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when u get picked up and yeeted into the carrier to go to the vet
GitLab announces AI layoffs, stock goes down 9%
seize the day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yk_M88Wc8U&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260512-gitlab-announces-ai-layoffs-stock-goes-down-9 - podcast
time: 4 min 53 sec
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/12/gitlab-announces-ai-layoffs-stock-goes-down-9/ - blog post
@davidgerard So, I lived in Redmond (a Silly Valley xNIX Engineer in REdmond went about as well as you'd expect) when Macro$lop bought GitHub and turned it to ash. I took my shit and Self Hosted, however I watched the Exodus from GitHub to GitLab and thought, "This is good."
Now, GitLab is shooting itself in the dick by jumping on board the precise thing that's pissing Developers off over at GitHub (and other venues). The Fuck?
So I'll just set this here ...
#WritersCoffeeClub May 12: If not in your current format (novel, play, music, etc.), in what format would you write?
I've considered writing strange little plays and screenplays and maybe will yet, who knows! My main idea for a play is about a struggle between two ant queens, with the characters played by actors in wild costumes and huge shadow projections behind them of ants fighting, fleeing, feeding, and uhhh... engaged in reproductive activities. My main idea for a screenplay is an adaptation of a classic Arthurian novel starring Sir Kay, which describes few enough titles that you might even be able to guess which one 😁 Also maybe interactive fiction? A ttrpg? Aaahhhh
@u2764 Sure, but what if
- the degradation of databases and stock products increases demand for ad-hoc software (as well as, sure, maybe advertizing either intentionally or inadvertantly creating demand for such ad-hoc software, too)
- more people feel able to use tools to step into that software-supplying role, and so do
is that not "both"?
@gaditb providing a worse product because it is cheaper to produce might artificially increase demand, because the product breaks more often or meets fewer usecases and so people need to buy more as a result (i am not sure how economics accounts for this sort of thing), but that is not what i am asking about
i am asking about software being cheaper to produce WITHOUT market conspiracy to lower software quality. i’m supposing the same software is being produced, at lower cost
i’m not saying you’re WRONG necessarily—i can definitely imagine ways in which “both” is a true statement—but i still think one side of the equation is much clearer and more obvious than the other. if production costs drop that has a straightforward impact on supply. it does not necessarily have a direct impact on demand, even if followon effects do occur
So, no bill in November, I figured that was done, finally.
I missed, amidst all the spam they still send to my no-longer-with-Rogers number, that they billed me $0.28 in December and still took the payment automatically off the old credit card (yeah, my bad for not ALSO blocking them somehow? Silly customer, thinking 6 months of CANCEL THIS SERVICE ENTIRELY AND CLOSE THE ACCOUNT might've been clear).
Nothing else until THIS month, May, on my previous billing date ... random charge for $1. +HST
I've now withdrawn my CC info and switched to manual payment, because I was anticipating the stupidity of trying to get their customer service to figure this out. 10 minutes looping through their ANNA bot before it got convinced to stop repeating that my billing dispute was declined and that I had used $1 in long distance (on a cancelled plan that never had "talk" on it) and get a real rep on chat. 35 mins more of repeating myself before being told I had to call, chat reps can't cancel or credit
Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this "Sorry I'm Late I Was Dilly Dallying" Sweatshirt. If you're ever late for work, just tell your boss you were dilly dallying. Legally speaking, they cannot fire you. Dilly dallying is protected under the law.
https://collabs.shop/wuhks8
I got this picture of one of our #skypirate Captain standing along side Lando.
I was looking to get a comparison between one of our hand painted toys and a commercially released toy from the 80s.
Except I didn't have any commercially released toys from the 80s around, I had a 2010s bootleg of the surprisingly rare limited run '85 General Lando.
(I have more to say about Lando, it'll go in the next post.)
So this is a very good factory made bootleg of one of the more complicated toys to come out of the Kenner Star Wars line, standing next to our Mysterious Air Pirates captain.
In terms of level of detail and quality of production, I'd argue that they're pretty much equivalent.
My understanding is that General Lando was pulled early because it was significantly more expensive to produce than many of the other toys in this line, because it has a lot more paint than most of the other figures Kenner was releasing around that time.
Kenner was spun off into a separate company in 85, and then purchased by Tonka in 87, and by Hasbro in 91.
They were not doing well financially when the official version of this toy was released, and even without the extra detail and paint, it probably would have been a fairly limited run.
