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96d

Re: LB: time to move off Chrome.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #AISlop #web #tech #dev #Google #Chrome

70d

In 2025 the web has more security checkpoints than an American airport.

#tech #dev #web #internet #SecurityTheater #cybersecurity #infosec #security

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91d

If current-generation LLM-based chatbots can drive people to commit crimes or even take their own lives, what do you suppose Neuralink would do to people?

The first thing I said to the person who suggested to me that human brains might be directly hooked to a computer, whenever that was, was "everyone will go insane immediately". I still believe that, but now we're beginning to see evidence.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #Neuralink #tech #dev #HCI #BrainImplants

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86d

Once again blocked from using a website I've used regularly for years because of "unusual activity" from "your IP". After passing a captcha, no less.

Somehow bot-detecting algorithms have been degrading over time.

This is a troubling trend because people who aren't using the anointed access points of the internet struggle more and more to connect and interact. Large entities like CloudFlare choke off more and more avenues of access in the name of "security", enforcing digital checkpoints without any accountability to anyone.

#dev #tech #web #bot #DarkPattern #security #infosec #cybersecurity #checkpoint

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83d

Fat Cat Software recently asked for our help updating the PowerPhotos icon for Liquid Glass. We had a blast revisiting the charming little bot! Let us know if you need help with your app’s icon.

#IconDesign #LiquidGlass #dev #mac

PowerPhotos app icon revision for Liquid Glass showing a cute bot holding a glassy Photos symbol. Two versions shown side by side: the full color default and the monotone clear version.

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55d

Did any #Go developers need code to get a zero value of a struct but without knowing the layout of the struct itself?

The only thing I could come up with was:

func zero[T any](v T) T {
z := &v
zz := reflect.ValueOf(z).Elem()
zz.Set(reflect.Zero(reflect.TypeOf(v)))
return *z
}

And see here an example of usage: https://go.dev/play/p/Aqzc_nRzOcP

I needed it in order to get zero copies of random structs so I could test that some marshal/unmarshal functionality is a bijection.

Is this a decent way to do it? Are there alternatives?

#golang #dev

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14d

The other day I had the intrusive thought

AI is intellectual Viagra

and it hasn't left me so I am exorcising it here. I'm sorry in advance for any pain this might cause.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #DiffusionModels #tech #dev #coding #software #SoftwareDevelopment #writing #art #VisualArt

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229d

Salut ! Nouvelle #introduction

Je suis Adrian, nouveau au #Quebec.
J’ai exactement 24 à 28 ans, et je suis ( @qaqelol ❤️)

Je suis #dev, côté backend, infra et devops. Je parle sans arrêt d’Elixir mais je fais d’autres trucs parfois promis :D

Autrement, je parle de
- #gaming
- #musique
- #lecture ( #scifi et #fantasy)
- télé (on regarde #StarTrek DeepSpace 9 en ce moment)
- #jdr en tant que forever GM (mais j’aime ça)

Je toot + en français mais je boost beaucoup d’anglais :P

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10d

Slack is giving me a very stern, very red warning that my web browser will not be supported after November.

#slack #DarkPatterns #tech #dev #web

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38d

Update Changelog

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34d

My interactive tween guide for Godot is out !

If you have trouble using tweens, adding "Juice" or picking the right transition, it should hopefully help!

The guide is free and will always be 🩵

https://qaqelol.itch.io/tweens

Boost and feedback are really appreciated ✨

#Godot #GodotEngine #Free #Guide #Tutorial #GameDev #Dev #GDscript #TechArt #Animation #2D #MadeWithGodot #itchio #Web #Tween

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13d

O Mastodon 4.5.3 foi lançado e com ele a primeira leva de traduções de que ativamente participei.

Neste começo, estou atuando principalmente na uniformização das traduções pt_BR para que os mesmos termos originais tenham as mesmas traduções em toda a interface e para corrigir erros óbvios, principalmente na troca de verbo <-> substantivo.

