Dan Čermák

@Defolos
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AI will improve humanity 🤡

If you're trying to persuade someone to try Mastodon (or Pixelfed, or Friendica, etc), you'll get a lot further explaining them as algorithm-free, ad-free, AI-free, nazi-free conversations, rather than trying to describe a "decentralised protocol" or why "open source" is good.

Mastodon is conversations between real people.

It's sharing.

Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot

#github adds the feature to disable pull requests entirely or restrict them to collaborators 👇
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-02-13-new-repository-settings-for-configuring-pull-request-access/

I guess we can thank AI slop for that 😕

New repository settings for configuring pull request access - GitHub Changelog

Maintainers now have more control over how repositories accept contributions. Two new settings let you manage pull requests to better match your project’s needs. Disable pull requests entirely You can…

The GitHub Blog

Mitchell Hashimoto launches a vouching platform for Foss to fight #AI slop:
https://itsfoss.com/news/mitchell-hashimoto-vouch/

GitHub repo:
https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch

interesting idea, but sounds kinda like the old web of trust once again

Mitchell Hashimoto Launches 'Vouch' to Fight AI Slop in Open Source Ecosystem

New tool helps open source projects manage the scourge of AI slop.

It's FOSS

AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.

What a time to be alive.

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132

Want to go the directory you were just in?
Type "cd -"
The memory usage when compiling a giant #rust app is insane. I have about 32 GB RAM available for building codex and the compilation in release mode still gets killed by the oom killer 🤯
This is way worse than C++ metaprogramming spaghetti

Quote from #sourcegraph's podcast: the time of chatting with an agent in your editor sidebar is coming to an end.

At the same time at work: half my team isn't using any AI and the other half is copy pasting stuff from the webchat 🫠

When you have all the answers.

Edit: artist is Michael James Schneider (h/t @jsit)

#Fascism #FunWithWords #POTUS