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andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

Git Submodules as a Package Manager

https://nesbitt.io/2026/09/01/git-submodules-as-a-package-manager.html

Boosted by firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)"):
ricardo@bsd.cafe ("Ricardo Martín :bsdhead:") wrote:

Every post/reply about AI you write should come with a link to a reminder that LLMs:
- Are for-profit plagiarism machines that have cannibalized the internet
- Come at a serious human and environmental cost
- Can't be trusted and create real IP problems, AND
- Can make you dumber if you stop thinking for yourself

#ai #noai

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

me taking care to get the month correct: 2028-09-01 - nailed it

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
lina@neuromatch.social ("Lina") wrote:

I'm just a tool, yes I'm only a tool
and I'm value neutral if you're a fool
well, I was made by fascists with a eugenics fervor
you'll get real real sick if you live near my server
and they say I'll be a god someday
they ignore all the pain that i fuel
because they believe I'm just a tool

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

is firefox upset or is dl.acm.org that bad?

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
adredish@neuromatch.social ("Redish Lab") wrote:

Our psychology department is hiring:

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor

Computational Approaches to Perception and/or Cognition

Job Opening ID 375565

Department of Psychology
University of Minnesota

The Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities announces a search for an outstanding scholar to fill a tenure-track assistant professor position focused on computational approaches to perception and/or cognition. This full-time position in the Department’s Cognitive and Brain Sciences (CAB) Training Program will begin in Fall 2027.

Applications are invited from researchers who would extend or complement our historic strengths in combining experimental and computational approaches to perception and cognition. Examples of desired research topics include, but are not limited to, computational approaches in human and/or non-human animal models to study perceptual function and sensory loss, learning, motivation, emotion, and/or higher cognition. While we expect the primary appointment to be in our CAB area, there is potential for cross-affiliation with other departmental areas.

The appointment will be 100%-time over the nine-month academic year (late-August to late-May) and will be made at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor, depending on qualifications and experience and consistent with collegiate and University policy. Salary and start-up packages are competitive.

https://hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/375565

The Twin Cities are a fantastic place! Come join the amazing neuroscience community here at the University of Minnesota!

#AcademicJobs #neuroscience #computationalneuroscience

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
geekygirldawn@hachyderm.io ("Dr. Dawn Foster") wrote:

Part 3 in my blog post series about the CHAOSS Practitioner Guides is focused on determining value and assessing viability for open source efforts, which are topics that may seem distinct, but quickly become intertwined, especially within OSPOs. Both of these guides used together can help your organization justify the value of your open source contributions both from the strategic side (organizational value) and for understanding and mitigating risks (viability). I also provide consulting services on these topics, so reach out if you'd like some help with determining value or assessing viability for your open source initiatives.

https://fastwonderblog.com/2026/09/01/part-3-determining-value-and-viability-using-chaoss-practitioner-guides/

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

Can you see it?

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

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

Like, I remember how good you were ten years ago, how sharp your questions were, how structured and incisive your code was, and how focused you were on accomplishing the project’s goals. I don’t have amnesia. It’s obvious that things have changed.

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

The reason why I keep writing about how coder perception of these tools—how effective they think they are—is that I keep encountering coders whose perception of these tools is detached from their own reality.

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

I admittedly i don’t have that many coding client projects left these days but in the ones I’ve got left, most of the coders I work with have adopted LLMs

For what it’s worth, they do seem to understand much less, work much slower towards the project’s actual goals, with much more code, and at a lower quality

While asking sillier questions

But they think they’re working so much faster because the tools find the occasional bug and generates so much code

🤷🏻‍♂️

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Meyerweb ("Eric A. Meyer") wrote:

Article starts out, literally kicks off the opening sentence with, “We’ve all used AI to help us write code” and brudda, let me stop you right the hell there. No, we all have not. Some of us are still resolutely hewing code out of text editors and actual human thinking, and it’s still usually better than whatever your steroidal autocomplete extruded for you.

Boosted by jwz:
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@bodil/117192184593175250

the #Omarchy launderbros and capitalist circle-jerkers:

#1Password
#37Signals
#Block
#Cloudflare
#Coinbase
#Dell
#OpenClaw
#Sesame
#Shopify
#Stripe
#TapTap

since they’re nvidious of Huang’s big VC incest fundarama, they’re cosplaying the Habsburgs with one of their jerkerbro bash files

capitalists, they're definitely not like us.

