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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.

-- Matt Haig

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mathowie@xoxo.zone ("Matthew Haughey") wrote:

1yr price history on a hard drive. Thanks, AI!

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

@soatok @ireneista @Kye If Ed Zitron is anything to go by, it does sound like there's a lot of inference costs with the bigger AI systems (the ones everyone uses).

In particular, agentic systems seem to run on repeated cycles of "generate -> check if it looks good, perhaps with a deterministic system and perhaps with an LLM -> if not, regenerate".

And from my (limited) personal experience with generative AI, as well as the recent Copilot price hikes, this tracks, e.g. I realised I used an AI filter in Canva because it took many seconds to process when a normal filter takes less than a second.

You can still apparently do scary things even with these limitations; I saw a paper today that had combined an open-weight LLM with various context-providing tools to create a worm 😦 . I don't have enough background to scrutinise the paper properly though

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug – Ammar's Blog”

https://blog.ammaraskar.com/github-token-stealing/

VS Code is insecure as designed.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

RE: https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/116683968932657898

For fucks sake.

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.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jacqueline@chaos.social ("jacquelines 🌟") wrote:

every ai guy says "u can't argue the quality; new models actually are genuinely good" and then u actually read the code and it's dogshit

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
bruces ("Bruce Sterling @bruces") wrote:

*Well, if that's true, then who the heck is left who wants to attend a revamped Game Developer Conference

https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/one-third-video-game-workers-laid-off-2025-1236644512/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
haskell@fosstodon.org ("HaskellOrg") wrote:

The past years have seen horrendous attacks towards trans people. We have a duty to protect the most vulnerable members of our communities.

There is no #Haskell without the trans people who have shaped it through the years.

This June is a month of celebrations, but the struggle continues. ✊🏳️‍⚧️λ

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sjvn/116681769806596211

"the OS for the AI agentic era".

oh good, never touching ubuntu again.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
finalstaticfox@pounced-on.me ("Goupilleau") wrote:

You know, when I was playing Cyberpunk, I thought it was a bit silly that literally every single enemy could be hacked remotely. Even bosses (although they get some resistances to the actual hack effects). And like, it seems like it would be pretty easy to protect yourself against such attacks: Just don't connect to the net.

And even if you absolutely need to connect, for getting like, tactical data or some other bullshit: Just sandbox it. At worst, you'll lose your tactical data, instead of getting your gonk brain fried by a sneaky asshole a block away who proxied through 7 cameras (I'm the sneaky asshole!).

But seeing the news of fucking rsync of all software becoming unreliable, to the point that it risks wiping your data, because it's getting vibe-coded updates... That made me realize that this is how Cyberpunk happens in real life. Critical infrastructure becomes vibe-coded to the point that everything becomes insecure.

Even the stack of software that hosts, distributes and keeps tracks of versioning for other software could potentially become, or depend on vibe-coded slop. Leading to a corruption of the record of the last known good software versions. At the very least, it could make it difficult to find out which versions are the good ones. Github is already falling apart for fucks sake! And yeah, there's alternative hosting solutions. But as far as fiction goes, for CP2077, it more and more looks like the only part where you need to suspend your disbelief, is that every single piece of usable software got infected by vibe-coding in one way or another, to the point that Software Engineering as a profession ceased to exist. Replaced entirely by techbros with a Claude subscription.

As a result, humanity mostly forget what sandboxing even is. And even those who know, can't really do anything about it, because all remaining traces of sandboxing has vibe-code all over the place, and building a secure sandbox from scratch is impossible because it needs to be built on a vibe-coded OS, which itself connects to the world on a vibe-coded protocol...

So yeah, that's my headcannon. And I don't think the real world will come that close to the fiction (I hope!), but at least it makes it plausible that you can just hack into anything and everything in this game.

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

i wonder how jqwik is getting on with issues from entitled users.

...well i suppose that does technically fix the problem

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iblech@mathstodon.xyz ("Ingo Blechschmidt") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.functional.computer/@samir/116651692093487153

Prompted by a post by @samir at https://mathstodon.xyz/@samir@functional.computer/116651693517871940, I put some old scripts into shape and updated them to the modern era (from XCompose to the "Fcitx 5 input method framework").

The result: the Agda input method you know and love (\to →, \bN ℕ, \forall ∀, …), available globally on your desktop. It should work on all Linux distributions and perhaps also on macOS, though I cannot test that.

Enjoy: https://gitlab.com/iblech/fcitx5-agda

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

oh right yeah, the reason i stopped writing this code yesterday was because i didn't want to write a relatively straightforward (albeit a bit tedious) data structure because zig doesn't have anything i can reasonably use for it in the standard library.

again.

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jacqueline@chaos.social ("jacquelines 🌟") wrote:

every ai guy says "i carefully reviewed everything!" but then u actually read the code and it's dogshit

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
purplerabbit@goo.dgirl.gay ("Omega :v_tfem: :v_dis: :ms_neurodiversity:") wrote:

CONTEXT: So, in a thread on Piefed, somebody asked me this:

how do you personally feel about Pride Month? Particularly, the corporate side of it, the rainbow filters on the brands that historically prosecuted queer identity.

Myself personally I find them turning queer identity into products to consume and collect rather disgusting.

And I wanted to repost my answer here, because I think I managed to express myself quite well and it encapsulates some thoughts that I have about this topic.

Pride Month is super important for the community. It's both a moment of joy and a moment of open resistance for us. As for the corporate side of it, I take it as an indicator. Like, for example, no matter what, I will never tolerate brands or even fucking sponsorships at my local pride march. That is absolutely out of the question. But companies pandering to specific communities is nothing new. And it's not limited to the queer community.

