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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jfslowik@infosec.exchange ("Joe Słowik") wrote:

"Those files we stole and threatened to release? Totes deleted bro, trust us!"

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

"There are no more juniors. There was a funeral for their passing in 2024. Nobody came. The machine does what they do now, but cheaper. Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are buried. We optimized for output, and abolished apprenticeship. A few years from now, we'll wonder where all the seniors are. We shot them. Nobody will remember."

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
lapcatsoftware ("Jeff Johnson") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pxlnv/116559783670635896

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:

The greatest danger of AI is not that it will become super-intelligent but rather that it will make humans super-idiotic.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
veronica@explains.social ("Veronica Explains") wrote:

You still deserve privacy, even if you:

• don't use Linux
• use big social media sites
• aren't "techie"
• are just an average computer user

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
FrOSCon@bonn.social wrote:

Dear FOSS Community, the challenging situation in the IT industry has caused many of our partners to decide not to book a booth this year. As a result, we are short on funds for the conference, including event technology, exhibition walls, video streaming, children’s and youth programs, volunteer meals, transportation costs, and insurance.

We are specifically looking for conference partners and also still need a coffee partner 😭

Help us keep FrOSCon alive: https://froscon.org/en/cfp/cfpartners/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
campuscodi ("Catalin Cimpanu") wrote:

Redditors have caught Google secretly updating its Chrome terms of service to remove a line that guaranteed that local AI models won't send data to Google servers.

That's now gone, meaning your local AI sends data to Google, so it's not that local.

https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1t5qayz/chrome%5Fremoves%5Fclaim%5Fof%5Fondevice%5Fal%5Fnot%5Fsending/

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

okay that's enough for one day, i must play computer games now.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dsalo@digipres.club ("Dorothea Salo") wrote:

RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn100/116562140131863211

But MOOCs are gonna take over the world and put universities outta business.

Yep.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
manu@hachyderm.io ("Manuel") wrote:

#cern has open sourced its #kicad component library! https://home.cern/cerns-kicad-component-library-now-open-source/ #electronics

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

The AI bubble is only possible because tech as an industry has a huge infrastructure for pushing boundaries, eroding consent, and forcing functionality on users. That infrastructure isn't going away just because they decided not to use it for sparkling anus buttons any more.

It's going to still be there, in terms of prompting you to reduce privacy and increase ads, to accept locked-in platforms instead of open protocols. It's still there in terms of age verification.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
theresnotime@fox.nexus ("Sammy Arson Fox (with the big fluffy ears)") wrote:

Just dropping https://www.wikiworkersunited.org here for no reason whatsoever

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

for those who haven't seen https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

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

RE: https://mastodon.online/@tomshardware/116561860722986272

Goodhart? is that you?

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

i do not claim to be an economist, but i have an A-level in philosophy and I can tell when the premises do not lead to the assertion

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

As the cost of producing software collapses, demand for it will expand.

i want some of what you're on

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

I'm on team blue, except that this thought experiment doesn't allow for iteration, making it entirely unrealistic.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/12/oooh-a-provocative-philosophical-conundrum/

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