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

> "GPT-6 score 99% on the AGI test
> looks inside AGI test
> the arcade pack CD-ROM you'd shake out of a cereal box in 2003

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jwz wrote:

@mcc Every time I have used a build system that was "purpose built" for some particular language, I have wanted to go all Master Pei Mei on their ass. Just use 'make' you petulant children!

I'm looking at you, Gradle. Five-Point-Palm Exploding Heart for everyone involved!

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

CPAN uploads are up 50% year on year

yeah, we noticed brainrots got to perl too, i wouldn't shout about it.

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apilsetas wrote:

by Kamila J Gruss

#photography

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

https://bsky.app/profile/popeguilty.bsky.social/post/3mupdw2gjgs2m

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

the AI is on the cusp of AGI except when the topic is all the moral issues around enslaving a sentient being and doubt that an AI god is even possible, then the goal was never AGI at all and you’re silly for thinking that’s still a thing

the AI is a transformative tool that creates unique output when the topic is copyright, but if you evaluate the AI’s output and find that it just blatantly copied something from its training set (Servo, SuperTuxKart, gcc, clang, there’s so many examples when you look), then the AI was never capable of transforming anything and you were silly to think it was

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th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

The Unix epoch rollover clock works, although I'm not happy about the overall design.

Attachments:

• gifv: timelapse of a 16-bit hex counter with wheels for each 4-bit 0-F readout

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

I was trained in psychology, I am familiar with the lineage of developing measurement instruments named "Gary's Perfect Intelligence Metric" and the test is just rotating a bunch of plus signs. I live in the united States and am aware of bills named "The Great Infinite Jello Glitch" that legalizes stripmining in orphanages. So naturally I love AI company press releases.

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

the adjoining graph measuring "output tokens" when everyone knows goddamn well that means nothing when there is at least one hidden slush fund category "reasoning tokens" that is the one that's actually inflating

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

This is such a great incredible x axis. This must look awesome if you don't know anything

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

Its neat how openai has caught up with Google's brand strategy from like 2016 though

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

I don't know how much louder anyone can scream "the endgame of AI is a dependency trap for whole life surveillance"
https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/

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

I've noticed a fair few people announcing they're taking a break from/leaving Fedi.

And I am slightly sad every time it happens, because they're people I like to hear updates from, but I understand why they do it. I often get stressed reading the feed and seeing what happens in the world and if I was better at le olde emotional regulation I would be taking a break from Fedi too

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Brynndylow@chatty.frogawampus.co.uk ("Brynnbo The FrogMxstress") wrote:

When you're sad you can make pigeon emojis out of people's pigeon photos https://unsplash.com/photos/a-close-up-of-a-pigeon-with-a-sky-background-UbrUGasnm6Q

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grillaum@piaille.fr ("Guillaume Sans E") wrote:

@astridpoot I have these two just for artists

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mevenlennonbertrand@lipn.info ("Meven Lennon-Bertrand") wrote:

Last week, after a disastrous welcome speech to first years at ENS, which got CS faculty raging at the line "I know you are all using AI now", we tried a little spontaneous survey. Apparently, only ~4/23 CS students in this CS cohort use AI regularly. When we said the default mode was to not use it for assignments because we want them to learn, there was nodding in the room, and apparently the previous cohorts did this too without needing an explicit policy.

It was so nice to have my first exercice class in more than a year with them today. They were thrilled to learn about Turing machines. Maybe not all is doomed? Or at least some kids are alright, and just as curious as ever!

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tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/117215319335459732

The EFF is way less on your side than you think. It's mostly a libertarian/tech corporation lobbying group.

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Rome wasn't overthrown in a day. Oligarchies are stubborn, and by the time they've established and entrenched themselves, they have resources, power blocs and even mercenaries they can deploy to repel would-be dethroners.

--

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/05/divorce-court/#irreconcilable-conflicts-of-interest

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

The numbers tell the story. Before Googbook captured 80% of the display advertising business, the *total* share of the advertising industry's revenues that went to "intermediaries" (middlemen like ad agencies, ad buyers, etc) was about 15%. Today, that number is *51%*. *Hundreds of billions of dollars* have been moved out of publishers' and advertisers' bank accounts and onto Google and Facebook's balance sheets.

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whyrl@furry.engineer ("Whyrl") wrote:

@soatok If CEOs aren't bitching about "disruptive furries in tech" then you're insufficiently annoying.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Am I annoying?

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MattiSG@maly.io ("Matti Schneider") wrote:

“4 recommendations for how to reduce burnout in #OpenSource:
1. pay #FLOSS developers
2. foster a culture of recognition and respect
3. grow the community
4. advocate for maintainers”
https://mirandaheath.website/report-on-burnout-in-open-source-software/

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PeterLG@theblower.au ("Peter (ˈpiːtər)") wrote:

The U.N. has voted to adopt a new world map as standard. They are dumping the Mercator Projection for an Equal Earth Projection, a map that shows landmasses much closer to their real size.

It makes Africa and other equatorial landmasses look larger than previously, and shrinks Europe, North America, Russia, and especially Greenland.

The only country to speak and vote against the resolution was the USA. No surprise.

The US delegate actually sat there and claimed that the UN was ignoring real problems while working on changing maps for idealogical and political reasons (ignoring the science completely). How she stopped from dissolving in a puddle of irony I'll never know. She also claimed that passing symbolic resolutions like changing maps was why the U.N. is "losing its credibility" – the puddle deepens.

Six countries—Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia, and Ukraine—abstained from voting.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1168284

#UN #World #Cartography

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nightdragon0@fursuits.online ("Hyshaji Nightdragon") wrote:

Always fun looking back at good times!
#fursuit #fursuiting #fursuitfriday

📷: Gryphonfluff

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GameFromScratch@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

Looking for a long weekend activity? How about learning Godot #Gamedev with this just launched Humble Bundle from @gamedevtv. It also includes a few made in #GodotEngine games including Buckshot Roulette.

GFS supporting link - https://humblebundleinc.sjv.io/GodotGameDevTV2026

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

we would go so far as to say that our strategy for making code maintainable is to make it aesthetically pleasing. it's easier to remember its details, and to feel a sense of investment in it, when it is.

this may not be the only possible strategy, but it's ours...

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

please notice how we really, really mean it when we say this is artistic expression to us. like, this is a challenging technical problem, but these are aesthetic judgements we're making.

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

yeah okay, we've chewed on all of those enough. we're going to go ahead and do some minimal state-tracking that we think we need no matter what, and generate the output that's most directly doable with that tracking, and see how we feel about what's still missing after doing that

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zwol@masto.hackers.town ("Zack Weinberg") wrote:

"LLMs are a safe tool for code generation as long as you always carefully review the output" is the same flavor of programmer hubris as "C is a safe language as long as you always carefully check for all the mistakes the compiler won't catch."

jwz wrote:

Dear Lazyweb,

1. Can someone please look at xscreensaver/configure.ac and explain to me what I need to do to get past "AM_GNU_GETTEXT not found in library" on e.g. Debian 13.5.

2. Can someone please rewrite xscreensaver/po/Makefile.* to not be complete garbage, because it's 20 years old, pure evil, and I have never understood it.