Corporate pandering, to me, is like a canary in a coal mine.

When it's singing, the air is breathable. So when we have the rainbow logos or the Black Lives Matter corporate post or Black History Month colored logo or whatever, it is a sign that as a whole it would be perceived as, not only unacceptable in the current society to be openly against these things and communities, but is even perceived as marketable and profitable to be openly for these things.

When the canary stops singing, something is wrong with the air, and it's time to get out. So when companies stop doing these things, and instead don't mention them, it's a sign that the wind is turning. That posting open support is deemed risky. That at least a certain part of society is questioning the validity and value of these things

And finally, when the canary is dead, the miners are next. When companies start openly posting against these things, when it becomes marketable and profitable to be openly racist, to be openly transphobic, to be openly homophobic, it's a sign that society as a whole and not just the ruling class, is hostile to these ideals and people.

I hate that it is, and I want to change it, but we live in a capitalist society. Right now, it's the rules of the game. So I'm using capitalism as an indicator of society's acceptance of progressive ideals and hostility towards marginalized groups. Because at the end of the day, I would rather fight against capitalism in a capitalist hellhole where corporate people display their pronouns and say "black lives matter" rather than a capitalist hellhole where corporate people don't do these things.

The canary stopped singing.

#pride #pridemonth #lgbtqia #rainbowcapitalism #capitalism

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
djsouthworth@wandering.shop ("DJ Southworth") wrote:

Got any creatives I can follow?

Printmakers, graphic artists, book designers, typographers, bookbinders, oil or acrylic painters, letterers, that sort of things.

I want my mastodon to be full of creativity and positivity and beautiful things.

Please help. And I’d love a share for reach! Thanks!!

#artists #designers #print #craft

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

daft punk's 'technologic', but it's 'monotonic', the llvm name for relaxed ordering.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Third in the series of my #Mastodon tutorials: How to deal with unwanted content. Covering reporting, muting, blocking, word filters and notification settings. If you learn something you didn't know before from my video, please do let me know!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXdaOkZtIIk

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

petition to rename pandoc to pancod now they've let the cod in.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
iamkonstantin@mstdn.social ("Konstantin 🔭") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@violetblue/116682872873587453

lol, 2026 news are next level

If my 2019 self was reading this, he'd probably think it's the plot of a cool new series - fiction, mixed up with drama and action

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
anemone@ebiverse.social ("amenome") wrote:

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
winterknight1337@infosec.exchange ("WinterKnight :donor:") wrote:

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116684771406334186

Frankly if one group of people deserves a TLD it’s the furries.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

#linux #gcc #clang #c #cpp #poll 1) do you have a program called "a.out" in your home folder, and if so 2) do you remember what it was

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

https://www.dotfurry.org :3

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Rib@fedi.rib.gay ("Rib :ms_red_panda:") wrote:

There's finally a serious effort to get a .furry TLD! www.dotfurry.org/

They've already been accepted into ICANN's Applicant Support Program, which reduces the fees by 75%, but final approval is not guaranteed. They are looking to raise $90,000 in total.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
AzzuenBenAslan@meow.social ("Ázzuen ben Aslan") wrote:

@soatok (and also everyone else who reads this)
Thanks a lot for this post. (And it definitely sounds much better than a post from me at 1am ;-)) It cannot be said often enough. I agree: Over here people follow you because they think you're interesting at the least. I follow many critters because I think they're not only interesting but lovely people. Even if I did nothing more so far but click the "Follow" button. For one thing I'm kinda shy-ish -- I need some "thing" to respond to in order to open a conversation. The other thing is mere time. I simply don't get round to interacting much more than the bit I do right now. But I'm always open-heartet and willing to start new conversations with any of my followers/followed. So simply give me a howl (or whatever is appropriate to you) and I'm happy to say hi and see how the contact may evolve. Even if the "chemistry" between you and me is not "good enough" to allow for continues and intense contact ("bonding" with me in this way can be pretty tricky I'm afraid), please know that I appreciate your contact, otherwise I wouldn't follow you.

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

(I know this is clumsily worded and somewhat repetitive, but it's 1 AM and I should have been asleep 3 hours ago, but even melatonin did nothing to help me sleep so idk if I will at all tonight.)

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

By the way, I know a lot of folks struggle with mental heatlh in various ways, so:

Know that the fact that people interact with you at all, and are part of your life even in very loose ways, means your presence matters and you're irreplaceable.

It won't always feel like it, but people do appreciate you. Most just don't know how to express it very well, and no one really does a good job of teaching that. I'm no better than anyone on this point.

But really, whatever community you have is irrefutable evidence that you're not alone. They're the ones that will appreciate you.

There's no incentive structure to Fedi. Nobody follows you just to increase some metric or trick you into following back to win some game tied to capitalism here. They follow you because you're interesting or cool. Or both.

This probably doesn't help with the myriad other, more material causes for your suffering. Money be damned.

But you'll never be alone if you don't want to be. And it can get better.

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

My Zwilling 10" pan has deteriorated after just 2 years of use. And you generally don't want to continue using a coated non-stick pan with a visible wear because of those toxic chemicals.

So I read some reviews and went with an Alva[1]. Supposed to be long-lasting. I'll post an update in a few years!

[1]: https://shop.leafscore.com/collections/nonstick/products/frying-pan?%5Fpos=4&%5Ffid=c1ebccebf&%5Fss=c&variant=49059188965684

#cooking