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karolherbst@chaos.social ("☃️karolherbst☃️") wrote:

"Fun bug of the month, mesa edition, episode may"

so if you do "uint64_t some_var = 1 << 31;" in C you get "0xffffffff80000000" as the value, because that's super obvious and not confusing at all.

It's pretty funny getting reminded how non-intuitive and broken C is from time to time.

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

making things

jwz wrote:

Zeitgeist check: This season of "Beef" has multiple scenes where a dimwitted, fumbling 25yo uses ChatGPT on his phone to con an older person into thinking he knows anything at all.

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historyofpunkrock@sfba.social ("Punkrock History") wrote:

Happy 76th Birthday to Mark Allen Mothersbaugh, co-founder, lead vocalist and keyboardist of the new wave band Devo, born May 18, 1950, Akron, Ohio

Photo by Michael Ochs Archive

#punk #punkrock #newwave #markmothersbaugh #devo #punkrockhistory

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benschwarz@front-end.social wrote:

If you ignore the health, ethical, social, moral, financial, environmental, creative, cultural, privacy, quality, legal and geopolitical concerns, then this thing really has legs!!

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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

I think every one of the last dozen photoshops I’ve done has had some knob or another reply with “AI SLOP!!”.

Look. Skill issue. You may not be able to hallucinate absolute dorkarse nonsense by yourself, but some of us can.

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Nickiquote@mstdn.social wrote:

1. Lock yourself in an airtight fridge.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

I'm told that "The Secret Life of Circuits" is off to the printer. The only remaining risk is that I finally get canceled for all the llama jokes I made in the 1990s. But if you're willing to take your chances, you can preorder with a 25% discount at nostarch.com (and get an instant PDF copy with the purchase).

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

TCAS (Tom Clancy Avoidance System)

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
codinginquarantine@corteximplant.com wrote:

I couldn't stop thinking about this so I had to make it and share it

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

then you finally see the truth

that a hero lies in

youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rawenwolf@meow.social ("RawiWoof") wrote:

@drikanis @soatok
My company: Saving mode so merits are frozen for the time being
Also my company: Signs a contract with Microsoft (out of all the AI-coke dealers they just had to pick the shittiest one) on AI coop.
Also also my company: Officially authorises use of Claude AI. And reading the comments under that announcement made me ask myself "Why the fuck am I in this mental ward disguised as a corporate? Seriously, these people can't be left to their own agency ... wait, they already have none."

The AI-rehab is going to be borderline impossible and those who didn't succumb to the AI-coke will go insane from having to fix the mess.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

I should note that AI made the book possible in that the constant AI headlines made it easier to detach and just focus on the book

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

I spent my day programming, and it was satisfying

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Wow, I'm already getting some useful feedback! Now I know that "furikake" exists.

And also some spam, of course. No, potatoes are not meat, and soap is not bakery :-)

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

i'm just never updating software again

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/rotten-macos-icon-design/

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Turtles! Just spotted these two sprinting across the yard this morning. The giant snapping turtle was bounding across the front yard but stopped to pose when it spotted me. The little box turtle was running through the back yard and did not slow down for pictures.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Meet Shoppy! https://softwaremaniacs.org/shoppy/

A silly game which I made to help crowd-source some data for my app.

I also wrote a blog post about it for those who like technical details https://softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2026/05/18/shoppy/en/

#python #django #css #osc

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
zachweinersmith.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Zach Weinersmith") wrote:

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/criminal #smbc #comics

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
drikanis@mstdn.ca ("Drikanis") wrote:

@soatok my company has a lot of developers who are literally addicted to their chatboxes, even as we're currently re-evaluating it with the impending cost increase of 5x-12x.

these addicts can no longer work without it, and they're loud about that fact. i suspect a lot of companies will continue to pay the increasing costs at the expense of their employees' salaries and mental health, at least for some time.

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skeh@birb.space ("Rat Bastard") wrote:

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
skewray@mathstodon.xyz ("Skewray Research (ZF¬C)") wrote:

@soatok I assume you mean, "Too Evil to Fail."

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cratermoon@zirk.us wrote:

@soatok the longer the grift continues before the bubble pops, the bigger and more destructive the bang

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

Assuming no perfect solutions to the problem of generative code in open source contributions, which of these approaches do you prefer?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

For some reason Donald Trump has posted a AI generated picture of him pressing a button and blowing up America, Ireland and himself.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
pikesley@mastodon.me.uk ("Rocket Ship Questioner") wrote:

None of this is inevitable. None of it. There is a very small number of determined psychopaths causing all of this fuckery and they have names and addresses

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

It's hard to gauge exactly when this might happen.

The AI companies are certainly positioning themselves for a massive bail-out, hoping the Trump administration will hand them trillions of dollars because they're "too big to fail" if enough CEOs force their employees to adopt this tech.

(Which logically means people who resist it are a threat to their scheme.)

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
littlefoxone@tech.lgbt ("wolf **rika :verifieddemigirl: :therian: :wlfBlep:") wrote:

New nemesis dropped
renovate :neofox_floof_explode:

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/115651773214269698

Since May is halfway over, I think my timeline projection was wrong, but the AI companies are certainly playing with fire.

They're currently doing what might be called "enshittification" if they were any other SaaS: lower usage limits, pricing restructuring to capture more value for themselves, etc.

This isn't the sort of thing that will kill off the use of LLM technology or even generative AI as a whole. So-called "local models" will likely persist the AI bubble pop.

But what won't survive is the service model where AI users' data is funneled into a third-party service provider and processed by an LLM.

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

NO NOT MY PRIVATE JET

https://fortune.com/2026/05/16/new-york-private-jet-tax-mamdani-teterboro-port-authority-elevate-aviation/