Mastodawn

Ich kann Krankenkassen nicht ernst nehmen, die heulen, dass sie kein Geld mehr haben – und Homöopathie aber weiterhin freiwillig finanzieren. BEVOR IRGENDEINE ANDERE LEISTUNG GESTRICHEN WIRD, MUSS HOMÖOPATHIE RAUS! Alles andere wäre ein Skandal.

Dmitrii Kalianov Mar 28

Gavroche's Ill-Fitting Trousers Mar 28

LLMs do not "democratize programming". A 4-year-old can learn to program. LLMs throw up stupid barriers by convincing you that you can't learn to program and you have to rely on whatever shit the bobot spits out. Every asshole that says that AI "democratizes" fucking anything is trying to scam you.

Dmitrii Kalianov Mar 20

chaotic enby Mar 20

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC

Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models/RfC - Wikipedia

Dmitrii Kalianov Feb 11

waffle/0 Feb 11

hey uhhh. I got fired yesterday. if anyone has rust positions in the Netherlands let me know!

update: for context, I'm a compiler witch and a member of the Rust compiler team. I've worked on a bunch of cool stuff in rustc, including "the never type", "tail calls", and "trait upcasting". See my github (I also accept sponsorships if you feel like it :D). Didn't expect this post to blow up way past my circle of friends

#getfedihired #FediHire

Dmitrii Kalianov Feb 9

John Regehr Feb 9

something I've been thinking about is how, when I teach a class, I tell the TAs to never, ever touch the keyboard when they're helping a student with an assignment. not even once! because as soon as someone else is driving, it becomes real easy for the student to stop thinking and just let things happen.

kind of like what happens when we use a coding assistant.

Dmitrii Kalianov Feb 5

dram🎀Feb 5

Dmitrii Kalianov Feb 3

KDE Feb 3

This petition wants contributing to Free Software to be legally and officially recognized as volunteering in Germany on the same level as youth work or ambulance service:

https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/recognition-of-work-on-open-source-as-volunteering-in-germany#petition-main

This would bring fiscal and funding advantages for FLOSS organizations and the volunteers themselves.

If you are a German citizen, please sign the petition and let's get our volunteers the recognition they deserve!

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Photo credit: FSFE.

Dmitrii Kalianov Jan 31

With the Consent-O-Matic extension installed, I find it much more pleasant to browse the web. It automatically declines the cookie requests that most websites now show.

Dmitrii Kalianov Jan 30

nexy <3 Jan 29

I wrote a blog post breaking down the moral and technical failings of Cloudflare's recent Matrix project and why I am disappointed in the Matrix.org Foundation for supporting it: https://nexy.blog/2026/01/28/cf-matrix-workers/

#matrix #cloudflare

No, Cloudflare's Matrix server isn't an earnest project - Nex's Blog

I ran out of characters for microblogging so this is where the big words go

Dmitrii Kalianov Jan 28

Jade Jan 27

Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar

https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-matrix-homeserver-workers/

Building a serverless, post-quantum Matrix homeserver

As a proof of concept, we built a Matrix homeserver to Cloudflare Workers — delivering encrypted messaging at the edge with automatic post-quantum cryptography.

The Cloudflare Blog