? To answer this, the authors enumerate the factors and influences that produced Musk. There's apartheid, with its "rational" system of technocratic authoritarianism, blending a life of luxury and plenty (for white settlers), brutal surveillance and state violence (for the Black majority) and fascist control over speech (for everyone), combined with a meat-grinder draft that saw young men of Musk's age being called up to suppress liberation uprisings.

3/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
WebAxe@a11y.info ("Web Axe") wrote:

"How an accessibility designer adds keyboard shortcuts to a web app"
All kinds of great info here!
https://ericwbailey.website/published/how-an-accessibility-designer-adds-keyboard-shortcuts-to-a-web-app/
by @eric
#a11y #accessibility #webdesign #keyboard #webdev

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
codepo8@toot.cafe ("Chris Heilmann") wrote:

Proof that ChatGPT is sycophantic horseshite.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JqvDLHshTtI

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mariyadelano@hachyderm.io ("Mariya Delano") wrote:

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.

So far it’s been working!

Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.

Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.

And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.

They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.

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

yes that's what we need, an LLM rewriting awful perl.

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

Just discovered in the doc that it is easy to set a specific ssh key in a local repository to fetch/push toward a remote one.

git config set core.sshCommand "ssh -F /dev/null -i ~/.ssh/mykey"

#git @Codeberg #codeberg #forgejo

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

oh good, the delivery driver for the second attempt at delivery has the same name as the one yesterday that didn't deliver but marked it as handed to me at this address.

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

i replaced pointer arithmetic with a flexible array member.

chat is this good?

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

“Our Survey on Creativity, Writing, and Reading in the Age of AI”

https://ellipsus.com/blog/survey-on-writing-and-ai

I think few people in tech really get how truly unpopular "AI" is shaping up to be

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116440319387065553

And I have not forgotten the free speech maximalists who volunteered on behalf of weev after he faced consequences for saying Nazi things who are still revered FOSS contributors to this day.

I won’t name them, but if you ever wonder why I don’t post about/boost/interact with someone, this reason is high on the list.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@skry/116440276106844179

For those of us of a certain age, seeing those four letters “weev” causes our blood pressure to spike. Evidence, were any more needed, that Thiel is nazi-adjacent scum.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Freebooters, food and drink edition, with Wing

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/qbDL5gS7Y5RNQ9TMeuAKAx

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

lol, the company is trying to blame AI. I have the stealer logs.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/116437586378720972

Not in the article but the login for the breached account was in an infostealer dump, the engineer installed a Robolox mod his home PC.. which he also used for work.

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

there's an email thread about the worst code ever and the code isn't very good but my immediate reaction is "was this worth a whine post to a mailing list?".

cause this looks almost good compared to some of the code i've worked with.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
daniel@gultsch.social ("Daniel Gultsch") wrote:

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@gajim/116433575527221800

The #XMPP community operates on the principle that good ideas will prevail. Showing a warning when it’s nighttime for a contact has had three independent implementations in a little over a month.

We don’t need CEOs. We don’t need kings. #ThatsXMPP

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
emue@mastodon.design ("Emilie Nguyen Van Yen") wrote:

Il y a 5 ans, j'ai dit au revoir aux bibliothèques pour devenir designer. Aujourd'hui, cet au revoir se transforme en adieu.
Dans cet article, je raconte pourquoi j'ai pris la décision de démissionner malgré tout l'amour que j'ai encore pour le métier de bibliothécaire.

https://emue-design.fr/articles/dire-adieu-aux-bibliotheques

#Bibliothèques #FonctionPublique #Reconversion

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

blogged: Web tools are cool

https://dbushell.com/2026/04/21/web-tools/

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
notizie@poliverso.org ("Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂") wrote:

**Comunicazione di servizio: Poliverso.org sta per bloccare l'istanza mastodon.cloud

@fediverso

Entro qualche giorno provvederemo a bloccare l'istanza mastodon.cloud così come hanno già fatto e stanno già facendo altre istanze del Fediverso. Poliverso ha già provveduto a "silenziare" mastodon.cloud dal 14 aprile, ma finora non avevamo ancora praticato il blocco, perché noi moderatori volevamo capire se il drammatico peggioramento della moderazione di quel server fosse dovuto a un problema temporaneo.

Come indicato da @iftas i moderatori di mastodon.cloud non sembrano essere più interessati ad applicare politiche di moderazione per arginare trolling, disinformazione, pornografia e suprematismo:
mastodon.iftas.org/@iftas/1164…

Purtroppo molti utenti di quella istanza non si rendono conto di quello che succede nella timeline locale anche a causa dell'ergonomia dell'app "ufficiale" di Mastodon che ormai rende estremamente raro per un utente affacciarsi nella timeline della propria istanza.

I nostri utenti che hanno ancora collegamenti con gli utenti di quella istanza potranno decidere se contattare quegli utenti per invitarli a spostarsi altrove o se migrare via da Poliverso.org.

A questo proposito, approfittiamo per avvisare alcuni degli utenti di mastodon.cloud tra i più seguiti dagli utenti di Poliverso.org, invitandoli a trasferirsi presso altre istanze: @marcantonio @OpenForumEurope @illogical_me @gianmix @ilgigante77