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cinebox@masto.hackers.town ("Andrew") wrote:
@cwebber wait bun is just a wrapper around JavaScriptCore how the hell is it 700kloc?
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedcwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:
If someone's problem with consensus processes is that they object to the generality of the consensus process itself, no consensus can be achieved on any issue, no matter how serious
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
rose@fedi.roseis.gay wrote:
also new clothes alert!
Mastodon FeedBoosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:"):
brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
Hi, I'm brib. I'm a soon-to-be graduate student who's going to study the intersection between science, technology and society.
I have #AuDHD which makes social interaction and focusing challenging. It also means I have a thousand different hobbies.
So you might end up seeing me:
- Vent about LLMs
- Post game demos (I used to make games as a child, dropped out of the hobby, and am starting to make games again!)
- Post music samples
- Talk about birds
- Reblog cool art (and birds)
- Post embroidery project progress.
- Post art (whenever I get around to making it)
- Answer tech-related questions from around the Fediverse
I have a blog https://theweeklymiscellaneous.co.uk which I occasionally post to (although definitely not weekly, I am far out of the habit for that :neocat_laugh_sweat:).
By the way, did you know birds are dinosaurs?? Which I suppose makes me a dino autistic.
I'm always eager to chat about my interests so please reach out if we seem to vibe, and if you ever have a question about tech, please also reach out, I might be able to answer it 😁 .
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
writing up design docs:
More than anything, DTs will shape the design of littlegem. They are an incredibly powerful feature and the 'big hammer' nature of them means we can solve a lot of problems with just this one weird trick. On the other hand, they are well known to be quite complicated to implement, to produce abysmal error messages and generally to scare the shit out of the general programming population for unclear reasons.
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
My brain is not working today :neocat_sob:
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
jaredwhite@indieweb.social ("Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)") wrote:
Yo, I'm heading up a brand-new community project. 👥
We write code by hand. 🤚🏽⌨️
It's a growing opt-in directory of software developers who write code by hand. When you hear someone tell you “nobody does that” you can point to this and say “well these folks do.”
If you're #ProCraft and care about the future of handcrafted software, please add yourself to the list! I'd love to see this grow to 100s of signatories (I know y'all are out there!) and really send a message.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
I come from those distant days when the only calculator I'd use was RPN.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/28/its-been-ages-since-i-encountered-a-forth-joke/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:
“You know, it’ll work better when it’s plugged in?”
“Huh?”
“You got a bad connection on the positive wire, there”
“Nah—wait, yeah. Shit, how did you know?”
“Ghost multimeter”
“Yawhatnow?”
“I was in this doco bar last week…”
“A which bar? You do know words mean things?”
“No witch bars near here; this was a documentary bar. You know what a sports bar is?”
“Well, you wouldn’t find me in one but yeah”
“Doc bar shows science documentaries”
“Fuck off”
“Trust me, you’ll love it. Anyway there was this film of declassified 1950s nuclear tests. I always wondered how they got the data from all those instruments after the explosion”
“And?”
“Ghost oscilloscopes. Instrumentation on the astral plane with the probes made of consecrated silver, existing in both realms”
“Bullshit, Anyway your multimeter?”
“I Shifted one of mine, this ring is the probe. Lets me feel voltages within a meter or so”
“This rig can wait. You’re making me one, now”
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
I just finished Emily Wilson's translation last night, and this morning I find her review of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Perfect timing.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/28/a-review-of-the-odyssey-i-can-respect/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:"):
memoriesin8bit@mastodon.gamedev.place ("8Bit | :linux: :godot: :gog: :switch:") wrote:
#gamedev question:
Do you know when you work on a new feature but you see like 7 ways to implement it but none of them seems "right" and they all have exclusive pros and cons attached to them and you hesitate cause all of them are a lot of work so you don't wanna commit?How do you deal with that or is it just me and I'm just uniquely bad at designing anything?
