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

great, a thing fell through again.

please donate generously to keep your favourite dysfun alive and shitposting https://ko-fi.com/dysfun

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH

https://brennan.day/normalized-fascism-in-open-source-12-million-given-to-dhh/

Boosted by pixxl:
sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place ("The Seven Voyages Of Steve") wrote:

Smallest violin time for idiot LinkedIn exec

Oh no this shit we’re betting all our hopes on is predisposed to generate worthless garbage, who could have possibly known (except everyone who paid attention to how they work)

These chumps really earn their salary huh
https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/167020/even-microsoft-execs-are-annoyed-by-terrible-ai-generated-work

Boosted by pixxl:
sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place ("The Seven Voyages Of Steve") wrote:

We are all cursed with stupid monkey brains that see faces in clouds and Jesus in toast. This makes many of us a soft target for the belief that a pattern matching, statistical extrapolation machine backed by a gigantic database is thinking (or in the wildest cases, feeling). But the impression is not reality; the cloud does not in fact have a face 🤦‍♂️

ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

@NfNitLoop very welcome.

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

why does a handful of vibe-coded bash scripts to install Slack need a foundation 🤔

https://brennan.day/normalized-fascism-in-open-source-12-million-given-to-dhh/

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@ireneista thank you for putting this so succinctly. For a long time I didn’t get why reviewing LLM code was so difficult. But among all of my other problems with it, I realized that I kept trying to model a brain that wasn’t there. It’s just random.

With a human author, I can see: aah, you did this this way, I think that means your mental model here is incorrect. See $foo? That’s how it works. But that’s just wasted on an LLM. It doesn’t understand or GAF.

Boosted by jwz:
ylegall@genart.social ("Yann Le Gall") wrote:

wrinkle cycle

Attachments:

• gifv: a looping animation of a circle packing

Boosted by pixxl:
pajowu@chaos.social ("pajOwO :blob_rainbowheart:") wrote:

Your vibecoded project is worth less than nothing to me, because good ideas are free and abundant. The only thing its existence shows me is that you hate the world enough to pay some techno-fascists to “build” it for you. The ballroom thanks you for your contribution.

Boosted by pixxl:
RosannaSibora@fosstodon.org ("Rosanna Sibora") wrote:

“After just “10 minutes of AI-assisted problem-solving, people who lost access to the AI performed worse and gave up more frequently than those who never used it”.

An MIT study showed that test groups who used ChatGPT had the lowest brain activity and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioural levels”. We undergo not just cognitive offloading, but cognitive surrender: we forget what was possible.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/i-hate-what-ai-is-doing-to-the-minds-and-happiness-of-the-young-katherine-rundell-on-the-view-from-the-classroom

#ai #cognitivedebt

Boosted by pixxl:
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

I know people like to make fun of niche operating systems, but for the five years I was at Microsoft I used Windows (10 then 11) as my daily driver. It’s much less stable than a professional OS, but it does kind-of work. I wouldn’t say it’s ready for the desktop. The UI is inconsistent and changes randomly between releases, a load of common software is basically useable only in a VM, it lags and freezes periodically (unlike an OS designed for interactive use, random drivers run a load of things directly in interrupt handlers, so you get latency spikes that you wouldn’t see in a more mainstream desktop OS) and the update process can hose the system, so it’s mostly of interest to people who like tinkering with their machines than people who actually want to get work done. Oh and a load of random bits of the OS have ads, but that’s what you get from a free ad-supported system instead of one developed by an active open-source community.

I don’t think I’d recommend anyone use it as their daily driver or in a work setting, but it’s not totally unusable. It’s not at the level of maturity than you’d expect from, say, Linux or FreeBSD, especially not for client workloads. If you do have to use it, I recommend that you install FreeBSD in a Hyper-V VM for real work. That’s what I did and it works quite well.

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

@skinnylatte @briankrebs
all their dev/qa/stage shit is public
they are 100% in azure
the use claude internally

my bet is if they had some security problem, they would flatly have no idea unless it caused an outage. theres tons of dev/qa/test shit in here

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
Salon@flipboard.com wrote:

ICE is arresting more people than ever
https://www.salon.com/2026/09/01/ice-is-arresting-more-people-than-ever/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News & Politics @news-politics-Salon

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

Its amazing how depending on the timeline of when this happened this is either "someone's life's work fighting against the former badness of the python packaging ecosystem which should be feared, respected, and never repeated" or "pink slime of a magnitude that begs an apocalypse"

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

One thing that keeps me up at night is the progressive certainty that we as a society are slowly but surely losing our ability to be bad at things. We are ceding that skill to AI.

