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The natural evolution of vibe-coding? Frankenware.
You stitch together random pieces of code, skip the architecture, ignore the warnings and forgotten dependencies, apply a little electricity... and then act surprised when it starts screaming.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
action_jay@thecanadian.social ("Action Jay 🏳️🌈 🐾") wrote:
I really like the idea of the #zuzai label. Creators make it out like how we coined Vegan and very quickly had cultural understanding of what it stands for.
We're looking at intellectual resilience, a stark rejection of tech that heaps on layers of ethical infractions, and especially refusing to fuck with the products of said tech.
It's a point of pride, a beacon of humanity, a mark of beautifully imperfect but intentional quality.
Make it happen!
Mastodon FeedEmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️") wrote:
Mistakes were made, but we’re mostly back online.
Replaced the semi-fried gen2 dish with a refurbed 4x. Tried to re-use the cable that I buried in 120 ft of conduit 3 years ago, but it had a proprietary connector.
It is just a shielded ethernet cable, but I think they used 23AWG wire or maybe even thicker, and my cat6 ends only go up to 24AWG.
So I made an emergency run into Cape to get a new 150ft ethernet cable which is currently strung out across the yard. I’ll order new cat6 ends tonight and hopefully get back on the buried cabling by next weekend.
The heat index as over 120 today, broiling me alive, but I did get to watch some heat lightning in that cloud on the horizon at dusk.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
please enjoy this video of some slightly unhinged russians changing the oil on a car while it's moving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBpz64cEHFU
Mastodon FeedNfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈") wrote:
@isagalaev I'm currently using one of these:
https://store.ui.com/us/en/products/udm-seIt's got built-in settings to set routing rules for devices. (TBH, most consumer routers these days should. Though they may be branded as "parental controls".)
It's more than I'd like to spend (& WiFi module comes separately 😅) but I got frustrated with off-the-shelf routers.
Mastodon Feed@NfNitLoop yeah this is a metaphor I have invoked many times
Mastodon FeedNfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️🌈") wrote:
@glyph Immediately makes me think of:
Mastodon Feedscrolled up one post to see this https://thecanadian.social/@action%5Fjay/116987371329094746
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:
A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated and a distraught alien emerged.
"What's happened to the library? It's gone! The one thing your civilization had going-"
"They moved to a new building," a passer-by said. "Don't you have ways of finding these things out?"
"Yes. I ask at the library."
Mastodon FeedI used the word "fresh" here just to mean "novel" as in "written more recently than the aipocalypse" but the more I look at it the more I am realizing that this is maybe a great word to use? There are two kinds of information, fresh and slop? Slop code is always somebody else's reheated nachos, even if you don't know where the nachos originally came from, whereas fresh code is original.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
i realise i am not constantly self promoting like certain thoroughly incompetent journalists from el reg i could name who called me a gatekeeper, but actually i have spent a significant amount of time and effort trying to get people into programming and to help them get better at programming.
if that is what gatekeeping actually looks like, so be it
Mastodon FeedBoosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jplebreton ("JP") wrote:
Look folks the genie is out of the bottle. The genie went from $20/mo to $200/mo. The genie is spending $8 for every dollar it makes. The genie is reactivating every coal power plant it can. The genie needs 60% of your town's water. The genie is hiding $1.65 trillion in debt. But it's out of the bottle! The genie is out of the bottle folks.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
oh good lord, i've been called a gatekeeper by someone who thinks mencius moldbug's writings had technical merit.
i think i need a lie down.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
tsturm@famichiki.jp ("Thomas Sturm") wrote:
While in Tokyo I had a few hours to myself and visited the Extinct Media Museum.
What a cool place! It's a tiny museum filled to capacity with cameras, audio players, cell phones and computers. What's really great is that you can grab all of the objects and handle them - most are not operable, but it's amazing to get the sense memory of holding an old flip phone or a 1980s camera. (1/2)
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artemis@dice.camp ("Artemis") wrote:
If you wish you were an artist, become an artist.
You can use any medium. Just make a thing. Then make another thing. And another thing. And another.
And just like that: you are an artist.
Create things. It's good for you. You'll get better over time, but honestly, even if you don't... you're still making stuff!