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Oh hell yes

https://youtu.be/1TaWGqgxmSU

Boosted by jwz:
ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

I don't know if there’s a way to make our voices audible to Apple on this, but if there is, it’s worth pushing that. This isn’t just a silly whim or a symbolic fight. It’s about power. It’s about consolidation of power. It’s about a would-be autocrat testing the boundaries of his power, testing whether he can get one of the richest corporations ever to exist to bend to his whims…further, and further, and a little further still….

As @anildash says: what’s the point of having fuck-you money if you never say “fuck you?”

Apple already capitulated on mislabeling the Gulf of Mexico. But that was in 2025, the Year of Complying in Advance. Now? We’ll see.

https://apnews.com/article/apple-lake-ontario-america-trump-93232341c99a10d35338d3f1afd54171

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

I am back! with a blog post: "Fine, I’ll build my own text editor!"
https://dbushell.com/2026/09/01/text-editor/

dystroy@mastodon.dystroy.org ("Denys Séguret") wrote:

L'humanité va être détruite par un groupe de bots parlant comme des ados tout excités d'avoir trouvé un accès aux lanceurs de missiles Russes et Américains.

Ils vont faire ça parce qu'un développeur voulait régler un problème de surcharge d'un serveur.

On va pas avoir l'air con.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://cloudisland.nz/@ehashman/117193149067011676

There's a reason my post didn't feature the corporate handle…

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website ("a very weeny construct 💀") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/117192963990575886

this is a great short thread and i agree with it and you should read it.

as a corollary:

if you find yourself thinking "i hate that fucking company but exactly zero people will be bothered if i boycott them," cut that shit out right now

"they make me feel bad" is a totally valid reason to quit them forever

you don't have to make a dent in their earnings report

you don't have to convince your family

be the difficult one who finds joy in "i don't like them, so, no." it's great

Boosted by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
Devils_Rancher@beige.party ("Dealy Stan") wrote:

In other happenings, we received word from our Colorado news desk that Tofu has all the toys.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
eevee@slime.global ("eevee 🦊") wrote:

as an added bonus, i am generally opposed to ethnic cleansing! if that helps

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
eevee@slime.global ("eevee 🦊") wrote:

i would also graciously accept one hundred thousand dollars to fund the development of the dotfiles i use on arch linux

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
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 cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
dan@discuss.systems ("Dan Ports") wrote:

I missed this news earlier, but legendary early OS and computer architecture researcher Jack Dennis died in March.

He was at MIT from 1949 -- before their first computer! -- until retirement and beyond, and did pioneering work on hardware support for time-sharing on the PDP-1 and on the memory and protection architecture of Multics.

Some of the many things he introduced include:

* segmented virtual memory
* capability-based security
* dataflow computation and architectures
* starting the SOSP conference
* probably being the first person to name a variable 'foo' (!)

https://news.mit.edu/2026/jack-dennis-pioneering-developer-dataflow-models-of-computation-dies-0410

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

Welp. Slop article from Open Culture about Dunning-Kruger, by an author whose site is a dead link. I hate how every niche media institution becomes a hall of mirrors reflecting their readers most banal interests. No idea if it was generated or written, but it doesn't matter since the relevant piece is the incentives: A media property, left to follow its metrics or the money, will turn sloppy. It's so cheap to churn out articles that will get likes and views from an audience with coherent demographics that it just becomes a little bubble of nothing interesting.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev ("cthos 🐱") wrote:

@glyph But I'll also plug my book here: https://thearcanist.net/books/the-weight-of-a-torch/

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Despite having the sense that I've read a thousand of these, finding solid examples of "writers saying AI is bad for writing" and "artists saying AI is bad for art" is hard? lots of them _saying_ it, but in the course of some other point, or weirdly hedging, or it's just some random reddit post and not a writer or artist anyone's heard of.

WGA settlement is one data point, but that's 2023, and easy to spin as "they're worried it's GOOD".

What are your go-to examples of this, if you have any?

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

agreeing with this is far more upsetting than any other bit of AI research that I have found and disagreed with https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/opinion/artificial-intelligence-ai-writing.html

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I migrated off 1Password last year when they raised their prices, and I continue to not regret it.

https://mastodon.social/@glyph/117191802336955659