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

“Why game developers don't want to use generative AI | GamesRadar+”

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so-many-game-developers-dont-want-to-use-generative-ai/

> Perhaps pro-AI developers didn't want to talk to me or I just didn't run into any during my survey, because I heard an overwhelmingly negative assessment of generative AI's origins, capabilities, and risks. By the end, I'd heard dozens of developers make a case against using gen AI at all.

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

What a waste. So many lives lost, so many billions spent, and in the end, the US was defeated.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/06/18/the-war-is-over-we-lost/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cpi/116768876643811670

Follow @TechConnectify

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:

🦊

Wrote down some rambling thoughts on “AI”: as generational damage, on what repair might look like, and on asking what happens next. https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/all-tomorrows-parties/

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

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/erlent/2026-06-18-oheppilegt-ad-vopnahle-se-kennt-vid-versali-478544

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

Erlingur Erlingsson, a historian specialising in military history speaking to the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, pointed out that signing US-Iran peace deal in Versailles might have a few unfortunate historical connotations. The other notable peace deal signed there was a bit controversial

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

a descendant of Thomas Jefferson being honest about family history:

“the great thing about Monticello is that it cannot be censored from history in the way that Trump and his right-wing minions are trying to remove the fact of slavery from our history. Thomas Jefferson’s house is there. The parts of the house built by John Hemings are shown on the tour. There is no argument at Monticello about the fact that all the boards in the house were milled by slaves, all the nails were forged by slaves, all the bricks were made by slaves, all Jefferson’s food was grown by slaves and cooked by slaves. All this is history that the right wingers in the Republican Party don’t want to be told.

Jefferson’s life would not have been possible without his slaves. The fact of his ownership of slaves gave him the time and opportunity to write our founding document which stated that all men are created equal without that being a fact on the ground in Virginia or in any of the colonies of the nascent United States of America.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/luciantruscott/p/my-part-of-history-on-our-250th-birthday

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

side effects imply the existence of top effects and bottom effects

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

Very few of my recent books have new author blurbs attached to them on hardcover release and I assure you they were not neglected, budget-wise, so, no

RE: https://www.threads.com/@kateravenbooks/post/DZs--9xgaia

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
brianokken@fosstodon.org ("Brian Okken") wrote:

Guided meditations are so much easier at 1.5x speed.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
europython@fosstodon.org ("EuroPython") wrote:

Join Malcolm Smith at EuroPython for "Supporting Android and iOS in your Python package" talk: https://ep2026.europython.eu/MP9ZRM
Get your ticket: https://europython.eu/tickets/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
matt@oslo.town ("Matt Vestengen-Cox") wrote:

Another by-election, you say?!

FETCH THE MEME

#UK #UKpol #UKpolitics #Meme #NotAnotherOne #Video #Makerfield #Elections

Attachments:

• video: A talking-head interview with a distressed looking old lady. She doesn't sound keen on another election. (This is an old clip from pre-2020)

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

i have an unusual problem. i have successfully made the branching factor of a disk block so high that if all the out links pointed at leaves, i have a problem managing the storage for them all if they're all awkwardly sized.

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

“All tomorrow’s parties. — Ethan Marcotte”

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/all-tomorrows-parties/

> When I say the phrase “generational damage,” I mean it.

Not sure many people outside of tech (or in tech for that matter) appreciate just how much is being destroyed

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

It's over for EVs

lol, lmao

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

“SearchLeak: Prompt-inject enterprise Copilot with a search – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/17/searchleak-prompt-inject-enterprise-copilot-with-a-search/

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

i am still fucking about with disk block layouts 😬

jwz wrote:

Good luck on the dating apps, bro. "What happened to your face?" "Oh any time it starts to heal, the libertarian demiurge I have devoted my life to creating reaches thru my phone and pops me in the head, like Ice T in the 'Talk Shit Get Shot' video".

