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kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Snake saying hello

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

oh wow, it's already been reverted https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/313931

well that answers how well people took it, i guess 😂

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

RE: https://grrl.me/@soph/116508426964266127

microsoft are so desperate to get copilot numbers up that vscode will now add copilot as a co-author by default

edit: it's already been reverted because people took it about as well as you might expect 😂

edit 2: it was an accident, definitely not a megacorp being evil. allegedly. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991835

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

A Chinese court has ruled that companies cannot legally fire workers and replace them with AI.

After a Chinese company reassigned a worker to a role paying 40% less as their job had been automated by an LLM, the worker refused the demotion and was fired.

The worker sued and just won the case.

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/ai-termination-ban-why-chinese-184031008.html

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

"What do you usually paint?" the wizard asked.

"I do a lot of pet portraits, but if it's for myself I like to paint fancy animals."

"Like a winged tiger?"

"Yes! You've seen that?"

"Ah. The canvas you used-"

"I got it cheaply, but it's good quality."

"-was enchanted, to make the subject real."

#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Day one of randomly placing one "dale" (Spanish word) in my work emails until someone points it out.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
amoroso@oldbytes.space ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

The book A Programmer's Guide to COMMON LISP by Deborah Tatar (Digital Press, 1987), along with the errata, is now online with permission from the author.

https://archive.org/details/a-programmers-guide-to-common-lisp

My review of the book:

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/reading-a-programmers-guide-to-common-lisp

#CommonLisp #lisp #books #retrocomputing

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
brettm@swarm.coiloptic.org ("💙🩷💜Brett🐡🍉🐧") wrote:

"Can you Lisp without being strapped in to the Torment Nexus Machine?"

list compiled by @zyd@yap.zyd.lol

https://zyd.lol/lisp-against-the-machine.html

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

?

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

(it's a quite naughty epoll reactor in rust)

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

luckily i noticed before i wrote it again 😅

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

oh right i've written all this code before

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
fblive@live.freebooters.uk ("Freebooters live") wrote:

I've gone live!

Drew, Hamish, and Chris chat some nonsense

#chatting #videosgames #tech

https://live.freebooters.uk

Attachments:

• gifv: Live stream preview

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

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

thanks ddg, obviously when i search for tokio i mean tokyo

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
gmc@friends.chasmcity.net wrote:

#cat #dog

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

the right to vote is the bedrock of democracy, and no other rights are safe without representation. and the protections of the Voting Rights Act were not just for citizens in ‘The South’.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/30/us/politics/voting-rights-act-black-population-congress.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.flA.6lIQ.xTLmuGKu28DW&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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

i see wakefulness levels are at "i tried to explain something simple and had to edit my post twice"

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

This is a long-standing characteristic of the field and it explains a lot of what’s been going on in tech. If you can’t even empathise with people doing the same job as you—that share your circumstances—what are the chances of you caring about the end user or the effects of your work on society?

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

The class solidarity argument has been a part of “AI” discourse in many fields for a while now. It doesn’t settle the debate but it’s a rationale many will acknowledge even if they disagree

Except in coding. Mention it to software devs and most will look at you as if you just spoke in tongues

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
JamesWidman ("James Widman") wrote:

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
DGI@graeber.social ("David Graeber Institute") wrote:

Happy Birthday to Sir David Attenborough who turns 100 years old this week.

He is someone whose words we should all stop and think about.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

It pisses me off when even AI skeptics like Gary Marcus keep repeating the industry talking point that "AI has clear value in coding".

The best available evidence shows that the value is far from clear.

In fact, the best available evidence shows that the median outcome is net-negative.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
danluu ("Dan Luu") wrote:

I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.

It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).

What will they think of next?

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

@fedward biggest recession indicator: twonks waving around charts to show you've never had it so good

nobody does that when times are as good as they're making out

jwz wrote:

I'll take decimals that look octal for $177, Alex...

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

Judging someone on a single tool without knowing the rest is a bit hasty.

Yes, I sometimes use LLMs. But I have never taken a plane, I travel by train, I work from home, and I grow some of my own fruit and vegetables.

I am not saying I am beyond criticism. I am saying one tool does not define a person.

But everyone is free to have their own opinions. :-)

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
rebane2001@infosec.exchange ("Rebane") wrote:

i'll be giving my css clicker training talk at smashing meets next wednesday!

it's a free online event! check it out here:
https://smashingconf.com/meets-style-sheets

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
trevdev@fosstodon.org ("Trev :emacs:") wrote:

@ChrisWere there's no accounting for people's taste in movies, but there's REALLY no accounting for Drew's

Boosted by jwz:
Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

Ever wonder why Team Chad, Team AI, and Team White Supremacy seem to be all the same people?

Because they have one animating thought, a need that drives their attitude towards women, immigrants, and work.

They want slaves.

Female slaves, robot slaves, people of color slaves, all the same to them. It’s as if they’re offended by the notion that they’re not superior to somebody and have to take responsibility for their own lives.