@Alice Stay where you are. Agents of Intuit will arrive soon.

@tante No need to tell this to you personally, but for those who need to hear it: Accepting slop is a choice. Responsible maintainers reject vibe-coded commits outright, review the rest thoroughly and generally move slow and fix things. Fast forward a few years, and this will make the difference between building something nice and drowning in chaos.

Before you get into it, the caveats are there in the post. You'll hear me critique the AI industry *a lot*, and those critiques haven't changed. I'm still concerned about effects on the environment, on skill decline, on the DDoS'ing of the internet, and especially on disempowerment *generally*. All that remains true.

This is going to be a somewhat niche post for people who are particularly interested in neurosymbolic computation, which includes me: the idea that neither LLMs nor constraint solvers are sufficient, that the right path for many things combines them.

@Sascha ich finde Euch mit Google unter Ausschluss der KI

"Commercials clinically diagnose the painful side effects of living under a despotic capitalist regime, only to prescribe meaningless placebos of Doritos and Pepto-Bismol." https://theintercept.com/2026/02/13/super-bowl-ad-capitalism-honesty/

#Fedilab remembers your position (and updates your Mastodon marker, so you can keep the same position between apps). Of course it has a limit when cache is enabled. If you have an active Home timeline, the app will remember your position but you might end up in a gap where many messages are no longer available on your instance. We introduced background Home retrieval while you don't use the app. It's not perfect but it helps. Otherwise, you can disable cache in settings.

Did you know that Unicode has a symbol for "really equals, but this time I mean it"? It could come in handy for JavaScript

U+003D = EQUALS SIGN
U+2261 ≡ IDENTICAL TO
U+2263 ≣ STRICTLY EQUIVALENT TO

boys can be gender too

@toddz what the make is capitalist consumerism for the wealthy. Who has a bathroom with space for this kind of thing?

Pineapple upside down cake. There's no other way to describe it.

Again.

47. Look at this keyboard!

(This is basically an emoji/keyboard viewer of its time.)

The IRS already has our tax info so I don’t know why they make each of us fill out the equivalent of a numerical MadLib every year.

@cstross Far too much faith is placed in ai for images. How on earth did we get to the point where people assume ai knows how bodies or clocks or indeed any devices move or work. It's only harvesting images, using recognisable sets of pixels in proximity to other pixels. The real surprise is how ai gets any image vaguely correct in the end, even with chance, but yet people are blindly assuming it knows everything about the content of the images it steals.

@bazkie right! Their math is really bad.

@T_X @axx so for #FOSDEM 2027, I had another stupid idea everyone insisted was good: it will be #IPv6-only on the main network. The dual stack will get a yearly name change to prevent auto-reconnect. We want people on v6-only and break stuff left and right. Every. Single. Year.

And if #GitHub is not on v6 by next year, trust me, they will put _something_ in place very quickly.

@SnowyCA they should have called it the Bob the Builder roll.

Frog toxins are in the news with the evidence that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was posioned with epibatidine. Here's more on frog toxins and how poisonous frogs avoid poisoning themselves: https://www.compoundchem.com/2017/09/26/poisonousfrogs/