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

[looks at the fashionable approaches to contemporary software development] yeah no I can't see any incredibly pointless bottlenecks or overheads, it must be the code monkeys don't type fast enough

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

[the last decade consists largely of people adding orders of magnitude of ceremonial and theatrical overhead to call a function] there has to be a better way

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I really think somebody is telling college students, particularly in India, that it is a good strategy to lie to open source maintainers to get commits integrated into their projects. They all set up some similarly-configured bot (openclaw, maybe?). I cannot fathom who is giving them this advice or why. https://github.com/twisted/towncrier/pull/756

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

2x Collect Recipe

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
alex@dair-community.social ("Alex Hanna") wrote:

“AI” IS impacting labor, but not in the ways you think. In some cases, people generating “workslop” are making their colleagues’ jobs more difficult.

This is a snippet of my video Myths of AI and Productivity, based on work we’re doing at @DAIR with The Luddite Lab. We dispel 5 common myths around AI and labor by looking at what studies actually say about AI’s impact on labor.

Full video: https://youtu.be/3BO0iy91lfU

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
jameshowell@fediscience.org ("James Endres Howell") wrote:

The risks inherent in energy supply disruption from Trump's catastrophically stupid war, from the teetering AI bubble, from the general blind stubborn doubling down on on the hydrocarbon-burning omnicide:

they don't just undermine faith in capitalism,

they undermine faith in the sentience of the species

#fuckai #noai #antifa

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

“The AGI Inquisition | Computational Impacts”

https://monroelab.com/2026/09/09/the-agi-inquisition/

> Scientists and researchers such as Olivia Guest, Timnit Gebru, Emily Bender and Iris van Rooij have been contending with an increase in online attacks on their work and characters (you can visit their Bluesky accounts to see examples of misogyny and stupidity directed against them) from an army of sock puppets; partly organically grown, as all boosterism is, but also partly, surely orchestrated by corporates.

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

extra virgin types

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

it's really bad to steal art, but it's fine to steal code because code isn't art and people put it online and scrapers "learn" to not obey licenses so it's TOTALLY DIFFERENT.

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

and stuff like bevy "AI for code, not assets" can gtfo.

brennan@social.lol ("Brennan Kenneth Brown") wrote:

I woke up today with my MacBook remotely wiped. I have no idea what happened, my account is thankfully still associated with the device and I’m able to reinstall the operating system, but everything is gone.

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

We're excited to welcome four new members to the Rust Foundation:

Silver Members: CodSpeed, Haevek, and Perplexity
Associate Member: @stewardshiplab

Thanks to these orgs for investing in the health and stewardship of #rustlang! https://rustfoundation.org/media/rust-foundation-welcomes-new-members-codspeed-haevek-perplexity-and-software-stewardship-lab/

Boosted by andrewnez ("Andrew Nesbitt"):
stewardshiplab@fosstodon.org ("Software Stewardship Lab") wrote:

The Stewardship Lab has joined the @rustfoundation as an Associate Member! 🎉️

To support the Foundation in its mission of stewarding the Rust programming language, we're working to improve software supply chain security and developer education across the Rust ecosystem.

Read the announcement: https://rustfoundation.org/media/rust-foundation-welcomes-new-members-codspeed-haevek-perplexity-and-software-stewardship-lab/

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

i saw a physicist on youtube this week saying they dislike AI in maths and physics but they use it in their research and "you'd be mad not to".

i can't honestly say how well that holds for physics, because i'm really quite amateur at physics and i don't think i'm well placed to judge.

but i'm decidedly not an amateur at computer programming and i absolutely have opinions.

i don't like AI in programming, i don't use it and i think if you use it by choice you spit in my face and shit on everything we've ever achieved in computing. is that 'nuanced' enough for you?

oh and it's shit. really fucking shit. if you think otherwise you have no business programming tbqh.

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

Satirists are having a rough time these days.

You spend three hours writing an absurdist joke, only to discover reality posted the same thing yesterday and got 2 million likes.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
zzzeek@fosstodon.org ("mike bayer :python: :redhat:") wrote:

AI poll, for something that is annoying me on bluesky right now (IYKYK)

two dimensions: you use LLMs or dont use LLMs, and LLMs "understand" concepts vs. they dont

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

it's really embarrassing that when you report malicious spam on github, first the form is janky and kinda broken, and then you get this automated reply email that clearly is meant for support tickets and that reminds you that "the community" can answer most basic questions.

they still treat the process of reporting malice like an edge case of an edge case as if it's still 2009, and not like they're a massively obvious target for malicious subterfuge that can quickly spread to That One Block of the Teetering Tower

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

github threat model dot png

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
pinchartl@floss.social ("Laurent Pinchart") wrote:

With my "How we can resist generative AI" BoF proposal for OSS Europe rejected, I've been thinking about other ways to give a voice to the underrepresented part of the community. There will be plenty of hallway space in Prague to meet for an "unconference" BoF. If you are interested in attending, please leave a reply or contact me by e-mail (laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com) with your availability. Wednesday is a candidate to benefit from the overlap between LPC and OSS. (3/5)

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
pinchartl@floss.social ("Laurent Pinchart") wrote:

Despite having a thick skin, the whole experience felt very lonely. I received less support than I would have hoped for. What surprised me the most, though, was something else. Multiple people contacted me privately. They didn't just express their support, but also told they didn't dare speaking out in public. This included at least one kernel maintainer. I can't help feeling this is a sign that something is going wrong in the kernel community or the industry at large. Or probably both. (2/5)

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
pinchartl@floss.social ("Laurent Pinchart") wrote:

Over the past few months, I have found myself under the spotlight on kernel mailing lists. What started as targeted discussions quickly turned into advocating for the kernel community to respect the mostly silent crowd of developers and maintainers who do not want to fully embrace AI usage. It appears this didn't go unnoticed, as shown by Jon Corbet's talk at Kernel Recipes. (1/5)

#Linux #kernel #AI

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

#[repr(C, align(7))]

chris@fedi.freebooters.uk ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕️") wrote:

Big thanks to Ozoned for having me on his show again!
https://tubefree.org/w/r3gEbBjQQdUFrsrZLKYe6g
#fediverse #firesidefedi

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

One of the funnier implications of the "It's an older code, sir, but it checks out" line from Star Wars is that credential revocation is a much more difficult problem than artificial gravity, integrated bioprostheses, interstellar faster-than-light travel or hard-AI.

Remember, that line is spoken by _Admiral_ Piett; so - long ago, in a galaxy far far away - fleet-level auth and cert management was important enough that it was one of a flag officer's main duties.

https://infosec.exchange/@david%5Fchisnall/117319592191698274

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@owa/117313638430624372

Tremendously excited to hang out in Shoreditch with the folks doing the most to make a future for the open web possible.

If you're in London next Thursday (Oct 1), pencil this in your diary for after work.

/cc @pluralistic @adactio

firepoet@tech.lgbt ("Stephen 🌈 (he/him)") wrote:

Does anybody know if pleroma has an AI/LLM policy? Trying to find a simple self-hosting approach.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
ketanjoshi.co@bsky.brid.gy ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

This is actually the first major de-electrification we're seeing in the mid-transition era and I cannot fucking believe my eyes in seeing the core advocates of electrification celebrating and welcoming and encouraging it

www.wired.com/story/us-dat...

Data Centers Are Driving an Al...

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

increasing the engine's thrust by over 3%

over 3%!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Nαtαshα :mastodon:") wrote:

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

(yes, that absolutely includes whatever your excuse is, if you have one)