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

Have you called your mother?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/10/mothers-day-matters/

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pmonks@sfba.social ("pmonks (330ppm)") wrote:

Just got into it with some idiot about taxing billionaires, and their argument basically boiled down to “governments are corrupt, so the tax revenue won’t be used properly.” 🙄

Bitch please. My main interest is in making sure billionaires can’t exist. We could literally set the money we collect on fire and it would still achieve that goal. Using some of it for good things is just icing on the mf’ing cake!!

#USPol #TaxTheRich

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

oh my god you guys, i actually read one of these AGENTS.md files and it's hilarious 😂

Use Tailwind CSS classes and custom CSS rules to create polished, responsive, and visually stunning interfaces

Always manually write your own tailwind-based components instead of using daisyUI for a unique, world-class design

Produce world-class UI designs with a focus on usability, aesthetics, and modern design principles

it's like giving it aspirations 😂

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

and this is where i'm stuck, because it literally can't even just reproduce the code it's not editing verbatim. how am i supposed to get close enough to the promised nirvana of it writing and editing code that i can kid myself it's less than a waste of time? without writing a million tests that basically assert that it hasn't deleted all the code it broke inadvertently, that is.

maybe i should put the error back (i had to check it line by line, sigh) and see what it does to fix it?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Trying to test whether what @glyph is seeing is a Mastodon thing or a statistical anomaly.

Please vote on whichever answer causes the current results to change the most, and share widely.

https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/116551741589708709

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

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

i have learned so much already, like:

• running models on your own hardware is a lot of effort
• sandboxing an agent properly is a lot of effort
• my hardware isn't really good enough for most models
• javascript software builds have somehow gotten even worse than i remember them being

but more importantly, i think i've finally worked out what 'prompt engineering' is.

i had, preferring to not touch any of this shit with a bargepole, laboured under the illusion that prompt engineering was about producing better code.

from my admittedly limited experience so far, prompt engineering is more about:

1. making it less fucking annoying. be concise. no, more concise. stop with the walls of text. what are you even fucking doing? that sort of thing.
2. getting it to check there were no errors in its extrusion process, like the one i've just watched it introduce into some code it didn't need to touch.

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

can we just take a moment to appreciate this little gem it's just given me?

Understood. Sloppiness will be eliminated.

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atax1a@infosec.exchange ("mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/110290356664884710

yeah gee i wonder if anyone could have predicted this

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

SCOTUS: Racism is in the past!

CONFEDERATE SLAVE STATES: Cool, now we can finally disenfranchise all the Black people

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Is agentic coding the future of software development?

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spaf@mstdn.social wrote:

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

it kinda saddens me that matrix was the most painful service to switch usernames in - because that's just not a thing. you have to start over with a new account, effectively. :(

even IRC (well, at least libera) has better support, where you can add new-nick to your nickname group, change your account name, and that's pretty much it - all access levels will just be magically adjusted.

oh well.

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kaye@cathode.church ("Kaye") wrote:

I had a dream that Mozilla were bullied into including a toggle in Firefox that disables all the corpo bullshit (so no tracking, ads, AI, etc.) but they were really pissy about it so they called it "communism mode" and you had to click on a little Karl Marx to activate it

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Chris's new system for rating films is crap, but Esoteric Ebb is a really good game

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/o8Wsn5pMsKNhFQ8HX4nnxB

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

Pentecostal religion + UFOs + Rapture + racism + birtherism --> terminal brain rot.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/10/gigo/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37FQQdqvgCE

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
hllizi@hespere.de ("Dieu") wrote:

@gabrielesvelto when they took down half the Internet twice with just a little break in between I suspected AI shenanigans to be the cause, and maybe I wasn't the only one. Announcing now to fire the people who might correct the next mess may not be reassuring.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
promovicz@chaos.social ("prom™️") wrote:

Don't say "the AI did". Don't say "the AI didn't understand". Say "the AI company's system did" and "the system did not succeed". It guards against personification and misattribution at the same time.

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danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

We’ve pushed young people completely out of our public physical spaces and now they’re getting pushed out of our digital spaces as well. Where are they supposed to go?

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danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

I started elementary as a high school student. When we were building the first versions of our desktop environment, one of our core developers was in high school and his parents accompanied him to the Ubuntu Developer Summit. How many things we have today wouldn’t exist if young people weren’t allowed to participate? The cost of not creating spaces that we can safely share with young people is too high

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ZachWeinersmith ("Zach Weinersmith") wrote:

Bonus panel here: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/terminal #smbc #ai #comics

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
trevorflowers@hachyderm.io ("Ol' Dustmouth Flowers") wrote:

This is so silly. I mean, I kind of love the ideas because I am also silly but the build looks a bit weak for my rattletrap lifestyle. Mine would need to be sheet metal encased with all of the mechanisms in brass with tough bearing surfaces.
https://epomaker.com/products/epomaker-glyph

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
circlejtp@hachyderm.io ("JT Perry") wrote:

@aredridel airport security checkpoint

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@ryanc @oscherler @petrillic describing the exact challenges to this process is very difficult because they tend to be ad-hoc where you learn a new, specific, annoying thing about a technology you didn’t realize you were relying on for each problem. but a metaphor may help. running a CA is like holding your arms out at your sides. ridiculously easy for the first minute, lightly challenging for the next 20. but with a CA you rely on there are no breaks; you have to do it for 10 years minimum

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halcy@icosahedron.website ("halcy​ :icosahedron:") wrote:

The relative orientation of the window vs the computer monitor for the computer I mainly use at home is:

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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/

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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

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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).