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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

More evidence they should resign:

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-koreas-sk-group-chairman-expects-chip-wafer-shortage-last-until-2030-eyes-2026-03-16/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
EveHasWords@toot.cat ("Eve Ventually") wrote:

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

Unfortunately, I can't get down on my knees to beg for my knee surgery.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/29/its-knee-day/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
cdh@hcommons.social ("Christina D-H") wrote:

"What if we could start over and build the Internet from scratch? How could it be rebuilt or reimagined as more equitable and just? ... Paris critically examines the myriad and contradictory promises, utility, and obstacles to building a completely new Internet.

Radical Infrastructure locates and analyzes the boundaries of how people and groups imagine, build, deploy, maintain, and use the Internet as they survive—and even dare to thrive—in challenging political, economic, and environmental contexts. Ultimately, Paris encourages active reflection among scholars, policymakers, and activists and reveals more grounded imaginaries, tactics, and opportunities for future people-centered projects"

https://www.ucpress.edu/books/radical-infrastructure/paper

#OpenAccess #InternetStudies #Bookstodon #Commodon #InfrastructureStudies #RadicalInfrastructure #STS

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Diziet@mastodon.me.uk ("Ian Jackson") wrote:

It looks like I'm going to be rewriting git-subtree. Related: my 2023 blog post "Never use git submodules" https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/14666.html

It has become evident that I need a vehemently anti-LLM policy, before I publish any of my nascent code. I may want to make an exception for prose for those with less command of English.

Rather than DIY I'd like to copy a very anti-LLM policy from somewhere. Where has the best current practice?

(AI apologia replies unwelcome; will get blocked & reported.)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

The scale of mismanagement is breathtaking. I think the central planners in the Computing and Communications committee should resign immediately:

https://sourceability.com/post/ai-is-reshaping-the-market-and-breaking-the-supply-chain

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

People keep linking to tech “thought leaders” who are too muddled in the head to be able to clearly articulate a difference between generative and non-generative ML models and I keep letting it annoy me

There was a time I was hoping the distinction would be obvious to everybody 🤷🏻‍♂️

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alda@topspicy.social ("Alda Vigdís") wrote:

Compound words in languages like Icelandic and German are useful because they help you see the difference between a criminal lawyer and a criminal lawyer.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io ("amos") wrote:

This tweet by the GitHub COO is *bananas*

The most egregious failure modes we have been seeing these past weeks are cannot be attributed to "growing pains".

This is not PR anymore. It's just gaslighting.

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

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fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io ("amos") wrote:

Also, are you really complaining about hosting too much code when you rolled out fucking Copilot? For real?

Also, hosting code must be like a fraction of the actual compute budget for GitHub, surely? Dwarfed by action runners and... model inference? By a very long shot?

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io ("amos") wrote:

This tweet by the GitHub COO is *bananas*

The most egregious failure modes we have been seeing these past weeks are cannot be attributed to "growing pains".

This is not PR anymore. It's just gaslighting.

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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