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@thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space
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HARD/SOFT TINKERER TYPE 4

Fuck your AI

#nobot #nobridge #noindex I can’t believe I have to write these

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Joined June 08, 2023
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Thankful Machine @thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space
· 2mo ago
One thing that really makes me sad when the first line of a repo’s readme has “with help from Claude” is the apparent diligence with “giving credit” to a nonexistent person, as if Anthropic doesn’t have immense disdain and ingratitude for the struggles and meaning of the work they ate. On top of that, it’s voluntary and free advertising. It’s like going out of your way to put “Made with the help of Microsoft 365” in the header of your documents. I cannot take someone like this seriously, but it crushes my soul all the same.
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Thankful Machine @thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space
· 3w ago

Thinking about how GenAI uses insane amounts of resources, bring servers down, and have made the economic situation worse for people who want computer components, I want to attempt wording a principle of efficiency that covers this well but am having trouble phrasing it how I want.

I would say that a system should use resources proportional to their benefit, but that seems to not be quite enough, as people value things differently. However, I think the concept of depriving people of other benefits is pretty clear.

Is it enough to say that a system should use resources proportional to their universal benefit, without depriving other systems to provide their benefits.

Are there exceptions to this?

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Thankful Machine @thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space
· 2mo ago
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@zzt@mas.to Me: mentions book, talks about some stuff in it Them: demands answers Me: THE FUCKING BOOK
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Thankful Machine @thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space
· 5mo ago

It is your solemn duty to rip smart glasses with microphones and/or cameras off a person's face and stomp them into a fine powder.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/12/apple-reportedly-testing-four-designs-for-upcoming-smart-glasses/

Apple reportedly testing four designs for upcoming smart glasses | TechCrunch
TechCrunch

Apple reportedly testing four designs for upcoming smart glasses | TechCrunch

These glasses are a step back from an ambitious plan that once called for Apple to launch a variety of mixed and augmented reality devices.

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· 1mo ago
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@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange Windows 2000 built from a smuggled source leak in an abandoned, but fully functional, natural history museum. I have WinAmp and every song ever made. Visual Studio starts in milliseconds. I can Comic Chat with my friend who works in the Svalbard seed vault. She operates the server on a DIY microkernel running on an SH-4 arcade board. The only time I hear from her is when she sends me a Happy Birthday message on October 11 every year, even though that's not my birthday. I still wonder if it's automated or a love confession. She's incomprehensible. But the server has never gone down once in the 8 years since The Incident, so I assume she is still alive.
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· 3mo ago
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@evacide@hachyderm.io It ain’t Google, but “not evil”? Not so fast.
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Thankful Machine @thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space
· 5mo ago

#blender more like #blunder amirite

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Thankful Machine @thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space
· 5mo ago

Absolutely called it when I first heard about #meshcore. Uncooperative, antisocial, controlling, fragile ego. And yeah I’m talking about Kirby. Has no business making anything for anyone with his attitude. Good on the group for forking though. I randomly checked up on this and saw there was a blog post *today*. What a mess.

https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/04/23/the-split

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· 5mo ago
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@adhdeanasl Unprofessional my ass! The world needs more protectors like you. Thank you.
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· 4mo ago
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@zzt@mas.to @davidgerard@circumstances.run @aadeacon@mastodon.social Jesus fucking Christ I have been avoiding the details on this and I am seriously sick to my stomach. And this is coming from someone who has accidentally stumbled upon Bosnian War videos on fucking ebaums world. Mark my words, people like this are going to get people killed. What a time to be sober
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· 2mo ago
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@felsqualle@manitu.social your curiosity is clear as day :) what are you waiting for?
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· 6mo ago
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@jonny Also, damn. Sorry : [
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Thankful Machine @thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space
· 5mo ago

