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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
saphire@dragon.style ("Saphire Lattice") wrote:

Well, the new Google ReCaptcha is awful, sheesh

It's a QR code you have to scan with a "proper" device - aka with Google Services installed

Goodbye last 10 years of phishing awareness, time to scan random QRs without a thought while you are purchasing things, woo! Seriously what were they thinking?

And because it's recommended to be put in "high risk" places, people will expect them to be seen there, and so a scam/phishing QR will be so much easier to slip in.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-the-next-evolution-of-recaptcha/

#google #captcha #recaptcha #phishing #infosec #cybersecurity

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

Oystercatcher! On a lawn! #photo #bird #birds #iceland

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

my god, look at this mess https://gist.github.com/jjl/c44f8b4f565861e29415c61d12b7b4f0

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

This male northern wheatear was hanging out at a construction site this week. #photo #bird #birds #iceland

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

on the other hand, my token rate is much slower when i do it through llama.cpp's ui myself. presumably this is because they have filled the context buffer with some instructions for agents to ignore.

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

holy crap, it's taken 3 days but i've got a sandboxed slopcoding setup running.

truly this is the future, what with me needing to rely on [redacted] years of knowledge to get here.

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

Mine and Grása's hiking paths crossed the other day. #cat #caturday

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
baka ("Andrey / Baka Neko 🐾") wrote:

@soatok I wonder how’s this plan going

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

okay so the web ui doesn't work but the silly TUI thing does, success!

well not quite, i have to work out how to configure it to talk to llama.cpp before it'll be useful.

for values of useful that pertain to disgusting sloppingware, i mean.

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

this blank page sure is impressive after 3 days of work 😬

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

I will endeavor to have fun, starting with a commencement ceremony today.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/09/i-am-grimly-determined-to-have-fun-this-summer/

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

i am not fond of javascript build tools.

my new favourite is 'global install,' meaning 'symlink to the source directories' of course.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

@cthos

Widely accepted??

Whether and how LLMs should be involved in coding at all (much less “agents”) is the single most divisive question I’ve ever encountered in my 40-some years of software development. It makes static vs dynamic types or text editor wars look like tiddlywinks by comparison. I’ve never seen so many developers ready to set things on fire over how to write code.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
rem@front-end.social wrote:

Prompted by @bramus' encouragement, I've written about popovers and the backdrop psuedo selector and how I think…it can lead to anti-patterns, it certainly did for me.

https://remysharp.com/2026/05/08/popover-backdrop-anti-pattern

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rasterweb/116542832779822915

There’s a reason why I’m still here despite all the annoyances this place has to offer. You lot are readers and you post links to what you read. 👍🏻

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
rasterweb ("Pete Prodoehl 🍕") wrote:

Boy was I wrong about the Fediverse

https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

#bookmarks

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

“The AI-inflected crisis artists are facing, in 4 charts”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-inflected-crisis-artists-are

> According to the survey, 99% of artists “disliked” AI; for 92%, the dislike was “strong.”

Yeah. That's right.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
tomayac@toot.cafe ("Thomas Steiner :chrome:") wrote:

Better browser caching with the `No-Vary-Search` HTTP header:
https://csswizardry.com/2026/05/better-browser-caching-with-no-vary-search/. Fantastic article by @csswizardry.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
hdv@front-end.social ("Hidde") wrote:

Reminder that also if you work at a large org, you can convince folks to get rid of the X posting and the X links.

European Commission removed X in favour of Mastodon https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116538344713848285

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

i dunno you guys, i was all curl pipe bash'd out a long time ago

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

mr president, a third javascript project has also failed to provide anything in the way of build instructions

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

javascript projects tell me how to build from source challenge 2026 impossible

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

i actually only came here looking for build instructions (missing, obviously), but this has definitely amused me

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

actually the entire thing is hilarious, a truly creative work 😂

https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

e.g.

Why are new issues and PRs auto-closed?

and

Issues submitted Friday through Sunday are auto-closed and are not part of the Monday review queue.

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

can we just take a moment to appreciate this line from an AI agent software's contributing guidelines?

You must understand your code. If you cannot explain what your changes do and how they interact with the rest of the system, your PR will be closed.

😂

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

Read the documentation, but you can also ask the agent to explain itself

no.

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@riotnrrd

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

New @acollierastro dropped:

https://youtu.be/p6Ejmhwb8Sc

Boosted by jwz:
imacrea@mamot.fr ("ImaCrea") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rasterweb/116542832779822915

> " I never expected to find my news from strangers on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of. [...] But there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage. Just someone who spent twenty years studying Arctic policy posting a thread at 2 AM because they think you should understand what's happening. It's the internet I was promised in 1996."

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

more info here https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q2/433