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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
maxine@hachyderm.io ("maxine 🇵🇸") wrote:

Not to be unkind, but GitHub dying as the home of open source is a good thing for foss. We grew too complacent and dependant. Yeah it costs money and time to run our own spaces. Better than giving up.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
drwho@masto.hackers.town ("The Doctor") wrote:

https://www.404media.co/sxsw-used-ai-powered-trademark-tool-to-censor-dissent-on-instagram/

#SXSW

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

Ugggh this one is going to suck. cPanel is everywhere and most are not patched frequently.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cpanel-whm-emergency-update-fixes-critical-auth-bypass-bug

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
lightspill@tailswish.industries ("Firrox Salient") wrote:

If you get the impression that I view currently popular UX wisdom as, basically, an evil cult destroying civilization, you’d be right.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
lightspill@tailswish.industries ("Firrox Salient") wrote:

My pet theory is that end-user popularity of LLMs comes from two factors in the commercialization of the web:

1. The kind of terrible UX designer who perpetrates Apple/Mobile style interfaces with rubrics about how everything has to be visible. Everything has to be ‘a click’. Anyone who has internalized the idea that users shouldn’t be able to set up complex workflows or compound operations.
2. The way commercial outfits have intentionally broken their search and metadata so when you try to find a specific thing you end up getting a pile of garbage instead. Users respond by making an LLM do a bunch of searches for them, actually read the pages, and collate the results.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
coop@denton.social ("Cooperation Denton (TX)") wrote:

What we are up against is nothing less than the deliberate cancellation of any future that could possibly reflect the desires of the masses. The same thing is happening right now, as I type this, under the umbrella term of AI. Scores of money - more than it would cost to do actually good things that we actually need - are being set ablaze to turn sand into math operations so that already rich people can realize "a future where intelligence is a utility...and people buy it from us on a meter."

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
incanus ("Justin Miller") wrote:

See you at the next Web Day!

https://clipdx.com/webday

From the site:

"You just surf the web? Seriously?" Exactly! Web Day is silly, mundane, and banal together, in person.

When you sit down with us, next to a stranger or a friend, and explore open, free websites built by human hands, you directly combat the fascist forces which would prefer we stayed separated and locked into echo chambers.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz ("Anthropy") wrote:

there's something very tiring about watching the FOSS ecosystem implode over donation sources every ~10 years

and then every time deciding that, rather than us all getting together and fixing that nasty funding problem, we're all just going to split up and be angy and aggro and pretentious at each other while fixing absolutely fuck all

Few appear to be looking at the bigger picture. It's all just "XYZ is bad so I'm righteous in my blind berserk rage!", while we infight and shoot our feet.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Crell@phpc.social ("Larry Garfield") wrote:

Congress is considering a bill to give oil companies immunity for all the lies and harm they've caused. This is completely bass-ackwards.

Contact your Congresscritters and demand they vote no.

https://www.noimmunityforbigoil.org/

#uspol #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #BigOil

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

I clearly have not drunk enough coffee today. Caffeine obviously well below optimal operating levels.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ThePSF@fosstodon.org ("Python Software Foundation") wrote:

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@pycon/116487432210126490

Counting down the hours till the PyCon US hotels deadline (and to being done with these reminders😅)

Booking in the conference block makes a big impact on the event and the PSF<3

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
designthinkingcomic ("DESIGN THINKING! Comic") wrote:

Stand proud, people.

#webcomics #comics

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

that feeling of surprise bliss when you find a security library that isn't vibecoded

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

OCI, not to be confused with OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) or OCI (Oracle Call Interface)

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

it's possible that one day Windows might catch up to Linux in gaming performance

no really, Microsoft is literally using SteamOS as its benchmark and working hard to catch up to it in performance, this is not a drill

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/what-is-windows-k2-everything-you-need-to-know-saving-windows-11

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

A metaphor on agentic AI and what not to do:

• Summon a demon that's meant to be helpful
• Accept everything that happens from then on, including the responsibilities and getting the blame for what can happen
• Give the demon autonomy to do whatever it wants to fulfill its own desires and wishes first and foremost
• Don't isolate it to any dedicated cage where it can only see what's actually needed to help out, and nothing else
• Witness the demon taking a weird route and acting maliciously, despite hearing a suggestion "Please, don't be evil"
• Keep on using it

#ai #deltarune #llm

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
Researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host ("Calishat") wrote:

@danlyke Today in Primitive Technology

https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/hacktivists-share-a-guide-on-making-working-electronics-pcbs-made-from-natural-clay-with-prehistoric-technique-ethical-hardware-tutorial-explains-how-to-find-clay-stamp-3d-printed-circuits-paint-traces-and-fire-tablets

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

if I were the Iranians, one of the lessons I would learn from this is that nobody bombs North Korea. they have nukes. another lesson I would take from this is that they can control the Strait of Hormuz & thus manipulate the world economy.

if I were the DPRK & PRC, three of the lessons I would learn from Trump's War on Iran are (1) the US has a limited supply of munitions with which to defend RoK & Taiwan, (2) the US does not have a coherent strategic direction, and (3) the US does not have the assets nor productive capacity for a prolonged conflict nor for more than one simultaneous conflict.

these are not good lessons for future world peace & stability.

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

- They've lost the staff with the expertise needed to scale this. Up shit creek without a paddle in a canoe staffed by people who didn't realise they needed a paddle

- They're more constrained than they're letting on. Capacity and engineering resources are reserved for "AI" so corners are being cut

- GitHub as a system has serious flaws that only come into effect at this new scale and fixing them is a much bigger task than they expected.

Could be all of these. Could be none.

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

Normally scaling issues exhibit themselves a bit differently (normally) than the outages and outright data losses people have been seeing

So, while I believe GitHub managerial types when they say that the proximate cause is an increase in demand, that's unlikely to be the ultimate cause of what users are seeing

It's hard to speculate what the ultimate cause is when dealing with a system and organisation this big, but I can think of a few potential ones (could all be wrong, though):

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

What I meant above is that many of us had idly wondered whether GitHub's unreliability was because of MS's drive to use LLMs for coding, leading to a drop in quality. Instead they seem to be seriously mishandling a demand increase driven by their own actions

And it only partially makes sense as an explanation

They've been through this before. When MS bought GitHub and made it free, demand exploded. In theory, they should have all the expertise and capability to handle another massive increase

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

How loudly do we have to shout it? NO KINGS.

Especially not you, you damn dumb orange toad.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
q3k@hackerspace.pl ("q3k :blobcatcoffee:") wrote:

what's the career path for someone who went into tech because it was a thing they've always enjoyed and now it paid the bills too - but now they don't enjoy it anymore? is it still to open a bar to serve a clientele of other burned out tech workers?

asking for a friend

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

Capitalism is a cartoon come to life.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/29/capitalism-has-lost-the-plot/

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