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Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down
Link: https://symmetrybreak.ing/blog/claude-code-is-being-dumbed-down/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978710
Seattle PD Scanner: "hey so there's a furry on top of the 7/11 with a sword."
RE: https://mastodon.social/@clarko/116052887592259243
Yeah, hire this guy
Toots don't go viral, they escape containment
@evanEvan Prodromou That's ... a different question? They've got no obligations to me.
I could maintain it or contribute to it myself, pick something else, pay someone ...
But there's no "should".
There is only one way to get a ton of likes on your Mastodon post. You must find a decades old piece of technology that only 12 people in the world own and write a 10,000 word essay on how to use it.
building a lil atproto starter for myself so that i don't have to keep making oauth on new projects lol
I can't validate if this is true but I've heard that if you want to return *any* Ring camera you have, no matter how old, citing their agreement with Flock as a violation of the terms of service, you'll get the refund approved.
Technerds, feel encouraged to drop alternatives folk in the comments, please.
@evanEvan Prodromou You didn't say "what are your conditions to use software", you said "how many unpaid volunteer hours should there be". There is software with those problems with thousands of hours of investment, there is also software without those issues with very little.
I don't "owe" the project usage, and the maintainers don't "owe" the project maintenance hours.
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did a gay
@evanEvan Prodromou They're unpaid volunteers, not employees.
Whether I'll continue to use unmaintained software depends on whether it still works for me (or whether I can fork it and fix issues, but that's not an option for many). Mostly I'll find an alternative, of which there are usually many.
I’ve complained LLMs are bad at SwiftUI, and that’s not entirely accurate.
It has bad default approaches, because it’s all trained stale StackOverflow answers. It can be steered in the right direction if you know what you’re doing, but that’s kind of the problem.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Apple needs to massively improve its documentation and sample code to overcome this. Thousands of sample projects, actively maintained.
(Hi WWDR! Hire me to do this!)
I’ve complained LLMs are bad at SwiftUI, and that’s not entirely accurate.
It has bad default approaches, because it’s all trained stale StackOverflow answers. It can be steered in the right direction if you know what you’re doing, but that’s kind of the problem.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Apple needs to massively improve its documentation and sample code to overcome this. Thousands of sample projects, actively maintained.
(Hi WWDR! Hire me to do this!)
Addendum: there’s bad SwiftUI code, ignorant of modern API, bashing HStacks and GeometryReaders together until something works. That needs training to overcome.
Then there’s failures of the framework. Like how you can attach an alert to a button, but not if it’s inside a menu. Or how you can add toolbar items to a bare window on macOS but not on iOS.
Those are failures of “learn once, write everywhere” and Apple needs to be better about them. Too many caveats, too many gotchas.
Safari 26.3 includes welcome improvements for users and developers, here’s what’s new https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/11/safari-26-3-includes-welcome-improvements-for-users-and-developers-heres-whats-new/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Why invest energy in D&I work when it's being questioned everywhere?
Because barriers are real. Because Python is global. This is what not giving up looks like.
Check out my post: https://georgiker.com/blog/python-is-for-everyone/
@ReuvenReuven M. Lerner 
@juliobsJulio Batista Silva 
@brnsbNathan Bransby 
@riecatnorMarie Nordin @keanyaphelps 
@karobotcoKarobot
おはむぎちゃん～
An Adelphi University student in New York successfully sued his school for using Turnitin's faulty AI detection. Could someone with PACER access please download the judgment for me? Orion Newby vs. Adelphi University in New York Federal Court. I'd like to see if it's as groundbreaking as is being reported.
The original Secure Boot certificates are about to expire, but you probably won’t notice
With the original release of Windows 8, Microsoft also enforced Secure Boot. It's been 15 years since that release, and that means the original 2011 Secure Boot certificates are about to expire. If these certificates are not replaced with new ones, Secu
Aus der beliebten Reihe "Was ich bis heute nicht richtig aussprechen kann", heute: Pain au chocolat
会社の MacBook 以外は iOS/iPadOS/macOS アップデート祭り終了
Looking for testers for a new Mastodon TUI.
tooi is a re-implementation of the TUI included with toot, using a more modern framework which is easier to work with. It supports most features `toot tui` does, and some new ones too.
tooi is set to replace `toot tui` which has proven to be troublesome to support and extend.
Where I toot from
fash cat game
If there’s one damn thing terminally online millennials learned it’s that being transgressive about fash shit for the sake of edgy transgression alone is 100% impossible. It provides cover for sincere expression of the sentiment. Don’t joke about eugenics, sincere nazis are paying attention.
RE: https://social.coop/@Wtebbens/116053545596910915
Dit is een interessant overzicht.
Ik denk dat het een mooie 'ranglijst' is mbt de vrijheid bij software.
Toch wil ik hier iets tegenover zetten: je wil als gebruiker van software niet alleen toegang tot een applicatie, maar ook tot een organisatie die het onderhoudt en die duurzaam is.
Daarom zullen we ook moeten werken naar open source die duurzaam wordt beheerd door organisaties. Soms kan dat groen, soms moet dat misschien geel.
Maar belangrijker dan alles is stabiliteit en vertrouwen.
洗濯物ほしたのでえらい
Seattle PD Scanner: "hey so there's a furry on top of the 7/11 with a sword."
Software developers have to be one of the communities most vulnerable to propaganda that I've ever known.
Interaction Design Work:
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와오 이걸로 19트 짜리 망상 폭트 했다가 싹 지움
I parked my car on the street, and we're supposed to pay for the street parking on some website, but the website is returning error code 508.
Do I still pay for parking or not?
Software developers have to be one of the communities most vulnerable to propaganda that I've ever known.
OG Speak and Spell I picked up to £2 arrived, either a '78 or '80 - not quite sure, but it works!
Reflect Orbital wants to destroy the night sky to deliver "sunlight as a service". SpaceX wants to destroy Low Earth Orbit to launch one million "AI datacentres"
The only way to formally protest these two ideas is to file a comment with the US FCC, which is horribly complicated, but the American Astronomical Society has detailed instructions posted here: https://aas.org/posts/advocacy/2026/02/how-submit-comments-satellite-applications-fcc
Comments due March 6 for SpaceX and March 9 for Reflect Orbital. Write! Write! Write!
Darf ich mir wohl auf meine Visitenkarte den Titel "Computersystemtherapeut" schreiben?
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