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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
pfriedma@pfedi.pfriedma.org wrote:

There’s a certain … cassandra-esque irony in people getting frustrated with LLMs not “doing what they tell them”, and are now, undestanding-by-fire why domain-specific formal languages were developed in the first place.

If you want to skip straight to the part where the computer does (mostly) exactly what you tell it to do, might I recommend a programming language.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
OtterBrownie@meow.social ("Brownie Otter :therian:") wrote:

If you know anyone with treatment-resistant depression, give them lots of hugs. Legitimately life ruining condition.

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

can LLMs build a 10x faster database?

yes, absolutely.

would i trust my data to it? no, absolutely not.

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

how to build reliable LLM agents

how to convince yourself you can make a fundamentally unreliable process reliable

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

At some point I will get a perfect Monday solve, I know it!

(The problem is, when I know the puzzle is easy I tend to not think things through... and make perfectly avoidable mistakes)

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

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Aug 31st 2026 (Easy), in 03:23
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https://cluesbysam.com

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@fedi.freebooters.uk ("Chris Were") wrote:

Chris and Drew's adventures in multiplayer #Morrowind

Attachments:

• video: A video of Chris and Drew's adventures in Morrowind

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
wavejumper3@tech.lgbt ("VER-1602") wrote:

@prahou there will be more of these later

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
darby3@zirk.us ("Darby M. Dixon III") wrote:

remember when there was other stuff to talk about

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
TodePond@mas.to ("Lu wilson") wrote:

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

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.

Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.

Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Hi all, I may have mucked up some of my self-hosting things, so if you aren't already, make sure to follow my other account at @chris

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Elizafox@treehouse.systems ("Elizabeth :therian: :cascadia: 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Things I wish got more attention in software:

• A lot of software devs don't code because they love it, and a lot of people who assumed most developers love what they do have been living in a bubble
• To drive that point home: yes, for many programmers, I'd say most in the industry even: it's a job, not something they take any pride in, no more than most people who work at McDonald's take pride in making hamburgers
• It very much shows in software quality, which has been unacceptably low for a considerable period of time, but the floor as of late has gotten lower; we are approaching Windows 98 levels of low-quality
• Even FOSS is now often governed by industry, big projects have a lot of people being paid to work on them
• Smaller projects that are foundational but not considered flashy often rarely get any attention
• Not enough people are really helping at the lower layers of the stack, and Claude is, unfortunately, filling that gap
• There is a genuine pent-up desire for people to learn the lower parts of the stack, but it feels intimidating and it is still very much gatekept and hard to learn
• If we want to have more humans writing software, more people need to be doing what I'm doing: mentoring others in this space and helping them learn the lower parts of the stack
• "It was hard for me" should mean you help people up the ladder, not push the ladder down and say "it should be hard for them, too"

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
sci_photos@troet.cafe ("Markus Osterhoff") wrote:

@cwebber DO or DO NOT, there is no TRY

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

If you spend your entire life trying to prove to the world that you don't need anyone, the day you do need them, your request will be unrecognizable.

Pro tip from a guy who knows.

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

Though "MUST", "MUST NOT", "SHOULD", and "SHOULD NOT" are valid to use in spec writing, "MAY" is used but "MAY NOT" is not, because "may not" in English is ambiguous. See how the two different uses in the first and second post in this thread differ; one forbids, the other says it's optional.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)") wrote:

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
shiz ("Shiz") wrote:

suddenly felt like I was transported to an alternate reality

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

There is a whole second joke in here but those who haven't had to suffer through spec writing MAY NOT get it

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
MrL314@peoplemaking.games ("MrL314 💚 (#SMKDX)") wrote:

on my bullshit

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

Nice historic Irish church & castle. Too bad an English billionaire now owns it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/31/rich-enough-to-own-history/

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
team@protocolsforpublishers.com ("Protocols for Publishers") wrote:

Protocols for Publishers ✨ is coming to Toronto! 🇨🇦 Join us Oct 5-6, 2026 to discuss how we can preserve an open, equitable web, where no one company holds the keys.

https://protocolsforpublishers.com/pfp-toronto-announcement/

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

You MAY NOT make RFC 2119/8174 jokes

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣

✴️ You can now preorder it at https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-Unlearning/Timnit-Gebru/9781668093078

✴️ Is there a local bookstore that you think should order this book? Can you let me know, or, even better, let them know?

✴️ Is there a place I should plan to come for a book tour when the book is out? Can you lmk?

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

obviously asbestos isn't very good at writing, but i made a 3-piece suit out of it so you can't deny it's good for making fabrics and clothing

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Morrowind but multiplayer (highlights)

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/dDaph918xBxTamxmG3rEXT

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
maya@social.seattle.wa.us ("maya ⛓️") wrote:

you know how a lot of front end dev educational resources seem low-effort if not entirely LLMed and oriented around selling you stuff, but then there are, like, josh comeau and css tricks and stuff that's really good?

bf getting back into photography (digital) and i am wondering where the Really Good stuff is (a book has already been purchased, dead tree is not unwelcome)

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

Should I get the same haircut I had in 1965?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/08/31/this-is-one-of-those-weeks/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/117190449442518308

On the one end people are being priced out of running web services due to hardware shortages caused by AI, on the other end those who still run web services are being bled dry by AI scrapers essentially stealing compute.

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

@uoou has this idea of have our podcast video run at 1 frame-per-minute. It took a bit of ffmpeg magic, but here's the result:

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/w5mTmjWQXFEqKqYRzRFoBh

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