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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
shauna@social.coop ("ShaunaGM 💚🪦Hampshire College") wrote:

If you're pissed at the Democratic party, try taking it over. Most democratic party ppl are elected, either to a public position (congress, state senate, etc) or to a party position (state committee person, etc). This June DC elected a democratic socialist mayor *and* we're replacing 2/3rd of the democratic party positions with Free DC people. Next year should be fun.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

Dutch people. Peoples of the North, who lack a strong cultural awareness of how to handle heat waves. Please heed my words

1. Pull all the curtains closed. Reflect sunlight away from the windows. Tape up a bedsheet or something if you don't have curtains or blinds (not that rare in the Netherlands)

2. Open windows on opposite walls of the house, prop open the interior doors with something heavy, get a cross-breeze going. (Yes, the curtains may get flappy. I tucked the end of a long one under my bed mattress to mitigate this)

3. Take a quick shower with water that is only slightly warmed (neither ice cold nor steaming hot). Do this two, three, four times a day if you have to.

4. Similarly, drinking water that is ice cold may sound good but it's liable to give you stomach cramps when you're very hot. Your drinking water shouldn't be more than slightly cool.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116809983410415716

This whole industry is so cooked

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

y'all I know that if you have AC (most houses here don't) then obviously the windows should stay closed, or if you have good insulation (lol, whoever rated our apartment was clearly doing some creative math to avoid falling beneath the current legal minimum) that not opening the windows might work out better, assuming you did close the curtains.

But right now Northern Europe is full of people sitting in greenhouse ovens who tell themselves that opening the windows would be counter-productive because outside is where the heat is 🙃 I have spent most of my life in places with hot, humid summers like we're having in NL right now and I know what to do when there's no AC. I'm cool and comfortable at the moment in a house with no AC and poor insulation because I'm very proactive about getting the curtains closed and windows open early in the morning before sun hitting glass starts to heat up the house.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
N33R@fops.cloud ("N33R "Innocent Little Angel" ⚸ 🩸 :lesbian: ") wrote:

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
gray17 ("felix (grayscale) 🐺") wrote:

@cwebber this sentence near the end struck me as funny

> and I see codebases turning more and more into obscure and confusing organisms that can only be diagnosed by more machines.

sure, your bullshit LLM can bullshit an explanation of its bullshit code, and it will apologize profusely if you tell it "no you're wrong"

Clearly the future of coding is repeatedly telling the LLM "you're wrong" until it reaches a stable "no I'm right and here's why" state

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

i will find bugs. that's a Vivi guarantee

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
kjaymiller ("Jay Miller") wrote:

I learned recently about zizmor which audits your GH Actions.

TIL there is a GH-Action for it but it updates the GH Security Section with findings! 🤔

https://github.com/zizmorcore/zizmor-action#usage-with-github-advanced-security-recommended

https://kjaymiller.com/microblog/zizmor.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
codinghorror@infosec.exchange ("Jeff Atwood") wrote:

Make sure your kids see this graph https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2436

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kcarruthers@infosec.exchange ("Eldritch kcarruthers") wrote:

Who really owns your data? Cyber, privacy and the rise of self sovereign identity (with a shoutout to my old mate Steve Wilson)
https://katecarruthers.com/who-really-owns-your-data/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Very funny screw up by Meta. They installed a keylogger on employees PCs, so they could train their AI. However they exposed the collected data online, so anybody could see what anybody who works there has been typing.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-accidentally-let-employees-access-each-others-keystroke-data/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
carlmalamud@official.resource.org ("Carl Malamud") wrote:

My incoming mail pile today includes several thousand dollars worth of inconveniently tightly bound NFPA fire safety codes festooned with keep off the grass signs. I also got the latest comic book from @pluralistic.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

It's so very red.

#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #concrete #decay #window #red #rust

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

We're getting new Ghost in the Shell?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnRcKC4Rgsc

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

@ricci @lina @aud @SnoopJ agentpipe has immediately starting paying dividends

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

I quit.

Rehiring myself on Monday.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Peaches boot-up noise #CatsOfMastodon

Attachments:

• audio: Mrrp

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

What I'm seeing is a lot of people who don't want to look at the code ever

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

Fable lies 96% of the time

😂

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

there's quite a lot that you might find interesting, but i regret you'll have to dig through fanboi to find it https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/23/the-coming-loop/

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

Your post was about LLMs, so I'm sorry to say it was going to get flagged as spam regardless.

never change, lobsters 😂

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Lingondraken ("Fellwing🇪🇺") wrote:

Fledgling #crow in the rain

Parent watching them quietly from a nearby tree.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
guilhernunes_@mastodon.art ("guilherme nunes") wrote:

The cat didn't want to go to work and is jealous of the cat that was abducted.

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

Sorry, can't follow any more people anymore

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

GoToSocial updated 🎉

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
gotosocial@superseriousbusiness.org ("GoToSocial") wrote:

Greetings fellow kids!

We just released v0.21.3 of #GoToSocial, aka Most Sacrilegious Sloth:

https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.21.3

This is the last bugfix + dependency update release for v0.21.x!

We recommend everyone currently on v0.21.2 or lower update to this release, as it contains some important bugfixes related to exif data stripping and malformed AP messages causing mischief.

If you're updating to this version from v0.21.x, it's a very easy update with no db migrations.

If you're updating to this version from a version before v0.21.0, please follow the update instructions from v0.21.0, but replace 0.21.0 with 0.21.3 throughout. Be aware that the update to 0.21.x contains some database migrations. Please do read the notes carefully!

Don't switch to this version from current (25 Jun 2026) snapshots or v0.22.0 release candidates. They already have everything that's in here (and more).

• Video processing fixes.
• Updated robots.txt to tell more bullshit crawlers to fuck off.
• Fixed some streaming API stuff.
• Bug fixes related to exif stripping and malformed AP messages.
• Dependency updates.

Thanks for reading!

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

It was about 2.5 hours of bot-sitting. About $40 of tokens.

....

So I wrote the code myself. Took 2 hours tops with Zed's very useful autocomplete. I was happier with the code I wrote. I knew it. And then I asked Claude to take a look at it. It sycophantically commended my work and pointed out "used the wrong variable here" (which both had the same type, so yay for type safety, eh?). I was much happier with this model. It cost the company less.

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

Can't do much about the heat but I'm thanking my lucky stars I have a dehumidifier. There is a very significant difference in comfort levels

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

from a fan of it:

Present-day models tend to produce code that is too defensive, too complex, too local in its reasoning. They avoid strong invariants. They add fallbacks instead of making bad states impossible. They duplicate code, invent bad abstractions, and paper over unclear design with more machinery.

and my particular favourite

Now there is obviously a question if this desire to understand the code is one that I will still have a few years from now.

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
chebra@mstdn.io wrote:

@penpot Is that "responsible, human-centered AI integration" here with us in the room?

Sorry, I really like Penpot, I cherish that an open source alternative to Figma exists. But recently your posts are all about MCP and now you come with this whitewashing... no. Don't. Stop that. If you understood the main complaints about LLMs, you'd know that there is no "responsible" way to integrate them. It's still a trap, it's still built on stolen data, and it still corrupts people's brains.