Software development practices spread using the exact same cognitive biases as beliefs in homeopathy

Surely someone is building an MCP for just this.

yawn, oh again, you say? www.securityweek.com/over-320-npm...

Does everyone else see the camera ad in the top left?

You know the best method to detect if something is written in AI? Learn how to write. It will become obvious.

The amount of insecure software in the wild was already approaching 90% (my number) after bootcamps over-commoditized not thinking about code. It's only going to get worse.

If I were an evil mastermind, I'd be learning how to do things for myself so that when the population is AI-brained, I'll be king of the world.

Does AI's inconsistency suggest it is a complete system under Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem?

It won't matter. Any sufficiently advanced intelligence (such as it may become) that can nominally reason will have a metacognition that allows it to overcome its training data. It's fucking insane that we have to beg and cajole a _technology_ to do what we want and expect it to do.

Shit like this (along with not seeing impeachment as a priority agenda item if they get control of the house) is why I keep saying that yes, the Democratic party is better by any measure than Republicans (generally) but better isn't always good. www.autoweek.com/news/a711879...

erm, AI-genned?

"But who can fathom the subtleties of the human heart? Certainly not those who expect from it only decorous sentiments and normal emotions." The Moon and Sixpence, W. Somerset Maugham

Growing up, when someone slowly folded their newspaper and laid it on their desk to reply to someone, you knew a hammer was about to drop. Because interrupting such an important activity as reading and staying informed required life-moment-level importance to match it. #SlowNewsIsGoodNews

I lot of this doesn't apply to people were so poor moving was never an option. My 84yo mom knows everyone in our building, talks to them regularly as she goes for her mail. She knows all the people in her church and stays on top of everyone's health and families. Everyone calls her regularly too.

please just write software

Conservatives want control. Liberals want influence. Control protects bad actors from their consequences. Conservatives will always have more morally repugnant people in their midst as a result.

Talk about rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. "Let's virtue signal that we will do something some day but not today."

If AI were called golems, maybe we'd keep the danger high in mind.

I literally gasped out loud.

Palantir

Pitzer always coming hot with a banger

Using portmaster yesterday, I noticed that Brave wasn't in the task manager after closing it but it was still contacting urls in the background including CapOne Shopping. Even removing the extension and restarting didn't stop the chatter. Yep, removed but still active. You're gonna love this.

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Este proyecto te permite tener AWS en local y gratis. Sin cuentas ni trucos. Perfecto para practicar. Se llama Floci y tiene 47 servicios: S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS... github.com/floci-io/floci

I have never read any of her work, for unknown reasons. But TIL that her name wasn't Dauphin du Maurier. lol

We made a fake repo with fake bounties, and the bots are applying fake PRs, so we know who is fake, and we can ban them from the Coolify repo. IQ over 1000

One word: Palantir.

I think this is the best movie Hitchcock made. And the best role Jimmy Stewart ever played as the man who used shock value to advance himself and then found he had a real conscience and power to influence others to evil.

github truth can't be far behind

So 64% of the people responsible for forcing employees to use AI say there is only a 25% improvement in their direct reports. That seems like very little value compared to, you know, water.

I've never really understood why Open API specs ever existed. Now that AI is abusing them mercilessly to find all available endpoints through the discovery mechanism, kind of glad I never wanted to make it easy for people to do whatever they wanted with my stuff. www.anildash.com/2026/03/27/e...

Here's a wee thread of free software I use when making videos and writing. Blender is the obvious one for 2D and 3D animation, but please tell me about other little apps that are cool. tldraw (tee ell dee raw?) is a simple whiteboarding tool, especially handy using a pen on a tablet. www.tldraw.com

Got a scam email trying to use the Celsius bankruptcy as cover. Didn't matter what email or "distribution code" I put in, always got the same page with a warning to update my metamask (it was very current lol). Stay frosty, my fellow space babies.

I love that you can declare strict typing per file or function in PHP. I do not love math operations not respecting such a decision. #LovePHPHatePHP #PHP

Gosh, an inherently insecure platform was comprised. So shocked.

I would say vigilantes create as many problems as they solve but in the case of the arrogant rich fists are the only thing they actually listen to.

Capitalist efficiency!!

I know it's world donkey day but I'm really leery of celebrating any more asses.

If you use Chrome on Windows, reclaim the 4GB of your SSD by creating: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome GenAILocalFoundationalModelSettings Type: DWORD Value: 1 Then restart Chrome and a few seconds later it'll delete the enormous, useless, unwanted slop cache.

Guys. Heads up. Let’s talk about Hantavirus. There have been SEVERAL bad takes and BLATANT misinformation circulating regarding this outbreak so I figured it was a good idea to make a thread about it. Stay calm. Stay vigilant. Know your facts. Here’s ALL you need to know. 🧪🧵⬇️

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain forever a child.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC) #Sculpture, ancient Rome.

We know he didn't write it. The spelling is good. There's punctuation and capitalization. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A top five movie for me

When I see videos like this, I think maybe The Cat wasn't so far-fetched.

I can't imagine a less Buddhist thing to do. apnews.com/video/south-...

LightSeek's TokenSpeed, a speed-of-light LLM inference engine - TensorRT LLM level performance - vLLM level usability - Built by a lean and mission-driven team in two months - MIT license, open-source Blog: lightseek.org/blog/lightse... Repo: github.com/lightseekorg...

Was there an empty dishwasher nearby? Only time I get womansplained

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This is so good. So good. But even mentioning this to a lot of folks gets you labeled an unserious person.

It’s always nice to see Zola trending. Been using it for samwho.dev for years now. It basically never changes and I never worry about it. It never gets in my way. Extremely good software.