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

I hate to do this, but thanks to the continued shittiness of the job market, I am well beyond broke.

Please donate generously so I can afford such luxuries as food and medication.

https://ko-fi.com/dysfun

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

The Moon is about as confident of a repeat visit as I am.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/29/the-personification-of-astronomical-bodies-is-always-amusing/

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

> There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.)
>
> GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week.

https://xcancel.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878#m

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

Apparently, subsidised code automation tools ("coding agents") that make it 10x easier to generate code is a big part of why GitHub has been having issues

So, it really is their own fault since GitHub and Microsoft are pretty much ground zero for offering LLM-based coding tools and promoting the bubble, it's just not breaking for the specific reasons some of us have been thinking

https://xcancel.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878#m

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
yosh@toot.yosh.is wrote:

In case people are wondering why GitHub has been having some issues as of late - the GitHub COO recently shared that they're handling up to an order of magnitude more traffic than they were a year ago.

It's not like GitHub is just serving up pictures and text - things like the core git backend and actions are quite complex to host at scale. Idk, I guess I'm not surprised there are some stability issues when they're going from handling 1 billion commits/year to 14 billion commits/year.

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

Attention Bluesky users!

my bluesky account is suspended until Sunday 26 April for making fun of the neoreactionary vibe coder tech director Why. You'll notice it's Thu 29 Apr and it's still suspended. I recreated it over on Blacksky Networks at the same URL, but you will need to resubscribe to see it:

https://blacksky.community/profile/davidgerard.co.uk
https://bsky.app/profile/davidgerard.co.uk

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

i've overused the Tintin meme so going back to the classic

(and i thought on Monday i'd keep my head down and focus on work...)

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

inkscape is still a bit hilariously bad in a number of ways

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

Warp is now open-slop:
https://www.warp.dev/blog/warp-is-now-open-source

"OpenAI is the founding sponsor of the new, open‑source Warp repository" — "Yes, we are a VC funded startup, but we do not have the resources to compete" — so they'll pillage community tokens?

utterly bizarre insult to the spirt of "open source"

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

meme-level C1 german

right, well that could be a problem

jwz wrote:

A friend was doing a crossword and asked me what URL stands for so I said Unicorn Rotisserie Label and I think we're just gonna have to go with that from now on.

Also they're both 22 letters and I didn't even do that on purpose.

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

proton: You have a meeting in 1 minute

me: spills coffee down my T-shirt

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

blogged: Github is sinking
https://dbushell.com/2026/04/29/github-is-sinking/

— the people do not yearn for Microsoft products

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sovtechfund ("Sovereign Tech Agency") wrote:

NEWS 📣

The Sovereign Tech Agency today is launching the Sovereign Tech Standards network, a new program designed to bring open source maintainers directly into global standards development.

(1/4)

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Thesis: ChatGPT is destroying education, students keep using it to cheat on homework and exams.
Antithesis: ChatGPT has no understanding of facts or semantics.

Synthesis: Homework and exams don't measure understanding of facts or semantics, and can be fooled by plausible-sounding bullshit.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Another way of putting it: ChatGPT is an absolutely amazing fuzzer for human systems. It just spams humans with so many plausible-sounding scraps of nonsense that a ChatGPT user *will* find places where meaning doesn't matter and exploit them.

If you think of LLMs as a spam generation technology, this is unsurprising, but it flies in the face of how tech companies tell us to think about them.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
angiebaby@mas.to ("Angie") wrote:

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

24 Debian LTS Advisories fixing 250 CVEs for various packages were released by Debian LTS contributors in March 2026. These include notable security updates for ansible, asterisk, gimp, gst-plugins-base1.0, gst-plugins-ugly1.0, imagemagick, libpng1.6, linux kernel, roundcube, strongswan and more.

In addtion to the LTS contributions, the team also prepared updates for recent releases - Debian 12(#bookworm), Debian 13(#trixie) and Debian unstable.

Read the full report at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-03/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

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#debian #debianlts #freexian #ansible #imagemagick

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

To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

(The answer is yes, BTW. Ask me how I know.)

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

https://ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout

Techie friends shared this in our group chat. It seems to express things that we've been talking about with each other, and I've been feeling myself, for the last months.

Notable lines:

> If someone [vibe codes], do I [...] send it back to them for self-review? Would initiating these discussions result in interpersonal stress? Should I just let things slide? Would I become known as a “difficult” coworker for pushing back on AI use?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I love and appreciate the work of existing Python podcasters, especially those of you who have had me on as a guest sometimes, but the constant AI jump scares on pretty much all of them are emotionally exhausting and I just want somewhere to listen to stuff about programming without feeling like I'm fighting an existential battle

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I have been wishing I could start this but the chances that I am going to have the bandwidth before Judgement Day are between 0 and ε so maybe someone more inclined can run with it:

A new podcast (I know, I know) called "No-AI Py", that's about Python news and fun PyPI packages and stuff but doesn't mention AI at all in either a positive or negative light.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Never feel bad about promoting your books, even and especially in moments of crisis. One, the people creating the crisis want you demoralized and on your back foot. Deny them. Two, people caugh in crisis need their moments of joy and rest. That's what your books can be... if people know they exist. It's okay to tell them.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@camonghne/post/DXrlmj-lkfd

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

It was at least $1.50 cheaper before President Dipshit decided to start a war for funsies. Also, in what I'm sure is a totally unrelated coincidence, the number of flags and yard signs celebrating President Dipshit has declined dramatically in the past several weeks.

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

Just checking in on the tech bros that supported the fascists because free speech; going well, is it?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/us/politics/james-comey-indictment.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.eVA.qndT.W9DoIey-ZB-t&smid=url-share

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/business/media/fcc-abc-television-kimmel.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.eVA.qbRP.xpZ4KScXXuil&smid=url-share

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

Ken Ham doesn't like me very much. He's pretty sure I'm going to burn in hell.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/28/ken-ham-is-easily-triggered/

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

For years https://how.complexsystems.fail has been missing a link for one of the documents in the "Other materials" section.

Specifically "Woods & Cook (1998). Characteristics of Patient Safety: Five Principles that Underlie Productive Work. (Chicago: CtL)"

I would search for it periodically but was never able to find it.

But this weekend I met jek at #nbpy who after learning about this one missing citation was able to track it down and send it to me.

All the links are finally blue.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
Deivore@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

Workin' on s'more EGA-ish forest art! https://www.twitch.tv/deivore

Attachments:

• gifv: 2e38ccf311f41abd.mp4

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
chrisjrn@social.coop ("Christopher Neugebauer") wrote:

RE: https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@danlyke/116483398203313355

This talk is about maths, queer subcultures, gender roles, henry ford, and so many more things than implied by just the title. Yes, one of the most #NBPy talks at this year's #NBPy.