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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ancoghlan ("Alyssa Coghlan") wrote:

"It’s making developers dramatically more effective, but it’s also introducing security vulnerabilities, increasing technical debt, and producing code that can be difficult to maintain." is one heck of a sentence that appears to be relying on a rather novel definition of the word "effective" to be in any way coherent. (It's a pull quote from https://thenewstack.io/acm-vibe-coding-ai-agent/ that pretty much brought my brain to a juddering halt from the level of cognitive dissonance it implies)

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

My mistake in debating buffoons was in failing to wear a goofy enough hat.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/10/is-ai-a-bigger-clownshow-than-creationism/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

One would think that in a situation where everything is falling apart and marginalised people (especially trans people) are getting hit very hard, people trying to change it would try literally *anything* other than the kind of networking event that creates nothing but misery and liver damage. Alas.

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/networking-house-live-cnn

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

Wow finally found the gitlab k8s agent config docs

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cluster-integration/gitlab-agent/-/blob/master/pkg/agentcfg/agentcfg%5Fproto%5Fdocs.md

Did they just tell me to go fuck myself? I think maybe

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
joelle@social.joelle.us ("Joelle") wrote:

Here's an AuDHD hack I found:

For stuff I don't want to lose in a pile of crap, get it in a bright color -- orange, hot pink, neon green, etc. Don't do this for everything you own, just the stuff you really don't want to lose (I.E. for me, things like my phone).

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

The neologism "slopist" reminds me of solopsism, and they're probably not too philosophically distinct

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
resistbot ("Resistbot") wrote:

📈 “STOP WEAPONIZING “COUNTERTERRORISM” AGAINST PROTESTERS AND LGBTQ AMERICANS” hit 50 signers! https://resist.bot/petitions/PNTBIT

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
gregatron5@vmst.io ("Gregatron5") wrote:

I don’t remember where I saw this, but I finally read it, and I suggest you do, too.

https://www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-de-poitrine-argument-for-ubi/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
thatandromeda@ohai.social ("Andromeda Yelton") wrote:

@aredridel "whatever's going on in Harvard Square and/or Boston Common"

with a (dis)honorable mention for "oh, girl, extract yourself from this date NOW"

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

Can the Trump administration please just admit that they want to kick Chinese students and scientists out of the country? They don't like science anyway, they're just digging up pretexts to shut down labs.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/10/this-is-where-were-at/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
janl@narrativ.es ("Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:") wrote:

@aredridel Trainstation

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
DeeLux_Fiat@todon.nl ("Dee Lux Fiat") wrote:

@aredridel “kids being mildly mischevious”

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!") wrote:

You want to export your timeline, a specific tag, a list of followed accounts... in your pocket for an offline reading ?

#SmolFedi permits it now!

You can choose, in prefs, the number of exported posts, CW/sensitive media inclusion, width of images...

#XteinkX4 #Xteink #KOReader #epub #ebook

demo instance source/install

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
skeletor@mas.to ("Inspirational Skeletor💀") wrote:

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

What’s your favorite genre of people watching? Mine is either “surprise reunion” or “dad takes kids to the diner”

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

i have been dockering for 4 days and i already freed up 8 gigs of diskspace by 'docker system prune'

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

“Real signals or artificial stereotypes? - by Adam Kucharski”

https://kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signals-or-artificial-stereotypes

> Despite the responses being identical for the UK and US, Copilot produced a rich, detailed summary of how US and UK respondents differed.

I know too many people who are using LLMs for exactly this kind of data analysis and refuse to listen to me when I try to warn them

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

oh c'mon, this is slower than waiting for AWS to spin things up for terraform

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

the clue was that my cpu spiked - the gemma 4 model i was being gaslit by before was more like 10t/s with minimal cpu involvement.

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

i'm trying a qwen3.5 model. it seems to be a bit much for my gpu - 0.2 tokens per second and two minutes to respond to "say hello".

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

every few years we find a new way to make people wait on large files to download and call it progress.

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

“Google developers significantly misstate carbon emissions of proposed UK datacentres | Google | The Guardian”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/09/google-developers-significantly-misstate-carbon-emissions-of-proposed-uk-datacentres

> Emissions understated by factor of five

Why it's a mistake to take claimed environmental impact of data centres at face value

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

“Iran war is crushing Asia’s farmers, threatening global food supply - The Washington Post”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/05/09/iran-farms-thailand-food/

> Nam Aoi said she faults only two men: Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

They also all know who to blame, in case you thought the US would have any allies left come next spring

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

“Iran war is crushing Asia’s farmers, threatening global food supply - The Washington Post”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/05/09/iran-farms-thailand-food/

> Heading into planting season, many farmers said they are facing the worst conditions in their lifetimes. Not during the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war were shortages or costs this dire, they said. Nor during the pandemic.

This'll probably be paywalled for most, but the short version is that food shortages next winter are baked-in. The only question now is "how bad?"

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
Savon_qui_flotte@eldritch.cafe ("Soap") wrote:

Hello ! Je donne 2 billets de #train (un aller et son retour) :

- de Marne-la-Vallée Chessy à Marseille le 12/05 à 7h22
- de Marseille à Marne-la-Vallée Chessy le 19/05 à 18h27

Merci pour les retoots, ça fera peut-être des heureux·ses et ces places ne seront pas perdues !

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
lobo@meemu.org ("Lobo") wrote:

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
brie@social.lol ("🐈‍⬛ brie biker-ranza 🚲") wrote:

✍️ I wrote a guide describing how I'm using the $69 Xteink X4 as a serious part of my reading workflow:

https://brie.dev/tiny-ereader

I love this ultra-portable notification-free reading environment that syncs with my KOReader devices!

💰 I'm sorry about your wallet!

#XteinkX4 #Xteink #KOReader

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
veronica@explains.social ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

Anywho, I'm a big fan of GoToSocial after having used it for a few weeks, and I'd love it if we all threw them a few bucks over on OpenCollective (if you can spare it).

https://opencollective.com/gotosocial

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tek@freeradical.zone ("Tekniquelly correct") wrote:

Q: Why do you like living in the Bay Area?

A: It's a million little things.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Gustodon@mas.to ("Ω 🌍 Gus Posey") wrote:

Which statement is more true?

A. Control is an illusion.

B. The decisions we make affect overall outcomes.