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I've seen people claiming - with a straight face - that mechanical refactoring is a good use-case for LLM-based tools. Well, sed was developed in 1974 and - according to Wikipedia - first shipped in UNIX version 7 in 1979. On modern machines it can process files at speeds of several GB/s and will not randomly introduce errors while processing them. It doesn't cost billions, a subscription or internet access. It's there on your machine, fully documented. What are we even talking about?
I think there's an important clarification to be made about LLM usage in coding tasks: do you trust the training data? Not your inputs, those are irrelevant, I mean the junk that the major vendors have dredged from the internet. Because I'm 100% positive that any self-respecting state-sponsored actor is poisoning training data as we speak by... simply publishing stuff on the internet.
As long as Eve can't see it!
(aww, who'm I kidding? I love that girl)
@evanEvan Prodromou https://cosocial.ca/@evan/116029846041824163
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116206435814818308
Okay, FINE, here's the actual song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAiM8j-vA9Y
But come on, the edit, it's hilarious! I think we're supposed to believe he's making actual cake in his mother's kitchen?
Note, whichever version you listen to, it's NECESSARY it be on a system with good, clearly audible bass. Do not rob yourself of this bassline.
NEW VIDEO - Running LLMs (AI) on FreeBSD (The CUDA Problem)
https://youtu.be/SXevnsbSAAk?si=6nVcYmxJ_DPSvWjh via @YouTube
*pronk*
EVi, a hard-fork of Vim v9.1.0 (Jan 2024)
https://codeberg.org/NerdNextDoor/evi
What I'm listening to today: "Southside", Lil Keke
What if I spent this entire week linking classic "dirty south" hip-hop tracks I loved from 97.9 The Box back in the 90s (which, I am visiting Houston this week and their selection is still excellent). No one could really stop me.
Here's known DJ Screw associate Lil Keke, dropping an effortless flow that stuck in my head for 29 years and my favorite instance of slide guitar in the entire corpus of music. Sorry Beck
What I'm listening to today: "Ghetto D", Master P
Master P put No Limit Records on the map, and made New Orleans the new capital of southern hip hop, with "Ghetto Dope", an *incredibly* catchy step-by-step guide to the production, distribution, and sale of crack cocaine. This unstoppable hit could not possibly get played on the radio, leading to this *incredibly* funny radio edit which is cut up to almost near illegibility making it sound like "Ghetto D" is a rapper
Senior Product Manager Interview Take Home that I generally use if you want to steal it
Assignment
Take a look at an app on your phone and map various engagement points with the brand both inside and outside the app.
Please walk through a customer journey map from awareness to revenue generating conversion for this app and describe your own personal journey. What attributions for different customers may drive different LTV?
How were you acquired as a user?
How would you define your LTV? (you don’t need to tell us how much you’re spending here :) )
What tactics does this app do to increase your LTV?
What principals do you have in usability and app engagement that you believe translates into Brand Loyalty?
The final deliverable would be a presentation to span 15-20 minutes with a 10 minute question answer session with the CTO.
Sleepy gamer kitty 💕 #CatsOfMastodon
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Senior Product Manager Interview Take Home that I generally use if you want to steal it
Assignment
Take a look at an app on your phone and map various engagement points with the brand both inside and outside the app.
Please walk through a customer journey map from awareness to revenue generating conversion for this app and describe your own personal journey. What attributions for different customers may drive different LTV?
How were you acquired as a user?
How would you define your LTV? (you don’t need to tell us how much you’re spending here :) )
What tactics does this app do to increase your LTV?
What principals do you have in usability and app engagement that you believe translates into Brand Loyalty?
The final deliverable would be a presentation to span 15-20 minutes with a 10 minute question answer session with the CTO.
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Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++
Link: https://arobenko.github.io/bare_metal_cpp/#_abstract_classes
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47284461
I'm in for 
@fediforum episode 7! See everyone at the end of April.
It's been bothering me why people I-know-who-know-better won't admit the real risk of AI coding on important codebases.
I'm not talking about AI evangelists, non-technical, or even devs without security/uptime ownership.
This is even outside social media, so you can't blame the algo.
