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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

i feel like i'm taking crazy pills every time someone says that ai is inevitable in software development. like people say this even when they're denouncing it, and i don't understand what world they live in. this company has gone all in on this bullhockey and i've been staring at one of their flagship products and it's been at the very knife's edge of non-functional for at least a month now and i am completely beside myself how it is that anyone can pretend they have a real product anymore.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
btuftin@social.coop ("Bjørnar (he/him)") wrote:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/30/anthropic-ai-claude-hack

"Look at us! We're also incompetent and want to present it as our stochastic parrot being magic!"

#AI

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mralancooper@hachyderm.io ("MrAlanCooper") wrote:

Means testing is slower, more expensive, more demeaning, and less effective than just giving stuff to everybody who asks for it.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jackemled@furry.engineer ("Luna Lactea") wrote:

@zuthal @soatok You could still do this to cost the attacker alot of money in chatgpt bills.

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

Really the only things you need to say to a cat are

• asking them if they are a big kitty
• telling them that they are a big kitty
• telling them you're going to eat their belly if they leave it hanging out there like that
• asking them what they are doing

But you need to say them basically constantly when you're around them

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Values are a measure of tools, not the other way around. It's impossible to reliably do good and meaningful work under confusion about that fact.

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

in retrospect, it's perhaps not so surprising that it does a reasonable job of being the worst programmer you've ever met.

when people don't know what they're doing, they try to make things that look like what they know. in other words, they attempt to mimic the greats without any great understanding. does that sound like anything you know of?

of course that isn't how experts work.

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

I feel like I am going to be saying the phrase "get margin called, nerds" more in the next few months than perhaps any other phrase

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
nanochess ("Óscar Toledo G.") wrote:

Once upon a time when I was barely age 18 I wrote a windowed operating system for a homebrew computer based on the Am29000 processor. I've made an emulator so you can test it :awesome: #retro #amd https://nanochess.org/the%5Fam29000%5Fcomputer.html

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

the latest adam ragusea video is slightly bizarre, ngl. he's got a chip on his shoulder because marco pierre white doesn't understand the science behind his cooking. which is not exactly unexpected from a classically trained chef...

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
trashheap@tech.lgbt ("trashHeap :hehim: :verified_gay:") wrote:

SO real question, I thought I had learned a number of GNU sub proojects had draft moritoriums on LLM-generated code, of significant copyrightable size; until there was a finalized GNU policy?

BUT many projects that had adopted an interim policy were also GCC adjacent.

AND with all the hoopla about GCC finalizing it's policy; im wondering if if maybe I was mistaken? AND that many GCC-adjacent projects were just planning on following GCC's lead there?

OR is there still a GNU-wide policy pending?

OR is the GCC's policy effectively GNU wide?

Anyone know?

#floss #gnu

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

"If you make that policy for your project, honest people will stay away, but the dishonest people will remain. Therefore you shouldn't have that policy."

Yeah, I dunno. I don't think people should shape the policies of their projects for the convenience of the dishonest.

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

Just 3.5 hours until omg.lol office hours! See you there. :prami:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:

Oh hello. My beloved #othernetworks book is on sale 20% off for one more day through Mexican Summer! https://shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898-lori-emerson-other-networks-a-radical-technology-sourcebook

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

In hindsight, I really should've been much more alarmed than I was when corporations began embracing FLOSS. Oh wow, was I naive...

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
robpike@cosocial.ca ("@robpike.io") wrote:

Renee has a favorite knife but it's hard to distinguish from the others when stored in the knife rack. I decided to put a nice red end on the handle using dip rubber, aka liquid electrical tape. It's often used to put a grippy rubber overcoat on a tool handle, but works well for smaller things too, like the knob of a violin bow so it's not got sharp corners.

The problem is that the stuff is in a tube and always separates, like peanut butter in a jar, so I did what any normal person would do.

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

honey jizzer

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
githubchangelog ("Unofficial GitHub Changelog") wrote:

Reference same-repository actions with self-repository syntax https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-reference-same-repository-actions-with-self-repository-syntax
#github

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

AMD announces 4gb 'gaming' GPU

the entire tech media is panning AMD and NVIDIA for only putting 8GB on many of their cards, so AMD of course did the worst thing possible.

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

C ABI allocator layouts in idris. i love that this power of 2 thing works, it's joyous.

https://gist.github.com/jjl/1e9973c4d1b98b5f47c73ad387ed00d5

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
emilyskidsister@hachyderm.io wrote:

@cwebber its unconscionable to be destroying them at this scale without them being made available publicly.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisVision@loops.video wrote:

Alyn finally tells Corlys the truth #HouseOfTheDragon

Attachments:

• video: A video discussing Alyn's character development

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

If a company with a "Generate this with AI" button also gives you a "Report AI Slop" button, you should know that your protest vote is being used to tune the models until the slop is invisible.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisVision@loops.video wrote:

Why Ulf if going to switch sides #HouseOfTheDragon

Attachments:

• video: A video discussing why Ulf if going to switch sides

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisVision@loops.video wrote:

The disgusting truth about Rhaenyra’s assassins #HouseOfTheDragon

Attachments:

• video: A video talking about a scene from #HouseofTheDragon

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ChrisVision@loops.video wrote:

Who killed the Rivermen? #HouseOfTheDragon

Attachments:

• video: A video talking about a battle in the Riverlands in House of the Dragon

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org ("LÆMEUR") wrote:

Hey, gang. I don't have enough work booked for next month to keep the lights on, so if anyone's got a line on some illustration work I'd love to hear about it.

Work samples here: https://laemeur.com
And here: https://behance.net/laemeur

#illustration #lookingforwork

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
joshbressers@infosec.exchange ("Josh Bressers") wrote:

I wrote a blog post

You don't have a supply chain, you have a supply soup

This is something I want to spend some time investigating in the future, it's all vastly more complicated and weird than we think it is

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/07-supply-soup/

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)") wrote:

You heard it here first:

https://www.grumpygamer.com/twp2%5Fannounce/

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Elon Musk is so fragile, I think we can destroy him with a few critical questions. Let's!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/07/30/yes-push-that-piss-baby-billionaire-right-over-the-edge/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX8fdVyktS0