@kc ableism is a structural process of interpersonal harm and you seem to be sympathetic to the hypothetical individual from OP of which we only know that they are being cruel to something they anthropomorphized which can't fight back
@kc i would really consider whether you've made an error in judgement here
I'm no longer older
@codl cant spell codl without odl
@aran Giuro che mi stavo proprio chiedendo se ci fossero cose come Zombies Run (che avevo usato anch'io qualche anno fa).
@kenobit Purtroppo la scena free nella corsa è praticamente assente. A parte Osmand con la sua interfaccia da progetto Java del 1997 ci sono solo piccole app molto puntuali tipo tracker GPX, conta-intervalli e simili. Ad esempio, io non mi capacito che non ci sia ancora un clone di Strava sul Fediverso, che sarebbe davvero facile da implementare con Openstreetmaps. C'è anche da dire che tanti runner sono davvero negati con l'informatica, a livello di faticare a girarti un link/scaricare un file... 😥
🎮 The developers of the #OpenSource game engine #Godot announced this week that its upcoming point release will add HDR (High Dynamic Range) output support. It'll work in Forward+ and Mobile renderers, adding visual depth to gameplay.
https://www.newinlinux.com/open-source-gaming-godot-4-7-adds-hdr-output/
Quanti danni che farà il coding assistito usato a cervello spento... speriamo che in questa generazione di informatici sopravviva qualcuno in grado di mettere a posto le cose capendoci qualcosa, invece di generare ad mentula canis codice per aggiustare codice scritto da codice.
Fornito da @altbot, generato localmente e privatamente utilizzando Gemma4:26b
@gubi Uno screenshot di una chat tra un utente e un assistente IA. Il primo messaggio dell'IA include istruzioni e un blocco di codice con cinque query SQL troncate: "UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = REPLACE(option_.. REPLACE(option_... UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = REPLACE(guid, 'new.domini... UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_cont... UPDATE wp_postmeta SET meta_value = REPLACE(meta_valu... UPDATE wp_comments SET comment_conten comment_content = REPLACE(com..." e prosegue: "Oppure usa il plugin Better Search Replace da wp-admin se non vuoi usare il database direttamente. Consiglio: Fallo subito, prima di fare altri cambiamenti al sito. Pochi minuti adesso ti evitano problemi grandi domani." Un messaggio dell'utente in un fumetto scuro recita: "Da lato admin funziona tutto, ho cambiato la URL nella configurazione del sito, non farmi rompere il database del sito con query inutili generate dalle allucinazioni della AI". La risposta finale dell'IA recita: "Acknowledged user's resolution and confirmed no further queries needed. Hai ragione, mi scuso. Se hai già aggiornato le impostazioni nella configurazione di WordPress (Impostazioni > Generali) e tutto funziona sia in admin che nel frontend, non hai bisogno di altre query nel database. Le opzioni principali (siteurl e home) sono già aggiornate, e WordPress ne usa quella per la maggior parte delle operazioni. Non fare nulla di più. Il sito funziona correttamente come ora. ora." In basso sono presenti icone di interazione e la scritta "Claude Haiku 4.5 • 0.3x".
🌱 Energia utilizzata: 0.922 Wh
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/116561338356656090
One cannot underestimate the value LibreOffice brings to the world.
Go get it. Use it. If possible: support it too.
Do you maintain an open source project and need some server hardware for your self-hosted CI or build system? I have two Dell R630 1U dual socket 8-SFF machines and four dual socket Supermicro nodes that fit together in a 24 SFF 2U enclosure. Free to a good home or datacenter, but local pickup in Amsterdam only.
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Do you maintain an open source project and need some server hardware for your self-hosted CI or build system? I have two Dell R630 1U dual socket 8-SFF machines and four dual socket Supermicro nodes that fit together in a 24 SFF 2U enclosure. Free to a good home or datacenter, but local pickup in Amsterdam only.
i think my general vibe on the Hazel approach is that it's too type-theoretic. and while I love type theory, I also love parsers, and I feel like the root of these issues is parsing-related rather than type theory related, even if type theory plays a role
in particular, i think there's a bunch of work on good parsing-with-error-recovery that has been done and needs to be done, especially from the perspective of making these things into generic tools rather than one off custom theories for specific languages
#LoveMakeShare 12: What’s your longest-running WIP? Is there an end in sight?
I first started work on How NOT to Save the World the summer of 2013, so about thirteen years now.
It was originally going to be a webcomic, but the artist I was working with dropped out. It got backburnered, and I pulled it out every now and again to poke at it. Found another potential artist, they ghosted, reworked it for prose, backburnered again...
Tried releasing it as a serial, made a good chunk of progress, hit burnout on the serials, haven't touched it in about four years now.
A bit over 20,000 words, no, the end is no where near in sight.