Not in the context of arguing, so not rhetorical tricks.
Not even directed at me, so no identity performance.
What the hell is going on?
The Coinbase-backed "Stand With Crypto" advocacy group has declared Illinois Senate candidate Juliana Stratton to be "strongly against crypto" solely because she made a statement criticizing the $5.5 million the crypto industry had already spent to oppose her
Isn't it weird that the old science fincton used to predict that, as the technology progressed, we'd all be using video phones (see 2001 Space Odyssey). Instead we started avoiding voice calls, and feel more comfortable texting. In fact we regressed to using emojis for the bulk of communications.
OK, I'm keeping a permanent top-five list of best Fediverse-themed songs. I'll update as more songs are made!
1. Fedilike
2. John Mastodon
3. Moi aussi je peux décentraliser des trucs si je veux
@evanEvan Prodromou can the reply be marked followers only from Bob's side?
@majMaj - Michele Ann Jenkins 🇨🇦 yes, that's the default for Mastodon, I think. It is only visible to Bob's followers.
‘팔로워 1명 당 쓰레기 1개를 줍겠다’는 공약을 내걸고 거리를 깨끗이 치우는 ‘힐링 영상’을 올린 지 11개월째, 팔로워는 10일 기준 30만8천여명에 이릅니다. 브릭은 “첫 목표가 ‘내 편을 많이 만들자’였다”면서 “참여하러 오시는 분이 다양해 연령 상관 없이 길거리 쓰레기가 불편했고, 누군가 먼저 해주길 바라는 마음이 있었구나 생각했다”고 말했습니다.
“팔로워 1명 당 쓰레기 1개 주워요”…SNS 데우는 ...
In this day with AI, and job searching, what are the top 3 skills you think a junior iOS dev should have without needing to look it up?
What are the essentials for landing a junior position?
I learned a new word today.
'Binfluencer'
That's the guy on your street who puts the correct bin out early each week, thus signalling to everyone else which one they need to take out.
🗺️ #OpenStreetMap accounts to follow:
@openstreetmap@en.osm.town - Official OpenStreetMap account
@openstreetmap@fedigroups.social - Discussion group about OSM
@osm_techOpenStreetMap Ops Team - Operations team at OSM
@sotmState of the Map - State of the Map OSM conference
@weeklyOSM - Weekly OSM newsletter
@ohmOpenHistoricalMap - OpenHistoricalMap, local history in maps
@OpenInfraMapOpen Infrastructure Map - Open Infrastructure Map
@MapComplete - Web-based graphical interface for OSM
@lokjoLokjo - EU's online map - Online map service using OSM, run by non-profit
🧵 1/5
Look at these defeatist headlines by those woke radical leftists at *checks notes* Yahoo! Finance
EVi, a hard-fork of Vim v9.1.0 (Jan 2024)
https://codeberg.org/NerdNextDoor/evi
🚨🚨 URGENT: Multiple political groups are meeting NOW to discuss their voting on the Chat Control amendments TOMORROW. They are being lobbied massively by industry and NGOs. Chat Control hurts everyone. The template has been updated, take contact now: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ !
Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
Link: https://www.wired.com/story/yann-lecun-raises-dollar1-billion-to-build-ai-that-understands-the-physical-world/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320600
I built a programming language using Claude Code
Link: https://ankursethi.com/blog/programming-language-claude-code/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47325595
よっこら 
64629eadb7 (upstream/main) Do not prepare returning user for unpersisted records (#38136)
3b6d94ce62 Add column for html descriptions of collections (#38124)
f6ea52e822 Add `InstancesIndex` coverage (#38129)
c6322d8007 Update contributing docs (#38125)
75ef5bfd2d Fix short numbers rounding up instead of truncating (#37899) (#38114)
69b1f60f4e Add support for FEP-3b86 (Activity Intents) (#38120)
7d58ce309c Fix collections not shown on profile when there are no featured tags or accounts (#38113)
b64bed5acd New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#38122)
cec60d5b71 Clean up `search` tagged specs (#38085)
Oh, nothing, just individually locating and downloading 9.5gb worth of (200+) high-rez (3600px wide) scans out of a 16th C book of extremely satisfying machines from the Library of Congress, one at a time, labeling them, and putting them in a folder for future collage work.
