@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#NewMusicShow
- Elaine Mitchener's Solo Throat Remixed
Kate Molleson introduces a performance by the vocalist Elaine Mitchener performing live at London's Wigmore Hall earlier this year.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002wvz9
@anildash@me.dmYou must picture Sam Altman holding a knife to Tim Berner-Lee's throat. We are in a truly existential level of danger when it comes to the survival of the open web, across every front. This year is when it all comes to a head. https://anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialAre you in tech and outraged about generative AI? Is it being forced down your throat at work?
Here's a nice vindictive way to get a little revenge if you want:
1. Find a project that contains slop code.
2. Optionally, identify specific files or functions that are LLM-generated. I guarantee you that on average, this code has not been adequately tested/inspected, even/especially if it contains LLM-generated test cases.
3. Make up a reason the code could be flawed, bonus points if it's subtle or hard to test. Don't put effort into this or try to actually find a flaw. Just make something up at random.
4. Report your made-up defect as a bug.
That's it. If anyone ever questions you on the incorrect report, just say "oh I used an LLM and it said there was a bug so I reported it." (Don't actually use an LLM, that would be feeding the bubble.)
Note that you are showing the creator of the code the exact same amount of disrespect that they've shown you by publishing slopcode in the first place. I'd bet odds are 50:50 or better that if a human actually follows up on the report, even though they'll find out that the bug report is wrong, they'll find and fix some other subtle flaw in the LLM-generated code, so this is actually helpful in a way.
For step 3, try to get creative. Like "logic in decideUVParameters can cause state to be inconsistent in some cases." If asked for a steps to reproduce, either make one up if it's easy to do so, or say "I forgot how I triggered this." Surely they can ask an LLM to figure out conditions that would trigger the bug ;).
#AI #LLMs #GenAI
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FreakZonePlaylist
David Chatton Barker:
🎵 Frog in the Throat
#DavidChattonBarker
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioAs per my posts, I have the luxury of not having LLM vendors shoved down my throat, and I generally avoid them for ethical reasons:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116581463138461199
But because this all these questions about the usage and limits of these tools keep crashing through my doors, all of our doors, whatever we think of the ethical showstoppers, well…
…fight off amazing percentages of LLM overhype with this one weird question.
/end
@wraithe@mastodon.socialA: FFS (the lawsuit)
B: Amen (the post)
https://sfba.social/@DeliaChristina/116630945752803857
@david@boles.xyzThe Quiet Throat-Cutting of the American University
Syracuse University announced the other day that it will phase out 93 of its approximately 460 academic programs. The administration framed the decision as strategic alignment, calling it a portfolio review driven by student demand and institutional focus. Provost Lois Agnew insisted the move was "not a cost-cutting exercise." Taken at face value, some of these cuts are routine catalog maintenance.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Simian Mobile Disco feat. Deep Throat Choir:
🎵 Defender
#SimianMobileDisco #DeepThroatChoir
https://smdisco.bandcamp.com/track/defender
https://open.spotify.com/track/7m0oNdXFP2n9V3fpgHyQ9T
@cjust@infosec.exchangeThis is what they took from us
#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NewMusicShow
Elaine Mitchener, Shamica Ruddock & Pat Thomas:
🎵 Solo Throat Remixed
#ElaineMitchener #ShamicaRuddock #PatThomas
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeFinally beginning to feel somewhat more alive.
Both eyes seem basically back to normal although I'm still being careful to wash my hands any time I touch them.
Starting to have a bit more energy now in general.
Still some congestion and cough/sore throat, occasional coughing fits when trying to sleep etc, but definitely less than a day or two ago.
I've actually managed to get a few hours of desk work in. Nowhere near as productive as normal but hey it means I&…
@sherold@mastodon.online“So speak up till your throat is sore. The world is yours, so steal it back. Let your demons be your Trojan horse. Put down the battering ram. Hold open doors only for those who know how to walk through them.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDHkW8w9dRw
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotGot sent this email from the elderly convenor of a political group I sometimes sit with. Thank goodness I was alert and suspicious enough - his account had been hacked and this was an email spam that could have cost a lot of money. There was no "Dear Lilly", but they had signed off with his name at the end.
