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Prompt engineering is knowing the correct answer and trying to get the chatbot to produce it.

If you're around, feel free to hit me up. #COSCUP over the weekend comes next

Tragic: Being the best person in the company at a job but it isn't your job and you don't want it to be so you just have to watch them fumble this

Shit @rusty.todayintabs.com nailed it www.todayintabs.com/p/we-need-to...

@janboehm.bsky.social wär übrigens geil wenn du auch auf Mastodon weiter zumindest reposten würdest.

The actual public service chatgpt provides is in demonstrating the effect of never hearing the word no on the human psyche, it has made billionaire brain pudding a condition accessible to everyone irrespective of net worth

The CfP for PromCon (Munich, Oct 21+22) is still open for two more days - please submit your @prometheus.io talks :) promcon.io/2025-munich/...

Dinner and a walk through a park festival at day 0 of #confconf in #Sofia, #Bulgaria Just in those photos you see people who made #FOSDEM, #DENOG, #DebConf, #PromCon, #GrafanaCon, #CCC / #38c3, #WHY2025, #IndiaFOSS, #COSCUP, #FOSSASIA, and others happen. And more people will come tomorrow. 1/2

Dinner and a walk through a park festival at day 0 of #confconf in #Sofia, #Bulgaria Just in those photos you see people who made #FOSDEM, #DENOG, #DebConf, #PromCon, #GrafanaCon, #CCC / #38c3, #WHY2025, #IndiaFOSS, #COSCUP, #FOSSASIA, and others happen. And more people will come tomorrow. 1/2

On this day 19 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social published a webcomic that featured the Dick Butt illustration.

Reminder: The CfP for #PromCon (October 21+22 in Munich) is open! Please submit your @prometheus.io talks :) promcon.io/2025-munich/...

One thing I absolutely hate and despise is being right in my political predictions so much.

It kinda felt odd to have some many weirdly positive #quantum computing slop pieces recently... But maybe #nvidia just has data that implies the #ai bubble is about to burst? NB: if you click through, #reuters will think you're interested instead of laughing www.reuters.com/business/nvi...

More of this please. Co-designing play spaces with children and young people near their homes led to “what researchers say is the highest increase in children’s physical activity ever recorded by an intervention of its kind”

I've run into two instances of people using an #LLM to summarize text and then rely on, and in one case defend, the "conclusions" which #Gemini and #Copilot slopped up, and it's a good thing I'm stopped work early today.

If you're a EU citizen (even if currently not resident, as far as I understand), you are eligible to sign eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/ If this can be pushed over the finish line, an EU-wide ban on anti-scientific cOnVeRsIoN tHeRaPy is in reach Deadline is tomorrow; no idea about specific time 1/2

Stop. Breathe. Listen. Say little. There is nothing you can say that will alter the course of this conversation to your benefit. Sign nothing in that meeting. Your former employer just became the adverse party; don't take legal advice from them.

It puts the commit on its main or else it gets the hose again.

The cool thing about forcing bad guys to sign their malware is that after you catch one instance, you can roll up *all* the malware they've signed.

"You can outsource the work, but not the responsibility." Shout it from the mountain tops!

This is a really interesting piece, and these points are ones I notice a lot in the discourse around GLP-1 drugs: much of the antipathy to them is in & of itself fatphobia, anger or anxiety that takers are “cheating” their way out of the fat = lazy, slim = hard work paradigm.

This means they've budgeted for $112K severance per laid off employee. If you're offered less, don't take it.

Working on a new @prometheus.io homepage (very WIP screenshots) based on @nextjs.org. I built the old homepage >10 years ago and back then I really liked it, but now it looks so old-school (and is outdated under the hood) that a new site was really overdue. Also, we'll have syntax highlighting ;)

#OSUOSL will live on! osuosl.org/blog/osl-fut... Huge congrats to @ramereth.bsky.social and the team for securing their necessary funding. If you or your organization were still considering supporting the lab, don't let this good news stop you. Help it thrive, not just survive!

An alle Sender, Talkshowbetreiber und Medienverantwortlichen: Wer ab heute noch AfD-Vertreter einlädt, kann sich nicht mehr rausreden: Er normalisiert bewusst Rechtsextremismus. Schluss mit der falschen Neutralität! Demokratie bedeutet nicht, Demokratiefeinden ein Forum zu geben.

Wann immer ein Staat härter gegen Rechtsextreme vorgeht, warnen händeringende Zentristen: Wir stärken sie damit, denn jetzt können sie sich als Opfer inszenieren. Leute. Rechtsextreme inszenieren sich noch als Opfer, während sie in Polen einmarschieren. Es ist nichts Neues.

AfD jetzt auch offiziell „gesichert rechtsextremistisch“. Eine Entscheidung, die Folgen haben muss, insbesondere für den ÖRR. Eine „Gleichbehandlung“ von Rechtsextremisten verstößt gegen den Programmauftrag. Verfassungsfeinden darf keine Bühne gegeben werden. Nicht in Talks, nicht in der Tagesschau.

#OSUOSL are good people. They are a load bearing part of true Open Source. Please consider helping them: osuosl.org/blog/osl-fut...

Libera.Chat would not be what we are today, if not for OSL. OSL has been an integral part of open source and open culture project support for a long time. Nonprofits, businesses, and governments, and you depend on projects OSL sponsors. OSL is worth saving. osuosl.org/blog/osl-fut... #osuosl

A senior engineer challenged me on my code today. The premise was all wrong. I tried explaining; they pushed back. I pointed to the relevant man page. Turns out, they fed my code into an LLM, asked it to explain, and it was very misleading. LLMs are putting brains on autopilot. Read the fine manual.

On April 26, an unauthorized user exploited a vulnerability with a GitHub workflow to gain unauthorized access to tokens, all of which have now been invalidated.

Is this anything?

So Canada, like Germany, is victim to a violent attack in the last stretch of the election campaign. Interestingly, in Germany, after the election the attacks subsided.

At least we can stop pretending that Bluesky is decentralized, now ;)

Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."

Something German media could learn from. Don’t make the same mistake.

Isar Aerospace (🇩🇪 🚀 company from Munich) orbital test launch happening in around 15 minutes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKLQ... Explosion 🎇 almost guaranteed on the first try.

If it's a legitimate leak, the Signal group has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.

#ObservabilityCON on the Road Sydney is happening in less than 2 weeks! Learn how to take your observability to new heights with AI/ML and Adaptive Telemetry — all while reducing costs: bit.ly/3XVKskz

The modern internet, explained.

What AI person is saying..... Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei: In the next 3 to 6 months, AI is writing 90% of the code, and in 12 months, nearly all code may be generated by AI. What AI person is doing..... www.anthropic.com/jobs

🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.

Fleet Management in Grafana Cloud is finally GA 🎉 Whether you're using one, ten or fifty thousand telemetry collectors, it can be a game changer for your observability practices, check it out!

One time I managed to find the exact spot where that photo was taken on google maps

The European Parliament plans to deprive Hungary of its voting rights, — Politico YESSS

It is infuriating that high end chargers just don't charge instead of falling back to a low-amperage mode that "dumb" devices use

Eine kleine Bitte heute: geht wählen, geht wählen, geht wählen, geht wählen, geht wählen, geht wählen, geht wählen, geht wählen, geht wählen, geht wählen, geht wählen, geht wählen, geht wählen, geht wählen, geht wählen, geht wählen, geht wählen, geht wählen, geht wählen, geht wählen, geht wählen

This might please the @quinnypig.com fosdem.org/2025/schedul...