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

Having been at this for some years, the quality of the tools compared to early days are mind bogglingly high.

wow funny how hardware and software are on such different paths now, eh?

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
boyd@socialbc.ca ("Boyd") wrote:

All 10yr olds should know #markdown

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
freebooters.uk@rss-parrot.net ("🦜 The Freebooters Podcast") wrote:

'You can't encapsulate this rambling fucking nonsense with a description'

freebooters.uk/media/20260530-freebooters.mp3

We chat a about our movie review systems, Star Wars, Mel Brookes, UK politics, and BASH scripting.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

After enough years in software, you learn that LGTM doesn't actually stand for "Looks Good To Me".

Only the pros know its real meaning:

"Looked. Got tired. Merged."

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz ("Anthropy") wrote:

that doesn't mean you shouldn't be wary, doesn't mean you should be suddenly cutting them slack on other issues they have, or pretend their work culture and ethics are flawless, even when it comes to the LGBTQIA+ topics.

But it does feel rough to see colleagues who are 100% well intentioned getting shouted at and hated for no other reason than people perceiving it as hostility, when it really is not what it's intended to be.

I really wish people would come together more. We're in this together

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz ("Anthropy") wrote:

Seeing the whole 'corporate pride is fake' thing going around again, and I have a few thoughts to share on this;

1. those are usually organized by actual LGBTQIA+ allies at those companies, not just empty marketing- but that's my personal experience.

2. This is also the reason why you won't see it in countries which are actively hostile and make it actually illegal to be LGBTQIA+ aligned, not because they're 'selective'.

3. I'd rather have more, than less allies, but that's my personal take.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz ("Anthropy") wrote:

because to be quite frank, it takes quite a lot of coordinated efforts to set up and carry forth pride events at e.g big tech companies.

And to go through all that effort, just to be met with hostility from people who you presumed to be actual allies, is disheartening, and feels very wrong.

If you want to build a better world, if you want places everywhere to be more friendly towards these things, I personally don't think infighting over what is essentially puritanism, will do anyone a favour.

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fen@zoner.work ("Fennel") wrote:

wolf link does uwus to call birb friend :3

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
freebooters.uk.spacevirgins@rss-parrot.net ("🦜 Space Virgins: First Contact") wrote:

'You can't encapsulate this rambling fucking nonsense with a description'

freebooters.uk/media/20260530-freebooters.mp3

We chat a about our movie review systems, Star Wars, Mel Brookes, UK politics, and BASH scripting.

Boosted by jwz:
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@pfish.zone so much of the maintainer community right now is handwringing about "but if we ban LLM use, how will we tell?" and I am exasperated because the answer is not some sophisticated word-probability detection machine, it is "they will be blindingly obvious about it, and if they manage to not be obvious for a second, they will brag about it, they can't stop themselves"

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

i made spinach and fake chicken curry. it needed a good addition of soured cream to round it off so i gave it plenty

jwz wrote:

Chad Valley Wooden Influencer Roleplay Set.

This wooden influencer set brings roleplay fun to children who love creating content. It includes 6 pieces a tripod stand, adjustable aperture lens, camera, smartphone model, tablet and microphone. The set...
https://jwz.org/b/yk8D

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

the AI discourse is going to turn me into a batman villain who builds an underground lair for the sole purpose of kidnapping pundits and Clockwork Orangeing them to read the wikipedia pages on "metacognition" and "fundamental attribution error"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116661163978253459

I really have to stress that the "hypothetically" parenthetical here is load-bearing. Nobody has *actually* had any code deleted yet by one of these LLMs, as a result of this logged prompt. If such a deletion did occur, who could even tell if it were the prompt's fault? As several production incidents have demonstrated, you're rolling dice with the deletion of all your data each time you invoke an agent anyway, this just _maybe_ weights the dice a bit differently, in a way that can't be measured

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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 glyph ("Glyph"):
cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

I'm reminded of the "The NeverEnding Story" where the Nothing is slowly but inexorably destroying everything as people attempt to flee to ever shrinking areas of safety...

