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

One big downside for the world will be the volatility of everything. We need to get serious about source code archival, separate from hosting. (Seriously, someone should make a git continuous replication archival and disaster recovery host, where you pay Glacier-style prices, and make decade-scale commitments for source code archival.

Possibly also an escrow service so it is made public upon certain events.

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

But on top of this it seems like it's time for something new. A monorepo host with good CI tooling for it baked in is a difficult startup to found but is absolutely the product we need right now.

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

There is exactly one killer feature left.

Code search.

Nobody else really nails that for your entire company-wide code search, unless you structure carefully to enable it.

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

I gotta say: Github is legacy software. It's never going to fix the bugs. You just cope with them. It's time to replace them, and I'd think seriously about not starting anything new there even as a conservative company.

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

depressing read of the week: "Soulless summer fairs and cute puppies: AI poster slop is taking over a pub near you"
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/ai-poster-slop-local-events-flyer-b2989792.html

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

i was linked to a c++26 thing and i can't understand it because it's just line noise. it's worse than perl, a language i used to do crimes in.

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

Some people act like they've never seen a red sun before

RE: https://www.threads.com/@rfoster112/post/DZRs8L7DACt

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

"We already kicked out the fascists once"

https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260607-residents-of-french-village-say-us-defense-secretary-hegseth-not-welcome-d-day-visit

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

As a nonbinary person, I think it is important to look outside the strict boundaries of 1 and 0. That's, why, this Pride month, I'm proud to be partnering with Google's quantum computing lab—

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

That these photos could have been better doesn't mean people shouldn't enjoy what they have to offer. It just makes them a bit ephemeral. That's the default state of media in a social media age. But asking yourself "why doesn't this work for me?" is necessary if you want to do better next time.

/fin

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

Finally, this one almost works. The budget zoom let me down. The out-of-focus areas look unpleasant. The photo itself is also a bit of a cliché (bird on barbedwire). I should've stood either three metres to my right (fence in a straight line) or left (fence at an angle) but then the bird was gone

4/5

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

This photo doesn't work because the telephoto lens compression makes it look like the steam is 2D—like it's a flat graphic laid over in a poor photoshop job—so it looks faked. I should have brought a wider lens, but that would have meant climbing down into the ditch to get the shot

3/5

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

For example, this photo of horses grazing near a geothermal pipe is cute, but I don't like it. It feels a bit disposable. The composition would be more interesting if I'd stood a few metres to my right and about a metre higher. The horses were uncooperative. So I never got around to the colour

2/5

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

Occasionally, I'll mention I'm not a fan of a photo I've uploaded and people get defensive about it, either on my behalf—'don't talk yourself down!' (valid)—or because they feel like their own taste is being criticised (also valid)

Since neither is my intent, I figure I should explain with examples

1/5

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uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

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

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JulietEMcKenna@wandering.shop ("Juliet E McKenna") wrote:

Recollections and reflections are circulating after Anthony Head's untimely death.

I remember him pushing back hard at 'I didn't see it, so who knows?' responses from some, when J Whedon's bad character was exposed. Tony Head was clear that abusers work hard to hide what they do from those who would call them out.

He also had no time for 'why didn't younger cast members speak up?' He said them not feeling able to tell him was his responsibility and he was sorry for it. A good man.

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sindarina@ngmx.com ("Sindarina, Edge Case Detective") wrote:

We have fucked up Computer so badly, in that regard. Instead of building user trust, allowing for swift deployment of necessary fixes and new features that genuinely makes the user's life better, The Update has become something to be feared.

For pretty much anything with a connection to the internet, too; your mobile phone, your laptop, your television, your fridge, your car, your thermostat.

Everything you use might suddenly start showing ads. Or stop working entirely because whatever 'cloud' service it depends on stops being available.

Such potential, all wasted for more ad revenue.

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

One of the lessons that many in software strangely never learn is that breaking something while being an asshole gets a very different response from people than breaking something while not being an asshole

And, given how “AI” continues to pour shit on the rest of society, using LLMs is widely going to be perceived as an asshole move

For better or for worse, using LLMs in OSS is going to be seen as an adversarial move that undermines community building

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RonJeffries ("Ron Jeffries") wrote:

Reading The AI Con, by @emilymbender and @alex

Very readable, very clear, and oh so concerning. It would be a fun read were it not describing such a challenging situation. It's odd: simultaneously enjoyable in style and terrifying in impact.

