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

you can always add 1 - or can you? we asked people whose computers are finite.

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

(we're doing git gc --aggressive on nixpkgs again. when we first did this, a few years ago, we had much smaller machines and it required a lot of careful massaging to make it finish; also we found a likely-exploitable concurrency bug. these days we can just run it without a problem, but it does take a while. it's not the volume of data, it's the number of files.)

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

Software Heritage Identifiers

https://nesbitt.io/2026/10/01/software-heritage-identifiers.html

cc @swheritage

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eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

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Bundle contents in the reply 👇

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eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

this video starts going so hard at the timestamp (around 33:50 in) and shows just how incompetent the push in businesses to be "AI forward" is and anyone who professes a belief that AI is actually improving things is such an unbelievable gormless fool they should never be listened to about anything ever again

https://youtu.be/B-ul3b0lz-o?t=2031

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emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

New from @timnitGebru and me:

"It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/01/forget-superintelligence-error-prone-ai-nearly-sparked-world-war-iii-this-month

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eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

anyway, *oracle* of all companies banned AI generated content from OpenJDK for source code, PRs, emails, wiki pages, bug reports, text, and images. but tell me again how AI generated code is the future of software engineering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxyYoNNTpU8

krig@goto.liten.app wrote:

A little moment of sadness.

I suddenly wanted to know which color scheme Bram Moolenaar used in vim. Just curious! I had this urge to add it to Gram… Can’t find anyone asking him this though. I’m sure it’s one of the builtin schemes, and that he has probably answered this on mail or IRC at some point. Maybe he switched often. Anyway, now I am feeling sad because I can’t ask him.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

RE: https://halo.nu/@theguardian%5Fworld%5Fnews/117367154110776202

Oh wow, they really are choosing the Rich over everyone else, aren't they?

Austerity for the Young and the Disabled, when does it ever change?

#UKpol #UKpolitics #Labour #Austerity #TaxTheRich

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SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

Happy "Charles Darwin is poorly today" Day to those who celebrate

165 years ago today, Charles Darwin was having a rough one

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jaredwhite@indieweb.social ("Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)") wrote:

Spread the word! ☺️

https://no-sloptober.com

#NoSloptober

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librarychic@glammr.us ("Courtney F.") wrote:

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/117365866264427172

No punches pulled here: "In fact, today’s LLMs and the chatbots they power are not poorly understood, nor are they powerful in the sense of being effective tools for this use case. They are systems for generating plausible-looking text, built out of enormous, haphazardly collected datasets and then “fine-tuned” (that is, further trained) to be especially appealing to their intended users."

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itamarst@hachyderm.io ("Itamar Turner-Trauring") wrote:

The mass of confident “I will never eat my seed corn” posts on my timeline triggered me again.

Willing to cook a few meals from my seed corn and demonstrate it makes good, nutritious meals.

How can you judge it if you've never even tried?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
fesshole ("Fesshole 🧻") wrote:

Reached the end of a PCP with £8k negative equity. Hid an AirTag in the trim, handed car back to finance company. Tracked the car to a dealer and bought it at the market price. Saved £7k and they washed and cleaned the car.

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

Murphy's Military Laws

- Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are.
- No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.
- Friendly fire ain't.
- The most dangerous thing in a combat zone is an officer with a map.
- The problem with taking the easy way out is that the enemy has already mined it.
- The buddy system is essential to your survival; it gives the enemy somebody else to shoot at.
- The further you are in advance of your own positions, the more likely your artillery will land short.
- Incoming fire has the right of way.
- If your advance is going well, then you are walking into an ambush.
- The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small.
- If you really need an officer in a hurry, then take a nap.
- The only time suppressive fire works is when it is used on abandoned positions.
- The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.
- There is nothing more satisfying that having someone take a shot at you, and miss.
- Don't be conspicuous.
- If it draws fire in a combat zone, then it draws sergeants out of a combat zone.
- If your sergeant can see you, then so can the enemy.

( modified version of material at https://bluebox.ippt.pan.pl/~vkoval/vk%5Ffiles/funny/Murphy.pdf )

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tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

RE: https://tacobelllabs.net/@astraluma/117363654848931561

Digital Ocean killed its "we give Open Source projects a bit of free hosting" policy basically at the same time they dropped 3 million USD on Omarchy, DHH's (who is a fascist and racist) set of config files he calls a distribution.

This is exactly the kind of "Power Grab" I wrote about a few weeks ago: https://tante.cc/2026/09/11/power-grab/

DHH is working towards accumulating open source funding to be able to direct it towards projects that align with his technical and ideological views.

It's hard to overstate how dangerous that is for all of us.

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

RE: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/117367040058431503

this is a corollary of Murphy's Law, I think

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argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org ("ARGVMI~1.PIF") wrote:

If you live in #Vermont and you'd like the #Fediverse to not be made illegal, then submit a comment to the Vermont attorney general to that effect.

https://ago.vermont.gov/vermont-age-appropriate-design-code-rulemaking

Remind them that Fedi sites are run mostly by individual hobbyists, along with a few nonprofits, and do not have the funds for commercial #ageVerification, nor can they afford #AI behavior analysis with which to estimate users' ages. The only feasible age verification method is a checkbox “⌧ Are you 18?”

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

we are all living through the Burn Scar - the deliberate destruction, by capital, of institutions, trust, collective freedoms, all the social practices of learning and caring, the will to share the world and treat it properly. the only way we'll survive is by standing together and being honest with ourselves that we do have an enemy.

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

i don't think everyone needs to have examined the issue as deeply as Jonny has here to have an opinion on it. i think what they're doing is a kind of sharing of the profound social burden this moment in history is placing on all of us. find voices you trust, understand fully what they're saying, and act in solidarity however you're able.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

just lean into the disaster, glyph. embrace the mess. kubernetes is just the same mess with 16 additional gigabytes of RAM overhead

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

similarly I wish that when I felt the urge to do some frontend stuff I didn’t get immediately bogged down in trying to future proof my terrible configuration management for my website

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

A demon appeared in the summoning circle. It was wearing pyjamas.

"I summoned thee to give me knowled-"

"Really?" the demon said. "You have the internet these days, the world's knowledge a click away. Nobody's summoned me in years."

"You have all knowledge. Why did I summon thee?"

"... oh shit."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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

Tennessee governor calls Christa Pike's failed execution 'deeply disturbing' and orders a review
https://apnews.com/article/christa-pike-failed-botched-execution-5638e4f7d25d5490b402ae53cfa2626d?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-AssociatedPress

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ploum@mamot.fr wrote:

The AI Pascal’s Wager

Should you accept contributions generated by LLMs in your Open Source project?

https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal%5Fwager.html

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gvwilson ("Greg Wilson") wrote:

Who are the Jane Goodalls and David Attenboroughs of software?

jwz wrote:

@glyph They are all properly developer signed as far as I am aware, but Apple's signing infrastructure is shifting sands, so who knows? If you understand this stuff and could look at one of the .saver bundles and say "yes that looks signed correctly", that would be helpful. But, the savers *run* and I would expect that to not happen if they were improperly signed.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

gosh I wish I spent more time writing software and less time working through my feelings about why writing software is impossibly difficult now

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jonty@chaos.social ("Jonty Wareing") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@dlakelan/117365903088814561

rude

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jwz I wish I had something specific to offer, but the best I've got is that there were a bunch of code-signing changes specific to screen savers in macOS 26; does this have an ad-hoc signature or a proper public developer ID one?