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FocusBeats
your best friend jippy:
🎵 [03] LEMME CLEAR MY THROAT
#yourbestfriendjippy
https://jippy.bandcamp.com/track/03-lemme-clear-my-throat
https://open.spotify.com/track/5MFsrDyl4iqnJj1PbsqZeU
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itA little over two weeks, I caught a cold from one of my kids. Like his cold, it was pretty minor - about a day of sore throat, some minor congestion, and lots of fatigue.
The congestion and fatigue have remained. I figured it developed into a sinus infection (something that happens a lot with me, I have awful sinuses/ears), and a few days ago I went on antibiotics in case it was bacterial or strep or something.
Now I'm wondering if I had covid! I wish we still did testing.…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alSo a Palestinian facing genocide autocompletes a hashtag incorrectly by mistake (#doctor -> #doctorWho) and you jump down her throat?
How about you get some fucking perspective, Angela?
#Gaza …
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI can’t think of another time when software devs had to be •forced• en masse to use a new technology that was supposed to help them. Usually we’re kind of stupid for the shiny new things: jamming them in when they solve nothing, doing unnecessary rewrites just to use the new hotness because it’s so cool and fun. Usually we’re the one trying to shove it down mgmt’s throat (or sneak it by them) rather than the reverse.
But not this time.
7/
@chrislowles@mastodon.socialA couple of throat-vein bulging pieces of shit convincing half a country that "voting for the bible" meant voting for Trump and his ilk, people who practically have an express pass to hell at this point, someone who almost directly lives in the excesses and vices Jesus looked down on will never not read as insane.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Gggremlinnn:
🎵 My Throat
#Gggremlinnn
@JSkier@social.linux.pizzaFFS, I’ve been deteriorating rapidly the past two months with #LongCovid. One reason I struggle to seek treatments for my symptoms is this: I can’t keep up sympons, specifically potassium (hypokalemia life long), and the ER always pins it on my pre existing MH issues.
I started showing up to the ED for low potassium (at one point in the 2s), and severe sore throat (no structural cause…
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeIt's 5 in the morning. No idea what time i finally fell asleep but it was probably after midnight since i remember hearing the click of the Christmas light timer we never unplugged that was set for 11pm standard time.
My nostrils are completely clogged if I'm in any position other than standing, even sleeping on the couch in a half sitting position they were pretty stuffed.
And now my left eye is itchy and goopy because right when I was over the fever and the sore throat …
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it30-something years later and still in awe that Cobain didn't absolutely shred his vocal chords. Like, most death metal vocals sound healthier than the noises that came out of that man's throat.
@padraig@mastodon.ie*clears throat*
HON THE FARNEY ARMY!!
#UlsterFinal2026 #GAA #Monaghan #Armagh
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeIt's almost 1 in the morning but the kid brought home a nasty cold from school (COVID negative on RT-LAMP but stuffy and sore throat and generally not having a good time) and gave it to us.
Slept a good chunk of the day and now I'm cleaning up the lab.
Every time I think I've put away all the random wafers I find another cassette buried somewhere.
Anyway, this bench is slightly less of a disaster now. Still have a lot of random samples to organize whuch might be…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
DJ Kool:
🎵 Let Me Clear My Throat (Klassic Kool Version)
#DJKool
https://duffrey.bandcamp.com/track/dj-kool-let-me-clear-my-throat-duffrey-remix-ft-starfox
https://open.spotify.com/track/4QyGhmhTBR56upH5u5fAYX
@UP8@mastodon.socialEvil Alice (2/3)
#photo #photography #ithaca #cosplay
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caIt's wild how far behind North American, European, Japanese and Korean automakers are in the EV space. I submit it is *primarily* because fossil fuel interests are holding them back.
The new tech in China is stunning.
"The EVs were plugged in at 9% state of charge with 93 kilometers of range (57 miles). In 9 minutes and 51 seconds, they charged up to 97% with the range prediction in their gauge cluster displaying 1,008 kilometers (626 miles).
"The Commies” also seem to do capitalism better than "us”:
"The world’s largest EV maker saw its steepest sales plunge since the pandemic, with February sales falling 41% amid cut-throat competition in China's EV market. BYD is now hoping for a comeback by democratizing its cutting-edge new technology.”
#ClimateAction #EndFossilFuels #Electric #Electrification #EV #Cars #Driving
