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also today we were reminded of a particular chunk of code base where one of our coworkers wrote a large comment saying DO NOT TRY AND FIX THIS CODE, with a narrative of why, and a litany of incidents caused by previous attempts to fix the code

2026-05-13 00:37:19 UTC

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2026-05-11 22:19:45 UTC

huantavrius

2026-05-09 17:26:28 UTC

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when we used BeOS it was in college and the various instant messengers were still in vogue. there was something called IMKit, which used a Tracker window with a query on your contacts as your buddy list, and the backend component signed in and maintained the metadata on those. it was really quite something.

2026-05-02 02:24:52 UTC

i asked coyotgpt and it said yip awoo yap bark awrararar grrgfgh

2026-04-28 18:41:05 UTC

people in the hacker culture of the early 2000s: "there is no patch for human stupidity"
people in the hacker culture of the late 2020s: "we have ported the unpatchable human stupidity to the computer"

2026-04-26 18:07:13 UTC

RE: https://cupoftea.social/@moof/116470265434408001
we have been thinking about this kind of thing for a *long* time. it's a field of study called "sonification"

2026-04-22 17:54:40 UTC

the only thing an LLM actually empowers you to do is participate in the act of prompting an LLM

2026-04-14 00:32:59 UTC

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rm -rf /

2026-04-07 22:44:17 UTC

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appropriate that this guy would work at a sewage plant

2026-04-07 22:39:25 UTC

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our dad was an under-the-table contractor in our hometown and we tagged along while he was doing work at the sewage plant, so we have *some* idea

2026-04-07 22:35:55 UTC

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"ablabulaublubul but you have to admit it *works*" no bro we do not, the thing that churns out endless amounts of slop does not "work" because of the kernels of corn you found in the sewage plant

2026-04-07 22:34:01 UTC

slopbot compagny oneshots prominent tech dorks with cherry-picked examples, tech dorks uncritically hype the slop, this is just a pump-and-dump campaign by slop compagnies tbh

2026-04-06 19:18:36 UTC

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rip to freebsd security, died 2020 (6) when colin percival turned into a claude shill
how headass do you have to be to say that they're producing a lot of slop, but the slop is worth it because of the fixes
the fixes do not come for free! the fixes *come with all of the slop*! you cannot get the fixes from a slop machine *without spreading slop*!
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2026-04-06 18:51:01 UTC

sounds like freebsd's security officer got oneshotted by claude

2026-04-06 01:44:47 UTC

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the other option we see is to allow transition on no tokens, analogous to the difference between DFA and NFA

2026-04-06 01:38:05 UTC

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additional alphabet for untokens, more rules for transition

2026-04-03 19:56:24 UTC

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we also didn't like lighttpd, thought caddy was untroubleshootable dogshit, and stopped using apache when we stopped having a need for mod_php, maybe we're just irascible

2026-04-03 19:52:34 UTC

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yes. that's not the annoying part. the annoying part is that the config language won't let us proxy_pass on user-agent when the other locations are for static files

2026-04-03 19:45:40 UTC

nginx starting to get a little too annoying, unfortunately our next instinct is to go "fuck that shit" and write our own static-service shit in ocaml

2026-03-30 22:12:08 UTC

RE: https://social.fungalhalo.com/@arachnixe/116320022477993119
being told by a heavy user that the models definitely are getting better and that this take is conspiratorial thinking, and, well
we only hear "the new model is so much better" from heavy users, who have lost their ability to judge, so, this doesn't really mean much to us
#note1zxk…vtxd

2026-03-24 23:28:46 UTC

slop purveyors are arsonists with technical-debt accelerants

2026-03-23 19:49:12 UTC

friend of ours pointed out that the LLM "new model is so much better" effect is analogous to a [Shepard tone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone ) — there are differences between each note but the actual net progress sums out to 0

2026-03-20 23:22:17 UTC

what the fuck mirror-universe shit have we gotten ourselves into where the goddamn pope of catholicism is to the left of most democrats and the franciscan order is calling for peter thiel to be burned at the stake for heresy

