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kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Spotted a coyote!

#wildlife

jwz wrote:

Speaking of robot bartenders.

... You're the first person to even mention Cocktail Robotics to me in I-can't-remember-how-long. So it's not as if people are banging on the door asking me "Hey, when's that coming back, I've got a cool idea..."

And, oh wow, can you imagine what an AI-slop shitshow it would be now? Half the entries would be "I made a vending machine that can talk like a sexy secretary, I think we might try to get VC funding for this"....
https://jwz.org/b/yk7G

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sleepless@social.lol ("Courtney") wrote:

Good conversation between James and Adam about the Web, past, present, and future.

https://web-weaving.jamesg.blog/1/

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iliana@tacobelllabs.net ("/etc witch") wrote:

my partner is currently referring to computers as "domesticated rocks"

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

I see that with springtime and being out doors, anti-homeless rhetoric is on the rise again.

Just remember who around you has been homeless will absolutely surprise you, and they will hear you when you say callous, stupid things

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

i am in fact completely normal about computers. the more i learn about them, the more normal i get about them.

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

game where you swat bugs with a fly swatter and each time you do a vibe codding apparatus patches a bug in the game

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

i just called the output of benchmarks interesting and had a "you just called a table of numbers interesting" moment.

jwz wrote:

A slopfondler walks into a bar.

Once or twice a month some tech industry guy recognizes me at DNA Lounge. It always used to be *blah blah* Mozilla *blah blah* Code Rush, whatever... but lately all they want to do is proselytize "AI" at me. This has been 100% of fanboy interactions this year. And then they're shocked when I don't want to hear about their awesome project and in fact I tell them that what they are doing is unethical and harmful...
https://jwz.org/b/yk7E

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
golgaloth@writing.exchange ("Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon)") wrote:

Your characters are tasked with finding something. This is somehow unreasonably difficult.

(Vietnamese Mossy Frogs, so called because they are often not found in Vietnam.)

#WritingPrompt #writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #ttrpg #dnd #GameDev

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mattbors@mstdn.ca ("Matt Bors") wrote:

in 2016 I made a comic titled “Mr. Gotcha” that would become most viewed and circulated image I’d create.

Now it is the subject of a book by @glennf examining its history in online discourse. That One Matt Bors comic is live on Kickstarter—back it here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/that-one-matt-bors-comic

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jsjoshua@esq.social ("Jonathan Joshua") wrote:

PayPal settles with DOJ for allegedly discriminating against white people. Yes, you read that correctly.

#lawfedi #consumerprotection

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-secures-30m-settlement-paypal-over-unlawful-dei-investment-program

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Little bit of Divinity 2 before bed: https://live.freebooters.uk/

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alpha@hey.kejadlen.dev wrote:

@aredridel A lot of the discourse seems to be confused as to whether AI is a tool or not - this sort of take feels to me like gatekeeping around using table saws instead of hand tools.

jwz wrote:

Life imitates Carpenter once more.

On Thursday, I hosted a screening of *They Live*. And then today this happened. Racist, election-denying, insider-trading, fascist, methane-breathing space ghoul "Coach" Tommy Tuberville busts out the Hoffman lenses.

People keep describing things as "mask off" but this is just getting ridiculous.
https://jwz.org/b/yk7B

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Freelancing is really hard, y'all. I'm tired.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
dthompson@toot.cat ("dave") wrote:

The Spring Lisp Game Jam is coming up quick! It starts on Friday! Grab a pile of parentheses and warm up your REPL!

https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2026

#lispGameJam #lisp #scheme

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
brennen@federation.p1k3.com wrote:

some of you may be interested in expressing a little solidarity here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki%5FWorkers%5FUnited

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
akshay@social.coop wrote:

https://www.subvert.fm/ is live 🎉

It's a community-owned alternative to bandcamp.

Let the music makers/publishers/listeners in your life know that there exists a place where we don't have to be shackled by for-profit corporations.

🎸 🥁 🎤 🎶

#subvert_fm #coop #music #bandcamp

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

One sniff of this cologne would fix me

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

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/116563010312917817

One of the good takes!

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geekysteven@beige.party wrote:

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johnzajac@dice.camp ("John") wrote:

Most "convicted criminals" took plea deals because the alternative was waiting in jail for 3-5 years until an understaffed and indifferent court system cared enough to put you on the docket.

The entire thing is unconstitutional (literally - speedy trial my ass) and literally designed to protect the rich and punish the poor.

A "criminal conviction", in most instances, in this era, means less than nothing; and most of them are for things like "had weed and was Black or latino"

Cut it out.

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johnzajac@dice.camp ("John") wrote:

I am *literally begging* people to stop talking about whether or not the actual persons disappeared by ICE have "criminal convictions".

If they don't have due process YOU DON'T HAVE DUE PROCESS.

It's an all or nothing proposition.

Even people with criminal convictions and criminal records *have fucking rights*.

Our Justice system is a shitshow run by money and political influence and vibes. Judges are literally magistrates and your fate if you're arrested depends on the luck of the draw.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

And if you've read that far and you're in IT, I have one word for you: unionize. ✊

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

GitLab's CEO writes:
> Humans still own the judgment that matters most: architecture, deep understanding of the customer problem, the tradeoffs that require taste.

I hold judgement over this decision.

I see it as a symptom of lack of understanding of how good software is actually built. And of greed, directed by the hype train and FOMO.

And I find this blogpost, and the whole idea of pushing slop generators tasteless.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

The push for this is about labor, and is about power. CEOs all around the world have wet dreams of never having to pay people ever again. Of never having to hire people.

Slaves would be good though.

And AI "agents" is the closest CEOs can get to slaves. The next closest thing are employees that are too terrified of getting fired to stand up for themselves.

No surprise, then, that in this same blogpost, in the same breath, GitLab's CEO announced layoffs.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

The outcome of this will be *worse* software.

It will feel even more plastic, it will be even more brittle, and it's not because we don't know how to write better, more reliable software, but because the industry decided that writing better software is not how money is made.

And GitLab just went all-in, announced to the world: we're here for plastic software, we're here for shit quality code, we're here for forcing people to review unreviewable slop and then blaming them for the bugs.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

Welp. I've been using GitLab for over a decade and have been pretty happy with it. Deployed and maintained several instances, some personal, some for small hobby orgs, some for work.

But it looks like it is time to ditch GitLab for good:

> Software will be built by machines, directed by people. AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

#GitLab #AI #FuckAI #SoftwareDevelopment

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
flesh@transfem.social ("Tzimisce Flesh") wrote:

Don't let an LLM ruin your code.
It's your code.
Ruin it yourself.