Federico Mena Quintero
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RE: https://mastox.eu/@PODEMOS/116938575036416748
Perché chi governa da sinistra finisce col fare politiche di destra e non accade mai il contrario? Sarà che il potere è strutturalmente di destra a prescindere dal colore politico di chi lo esercita, e alla fine l’unica differenza possibile è avere al governo un fesso di destra che ti trascina in guerra e un furbo di destra che si limita ad arricchire se stesso e gli amici suoi? Auguro a Sanchez di non fare la fine umana e politica di gente come D’Alema, Renzi, Blair, Hollande.
@gubi...forse perché, semplicemente, la stragrande maggioranza delle persone, me compreso, e fondamentalmente egoista?
È una questione di sopravvivenza?
Mors tua, vita mea?
Magari alla fine ci si coalizza, si solidarizza, ma sempre per interesse personale?
Fondamentalmente, lo scopo finale è sempre la sopravvivenza e il benessere proprio e dei propri cari?
This shit is so funny to me man, I could read these bug reports forever
This person reports how they tried to get fable to build a thing to process some data, but instead burned 12 days of usage on it generating thousands of commits and hundreds of GB of data doing absolutely nothing. It was supposed to build some validation thing that wraps the data processing pipeline, but it never built the pipeline itself, so it then went into a delirium of validating the validator and doing everything except the thing it was supposed to
@jonny i really adore how throughout this whole report, OP keeps saying "and then it finally told me what the problem was!" but it's just that Fable says another wacky thing. it's all lies on top of lies producing 66 new markdown documents a day for no reason. it's so awesome
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She looks so innocent.
Don't let her fool you.
She is an instigator.
For sure.
Her pal called her on the phone. She could hear his voice and came running from the other side of the house. It's good that one of us can hear a pin drop a mile away.
She and her pal hatched a plan.
They miss each other.
He will ask to sit outside his room for a bit tomorrow after breakfast. Summer might be taking a walk in the same neighborhood.
It would be pretty sweet if they connected.
Little do they know that I already got permission from his doctor. Keeping that tidbit of information to myself.
It sounds like all treatment plans for my husband are on hold until he is infection free. The soonest he can transfer to another hospital or come home will be sometime next week.
#Summer #DogsOfMastodon
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One of the open source projects I used to (many years ago, so I am not really affected anymore) has recently decided to allow AI contributions. One of their arguments is that they judge submissions on quality, not tools used.
Back when I was an active contributor (to the project and maintainer of some other parts of the surrounding ecosystem), I got a lot of submissions that were bad.
The thing is, I absolutely loved getting these because they always came from super-enthusiastic junior people. Reviewing them and giving feedback often too much longer than implementing the feature myself. The same was usually true for the next contribution too. But that shifted over time. After a few months, I started getting patches where I didn’t find anything beyond the cosmetic that I wanted to change.
Going back further, I was one of those people when I started contributing.
Measured as code contributions over the short term, maintainers working with submitters of poor-quality PRs is a waste of time. You’re taking time away from writing code to do something that produces code more slowly.
Measured over the long term, the results are very different. Far more code in that project and closely related parts of the ecosystem has been written by people who I mentored when they came along with some bad code than by me.
It’s never a waste of my time to turn an enthusiastic and incompetent contributor into an enthusiastic and competent contributor, it’s an absolutely critical part of building a healthy project. I wouldn’t have got nearly as much out of F/OSS on a personal level if I hadn’t encountered a lot of people with the same opinion when I was one of the enthusiastic and incompetent newcomers.
But LLMs are not like that. If I spend time reviewing LLM-generated code when it would have been faster to write it myself (which, to be clear, is the case on 100% of LLM-submitted PRs I’ve seen so far), then that’s just a time sink. It’s also taking away time I could be spending helping new contributors who want to actually improve, rather than just take the review comments, feed them into an opaque system, and give me back the results.
kookie 🇵🇸 EMF
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Is anyone doing well? Are they okay?
Federico Mena Quintero
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Add your fess: http://b3ta.com/addfess
théorie :verified:
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Alors que le Google Ai overview, la fonctionnalité IA adossée au célèbre moteur de recherche, débarque en France, retour sur les conséquences délétères de ce nouvel outil sur la presse et son économie mais plus largement pour la démocratie au sens large.
À lire sur Synth 👇🏼
https://synthmedia.fr/culture/medias/google-ai-overviews-letranglement-silencieux-de-la-presse-en-ligne/
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The $700k/yr-paid editor of academic labour exploitation magazine Science writing an article complaining about how AI is exploiting academic labour and making publishers lives more difficult, and then getting caught using ChatGPT to write the article, feels like the perfect end to this academic year.
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RE: https://masto.ai/@transworld/116929445859848335
Screaming: "We told you! We fucking told you!" As I'm dragged down the hall and thrown in a cell.
Ich habe Freunde, die Jobs im Bereich der öffentlichen Hand oder NGOs oder Academia suchen, in denen (bevorzugt Open Source) Software für gute Sachen (also keine Rüstung!) eingesetzt und entwickelt wird.
Wo schicke ich die hin?
