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

"She was bravely the last of her kind"

pictured: a 40 year old catgirl surrounded by a bunch of 20 and 30 something puppygirls

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joe@f.duriansoftware.com ("Joe Groff") wrote:

sitcom episode recap: hilarity ensues when the main character and her frenemy show up to the party in the exact same “custom” AI-generated outfit

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone wrote:

Only one letter separates board and bard. Not sure if that means we should be looking for more musicians for the #PSF board or I've been doing too much #minutecryptic

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net ("Brooke Vibber :neocat_cofe:") wrote:

but i have to admit going on the lisdex *massively* improved my productivity

of course it also made me more productive at complaining about the reasons we needed to unionize

i'll leave the results of that to history, plus and minus :D

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net ("Brooke Vibber :neocat_cofe:") wrote:

i shouldn't say "productivity" because what it really helps with is *executive function*

this has a *work productivity* result in that i can do software engineering tasks more effectively

but also helps with "making dinner" or "sitting down and watching a movie with my wife"

adhd is a crippling thing, it isn't just work that you don't get around to :)

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

just wrote a 64 line idris function.

well i say wrote, i generated most of it with case split.

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littlefoxone@tech.lgbt ("wolf ***rika :verifieddemigirl: :therian: :wlfBlep: :fluffytail:") wrote:

author: ok here is a character that looks cool and mysterious and badass but there are a lot of implications that they are probably a bad person
me (failing any media literacy): wow so cool and mysterious and badass. I wish i were her :neofox_floof_sad_reach_ears_down:

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
nova@lunar.place ("Nova :neocat_floof_cute:") wrote:

​:neocat_floof_owo:​

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pikesley@mastodon.me.uk ("Per Inoboedientiam Ad Astra") wrote:

"I do feel like the eclipse has been fairly under-advertised"
"Are you saying it's been eclipsed by other events?"

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

There is an entire generation of gamers who have never read the 1998 bestselling business book "Who Moved My Cheese" by Spencer Johnson, MD and it shows.

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

“Wordgard Release 0.1”

https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/wordgard-0.1.html

Having had to wrangle CodeMirror, ProseMirror and other editing widgets in the past, this looks like a very interesting development. (This is an old post. Apparently 0.4 just got released.)

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marijn ("Marijn") wrote:

Wordgard 0.4.0 is out, with somewhat fewer bugs than 0.3.0 had. https://code.haverbeke.berlin/wordgard/wordgard/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#0-4-0-2026-08-10

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

move slow and make things

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr ("Ludovic Courtès") wrote:

Happy we got this far with GCD 008: many contributions by people from very different opinions, leading to a compromise document that the majority of team members either supported or deemed acceptable.

As @csantosb put it, that’s a sign of maturity of the community.

🧵

#Guix

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Scary Austin") wrote:

OMG 🤣 This is an amazing protest.

The Kansas Compliance Crew is a group of trans men complying with a #Kansas bathroom law by going into women's bathrooms. Give it up for these brave guys!

https://kscompliancecrew.org/

#LGBT #trans #50501movement

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

meOwO

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ponygol@chaos.social ("Ponygol") wrote:

Oh, #rust gets the ability to restrict mutability of a field to the crate while keeping it publically readable. This should eliminate the need for boilerplate getter functions that just return a field value.

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/08/10/call-for-testing-impl-and-mut-restrictions

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

No more lazy summer days for me.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/10/its-that-time/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

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

Igor need coffee

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
exlibrarykris@cloudisland.nz wrote:

Always be suspicious.

'The truth behind second-hand bookstore’s strange orders'

https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/wellington-second-hand-book-store-s-mysterious-orders

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

I need a motor arm that is 5cm taller than the one I have, getting one is an impossible task

It seems there are 768 different products to choose from, but they're all actually just slightly different configurations of 2 products rebranded as some JANKFYU or BeElzeBOB.

It's like the 128-in-1 SNES games. Tank game. Tank game with blue tanks. Tank game with gray tanks. Tank game with blue tanks and level upside-down…

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

Fucking hell. People in social media today seem intent on pissing me off. Time to go for a walk or something

But, seriously, there’s something wrong with quite a few of you.

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

It's not just Mel Gibson, a defining characteristic of Christians is a belief in their specialness.

Even worse, Americans also have this belief in their specialness. Combine the two, you get a particularly poisonous kind of Christian Nationalism.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/10/in-case-you-were-wondering-mel-gibson-is-still-a-colossal-asshole/

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colincornaby ("Colin Cornaby") wrote:

https://infosec.exchange/@david%5Fchisnall/117066183348062085

I looked at the replies to this post, did some more digging, and found the actual story is *even weirder.*

BOTH projects were generated using Claude. So you have two people - both generating the same app from the same training data - having a public throw down over who copied who. Kind of embarrassing.

The one guy claiming his Claude generated code as an original creation no one else can "copy" is maybe the most embarrassing part.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
nicklockwood ("Nick Lockwood") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@colincornaby/117069185435215102

Holy shit, so the "Claude plagiarised an app" story is actually "Claude produced the same app twice when prompted to do so by two separate developers" 😅

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mstdn.business ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

Bear in mind when you ask an LLM to explain why it did what it did (or didn't), you're asking faces on toast to explain faces on toast.

It's not explaining. It's plausibly completing.

And you fell for it twice.

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bert_hubert@eupolicy.social ("bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦") wrote:

The Dark Hours author who just published his Claude "Mea Culpa" has a history of being full of shit: https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/retraction%5Fapp%5Fstore%5Frejection%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fweek

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drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:

@Em0nM4stodon Agreed. I wrote a similar sentiment recently: https://humancode.us/2026/06/11/ai-moral-hazard

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

A remarkably effective repellent.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/10/build-more-guillotines/