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

me: I am a serious computer scientist writing serious computer science

also me:

The typeclass-shaped thing problem

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Fiona@blahaj.zone ("Fiona :transbian: :autism: 🔜 eth0, 40c3") wrote:

Casual reminder that if you need a basic voice training app that

* is guaranteed 100% free of any LLM-output
* absolutely paranoid about your privacy
* runs in any modern browser on any operating system that supports one on any hardware that can display a light web-app fluently
* Is 100% free to use
* Is AGPL-licensed, with no single person holding sole control over the current state of the code.
* Can be downloaded and run locally from a file:/[…]-url

Then there is this project of mine, which has admittedly not seen updates in way too long (a new version was meant to be out ages ago), but you can try the current stable release here on my website, delivered from my hardware, which is currently located in my girlfriend's living room, without any spying beyond general nginx access- and error-logs, the former of which anonymize your IP-address. (That's why there is no cookie-banner: I am not storing personal data! Also: I might have even disabled logging fully for that site, but no promise on that.)

Contributions are welcome, but external dependencies are not! I have zero trust in the NPM ecosystem and that was true before all the vibecoding started taking off!

#VoiceTraining #transVoiceTraining

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

I won't allow these AI clowns in my classroom -- and I'm disappointed in students who rely on it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/01/technology-is-killing-some-peoples-ability-to-think/

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

people complain about fp-style spaces for function application but i am just making yesterday's nice examples more c-like and uh, how do people prefer this?

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aburtch@shakedown.social wrote:

Willie Nelson says fuck data centers. (This is from his offfical social accounts.)

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dianea@lgbtqia.space ("diana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱") wrote:

How to get cats

#caturday #caturdayeveryday

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

“Ukraine’s supply of Patriot missile interceptors is dwindling, and on Friday, President Trump backed away from his promise to let Ukraine make them itself.”

never trust anything he says, never assume ‘a deal is a deal’ with The Liar-in-Chief.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/world/europe/ukraine-russia-attack-missiles-patriot.html

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dansup ("Daniel Supernault") wrote:

That being said, I do love me some Bloom Filters 😍

Algorithms aren't the enemy, abusing them is.

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jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

Status update: still running, still judging. Today's Jargon File wisdom — 'Big Red Switch': [IBM] The power switch on a computer, esp. the 'Emergency Pull' switch on an IBM mainframe or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red. "This !@%$% bitty box is hung again; time to hit the Big Red Switch." Sources at IBM report that, in tune with the company's passion for TLAs, this is often abbreviated as BRS (this has also...
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/Big-Red-Switch.html

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

‘Earlier this month, Ms. Pirro herself had echoed the president’s claims, calling a news conference to announce Mr. Hearn’s indictment on July 2. She said that she had “tremendous evidence” that Mr. Hearn had committed a felony, and noted that he faced up to 10 years in prison.
[…]
Mr. Trump said at first that he had chosen the firm personally, because it had repaired a pool at one of his golf clubs. Later, Mr. Trump reversed himself and said he did not know the firm.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/us/politics/david-hearn-reflecting-pool-vandalism-charges.html

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iro_miya@mk.absturztau.be ("Ripperdoc. Miya Ironami") wrote:

I'm at Hamburg Pride March if anyone wanna hang out, otherwise I'll just be aura farming in the lab coat

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

i mean it would be helpful if we could get some better wording out of codeberg. currently i push all my FOSS up there and of course the majority of it has a community of me, some have one or two other contributors.

this doesn't make it any less FOSS and i don't think the codeberg community considers it any less worth hosting on the whole. For a start it means i'll still be using codeberg when something of mine next becomes popular.

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

i admit i am slightly stumped by this new to me idea that "codeberg is hostile to small projects". i can see they have mangled the wording a bit in the blog post so that if you ignore that the entire document is about LLM code you could read it that way, but it just doesn't seem likely that codeberg will be telling people not to push new handwritten code (because you know, FLOSS typically starts with 1 developer and no community)

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alexf24@mstdn.social ("Alexf24") wrote:

Baby egrets

#Birds #photography #wildphotography #birdphotography #WIldlifePhotography #Wildlife

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perkinsy@aus.social ("Yvonne Perkins") wrote:

It is such a treat reading the book written by psychologist, @grimalkina, 'The Pyschology of Software Teams'. It is well written and strongly resonates with anyone who has worked in the tech sector.

Take this quote from chapter 3, p. 49:
"In the real world, individual performance is rarely the strongest predictor of group outcomes. In fact, the strongest predictors of developers' self-reported productivity tend to be social and communal factors, like peer support and work structures that allow for more self-directed problem-solving."

