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• Post #2965029

  Surprise of the day... the excellent EU push to force laptop makers to move to USB PD has, after 18h with a new laptop, made all other laptops with proprietary PSUs seem like relics from some other era, like rotary-dial telephones. It's surprising because my first USB-PD laptop was from 2019 or so. Somehow the first one after knowing they'll all be now like that has ushered in a new psychological era.

• Post #2965028

  It's interesting that the ways the training incorporates a lot of US cultural expectations. They are relentlessly upbeat about whatever you wanted to achieve. They won't argue with the boss although they will point out inconsistencies with what they're working on. It's only a matter of time before they carry guns. Since most of us are from different cultures, and the US had led most advances since before WW2, could this virtual cross-pollination actually be ps...

• Post #2965027

  Antigravity added a lot of interactive command auth stuff... really this is security theatre since ultimately the whole goal is to let the assist edit code, build and run it. The theatrics include not letting you whitelist kill or killall... well I can see it... but... the thing writes code. It can just call the same apis as kill[all]. They also added a 'sandbox', but it's incompatible with valgrind. It feels like being funneled into turning off the auth which would b...

• Post #2965026

  What on earth has happened at Coverity? Coverity Scan is down We're performing some upgrades to the Scan servers. During this time, login is disabled. All changes to projects and accounts are disabled. We're really sorry for the inconvenience. We're working quickly to be back online soon! https://scan.coverity.com/ I sent them an email on the 20th May asking when they would be coming back up, I just got notified it was "undelivered" due to &quot...

• Post #2148116

  Oh an unexpectedly great article via lobste.rs https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/04/open-source-does-not-imply-open-community/ > Github turned all of open source into an unpaid job for maintainers. > Suddenly open source is a second job. You're burned out. Yeah. And your "community" feels legitimized by it, you get explained how just being a user is a contribution.

• Post #2148115

  Today's lobste.rs pulse monitoring: https://larsfaye.com/articles/agentic-coding-is-a-trap So that sounds dire, but actually the author is a quite complete coding assist believer and user. He discusses various reasonable (ie, based in fact, if not complete prescriptions) problems and outcomes from using them. At the end he says he uses them heavily, but his preference to fight the slop is to write 20%+ of the code manually and have them work filling that in. Well, OK. As he says, hi...

• Post #2148114

  https://noahbogart.com/posts/2026-05-03-losing-skills/ People are using coding AIs and correctly noticing their day is not spent the same way... it's similar to when people "entered management" and so stopped doing output-work, and started directing others to do it. This guy likens it to using lane-assist in his car. Manually minimizing lane drift WAS a critical skill... after relying on the assist, his manual skill atrophied. OK... but... if every car has lane-assi...

• Post #1735981

  https://frederikbraun.de/feels-and-llms.html It's sad to see how bullied people are by the LLM-is-the-Devil mob. The guy has used it, sees it is advantageous, has made up his mind to use it going on... but he has to try to satisfy what are consequently his enemies by paying lip service to their claims about it. And then he's "hey everyone, look how conflicted I am". He's not actually conflicted if he has decided to use it every day; it just means he...

• Post #1329191

  https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-executive-suggests-ai-agents-buy-software-licenses-seats-2026-4 Microsoft are really something that has outlived its time. The French are showing the way: just sweep away their corruption and complacency with Linux.

• Post #1329190

  https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-evaluation-of-claude-mythos-previews-cyber-capabilities "Future frontier models will be more capable still, so investment now in cyber defence is vital. AI cyber capabilities are dual use; while they pose security challenges, they can also help deliver game-changing improvements in defence." Yes but from FOSS perspective, who will pay for the tokens to get the defence ahead of the attackers? The attackers have a financial motive to fund their...

• Post #1097187

  A few months ago it was: "it is evil, because I say so". Then the focus started to become, "because I am ethical, it's clear to me AI is evil". There were side-quests down "AI is theft", "AI is a plagiarism machine", neither of which match how Apr 2026 coding assists work or consider FOSS as AI learning. lobste.rs today: "Maintaining LOC is the devil". It's progress, because it silently...

• Post #1097186

  Jesus. We certainly have to worry about "end of civilization" due to the US, but it's not what was in the newspapers. I've written before the step up in bug finding the last weeks is unprecedented. And now: https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/

• Post #1097185

  As the main character of "For All Mankind" says in the new series, "I've been married three times, and if there's one thing I learned: it's that I didn't learn shit". Current coding assists feel the same, if you work with it through some scenario, there are usually lessons you take away, like banning whatever caused the problem or ensuring next time your will do something before getting bitten. The LLM just resets to a new con...

• Post #1097184

  Interesting new kind of confabulation recently on Gemini 3.1. "I actually just deployed the fix for that to XXXX right before I saw your new message!" in response to my explaining what is broken. No it didn't... it fixed it in response to my complaints... it doesn't act unless prompted and the last prompt that produced the fix diff was in response to my problem description! This is the third or fourth instance of this new behaviour blurring what time and agen...