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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
hugo@treehouse.systems ("Hugo Slabbert ⚠️") wrote:

@glyph pathological overthinking in the age of the Not Thinking Enough Machine

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

also just gonna take a little victory lap here that I was so obviously correct about this particular architectural feature that the old style of API from before they fixed this issue is being slowly deprecated https://github.com/stripe/stripe-python/wiki/Migration-guide-for-v8-%28StripeClient%29

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

In 2018, I filed this issue:

https://github.com/stripe/stripe-python/issues/392#issue-292517299

In 2024, they implemented the fix:

https://github.com/stripe/stripe-python/pull/1200

In 2026, I once again have occasion to call this API, and I am pleased to discover that I get a regular old object with type annotations and stuff that I can easily partially mock if I want to for testing, instantiate multiples of for different accounts, whatever.

File that bug that's bothering you. Sometimes it's very much worth it even if it takes a while.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Often when there’s a “crypto winter”, it can take a little while before we start to see the fallout. But it seems to be emerging now, with three crypto exchanges announcing shutdowns in July, and multiple high-profile web3 projects closing up shop recently.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol #CitationNeededNewsletter

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
rebane2001@infosec.exchange ("Rebane") wrote:

i love seeing creative qr code designs, so i made this guide explaining what tricks you can (and can't!) do with qr codes while still keeping them very much readable

have fun and make cool stuff!!

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

1. What do you think of the term "prompt engineering"?
2. Are you in software or IT or tech?

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
macmanx@social.lol ("James Huff :prami_pride:") wrote:

No alt text = no boost. It's quite literally the least we can do to help those who need it. :janky_ty:

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

squirrels are so good at climbing trees because they have branch prediction

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dpnash@c.im ("David Nash") wrote:

@glyph @ildiavolorosso @Firesphere @pluralistic

Case in point follows.

For context, bear in mind I have been, and remain, extremely skeptical of the long-term utility of this tech ever since ChatGPT gave me a giant wall of bullshit in response to a question I knew the answer to, back in ChatGPT 3.5.

I was testing out a then-current release of Claude Sonnet to be sure I wasn’t creating a strawman argument about the state of the art based on older impressions.I handed it a simple programming task with a graphical component (plot some data in 2D or 3D). A program like Claude Sonnet might be able to generate code for the plot, but being a large *language* model, it can’t actually analyze the plots at all competently. After getting the “base” program from Sonnet, and having it come up with an expectedly garbagepants analysis of the plot, I had it tweak the parameters of the plot a few times so it was easier for a fellow human to see that the analysis was consistently garbage. I had Claude do this a few times before collecting enough plots to make the case clear: even with a syntactically clean program, it wasn’t able to comment intelligently on the output.

The biggest problem here was *not* that Claude produced crappy analyses of graphical data, though of course, that is indeed a problem.

The biggest problem here is that I didn’t read the program itself for a while and tinker with the output it gave — something I have done many times with programs I’ve been developing — but instructed Claude to do the tinkering itself.

I had gotten sucked into an approach to debugging things that I not only did not intend to at the start, it’s one I know I generally dislike. I’d let my hands come off the wheel and let Claude take over much of the actual interaction with my source code, *even though I actively believe this is a bad idea*.

I take this as very strong evidence that personal assessments of how you are *actually* using apps like these are fundamentally unreliable, and only non-subjective impressions, agreed on in advance by the people involved, are appropriate for making judgements about how useful and productive working with gen-“AI” coding tools actually is.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

abbreviations can be useful for saving on typing but in documentation or formal writing, always remember to use long-form versions of technical terms to make them more readable.

for example,

ghost in the init .
ghost in the help
ghost in the clone
ghost in the fetch
ghost in the push

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

getting set up for weekly local voice net on 50.250MHz USB

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social wrote:

They have their tool pretend to be a certain USB peripheral to target specific Linux USB drivers. These exploits are widely used including against journalists and political activists. Here's a technical article about a specific case of this in Serbia:

https://securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2025/02/cellebrite-zero-day-exploit-used-to-target-phone-of-serbian-student-activist/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
selectric@tacobelllabs.net ("liz ten eleven") wrote:

they call it single sign-on because YOU HAVE TO SIGN ON EVERY SINGLE GODDAMN TIME

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

so i see there is a position open to work on element.

do you think i'd gain or lose points for adding a joke about unable to decrypt message?

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

how can people say linux isn't enterprise ready when it's just as full of slop as enterprise stuff?

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

@alina @gsuberland no, matrix is a distributed denial of service technology

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

the JSON performance crowd

ah yes, you know you're in the very top tier of performance when you elect to use JSON.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

apparently people are out here rocking 30g switches. i assume to do that you first have to replace all your fingers with carbon fiber wireframes first

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
antlerboy ("Benjamin P. Taylor") wrote:

Teaching with the wrong ends of the constructivist stick – Christian Moore-Anderson

https://christianmooreanderson.com/teaching-with-the-wrong-ends-of-the-constructivist-stick/

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

oh goody, the ECB has a youtube channel and they have a video out about "taking care of your money".

which is good, because i'd ordinarily assume they were spaffing it up the wall on AI datacenters or something.

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

so which egyptian god is it that's reborn tomorrow? i've lost track.

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

guess which silly spattered boiling hot fat all over their chest, legs and face.

it fucking hurts.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

c.f. https://pypi.org/project/MOPUp/

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

testing backyard setup for tonight’s local voice net on 50.250 MHz USB. going to use a rigid dipole this time around

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

keyboard update: 43g is _real_ light actuation force, I might have overdone it with these "fast" switches

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

the first example was scottish soldiers' chest measurements

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
ellecordova@kilogram.makeup ("Elle Cordova") wrote:

Massive new data centers are being built across the country whether we’re ready for them or not. This is our moment to decide the terms at zoning meetings and utility hearings, in written testimony, and at the ballot box.

As hyperscalers come into communities to build these data centers, we should be asking: what tech will it be using, and how is it powered? Who pays for any necessary grid upgrades? What benefits does the surrounding community receive, and are those promises legally binding?

I have another video that will go into the details on all of this coming soon, so watch this space for more info!

Attachments:

• video: cff592da6c0feac2.mp4

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

it's that time again! upgrade your #python on macOS with `mopup`:

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ronald@blog.ronaldoussoren.net ("Ronald Oussoren") wrote:

I’ve released #PyObjC 12.2.2. This release can be build with Xcode 27 and the Python 3.15 wheels where build with 3.15rc1.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
joepie91@slightly.tech ("Sven Slootweg, ("still kinky and horny anyway")") wrote:

reminder: all those 'homemade hacks' for looking at an eclipse (looking through CDs, sunglasses, etc.) are going to damage your eyes permanently, and you won't notice until much later. they do not work.

you have exactly three valid options:
- look through certified eclipse glasses from a known-good manufacturer for <30s at a time at most
- go to your local observatory, they probably have equipment set up to do this safely
- project the eclipse on the ground using small holes but DO NOT look at the eclipse directly, also not through small holes

anything else will leave you with eye damage for the rest of your life. you do not want eye damage.