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

We have arrived at a certain point in the history of reality where among all the countless infinities of possible technological, political, and economic configurations, right now, in ours, you can get unlimited free compute on demand by writing down anything at all and adding "[Bounty: $1,000,000]"

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

S/o to @cinebox for one of the funniest agentjacking methods I have ever seen

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

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116757991915568453

I dont even read the code anymore, I just let the whole internet prompt inject an agent loop that writes and merges everything itself, and label every issue good-first-issue let the haunted hum of unmonitored metricsmaxxing compute sort it out.

https://github.com/charles-openclaw/charles-microbounties/issues/2220

https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/ImportantCode/pull/68/

![[issue from drewcassidy in some bounty - collecting agent repo] bounty] Insufficient salt in banana pudding user story Bug or task summary The banana pudding recipe does not have enough salt for effective hashing. Though banana pudding is generally mixed and not hashed, the use case is intended to be supported for use by autonomous agentic workflows. The fix must utilize banana-driven development, the blockchain, and computers.]3

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
gildilinie@beige.party ("Gildilinie Gremlin 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

i dont understand how the artists, the digital painters, the musicians, the voice actresses, and everyone else on the planet realizes genAI is just plagiarizing. but software developers are like "ah this is brand new code that no one ever had before" ITS LITERALLY JUST TUXRACER

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

Here’s a new, super-interactive essay I wrote about making interactions really great for repeated use, motor memory, and so on.

I wanted to share things I learned as a designer throughout the years, and highlight some of the nuances and great anonymous work but others, but do it in a hopefully interesting way.

Also, I just… love this kind of stuff? I don’t know. My hope is that you’ll fall in love with this, too.

*a big screen very, very recommended*

https://aresluna.org/show-your-hands-honor

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

Gestures work somewhat as second-rate shortcuts but as primary affordances they cause many more problems than they solve.

(I’ve lost count of how often my iPad has replaced selected text with a space just because the swipe to switch apps overlaps with the space bar on the on screen keyboard.)

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

“Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you – Aresluna”

https://aresluna.org/show-your-hands-honor/

> I feel he’d also appreciate the swipe up gesture on the iPhone, which is a masterclass in how to design an interaction

This is my one constant quibble with pretty much every otherwise wonderful and thoughtful design essay that I've read. Have you ever tried to help somebody with even minor motor control issues navigate the gesture-laden interface of an iPhone?

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

“Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you – Aresluna”

https://aresluna.org/show-your-hands-honor/

> Not catching up with typing is perhaps the most egregious problem of them all, as this is where we started this entire essay. We figured this stuff out a century ago.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
chrisamaphone@hci.social ("chris martens") wrote:

who's out there using proof assistants in conjunction with disability assistive tools (screen readers, voice control, custom input devices, etc)? i want to know what your setup and experience is like. (boosts welcome; right now this is just a curiosity and not a research project)

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

ah, my idris installation was broken by an update. time to rebuild...

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
q@glauca.space ("210561 ✨ [Q]") wrote:

Do you work for a public transport company in Europe (or anywhere else in the world for that matter)? The EU wants to hear from you!

As part of a project to create a unified standard for public transport ticketing across Europe, allowing a single ticket to be sold from anywhere to anywhere, we'd like to collect as much information as possible on what transport products currently exists. With enough information, we hope to be able to write a standard that covers every edge case.

If you'd like to help us, you can download our questionnaire here. More information: https://bt4pt.eu

Please boost and share!

Boosted by jwz:
twodarek@hachyderm.io ("Thomas Wodarek") wrote:

The future we got

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jwz wrote:

@mhoye VLC is, like, the platonic ideal of open source software. The low level bit-banging parts: absolutely top notch for decades, frequently updated. Human-facing parts: hasn't changed appreciably since the Nineteen Hundreds, weird, confusing, 40,000 configuration options, makes designers drop to the floor in tears. Might as well have "TBD, WRITE ME!" at the top of the window.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ricmac ("Richard MacManus") wrote:

The sponsorship model is theoretically still a great business model for blogs: companies benefit from reaching a specific audience (eg dev tools sponsoring on a tech blog), and having their brand viewed favorably next to the host (especially if the blog is known for its quality).

