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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

Waiting for the oven to preheat. I have added asparagus, beans, and zucchini, and sprinkled everything with olive oil.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
lea@ordinary.cafe wrote:

If you/your project is affected by DigitalOcean stopping their OSS credits program, please shoot me a PM immediately. Might be able to help.

Boosts for visibility would be appreciated.

#foss #linux

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
amethyst@n7.gg ("Amethyst 🌸") wrote:

And yet, nothing bums me out more than seeing my work gobbled up as training data for soulless machines to reproduce a dozen hollow facsimiles in hundreds of meaningless requests for more extruded text. To see issues and PRs on my projects to make some change without any attempt or capability of understanding why the project is what it currently is, and how it was shaped over time to get there. To argue with something that doesn’t even know what it’s asking for or why it’s even doing anything at all.

Back to it all feeling pointless once more.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
amethyst@n7.gg ("Amethyst 🌸") wrote:

Some days all of my open source effort feels like it was pointless.

Other days, I’m looking up documentation on how to do something with a database in Python, and I find blog posts and documentation pages that casually use or list my aiosqlite package alongside all of the other hallmark database libraries, and I’m staggered that something so small has become a piece of the fabric for our shared ecosystem.

Some days I hear messages and kind words from people who have found my projects and appreciate the effort. Those messages mean everything to me.

And then I see the download stats for aioitertools, quietly being used more than any other project I’ve built while receiving zero maintenance or attention from myself or seemingly anyone else.

I don’t even know how to describe the joy I’ve gotten from seeing my work be helpful to others, to know that other people are building *so many cool things* on top of the foundations I helped to create.

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

Alien (Hold On To Your Dreams) by Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson

https://pandora.app.link/BgwQNGBd06b

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra has had an adventure") wrote:

Question for the Swift language sickos (laudatory) out there: is there a good way to write Python extension modules in Swift that people actually like?

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

It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World by James Brown

https://pandora.app.link/aryLZX6c06b

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
fedor@todon.nl ("🅵") wrote:

Asking #ChatGPT the same question as 4 years ago.

Original post from 2022:

https://todon.nl/@fedor/109446742764634023

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

95 South (All Of The Places We've Been) by Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson

https://pandora.app.link/bsUWNTMc06b

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

Combinations by Gil Scott-Heron

https://pandora.app.link/PrsFojwc06b

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

Gun Street Girl (2023 Remaster) by Tom Waits on LOUD

https://pandora.app.link/bWxoHUcc06b

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

Mess Around by Eilen Jewell on now

https://pandora.app.link/LQKgr4xb06b

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Discussion about safety always get derailed by some smart-ass trying to disprove a relative probability with a counter-example.

If I say "it's safer to drink water than bleach", I'll get "but drinking water can be deadly too!"

(which is technically true, but omfg aaaaarrrggghh)

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
notptr@social.cyberia9.org wrote:

My computer is a fast pdp-11. It is sad but true

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117390655190819555

oh a thing almost completely written by llms has huge problems?
surprised pikachu face

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
newsguyusa@flipboard.social ("Steve Herman") wrote:

The bestselling novelist and former MP Jeffrey Archer- whose political career was marred by scandal - died "suddenly and peacefully" at the age of 86. His final novel is to be published tomorrow. https://news.sky.com/story/lord-jeffrey-archer-dies-13594813

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

From Dogfooding files. I was recently working on a feature for my shopping list and, consequently, using it more. So today I went to Costco only to realize my app was crashing on me on start. And not only I'm totally blind without my lists, but the opportunity to debug a reproducible crash is not something you pass up in a hurry. So yes, I went right back home, fixed it, and now I'm back again to my grocery run :-)

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
edwinb@types.pl ("Edwin Brady") wrote:

Thinking remains an option. Controversial... but it might even be a superpower by now.

Boosted by ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)"):
atax1a@infosec.exchange ("mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)") wrote:

ngl a large part of why the "but what if there were good uses for it" discourse drives us absolutely batshit is that no possible "good use" of the LLM will ever overcome the widespread and thorough damage it's doing on a day-to-day basis. the conversation about "good" uses of it is happening in some ideal fantasy world that we do not at all inhabit.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab") wrote:

it’s an absolute cliché to the point of being a catchphrase for various communities of people over the years, but the conceptual space contained by the phrase “sharing is caring” deserves more than a :fingerguns: every time you hear it. sharing is caring. it’s an explicit component in the act of a person or group of people sharing something with another person our group of people; care is built-in. somebody cares enough to share this, whatever it is, with whomever they’re sharing it with.

they may care about the thing they’re sharing. they may care about the person they’re sharing it with. probably both, based on my experiences.

it is fundamentally an act of care to share.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/openai-rogue-agent-activities-found-on-wikimedia-projects/

Why is this acceptable? You need to be able to press charges against OpenAI or any AI company that is running a "rogue" agent for hacking or similar malicious attacks. If a normal human does this, they are held responsible. So, the same responsibility should apply here and charges should be pressed against the CTO/CEO/CSO.

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

you know who gets the episode orders and other basic things right? all the piracy groups.

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

so, yesterday we made the declarative compilation thing work

but in kind of a limited way that works by pushing like seven pieces of data on the stack. today what we're going to do is create a struct that holds all that data, and pass it around instead.

the filename of the file that holds the declaration will need to be part of that struct, that's why we added that feature

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

god damnit could you not just do the blatantly obvious thing and put them in fucking order like a normal fucking person? why are so many dvd masterers out to get you?

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

okay, now we have a facility that returns the name of whatever file is attached to the main input

(Evocation has a concept of "main" input which is separate from the POSIX stdin, wrapping around it, to allow things like "include" to work by pushing an input source atop the existing one and popping it off afterwards)

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

i'm feeling less pacifistic the more times this fucking dvd layout makes me watch the starts of all the episodes repeatedly to work out which is which with the help of wikipedia.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Anthropic: Could AI be conscious? Pope Leo: lol, no

‘Algorithms lack the spark of humanity’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VCWgoIrRCo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261005-anthropic-could-ai-be-conscious-pope-leo-lol-no - podcast

time: 7 min 58 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/05/anthropic-could-ai-be-conscious-pope-leo-lol-no/ - blog post

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jik@federate.social ("Jonathan Kamens 86 47") wrote:

I want to share with you the gist of a mind-blowing conversation I had with my doctor today at my annual physical.

She asked about my mood, which led to a conversation about how AI is ruining everything, which prompted her to mention that she doesn’t use the AI transcription app that her hospital network is encouraging people to use, because she finds it’s too time-consuming for her to read and correct the AI transcriptions instead of just writing down her own notes.
#healthcare
1/5

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mayintoronto@beige.party ("May likes Toronto") wrote:

You just met someone professionally. They make it perfectly clear that they have an MBA. You know nothing else about them.

What would be your first assumptions about this person? (Multiple choice.)

#poll

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dgerard@awful.systems ("David Gerard") wrote:

Anthropic: Could AI be conscious? Pope Leo: lol, no

https://awful.systems/post/9951389