ben

I’m pretty sure I’ve heard of do/od being a thing. Maybe in early Bourne shell or in whichever language it was imitating.

"the left is ignoring the usefulness of AI" no it's more like it is kind of central to left leaning politics that causing massive negative externalities for your own personal convenience is a shitty way to live. you're just saying you do not like the implications of this position

Satisfying to tidy up some repeated code that had been building up over the last couple of months. 340 lines deleted across 32 files.

Don't automate writing boilerplate, delete it.

We find ourselves having to second guess every PR from new contributors, multiple times per day:

- The description is verbose LLM output, is the code written at least partially by a human?
- Does the "author" understand the code they're sending?
- Did they test it? Are the test results made up?

Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers.

If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of:

fund.godotengine.org

The legitimately innovative thing about AI is that it is a completely bottomless pit. It's swallowed up:

- all energy sources
- all our data
- all investment dollars
- all new jobs
- all capex
- all attention
- and now, all hardware components

with absolutely no end in sight. Nothing will satisfy.

Right exactly. Not everybody has to like the same things but there are people who like it!

(I have a brutalism calendar on the wall by my desk. There are dozens of us.)

I’m always a bit suspicious of ‘brutalism = ugly’ people.

Always seems to be a subjective preference stated as objective fact (and usually a C/conservative preference, at that).

well, yes, but the problem is that most of the time there clearly isn’t a human in the loop. it’s no good just saying it, it has to actually happen, and it isn’t.

(and half the time it’s the person who was supposed to be in the loop, but wasn’t, who’s saying it.)

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116083623180403291

every time I complain about something like this, some AI fan will show up to say ‘well obviously there still has to be a human in the loop’

they have built it already. it’s in the nightly builds, so it’ll (presumably?) be in the next full release, unless I’ve misunderstood their process.

I make no comment as to its quality or whether they’ll abide by it, but ‘nothing happening’ seems unfair.

What?

Not entirely sure that that’s the point.

A reminder that if you live in England or Wales & were born between 1970-1990 – or even before 1970 – you can help protect your community by getting the MMR vaccine free from your NHS GP now. I did last year. www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

americans: ‘well actually the most practical unit for measuring small sizes is the thousandth of an inch’

engineers everywhere except America use metric for everything. what is wrong with Americans?

Is it comparable to the thing with JK Rowling for example, where people want to be able to say they never liked them anyway, even before the ethical issues were known? To have been right all along (even before there was anything to be right about).

CW: LLMs

and yet they’ll still come out and say that they generate so much code without reviewing that they no longer understand what it does https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/cognitive-debt/

mas.to/@zencoffeebr...

"I've hooked the synthetic text extruding machine up to other systems that take that text as input and impact the world" != "The synthetic text extruding machine knows how to use tools."

ingemar (@ingemar@ruby.social) Attached: 1 image Well, ….

RE: https://ruby.social/@ingemar/116071315409399467

what are the chances that anybody involved will learn anything from this?

apparently the options are to patch the BIOS or to override the PCI-ID of the card to match one on its allowlist

A laptop screen showing a boot error: “1802: Unauthorized network card is plugged in - Power off and remove the network card”

computers were a mistake

thanks lenovo

#thinkpad

European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women" The resolution, though nonbinding, is a significant shot at those who seek to erode transgender rights on the continent.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."

Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.

It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Our latest.

because it's not true.

i don’t even need the first one. i told them i didn’t need my hearing tested again but they didn’t seem to listen.

love to get two medical appointments in the same location, 45 minutes apart, a 40 minute journey from home

"apart from the security risk, the environmental cost, the operating cost, the vendor lockin, the copyright risks, ..., AI is great!"

"but putting aside the HUGE security risk, OpenClawd is going to completely transform the way we work"

sure. anything sounds great if you explicitly set aside all the reasons it's bad.

NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.

The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people.

1. JK Rowling
2. Maya Forstater
3. Helen Joyce
4. Graham Linehan
5. Kathleen Stock
6. Posie Parker
7. Wes Streeting
8. Rosie Duffield

www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...