RE: https://mstdn.social/@hof/116194787249326990
Oh wow! Cornelian cherry posting! Look 
@memexikon! The fediverse now has atleast two cornelian cherry growers!
Very curious if others have memories of a service in the 80's called Portal. I recall using it in a few ways, one of which was UseNet and UUCP access. The host in this context was cup.portal.com (Cupertino, perhaps?) and appears in historical posts as "sun!portal!cup.portal.com!"
I'm also seeking history on "tronsbox", a host I used to relay for my Amiga-based, dial-up UUCP node: "uunet!tronsbox!alpine!"
Please relay to more relevant hashtags, too!
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing
Bundesländer, mit denen ich mich nicht auskenne
Württemberg-Württemberg
RE: https://digitalcourage.social/@Volksverpetzer/116205651685535083
Kurz überlegt: „Hä, aber Erlangen ist doch gar nicht in BaWü, oder…? Lass mal nachschlagen; nenee…“
Launch HN: RunAnwhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon
Link: https://github.com/RunanywhereAI/rcli
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47326101
Code2040 has hosted their final program, and that makes me incredibly sad. It's been a tough couple of years for programs like ours.
"As we face growing techno-fascism, we recognize that there is an intentional effort to eliminate organizations like Code2040. (...) We maintain that Black and Latinx people have vital contributions to make to the technology that drives our world, and that cultures of white supremacy within tech must be challenged and changed."
https://www.code2040.org/blog/2026/3/9/h4uynvb9k2kxgujn56jsw4fqeqyumq
EDIT EDIT EDIT: Yeah just an attack on github actions https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/kubernetes-el-compromised-how-a-pwn-request-exploited-a-popular-emacs-package
EDIT: I seem to be amending a lot of my posts lately, but actually I am not sure if an agent was involved in this, but a GitHub Actions token exfiltration at minimum was
Even emacs users are not immune to the risks of supply chain attacks from people using LLMs in their toolchain. kubernetes.el compromised via another agent attack https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1rowm5i/first_hacked_emacs_package/
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber Regarding the edits, but this doesn't look like an agent attack, at least according to:
Turning a GDB Coredump Debug Session Into a Murder Mystery
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/10/turning-a-gdb-coredump-debug-session-into-a-murder-mystery/
It's been bothering me why people I-know-who-know-better won't admit the real risk of AI coding on important codebases.
I'm not talking about AI evangelists, non-technical, or even devs without security/uptime ownership.
This is even outside social media, so you can't blame the algo.
Not in the context of arguing, so not rhetorical tricks.
Not even directed at me, so no identity performance.
What the hell is going on?
- I know: that "bass" can mean "low in tone", "a string instrument with lower sound than a guitar", "a type of fish"
- I don't know: how any of those are pronounced. Like "ass"? Like "ace"?
- I know: that "bass" can mean "low in tone", "a string instrument with lower sound than a guitar", "a type of fish"
- I don't know: how any of those are pronounced. Like "ass"? Like "ace"?
Ein großer Berg ist abgearbeitet. Ich habe alle eure Shop-Einreichungen geprueft, insgesamt über 200! Ich werde hier und da bei einigen Shops noch an den Details feilen, aber das Gros ist geschafft.
Wenn euch dieses Projekt gefällt und ihr evtl. sogar nutzt, dann freue ich mich, wenn ihr es weitersagt und verbreitet. Ich glaube, Viele teilen momentan den gemeinsamen Gedanken von "Support your Locals" (und die Kleinen natürlich auch).
Habt ihr Anregungen in Sachen Bedienung, Funktionalität etc., dann lasst es mich wissen. Ich notiere mir alles und mache mir Gedanken.
Wollt ihr Shops faven können?
Wollt ihr euch Shops in einem Account merken?
Wollt ihr sehen, wie oft ein Shop von anderen gefavt wurde?
Oder wollt ihr...?
Stefano Marinelli
Maho 🦝🍻
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Joe McLaughlin
Inside Fediverse
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