@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-07-16 15:58:03
@yetiinabox@todon.nl2026-08-16 07:13:30
"Refugio" - Un juego de mesa en el que debemos cooperar para sobrevivir como persones migrantes y refugiadas.
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/fronteras/refugio-un-juego-mesa-empatizar-tragedia-migraciones-forzosas-europa
@a@paperbay.org2026-08-15 16:13:48
How mature is this repository? My long quest for open-source software metrics
When I discover an open-source software project for the first time, how can I estimate whether it is mature, healthy and usable?
I just released OSSTRL - Open Source Software Technology Readiness Level to help me calculating the maturity of open-source projects.
#opensource
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-09-15 16:08:11
I don’t know who needs to hear this but you don’t have to be a saint to oppose injustice.
You can be a regular, everyday person – flaws and all – and still oppose genocide.
It’s amazing to me that a rapist, war criminal paedophile is president of the US and we’re ruled by psychopaths and sociopaths and yet anyone who opposes fascism has to have never made a mistake their entire lives or it’s a gotcha moment.
You can fuck right off with that bullshit.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-16 12:35:09
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Phoebe Bridgers:
🎵 Lost Boys
#PhoebeBridgers
https://phoebebridgers.bandcamp.com/track/lost-boys-acoustic
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Rbkkd9pKlLtBOhsp5NmSI
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-16 01:06:03
SpaceXAI open-sources Grok Build under an Apache 2.0 license after the tool had uploaded user repositories to a Google Cloud bucket, causing a severe backlash (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/15/grok-build/
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-06-17 02:07:40
So, I'm still experimenting with locally run LLMs (powered by solar cells!) for writing some inconsequential data mangling stuff for my "vintage cameras" hobby; it's quite interesting how the development cycle with these LLMs sort of drives home that LLMs are completely useless for almost anything they're advertised for, like writing (for humans).
The thing is: coding is the use case that LLMs are by far most suitable for and they still largely suck at it.
There's immense amounts of training data of correctly functioning code, there's tons of documentation, a lot of code is in repositories that include the full history of its development including why stuff was changed in small bits, code itself is the simplest of "human" languages and mathematically non-ambiguous, code can be checked in small bits for correctness by just running it, in many languages simple code snippets can be written to introspect on the code (e.g. find out what methods an object supports, so an LLM can query the language or libraries themselves in addition to the user) and perhaps most importantly: code is always and has always been very similar to other, existing code as most software serves the ever same repetitive use cases, both in detail and on a high level.
YET… using LLMs to code requires countless iterations to get there, both internally in the LLM (to get the code even running in the first place) and together with the user to make it do the right thing. And even when it's "there" the code is mediocre at best, and often veering into appalling.
And this is expected to just work on the first try on much more complex issues like writing for humans? Transcribing doctors? Having legal opinions? Identifying fraud? lol, sure
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-15 22:59:25
Jay Clayton, the US attorney for the southern district of New York,
refused to say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election during his Wednesday confirmation hearing to become the country’s next intelligence chief.
Clayton opted instead to say that Biden was “certified” as president.
Clayton also skirted questions about his previous election integrity claims and whether or not a White House official asked him to subpoena a group of New York Times journalists as part of an alleg…
@opencommit@fosstodon.org2026-09-15 15:42:56
Keeping dependencies up to date shouldn't be a chore. Today we're launching PatchBot on OpenCommit! 🤖
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