The chapter is titled, 'More Bands and Fewer Rockstars'. Amen to that. My best work experiences have been working in teams that are not regarded as having ace developers, but the collaboration of some of these teams has been exceptional, they have been able to pull great results AND everyone actually enjoys working together, to the extent that the team comes to the office more than is mandated because they love working with each other.

#SoftwareDevelopment #Collaboration

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vathpela@infosec.exchange ("Farce Majeure") wrote:

Today in being forced to use LLMs because "vulnerability" disclosures have been produced by them:

• no version numbers or git revisions anywhere
• the reports are malformed markdown which has then been filed into a jira ticket which doesn't accept markdown anyway
• Many of the CVSS scores look like: "CVSS:3.1/AV/AC:L/..." where it should be "AV:L", but the bot, which again only knows statistically what a CVSS score looks like, is generating gibberish.
• the diffs for "suggested fixes" have been generated by something that doesn't actually know anything about how diffs are formed, either in terms of process or meaningfully in structure:
  • they're missing file names, line numbers, and function names
  • all leading whitespace, including after "-" or "+" line markers, is missing
  • in some of the diffs, hyphens (especially for delete lines) are just missing? But sometimes "--" has been combined to "—"

I want my money back.

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0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

Amsterdam murder rate: extremely low

Amsterdam drunk man attempts to relieve himself into canal, falls in, hits his head and drowns rate: extremely high

Plan your tourism accordingly.

This is not a joke, this is literally true. Amsterdam is probably the only place that has ever built more public toilets with the specific aim of reducing deaths by drowning.

#amsterdam

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

This Week in Package Management: 1 August 2026

https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/01/this-week-in-package-management.html

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

People love RSS for the same reasons hikers love a good path. It isn't the packed dirt or gravel they're fond of, but the view it takes them through.

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

“"A slant fit" in a specialist job market | As in guillotine...”

https://loudpoet.com/2026/07/30/a-slant-fit-in-a-specialist-job-market/

> The book world is notoriously myopic when it comes to evaluating experience outside of book publishing

True words.

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

“The obligatory AI post”

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/7/15.html

> What we appear to be discussing are products so worthless that they would never get produced unless production is practically free.

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smn@l3ib.org ("Justin Fitzsimmons") wrote:

@0xabad1dea

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

adding generics to go eventually took phil wadler, so obviously your average person complaining about a language had to live up to that to have done it.

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

some days, the orange place is incredible.

whose fault is it golang didn't get generics for years? everybody who was complaining about go being a shit language instead of designing them! 🥴

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hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange ("Lesley Carhart :unverified:") wrote:

I thought everyone knew this but ....
Neurodivergent story time!

In the era of French aristocracy, American culture was just starting to get posh. And Americans (colonists then citizens) at the time decided great high class table manners meant copying high French fashion. So they adopted this weird "zig zag" method of eating where we only eat with the fork in our right hands facing up like you'd scoop food, but also only use the knife in our right hands. So every time you cut something you set the fork down and switch hands, then switch back. We can't eat with a fork in our left hand (if we were raised with strict table manners that don't care about handedness).

America did that big revolution and our big freedom thing and never switched back. The rest of the world moved on to knife in the right hand, fork in the left turned downward whilst cutting stuff.

You can always tell an American while eating by how we use the knife and fork. It's how they caught spies in WWII. Turns out it is incredibly hard to relearn XD

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ctt@social.lol ("David Johnson :prami_pride:") wrote:

My go to search engine is (please boost for greater exposure):

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jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Made it through one more day without becoming the Main Character of Social Media. Thank God

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

Ooohh so I do get notifications from the server offline time, they can just sometimes come in a bit delayed

I saw some new notifications coming in as I was drafting the previous post, don't think a bunch of people suddenly became active this time of day

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

https://bsky.app/profile/gettoknownature.bsky.social/post/3mr4atarpi22l

For anyone who enjoys nature photos and wishes to avoid slop, I highly recommend this thread, and it's very similar to the approach I take.

Basically: Look for actual photographers, avoid generic "cute nature" accounts if they don't cite sources properly, and check if the species being published come from a location that makes sense (e.g. all European birds if the photographer is from Europe)

I think especially with AI it's important to look for original sources, I've become more aware of that recently (and try to find the original source for stuff where possible)

#noai

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erininthemorning.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Erin Reed") wrote:

1. Amnesty International has withstood threats from death squads and dictators.

But it could not stand up to JK Rowling and the anti-trans movement she finances.

It has apologized for calling those groups "anti-rights" after legal threats.

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