"You don't understand, without AI, I couldn't have drawn this/written this/designed this." says a person, certain that surely this, this argument right here is the nail in the coffin of the anti-AI argument. Utility: "Without this thing, I would have been bad at this task."

Yes. Correct. You would have been bad at it. And that's ok. Not only because it's just... Ok to be bad at things in general. But also because being bad at a thing is the first necessary step to learning how to do a thing.

Every musician you love has spent thousands of hours first being bad at being a musician. Every artist that brings you to tears has spent thousands of hours being bad at art. Every single designer with a master's degree in design has spent thousands upon thousands of hours designing things that are utter crap.

We learn how to do a thing by first being bad at it. And then noticing what skills we need to acquire to be better at it. And then honing those skills on a million failed attempts. And THEN we are finally good at doing it.

And being bad at things isn't just about learning how to do it yourself. It also teaches you how to listen more effectively to music. How to see art with the eyes of an artist. How to study a design for design flaws before it's even built. It teaches you good taste. How to perceive the humanity in the things all around you - things built by humans, for other humans.

No, the biggest problem with AI isn't that it makes bad art - although it most assuredly does also do that. It's that it robs human beings of the legitimacy of creating bad art ourselves.

How can anyone ever be expected to learn to do a thing if we can't ever be bad at it first?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dunkingdoggames@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Matt makes Games") wrote:

Working on resources types for Tiny Kingdoms.
What else should I add?

Attachments:

• video: 087d01f2836a2d04.mp4

Boosted by krig@goto.liten.app:
axbom@axbom.me ("Per Axbom") wrote:

Liberia, där jag är född, är ett av världens fattigaste länder. Nu avbryter Sverige allt stöd och stänger ambassaden som haft sin närvaro där sedan 1961.

Det här är så jävla sorgligt.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/aug/31/sweden-ends-aid-liberia-hammer-blow-womens-healthcare

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
ubernostrum@infosec.exchange ("James Bennett") wrote:

Four years ago I published a post on how to manage #Python dependencies in as “boring” a manner as I could manage.

Today I’ve published a revised version catching up on developments in the ecosystem since then:

https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2022/may/13/boring-python-dependencies/

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
golang@hachyderm.io wrote:

🎉 Go 1.27.1 and 1.26.8 are released!

📡 Announcement: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/QiTRm-HGGtI/m/cpfkLlpMAQAJ

⬇️ Download: https://go.dev/dl/#go1.27.1

#golang

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bluefops@fox.yt ("Nev :3 :nev_owo: 🔜 NextCon") wrote:

Natural 100% organic Non-GMO memories w/ Syra
🐺✂️ - @thatsfurredup
📸- @meboppo (IG)

#fursuit #furry

Boosted by krig@goto.liten.app:
NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

Has anyone considered that mind is the fear killer?

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

RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/117199373397721942

Have you ever drifted so hard you fork a JavaScript compiler and start writing your program in the compiler

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

So if you wanted to attack the information ecosystem of everyone who uses LLMs for research, what would you do?

I'd try to poison exa, keenable, and a few others.

Not sure it'd hit Anthropic or OpenAI, I think they run their own services. But it's a good start.

That's where you'd put lies you want to be accepted as truth. In the new arbiters of what "exists on the web"

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

tired: “six seasons and a movie”

wired: “six impeachments and four more justices”

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
dreid@wandering.shop wrote:

@1password hey what's up with sponsoring DHH's vanity "Linux distro"?

Are you somehow not aware of his history of racist blog posts?

In case that's the case here you go:

An overview: https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thought/

Lest you think those quotes were somehow out of context: https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a

https://world.hey.com/dhh/three-sacred-cows-that-must-die-so-europe-can-live-1afb203d

https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

Edit: if you would like to voice your displeasure with 1Password more directly you should email support@1password.com

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

Breaking, exclusive and spicy, from me:

A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana. KrebsOnSecurity also has learned that the New Orleans field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today launched an official inquiry into the source of the images.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/

#databreach #privacy #id #breach #fbi

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

Suck it, Moulton.

Let it be known: tossing trans folks under the bus will end your career in Massachusetts.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

the Stochastic Parrots paper pointed out, with admirable prescience, that large language models defeat this key mechanism on which human society fundamentally depends, by generating fake "communication" which defeats people's ability to mentally model the person who came up with it - because no person came up with it

the ways a model is wrong, are ways that humans wouldn't be

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mcc wrote:

post withdrawn

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

A closer look.

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