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Right now we are reviewing all of the things that are not new about "AI". Probabilistic technologies, model ensembles, the automation of oppression. None of this is new. Now… what's new? #NBPy
Mastodon FeedMastodon FeedNow for 'The Ironies of Automation in the "Age of AI"' by amanda casari. And wow if I thought I was having trouble keeping up with typing before, the speed of information here is going to be a real challenge
Mastodon Feed(Sadly had to skip over liveblogging Joelle Maslak's excellent talk just due to note-taking fatigue on my part but thankfully it'll be on YouTube soon, it was great.) #NBPy
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
mattly@hachyderm.io ("Matthew Lyon") wrote:
the thing about “never attribute to malice what can be easily explained by incompetence” is that it’s rat-fuckable
when there is functionally no difference between the two, engaging with someone as if they’re incompetent means accepting their frame, that what they’re ultimately trying to accomplish isn’t *bad*, they’re just going about it in a way with bad side-effects, and people use in bad-faith our good-faith willingness to treat them as incompetent to push their agendas
engaging with someone as if they’re malicious, on the other hand, means rejecting the harmful frame, recasting the argument in terms of “why are you trying to do this bad thing?”, and not quibbling about the details of why the thing is bad
these age-verification laws whose implementations are a form of category error is a good example; if you engage with a proponent of them with “well here’s why your implementation is bad” you’re tacitly approving the larger idea that surveliance is good, and you just disagree with the techniques; bad-faith actors use this
If instead you come back with “why are you trying to surveil everyone’s computer use? Why are you laying the groundwork to prevent people from using their own computers?”, you re-cast the frame. Sure, there are probably incompetent people who don’t realize the results of what they’re going to do, but casting the larger idea into question AND KEEPING IT IN QUESTION is the only effective path I’ve found to debating people on things like this
so, instead:
don’t ascribe to incompetence something that is functionally malicious
Mastodon Feedadele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!") wrote:
#SmolFedi is a lightweight, no-JavaScript Fediverse web client written in PHP.
v1.2.4 is available
- Fix hashtag url rewriting for posts from Friendica instances
- Update list of emojis
- Improve search engine
- Manage timeout on search operation
- Add troubleshooting section in README
- Redirect to profile page if post url rewrite fails?
- Add post filter on profile page: Posts / Posts & boosts / Posts & replies / Media only
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
chef specialising in weetabix
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
The lab spiders are so, so cold as the university fires up the AC in our building, and apparently designates my lab as the cooling sink for everything. I'm going to be cosplaying as James Hong all summer long.
The spiders don't like it.https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/26/its-summertime-and-you-know-what-that-means/
Mastodon Feed"You have to consciously and deliberately maintain it, or it will dissipate."
Mastodon FeedKattni emphasizes that this is not a simple story of having a problem and then fixing it and then it's fixed. Trauma responses don't just go away with a little bit of empathy. Trust is not permanent; it can be broken, it needs to be repaired:
"I went through being convinced that I couldn't do this, several more times…over time, though, the ups have begun to outnumber the downs.…This is a hard fought improvement. It came through both repeated successes and multiple mistakes."
Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:
You guys seen this thing YesPress.io? It's a total scam?
They're just generating pages for people who didn't ask/permit (e.g. @slightlyoff below), and if you look for someone who isn't on there it messages like the other people are already on there and gives you FOMO ("their" = owner). So if you want to edit your own stuff or join the "cool" people, you have to sign up... which is $99... which they are insinuating everyone else must have already paid.
Scuzzy.
Mastodon FeedKattni describes a pretty intense process of recovering from trauma around code review, with the BeeWare team's help, that is complex enough that it's hard to capture in some quick notes here, but it really emphasizes that OSS governance *is* the process of nurturing contributor relationships. And that process worked, because where it lead to was:
"Obviously the response to discovering trauma around contribution is to take on a massive complex contribution, right?"
Mastodon Feedsoatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
See also:
Mastodon Feedsoatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
Post-quantum cryptography landed in PHP before GnuPG
Mastodon FeedBoosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:
I know you kids these days like your neural networks *sits backwards on a chair* how about you open a book and train the original neural network :neodog_book:
Mastodon FeedBoosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:
"Pre-built GitHub profiles with five-year commit histories and Arctic Code Vault Contributor badges sell for approximately $5,000 on Telegram."
https://awesomeagents.ai/news/github-fake-stars-investigation/
Mastodon FeedApropos of the conclusion of the previous talk — "Human practitioners are the adaptable element of complex systems." — we are introduced to a way that Russell recovered from an error, i.e.: the review process created some pretty severe and unpleasant code review anxiety, and he immediately apologized and adjusted his style as soon as he was made aware.
Setting up good processes is important but the *meta*-process being responsive to human input is even moreso.
Mastodon FeedKattni recites a litany of reasons that @freakboy3742 is an open-source maintainer role model for me. The BeeWare sprint at PyCon 2024 was filled with joy, constant recognition of contributors' achievements, rewards (challenge coins, and I just failed a coin check). Achieving this sort of social milieu with the degree of intentionality that Russell does is really something to aspire to, and it is not easy.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
Day ruined.
Mastodon FeedNext up, @kattni with "Bumbling into BeeWare: From typo-fix to core developer". Definitely excited to hear about this!
Mastodon FeedLove to see @dreid getting an (implicit) shout-out from the stage as well, via a website you should all be familiar with, https://how.complexsystems.fail
Mastodon FeedBenno carefully emphasizes that he doesn't want to be engaging in language wars, and in the spirit of honoring that I won't over-emphasize this, but he has the same feelings (bad) that I have about the way that Go halfheartedly encourages you to handle errors with tuple returns, by allowing you to easily forget to handle them.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
there is something massive hidden under the moon's south pole
is it dr iwo robotnik's moon base?
Mastodon Feed"Exception handling requires runtime code"
- C++ requires a runtime (sometimes: if you're writing kernel code or some other no-runtime context you might have to write C++ in a dialect that is missing runtime-requiring language features)
- Python obviously in its own runtime
- Rust… has no runtimeSo: rust has no exceptions.
Rust has result types.
Mastodon Feedadele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!") wrote:
What I hate when I need to install #Linux on a machine
Attachments:
Mastodon Feed"[errno] hopefully tells you why something failed"
load-bearing "hopefully" there
Mastodon Feed(slide full of C code)
"Who knows the undefined behavior"
(pause for less than 30 seconds)
sometimes rhetoric is still very effective even if you know exactly how the trick works
Mastodon FeedBoosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
Stomata@procial.tchncs.de wrote:
A lightweight, JavaScript free web client for fediverse by @adele@social.pollux.casa
https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/the-fediverse-deserves-a-dumb-graphical-client.md
Mastodon FeedBoosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
matusguy@treehouse.systems ("Marty") wrote:
@adele i have been using Smither (https://codeberg.org/nuclearfog/Smither) for Android. it is a pretty complete & lightweight client for mobile.
Mastodon FeedWhew. After a short (and much needed) "emotional whiplash break" inserted into the schedule by @chrisjrn, we have @benno with "State of Exception(s)", a talk about error handling. And then as befits a lighter-hearted and more technical talk, we open with a brief reference to the historical figure of Carl Schmitt and commentary from "reactionary twit" Brian Lunduke.
Oops.
Ahem. And now, some examples of idiomatic error handling in C…
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Support *people*"