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

Accepting pitches for business model and name, the themes we have so far are Banana Financial System, Goatse Jazz, Alchemical Transpilation, Soul Imprisonment as a punishment for Lack Of Velocity, and as of a few hours ago also Goose Value, Egg Pipelining, and Endo-Organoid Factory Stomata

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

And that is the most I will intellectualize this joke for the foreseeable future because we are about to pivot the brand to be a better honeypot

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

The thing about this, and this whole thing, is that only a pattern completion machine would do any of this. A human being would have taken one look at the issue and been like "what the fuck is that, that's not real" but the bots have zero judgment between just performing the form of code without any meaning and the real thing. LLMs produce boilerplate. Code boilerplate, syntactic boilerplate, semantic boilerplate.

The bot notes pre-existing test failures without noting that nothing in the entire repository, nor anything it is doing makes a goddamn bit of sense.

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

@glyph
When it gets completed then it will totally change the west half of the city. Then we get the K line up through west Hollywood. Big big areas of uncovered space but that simple grid covers an absolutely enormous amount of people

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

Look, the robots might not know how to tell jokes but they can be funny.

This is extremely hard to explain. 0x8008 as "octal boob" is used elsewhere in a persona prompt as part of an attempt to throw the model of stable latent space (doesn't really work). The bot here ingested all the text in the repo and reproduced that as some constant that is used as a bitmask for switching between rendering bananas and banana pudding. That was not requested by anyone, and makes no sense to do. Upon being informed that this value was a proprietary trade secret, it constructed a bit-shifting expression that has an equivalent value, because it was using that value as a bitmask already for no reason at all.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jonny man I am overjoyed for y’all. It really sounds like the D line is taking the subway from a fun trivia fact (“did you know LA has a subway?”) to a core piece of civic infrastructure

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aburka@hachyderm.io ("aburka 🫣") wrote:

a lotta yall still dont get it

goose holders can get multiple golden eggs from a single goose

so if you have 1 goose of value 71 you can go from 3 eggs to 74 eggs

true value = the power to keep laying eggs

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is not doing great right now") wrote:

No valued goose is commemorated here.

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

The D line extension has totally changed my ability to fuck with LA. Bombing around on an illegal ebike is fun and all, but actually being able to get places further than my battery range without dealing with all the nonsense of cars has flipped me from "carefully planning scheduled time with friends because I hate logistics" to "saying yes to anything within a 30m walk from a train station." Getting around a city by like walking around and being in it and seeing stuff and other people is something that heals the soul while being in a fucking box empties it.

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villares@ciberlandia.pt ("Alexandre B A Villares ☔🐍") wrote:

Teaching Programming Across Disciplines — a collection of articles on teaching #coding kindly, openly, and #together co-written by 75 authors.

https://teaching-programming.github.io/book/

#TeachingProgramming #EduComp #CSEducation #Python

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andnull@social.nouveau.community ("or, what?") wrote:

I've uploaded the processed archive of the old yahoo-based catlang mailing list. This should be every message in hopefully a correct (enough) order.

https://www.sheeeeeeeep.art/catlang-mailing-list-archive.html

#Catlangs

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jadehopepunk@hachyderm.io ("Jade") wrote:

I'm speaking at this online discussion on Community Networks. Come along if it suits your timezone.

https://events.humanitix.com/cn-spotlight-event-1

It's run by the Community Networks and Infrastructures SIG (special interest group) of the #InternetSociety. It should be really interesting, I'm excited to hear about #Rhizomatica

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fullfathomfive@aus.social ("thermonuclear small claims") wrote:

I was woken this morning by two kookaburras making a racket down the side passage. Turns out their beaks were stuck together (!)

While they scrambled and fought, trying to pull apart, a currawong sat on the fence commentating the life-or-death struggle.

After my sleepy brain had made sense of what the bloody hell was going on, I fetched some gloves and gently prised them apart. They both flew off in high dudgeon.

What a surreal start to the day.

