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Boosted by jwz:
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

and while we’re here, I’ve covered this before but the sealions have been arfing and clapping about it again

“aren’t you worried that a ban on slop will discourage legitimate contributions”

if your contributions are so bad they look like slop, you should be discouraged

LLM code is uniquely godawful in a way that only a machine remixing a bunch of plagarized crap can be

it’s really not that hard to spot it at all, and the only people I’ve seen try to weaponize a false accusation are slop fans trying to make a point. because they’re fucking dickheads and everything is a weapon to them.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
critter_in_flux@fluffs.au ("Critter (he/him)") wrote:

@whyrl @soatok i have this problem too. I'm way more critical of myself than anyone else is and it's really hard to "sell" myself for performance reviews

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
Lignedescience@sciences.re ("Fabienne Gallaire") wrote:

Misleading names, by the wonderful @rosemarymosco
https://rosemarymosco.com/comics/bird-and-moon/misleading-names
#whatsinAName #taxonomy #histnat

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I'm switching from #macOS to Linux. So far keyboard shortcuts are the hardest obstacle. Muscle memory refuses to change, so I work like I've seen a keyboard for the first time yesterday.

Lack of separate Ctrl & Cmd seems like a deeper problem than just doing things differently. It halves available keyboard combos. It turns out I've been using lots more than just Cmd+C vs Ctrl+C.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cloudhop@equestria.social ("Erik McClure") wrote:

I think proper mental health must involve, on some level, respecting the fact that you are a very thin conscious layer over a mammalian brain structure shared with wild animals, and while your higher thought processes may override those needs in the short-term, over the long-term, you're still an animal with basic needs like food security, shelter, territory you control, exercise, socializing, being horny, etc. and trying to ignore them instead of just taking a walk sometimes will be seriously detrimental no matter how many spoons you have.

At the same time, it's silly to assume that a future civilization will grow "beyond" such "base impulses". As C.S. Lewis pointed out, the fear of being perceived as childish is, itself, a childish thing. I think a highly advanced society might give itself more control over ancient feral urges while still preserving and shamelessly indulging in some of them, because they know better than to be ashamed of such desires.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
darkuncle@infosec.exchange ("Scott Francis") wrote:

@daedalus @soatok this is the correct response

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange ("Paul_IPv6") wrote:

@soatok

ASN.1 is more like the necronomicon. gazing at it too long or attempting to write an ASN.1 parser will drive you to be incapable of passing a turing test.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

does anyone make a qi2 / "magsafe" charging puck where fewer than 10% of the reviews are "got uncomfortably hot, did not charge"

Boosted by jwz:
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

So, if I understand correctly, a bunch of elected politicians said ‘okay, we identified that the things Facebook and friends are doing is actively harmful to their users. So what we’re going to do to mitigate this is ensure that, legally speaking, the only people who can experience these negative effects are people of voting age.’

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

I dont really have the energy to respond to everything so I'll just say it here. If you want to bring about the utopia of anti-corporate free software that frees people from the info conglomerates, the billions of dollars and decades of work spent shaping expectations and patterns of computer use set the constraints that any strategy to get us there needs to respond to. Saying "people should simply wake up and want what I want and know what I know" is not a strategy because it does not respond to the constraints. It is just a wish that there were no constraints.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
kattni@kattstodon.com ("Kattni") wrote:

I have amazing news... Introducing the next #PyConUS co-chair: me! I'm looking forward to working with everyone to make PyCon even better. I hope you'll join us in 2027 and beyond! https://pycon.blogspot.com/2026/07/welcome-kattni.html

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I've got a lot of feelings about Politic's today and I think most of them are not going to be effectively instrumentalized

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

suffering from the absolute worst jet lag of my life, and I thought, well, maybe I'm a bit punchy. I could take the opportunity now that I'm in front of a real computer to maybe livestream a bit, kinda lean in to the punchiness. I had this idea at 11AM. it is now well past 5PM. I have remembered that I had this idea every 15 minutes, but I have not launched OBS. I am not sure I remember how to. this may not, in fact, be the "fun" kind of reduction in executive function

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

give me the serenity to delete my hot takes before posting, the courage to post my analysis when it is useful, and the wisdom to know the difference

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
petrillic@hachyderm.io ("Chris Petrilli") wrote:

RE: https://sfba.social/@jitterted/116879316197412947

This. When people ask “what did Twitter do?” I am happy to discuss, but it ain’t for you. You do not have that problem. If you did you would already have solved it, likely in a different way. Every hyper scaler is a one of one.

jwz wrote:

We turn now to the Book of Jones.

