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

i know this is a shocker, but mimicking what a programmer would do doesn't make you a programmer.

otherwise most office workers would be good at it since it involves drinking a lot of coffee and staring at computer screens.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

Techbro: should we do the fascist thing y/n?
Community: no you should not do a fascism
Techbro: woah this got heated, locked

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

Regrettably this is more often:

Techbro: Should we do a fascism? On the one hand, a fascism. On the other, money and technocliquiness.

People: This physically endangers me and my community, you should not do this.

Techbro: There are two sides to this; money & ingroup cred for me, consequences for you. This is so difficult.

People: If that's a question you are a terrible person.

Techbro: woah this got inexplicable heated, you people are so mean, locked and blocked

https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/117311487400030196

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

it's about mythos. i knew it wasn't going to be as good as they claimed but that's pretty fucking hilariously bad actually.

bet i can find actual bugs in the linux kernel for less than mythos cost.

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

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
KernelRecipes@fosstodon.org ("Kernel Recipes") wrote:

#kr2026 @gregkh on LLMs.

The main point is: DON'T PANIC:!

... At the end 10 bugs fixed, 1hour kernel development...

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

Why does social media get hostile?

The basic design of the social media platforms promotes hostility, but not in the way you expect. #socialmedia #disinformation

See the full video that talks about the effects of context collapse in social media at https://youtu.be/dcz8YzRNo5M

And the essay version is at https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/03-why-is-social-media-so-humourless/

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("princess bubblegum 💫") wrote:

I am curious about a specific thing in the software industry. If you're a professional coder, does your company ban LLM use at all?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sohkamyung@mstdn.io ("Soh Kam Yung") wrote:

"A battery made with a substance resembling edible rice paper can power swallowable electronic medical devices. And after the battery has been safely digested, its broken-down ingredients can be absorbed by the body."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02987-3

#Batteries #Biology #Health #Medicine #Devices

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
froomkin.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News") wrote:

He thinks a “deficit” means we send money to other countries for nothing. He thinks “tariffs” are a tax on the target country when they’re actually a tax paid by Americans. Why? Because he’s an idiot. presswatchers.org/2026/09/dona...

Donald Trump is an idiot, and ...

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ianvisits@mastodonapp.uk ("ianVisits") wrote:

The Port of London Authority says that a pod of approximately 25 long-finned pilot whales has been reported within the River Thames east of Gravesend.

British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) is monitoring them and keeping boats away.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jgordon@appdot.net ("John Gordon") wrote:

Trump’s vengeance falls on the disabled children and adults of Minnesota.

https://www.minnpost.com/health/2026/09/minnesotas-most-vulnerable-citizens-are-collateral-damage-in-federal-crackdown-on-medicaid-program/

Minnesota offends him and disability offends him. His vengeance will last as long as he has power.

#jgshare

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

“The state’s elderly and disabled face long delays in approval for care, shuttered clinics and fewer caregivers”

https://www.minnpost.com/health/2026/09/minnesotas-most-vulnerable-citizens-are-collateral-damage-in-federal-crackdown-on-medicaid-program/

Boosted by pixxl:
ariadne@treehouse.systems ("Ariadne, bunyote friend :therian:") wrote:

to understand the next part, we must understand what ludere is.

so... ludere is a signal processing language. it is designed especially to process N-dimensional spatial signals.

this is nice because LLMs will never understand how to write code for it without burning millions of tokens. simply put: as ludere is a spatial language, it requires object permanence to understand the effects of evaluation. and yes: LLM-resistance is a design goal, as I noted last night.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
cora@hachyderm.io ("Elton Cora (Honorary)") wrote:

@north @soatok When I was having my taxes done for my first year as a professional programmer, I gave my official title for my position, which was “Programmer/Analyst I”.

The IRS knew me as “Programmer/Anal”.

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

by submitting this PR you assert you wrote it all yourself and that trans rights are human rights.

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

Just who do you think that shower is for, anyway?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/23/plumbing-is-for-human-benefit-the-spiders-can-take-advantage-too/

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

there we go. the compilation process now uses pleasingly small pipelines, without any layered... stuff. we were able to get all the complexity into the source files.

