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

I want your product to enable my agent

That's weird, I want customers to use my product, not machines.

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

getting a bit warm today...

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
maxleibman@beige.party ("Max Leibman") wrote:

The four-year-old figured out that he can dictate into Messages on the iPad and that grownups can mostly read the results. But a). He’s four, and silly, b). he has a couple of the common preschool speech impediments, and c). he can’t actually read what he dictated. The results are dadaist puzzles.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
aei@pleroma.envs.net ("aei :neofox_upside_down: ") wrote:

🚫 "i forgot..."
- boring
- non-personalized
- showcases incompetence

✅ "my brain has erased those thoughts after not finding legitimate reason within a data holding period of 24 months"
- respectable excuse
- familiar to EU citizens
- demonstrates strong compliance with european data protection laws

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

here is what i am trying to say, chess needs NPCs

Boosted by jwz:
never_released ("Longhorn") wrote:

> take care of your body, your future doctor is using ChatGPT to pass med school

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

UNIT TESTS PASSING
NO INTEGRATION TESTS

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

U.S. President Donald Trump's actions at the NATO summit in Ankara showed his affections were directed less toward the alliance's European members and more toward the leaders who appeal to his political instincts. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/09/world/politics/nato-summit-trump-chemistry-leaders/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #nato #turkey #markrutte #eu #ukraine

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

we have been away on a trip, and now I am being shunned 🤡

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

mood:

"Bye Bye Blackbird" - Joe Cocker

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

enjoying rust a lot, but who hurt y'all re: not having default params

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
osnews@mstdn.social ("OSNews") wrote:

The state of accessibility in GNOME

With July being Disability Pride Month, GNOME's Sophie Herold published a blog post taking stock of where GNOME stands on this front, progress that's been made, as well as areas where the project comes short. One particular paragraph from her introduction really hits the nail on the head about accessibility discussions in tech circles:

The reality of tech communi

https://www.osnews.com/story/145481/the-state-of-accessibility-in-gnome/

#Gnome

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, [...] want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

- Frederick Douglass

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

choosing to LLM rewrite to Rust is also a solution

LOL, is it really?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
matt@toot.cafe ("Matt Campbell") wrote:

I keep thinking about the code review guidelines (https://smartbear.com/learn/code-review/best-practices-for-peer-code-review/) that @glyph linked in his article about code review and LLMs (https://blog.glyph.im/2026/03/what-is-code-review-for.html). The former article recommends not reviewing more than 400 lines at a time, and taking a break if reviewing for more than an hour straight. And I wonder, can we work backward from there to limits on how much code a single team member should *write* in a given time period, e.g. in one day?

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

You need to watch my interview on the Tech Report today, talking about AI and jobs. I recorded it *this afternoon* and it's up already! 32 minutes.

https://youtu.be/wAgecpbLYkI

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.

Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.

Boosted by jwz:
Stevenheywood@mastodonapp.uk ("Steven Heywood") wrote:

FWIW a few musings on the Clacton by-election. I'm no expert, I just know what I've read, which is probably less than what you have, but here we go.

First point: Farage hates being an MP. He knew he was going to hate it and tried to avoid it. As an MEP he had a platform for grandstanding and no pressing responsibilities. As an MP he doesn't, he's just another backbench MP in charge of a handful of backbench MPs and he is expected to serve his constituency, which is a bit of a drag for a jet-setting idle gobshite. The one time before 2024 there was a real risk he might become an MP he stood down his troops and told them to vote Tory. In 2024 several factors made it put up or shut up time so he had to stand for election and he had to win and become an MP, much to his undisguised disgust — "Do I want to spend every Friday for the next five years in Clacton?"

1/n

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sambowne@infosec.exchange ("Sam Bowne :donor:") wrote:

The Shape of Enshittification. - by Ryan Levesque https://thedigitalcontrarian.substack.com/p/the-shape-of-enshittification-104

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

huzzah! the first pepper 🌶️ has arrived in the garden

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

home again, home again, jiggity jig

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Sominemo@collar.place wrote:

The way Shopify is tricking users into saving their payment info is very deceptive.

1. It is enabled by default

A very debatable decision to save payment info by default.

2. Masking it as a legalese paragraph

Stripe at least uses a noticeable checkmark. Many users learned to read what the checkmarks say and remove them.

Shopify has an identical feature, but instead it is a paragraph with a small "Not now" hyperlink to fight this behavior. Doesn't even register as part of the form.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
wordshaper@weatherishappening.network ("Dan Sugalski") wrote:

@ferrix @charlotte @ryanprior @soatok @astrid @tmaher the arrow of ASN.1 points only and forever in one direction. In case you were ever curious where the mad god Azathoth danced you can even follow it. (And you thought the A in ASN.1 stood for Abstract. We should be so lucky (but, alas, aren’t))

Management takes no responsibility for the results of following ASN.1 to its logical and inevitable conclusion.

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

don't vibe me bro

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
volts.wtf@bsky.brid.gy ("David Roberts") wrote:

Let plug-in solar cook! It's perfectly safe!

White Paper: Disproportionate ...

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I understand Coca Cola Cherry Float flavor is laughing its ass off today

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

(looks at sales)

The fuck it is, Atlantic, sounds like a skill issue for you

RE: https://www.threads.com/@kathmschmidt/post/DaiBtuyAL5M

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Oh shit this hits hard

RE: https://www.threads.com/@theonion/post/Dai2sfDj7wh

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
Arthfach@arthfach.com ("Arthfach 🐻") wrote:

@veronica @gotosocial They're the server I use for both of my instances (with one of the biggest plusses being NO CONTAINERS, so they are actually stable and fast). Cannot recommend folks support GTS enough - great software made by good people.