Open post Steve Smith @tarkasteve@hachyderm.io · 2mo ago Replying to @Odaeus@social.vivaldi.net @threedaymonk@sonomu.club thanks for writing this! I'd already noticed that Matz was fully on-board with Claude but I hadn't stopped by the Ruby codebase in the past year. That last line hits hard. @Odaeus@social.vivaldi.net @threedaymonk@sonomu.club I had to check for myself but it's bang-on...
Open post Steve Smith @tarkasteve@hachyderm.io · 5mo ago Replying to @pzmyers@freethought.online <p>I would appreciate it if everyone on the internet would stop talking about Richard Dawkins so that I don't have to see what an embarrassing gormless twit he has become. Thank you.</p><p><a href="https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/05/05/oh-goddawkins-said-what-now/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngul</span><span class="invisible">a/2026/05/05/oh-goddawkins-said-what-now/</span></a></p> @pzmyers Richard Dawkins: "Sex is pretty damn binary" Also Richard Dawkins: "My chatbot has a vagina!"
Open post Steve Smith @tarkasteve@hachyderm.io · 3mo ago Replying to @tarkasteve@hachyderm.io @timbray@cosocial.ca I found this bit of urban lore interesting enough that I tried to find a copy of the map. Unsuccessfully; but I did find this... @timbray@cosocial.ca What lead me to this...
Open post Steve Smith @tarkasteve@hachyderm.io · 3mo ago Replying to @timbray@cosocial.ca RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/toronto-qajtcaoiz/-/a-AsI_bKk-RO6ZBi4dIpufvQ%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0 I'm old, I can remember when the CN Tower was new. A small group of artists anonymously plastered downtown TO with maps showing the radius that was at risk should the tower fall over. Cool visual design. There was a flurry of news coverage before people figured out it was art. @timbray@cosocial.ca I found this bit of urban lore interesting enough that I tried to find a copy of the map. Unsuccessfully; but I did find this...
Open post Steve Smith @tarkasteve@hachyderm.io · 9mo ago Replying to @vaurora@mstdn.social @etchedpixels@mastodon.social pull requests written by AI, then scraped by AI to train the next model... computers need to be more expensive @vaurora@mstdn.social @etchedpixels@mastodon.social Well in that case I bring glad tidings!