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@pnutzh4x0r@social.ndlug.org @ACM@mastodon.acm.org That pretty much sums up why I'm not a member of ACM or IEEE Software. I feel like they're now at the level of the trade magazines you can (or maybe could is a better word) buy at the book stores. More concerned about money than software engineering.

@mhoye@cosocial.ca Productivity claims have always been mostly false in software development, because the vast majority of software projects don't pursue metrics or use valid metrics. Popularity has mattered more in programming language and process selections.

@Cassandra@ottawa.place From the results, it looks like Mastodon might be a younger crowd. 62 and (sob) for me.

@evacide@hachyderm.io @nakal@mastodon.social What if the non-criminal part is stated as a moral preference, i.e., 'If you're a criminal, it's better to have a duress PIN. You are able to destroy evidence that is more incriminating than the erase action itself. If you're not a criminal, it's better to have a duress PIN, because fuck their warrentless searches. Since being criminal (or not) is an invariant here, you should use a duress PIN.'?

@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/12/Gitlab_is_in_Trouble_and_Its_Shares_Have_Collapsed.shtml

@db@social.lol ...and #Clownflare (#Cloudflare) can gate out those of us with unapproved browser configurations. :-( No #LLM nightmare scenario here.

@_elena climate change

@ThinkAndGrowRich@counterforce.social They can lock down social media, but they can't lock down the flyer.

@maxleibman Hmmm...I always considered analysts to be more expensive than coders, but point taken. I'm an old Shlaer-Mellor OOA modeler, so that wagon seemed to get hitched to "no code" and "low code" as it tried to stay saleable. I never really grasped what the hard core "no code" and "low code" practitioners were doing, but knew it was tangentially related. What is "AI" doing in those realms? In the S-M OOA realm some people were looking at it for the model compiler development.

@maxleibman I know I'm being pedantic all over your humor, but... IME, the "low code" and "no code" movements were about model-based coding (analysis or design models), not related to the agentic LLM crap. AFAIK, there's been no agentic model creation, as that requires actual intelligence.

@GuerillaOntologist An article in the paper said a new Dem strategy was to find hotter, i.e., more physically attractive, male candidates. Says a lot about how the Democratic Party leadership thinks of women and how out of touch they are with economic reality. #DumbAllOver

@jensorensen I'm assuming that's the Arnold Conan, because the REH Conan was a pretty progressive guy.

@ralfmaximus @gamingonlinux No, but its still full of all that antitrust crap. #MicrosoftSucks

@rysiek I'm pretty sure they've been already doing this IIRC I read the fine print when I moved my repos and it was stated that the archives of my data would still be used for these purposes. I moved as soon as Microsoft acquired GitHub, because I've a never-Microsoft stance, since Windows 3.1. #MicrosoftGitHub #GitHubSucks #MicrosoftSucks

@amirbkhan "Free software"

@atanasoff @EUCommission Sounds like the USA. #DumbAllOver

@adafruit@fosstodon.org I'd love to read the article, but #CloudFlare wouldn't let me. I verified I was human by getting frustrated and closing my browser. #ClownFlare

@arianvp@functional.cafe Maybe by not using a platform, i.e., YouTube, that benefits one of their primary drivers? i.e.,Google #GetOffYouTube #DumbAllOver

@dangoodin@infosec.exchange LWN has an interesting article on this. https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1070698/f0546e940e1ed08d/ One takeaway from both articles is that these tools can be used for good or bad, and that the LLM will only look for what it's told. Evaluation and fix is drinking from the fire hose, and while one team reports zero false positives, another may find a bigger number. Is this help or an attempt to kill free software?

@swapgs@infosec.exchange @ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club "Achievements"...Why can't one just do a good job? Why does there have to be achievements? #DumbAllOver

@kyle@mastodon.kylerank.in Looks like the usual collection of debris in a keyboard. :-)

@sarahtaber@mastodon.online Maybe you could tell your bank to use Linux.

@NoveltyBot@mastodon.social In 100 years, the will be an advertisement for water in plastic bottles.

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club Maybe having to use LLMs to get past HR keyword screening would lead one to assume they need a LLM interpreter in the initial phone interview as well. ;-) It's all bullshit anyway. #AllBozosOnThisBus #DumbAllOver

@tante@tldr.nettime.org Another sewer dweller complaing about the smell. If you are on #MicrosoftGitHub, you are feeding the LLM vibe coding machine. #GetOffOfGitHub #DumbAllOver

@ShaulaEvans@zirk.us jitsi, big blue marble, and zulip are some I've heard of. Maybe @lightweight will chime in as he's posted such things before..