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

farce multiplier

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
jaffathecake ("Jake Archibald") wrote:

So, Chrome's "web standard" Prompt API:

Mozilla: Opposed
WebKit: Opposed
Microsoft: Several concerns
W3C TAG: Several concerns
Developers: Mostly negative

Chrome: Ships anyway.

A sad time for web standards. But, I guess someone at Google will get promoted, so 'every cloud…'

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

You have the opportunity to vote against calling a cheesy, sunday-school-level heap of nonsense as the best thing in Kentucky. Unless you hate Kentucky, in which case you might vote for this embarrassment.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/06/a-kentucky-pharyngulation/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
technige@fosstodon.org ("Nigel Small") wrote:

They'd have got away with it, if it wasn't for those meddling kids.

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

What a fine day for a scientific study to come out that says my planned knee surgery may be worse than useless.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/06/go-ahead-ruin-my-day/

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

the good news is there is an opportunity sitting there for the taking. i can skip the having my cv weeded out and go straight to interview.

the bad news is that they want experience with agentic development. specifically i will have to be able to answer questions about my setup at the interview and at work they'll expect me to use it most of the time.

now i don't want to, i don't think i've made much of a secret for my distaste for it or the reasons why. on top of that, i am incredibly aware that i am human too and there is a very real risk that i could experience cognitive decline and ai psychosis just like anybody else. i don't know what to do about that other than to keep up hand programming when i'm not at work. but where do i find the energy?

anyway, the dire situation i find myself in doesn't really allow me to turn even such distasteful opportunities away. i'm absolutely not going here willingly, more like kicking and screaming, really.

so with that, i would like some non-judgmental advice on how to go about catching up with the latest muppetry securely at minimised ethical cost on slightly fucked hardware (i can't peg the cpu too hard or it will hang or reboot and it has an old graphics card (radeon wx5100 pro)).

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

i have been researching lightweight virtualisation and i can confirm that most virtualisation things advertise themselves as being for agents and have claude as a contributor.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

A Security Researcher Decompiled The White House App, & What They Found Is Pretty Alarming https://www.androidheadlines.com/2026/05/a-security-researcher-decompiled-the-white-house-app-what-they-found-is-pretty-alarming.html

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

RE: https://mstdn.social/@MaryAustinBooks/116525472715612424

The kids are alright

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

look ddg, if i give you exactly two words, i am expecting them both to occur in the results (modulo stemming etc.)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

this is incredibly stupid and the kind of thing that would make me immediately rage-quit building software with LLM components. what happens when the provider changes the model and breaks your whole app because it now responds differently to its fucking "name"??? https://www.reddit.com/r/LLMDevs/comments/1t4c1kp/the%5Fdeveloper%5Fwho%5Frenamed%5Ftheir%5Fagent%5Ffrom/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
slint@fosstodon.org ("Slint") wrote:

💻 wsl-dashboard: a lightweight GUI to manage WSL on Windows.
Snappy native UI with #Slint

https://github.com/owu/wsl-dashboard

#MadeWithSlint #rustlang

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• gifv: screecast

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

just dropped in Chrome Canary

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

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

It almost blends in with the landscape.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #abandoned #decay #moss #snow #history #WW2 #WWII

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

There's not much left of this war relic.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #abandoned #decay #moss #snow #history #WW2 #WWII

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

oh, git is only 6 or 7MB. i kinda expected worse.

Boosted by jwz:
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

@graydon Also worth noting that mind/body dualism correlates with belief in an immaterial/immortal soul, which in turn supports Xtian belief in specific afterlives for the godly/sinful, which is implied by the idea of original sin, so the whole biblical mass of just-so creation myths and authoritarian you-will-obey-or-be-punished threats collapse without it. Clergy: can be invested in it ("bully pulpit" is a term of art). Oligarchs: much more invested.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

I don't mean to be nasty about it, but he's been extremely public in his efforts to normalize some of the most extreme AI booster positions around. He's done an immense amount of harm to OSS with his boosterism, and I believe its important to criticize his public actions on that basis.

If even a dyed-in-the-wool AI extremist like him is starting to back away, that's a sign that the wind is shifting.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Surest sign I've seen yet that the AI bubble is finally imploding: Simon Willison pretending to be reasonable about AI for a change.

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@Viss Trek in the streets, Wars in the sheets.

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

I've gone live!

Chris and Drew play Divinitiy: Original Sin

#chatting #videosgames #tech

https://live.freebooters.uk

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• gifv: Live stream preview

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jwz wrote:

Dear Lazyweb,

For an external USB 5GB+ spinning disk (not SSD), is HFS a better choice than APFS? Assume no weird edge cases like spanning volumes or RAID are involved. It's just a disk.

It is very easy to find *either* answer, but hard to find one that sounds like it's from someone who knows what they are talking about, and isn't just cargo-culting it or reading from a press release. So show your work.
https://jwz.org/b/yk64

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
hn100@social.lansky.name ("Hacker News 100") wrote:

Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

Link: https://paletteinspiration.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026342

Boosted by jwz:
ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social ("Ahimsa") wrote:

Yet another real headline that feels like it's from the Onion 🙃

#USPol #TaxTheRich #Resist

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
daisy@cloudisland.nz ("Daisy Leigh") wrote:

Genuinely one of the worst things for me about the vibe coding apocalypse is that it is steadily eroding my patience in code review.

It used to be that if you identified issues with someone’s code, you could explain why, and help your coworker learn and grow as a professional. And sometimes they’d respond by explaining why they did it that way, and then you get to learn and grow as well.

Now a lot of the time when I do code review, I feel like I’m not actually investing my time in learning, just giving them something to copy paste into an AI chatbot without engaging with either the code or the feedback.

Boosted by jwz:
connor_g ("Connor Graham") wrote:

RE: https://flipboard.com/@variety/variety-h2bfsrg0z/-/a-S8%5FvUIo0TPS7YaI1AJZugw%3Aa%3A1819762525-%2F0

This would be equivalent to a $0.36 fine for the median US household.