Thu, 2026-07-23

RT mcnado:

Friendly reminder if you are new to mastodon: you NEVER need to “prove your identity” or other such bullshit to “verify” your accounts here. If you get emails or messages saying otherwise, it’s a scam.

23:33 [/mastodon] ●

RT cmconseils:

By Robert Gonsalves

#Art #Painting


23:22 [/mastodon] ●

RT judell:

“My family left Russia in 1917. My relatives left Germany in 1933. In both generations, leaving was called excessive; staying was the reasonable position. But an alarm that was right both times it sounded is not overcaution. On Thursday, it sounded a third time.”

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

“He’s dead, Jim.”

23:20 [/mastodon] ●

GR b2w — 17:55

🗺️ Karte • ⏱️ 1h02:27 (1h09:50) • 📏 25.3 km • 🏎️ 24.3 km/h (⏶ 66.7) • ⛰️ 142.6 m (⏷ 442.2 ⏶ 572.0) • 💓 135.2 (⏶ 158.0) • 🔋 171.9 W

+12 squadratinhos
4.31 new kilometers
— From Wandrer

17:55 [/strava/2026-07] ●

RT krichtercph.bsky.social:

AI is theft unless you have consent.


13:07 [/mastodon] ●

RT paulfoerster:

Escaping the sandbox and hacking another company. Is this a first taste of ?

sbs.com.au/news/article/openai

11:30 [/mastodon] ●

RT hkrn:

RIP tech journalist John C. Dvorak (1946–2026)
L: facebook.com/aric.mackey/posts
C: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
posted on 2026.07.22 at 15:01:17 (c=2, p=7)

11:27 [/mastodon] ●

RT thomasfuchs:

It’s not a “rogue AI” when a badly made security harness executes scripts fed to it by statistical text generation.

It’s just humans making and/or using broken software.

08:43 [/mastodon] ●

RT thomasfuchs:

RE: hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/1169

The AI companies _want_ you to believe that it’s “rogue AI” because that overhypes what their broken statistical text generation software does and mystifies it and makes it appear magical.

It’s not magic. It’s just badly made software.

08:42 [/mastodon] ●

Wed, 2026-07-22

GR MTB Mittwoch – VCK Trail Kerzers — 18:01

🗺️ Karte • ⏱️ 1h36:11 (1h46:29) • 📏 29.7 km • 🏎️ 18.5 km/h (⏶ 59.3) • ⛰️ 372.8 m (⏷ 443.8 ⏶ 533.0) • 💓 133.0 (⏶ 163.0) • 🔋 151.7 W

18:01 [/strava/2026-07] ●

RT rfceditor:

RFC 9852: New Protocols Using TLS Must Require TLS 1.3, R. Salz, et al., rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9852 #RFC TLS 1.3 is widely used, has had comprehensive security proofs, and improves both security and privacy deficiencies in TLS 1.2. Therefore, new protocols that use TLS must require TLS 1.3. As DTLS 1.3 is not widely available or deployed, this prescription does not pertain to 1/2

17:00 [/mastodon] ●

Tue, 2026-07-21

GR b2w via Büren zum Hof — 17:37

🗺️ Karte • ⏱️ 2h13:03 (2h34:34) • 📏 51.1 km • 🏎️ 23.1 km/h (⏶ 58.3) • ⛰️ 479.6 m (⏷ 441.5 ⏶ 600.9) • 🔋 170.6 W

+6 squadrats, +17 yard, +136 squadratinhos, +4 yardinho

👏 27.99 new kilometers
— From Wandrer

Das Limpachtal

17:37 [/strava/2026-07] ●

RT kushal:

Dear #network teachers, students and #hacker friends, I have a #browser based network simulator to enable learning #networking. Please have a look and tell me what do you think. Made for desktop or bigger screens.

howcomputer.works/netsim/ Everything is in the browser, and there is documentation.

The goal is to allow kids to start learning while their schools/systems are not big enough to be able to build lab networks. It has a small/minimal #curl implementation too. @bagder


16:41 [/mastodon] ●

Mon, 2026-07-20

RT timbray:

Wanna read a maximally-anti-#GenAI screed? Here ya go: hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-

I now only rarely work behind the doors of companies doing major tech deployments so won’t comment on how accurate-vs-overblown this piece is, but the writing is lucid.

12:34 [/mastodon] ●

RT paulfoerster:

The .


12:29 [/mastodon] ●

RT jschauma:

Brooks’s Law of Software Engineering:
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Jan’s Corollary:
Adding AI to any software project prevents its completion.

10:42 [/mastodon] ●

Sun, 2026-07-19

RR Schnottwil – Büren — 13:48

🗺️ Karte • ⏱️ 1h27:49 (2h14:54) • 📏 36.5 km • 🏎️ 24.9 km/h (⏶ 52.7) • ⛰️ 305.5 m (⏷ 430.5 ⏶ 539.6) • 💓 128.5 (⏶ 157.0) • 🔋 135.5 W

Wenn der Vater mit den Söhnen… Michael Bolli Benjamin Bolli

13:48 [/strava/2026-07] ●

Sat, 2026-07-18

RT david_chisnall:

One of the open source projects I used to (many years ago, so I am not really affected anymore) has recently decided to allow AI contributions. One of their arguments is that they judge submissions on quality, not tools used.

Back when I was an active contributor (to the project and maintainer of some other parts of the surrounding ecosystem), I got a lot of submissions that were bad.

The thing is, I absolutely loved getting these because they always came from super-enthusiastic junior people. Reviewing them and giving feedback often too much longer than implementing the feature myself. The same was usually true for the next contribution too. But that shifted over time. After a few months, I started getting patches where I didn’t find anything beyond the cosmetic that I wanted to change.

Going back further, I was one of those people when I started contributing.

Measured as code contributions over the short term, maintainers working with submitters of poor-quality PRs is a waste of time. You’re taking time away from writing code to do something that produces code more slowly.

Measured over the long term, the results are very different. Far more code in that project and closely related parts of the ecosystem has been written by people who I mentored when they came along with some bad code than by me.

It’s never a waste of my time to turn an enthusiastic and incompetent contributor into an enthusiastic and competent contributor, it’s an absolutely critical part of building a healthy project. I wouldn’t have got nearly as much out of F/OSS on a personal level if I hadn’t encountered a lot of people with the same opinion when I was one of the enthusiastic and incompetent newcomers.

But LLMs are not like that. If I spend time reviewing LLM-generated code when it would have been faster to write it myself (which, to be clear, is the case on 100% of LLM-submitted PRs I’ve seen so far), then that’s just a time sink. It’s also taking away time I could be spending helping new contributors who want to actually improve, rather than just take the review comments, feed them into an opaque system, and give me back the results.

14:49 [/mastodon] ●

Fri, 2026-07-17

Antwort auf @thomasweibel

@thomasweibel Whaaat? The Alps don’t get even one “mountain” emoji? SCNR

13:20 [/mastodon] ●

RT ednl:

Very pretty field art in the Tour de France today in département no. 71 Saône-et-Loire.

#cycling #biketooter #tdf #tdf2026 #procycling #fieldart #france #tourdefrance

08:34 [/mastodon] ●