RE: @glyph@mastodon.social

FUCKING,,,

T H I S

mastodon.social

Glyph: "Anyone interested in solving the problem of e.g. …" - Mastodon

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· 5mo ago
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@cwebber This is some of the funniest news I’ve read in a long time. You’ve made my day
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Thankful Machine @thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space
· 6mo ago
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@Hipska@mastodon-belgium.be @dogiedog64 @davidgerard@circumstances.run You’re absolutely right. I shouldn’t have guessed about your knowledge of code completion. Saying that LLMs improve code completion results is extremely upsetting.
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· 6mo ago
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@dogiedog64 @Hipska@mastodon-belgium.be @loucyx@mastodon.social @elementary@mastodon.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run Ten years ago intellisense was about twenty years old. But mate have you ever had your editor puke out multiple lines to take you out of your train of thought? Why don’t you just take up sewing mate I hear the RSI is just as good
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· 6mo ago
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@dogiedog64 @Hipska@mastodon-belgium.be @loucyx@mastodon.social @elementary@mastodon.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run how the hell can someone say the phrase “code completion” and not know what PARSING and SEMANTIC ANALYSIS is? Scope at the cursor? Incremental parsing? Code completion is a solved problem! JFC the IGNORANCE
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· 5mo ago
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@rajelaran@oldbytes.space can lick? 👉👈
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· 5mo ago
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@TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place @estelle@mstdn.social BURNN
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· 5mo ago
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@TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place @estelle@mstdn.social *grabs the mic again* also, I just wanna say, it was an absolute crime for Toyota to give the name GR86 to a BRZ, which is neither a GR nor an 86 *drops mic*
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· 5mo ago
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@TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place @estelle@mstdn.social Nice. I pulled up next to a fabulously classic Skyline the other day in the GR Corolla. Had a little scoot, it was a cool moment I would also drive a SilEighty any day for sure
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Thankful Machine @thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space
· 5mo ago
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@BenjaminNelan@mastodon.social It’s all good. There’s just a lot of confusion right now and I’ve been quite sour. Know that I hear you and I’m sorry if I came across as defensive or aggressive.
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· 5mo ago
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@BenjaminNelan@mastodon.social Me too. All the best.
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· 5mo ago
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@BenjaminNelan@mastodon.social Having a different organization with a different set of values does not "mean nothing".
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· 5mo ago
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@BenjaminNelan@mastodon.social There are things that cross the line. They crossed it. That is all! If the leadership wants to resign, I would accept that. Unless that happens, my eyes will look ahead and to somewhere else. It's not any more complicated than that. It's not a moral imperative for the Blender organization to exist. It is also not a moral imperative for Blender itself to exist.
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Thankful Machine @thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space
· 5mo ago

Is anyone forking #blender?

#blender3d

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· 5mo ago
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@inari@squeaky.social I know I know but if you can set aside some savings, my gosh has it been worth it
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Thankful Machine @thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space
· 5mo ago
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@arclight I remember reading an article from the ACM a while back that considered whether software should be a real peer engineering discipline with all it entails, and I recall being taken aback by that. They basically concluded “not at this time”. Now I’m thinking “hell yea”. Now I’m learning Spark, contracts, validation-driven development, formal methods… Not like I know how to shake anyone out of this mess.
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· 5mo ago
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@spook@pleroma.m68k.church Land of the Lisp by Barksi is cute and fun
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Thankful Machine @thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space
· 6mo ago
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@seachanger@alaskan.social https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
metr.org

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower.

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Thankful Machine @thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space
· 5mo ago
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@BenjaminNelan@mastodon.social "The primary goal of the Bforartists fork is to deliver a refined graphical UI and a better usability to Blender. This means a complete switch in the usage philosophy away from the hotkey centered UX towards a user friendly, discoverable and intuitive graphical UI." Very cool, but irrelevant. You just said that forking based on a philosophy was not worthy of consideration, and I see from your account that you think forks for technical reasons has poor utility because it diverts resources or whatever. If you can't put 2 and 2 together regarding the decisions the leadership are making, I don't know what to tell you. A different organization would have a different set of priorities and develop the application how they see fit. If that happens to include upstream changes, fine. And yes, it's a form of competition. It happens. It's difficult not to conclude that your philosophy doesn't include rejecting AI corporations' takeover of all industry and human endeavour and the rejection of the people who run such operations. If that's the case, would you please stop wasting our time?
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· 6mo ago
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@rooster@beige.party DAMN
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· 6mo ago
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@dreid Mic dropped from orbit, mate. Spot on
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· 6mo ago
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@rotopenguin @nicole gesundheit
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· 2mo ago
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@matt@toot.cafe This is absolutely a solvable problem and we don’t need LLMs to solve it. Does the FOSS universe have something like a repository of accessibility needs and patterns to address them? Kind of like the MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration but for accessibility?
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· 4mo ago
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@glyph@mastodon.social kfkcockeodjdnowoejfnvkfowpwpwkfjgirl
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· 5mo ago
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@syllopsium @arclight IIRC this was the article. Take it with a grain of salt, I don’t put much stock in the ACM, personally. https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/should-software-engineers-be-licensed/
cacm.acm.org
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· 5mo ago
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@zkat I guess we’ll just have to make due with what we have
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· 5mo ago
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@syllopsium @arclight “a while” is only 24 years don’t judge me
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· 5mo ago
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@glyph@mastodon.social =_=
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· 5mo ago
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@inari@squeaky.social H2D, mate. I press print and leave the house.
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Thankful Machine @thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space
· 4mo ago
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@jecture@mastodon.social I was thinking the other day how to make a terminal roguelike that would also be pleasant to play for blind folks and I had similar thoughts about the “canvas” thing but up to now have been pretty ignorant about screen readers in this space. Do you feel like it would be theoretically possible for TUIs to provide abstract control and state updates to screen readers in the same way that structured UI programs do, or is that theoretically (or practically) a dead end? Either way, I would like to explore making a game like this in the future, if you have any pointers or resources! Thank you for the article.
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· 5mo ago
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@TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place @estelle@mstdn.social it’s all about the Skyline for me
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· 3mo ago
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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place hell yeah
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