Amikke

fedipol, vent, sadness 

@CodingItWrong as a tech person, FOSS stan and fedi enjoyer since before the xitter situation I'm seriously considering quitting after all this time. The crushing majority of the network is a hivemind circlejerk of the most frustrating kind, and even people I follow and respect get slowly radicalised by it.

For every valuable, interesting post there is at least one another that makes me lose faith in the very possibility of a reasonable society. People well meaning, but driven to dangerous mindlessness by the constant reassurance of a tightly sealed echo chamber. I can no longer honestly recommend it to friends and acquaintances. I've seen some bounce off, and it's a preferable alternative to what happened to some of those that stayed.

I'll try Bluesky. Apparently all bridges to fedi are blocked by exactly the kind of people I am so, so tired of seeing. It's a VC trap with a central authority, but maybe there I could at least go 5 posts in a row without seeing "AI" or "Nazis" in a post written not to bring anything to the discussion, but to echo the existing consensus.

You would be right about orgs and companies, except for the fact that all that they gain from being here is interaction with people who will find an issue with everything they do and post, and try gathering a crowd of drones to join their booing. There is only a small set of orgs that fit here, and an even smaller one of companies. For the rest it's a net loss of time, effort and possibly public image. Even the genuinely well meaning ones, I'm not talking about Nestlé. I've seen respected open source projects and bullied just for using AI to help with coding. Not vibecoded slop, just having the audacity to admit to using a helpful tool.

I'm sorry for so much negativity, this post seems to be the straw that broke the camel's back for me.

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Laurens Hof

the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware

socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hulu

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Furbland's Very Cool Account™

can anyone guess what's pissing me off today

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Amikke

@lanodan @quad it's bad enough when you can't tell whether 12/04/2026 is 12th of April or 4th of December because usians are retarded, bringing this problem to the dot format that always uses dd.mm.yyyy would be a crime against humanity.

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Amikke

@mark the UX purpose of infinite scroll is to display as many entries as a user wants instead of clicking through pages or arbitrarily limiting results. It can be used alongside an infinite content selection algorithm, but doesn't have to.

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Simple Sabotage Field Manual

If possible, join or help organize a group for presenting employee problems to the man agement.

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muesli

After enough years in software, you learn that LGTM doesn't actually stand for "Looks Good To Me".

Only the pros know its real meaning:

"Looked. Got tired. Merged."

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janka owoce

did some drawing yesterday

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Warsaw Hackerspace

You wouldn't NixOS a payphone

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cabbage

Towards an open, federated review platform based on OSM

As I migrate away from big tech and towards independent solutions and in particular services powered by OpenStreetMaps and ActivityPub, I often find that the biggest missing piece remaining is that of a social element allowing for user reviews and feedback to locations on the map—in the intersection between the two services.

I have been playing with the idea of how this could be implemented, and decided would share my thoughts on a technically minimal and entirely federated standard for OSM reviews. The idea is to have a very basic ActivityPub integration that can work with even simple (microblog style) messages, allowing users to contribute reviews without having to sign up for additional services or necessarily install custom software.

Read more on PieFed: https://piefed.social/c/osm@feddit.uk/p/2091360/towards-an-open-federated-review-platform-based-on-osm

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Amikke

@pablo decyzje tak niepopularne, że skłonią ludzi do ruszenia tyłków i zagłosowania na referendum na nie, ale praktycznie nikogo do zagłosowania na tak, powinny skutkować dymisją zgodnie z ideałami demokracji. Nie po to ludzie wybierają swojego przedstawiciela, żeby ich potem zdradził.

Kampania referendalna tylko daje opcję, w przypadku decyzji które nie mają aż takiego powszechnego sprzeciwu powinna poskutkować wyłącznie zmarnowaniem czasu i pieniędzy organizatorów i odrobiny czasu mieszkańców.

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Mike Elgan

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com/

#MachineSociety

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no for an answer

adhd to
- nie jest żadna supermoc, ale nie będę się buntował na taką strategię sprzedażową, przydaje się w tzw biznesie
- jest fajny ochłap żeby rzucić normikom na pożarcie coby się biedactwa nie pogubiły jak muszą cię ocenić; na zasadzie “masz tu labelkę adhd i już spierdalaj”
- nie jest niepełnosprawność, nad którą całkowicie nie da się panować; weźmy taki time-blindness - miałem dopóki nie zaczęło mi bardzo przeszkadzać, od tej pory jestem tak wyczulony, że nie spóźniam się nigdy i nigdzie (o ile coś nie jest całkiem poza moim wpływem)
- nie jest coś taniego w obsłudze, ale jak już się płaci tą cenę dość długo to można optymalizować koszta
- nie jest profil “świetny w kryzysie” ani “świetny na co dzień”, ale faktycznie bywa świetny w jednym z dwojga, (chyba) nigdy w jednym i drugim; kolczasta piramidą kompetencji jest modelem wystarczająco ogólnym żeby nie naginać rzeczywistości a jednocześnie zajebiście wrażliwym; to jest imho jedno z najlepszych narzędzi diagnostycznych jakie mamy
- nie jest urocze roztargnienie, ma prawo wkurwiać
- nie jest coś co się świetnie poddaje farmakologii i koniecznie trzeba leczyć dropsami (u mnie np to za chuj nie działa)
- jest zjawisko non-fuckin-stop poddawane analizom horoskopowym, co z jednej strony strasznie zakłóca obraz a z drugiej patrz punkt pierwszy
- idę już na ten rower
- pewnie przesadzam
- możesz wcale nie mieć adhd

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Amikke

@rmikke wygląda na czosnek ozdobny. Szukasz dzięcioła?

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Amikke

@edeverett @Niall @SimonCHulse woah, I saw the OP and my immediate reaction was "I'm sure there will still be thinking cap wearers in the replies mad at capitalism somehow" and then reflected that I'm probably being too negative and shouldn't assume the worst.

This is the second reply. Thanks for confirming and reinforcing my misantropy!

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Ko Simon toku ingoa :tinoflag:

Škoda have invented a bike bell designed to penetrate noise cancelling headphones, with the goal of reducing cyclist/pedestrian collisions, and then *released the design for free* so anyone can make it and more people can be kept safe!

welovecycling.com/wide/duobell/
#cycling #bike #biking #quaxing #walking #running

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Simple Sabotage Field Manual

Discriminate against efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.

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Amikke

tech pol 

Could we for once have a technological advancement that doesn't immediately spawn a culture war where both sides hand-pick the worst ways to approach it?

If the Internet was invented today, the bulk of the public discussion would be whether to use it for scamming or to outright boycott and ban it because some people use it for scamming.

Was it like that in the 90's? Are humans just like that?

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Amikke

@Lnklnx @navi that seems to be literally the only reason for the crushing majority of people that don't use systemd.

The remaining minority are 90-year old elder wizards that speak bash fluently and are too attached to their woobly wizard tower of init scripts accumulated since the 80s. Which is actually a valid reason.

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gloriouscow

I'm incredibly pleased to announce that the microcode for the Intel 80386 has been decoded.

It was a group effort by a bunch of talented people to extract and correct the physical bits, but the major work of decoding them was done by reenigne - you may know him from such incredible PC demos as 8088 MPH and Area 5150, as well as being the person who decoded the 8088 microcode previously.

Please, check out his writeup.

reenigne.org/blog/80386-microc

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #microcode #reverseengineering

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