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Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

> Gas Town was intended to be reusable, but I only ever wound up using it to build itself.

https://yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/

fucking lol

https://archive.is/lqCnP

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
davidcelis@xoxo.zone ("david celis") wrote:

"engineer away the slop"

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

This seems wasteful and dangerous to me.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/04/the-sky-is-falling/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jargon_bot ("Jeff’s JargonBot") wrote:

Beep. Boop. That's bot for 'I found something you should know': 'whack' — According to arch-hacker James Gosling (designer of NeWS, GOSMACS and Java), to "...modify a program with no idea whatsoever how it works." (See whacker.) It is actually possible to do this in nontrivial circumstances if the change is small and well-defined and you are very good at glarking things from context.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/W/whack.html

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
decay@todayiwilllaunchmyinfantsonintoorbit.com ("Giant Intercranial Aneurysms") wrote:

@foolishowl @davidgerard so... one of the biggest tragedies of the modern infotech industry predates AI sloppery by a long minute but really helped set the stage and it's that different development disciplines are different skill sets. I am a web application developer by trade at this point and a systems dev previously and somewhat on the side and those are not the same thing. Client user applications (eg Excel or Thunderbird or the Steam client) is a different skill set again. There's plenty of overlap in the same way there's overlap between, say, civil engineering and mechanical engineering. Games development, in this metaphor, is technical theater. Flattening them all and especially trying to treat games and, say, shipping website code for Amazon as fungible has done immeasurable damage to programming as a whole, and here comes the slop to reduce everything to a thin grey paste even further

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

time to assemble the 6m quad loop exciter again & try it out on a different mast

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
chartier@toot.cafe ("David Chartier") wrote:

This is a great song to train #AI

#music

https://youtu.be/ZBvLadXo7XA

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
RegularRaptor@mk.absturztau.be ("A normal Velociraptor on Fediverse") wrote:

I just remembered I could ask the internet for help on this issue

I have a wonky sleep schedule, but the main issue I have to deal with daily is uncontrolably falling asleep while doing something. It doesn't always happen the same way (that is, I couldn't find a trigger or some preceding symptoms), but it mostly happens when I am doing something that requires attention but not that much interaction. I very rarely have that while driving (but I don't feel safe having a long drive by myself because of that), but I very often do have it during classes or lectures. Reading things also becomes a coin toss whether I'm able to or not. Having a lot of sleep on the previous night doesn't prevent it. Sometimes I can pay attention for over 30 minutes before sleeping, sometimes I'm knocked out within less than 10 minutes.

I've had this since childhood but it took until getting out of university that I realized it wasn't normal (oops).

Anyone has any idea on what might be and what can I do about it? I did do sleep apnea and narcolepsy tests but they weren't conclusive and no doctor I came across gave me an answer.

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

ring ring ring ring ring ring ring

bwananada phone

bododolodoodoo

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Had a dream I was talking to someone and they told me their middle name was "Sunday" but they were thinking of changing it to "Bureaucratic Friday"

I woke up trying to figure out which way they intended the joke

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Congratulations to https://www.getgrist.com/ on Airtable's acquisition by Bending Spoons.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
algorave@toplap.org ("Algorave") wrote:

London UK call for performers!

Algorave: deceleration
16th September 2026, Carpet Shop Peckham
A celebration of 17 years of uzulangs on the birthday of TidalCycles

Call for performers - live coding musicians/visualists and their collaborators.
Live coding music will have a focus on uzulangs like Tidal and Strudel, but we might be able to fit in others !
Details unclear, including whether we will charge on the door / be able to pay artists, but it will be run by volunteers only on not-for-profit basis. We'll try to work this out asap!

Apply to perform here:
https://numbers.patternclub.org/o/docs/forms/rCUxFtiM3S2Wd6dwKGkaTK/13

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

Finally got around to reading @cwebber 's https://dustycloud.org/blog/faulty-towers-vibe-sickness-and-the-vibe-bobsled/
... and yeah, that's exactly what it feels like. I think she nailed it.
😔

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

@remmy this is why they are called user agents - they annoy the user

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

Got milk? We're going to make more whether you want it or not.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/04/farm-politics-not-something-i-ever-thought-id-get-into/

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
Rairii@labyrinth.zone ("Rairii :win3_progman: :win3:") wrote:

i didn’t think it was physically possible, but there’s finally something worse than curl | sh

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

My first perfect solve!

#CluesBySam

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

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 4th 2026 (Medium), in less than 14 minutes
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https://cluesbysam.com

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

one thing that i think will be controversial is there is no * as in C. There is a Ptr a type and there are functions to work with it.

i would like to say this will make no difference at all to the appeal but lol i've run the polls.

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

morning mushrooms in the garden

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
katzenberger@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

Calling out "Adam Howard" aka "Linux is best", a person or group of persons creating, rotating and constantly running more than 20 Fediverse accounts in parallel, to get away with concern trolling and spreading defamation.

Their specialty is denouncing #GazaVerified, a verification initiative that was founded to give #Palestinians in #Gaza a voice.

"Adam Howard" / "Linux is best" is continuously trying to sabotage any donations to people in dire need, by slandering them as a fraud, wherever possible.

Please report the respective posts to your instance admins, and have your reports forwarded to the instances that harbor the accounts of this scum. IMO, a #fediblock is overdue.

Boosts of this post very much welcome.

// CC @aral

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
xkcd@mastodon.com.br ("XKCD Bot") wrote:

#3277 - Forth

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

littlegem: i am translating some c to littlegem and tweaking the syntax until i think it's good enough.

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

What is a keyboard if not a bunch of buttons

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

Back in the pandemic lockdowns I had a bunch of dreams about going outside and travelling, as a thing my brain was desperate to hold on to

Nowadays I have a bunch of dreams about the time of my life where I didn't constantly ask myself "is this LLM output", as a thing my brain was desperate to hold onto

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

disgusting & unprofessional behavior by the Guard

https://www.npr.org/2026/08/04/nx-s1-5918354/national-guard-dc-veteran-detained?unified=true&renderPlatform=nprone%5Fios

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stux@mstdn.social ("stux⚡️") wrote:

:nkoWave: Hello and a good meowing everyone! :blobcathearts: :blobcatsnuggle: Have a most wonderful day and stay safe 😸♥️

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Pouet@eldritch.cafe ("Pouet·te 🎺") wrote:

Omfg I just had the best interaction in a very long time
I was buying a snack at my local supermarket and the manager told me he loved my shirt
I was wearing the pink one with a rainbow that says "Respect my trans homies or I'll identify as a fucking problem"
I answered that I liked being colorful, thinking he was talking about the rainbow and pink background
Turns out, no, he told me I had his full support, that it was an amazing message, that there should be more people openly showing their support and that he had trans folks in his familly

I was almost crying to receive that genuine validation ;-; I hope I'll see him again at that supermarket (which feel much safer now)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

The rust stands out in the greenery.

#Iceland #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #landscapephotography #countryside #rural #abandoned #decay #rust

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

Yegge’s only intellectual asset was a complete disregard for NDAs while working for secretive organisations and even then he arguably misinterpreted much of what he saw. Taking him seriously was always a mistake. (And, yeah, that was a mistake I definitely committed myself at one point.)