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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Foggy pasture #nature #iceland

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

viral wheelbarrow of tiramisu challenge

??

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yayamatt ("Matt Copperwaite (☎️ 8888 @ EMFCamp)") wrote:

People following #emfcamp saying they're getting FOMO.

I'm getting FOMO for all the things going on, and I'm here!

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

I hadn’t used an Ionna charger before, this one was nice! Very fast, covered, and even had squeegees to clean the windshield. The last time I had to charge here there were just a pair of 60kW chargepoint chargers at the end of the lot and it was pouring rain so I got soaked.

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Good. Andy Burnham to scrap digital ID to focus on cost of living in first major policy pledge https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y08z25q8eo

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

One of the open source projects I used to (many years ago, so I am not really affected anymore) has recently decided to allow AI contributions. One of their arguments is that they judge submissions on quality, not tools used.

Back when I was an active contributor (to the project and maintainer of some other parts of the surrounding ecosystem), I got a lot of submissions that were bad.

The thing is, I absolutely loved getting these because they always came from super-enthusiastic junior people. Reviewing them and giving feedback often too much longer than implementing the feature myself. The same was usually true for the next contribution too. But that shifted over time. After a few months, I started getting patches where I didn’t find anything beyond the cosmetic that I wanted to change.

Going back further, I was one of those people when I started contributing.

Measured as code contributions over the short term, maintainers working with submitters of poor-quality PRs is a waste of time. You’re taking time away from writing code to do something that produces code more slowly.

Measured over the long term, the results are very different. Far more code in that project and closely related parts of the ecosystem has been written by people who I mentored when they came along with some bad code than by me.

It’s never a waste of my time to turn an enthusiastic and incompetent contributor into an enthusiastic and competent contributor, it’s an absolutely critical part of building a healthy project. I wouldn’t have got nearly as much out of F/OSS on a personal level if I hadn’t encountered a lot of people with the same opinion when I was one of the enthusiastic and incompetent newcomers.

But LLMs are not like that. If I spend time reviewing LLM-generated code when it would have been faster to write it myself (which, to be clear, is the case on 100% of LLM-submitted PRs I’ve seen so far), then that’s just a time sink. It’s also taking away time I could be spending helping new contributors who want to actually improve, rather than just take the review comments, feed them into an opaque system, and give me back the results.

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patricianicoloso@masto.nu ("Patrícia Nicoloso") wrote:

Pardal/House Sparrow
Passer domesticus
#animal #animais #animals #fotografias #photo #photograph #photos #birdwatching #birding #santamaria #santamariars #riograndedosul #bird #birds #Ave #aves #asavesqueeuencontro #patricianicoloso

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MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social wrote:

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

(neville chamberlain accent) erlang-inspired concurrency for our time

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

mrburns-fingers-excellent.jpg

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

Hardcore IndieWeb: https://www.neatnik.net/hardcore-indieweb

I spent some of my Saturday afternoon exploring a key aspect of the IndieWeb that I think has become increasingly diminished, and I suggest one approach that can restore it.

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ Just announced: Sun Nov 22, 7:30pm: SCOTT PILGRIM: MOVIE SCREENING + DANCE PARTY
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2026/11-22.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #scottpilgrim #cyberdelia #indierock #sanfrancisco

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

okay so threads have a message queue. scheduling a gin thread means sending the tonic (os) thread a message. we might even just pass you a pointer to the message cell, you could reuse it etc.

gins get resumed when they receive a message (and the tonic gets around to resuming them). however, now you're going to want selective receive. so gins have to have a queue because we need to buffer the other messages somewhere and we don't actually have a queue, we just piggyback on the tonic's.

so we sort of do have a queue, except that it's only used for buffering stuff when you're using selective receive.

all clear as mud? good good.

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

gnt: really starting to look an awful lot like erlang...

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

apropos of nothing, apple eventually had to give upon the 'holding it wrong' bullshit and issue everyone a bumper.

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ethanschoonover ("Ethan J. A. Schoonover") wrote:

Me, ending my Arkham Reporter column submission:

"The gibbering tonnage of Cthulhu, writhing in the murky waters, was thus driven back to R'lyeh through the dark mechanism of our fell incantations."

My headline editor:

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emily_s@mastodon.me.uk ("Emily_S EMF (📞 3735)") wrote:

Shout out to all the people just wondering around #EMFCamp in such delightful outfits. Y'all are helping making this such a wonderful place. I hope you are enjoying it as much

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

you're worried about accuracy? no worries, just take some cocaine to supervise the crystal meth

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

oh you want to produce lots of code quickly?

there's a cheaper answer, it's called crystal meth

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

dogs aren't very good at whistling, as it turns out

jwz wrote:

WP pro tips.

There's a new WordPress exploit out there but I will show you how I vaccinated myself against it 6+ years ago:
https://jwz.org/b/yk9j

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noracodes@tenforward.social ("Nora Tindall") wrote:

As often, @cwebber is right.

> The worst part of all this is you can't opt out. A colleague or an open source contributor sends you a "generous contribution" that is absolutely slop and certainly not understood by the person who submitted it. You're left sitting there, parsing whether or not you're going to be rude even to ask if this is LLM generated, or to unwittingly become a user of vibecoding workflows yourself by indirectly interacting with the agent through trying to respond to the issue/PR.
>
> You can't escape.

https://dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-towers-vibe-sickness-and-the-vibe-bobsled/

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

"Microgreen trays are just less cute chia pets" -- @dthompson at Hack & Craft

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

(for new viewers of the dysfun channel, idris is my favourite programming language)

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

"it's proven the riemann conjecture" i say as i look for the believe_me

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

oh yeah, we're all supposed to be very impressed they write idris. or more likely request idris be excreted on their behalf.

what are the chances? 😂

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Blocking a bunch of accounts that have very much failed to spark joy.

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

Show me your code for me to even start listening.

my AI-loving dude, i have literally hundreds of FLOSS projects on the internet, do you really want to go there?

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

Faulty towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled https://dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-towers-vibe-sickness-and-the-vibe-bobsled/

Reflections on how and why the use of genAI tools pulls even those claiming they will be principled towards their use to withdrawing from their understanding and participation of the creative process

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

Hack & Craft starting now! https://fossandcrafts.org/hack-and-craft/