@larsmb die STA suchte neulich ein paar Leute
We are unveiling our plan to make Europe the world’s first electro-powered continent:
1️⃣ By 2040, electricity should account for 46% of Europe's final energy consumption
2️⃣ Reducing the price gap between electricity and fossil energy
3️⃣ Lowering network charges and taxes
4️⃣ Deploying smart meters faster
Our aim: save €200 billion in fuel imports by 2040 and halve oil consumption.
Power Smarter. Go Electric.
@EUCommission why do you want to reduce the price gap though. Renewables are already the cheaper way and if everyone stops throwing subsidies at fossil fuels they become so expensive nobody wants to use them anymore. Or am I misunderstanding that goal?
And also *points towards Germany* Do something about these criminals.
OH: why do you have a sock in your butt?
One of the open source projects I used to (many years ago, so I am not really affected anymore) has recently decided to allow AI contributions. One of their arguments is that they judge submissions on quality, not tools used.
Back when I was an active contributor (to the project and maintainer of some other parts of the surrounding ecosystem), I got a lot of submissions that were bad.
The thing is, I absolutely loved getting these because they always came from super-enthusiastic junior people. Reviewing them and giving feedback often too much longer than implementing the feature myself. The same was usually true for the next contribution too. But that shifted over time. After a few months, I started getting patches where I didn’t find anything beyond the cosmetic that I wanted to change.
Going back further, I was one of those people when I started contributing.
Measured as code contributions over the short term, maintainers working with submitters of poor-quality PRs is a waste of time. You’re taking time away from writing code to do something that produces code more slowly.
Measured over the long term, the results are very different. Far more code in that project and closely related parts of the ecosystem has been written by people who I mentored when they came along with some bad code than by me.
It’s never a waste of my time to turn an enthusiastic and incompetent contributor into an enthusiastic and competent contributor, it’s an absolutely critical part of building a healthy project. I wouldn’t have got nearly as much out of F/OSS on a personal level if I hadn’t encountered a lot of people with the same opinion when I was one of the enthusiastic and incompetent newcomers.
But LLMs are not like that. If I spend time reviewing LLM-generated code when it would have been faster to write it myself (which, to be clear, is the case on 100% of LLM-submitted PRs I’ve seen so far), then that’s just a time sink. It’s also taking away time I could be spending helping new contributors who want to actually improve, rather than just take the review comments, feed them into an opaque system, and give me back the results.
"no, but OUR LLM self improves!"
"actual self improvement or memories.md?"
"memories.md"
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Today's weather:
DNS things: I have two certs I renew using the dns-01 challenge, because there is no http involved, and the server needing the cert is mot public facing.
I like the dns challenge, and will likely switch the rest of my infra to use it too.
But!
Up until a week or two ago, the domains the certs are for had their nameservers at Hetzner. My tooling hits the Hetzner API.
The domains are now served by my self-hosted nameserver, so I need to update things.
❯ systemctl status acme-renew-chat.csillger.hu.timer
● acme-renew-chat.csillger.hu.timer - Renew ACME Certificate for chat.csillger.hu
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/acme-renew-chat.csillger.hu.timer; enabled; preset: ignored)
Active: active (waiting) since Wed 2026-06-17 22:56:36 CEST; 1 month 0 days ago
Invocation: 497e99b0ceef4fd99618b0382cf7b5fa
Trigger: Sat 2026-07-18 22:30:28 CEST; 12h left
Uhuhuhh! Just about in time I fix this. It'd try to renew via Hetzner, yet, my domain's on my PowerDNS now.
Je suis tombé sur ces drôles de plantes.
Le fruits ont la texture molle des mûres, mais c'est beaucoup plus petit.
Une idée de ce que c'est ?
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@sebsauvage pour le promeneur curieux moyen il y a https://plantnet.org j’utilise trés souvent en balade…🥾
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RealDoll the sex doll parent company bought by the roving husk of a cryptocurrency/metaverse capital demon pivots to selling hyper-realistic silicoid AI teaching robots to public schools on the Seneca Nation reservation, causing the state to spend $60k per doll they don't have to perform generational damage to already marginalized kids. That's a real consequence of the kind of world all the AI ghouls with a kind face are running cover for.
thread: https://bsky.app/profile/jgcarpenter.com/post/3mqptnudhmk2b
Blog post: https://jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?blogPost=a-companion-robot-company-just-landed-a-classroom
@hipsterelectron
here in sweden people initially swore off potatoes because they thought you're supposed to eat the poisonous berries that grow on the surface
(i'm sure this happened in other places too)
here in sweden people initially swore off potatoes because they thought you're supposed to eat the poisonous berries that grow on the surface
(i'm sure this happened in other places too)
@moses_izumi wondering if it's possible to survive on a nightshade-only diet
@jamesgaunt In June 2026 Mobi was 9% of downloads, PDF was 24%, and EPUB was 67%.
I'm not sure what software MacOS and Windows ship with that can convert EPUBs to anything. I presume their EPUB viewers are capable of outputting PDF at least, but Mobi is likely only going to be available from Calibre.
@samwilson on Mac the default software for opening EPUB would be iBooks. Though I don’t think it can convert anything so Calibre would be needed.