#mastodon #dev #fediadminbr

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27d

#Programming #Coding #Dev & #WebDev video accounts to follow:

➡️ @kde_community - KDE official account
➡️ @penpot_app - FOSS collaborative design & prototyping software
➡️ @andybalaam - In-depth programming videos, currently focused on Rust
➡️ @joshua_branson - Programming GNU project, GNU OS & Hurd kernel
➡️ @bojidar.marinov.bg - FOSS programmer, streams, "Bugs Done Quick" speedruns
➡️ @moosadee - Computer science teacher on coding, game dev & C++

🧵 1/2

#PeerTube

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25d

Massive compute power applied to massive data sets can produce outcomes that are worse at the task they’re (ostensibly) intended for than much simpler, easier to understand, less wasteful, and less intrusive data-light methods. It requires an extreme form of bias to believe that big compute + big data is always better.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #tech #dev #DataScience #science #ComputerScience #EcologicalRationality

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24d

If Cloudflare really is "verifying" that I'm human with its obnoxious widget, why does it do this for multiple web sites and over and over again for a given web site? Shouldn't it be able to verify I'm human once and for all? What exactly are they doing with their sprawling control of all these web sites if not adding value through economy of scale?

#Cloudflare #SecurityTheater #surveillance #web #tech #dev #DarkPattern

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28d

I'm absent without leave today everyone #lispyGopherClimate
45 minute soliloquy https://communitymedia.video/w/qmPEE8Qk71NPQSmXjoQ7UF
on the software stack I use, and how I see the pieces fitting in Goodwin 1981's Why Programming Environments Still Need Dynamic Data Types software aircraft construction hangar analogy
with reference to Biological Software 1979 about the confusion between software "thing that got deployed" and software "work I do in the aircraft construction hangar"
#lisp #software #dev #stack #programming

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21d

Estou contribuindo com a revisão da tradução para português Brasileiro do Mastodon (interface Web, apps iOS e Android). Meu objetivo é tornar a tradução consistente. Por isso vou fazer algumas enquetes e aceito boosts (hehe) para atingir mais pessoas.

Primeiro, como devo traduzir "boost": tanto o substantivo quanto o verbo?

#enquete #tradução #mastodon #dev #portugues #fediadminbr

41% um boost; dar boost
16% um boost; boostar
62% um impulso; impulsionar
12% um impulsionamento; impulsionar

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6d

A subtoot: corporations, and corporate(-like) behavior, are political. Anyone claiming that corporate-like work is apolitical--work that includes business-friendly software development whether it occurs within the walls of a corporate entity or not--is either naive or deliberately obfuscating reality.

"Politics" isn't only about institutions. It's about organizing large numbers of people to do something they wouldn't otherwise do. Corporations organize large numbers of people to do things they probably wouldn't do if they weren't paid and/or didn't need the money to live. 10,000 people wouldn't spontaneously get together and spend the best hours of their days for months building a commercial jet airliner if there weren't corporate structures in place and a society that keeps them close enough to deprivation that they will do this in exchange for money.

#FOSS #OSS #OpenSource #software #OpenSourceSoftware #tech #dev #SoftwareDevelopment #politics #economics #corporations

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5d

Regarding last boost: "Firefox For Web Developers" is out here urging me to stop using Firefox.

#Mozilla #Firefox #DarkPatterns #antifeatures #AISlop #NoAI #NoAIWebBrowsers #AICruft #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #tech #dev #web

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4d

Bio Update Issues

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1d

I'm developing a very simple web app that allows someone to track train arrival times, including features:

- all local storage
- add a station to favorites
- indicates new red line trains

There's an app on iOS doing this, but no simple one on android as far as I know. A web app works very well for this simple thing.

I also plan to add a page showing locations of trains for a certain line / direction.

#webdev #app #transit #mbta #dev

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Status Update

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1d

Slack's signin procedure is the digital equivalent of boarding an airplane, "security"wise.

One of my favorite "security challenges" is the "verify your email" one. By this point my email has been verified so many times it should have top secret clearance.

#SecurityTheater #cybersecurity #infosec #Slack #tech #dev