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

it can be hard for me to compose properly with color, and I need to find a decent analytic stance. I am trying to find ways to use what I remember of the "Zone Theory" in a non-grayscale context.

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

screwing around with an old Nikon D40 body and my *really* old 50mm Nikkor lense, trying to understand how best to use them together.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

Consider the slow creeping horror of a spring with no insects. The uncanny unspecified silence of the night. The emptiness and around you the whole ecosystem would be failing from the bottom up... without making a single sound.

You might make it to fall, maybe through the first winter but beyond that? When the soil fails? When most of the birds and river fish are gone?

It would be the end, but how many would notice it had begun?

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Wish I could read the bun rust rewrite comments for the 🍿 but alas the size of the PR apparently broke GitHub.

Oh the irony

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:

"Raising the Flag" by Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson.

"There’s a particular kind of decision that doesn’t just change the law. It rewrites the story we tell ourselves about the country. The Supreme Court’s latest ruling on the Voting Rights Act is one of those decisions.

The court’s conservative majority didn’t simply narrow a statute. It made a far more sweeping claim: that the conditions that justified the law no longer exist."

https://nickanderson.substack.com/p/raising-the-flag
#UsPol
1/n

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ifin@infosec.exchange ("IFIN - The Independent Federated Intelligence Network") wrote:

I am sure you're shocked to hear about another NPM compromise.

This one was because a maintainer let their email domain expire!

https://discourse.ifin.network/t/node-ipc-npm-packages-infected-with-stealer/454

#ThreatIntel #ThreatIntelligence #IFIN

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

@NfNitLoop The Register seems to cover it, and the articles have links to the original social media/blogposts:

• https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/05/05/anthrophics-bun-team-trials-port-from-zig-to-rust/5222094
• https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/05/14/anthropics-bun-rust-rewrite-merged-at-speed-of-ai/5240381

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@brib Yikes. If you have links I'd love to read the details.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

@NfNitLoop

Following this particular news trail far too closely for my own health, it seems to be a big reason for the rewrite.

I think the story is that first someone (can't remember if they were a bun dev or someone tied to Anthropic) tried to merge some slop-written changes to Zig, Zig pointed to the no-slop policy and that they wanted to implement these particular changes carefully (which slop doesn't do), and the Rust rewrite is basically a developer hissy fit.

It's a giant mess imho and a good reason to switch away from Bun

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Well done to the CEO of Krafton, who asked ChatGPT how to avoid paying $250m in bonuses if Subnautica 2 launched well, executed the ChatGPT plan, got sued by staff, had all the chat logs appear in court, lose, and now have to pay $250m and more and be publicly humiliated by his own employees.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@brib Huh. TIL Zig has a "Strict No LLM / No AI Policy". I wonder how much that played into the decision #Bun made (after being acquired by Anthropic) to "rewrite" from #Zig to #Rust. 🤔

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:

He stares up at the sign, tears streaming. Arthur “Pantless” Jackson smiles. The search has taken him 10 years and to 14 countries. He opens the door. The clerk looks up from his phone. “Can I help you?” he asks. “Yes,” says Arthur, “I’m Jackson, and I believe you have my pants.”

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Sankhavaram ®") wrote:

“After lots of corporate shuffling, #Flickr ended up in the hands of a family-owned company, SmugMug, and they made the Flickr Foundation to preserve public photos for the next 100 years”

via @anildash

https://www.anildash.com/2026/04/30/artemis-photos-flickr/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

@WeirdWriter @kincat

For myself the giveaway is the "You're absolutely right!"; it's a common ChatGPT trope.

There's something about the style of the sentences too that reads as AI-generated to me. Em dashes, contrastive comparisons (apparently that's the formal name for "it's not x it's y"), and rules of three are writing devices common to both humans and bots, but AI seems to use them a lot, and in ways that are excessive and disrupt the flow of the writing rather than enhancing it. That's a significant tell for me.

There's also a level of breathless exaggeration that crops up from time to time in AI writing. This particular AI is incredibly deferential and contrite, coming across as rather insincere. It's not just sorry, it's so sorry it's going to change its entire development process for this one user. Somehow I doubt it.