If Only There Had Been a Sign That the Face-Melting Nazi from Indiana Jones Wouldn't Make a Good Senator: Boy, do I feel silly. Until now, I've been a passionate supporter of SS-Sturmbannführer Arnold Toht, the Nazi...
https://jwz.org/b/yk9H

Boosted by jwz:
MissConstrue@mefi.social wrote:

Y’all, we need to talk about Graham #Platner. I’ve been saying since he miraculously appeared on the political scene, that like #Fetterman, this campaign was a psyop.

Like Fetterman, Platner comes from lots of money. He went to the best schools, his parents paid for him to take a gap year touring Europe, he chose to serve four combat tours, 3 in #Iraq with Marines and then joined the army to kill in #Afghanistan, and THEN joined #Blackwater.

He had an #SS #Totenkopf on his chest for 20 years and tried to claim he didn’t know what it meant. He has a long, documented, history of abusing women.

This populist bullshit story about being an oyster farmer is easily disproven. He made 5k selling oysters, to his mom’s restaurant. That’s just sad.

Just cause someone says they’re on your side, doesn’t mean they really are. And if they’ve been a blackwater wet worker, they are never ever, not even a little bit, on your side.

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/06/nx-s1-5875431/platner-sexual-assault-allegation-maine-senate

Boosted by jwz:
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is doing a bit") wrote:

A rough analogy:

Threads → Fox News
Bluesky → The Atlantic
The fediverse → zines stapled to a lamppost outside your favorite queer and/or communist bookstore

Boosted by jwz:
batkaren@mastodon.online ("batkaren (a/k/a kt roth)") wrote:

The year is 2276, the US quinquennial.

AI Mitch McConnell enters the Senate and votes in accordance with his programming.

Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

I would pay to see a historical museum exhibit called “Absolute Bullshit Time Magazine Put on Their Cover”

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
tmaher@infosec.exchange wrote:

@soatok oh I see https://www.itu.int/rec/dologin%5Fpub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-X.680-202102-I!!PDF-E&type=items

In the data structures themselves. Yea I would be very interested in an example of it being Turing complete

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
daedalus@eigenmagic.net ("JP") wrote:

@soatok I had managed to not think about ASN.1 for ages and now I both want to know and also do not under any circumstances want to know.

jwz wrote:

Matt Dorsey, ladies and gentlemen.

SOMA's cop supervisor takes a break from jailing drug addicts to ask a billionaire's nazi chatbot whether he can have a little genocide, as a treat: Grok, what's the difference between right and wrong? Last Sunday,...
https://jwz.org/b/yk9F

jwz wrote:

Today in Waymos On Fire:

When they weren't rolling through fireworks they were trapping people near the Golden Gate Bridge. Waymos were a key reason for the traffic snarl in the Presidio after Saturday night's foggy fireworks display on the Golden...
https://jwz.org/b/yk9D

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

The doors have definitely seen better days.

#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #nature #concrete #decay #window #door

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

hung up some new posters from rory blank in the lab, this one is my favorite
https://roryblank.bigcartel.com/product/computer-hell-print

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

RE: https://dice.camp/@jalanhenning/116878765837050309

LOL, mechanical turk is going down because people are replacing themselves with LLMs.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡️") wrote:

So yeah, as of next week my gf has no job anymore since we moved

Currently I am replying to job offers, send 3 so far but while I "wait" I have been working on a little something else

A little merch store with 100% human made items, eco-friendly and wordwide shipping on demand❤️

https://stux.store

I'm still adding new products on a daily basis but it all works 100%, so if you want to support my work without a donation you can now also get something in return

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

New post: "Bring back the Insert key on Emacs" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/emacs-overwrite/

Are you old and/or weird enough to want the [Insert] key to actually toggle between insert and overwrite modes on Emacs? I have a function for you.

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

Like they are not the problem, they exist in the normal computer user ecosystem that hides all that from them. If you want to make accessible software that is the level you need to provide a scaffolding for. People are smart, they just might not have cared as much about computing as you have, so if you want them to see the divine light of your thing, you need to throw the ladder down way further than you think.