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• Post #4480017

  This #FOSSY has further solidified my belief that we invest far too much time into writing software and licenses. We need to connect the four freedoms to material issues in people's lives. People hate tech right now. Absolutely despise it. AI data centers and Flock cameras are the biggest targets but there are so many. On top of it, the economic system makes production of creative works nearly impossible. Unless we view those types of fights as core FOSS community issues, we're going to...

• Post #4478652

  Maybe I read too much of Magnifica Humanitas, but I think the only acceptable feeling when using LLMs is "guilt". I use them here and there like most people. But every time I view it with a bit of shame and sadness at giving even an ounce of support to these ghouls. Maybe I should feel this way with most technology. But I find it's impossible to escape with LLMs.

• Post #3947135

  RE: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/116943945342895564 If you're a member of the Rails core team, the best time to do something was yesterday. The next best time is now. You have to live with yourself for the rest of your life based on what you do.

• Post #3895445

  So, I've used Claude at work now for like 3 weeks? I use it a few times a day but some days not at all. General conclusion: it's still meh. It's still nowhere near as good as people keep saying it is. Helpful? Occasionally. Reliable? For easy stuff, it's alright. Otherwise, flip a coin. I truly do not understand how people can use it all day, every day. At some point, you're going to be doing an absolute shit job if you do that.

• Post #3076421

  I've been prescribed 30-45 minutes of self-care a day by my psychiatrist. What kind of nonsense is this?

• Post #2089829

  One of things that many totally overlook is that reviewing AI generated code is harder. It doesn't look like regular code. It has mistakes in places that people wouldn't make. It doesn't have appropriate abstractions. You can't let your guard down like you can with a human engineer. It's like "somewhere in this massive pile of code, there will be a mistake that not even a junior engineer would make. But no clue where!" To be fair, I&am...

• Post #1731819

  "You have hidden your face from us and have delivered us up to our iniquity."- Isaiah 64:7

• Post #1731818

  RE: https://masto.ai/@phoronix/116476120066302561 You have to be kidding me.

• Post #1731813

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116479159386231194 It's not often I disagree with the EFF's position on something but I do here. The confounding issue is that the app stores have a monopoly on payment processing, a monopoly of their own making.

• Post #1468105

  Quotes from skeet and quote skeet: "The average person doesn’t give a fuck if AI has some niche use where it actually excels if used properly. In fact, that is what a tool is *supposed* to do and none of us will have a problem if it is used like that. What we see is AI fucking up real life in a massive way." "Telling people about the good, useful use cases for AI is kinda like telling people about the 30-50 feral hogs you need your AR-15 for It is entirely true and...

• Post #1432522

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Discourse/116417887006783365 While a commendable argument in favor of open source software in 2026, the author's claim that the cost of vulnerability scanning will "certainly go down" is absurd. It is about as inexpensive now as it can ever be because none of these companies have had to make money yet. They're starting to need to and there's no way they can keep the prices down if they do that. There is no comparable techn...

• Post #1233832

  Age verification laws means every child predator who can create a website or an app will know if they're interacting with a potential victim. And now, with vibecoding, literally EVERYONE can create a minimal website or app. These legislators are serving up victims on a silver platter.

• Post #1182405

  I'm thinking about the freedom fighters in Central America I met last year who told me all about the ways they were using free software to fight colonialism and oppression. It was truly some of the most amazing and inspiring work I've ever seen. Made a (shortsighted) joke to one of them that's she's lucky she's not having to deal with the AI bubble there. She said very seriously "It's just one more way you're oppressing us&quo...

• Post #979270

  RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116348093202515122 This is a good read. I haven't used a coding assistant yet. I've reviewed vibe coded code and I've reviewed code written by a senior engineer following a similar process to @mttaggart. The code for the vibe-coded software was abysmal. It mostly didn't work. But an engineer following a solid process even with safeguards still came up with pretty bad code. It was wordy to the extreme and it didn't have ne...

• Post #979268

  As an agnostic, I don't pray. I love that it provides comfort to those who do but it doesn't fit me. I'm at the point where I'm praying because it sure can't make the situation worse.

• Post #934013

  RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/116246272007151195 I've seen what vibe coding results in. But I've seen what heavily AI generated but directed by a talented engineer results in. It results in bad code. It MIGHT run but even if it does it will be horrible to read and horrible to maintain. Once you generate anything larger than the contents of a small function, you're creating mountains of technical debt. Caveat: it might be possible to generate multiple unit t...

• Post #914883

  Somehow Ruby Central's explanation makes Andre look bad and makes their own organization look even worse. https://rubycentral.org/news/rubygems-fracture-incident-report/

• Post #914882

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/116325031353377986 Setting aside the evil result, doesn't this imply that states are, more or less, entirely banned from regulating how therapists do their job? Step back from the specifics of conversion therapy for a second and think more generally: if a therapist's speech is protected from government regulation, then how can they ever punish abusive therapists who believe that they're doing the right thing? If a therapist b...

• Post #914881

  I'm paired with a junior developer. She had a short career in the film industry so today I told her about the cinematic masterpiece that is "Antitrust". "They made a movie about open source software! With big actors! And cameos with people from FOSS!" She laughed hard but promised she'd watch it.

• Post #914880

  RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116330105563818936 The entitlement of these scumbags is unmatched. They know this is a controversial topic and they know lots of codebases won't allow AI generated code but it just costs too much to maintain a fork themselves. It's like if a project said they don't allow defense contractors to contribute and then Boeing employees started submitting under false identities.

• Post #914879

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Karlitschek/116340639552226585 I'd wonder what percentage of Americans would say the same.

• Post #914877

  Me: "so WordPress is under a copyleft license" Junior: "Copy... left?" Me, in mock horror: "DO YOU NOT REMEMBER THE PRESENTATION ON OPEN SOURCE THAT I GAVE DURING YOUR APPRENTICESHIP?!" Junior: "... that was a long time ago."

• Post #914876

  RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116342790895816786 It sure seems like the medication for mentally ill shouldn't be prescribed by the chatbots that cause psychosis.

• Post #779144

  RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/116264430375745593 I want everyone who says "this is the law, distros need to comply" I want you to explain a plausible set of circumstances to lead to the following: * That the AG of California will sue a random Linux distro which has effectively no money * Prove who the OS distributor actually is (is it the committers? Committers of what part? Their bank account with $12 in it?) * Prove by preponderance of the evidence how many...

• Post #733606

  RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/116262598397940841 One thing to keep in mind: these commits have names on them. When anyone asks why queer kids lost user freedom on Linux, we can point at the exact people who ripped it away from them. #TheyHaveNames

• Post #719932

  A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date. This is being done rapidly by people with questionable justifications and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/merge_requests/176#0b07c0cc4d49be119f65cdb2037440f56eed647a

• Post #715436

  RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@wwahammy/116264430375745593 US government in 1996: strong encryption is a munition and you can go to prison for years if you export FOSS engineers: hey so only use this if you're in the US but we'll give instructions for how to do it otherwise 😉 California in 2026: we're passing a law that allows the AG to sue OS providers in civil court if they don't implement age verification in order to restrict Apple, Google, Facebook a...