Mastodon Feedandrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:
Why npm Dependency Trees Are So Big
https://nesbitt.io/2026/07/28/why-npm-dependency-trees-are-so-big.html
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
the first baby habaneros of the season have emerged!
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mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:
@neatnik Q: what is omg.lol?
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Mastodon FeedBoosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:
has anyone documented the step by step process of how this particular swarm of parasitical wasps got into the C-level at the Wikimedia Foundation
and do they even have an end game, or are they just ideologically stupid
Mastodon FeedBoosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:"):
ret@furry.engineer ("Ret") wrote:
So... after almost a decade of failure in the online regulation space, perhaps some legislative navel gazing is finally about to take place...
I encourage every single person negatively affected by the #OnlineSafetyAct to submit evidence here:
If your freedom of expression, security or privacy has been curtailed in any way, however minor, submit evidence.
That includes people who have been forced to submit data to unregulated third party age verification processors.
That includes people who have had to remove content from their blog or website for fear of censorship and legal harassment by Ofcom - an unelected quango.
That includes people who have felt that their speech or artistic expression has been limited.
I will be submitting evidence as a website/service operator.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:"):
Redfuchs@furries.club ("Jasper Fox :therian:") wrote:
Be genuine
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
i mean it goes without saying of course, but maybe i should say it anyway: we will not be accepting slop. if you want to contribute there's this easy way called "writing code yourself, you lazy fuck"
Mastodon FeedBoosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
drwhax@infosec.exchange ("DrWhax") wrote:
I know Mastodon hates LLM's and AI. So here goes!
I recently got access to trusted access of cyber capabilities of both openai and anthropic, which also allows you to weaponize security vulnerabilities.
The speed at which these parrots can find bugs and be creative enough to exploit them is staggering.
I recently pointed an LLM at an kernel fix that was reachable by an unprivileged namespace on Debian and it fully weaponized it, without too much me prompting it in the right direction, in about 7-9 hours.
I don't think open-source and companies will know what's coming for them once these open-source weight models will have broader reach and get better at exploiting vulnerabilities on a massive scale as anyone can access them.
The bottom line I think is, you cannot patch faster than the attackers can easily chain all kinds of vulnerabilities together and just move laterally on an incredibly fast pace.
I've started reporting vulnerabilities to all kinds of projects and the majority have trouble or patching issues found. There's not enough maintainers, or there's simply none anymore.
I've been getting quite worried about what our future will look like for data privacy. I think outright not running an LLM over your codebase to find critical security vulnerabilities because of your moral stance will keep us more insecure.
Please run an LLM over your code base if it's internet facing or something critical, we thank you!
Can't wait for the discussions on this!
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
Talking about creative projects, I poked around Strudel more
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Mastodon FeedChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:
Jenny has a killer #HouseOfTheDragon theory
Mastodon Feedjonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
Corrolary: what year do you think the total number of words read on any kind of digital screen overtakes total number of words read on any printed or physical medium and is it in the past or future.
Mastodon Feedjonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:
If numbers were base 12, how much less numbers would have ever been printed or displayed. Is it just 10/12th as many or is it weirder
Mastodon FeedChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:
So far, I'm definitely enjoying @joinloops as a short form video platform - as a creator. IMHO better than its competitors.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
okay because 'dysfunlang' was a bit too had my nick in it, it's now (temporarily) known as littlegem (after the lettuce). and we're going to start creating a design doc
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
Peak creativity
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
RE: https://social.wikiworkersunited.org/@wwu/116996833156184796
on the offchance that you financially support the wikimedia foundation, you should probably know they've started deploying the union busting playbook.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
“Poor genie keeps trying to crawl back into the bottle. Everybody hates him.”
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
People keep using the "can't put a genie back in the bottle" metaphor for "AI", even though in the stories they always get back in and current "AI" is more of a "we're spending trillions of dollars and the energy output of a continent trying to keep this bastard out of the bottle" situation
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aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:
i wrote programming code today using my brain and my own two hands (i do this every day) it was really nice