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
adapalmer@wandering.shop ("Ada Palmer") wrote:
The largest digital camera ever built has started filming a 10 year movie of the universe. From a mountaintop in Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 3,200-megapixel camera is now photographing the entire southern sky every few nights, producing roughly ten terabytes of data per night. The goal is an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition time-lapse of the cosmos: pulsating stars, supernova explosions, asteroid orbits, & clues to dark energy and dark matter https://rubinobservatory.org/explore/how-rubin-works/technology/data
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Mastodon FeedBoosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
veronica@explains.social ("Veronica Explains") wrote:
If you have a platform, and someone criticizes you, consider not responding.
I know, it's hard. I had a hard time figuring this out myself. It can be challenging to walk away when folks are saying crummy things about you.
But you'll never please everyone, and you don't have to be right all the time. Sometimes people won't like you and you just have to live with that.
Mastodon Feedthey earnestly believe we’d be happier if we did it too, and they want us to enjoy the sweet relief of letting our minds go along with them. this is not to say that it’s harmless, you still shouldn’t do heroin even if your buddy *sincerely* enjoys heroin, but I think it can inform our resistance
Mastodon Feedso the mustache twirling LLM capitalist would be overjoyed to “respect the decision” of the codeberg crowd, make lots of noises about everyone using the tools that work best for them, and quietly continue hoovering up fresh data. instead they are high on their own supply, telling us to try some
Mastodon FeedRE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116986805020926545
this is one reason I ascribe more incompetence than malice to most boosters. the boosters were mad about the codeberg ban. a calculatingly evil conspiracy would understand that a brutal model collapse is inevitable for coding models if there is no fresh, nonslop option for modern code.
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
The giant red SUV really took me out from the movie being set in England. Having been on country side roads here that thing wouldn’t fit anywhere. The neon sign on the police station was a wild choice too.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:
Blogger Ilya Remeslo, who spent years aiding in the repression of Team Navalny before recently going anti-Putin, has been taken to Moscow's Serbsky Institute for a psych eval. Remeslo was jailed July 17 on charges of spreading "fakes" about Russia's army. https://www.fontanka.ru/2026/07/26/76554026/
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CatsOfYore ("Cats of Yore") wrote:
Business lunch. This is from a negative in my collection and when I posted this to Bluesky previously, a sharp-eyed follower identified the likely location as the dock in front of the Lightship Ambrose in NYC!
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lectrodan ("Weer die vermaledijde Die™ar 🍋") wrote:
@FrancoisPrague @Sustainable2050
Correct.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DeliaChristina@sfba.social ("Diligence Jones") wrote:
A media literacy moment.
I saw the original video. In it, the woman filming is telling her friend not to say anything, not to give the #ICE officers anything, and also telling the ICE officer who looks like Tom Steyer to back off and stop threatening to arrest her since she's not doing anything wrong. The ICE officers take her friend through a different door leading back to the tarmac and everyone panics because it's clear once she's through that door anything could happen to her. There's yelling and people at the gate are yelling at the fed agents.
This is where the news hides a key moment: a Southwest employee steps in and threatens the woman filming. He says if she doesn't stop yelling at the feds he won't let her on her flight.
The yelling widens: at the Southwest employee, at the feds.
---ICE detentions at airports spark backlash against Southwest Airlines - CBS Texas https://share.google/U1hpetBqo0oY9NbUO
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indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:
After these six House Democrats betrayed their constituents by voting with Republicans, we now need to turn up the pressure on the Senate. Email your senators and demand they reject right-wing plans to hand over our military decisions and data to Netanyahu: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-your-members-congress-reject-trump-netanyahu-military-partnership/?source=mastodon
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Just as I'm planning to move residual devices away from SmartThings, I find out that they:
a.) have a web interface (!!!)[1]
b.) have an *advanced* version of that UI that does significantly more of what I want/need?They could have blunted our full move to HA had they led with this: https://my.smartthings.com/advanced
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cloudhop@equestria.social ("Erik McClure") wrote:
wish I made enough money to give nice people jobs like this
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:
Why in the world would the White House's mobile app need permissions or any kind of interaction with (or even reference to) the Chinese tech giant Huawei, whose products are banned from the United States for concerns about national security, espionage and intellectual property theft? Here's a scan at Virustotal.com of what's bundled in the latest White House app:
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dgmltn@androiddev.social ("Doug Melton 😏") wrote:
We're going for a YOLO @somafm release on 3.0.3. It's live now! on https://radiomg.app and Play Store in 7-ish days due to the lengthy approval process. Don't forget to listen to the DEF CON channel during DEF CON 34!