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

best before: 1988

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
jk ("josef") wrote:

in a few decades when they do retrospectives on this decade, they will have all this ai garbage and they'll say like. "can you believe the people back then thought it was good??" and i just want to put on the record that. no !!!!!!!!!!! your documentary is factually incorrect. your article is really poorly researched. no!! we didn't think it was good!!!

signed
josef
2026-09-05

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

This Week in Package Management: 5 September 2026

https://nesbitt.io/2026/09/05/this-week-in-package-management.html

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

The revolt of the reader
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/the-revolt-of-the-reader/

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

A play about Python packaging, distro policies, and global tool installation in one short act.

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!") wrote:

Generally, at the end of the day, I don't have more than a dozen of open tabs in my web browser. Otherwise, I'm rapidly lost and waste too much time to lookup the good one

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

99F, sunny, and raining. Ew.

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

did you know he puts petrol pumps up his arse?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
jamey@toot.cat ("Jamey Sharp") wrote:

Given that all password managers have issues, some more severe than others, I've started wondering what a system focused on cross-device sync and family/team sharing would look like if it were agnostic to what data it's storing, such that a password manager could be built as one application of many. Could such a foundation avoid needing any central servers, so nobody has to pay subscription fees that can get redirected to ethically dubious causes, while still being usable for people without a tech background? And how close is SyncThing to being that foundation?

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

proof of berk

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
gumnos@bsd.cafe ("Tim Chase") wrote:

I learned today that POSIX specifies a tool designed to assist you in reviewing & modifying LLM-generated code. In typical Unix fashion, they shortened "reviewing & modifying" to just two letters:

$ rm code.rs

It even has command-line options to [r]ecursively [f]ix whole directories of LLM-generated code:

$ rm -rf project/

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ Just announced: Sat Oct 31, 9pm: ALL HALLOW'S EVE
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2026/10-31.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #allhallowseve #hubbahubbarevue #indie #jpop #chiptunes #psytrance #hiphop #trance #burlesque #sanfrancisco

Attachments:

• gifv: f3d3c66197ab7e92.mp4

Boosted by pixxl:
saramg@fosstodon.org ("SaraMG, irmã do sepulcro sáfico 🇵🇹") wrote:

People: Sara, why did you retire from Software Eng in your 40s?

Me: Gestures at this absolutely perfect encapsulation...

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Extremely cool, actionable HTTP caching research from @paulcalvano :

https://paulcalvano.com/2026-09-05-resource-age-and-its-impact-on-cacheability/

andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt") wrote:

TIL that people mix text and binary in the same file quite regularly.

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
birming@social.lol ("Robert Birming") wrote:

I'm back at social.lol and thought it was a good opportunity to post a proper #introduction.

I'm Robert (he/him), and I live in Stockholm, Sweden.

Since 2017, I've worked as a home inspector. It's a job I love for many reasons, the main ones being the luxury of meeting people and seeing places I would never have encountered otherwise.

I've been blogging since 2002 and am still trying to figure out how to do it right. My current blog, robertbirming.com, has somehow managed to stay alive since 2023.

I also love tinkering with CSS themes and creating small tools for the indie web. It's just a hobby, but a satisfying one. Maybe that's the thing, it's satisfying because it's not work.

When I'm not hanging around in dark crawl spaces or getting hung up on dark mode contrast drift, I like snapping photos, reading books, and watching movies.

Some favorites of mine:

- Siddhartha (book)
- Highwayman (song)
- Interstellar (movie)

Tack och hej, leverpastej!

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

i suppose it's better than the erlang-related conferences, where every fucking time you'll never guess what the topic is.

the more we hope and pray, the more reliability it is.

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

can't help but feel the recent rustconf videos are trying to sell up "look how human we are".

i haven't watched a single one of them. so there are humans driving it off a cliff, who gives a fuck?

Boosted by pixxl:
zrb@social.hildebrind.space wrote:

@WanderingInDigitalWorlds not only that, but developing abstract libraries that other people can use to do all sorts of other things, makes me feel useful and proud

Boosted by pixxl:
zrb@social.hildebrind.space wrote:

@WanderingInDigitalWorlds @magicariot YES EXACTLY! Writing code is the same way, it's FUN and FULFILLING to use your brainpower to solve interesting problems via logic. It's like a puzzle that you get paid to complete

Boosted by pixxl:
WanderingInDigitalWorlds@sunny.garden ("Crest of Light") wrote:

@magicariot Yeah, its surprisingly easy to simply write, to try, to continue to improve! I think people get scared and intimidated to be not good at something out of the gate.

Something that LLM companies prey upon, I think creativity is like a muscle that you need to exercise.

It's fun to let the words flow and be shaped by my own mind instead of something that can't think, feel, or produce anything worth reading.

Boosted by pixxl:
magicariot@sunny.garden ("Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

it is actually so easy to not use AI

i'm literally just sitting here. not using AI.

when I write I put my fingers on the keyboard and make words happen directly. without AI.

waow

Boosted by pixxl:
mcc wrote:

The one thing I totally, unreservedly like about Bluesky over Mastodon is that on Bluesky it's possible to put your account in a state where your screen name shows as ⚠Invalid Handle and also your address shows as ⚠Invalid Handle and it's impossible for anyone to @ you, or even figure out who you are without specialized tools. This has been an issue with the Bluesky frontend and all its forks since day one, and they've never taken the least steps to fix it. I just think that's delightful

Boosted by pixxl:
mcc wrote:

There is a technology which is so expensive to operate that *just by existing*, it has made things like RAM and hard drives unaffordable to me and the humans I know, because the expensive technology's operational demands are so high they had to buy RAM and hard drives *until there weren't anymore RAM or hard drives*.

*A technology with this property is not, and was never going to be, a "democratizing" technology*.

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

you are an expert in shitting on your manager's desk, with 35 years of desk shitting experience.

make no mistakes.

Boosted by pixxl:
dalias@hachyderm.io ("Cassandrich") wrote:

Folks, you heard it here straight from them. Stop donating to the EFF.

Link here in case they unapprove the quote: https://mastodon.social/@eff/117215319335459732

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
cR0w@infosec.exchange (":rainbowCrow:") wrote:

RE: https://digitaldarkage.cc/@iaintshootinmis/117208258535524995

Please don't put TailScale / TailCat keys in your DNS. IAintShootinMis and I just tested it out and I went from TXT query to SSH access by only knowing the domain.

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

wrongdering

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

and he huffed, and he puffed, and he blew the whole house of grifty cards down

Boosted by pixxl:
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.