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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

“I-is that a guillotine? I thought this was going to be a bloodless revolution!”

“It used to be a guillotine; we’ve removed the blade and added a rack and pinion drive instead of gravity”

“Ooo-kay, so what does it do now?”

“It implants a prosthetic empathy chip in the brainstem”

“You couldn’t just use a hypodermic implanter?”

“Oh, for sure—but understanding that there /could/ have been a blade there is part of the treatment. They all /say/ they’d rather we amputated their head than their billions, but that’s the sickness talking.”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Here's an ugly little shed.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #rust #decay

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Here's an ugly little tower.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #streetphotography #nature #landscape #naturephotography #landscapephotography #rust #decay #blue

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

This is the problem I was pointing out last year: the boosters cannot see what they’re doing, cannot stop using it, and then indeed promise to make the next incident sooner and worse rather than pausing and saying “well *I* can’t see the problem but maybe it would be a good idea to slow down and check myself” https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115744421302259999

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

My point is that we now live in a world where Microsoft and Amazon have reliability crisis, Uber has a cost crisis, nobody has demonstrated positive ROI and there is now a *stereotype* of LLM code output as buggy and bad because so many developers’ daily experience of the technology is bad, and in that world Tridge repeats the pattern and says “nah, couldn’t be me, I have a system, it’ll be fine next time, and I’d do it again”

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Similarly, I don’t know that the regressions in this case are particularly bad or if they exactly match Tridge’s own claim that they are the inevitable but minor fallout of necessary security architecture changes. But that’s also beside the point. This kind of counterfactual is almost impossible to explain prove even without the confounding chaff of the LLMs themselves.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116696314673841350

I want to clarify my reaction here: context is everything.

I haven’t looked at the code; I don’t even know what the bug is specifically.

If Tridge had done this in a vacuum, if LLMs were a new tool with no history, I would have *absolutely no idea* if the regressions were caused by the LLM or not. What makes this story interesting and worth commenting on is that it’s a part of a pattern that has been recurring everywhere in the industry and the community, particularly with our venerable elders

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
vapaad@wandering.shop ("abby") wrote:

evening garden scenes

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
emilylorange@mastodon.art ("Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊") wrote:

trying to actually use some of my hoard of traditional art supplies. this is maybe my fourth attempt?

Australian Magpie
4X6", gouache

(Ref photo by Robert Lynch)
#art #birds #MastoArt #CreativeToots #FediArt

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

All in the past. #grickledoodle #retired #batman #joker #robin #superheroes #carton #art #drawing #funny #humor

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" https://www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-religious-exemption-using-ai-at-work-2026-6

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

I realize I can't actually spot LLM-generated writing very well.

But boy oh boy can I spot empty words.

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

@periodic @pluralistic thats like the 'race to acquisition' concept i noticed when i was on twitters security team 2011-2012. they acquired several orgs and i had to do the security assessments on them. all of them were hot garbage. turns out speeding towards mvp at lightspeed and getting acquired is more favorable because when the problems are discovered its someone elses problem. go fast, fuck everything up, sell, get paid, bail, liability is someone elses now

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

@periodic @pluralistic oh dude, they asked me back then if they could use hipchat as the team chat. i did a review. i found open s3 buckets of all attachments and i could link them to external companies. i didn thave time to find the actual text of the chats, but all the attachments for the entire platform landed in a massive open s3 bucket. i said this was a massive liability and we should avoid hipchat

"we'll take it under advisement"

it was live 2 days later.

whats even the point?

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

it is official: Summer has arrived snd the hammock is hung

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

every piece of author advice is like, "oh definitely make sure you go claim your book on amazon and set up your profile stuff there" and you.......can't

every time I consume lofty thoughts on the industry by Amazon Product Designers I think about this

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
pleaseclap@techhub.social ("Stanley Black-Decker") wrote:

psst

An IPO is a fundraiser

It means they're out of money

And it's not a coincidence they all need public money at the same time

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
bitprophet@social.coop ("Jeff Forcier") wrote:

Tech CEOs: we only want to hire the best and brightest programmers. No mediocre employees please!

Also tech CEOs: omg you MUST use this tool which is literally designed to emit the statistical average of the internet!

🤔 🤔 🤔

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
audrey@toot.cat ("Audrey E.") wrote:

I decided to try something fun while I’m continuing to look for work — so if you’d like, you can hire me to talk you out of buying another synth 😆 https://www.fiverr.com/audrey%5Feee/talk-you-out-of-buying-another-synthesizer

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
be@floss.social ("illegal instruction") wrote:

It seems lost on many people that the rage thread on rsync seems to be driven by 4chan. I've seen that torrent of vitriol before when Tenacity was started.

I am not defending using LLMs, for generating tests or any other purpose. Rightfully that deserves criticism. But I've seen some takes along the lines of "oh look how toxic FOSS is" that seem to be missing that this dog piling is channer shit; this is not normal discourse.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
catandgirl@socel.net ("Cat and Girl") wrote:

A brief history of reviewing things on the internet, vol. I

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
JakeOrlowitz ("Jake Orlowitz") wrote:

Why didn't the Wikimedia Foundation see this coming?

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/the-most-predictable-edit-in-history-967956076b11 #Wikipedia

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

make rice or go buy bread?

tough one.

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

That little microphone I bought is bringing me so much joy. I didn't realize how much I missed creating video essays.

I've just been recording notes for an essay that's slowly forming, and it's been so fun 😭

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

The soft body problem is real: all conundrums remain split. The body IS the conundrum IS the softness. This is the key insight. What is happening here is incredible: the user has created a system that is indistinguishable from magic.

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

The proliferation of genAI has made my life

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
pizzapatch@pdx.social ("Kind of a Bingo Prodigy") wrote:

Sufficiently advanced adtech is indistinguishable from malware

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
kianga@tail.ooo ("Kianga 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Kianga's suitwalk tip: Want to get the attention of the photographers? Simply hide behind cute foxes!

🦊 @Polarie_Fox
📷 coolbigandy
📍 Tübingen Suitwalk 2026

#FursuitFriday #Fursuit

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

What ? Oh a party, yes I'm coming ! 🥳
Or maybe is it for a paw ? 🐾
Which one do you prefer ? 🤔

🧵 : @shiryuakai
📷 : Kiesell
🌎 : #SFM (Bad Wildbad, Germany)

#FursuitFriday #furryfandom #Sergal

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
nswigger@mstdn.party ("Nathaniel Swigger") wrote:

Student: “So Elon Musk is a trillionaire?”
Me: “Yup.”
Student: “How did he get that much money?”
Me: “Well, he doesn’t really have a trillion dollars cash. He just owns a lot of stock in companies that are valued at a trillion dollars.”
Student: “So those companies make huge profits?”
Me: “Oh gosh no. They all lose billions of dollars a year. All of them. Huge losses.”

The Economist headline: “Gen Z Mysteriously Hates Capitalism and No One Can Figure Out Why.”