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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

i object to the whole "90s nostalgia is just cause you were a kid and unaware of how terrible everything was" because yeah, maybe

but in the 90s what nazis did was still very much living memory and people knew what you do to them. also technology actually was a source of life improvements and optimism instead of whatever the fuck this techno-fascist hype cycle bullshit we have now is

my home country the netherlands hadn't been hollowed out by decades of neoliberal bullshit

i could keep going

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

I love how I come across AI model vendors showing something like “Modelname 3B Reasoning, for Enterprise-grade reasoning" Yeah, buddy, that's the level of reasoning of most corporations when confronted with anything human. Not very good.

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Or follow @expanse for the video version.

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

shell is just haskell monads over strings with weird syntax and traps for the unwary send toot

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
hamishtpb@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Hamish The PolarBear") wrote:

The Space Virgins are back on the menu, boys!

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/8krv5d2tSfQCq4Cp77jpB6

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Anyone wanna follow the audio feed of the new Space Virgins on the Fedi, follow @freebooters.uk.spacevirgins

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I spent the week with my wife's family in Tuscany and am now, dreadfully, back home in Germany.

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

it is one of *those* days

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.