Now you may be wondering how this kind of message differs from the average human-written corporate non-apology.... that's the neat part! They are not that different! This is, I expect, why business people have embraced the slop machine, it is not that different from the way they actually write.

As for why there's all those formatting errors.... no clue! It looks copypasted from an AI site but I thought even AI sites could handle proper line breaks.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Someday I will manage to ignore everyone who is wrong on the Internet and go back to programming

Someday.

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

I bought wired earbuds AMA

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
troublewithwords@wandering.shop ("Steven Hoefer") wrote:

I've had this in my head for ages, so here you go.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
drwho@masto.hackers.town ("The Doctor") wrote:

Hi. :ablobwavereverse:

I'm a professional computer geek in the Bay Area. I've been a sysadmin, designed and built networks, been a penetration tester, done security research, and incident response. I'm flexible enough to work as in aerospace engineering as well as computational pharmacology.

I'm still #unemployed.

I'm searching for a job, on-site or remote. If you're hiring, please DM me, or at least send me a link or two? Please?

#GetFediHired

Boosted by jwz:
Hex@kolektiva.social ("hex") wrote:

"AI is going to replace a lot of jobs."

Ok, what do you think is gonna happen when you stop paying the "don't riot" bill? How long can you go without paying that bill before an angry mob is gonna come to collect? You can tell from their vacant eyes that they never considered that.

They're gonna go in their bunkers... And then what? They all care about getting into the bunkers and never consider that the doors can be welded shut and the vents filled with concrete.

Boosted by jwz:
Hex@kolektiva.social ("hex") wrote:

LLMs can do a lot of the work people are tasked with doing on a regular basis, because a lot of the work people do is bullshit. The majority of what we do isn't to achieve any goal, it's a way to distribute just enough wealth to keep things calm while keeping us all too busy to actually make things better.

We aren't paid to make stuff or do things. We're paid not to riot. Elites used to know that. The fact that they've forgotten how the machine works is evident in its current implosion, and will only become more obvious as they forget the one thing that actually keeps them safe.

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Now that's a protected bike lane. Why can't we have this everywhere?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

You don't have to listen to the people who say they're "inventing the future".

They have a lottery ticket and it only pays out if you're a sucker.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
pycon@fosstodon.org ("PyCon US") wrote:

If you've been coming to #PyConUS for a few years (or more!), you know how much this conference can mean to our community. This year, we welcome you to volunteer for a couple of hours and help make the magic real for someone else 💖

Sign up today ➡️ https://us.pycon.org/2026/volunteer/volunteering/

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

OK, so with another two weeks of Claude experimentation under my belt, I can confidently say that we've successfully automated a McKinsey associate. Now, as for *why* we built an electric junior consultant to generate bad infographics and marketing copy, I don't know.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Edmonds_Scanner@universeodon.com wrote:

If you can, strive to be a kind person in the world.
Also, carry a large grumpy owl on your shoulder, for when the kindness thing doesn't work out.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@cstanhope My current workplaces squashes all commits in a PR on merge. I generally do not like this, because I often break a task up into smaller logical steps that are easier to review/undo independently.

However, it does have the nice upside of hiding all of my "fix lints" "fix format." "Update test" commits after the merge.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Right wingers are becoming less healthy in part because they "express less trust in their personal doctor and are less willing to seek care for non-COVID-19-related health problems" and also "people on the right with chronic illnesses are more skeptical than people on the left that medicines to treat those illnesses are safe and effective."

Science doesn't care if you believe in it, but if you don't believe in it you might not live as long.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02474-9

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

Embedded systems with limited resources really give you an appreciation of the stack, you know? I'm all, "OMG! Isn't it cute? Just look at it make efficient use of that itty-bitty memory! 😍"

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
platypus@glammr.us ("Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]") wrote:

GNU Craig Maloney, a reminder you can still listen to Open Metalcast on the internet archive https://archive.org/details/openmetalcast?page=3&sort=-publicdate

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Friday Night! Do you even compute, Bro? Master Boot Record! Performing live with Arottenbit and Crashfaster!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2026/05-15.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #masterbootrecord #arottenbit #crashfaster #chiptune #synthesizedmetal #symphonic #metal #livemusic #concert #sanfrancisco

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