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Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

🤔One thing I've learned from the Voting Rights Act being cancelled, is just how much US white people love Jimmy Kimmel.🤷🏿‍♂️

If the major news organizations fire Black journalists? It's pretty quiet.

Jimmy Kimmel gets threatened? They almost revolt!

The US ends Black votes for congress? Quiet again.

I would score the Voting Rights Act being gutted as barely a 0.1 or 0.15 on the Kimmel scale.

Black journalists being fired gets a 0.05.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote:

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
typeswitch@gamedev.lgbt ("azul") wrote:

we live in capitalism. its power seems inescapable. but then so did the divine right of kings. any human power can be resisted, and changed, by human beings.

(le guin, 2014)

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

i have been at this nearly a week now (although a good half of that was getting it to work nicely in a sandbox). i have been trying very hard to give it every opportunity to shine and shine it does. unfortunately, it shines so bright it's well into gamma ray territory and the photons irradiate everything they touch

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Near the coast, somewhere in Tuscany.

📷️ Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

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

I do not like Sam Harris. I do not like Sam at all.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/12/i-say-it-again-i-dont-like-sam-harris/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6dk%5FLBURyQ

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

Concise, curated resources for extending and integrating the pi coding agent (Yes, it was tempting to call it shitty-list).

fucking hell, have i underestimated the number of people who are forced into vibe codding and aren't happy about it?

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

“Stochastic Parrots 🦜: Frequently Unasked Questions | by Emily M. Bender | May, 2026 | Medium”

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/stochastic-parrots-frequently-unasked-questions-49c2e7d22d11

> Accordingly, it seems like a fitting time to do some debunking, answering questions that people frequently fail to ask.

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

I think it's time to get off the big “code forges” entirely (I say, having just migrated github -> gitlab, because github's quality is deeply wanting, among other factors)

Gitlab I am also finding wanting in quality, and given today's announcement, I expect that to be worse not better. The team restructuring they talk about is going to make user interface cohesivity, already a problem, far worse. (Conway's law!)

I'll probably be moving my stuff to a local forgejo, though not super happily. I'll be figuring out CI. Again.

And most importantly, I'll be submitting the forgejo instance to the Software Heritage Foundation for indexing.

This is the thing that had kept me on the big providers, and I realize is actually solved. I don't want what I create to evaporate if I get tired of ops or something happens to me. Too much software availability is fragile.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I am not so sure this is a harbinger of good things

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Software has been "built by machines, directed by people" for decades.

That's what compilers and linkers do, that's what uncountable lines of Bash and endless CI/CD pipelines are – machines building software, directed by people.

And for decades, the bottleneck has not been churning out code. It was code review, it was quality control, it was bug fixing. AI slop makes that *worse*, not better:
https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/89367

GitLab, and the rest of the industry, is solving for the wrong problem.

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

this is really quite bizarre. two interpretations:

they see "slop" as a badge of honour

LOL, ok, but i wouldn't put it past some of these fucks.

they see themselves as an oppressed class and are attempting to 'reclaim' the 'slur'.

quite aside from the fundamental lack of understanding going on, this would be hilarious.

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

LOL, here's the repo description:

pi extension to empower a curl request with coding agent capabilities (slopcoded)

unless i installed some firefox extension i don't remember, they put that in the repo description

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

why aren't there coding agent capabilities in curl already @icing ? can't believe someone had to make a super curl smh

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

pi-super-curl — Extension to empower curl requests with coding agent capabilities

what does this even mean?

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I need a non-technical guide for installing and using #Linux in Spanish for my mother-in-law. Anyone know a good one?

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

yup

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/12/fentanyl-test-strips-samhsa-funding

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

@aredridel
11 = I'm a millennial and I am making a phone call to book an appointment with a pain management specialist

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"after years of Washington’s preventing Chinese companies from buying certain advanced technology products, firms like DeepSeek and Moonshot AI are starting to design their A.I. systems around the constraints rather than waiting for them to disappear."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/business/china-semiconductor-ai-deepseek.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

want some idea of how PRC scholars see the present historical setting?

http://rdcy.ruc.edu.cn/yw/HOME/index.htm

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
dystroy@mastodon.dystroy.org ("Denys Séguret") wrote:

Here's a strange situation:

thousands of #Rust developers use #bacon, #broot, #dysk, or #lazy-regex every single day — tools I wrote, maintain, and improve for free.

Their companies, though? None of them want to hire their author.

If you use my tools at work and your company does #Rust, I'd really appreciate a hand landing a job or freelance mission. A boost goes a long way. 🙏🦀

https://dystroy.org

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
barthalion@treehouse.systems ("Bart Piotrowski") wrote:

GitLab could have won by not doing anything at all but they would rather be renaming issues to work items, adding a dumb split view for the issue tracker, and working on other misfeatures no one asked for, anything but fixing 5+ years old bugs and half-assed functionality. And this doesn’t even touch the layoffs and “AI first” pivot.

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

Despite the differences in approach, both OpenClaw and Pi follow the same idea: LLMs are really good at writing and running code, so embrace this.

think i've found your mistake

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

Over the last few weeks I became more and more of a shill

Hey, you chose the word.

Who am I kidding? You let the vibe cod choose the words.

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

If you haven’t been living under a rock, you will have noticed...

You should try it under this rock, it's real comfy

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

large language models shall henceforth be known as 'the vibe cod'

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

okay apparently this is a thing, whatever it is

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

i'm sorry what?

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

I had a wonderful time chatting about the web with James! And I’m super excited for his new podcast. New episodes every Tuesday! https://jamesg.blog/2026/05/12/announcing-wonders-of-web-weaving

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

omg you guys they've discovered functions.

https://pi.dev/docs/latest/prompt-templates