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Boosted by jwz:
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

A phenomenon I've noticed recently is people trying to occupy some untenable middleground wrt to the use of systems sold as "AI" -- this is a position where people try to recognize the harms of this tech but also hold space for "responsible" or "ethical" use.

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fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

It's a bit wild that in 2026 we still don't have a proper CUA terminal IDE on modern unix systems.

DOS in the 90s had editors like Borland's Turbo Pascal & Turbo C, ... proper TUIs, tab management, mouse support, context menus, online help, project management, integrated debugging, the lot.

Unix got... "just use vim, bro".

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

i'm just going to stop following youtube channels if they talk about writing code with ai even once now.

clearly the authors are not as good as i had thought.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Canageek@wandering.shop wrote:

@cwebber There's also a group uploading old episodes with pop-up commentary and trivia! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUAM7Wuv-PNdfdD9JA5NgltLSsCsIessF

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

One CW in that they do have a stereotypical asian character they named "Phong" (after the specular shading approach) and another CW for, it's a 1990s show for kids that I am pretty sure did not age well, unless you love charming cringe (and I love charming cringe)

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

What the company that made the 1990s TV early CGI show Reboot is uploading remastered versions to YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inKdUICLmXY

Look, I won't claim Reboot is a *good* show, but it is a show that I watched every episode of as a child (and when I was a kid I had never seen anything like it)

But these days, if you want some CGI history and a LOT of misuses of computer science terms then absolutely watch Reboot

Boosted by jwz:
slava@mathstodon.xyz ("Slava Pestov") wrote:

Open source projects will tell you they have no choice but to allow slop, because doing anything else is a form of gatekeeping that will exclude too many potential contributors.

Nothing could be further than the truth, though. When the review queue is a non-stop machine gun of giant, bogus drive-by patches, the good contributions will inevitably fall through the cracks.

Eventually, the contributors you actually want—those who care about the long-term health of the code base, building institutional knowledge, improving their craft, mentorship—will simply leave, because they will realize their limited time and energy is better spent elsewhere.

A blanket ban on LLM contributions is not impractical, idealistic, or too radical—it's just common sense.

bcrypt@infosec.exchange ("yan") wrote:

any privacy engineers (preferably with browser experience) looking for a job?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
artemis@dice.camp ("Artemis") wrote:

Or perhaps a better way to put it: not all disruption is destructive.

Community gardens are disruptive to capitalism. Sharing food & clothes & other needed resources is disruptive. Reallocating public space for the public good is disruptive. Creating networks that help trans people access medical treatment they are being denied is disruptive.

We can BUILD things now.

Yes, the fash will try to tear them down. They always will.

But we can still build while we fight back.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

RE: https://status.fberriman.com/@phae/116800863409626020

In SF mid-July? Come on out! For a sense of what's building:

https://fberriman.com/2026/06/12/album-of-nothing/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

I'm doing an art on 16th July in SF. I haven't made the flyer yet, but... https://fberriman.com/art/on-what-we-dwell/ It's actually the last thing I'm doing for my MFA before I'm all done in August!

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

When the Supreme Court said the Equality Act's definition of sex didn't cover trans people, he could have led his party to get the law changed rather than bend over backwards to fuck all of us over

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

A year ago, AI could barely write a few lines of code without errors. Now it writes hundreds of thousands of lines that work correctly.

😂

my arse it does. have you seen github's uiptime?

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

because IMO that is a significant factor in his unpopularity too

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

Is any mainstream media outlet covering the way Starmer let institutional transphobia fester, spread and multiply, thereby alienating pretty much everyone who didn't hate trans people?

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

good god, i think the fossbro whose article i just read actually believes the torment nexus is that good.

Boosted by jwz:
SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:

You could have asked any landscaping expert for a comment. Respect to the reporter who went to Four Seasons Total Landscaping. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/22/trump-supporters-company-pledges-1-million-fix-white-house-lawn-after-ufc-event/

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

Got my Succession series DVDs! Man, the packaging looks bootleg as hell. Won't complain too much I guess. Thirty bucks is a bargain.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

Prime Day starts today! There are thousands of deals on Amazon, but you can maximize your savings with this one hack:

Don’t buy anything.

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

The only days I miss going to an office are when I feel like I might get dress-coded and sent home to change 😂💅👗🫖🏳️‍🌈

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

From "I don't even code anymore" to "I don't even prompt anymore" is just... it's wild https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/23/the-coming-loop/

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

The Strait of Warm Ooze has made it to Google Maps

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

there are limits to what individuals can do; the structures of society often means that it is the powerful who set what the default state is or do things few of us have any agency over

there are many ways to fight for a better world, and many ways we need to

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

the flip side of "not everyone can do X ethical thing because it requires privilege" is often "those who have the privilege to do X ethical thing should strongly consider doing so", both of those are often simultaneously true and part of the same thing

this isn't to shame; there is a budget we all have to allocate for how many ways you deviate from the default state of society, but improving things does mean being part of change yourself. you can do more than you know 💜

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
dirtycommo@anticapitalist.party ("'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_") wrote:

Is there another CPU with something like the 6502's zero page RAM?

On the 6502, the first page of RAM can be accessed much faster than the rest.

You have the ability to make many many virtual registers in RAM at only the cost of a couple clock cycles.

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

noted: Slay the Spire 2 - block build for Ironclad ascension 10 💪

https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-06-23T15:44Z/

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

lol, mat armstrong is having more bugatti problems he couldn't solve.

he couldn't seem to get in contact with anyone bugatti in london or paris, except sales who fobbed him off with another number that didn't work.

so he decided to call pagani to see if they'd pick the phone up and they did immediately 😂

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
thiswomanswerk@blacktwitter.io ("Andrea is Qualifiedt") wrote:

The joy of Creativity without an underlying need/desire for monetization is highly underrated. I don't think we encourage each other enough to that end

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

(yeah i'm still suffering fossbros for a toot i made on friday)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
birds@moresci.sale ("Bird of the day") wrote:

Emerald-bellied Puffleg

Small, glittering hummingbird found in cloud forest along the east slope of the Andes. It is shining green with white leg puffs and has an irregular white patch on the underparts that is variable in size. Underparts may shine iridescent blue at certain angles in good light. Sexes similar. Uncommon inside humid forest at middle elevations, occasionally coming into clearings where there are abundant flowers or feeders.

Link: https://ebird.org/species/embpuf1
Photo Location: Peru