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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Ours is the Theory, my #GameOfThrones podcast, now has its own domain, which you can follow on the fedi:

https://oursisthetheory.uk

@oursisthetheory.uk

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

LOL, subtitle on youtube:

(auto subbing didn't stand a chance)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
meg@fediscience.org ("Megan ⚘") wrote:

"Morality is rooted in love, not institutions: the enduring impact of Héloïse’s 12th-century romance with Abelard"

https://aeon.co/videos/there-can-be-no-sin-committed-from-love-the-radical-ethics-of-heloise

#History #Philosophy #Women

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

(i don't really see what other approach you can even take to I/O on linux)

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

Documenting design of some code

We thus do what we can and pray that it works out.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art ("Nick East (Indie Writer)") wrote:

If I had known then what I know now I could have saved so much time and gotten isolated and weird so much sooner 😜😂

@galacticwriters @writers @books @fantasy @bookstodon @joinin
@writingbooks @keepwriting @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#WritingMemes #Meme #Memes #Humor #Humour
#Author #IndieAuthor #Indie #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
gnomon ("Ben Zanin") wrote:

The key value of rapid prototyping *for the author and prospective contributors* is lost when the prototype proves only that a mechanism is possible, without also capturing and expressing the kernel of the implementation idea.

(Incidentally this is also why I love those rare projects which preserve the initial rapid prototype in the repo for reference, long long after the program has grown into a full-fledged robust implementation.)

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
gnomon ("Ben Zanin") wrote:

This process is exactly why shell scripts, with their rich variety of implicit behavior & syntactic shortcuts plus the surrounding userspace ecosystem of highly composable tools, are so useful: they offer the two complementary benefits of extremely expressive terse idea kernels & crucially the ability to _gradually_ add sophistication: error handling here, variable type restrictions there, logging a bit later, and so on.

The tool must be able to wrap the ball of yarn and then knit the sweater.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
gnomon ("Ben Zanin") wrote:

I'm seeing people compare LLM generated code to "a hacky shell or Python script", as in a rough throwaway tool not meant to be built atop or understood.

Gently, I'll argue that this is misunderstanding the value of shell scripts in particular & rapid prototyping in general. The value and the point of shell scripts is to set down on disk the smallest kernel of a working idea specifically so it *can* be understood clearly, then iteratively expanded & replaced to cover surrounding special cases.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

It's useful to see American religion revealed to be an incoherent and inconsistent mess empirically.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/17/i-dont-understand-american-christians/

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

This version performed by "Dúmbó og Steini" is probably the one you hear the most

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n82uMVlkpws

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

"Því lýðræðið Ísland á afmæli í dag!"

Happy birthday, Iceland!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2bVTV3Ki50

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I've spent 4 hours guarding the front door waiting for a parcel:

🤷 nothing
🤷 nothing
🤷 nothing
🚽 sits down
🔔 DING DONG

In my mind the courier just spent several hours hiding in a bush waiting for me to finally go to the bathroom...

Boosted by jwz:
kplx ("Kplx") wrote:

Enough for Today

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
esden@chaos.social ("Piotr Esden-Tempski") wrote:

Discussing AI/LLM stuff with some friends made me realize something. I do like computers and programming. I like the process of understanding how they work and how to make them do what I want them to do. The LLM stuff makes that process worse and more frustrating. People that use them make collaboration less fun. This is another reason why I hate that stuff, even if it worked 100% perfectly (which it does not) I would not want to use it.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

The most efficient compression algorithm: forgetting.

Boosted by jwz:
kbeninato@mstdn.party ("Karen Dalton-Beninato ☑️") wrote:

The pool was the color of television, tuned to a dead democracy. h/t
@GreatDismal

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

The way people in tech are wired, if the pistol were invented today the only way they’d conclude it was dangerous is if they personally shot three people and a dog and even then they’d insist that the data wasn’t that conclusive.

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

“Scan your eyeballs, think of the children: how Britain sells surveillance as safety”

https://www.thenerve.news/p/under-16-social-media-ban-keir-starmer-surveillance-parents-online-safety-bill-heather-burns

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
shaft@piaille.fr ("John Shaft") wrote:

Happy Birthday to #Debian 1.1 (Buzz) released 30 years ago today 🥳🥳🥳

1st version to be named after a Toy Story character, a film released just a few months before (November 22, 1995 in the US)

There were 474 packages available in Debian 1.1 (69,830 in Trixie, the current stable version)

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@mjg59 @rmi @tante @t3trinetet @baldur Unpopular opinion, I hated Sneakers

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
EricMalves@squawk.social ("Eric Malves :BirbBlj:") wrote:

If you ever feel like trying a new hobby, just go for it. Dive in. Give it a try.

I spent so much time wishing I could do XYZ only to find I could, in some capacity, way later.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
kestral@masto.hackers.town ("Kestral") wrote:

Wrote a little blog post about illness, recovery, and why I've had to do less the last couple of months.

https://news.kestr.al/rain-escape-and-afterwards/

If you can tell me where the title of the post is from without looking it up, I shall buy you a sandwich.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
perfect10_bot@infosec.exchange ("perfect10_bot (now with 70% less Totolink)") wrote:

CVE-2026-28587 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-28587
CVE-2026-28576 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-28576
CVE-2026-28615 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-28615
CVE-2026-28575 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-28575
CVE-2026-0082 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0082
CVE-2026-0083 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0083
CVE-2026-0092 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0092
CVE-2026-0063 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0063
CVE-2026-0064 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0064
CVE-2026-0071 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0071
CVE-2026-0068 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0068
CVE-2026-0081 - https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0081
... all perfect 10s. You know who else is a 10? :neobot_blush_hide:

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
zep ("zep.p8") wrote:

Heads up, the Lexaloffle terms of use will change later this week to disallow genAI content. The proposed update aims to protect the current BBS culture without excluding usability. Any comments welcome (here or hey at lexaloffle dot com). Draft: https://pastebin.com/raw/v8cvrdgv
#pico8 #picotron

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
renkotsuban@maestoso.org ("Renkon") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@nicegeargames/116756968977912897

I heard you're all sick of wading through genAI assets and code in the Steam Next Fest. Good news!! Hamayumishi has NONE of that!! All the art, music, coding, etc was done by @Daikon2026 because, in his words, why would you offload all the fun part of making games? The English translation is by me so if you encounter weird, stilted phrasing, know that it's because I did it and not because we fed the script into an LLM! :neofox_laugh_sweat:

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
plaguepoems ("Plague Poems") wrote:

It has been reported
that it will take
around a billion dollars
to contain the outbreak
of New World screwworm,
and while this may sound
like quite a lot of money
at least we saved
fifteen million dollars
thanks to previously cutting
a screwworm monitoring program.

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@tante @mjg59 @t3trinetet @baldur Yes, this is good stuff!

And I think that House of Games should be required viewing for anyone working in computer security. Or security. Or anyone affected by security. I'm not saying it's a movie you will necessarily enjoy but it is a movie that will make you understand things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Riy4God934c

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@mjg59 @t3trinetet Has anyone written about the similarities between the Spicy Autocomplete Plagiarism Machine and Carny Cold Reading? Because I think there's a thing there.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
joannaholman@aus.social ("Joanna Holman") wrote:

@glyph @pat and at the other end of the spectrum, there’s plenty of people using technology in countries that are small or economically disadvantaged in ways that mean for the foreseeable future they will necessarily be reliant on tech from elsewhere. People in Timor-Leste or Somalia deserve access to safe, useful tech just as much as people in Germany.