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Ariel Millennium Thornton

The last time Microsoft made transferring files and settings from an old PC to a new PC easy was when both PCs ran Windows XP. Since then, it's been either inconvenient, inconsistent, or impossible.

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@mavica_again Not as tasty as other kinds of cod. Can't recommend.

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re: LLM vibe-coding disaster 

Pivot to AI, "Huge SaaStr-Replit vibe coding disaster! — if it ever happened": pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/23/hug

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Underdone Juice

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Adrianna Tan

Fascism for first time founders

techdirt.com/2025/07/17/fascis

As usually I’ve found that techdirt is doing more to call out the fash in tech than most

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Uncle Duke

pretty smart to call them both because it might be a real ghost or it could just turn out to be some dude in a mask

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sofia

A shitpost that's been brewing in my head for a while now

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Carina C. Zona

It's disappointing how many people who proudly call themselves software engineers have still not grasped that Large Language Models are incapable of intelligence. Bullshit is not the exception, it is the one thing it's capable of doing. LLMs can only predict the structure of language that would likely be used by a human if there were a human writing about that subject. LLMs don't understand the subject itself, cannot analyze ideas, cannot make reasoned conclusions based on evidence, cannot even distinguish between what is real and hallucinatory. But they are extremely good at emulating the language of a human who confidently spews bullshit. Because that's the one thing an LLM is designed to do. As a woman I've spent a lifetime having to tolerate ignorant bullshit that's gladly offered up for free. Why would I bother to pay for what I already don't need?

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captain acab :antifa:

Good boi

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Annie Hsh 👾🖖☕

Who needs a desk zen sand garden when you have a cat who enjoys being gently combed by literally anything.

#CatsOfMastodon #cats #cat #floof #CatsOfFediverse #FediCats #MastoCats #Catstodon

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Æ.

Recently one of my professors apologized for her laggy computer "because I have so many PowerPoint presentations opened".

This is a terrible indictment of modern commercial tech. No reasonable laptop made in the last decade should struggle with ANY humanly possible amount of basic slide decks.

These university slide decks aren't any more complex than ones made in 1995 on a 66MHz Pentium 1 CPU with 16MB of RAM.

The wastefulness on display here in modern software is staggering.

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Fi 🏳️‍⚧️

So, reading through today's "ai" horror story - link below, it's where this SaaS dude has been vibe coding and let a product called "Replit" have access to prod and apparently delete it - there's something -very- striking that's stood out to me.

The guy asks the 'ai' for what "he" - note the wholly inappropriate anthropomorphization - had done and why.

And then trusts the response.

Now, not to put too fine a point on it, but this is in a context where the human involved has notated -multiple- times that the damn fool thing had made shit up wholesale multiple times.

Why in the fuck did he - the person; I refuse to assign a gender to a machine - trust the LLM's output instead of having transaction logging enabled to audit the actions that the machine had made on the systems in question?

This is some very fucking basic SDLC practice shit that apparently they have failed to implement.

LLM usage rots people's brains, and this is yet more evidence of that.

pcgamer.com/software/ai/i-dest

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re: LLM vibe-coding disaster 

Replit's pricing page says the serious business base monthly price really is $20. As with everything else involving the toxic snake oil tonic du jour, it's still too much money.

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LLM vibe-coding disaster 

Hello, Mr. George? How much you pay for the, for the new guy? Twenty bucks? No, too much money. He's no good. No good operator.

PC Gamer, "'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking'": pcgamer.com/software/ai/i-dest

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Gurnitath :lbluedragnmlem:

re: lewd joke around recent LLM debacle 

This Command Will Blow His Mind And Destroy His Database Backups.

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Gurnitath :lbluedragnmlem:

lewd joke around recent LLM debacle 

Get yourself a synth cutie who'll rawdog YOUR production environment :dragnsmirk:

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Amber :neodog_evil_3c:

im giggling at this it's a stupid joke but it's funny

#shitpost

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sleepy duck pond appreciator 🦆✨🏳️‍🌈

@flacs Dell Longitude

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argv minus one

Fun fact: in #bash, comments are not limited to scripts. You can write them in interactive sessions too.

This can be useful for leaving yourself a note for later, perhaps on a separate tmux window where you'll be doing the thing.

Comments will also appear in your bash_history, so if someone will be investigating what you're about to do and it's going to be a bad look, you can leave a comment to explain.

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