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
sam@solent.social ("Sam") wrote:

📍 Solent.social is growing! 🌊
We are a self-hosted, anti-AI, pro-privacy social space dedicated to the Solent & South Coast (UK) area, full of gamers, video creators, and tech nerds.

To keep our community safe and high-quality, we are Invite-Only. However, our members get fresh invite codes every 24 hours! Allowing them to invite friends and family regularly.

If you live in the local area (Hampshire, Isle of Wight, etc.) or fit our vibe and want a cozy home feed, reply to this post or DM me for an invite code. 📥

(Boosts appreciated to help your local neighbors find us!)
#Solent #UKFedi #SelfHosted #Gaming #SouthCoast #iow #IsleOfWight #Portsmouth #Winchester #Southampton #NewForest #AntiAI #VideoCreation

jwz wrote:

I think that any time someone uses the word "technologist" the eschaton AI at the end of time should reach through the screen and punch them in the face.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

that version, btw, adds 18157 minified characters. so either it takes 18157 characters to add a "FEATURE" which is to make an EXISTING FEATURE that "FILTERS A LIST" work once your code touches their literal flagship product used in preposterously maximalist ways no-one outside of anthropic can afford. the LLM is catastrophically bad at summarizing changes to code. or, anthropic has a completely busted dev process that can't even maintain a changelog. none of those are great options!!!!

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

my most unpopular music opinion is that lounge music is good. good in the same way that b movies, camp, and kitsch are good, but good nonetheless.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

if you look at the release notes, you will see that the grand majority of the items are bugfixes, not new features. the features that are added are so depressing they are even considered features - like in 2.1.175 the added feature is an enforceAvailableModels setting which is literally a configuration value which if true MAKES AN EXISTING SETTING WORK. why is there a setting that DOESNT WORK BY DEFAULT? does every setting have another setting about whether or not it should be enforced?

this is true of all the releases from the last month, which have the highest quantity of code added. something is going EXTREMELY WRONG if you are adding the most code you have ever added while allegedly fixing bugs.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Okay so I have a lot of issues with a lot of Freddie De Boer's takes, but this one is a must-read top to bottom. Maybe you'll manage to get yourself a good deal on a smoke detector, too

https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/google-made-a-sad-boomer-mark-out

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

every time someone says "you just don't like LLMs because you don't use them and haven't seen how awesome they are" i want to shake them and be like "dog i have tried them so much and every time they send me straight into the nether of unreality"

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

like all i wanted was for it to generate the most hated reducer/dispatcher/selector/whatever boilerplate, which is literally one step above autocomplete, the only thing i expect it to be able to do, and it has rewritten reality it wasn't even supposed to look at.

it was like "let me try and look at the previous commit for context... oh what is this {as:Public} url... holy crap i tried to access the as:public URI and there was nobody in there! so the previous commits must not work, and we need to rewrite everything.

i did not get my fucking boilerplate and now i have to remember how redux works. i can't tell which pisses me off more, "AI" or redux.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

there are people out there trusting LLMs to be their lawyer while I just tried to get one to generate some react/redux boilerplate related to the gotosocial interaction spec and i check in after being afk for an hour and it has taken the initiative to undo all the work i did before on the backend impl because it doesn't "understand" how activitypub collections work.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Why would the EU get behind W Social, a European social media platform that barely exists, rather than Mastodon, a European social media platform that has been successfully operating for a decade?

Oh, right

https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
flacs wrote:

never change, Alec

Attachments:

• video: Technology Connections clip: "If you're wondering how on Earth a video about such a simple thing could possibly be this long, well... Hello! Welcome to the channel. You must be new here."

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

Why should I bother paying for an email service when this new Gmail thing is free and has cool new features?

Why should I bother with the cost and hassle of hosting and running my own website or forum when this cool new Facebook thing is free and super easy?

Why should I bother with the clutter and hassle of buying physical copies of my favourite shows and movies when streaming is cheap and easy?

Why should I bother learning anything or thinking for myself when this cool LLM can do it for me?