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mcc wrote:

Screenshot from a DM conversation

jwz wrote:

Are.na Hypernormalisation Machine.

Pull images and text from are.na to make a strangely familiar documentary critique of late capitalism:
https://jwz.org/b/yk7%5F

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

haters will try to tell you that your backup tool shouldn’t be slop that silently corrupts data

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zygmyd@toot.cat wrote:

All of a sudden those maniacs compiling everything themselves from known good sources seem a great deal more reasonable.

jwz wrote:

All these people fretting over "what fork of rsync should I use to get the hot new rsync features in the future".

Stop. Stop changing rsync. It's done.

This post is about ncurses.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha :mastodon:🇪🇺") wrote:

A Brand Manager getting ready for Pride Month 🌈

by Smooth Dunk

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

GenAI is going great (this is real)

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+days+of+the+week+have+fish+in+them%3F&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
isziaui@mstdn.social ("Christian Walther") wrote:

While I’m down the QR code rabbit hole, here is another one.

Cover any corners to make the decoder latch onto the others.

Boosted by jwz:
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116452401274098204

Trump is so evil! Journalists uncovered what many suspected: that many ICE agents have been convicted of violent crimes, including rape and murder!😮

The journalists were going to release the convictions. But Trump threatened to send the DOJ after the journalists if they did!

🤔Oops, I mean Becerra.

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danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

Folks, racism is inevitable. It’s endemic and there’s nothing we can ever do to resolve that. We have to learn to live in a world where racism is part of the norm. At the very least we shouldn’t be so militant about casual or benevolent racism. Instead of wasting time trying to stop racism, we need to refocus on promoting local, on-device, ethical racism

This post is about LLMs

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
hosford42@techhub.social ("Aaron") wrote:

@dbattistella I don't believe that publicly traded for-profit companies are capable of this. I think the very fact that such a company is incentivized to perpetually extract wealth from workers and customers and give it to 3rd party share holders who contribute nothing to wealth generation beyond a one-time contribution of capital is what makes these companies grow into vile monsters over time. They are exploitative by design, and this is the dominant form of company in our economy.

It's possible to break this mold. Cooperatives are democratically controlled, and often the workers and/or customers are the shareholders, with equal shares. This changes the incentive structure from an exploitative one to, you guessed it, a cooperative one. If we could only make this the dominant form of company in our economy, we would live in a very different world where "don't be evil" was the natural order of things.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
dbattistella@mstdn.ca ("DB 🌱💦") wrote:

The man who wrote "Don't be evil" said he chose it specifically so it would be hard to remove. Paul Buchheit, the engineer who later built Gmail, suggested the phrase at a Google corporate values meeting on July 19, 2001.

Then in early 2018, internal documents leaked showing that Google had signed a Pentagon contract to build AI to analyze drone footage. By April, over 3,000 Google employees had signed a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding the contract be cancelled.

The letter specifically cited "Don't be evil" as the standard the company was failing to meet. Dozens of engineers resigned in protest.

Sometime between late April and early May, the slogan disappeared from the code of conduct's preface.

#Google #AI #Tech

[![Screenshot of a Wikipedia page: Don't be evil "Don't be evil" was Google's former motto, and a phrase used in Google's corporate code of conduct.[1[213 In 2018, Google removed the original motto from the preface of its code of conduct, [°]](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/116/664/159/577/507/603/original/938a10ed12de32a0.png)]7

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
MaryAnnJohanson@mas.to ("MaryAnn Johanson (she/her)") wrote:

If you've ever said "Fuck ICE" on social media, congrats: You're on a government watchlist.

Fuck ICE. And fuck Trump and the fascist oligarchs he rode in on, too. #FuckICE #FuckTrump

https://www.rawstory.com/social-media-subpoena/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ronald@blog.ronaldoussoren.net ("Ronald Oussoren") wrote:

I’ve uploaded #pyobjc 12.2 to PyPI. This fixes a number of bugs, contains updates for the macOS 26.5 SDK and includes wheels for Python 3.15. See the changelog for the full list of changes.