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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116546111998207690

It occurs to me that I don't actually understand how model-context protocol works, even at a high level. Given that emitting structured requests for tool use was like, a new thing, not present in the big training datasets, how do LLMs' output result in tool invocations?

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

Perhaps you have thought to yourself, *I'm* on board the Psychology of Software Teams train, but how can I subtly let others know? How can I identify fellow POST fans in the wild?? What if we need to organize around the radical notions of thriving, motivation, self-compassion and psychological safety??

Well if you find me at a 2026 conference or book reading you can get a TINY PROPAGANDA STICKER

A sticker shows a tiny book cover of the Psychology of Software Teams on a terracotta background, and white text reads Developers Deserve Science
A sticker shows a black and white hand drawn illustration of brains in jars on a terracotta background with white text that reads Developers are more than brains in jars

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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
hejsna@ruby.social ("Johan Halse") wrote:

React apps are, overwhelmingly, just straight-up worse than plain old server-rendered markup. I don’t understand why everyone keeps building with it. The DX isn’t even that good.

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ericjames@booping.synth.download ("ericjames* 🐺‼️ (they/it)") wrote:

stolen for alt text

In a three-panel meme, George Costanza — a white man with a receding hairline wearing glasses and a green plaid button-down shirt — and Jerry Seinfeld — a white man with puffy hair and a brown button-down shirt — have a chat: Panel 1: George, sitting in an easy chair, says to Jerry, "Why do billionaires care if they lose all their money?" Panel 2: George continues, "They'll just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and make it all back with their unbelievable work ethic." Panel 3: Jerry, standing up, says to George, "Plus, if they're poor, all the money will trickle back down to them, making them rich again."

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

well gemma was enormous fun, next up i have to try a qwen model. if you'll excuse me, i now have to go find a good one and then wait for it to download.

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

the french government should make their own fork of firefox and call it firepoodle.

but they can't because they wouldn't let the fire muck up their pretty doggo.

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

it’s kind of fascinating watching the vote count jump as this hits pockets of new networks, and yet the proportion has not moved at all since it got a few hundred votes

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

(nevertheless please boost the heck out of this, the more it breaks containment the more I get a broader sense of how folks are feeling)

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I appreciate everyone voting but this is definitely one of those posts where I find myself wishing I got a dime for each reply https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116542583024883535

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

it never found the answer. it gaslit me repeatedly about it, then i found something that looked odd ($SHELL not being set because i set the user up by hand and didn't copy over /etc/skel) and when i set it, it worked. i told it that it had to be something else and offered that i'd just noticed $SHELL wasn't set.

it gleefully told me it absolutely definitely wasn't this and that the only solution was to execute the full path. and also that it was a bug in busybox's PATH logic.

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

i thought i'd start it off with an easy task - figuring out why my attempt to install it in ~/bin isn't working.

it's very special. i got this after several messages of it gaslighting me that it was my PATH (amazingly, i did actually do everything i could think of to get it working before i asked it...) https://gist.github.com/jjl/2c3895aa1bf0ca74f146f1588c804f19

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ricci@discuss.systems ("Rob Ricci") wrote:

#3dprinting question: my experience is that filament spools that are tidily wound (ie. nicely packed layers, tight side by side rows) tangle much more easily than the ones that *appear* sloppily wound

Am I imagining this or do others have this experience too?

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
MonotoneofBill@mastodon.world ("M❍n❍t❍ne❍fBill™") wrote:

Will transparent coffins catch on? Remains to be seen.

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erkhyan@yiff.life ("Erkhyan") wrote:

All right, I might as well announce it.

Even if it’s just a limited-audience, one-day event, as of 2026-05-16, I’ll have reached the art milestone of “got a piece of mine into an actual exposition”.

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

it's okay, i've taught it. i am confident it will now correctly interpret my sarcasm

https://gist.github.com/jjl/98a544e8e67895b3bd6ce852f816446d

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

oh dear, it doesn't understand british english 😂 https://gist.github.com/jjl/16c6fd0cb74dfe5eee4f64f703ab012c

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

look i'm sorry but if you genuinely believe this is a serious competitor to humans thinking about stuff you are beyond help.

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

LOL look at this "helpful" shell script it wrote me https://gist.github.com/jjl/985a07ab2dfd090afc60b79b01e0a408

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chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

This flu, or perhaps Covid that has managed to return three negative tests, has really messed with my appetite. You know what? I wish I still had some damn Soylent. (I’ve ordered vegan Ensure that’ll get here tomorrow morning.)

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Is agentic coding the future of software development?

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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
AutumnWyvern@dragon.style ("Autumn :AutBabie:") wrote:

@saphire

what if someone doesnt have a smartphone..? or is currently using their phone to access something with this new captcha and doesnt have a random second device to scan QR codes off of their phone with?
even in a sunshine rainbows world where nobody did scam QRs it seems like a pretty bad idea...

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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

An image of a demo shop checkout page by Google, with ReCaptcha modal popup on top, instructing to "Scan to Verify You're Human" There's only a QR code

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

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

It's an oystercatcher on a lawn. That being a long-beaked bird that mostly doesn't catch or eat oysters
That same oystercatcher, except now it's pecking at something in the grass.

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

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

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

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

A small bird, grey and white with a yellow streak, sitting on a large rock.
That same bird but now on a stack of plywood and seen through a chain link fence.
The bird is still on the plywood stack but partially obscured by the fence.

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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.

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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.

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

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

Grása, a long-haired grey-and-white cat, lounges on the sidewalk.
That same long-haired grey-and-white cat sitting on said sidewalk, looking to the side, framed by sunlight
Now she is looking ahead.

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

@soatok I wonder how’s this plan going

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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.