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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
resistbot ("Resistbot") wrote:

📈 “Introduce a Constitutional Amendment Protecting the Right to Clean Water” hit 250 signers! https://resist.bot/petitions/PXUUWQ?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=PXUUWQ

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
Elizafox@treehouse.systems ("Elizabeth :therian: :cascadia: 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

RE: https://scholar.social/@researchfairy/116637272214337631

Reminder Aaron Swartz was prosecuted because he threatened the copyright system's stranglehold on academia.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
pndc@treehouse.systems ("@pndc") wrote:

Before I chuck it on AmiBay, can I tempt anybody to an Amiga 1200? Fully-working machine with PSU, mouse, and hard disk bracket. PAL video, UK key layout. Going rate seems to be around €450–500.

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

so uh, new OAI model.

BUT

weren't they having a training hiatus, allegedly for "safety", but actually to cut costs?

how do these square? /cc @davidgerard ?

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

must not snap and try hack on emacs lisp again

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@timnitGebru

> a developer's job is now is to teach the AI to be better, make fewer mistakes, etc. To review the code. And to test the changes that the AI makes.

And to be the "accountability sink" as Doctorow puts it. Your name goes on the commit messages. You get the blame for when you didn't catch AI bugs/hallucinations.

And any you *do* catch by spending extra time reviewing/refactoring LLM output is silently credited to the LLM, while being a ding against *your* velocity.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
joepie91@slightly.tech ("Sven Slootweg, ("still kinky and horny anyway")") wrote:

@soatok the chickens appear to have egalitarian decisionmaking, so I'm going to call that a success

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

There's a good chance that this is as good as the tech will get and, despite being thoroughly dysfunctional, it'll still be the long term future of programming simply because employers would rather pay two dollars for a shitty unreliable model than one dollar for an employee.

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

Think about outsourcing. There was no "after the outsourcing bubble" for most western factory workers. There was just immiseration and ruined towns.

There was no "after the 2007 housing bubble". We still have housing bubbles pretty much everywhere you look. The finance markets are even less regulated. Fraud was basically legalised.

So, I'm sceptical about the notion that the software industry will "revert" after the bubble.

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

Unreliable models whose output is massaged into place by overseas labour will just suit them fine, even if the result is largely broken. See outsourcing

I'm guessing there won't be an "after the bubble", at least not for software dev . This might well be the future of coding in perpetuity, just at some point it'll be even shittier

This can only be fixed on a political level. A bubble pop will give the investor class an opportunity to solidify the system into place, much like after 2007

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

So, the post-bubble equilibrium models will either be increasingly stagnant, built using stale training data, extended and tweaked as best as people can, but get stranger and stranger the more they are fine-tuned

Or the models will be something completely different shaped by the new economics

But whether the tech itself is effective or not ultimately isn't the point which, for the the capital class is less local labour.

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

One core problem is that the tech is volatile. You can get very different models from training run to run even using the same data. Current models can do what they do is because they keep throwing money at runs and training data

Because of this volatility, this isn't a tech that works like a foundation. It has lottery dynamics

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

The problem with hoping that we get a "reset" of sorts for software development after the bubble pops is that the shape of LLMs as a tech today is an epiphenomenon of the bubble

Because of the bubble distortions and wildly irrational economics, the post-equilibrium models will inevitably be very different from the current models

This is likely the peak effectiveness of the technology, as right now its backed by the wealth of everything.

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

people sure are wrong about uk phone numbers, huh?

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117224570706547009

Periodic reminder that if your market depends on volume sales to survive, then killing affordable entry into a market means killing the market.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

AI has killed affordable DIY gaming PCs, along with SSD and RAM prices 😔

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

axiom of voice

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good. Add on top of that the negative environmental, community, and economic impacts of AI, and it became extremely apparent to me that something's gotta change.

https://brettcodes.com/im-done-using-ai/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
brandkopf@mastodon.art ("sommerlich.art") wrote:

A lot of you have asked how I create my detailed oil paintings without copying of photo references, so I wanted to share a brief look into my process.

Video on #peertube :
https://makertube.net/w/f3pfdHt2SWcCk64Z52duYo

#art #mastoart #oilpainting #arttips #tutorial

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
imsop@tech.lgbt ("Rowan Tommins") wrote:

@andrewnez Not sure if you're aware of this already: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/end%5Fpear%5Fendorsement

It's looking increasingly likely that PEAR, PHP's legacy package manager, will be made fully read-only in the near future.

The slightly unusual thing is that it's nominally independent, but nobody can find anyone with server access, so the plan is to scrape the current site and repoint the DNS.

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
keithamus@indieweb.social wrote:

I'm still making 1 game per month. I'm counting this new one for the month of August and you can't stop me.

Defrag: Time to defrag some disks.

https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/defrag/

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

I'm learning to appreciate the simple joy of kicking people when they are down…when they definitely deserve it.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/06/ha-ha-meaty-overlords-take-your-punishment/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYTQ7%5F%5FNNDI&t=28s

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

i'm really going to have to extract some bits of iddys out into libraries so i can depend on them outside of iddys. all the nat proofs are major convenient.

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Monamy@pixelfed.social ("Graham") wrote:

Grey Heron on the banks of Chichester Canal #grey #heron #bird #waterbird #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #canon #canonphotography

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

Hi, does anyone have experience with using #SpareRoom in #London?

I signed up to the app and am now getting inundated with people sending me messages about their rooms. This is a good problem to have (it makes it likely I can snap up something reasonably quickly) but I can't figure out which requests are worth following up on. I'm aware due to my autism and lack of familiarity with London I'm at risk at being taken for a ride (and I've dealt before with crappy landlords and houses etc, I don't want to repeat similar mistakes).

So: How can I tell a good offer from a bad one? How can I tell which rooms are worth booking viewings for? What are the red flags for scams (or even crappy housing that isn't technically a scam)?

:boost_requested:​ #AskFedi

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

RE: https://mas.to/@ArtSmart/117224245707429658

yup, little people of no account

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tzimmer_history ("Thomas Zimmer") wrote:

When extremists take power, what is needed is an immediate, collective democratic response on all levels – a kind of comprehensive democratic immune reaction. This kind of mobilization is exactly what *didn’t* happen in the U.S., certainly not immediately.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tzimmer_history ("Thomas Zimmer") wrote:

In today’s election in Saxony-Anhalt in east Germany, the far-right AfD is polling at over 40 percent. For the first time since the Nazi dictatorship was defeated in 1945, a rightwing extremist party might get control of a state government. This is a real watershed moment in German post-war history.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tzimmer_history ("Thomas Zimmer") wrote:

Sunday reading - on a day that could mark a caesura in German post-war history:

Warnings and Lessons from the Struggle Against Trumpism

In the fight against the far-right AfD, Germany must avoid the mistakes that have sabotaged the democratic response to rightwing extremism in the United States.

🧵

https://steady.page/en/democracyamericana/posts/01654b70-1319-4395-8191-0c6da2ae195b

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“investigations by journalists, researchers and oversight agencies have documented thousands of citizens detained, deported or otherwise targeted by immigration authorities across decades. One study estimated that U.S. citizens account for as many as 1.5% of all deportees.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/born-here-but-deported-a-texas-man-s-harrowing-ordeal/ar-AA2bFu9K?ocid=edgemobile