Highly recommended.

jwz wrote:

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jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

But even if you *could* make quality gates good enough that you won't need to review the code - and good luck with that - you then run straight into another trap: comprehension debt.

LLMs will never be reliable enough that you won't need to understand the code. That's physics.

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jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

A take I see often online is that it doesn't matter if code is "clean" - readable, simple, decoupled, easy & fast to test - as long as it works.

They're missing the point. Code that's hard to understand, complex, tightly-coupled and hard/slow to test is very likely to break.

There's no tradeoff.

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donni ("donni saphire") wrote:

Other people my age are alarmingly old

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jonuriarte@tldr.nettime.org ("Jon Uriarte") wrote:

Another great story about the impact of AI with no mention to it in the headline of the story:

In South Korea a Starbucks marketing campaign is created using AI and executives don't even bother to open the email attachments to check the proposals. The campaign was published on the date of a pro-democracy protesters massacre calling it Tank Day and using slogans clearly drawing from the deadly military attack, which felt deeply unrespectful to the victims. The AI most likely learned that from far-right forums like Ilbe where mocking the victims is common.

They cancelled the campaign hours after publishing it but it was too late, the CEO has been sacked, card payments went down a 26%, refunds haven been requested from prepaid cards, police is investigating and Starbucks asked costumers to refrain from directing their anger to staff.

#ai #aislop #starbucks

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/06/starbucks-south-korea-tank-day-promotion-blunder

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Redfuchs@furries.club ("Jasper Fox :therian:") wrote:

They asked me to put on my grrr face, and so I did! #Pride 🏳️‍🌈

🎨 https://linktr.ee/Aphroditestinks

#RedfuchsArtwork #Furry #FurryArt #Art #Fox #Pridemonth

Attachments:

• gifv: Furry art of me looking at the viewer with a grrr face while holding a rainbow flag in my mouth

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TheLastOfHisName@beige.party ("Dane 🌎🖖✌️☮️⚛️☸️🕉️") wrote:

#adhd #MeBrain

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wplalonde@lgbtqia.space ("Willa :v_trans: :v_bi:") wrote:

Today @Thomas_Llama and I went to our first con. It seemed like a lovely shindig: there were tons of people and everyone seemed nice. There were abundant pride flags of every stripe visible, lots of vendors, live D&D play, a Super Mario Kart tournament, cosplayers galore, etc...

I'm just not sure it was the place for me. I had the same feeling I've had at my scarce attempts to experience parties in the past, a feeling of being lost and not fitting in and not being sure how to have the fun that everyone else seemed to be having. As Thomas pointed out, it seemed to be mostly about socializing and buying stuff, neither of which am I very good at or interested in.

Pros: I got to wear one of my new Princess Awesome dresses, which I got compliments on, and my trusty Unicorn Snot (face glitter), which sadly does not show very well in the accompanying picture. I wore my Loop Engage earplugs, which worked well, even if I had to ask everyone who attempted to talk to me to repeat themselves a second time. The people who attempted to talk to me were universally sweet.

Cons: Nicole Parish, the artist who was the main reason I wanted to go to the con, was nowhere to be found. The crowd. The noise. The expense. The stress of rearranging my weekend schedule to accommodate the event. The fact that I still just really cannot get a handle on how to do my eyebrows.

I guess I'm glad I went, just to say I've had the experience, but now I just need to recover.

#ActuallyAutistic

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slothrop@chaos.social ("Tyrone Slothrop") wrote:

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/116704285750838861

If you’re still using Proton mail:

The company is sponsoring the videos of French far-right / fascist YouTuber Vincent Lapierre.

If encryption is part of your vision for a better society, find a better service provider.

#proton #fash

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dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

I'm the kind of 40 where I would rather watch a 3 hour YouTube video about some minor mid 2010s tumblr drama than a WWII documentary.

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cmconseils ("Lady Laura :bongoCat:") wrote: