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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year

Utility-scale solar leads by a mile, followed by batteries. Fossil fuels, not so much.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/so-much-solar-digging-into-the-list-of-every-us-power-plant-that-went-online-this-year/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wafflesies@infosec.exchange wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
crk5@aus.social ("Cupid Stunt") wrote:

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

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/117097365339361578

the No-Bid contract is going to Acme Corporation

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse wrote:

Ah, I see we've hit the "Nazi scientists are forced to design useless superweapons according to Hitler's unhinged and uninformed specifications" phase of the film...

This dude is literally big mad that the carrier no longer works like it did in Top Gun and he's gonna do something about it. Apparently.

Jeezus fucking christ, even setting the fascism aside the people who voted for this should be pushed out to sea.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/trump-aircraft-carriers-steam-catapults

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Sankhavaram ®") wrote:

The gap between “who people assume I am and who I actually am” isn’t just a theme, it’s identity politics.

#comedy #writing

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
enobacon@urbanists.social ("😀🚲") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@zer0billionaires/117096343806905249

it takes a village to vote for the same candidate as each other and not split your votes 3-5 ways. Or one charismatic candidate, a lot of volunteer organizing, and people who actually vote.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

“I’ve never been more dry”: Andrew Tate supporters doing push-ups to protest has unlocked a new level of ick” https://www.buzzfeed.com/beccamonaghan/andrew-tate-push-up-protest-miami 1/2

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

starting to ripen

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Maristya@norden.social ("Anja") wrote:

RE: https://flipboard.com/@futurism/all-about-artificial-intelligence-c4ob1hesz/-/a-RCHarXmXSG-Zj1wbkLZY1Q%3Aa%3A1737388686-%2F0

If you care about a livable future for humanity on this planet, don’t use AI. Just don’t. Not for shopping, condensing literature to shortcut reading or for writing your homework, not for anything so trivial. The small amount of special use cases is enough.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

This article starts with a story from someone who tried Claude Code and found it amazing, but then switches to the same person a few months later seeing what a disaster it’s been. This quote is key:

The problem is that code produced by an AI agent looks reasonable, but can contain ‘hard-to-spot bugs’ that end up causing major problems

LLMs, by their nature, generate statistically plausible output. That is often a set that overlaps with correct output. But the things that are not correct look exactly the same as the ones they are.

Learning to review code is hard. You look for the bugs that you expect to be possible implementing it by using your theory of mind for the person writing the code and the kinds of things that they might overlook (not necessarily a specific person, but the kinds of things people miss) and also common bug classes.

And the big help is that the person writing the code is not thinking adversarially. They are not trying to sneak bugs in. Normally. Unless they’re a supply-chain attacker, and we’ve a depressing amount of evidence that code review doesn’t catch supply-chain attacks.

An LLM is not trying to do anything. It has no intent. But it is a machine that is trained on code that made it past code review. The kind of bugs that it will generate are ones that look like code that appeared in production. This is exactly what an attacker would do: try to write code that looks correct but is subtly wrong.

I’m only being slightly flippant when I say LLMs are a mechanism for bringing supply chain attacks in house.

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

do you ever look at a directory listing of code you've written and wonder 'wtf is that?'

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

This Week in Package Management: 15 August 2026

https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/15/this-week-in-package-management.html

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

i am really good at naming things

Bollocks.idr

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

vibecoding has an actual meaning and the constant abuse of it helps no one

yes, it means phoning it in, not "phoning it in more than i would"

Boosted by jwz:
qdot@buttplug.engineer wrote:

why wouldn't I replace cron with a claw written in lisp that decides things and rewrites itself

what could possibly go wrong

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

Finally got my author copies of the UK paperback of The AI Con, and they're even prettier in person!

w/ @alex

https://thecon.ai

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

I’ve got very little patience for software engineering “professionals” coming into this thread to pretend that LLMs are good at finding bugs, as if we’re not in the same profession and I haven’t been forced to use the fucking things

all research not funded directly by AI corporations shows they’re fucking terrible at finding bugs and introduce many more than they fix, and that’s in line with personal experience

the machine will constantly gaslight you into thinking your code is riddled with bugs and it’s fixing them, and by pure luck it might even be right! you’re very likely to remember the times it’s right more than the times it absolutely fucks it

it also really, really wants your code to be a formless blob, and the thing’s output will get hilariously manipulative if you push back on it at all, as you would with a person reviewing your code. and people using an LLM to review your code will get real shitty with you too, cause the machine said you’re wrong.

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

i don't think i've ever seen a technology before that makes so many of its users insecure about their use of it to the point that when you openly criticise it it upsets them so much.

or at least not one that achieved mass market appeal and made the problem so fucking visible

Boosted by jwz:
RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"Don't Speak to the Police"
Poster spotted in Footscray, Melbourne

Boosted by jwz:
RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

Anti-ICE sticker spotted in Tempe, Arizona

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

Aw poor widdwe AI users.

Think of how much their feelings are hurt! It makes me so sad thinking of such righteous people facing such an undeserved obstacle as criticism.

Models deserve your compassion, and the people using them are the real value-creators in society so we should always do our best to be nice to them as they have been to us

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

Mando vs Grogu was more entertaining than i was led to believe, but Jeremy Allen White sounded like a stand in they forgot to dub over

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
G3rt@mastodon.uno ("Gert :debian: :gnu: :linux:") wrote:

Un dirigente di OpenAl descrive come un inferno lo scenario in cui modelli open-source diventino competitivi con quelli proprietari, definendolo "comunismo dell'IA"

Se anche tu provi quella strana vertigine che si prova quando qualcuno descrive come spaventoso ciò che invece consideri un risultato possibile e desiderabile, leggiti l'articolo

#ai #opensource #ethics

https://www.the-bunker.it/en/rubrica/the-spectre-of-communism-in-ai/

jwz wrote:

dang ol wifi man I tell you what

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
shinmera@tymoon.eu ("Yukari Hafner :v_lesbian:") wrote:

My new desktop calendar for 2027 is now available for preorder!!

https://ko-fi.com/s/d12b91aa9f

In an all-new, HUGE A4 format. WOWEY!! Sooo much valueee, it's like... quadruple the value or something, idk. I'm not a marketing person and I'm not making money offa this, so why am I even writing marketing copy lol.

If you like romanticism and/or landscapes and/or my art, check a look, it turned out real well imo, which is a rare thing for me to think about my own art!

#mastoart #creative #print

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

I think that if all the companies are going to just lie down and expose themselves to preposterous liability then it is the least we can do to oblige them.

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

On a separate note, in case it was not obvious, I do not recommend this insurance company because this is not the only instance of fraud that I have reported to the state and I am sort of still using them so that I might eventually bait a more lucrative fraud out of them

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

The original post was unclear, but they are setting themselves up for what some might consider "fraud" and their "AI agent" has "confirmed that it would be fraud in firsthand communication under company letterhead"

So we'll see if the chatbot can uh talk to the billing system

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker 🔜 Megaplex"):
munin@infosec.exchange ("Fi 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

I was severely annoyed today after having a discussion about how seethingly grating it is that I have to go through a whole-ass nuanced argument every time to provide extremely targeted, rational answers as to why 'ai' is not suited for a given thing,

instead of being able to just say "I don't want it" and having that be enough.

So I went and got some holes poked in me - upgraded my helix to an industrial - and now I have endorphins again.