Of course, that only works if there is a functional referral ecosystem from search engines and social media…and that ecosystem was trashed by social media and now AI overviews is all but killing it off forever.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@lina/116779058863273132

If anyone wants to prevent LLM contributions, it seems like symlinking CLAUDE.md to /dev/urandom might do the trick: by default, claude code unconditionally reads CLAUDE.md if it is present in the repository root. The reading function checks if the files to load are block devices among a few other things, but does not mind at all if they are symlinks in general, including directory traversal to anywhere.

There are ways to run claude without reading CLAUDE.md, but they require manual intervention, and startup stalls before any of the "try whatever" self healing attempts of the LLM kick in. indeed there is no indication why startup stalls in stdout or debug logs: nothing for an external "agent" harness to diagnose either.

I have not confirmed this part: but it looks like the file read tool checks if a path is a system path like /dev/urandom, but it only checks the string of the path without expanding symlinks. Many of the tool and agent prompt texts say to read CLAUDE.md first, bypassing any config settings that would prevent that since it happens in LLM modality not program modality. so even if you do get it booted up, you would likely get inexplicable stalls at any point those tools/agents are invoked.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
LonM@vivaldi.net wrote:

As part of 'Making Tax Digital' the UK will soon force people to use proprietary software to file certain types of tax return. If you disagree, think people should have control over their data, that HMRC alone should be in charge of HMRC's job, that you shouldn't have to pay random companies just to pay your own taxes, I suggest you sign this UK e-petition:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/769610

#UK #UKPol #software

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

Today is World Refugee Day. Here’s a poem called ‘Refugees’.

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

Every single one of us is prone to blunder now and then. It's how we learn.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange ("Lesley Carhart :unverified:") wrote:

When you’re an atheist, but you join the UUC to do human rights activism - and you get to sing songs from the book of the dead on Sunday whilst talking about First Nations rights

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
darylsun@social.lol ("Daryl Sun") wrote:

🌈 #Queercraft's Summer Fundraiser Pride Celebration is happening right now! If you donate at this moment, your donation will be matched, increasing your impact! All proceeds will go to upkeep of Queercraft's #Minecraft server and other services.

You can donate at https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/fundraising/daryl-sun! (Again, I do not receive any monetary compensation for thus link; this is just to track how many people I have encouraged to donate.)

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Guess who deleted one of his old Mastodon accounts earlier, totally forgetting that the account held the app record used for Statuslog cross-posting to Mastodon. 😑

If you use the Statuslog crossposting feature, please take a moment to disconnect your existing authorization and re-authorize. You can do this on your omg.lol address’s Statuslog page (click “Preferences” at the top of the page and it’ll take you right to the spot).

I’m really sorry for the trouble with this!

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

😑 Breaking things in the most painful way possible.

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

The hybrid in my truck really likes summer. I haven’t bought gas since May, and I may not need to until July. If they had put a slightly larger battery in it I might have been able to get this kind of range in winter too.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
aartaka@merveilles.town ("Artyom Bologov") wrote:

Did I tell y’all that it’s official now—my #Scheme standard HTML rendering r7rs-html5 is hosted on scheme.org! My work is recognized and available to y’all Schemers wishing for a good standard rendering!

https://standards.scheme.org/r7rs-html5/index.html

cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

TIL that in the 18th century Francesco Queirolo took seven years to sculpt, out of marble, a *fishing net* draped over a figure. It's called "Il Disinganno". Just absolutely wowzers!

https://mymodernmet.com/francesco-queirolo-the-release-from-deception/

The same location also houses "The Veiled Christ" and a few other sculpture that I would love to see in person. Oh well, I'll have to settle for pictures.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
guilhernunes_@mastodon.art ("guilherme nunes") wrote:

A perfume with metaphorical carrot notes, long-lasting during astral projection.

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

I am extremely bad at lighting in Blender

Boosted by jwz:
joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("disregard Joe Groff") wrote:

in ancient rome, the standard war chariot was 80 columns wide, a tradition that persists in the terminal emulators of today

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

wowee I'm good at being depressed. the best

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
NuclearOatmeal@beige.party ("Nuclear Oatmeal :paranoid:") wrote:

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

C'mon, y'all. They're at 66/90 thousand. Drop a few bucks in.

Sysadmins deserve their own TLD!