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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"Have you thought about how CrAzY it would be if the world were a DyStOpIa?!? Look at how BAD this is! Like imagine how HoRrIfYiNg it would be to live a life as a SLAVE to a MACHINE!??!"

yeah bro I got it we all live like that now do you have, like, any suggestions

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

There is an oft-repeated saying in recent years that #ADHD is a disorder of doing, not of knowing. I already know what I need to do; and managing the disorder is all about either changing its conditions (i.e. medication) or putting the strategies into my sensory field so I *perceive*, rather than *know* them. The same is true for depression; "don't be sad" doesn't work, depressed people already know they'd prefer to be less sad.

All political satire feels like "have you tried not being sad" now

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

you know that feeling where you want to explain, but you know the other person won't understand?

especially when it's because you are a massive computer nerd and they aren't.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Forgot to post... From February in Brussels.

📷️️ Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 @Ameboid
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

sky@schub.social ("Sky Schubert") wrote:

naming things is hard. naming people is even harder.

so, anyway, I've got a new name.

hi. :8bitheart:

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

well i basically stopped for the day after this.

tomorrow is the big day, i will attempt to get it to write code. you know, the thing that people are very convinced it can do better than me, despite the copious proof suggesting otherwise.

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prahou@merveilles.town ("Tomáš") wrote:

in the
darkest hour
of man

saddle the steed
of apocalypse

and ride with
angels of hell

#unix_surrealism #comic #tarot #occult #computers #art #fediart #triapul

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MetalheadDana@metalhead.club ("There is No Dana") wrote:

#ai #fuckai

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peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

my post clarifying that this is not a golden calf is raising questions already answered by my post.

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

the drugs don't work, cause captain kirk replaced your stash with icing sugar.

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mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116545218419254244

Action: Follow #FindOutCrew Members

Background: This week Find Out Media, the folks behind the popular Find Out Podcast created Find Out Social, a Mastodon/Fediverse instance, and invited their audience to join. In three days they have over 2600 new users, who are now trying to get their bearings.

What you can do: Welcome these new Fedizens. Follow cool accounts. Engage with them. Show them what a great place the Fedi is. Check out their local feed at https://findout.media/public/local.

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leahmcelrath.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Leah McElrath") wrote:

“Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf” is pretty funny.

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jwz wrote:

@aparrish There are two kinds of articles you can write about AI, just like there are two kinds of obituaries you can write about Henry Kissinger.

And every morning tech "journalists" wake up and choose the one that is not this: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/

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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

“When I asked them if they had actually consulted with anyone on the ground in the district, they said no.”

The DCCC decided to support Randy Villegas’ corporate-backed opponent in the CA-22 primary. Randy explains why his people-powered campaign scares the Democratic establishment.

Attachments:

• video: 1d7090248f6df32b.mp4

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

extremely upvoted hacker news comment about how actually if you think about it it’s extremely kind of google to tell you it’s raining when they piss on you

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

@glyph it is however the future of comedy. i've just spent 3 days getting it sandboxed on my local machine and i'm unimpressed with the payoff.

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abucci@buc.ci ("Anthony") wrote:

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @xgranade@wandering.shop @mttaggart@infosec.exchange @cwebber@social.coop

Incidentally, as a bit of an aside since it touches on my own CS research a bit:

high output generation with review

seems to be load bearing in the push to widely deploy vibe coding or agentic coding or whatever they're calling it today. "It's OK to have LLMs produce code as long as there is thorough human review" is an argument I've seen trotted out countless times, but should not be given any credence.

I am here to tell you that this is a misapprehension that ignores the substantive difference between:

(a) Competent human beings producing X by, in part, avoiding producing Y
(b) Less-competent human beings with machine help producing Y, catching that Y is bad with a test or review, and lather-rinse-repeating until X is produced.

If you like, (a) is gradient ascent while (b) is trial-and-error (generate-and-test, or hillclimbing, to use the GOFAI jargon). Everyone who works with such algorithms knows that (a) is many orders of magnitude faster, more reliable, and more robust than (b) when a good gradient is available. Most of machine learning is based on this observation! When it comes to producing code, competent human software developers provide such a gradient (that's what we mean when we think of them as "competent").

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

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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

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.

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.

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

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)

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

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.

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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MonotoneofBill@mastodon.world ("M❍n❍t❍ne❍fBill™") wrote:

Will transparent coffins catch on? Remains to be seen.