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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
pixelfed wrote:

Pixelfed bans AI generated contributions.

We heard you! We are not accepting any AI or agentic code contributions, and will keep building Pixelfed by hand.

Thank you for your feedback!

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed#ai-generated-contributions

#pixelfed #aiBan

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Thank you for tolerating this brief excruciating detour into self-promotion, back to our regularly scheduled posting now

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

In either case I will put your name in commit messages as time allows, via https://github.com/glyph/sponcom as well as these occasionally-mildly-interesting update posts.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Or if you prefer, https://github.com/sponsors/glyph

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Also hello new followers. If you like my writing, you can support it (and, hopefully, my open source work when I have time for more of that) over at https://patreon.com/creatorglyph

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

A people with no history are not "a people" they are labor, customers, automata subject to the whims of the markets and the people who drive those markets.

It's obvious that burning the library, burning the books is wrong. We understand that words written by people we can never meet, people who are far away or long gone can make each of us more powerful.

But what if the fire that consumes your library is instead a torrent of nonsense? Fire is only one kind of entropy.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Jgbird@mas.to ("Jerome G") wrote:

Big world

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

the one good thing about muse: apparently, it's fucking up VC funding for shitty agent startups

https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/metas-muse-is-a-free-agent-vcs-say-startups-cant-compete

Boosted by pixxl:
cas@treehouse.systems ("kcxt!") wrote:

saw someone on HN say they will never contribute to Nura again since we ban LLM generated contributions (they had receipts too, they had contributed in the past)

their argument was that having done device porting manually before, doing it with an LLM was something like 10x faster

having seen the various LLM driven ports going around, we can't deny that LLMs are capable of doing kernel bringup, finding a functional implementation, and making many more attempts to trial and error than we humans are.

of course, this doesn't come without a cost, as with most technical advancements this cost is mostly offloaded onto those without the resources to prevent it -- the under educated working class and the global south, those who will be most affected by droughts and worsening climate change

this is reason enough to disengage from this technology, at least the implementations of it that cause most of this harm, but there is another more devious issue that i haven't seen mentioned a whole lot

in the same way that huge retail chains and global shipping extract wealth from small towns, LLMs extract knowledge from communities

the Nura wiki and other infrastructure was unusable for days at a time due to web scraping, and now imposes a proof of work on visitors (which also prevents access from old devices)

now that this data is in accessible models, people who aren't active in our community can use an LLM to port a device, to generate their own private documentation, they can enable devices in the mainline kernel or contribute to other upstreams if their LLM patches are accepted. People that may normally have become active members of the Nura community instead engage with a chatbot operated by big tech, which of course uses their chat history for training new models

As maintainers, for us to allow LLMs into our community would in my opinion be the beginning of the end, as our community knowledge base would be gutted, developers would become burnt out and disillusioned, and our culture would be erased.

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

writing up Meta Muse and my fucking god it's like a clown car made of smaller clown cars

the @jonny threads in particular are comedy plutonium

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

RE: https://shakedown.social/@aburtch/117350312502492934

yup

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
faraiwe@mstdn.social ("Faraiwe") wrote:

Tom is right

#TomTomorrow #LLM #ai #techbros

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

Are your agents restless? Do they keep trying to hack the internet? Give them the gift of reading! The Secret Life of Circuits is shipping now: https://blog.coredump.cx/p/the-secret-life-of-circuits-is-here

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

formal verification of cyber-physical systems, using reachability analysis for nonlinear hybrid automata.

cool. probably. no fucking clue actually.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
faraiwe@mstdn.social ("Faraiwe") wrote:

Dang, forgot the note.

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

RE: https://mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat/117350299690062282

and raccoons

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Update is up for patrons. It's still Friday, right? https://www.patreon.com/creatorglyph/posts/patreon-update-170822797

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

For no particular reason, say you found a vulnerability in a piece of software. This developers of this software claim that a bunch of things that would normally be considered vulnerabilities are actually intended behavior, but this is still beyond that and definitely in their bug bounty list. How would I maximize the likelihood of a bounty payout? I have never submitted one before.

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

of course we want to make the world better. of course we want people to see our work and be moved by it. that's just.... downstream.

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

there's an adaptation that people sometimes make after they've been through creative burnout, if they decide that they want to keep going with it after all

(it's legit to not want that! it's totally okay to switch to a totally different life path)

we're pretty lucky in that we grew up in total social isolation, so we already had the adaptation. it's an easy one to describe -

we're doing it for ourselves.

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

this has prompted us to contemplate why we're not having that

like, we're depressed about the world (fuck Nazis!) but we've had no trouble drawing meaning from the act of creation, same as we always have

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy ("Kees van der Leun") wrote:

On average, the Dutch think that 20% of the people here is Muslim (it's 5%).
They overestimate our income tax rate by 28%.
They think the number of homicides is on the rise (it's falling).
And that agriculture takes 19% of our land area (it's 60%).
And they have strong opinions on all of the above.
https://fd.nl/opinie/1613390/landbouwland

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

software is not always recognized as an artistic pursuit, so programmers are less likely than other artists to have explicitly asked ourselves this

we know a lot of programmers who have expressed a feeling of burnout to us lately

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

in any sort of creative work, there's an important question

who are you doing it for?

there are several possible answers. for the money? for the crowd? to make the world better? each of these answers leads you to draw your sense of meaning in a different way, which affects when you feel fulfilled and when you feel drained

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
csepp@merveilles.town ("Csepp 🌢") wrote:

Well. Just got a company wide email that we must attend a mandatory presentation on coding with LLMs and they linked a 5 hour DHH interview as an "appetizer".
It's decided that I'll be doing a professional bike mechanic course on weekends come next fall.
I'll write a proper job search post later, but until then... anyone I know looking for a jack of all trades programmer?

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

It's a good thing Scarlet Hollow does the "calls you out when you restart a run" thing...... yet

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

"Trump also suggested the plot was known to the US authorities. But British sources suggested the specific activities of the men was unknown."

'suggested'? no, insisted. President Bonespurs lies about almost everything without thinking... it is his generalized response to pretty much all stimuli.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/28/men-arrested-raf-fairford-counter-terrorism-police

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
pikhq@treehouse.systems ("Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

if your project adopts LLMs, you have functionally said that your development community doesn't have value to you, only the end asset. why, on earth, should anyone even bother contributing or participating in this situation?

the community is the thing that matters, it is what keeps something moving forward and adapting as times change. this is what you need to build, and LLM coding directly attacks it. the raw assets, the source code and binaries, are just bytes on a disk.

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

Why develop an unhealthy attachment with an LLM when you could just play visual novels and develop unhealthy attachments with computer programs for a fraction of the water use?

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

Okay I did not expect Oscar to fall in love with mc but a romance arc is a romance arc.

But I feel bad for Kaneeka... I was kinda hoping to romance her in this run