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

Development is a progression of hierarchical divisions of gene expression. This ought to be more widely understood.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/23/we-really-are-deficient-in-development-education/

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

Thanks #GOP

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

“LLMs on the boundary | deadSimpleTech”

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/llms-on-the-boundary

> In general, getting something halfway acceptable out of an LLM means running what is essentially a Monte Carlo simulation: you prompt the model over and over again, changing the prompt slightly each time, until you hit something that meets your acceptance criteria.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
aburtch@shakedown.social wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Itchy/117320200940644789

The key point here isn’t that Trump and the oligarchs got “caught red-handed” admitting their authoritarian intentions.

It’s that they do it anyway, get away with it, and nobody does a damn thing about it.

#oligarchy #authoritarianism #fascism

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AnnaAnthro ("Anna Anthro") wrote:

“From Sept 23 to 27, discover a bold and eclectic lineup of 70 films from 21 countries, incl several premieres.

For more than 22 years, the Black Film festival in #Montreal has showcased Black voices on screen and provided an essential platform for filmmakers.

As the largest Black film festival in #Canada and the only bilingual festival of its kind in NAm, it celebrates the diversity of Black experiences around the world and fosters dialogue and social change.”

https://montrealblackfilm.com/en/2026-events/

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

RE: https://w3c.social/@w3c/117320246691825266

Zakim is wonderful

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
RadicalAnthro@c.im ("Radical Anthropology") wrote:

'Pettigrew has led a group of nine academic historians identifying all the known investors – about 13,000 of them – who financed Britain’s brutal trafficking of 3.3 million enslaved Africans, of whom about half a million died during the Atlantic crossing....
...
'hardly an event in this period of British history – the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire of 1666, the 1707 Act of Union between England and Scotland – wasn’t impacted directly or indirectly by the slave trade. Slave gain funded the physical structures, from docks to canals, that helped make Britain a global force. The conventions of mercantile philanthropy also meant that it greatly improved the lives of the sick and poor, mainly through huge endowments to London’s hospitals. Institutions such as the British Museum and the Royal Academy of Music were founded with the help of slave traders’ donations. The Royal Society was not only a pioneer institutional investor in the slave trade but developed the racist “science” that perpetuated its inhuman practices.'

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
KPBSPublicMedia@flipboard.com wrote:

Oceanside’s KOCT faces shutdown without additional funding
https://www.kpbs.org/news/living/2026/09/22/oceansides-koct-faces-shutdown-without-additional-funding?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Arts & Living @arts-living-KPBSPublicMedia

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
acarsdrama@live.acarsdrama.com ("ACARS Drama") wrote:

Air to Ground Message:

I'LL MAKE THE FO TELL THE FAS. HE HAS A WAY WITH WORDS

Area: Orlando, FL, USA
Type: Embraer 175 (Enhanced Wing)
A: #a193df2a26b
F: #f36e1577cda

#acars #vdlm2

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/117320264714095376

One year ago, not even Republicans called communism a problem. It was not and is not a problem, it is only a way for Republicans to scare the stupidest voters. For decades, the Kremlin was the center of communist power. Trump continues to help Putin, the Kremlin's ruler, while Putin helps Iranians kill Americans. Trump is having a friendly meeting with the ruler of communist China. Trump is a friend to the ruler of communist North Korea. Notice a pattern?
#politics copy: @renewedresistance

Boosted by firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)"):
scottwilson@infosec.exchange ("Scott Wilson 🌈") wrote:

Yes, you can download and use a “local LLM” to help protect your privacy.

But think of all the stolen work and privacy violations it took to create the model in the first place… and how much electricity and water was wasted to make it available to you!

It’s still horrible for creators and for the Earth.

#AI #NoAI #climatechange #privacy

Boosted by pixxl:
gaffen@social.coop ("Gaffen") wrote:

@pixxl @davidgerard I get all my news from my SUPER INTELLIGENCE. I used my SUPER INTELLIGENCE to resolve an argument with my partner last night. I won the argument but now I'm in a romantic relationship with my SUPER INTELLIGENCE instead.