2026-02-23 20:38:52 UTC

indigenous anarchist xenofeminist take on how to engage with slop:<li>directly using the slop machine in ways that validate the capitalist delusion that they are fit for any purpose is a horrible idea</li><li>social opprobrium towards those who use the slop machine is a necessary but insufficient form of resistance</li><li>best to engage with the <em>psyche</em> of LLM users, with an aim towards disrupting their cognitive landscape</li>
synthesis: instead of arguing with them about error rates, suggest to someone who "asked chatgpt" about something and got a given answer that they invert their question and see how the response from the slop bot changes.
undermine the authority of the LLM in their head.
no gods, no scam altmans, no fucking claude

2026-02-17 01:03:13 UTC

we're tired of hearing "it's just a tool" because, well, a) we disagree and
b) let's pretend that we agree. okay, it's a tool: who made it? why did they make it? what is this tool good at doing? is it any better at doing it than the previous methods by which we would do this thing? why should i use it for that? can you demonstrate the tool's utility in a situation i propose? are the tradeoffs worth the benefits? *can you answer *any* of these questions?*
but no, people just say "it's just a tool" and it's inevitable and we just have to get used to it, no questioning allowed, no objections allowed (see also: the cries of discrimination coming from adafruit) , and the conversation stops there. weird, huh.

2026-02-14 05:11:11 UTC

surely there must be some smtp queer who works at google who we can establish a back-channel with

2026-02-13 20:28:49 UTC

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there was a working internet here. now there is not. the people who did this insist that this is good because now they don't have to do any of the pesky, hard parts of thinking and making decisions.

2026-02-13 20:27:29 UTC

we object to the current state of affairs not out of some notion of copyright or soul of the artist or whatever, we object to the slop machine because this bunch of gazillionaire cultists who have made everyone's lives measurably worse by scraping the internet and blasting its modeled outputs back out onto it at hyperscale have pulled a nuclear-scale dick move on the infosphere

2026-02-09 20:41:10 UTC

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/ai-enters-operating-room-reports-arise-botched-surgeries-misidentified-body-2026-02-09/
> Most allegedly involved errors in which the TruDi Navigation System misinformed surgeons about the location of their instruments while they were using them inside patients’ heads during operations.
I AM FUCKING SCREAMING I AM FUCKING SCREAMING I AM FUCKING SCREAMING

2026-02-03 21:20:49 UTC

build systems
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2026-01-31 18:13:55 UTC

so, before we transitioned, way back in 2013 we did something self-destructively stupid: went to go work at the urbit company with curtis yarvin.
what we got out of this experience was a firsthand look at how fashtech works: it presupposes that it is a solution to problems, claims to be decentralized but isn't, and functions largely as a mobile goalpost

2026-01-29 23:10:01 UTC

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like, we can't feasibly review every line of slop, it is a DDoS attack on human reasoning, and everyone else sees "oh the tests passed" and clicks ship. augh.

2026-01-29 17:56:03 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nateberkopec/115979440969064170
they also completely fucking suck at moving code between files. you say "move this code" and it introduces random bugs while doing so, AND THEN TELLS YOU IT DID THE RIGHT THING. this has caused us countless problems at work because the slopsuckers pull this constantly
#note1alc…4sae

2026-01-23 02:50:24 UTC

llms do not have the buddha nature, worst thread in the history of buddhism, closed after 12,793 pages of vicious debate

2026-01-13 03:04:09 UTC

my cat is enshittifying the litterbox

2025-12-28 20:19:16 UTC

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buffer overflows? lockpicking
social engineering? lockpicking
lockpicking? lockpicking

2025-12-28 20:18:50 UTC

alignment chart for lockpicking that includes "lockpicking radical: any kind of bypass of any kind of security device is lockpicking"

2025-12-18 20:38:11 UTC

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stop all the downloadin'!