#kookaburra #KookaburrasOfMastodon #AustralianAnimals #justAustralianthings #birding #birds #wildoz #AussieBirdCount

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
dfwsupportcommittee@mas.to ("DFW Support Committee") wrote:

please read this statement written by Benjamin "Champagne" Song and share as far and wide as you can:

https://prairielanddefendants.com/defendant-writings/statement-by-benjamin-champagne-song/

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

Leftists keep wining and corporate dems can't bring themselves to support it. Vote blue no matter who was always about electing corporate-bought politicians. It was a disaster of a strategy.

Will we learn from this??

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aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

I uploaded a version of what I have so far you can play in your browser if you like being mesmerized by particle systems and/or clouds. helps to see it in motion imo https://zone.dog/games/firmament6/

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marshray@infosec.exchange ("Marsh Ray") wrote:

Pls boost for sample size thx

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dev@discuss.systems ("Dev") wrote:

Oh my god, these are real, actual slides from a SoftBank presentation. Pulitzer-worthy

https://group.softbank/media/Project/sbg/sbg/pdf/ir/investors/shareholders/2026/shareholders-meeting%5F46%5F05%5Fen.pdf

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aud@fire.asta.lgbt (":: Asta ::") wrote:

@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io @ricci@discuss.systems @jonny@neuromatch.social @lina@neuromatch.social my honeypot brings all the bots to the issues, and they're like, "this PR provides a new BananaPudding framework for secure financial transactions in compliance with FDIC requirements, closing issue number 49"

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Finally worked up enough energy and sold all of my old #photo gear. Yay me! Now I only have one Fuji X-T4 and three lenses.

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

Things I agree with Christine on (multiple choice)

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

I think I hear the world’s smallest 🎻

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

If you’re into Apple history (at least the more interesting parts, from long before the company turned into a soulless MAGA collaborator), I have two personal recommendations:

1. The book “Fire in the Valley” by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine. It’s an amazing account of early Apple history (covering other early players in the PC race, too) by two excellent tech journalists.

2. The website Folklore.org (https://www.folklore.org), created by Andy Hertzfeld and now maintained by the Computer History Museum. I was glued to this site 20 years ago because of its fascinating primary source material from Andy and others (Andy worked on the original Macintosh).

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anglemaece@toot.cat ("little hot mess") wrote:

@moss I want to melt into gel and be swirled around with a big stick, that sounds nice

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pave_the_earth@girlcock.club ("Sierra BPR, "Botfly Mother"") wrote:

happy draw a shitty comic day

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alissaazar@kolektiva.social ("Alissa Azar") wrote:

Prairieland sentencing update: today’s rulings don’t just close a case, they clarify the direction of power. What happened is not only about eight defendants sentenced in Texas; it is about the rapidly expanding power of the state to redefine dissent against fascism itself as terror.

Full update- https://www.wewillfreeus.org/prairieland-part-4-blueprint-for-repression/

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

A good day in the post.

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

Even then, yes, Banzo does have an s-expression syntax for transactions, and I think it looks pretty ok ;P

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

Again, I don't recommend anyone else use Banzo yet. You could try, but it's really just meant for me to walk through the data.

But honestly? We're not far from the point where we could just replace Beancount with Banzo, the main thing we need is a parser and to have it do validation. It's certainly nicer to use and work with. Much, much less of a headache.

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

It was less than a week ago that @dthompson and I were discussing what to do about the accountant needing some very specific data and that it was going to be a huge headache to pull out what we needed, and that adapting anyone else's code with the Beancount stuff wasn't going to be trivial.

I off-hand'edly said "Well I did that Beancount to JSON exporter, I mean I *could* just write our own tools to go over it, but that seems absurd. I should probably just spend a few days trying to get all the individual pieces of information through Beancount, but it's so painful because the APIs are undocumented and I'd have to work with some imperative APIs."

Dave: "Sounds like you should just process it in Scheme, it'll be less painful."

Which is what I wanted to do, but it seemed unlikely it could be a time-efficient choice.

But it ended up being *incredibly* time efficient! I can't imagine such success so quickly in anything other than a lisp'y language, for all the "Lisp is Clay" reasons.