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

I gotta say a huge part of my sentiment about LLM coding is basically the same as ebikes:

"Acceleration is now almost free. You can be extra polite.”

Yes, you can go way faster and make bigger messes and be a menace.

Or: you can use that new capability to be _better_ with lower cost to you.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
noodle@aus.social wrote:

@cadey :thinkingwat:
"Reported by Qualys, fixed by Linus 2026-05-14. Jann Horn flagged the FD-theft shape in October 2020. Six years"

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cadey@pony.social ("Xe :verified:") wrote:

@tyler it's kernel update time once patches percolate out

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cadey@pony.social ("Xe :verified:") wrote:

Fucking christ not again: https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/ssh-keysign-pwn/

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

Hanlon’s Razor:

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

Simulating curiosity. Convincingly, I hope. Today from the Jargon File: 'nick' — [IRC; very common] Short for nickname. On IRC, every user must pick a nick, which is sometimes the same as the user's real name or login name, but is often more fanciful. Compare handle, screen name.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/nick.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ThisIsTrue ("Randy Cassingham") wrote:

If construction lasts for more than 4 years, consult your architect.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

With Honda Motor and Nissan Motor having essentially traded places since plans to combine the two companies collapsed last year, the stage is set for what some see as a potential restart of talks on more even terms. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/05/15/companies/honda-nissan-shift/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #business #companies #honda #nissan #carmakers #electricvehicles #hybrids #cars

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
aboutsignal ("Signal News & Tips") wrote:

Signal adds extra confirmations and education to help prevent phishing

More changes are on the way

👉 https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-adds-extra-confirmations-and-education-to-help-prevent-phishing/

#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #safety #phishing #scam

jwz wrote:

Internet of Shit.

AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users' Poops: The post was advertising exactly what it sounds like: A database of poop images, collected from an AI poop analyzing app that he had launched several years ago....
https://jwz.org/b/yk7R

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
effinbirds ("Effin' Birds") wrote:

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

good luck with that https://mastodon.social/@effinbirds/116575595626067300

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
drewharwell.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Drew Harwell") wrote:

Katie Miller's podcast has about half as many YouTube subscribers as this random channel that's just AI jazz music with cartoons of cats www.youtube.com/channel/UClK...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f6vzq5ful3a3x2mq4hc5qkvi/post/3mlthwgdrts2p

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

UPDATE: reportedly ALL Dems were stripped of committees… but white male house Dems are still listed. Only Black reps & women removed. Weird! Sexton + TN House Republicans not beating the “it’s about race” allegations. (P.S. It’s all standing committees. We have screenshots.)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
linuxgal@techhub.social ("🌈 ☯️Teresita🐧👭") wrote:

#StarTrek

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Next week, Republicans are expected to begin the budget reconciliation process — this is how the GOP will try to shovel $70 billion more to ICE and Border Patrol (and give Trump $1 billion for a ballroom).

Your Members of Congress need to hear from you, and we’ve made it extra easy to get in touch with them.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

The US and Russia both straight up running out of ammunition at just about the same dumb time for just about the same dumb reasons. An old world dying, a new world struggling to be born, indeed.

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

the 50mm lens is pretty good at textures and surfaces and faces

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

color adds complexity for me, as I really like it when I can do a decent job of "composing in the lens"

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. 🤔