2025-12-12 16:30:12 UTC

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accept their offer, take their money, post "The slop purveyors gave me 1000 dollars to post this crap" on top of their post
;)

2025-12-01 03:08:40 UTC

the
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2025-09-09 23:56:13 UTC

hes being especially photogenic today
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2025-09-06 22:25:20 UTC

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the existence of statin island implies the existence of cholesterol mainland

2025-09-06 21:47:40 UTC

the existence of battery park implies the existence of generator drive

2025-08-19 19:31:52 UTC

gee everyone on the timeline who has done unmasked travel recently seems to be getting sick with "not covid", "probably just strep"

2025-08-15 00:41:40 UTC

imo some people need to learn that defending a guy from accusations of being abusive by harping repeatedly on how he's your friend is really, *extremely*, not helping your case

2025-07-26 23:59:29 UTC

oh, you asked an LLM? well we posted an offhand question on mastodon and an autistic cat-type entity infodumped to us about it

2025-07-26 19:54:25 UTC

your occasional reminder that it seems highly specious to us to assume that intelligence can be obtained by modeling language

2025-07-26 19:17:09 UTC

gwyneth paltrow being paid to flog apache airflow wasn't on our bingo card and i think we're going to go walk into the sea

2025-07-21 20:48:34 UTC

you asked chatgpt? well we asked our tarot deck and drew a 7 of wands, a 9 of cups, and the Empress

2025-04-02 18:48:18 UTC

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Watt Wullenmeg seems like the kind of guy to do that, yeah

2025-03-26 21:38:00 UTC

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the existence of sam altman implies the existence of sam controlman

2025-03-26 21:33:10 UTC

tfw spam altman is posting like a channer on main

2025-03-23 20:49:28 UTC

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just one more public key in a TXT record, that'll fix email, just gotta add one more TXT record bro

2025-03-19 15:48:05 UTC

ubuntu 25.03 handwringy heteros

2025-03-19 03:06:29 UTC

gavin newsom's grave is going to be a gender neutral restroom

2025-03-04 18:22:49 UTC

the AMD 29000 has a weird way of doing system calls: you use the asneq instruction to assert that a register isn't equal to itself (always false, thus always causing the assertion trap) and the instruction also encodes the syscall number

2025-02-09 02:35:16 UTC

the
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2024-12-31 04:29:32 UTC

apropos of nothing
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2024-12-17 05:07:34 UTC

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dayum that is some beautiful postscript, did you write it by hand?

2024-12-13 02:18:40 UTC

Joy Division Day
#UnknownHolidays
#HashTagGames

2024-09-29 04:45:57 UTC

algorithm with a big-o the size of a small-o is completely blocking east-bound bus on cpu 7, please use caution and watch for pipeline stalls in the area

2024-08-26 22:53:57 UTC

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for those who don't know, cuil was an ex-googler's attempt to try and do basically this same LLM bullshit back in the 2010s, and it went exactly the same kind of sideways, only, we didn't all collectively fucking fall for it back then: https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2010/06/09/cpedia-a-spam-blog-disguised-as-an-encyclopedia/
https://onefoottsunami.com/2010/04/12/the-mechanized-madness-of-cuils-cpedia/

2024-08-26 22:49:49 UTC

my god. we've hit Peak Cuil https://mas.to/@pjie2/113030674867405430

2024-07-29 17:59:17 UTC

they call it printf even though it prints all of the other letters too

2024-01-17 15:59:53 UTC

yall realize that cory doctorow is an entertainer whose job is to sell sci-fi books, not an anticapitalist tech visionary, right? like part of how we got here is people treating sci-fi concepts as tech visions, doctorow is part of the problem, not the solution

2023-04-30 23:28:07 UTC

fucking miss me with this "time will tell" about bluesky, jesus christ
none of that is going to change the fact that the CEO is an ex-cryptocurrency wank and that Jack Dorsey is boosting the thing to all his chud buds and that they didn't consider blocking and safety features to be part of their fucking *minimum viable product*, what do you think time is going to tell you here?