Mastodawn

You know back in my day, we had static analysis tooling that would give you exactly this kind of feedback, except it was correct. Now we have shit which only looks at the vibes of the source text and does no semantic analysis whatsoever, so of course it's just fucking wrong

trog 3d ago

Hailey 3d ago

Sent a pull request to Audacity fixing a crash bug I'd been running into frequently. The cause was an out-of-bounds memmove. Classic C++ areas.

Anyway I got a fucking copilot review on my PR which left two comments, both completely wrong, one of which suggesting I reintroduce the out of bounds memory access. I'm furious!

trog May 28

SnoopJ May 28

Content-Type: text/shitpost

trog May 18

Thomas Tuegel May 15

Software devs are so bad at estimation that there is a whole methodology/movement based on refusing to estimate, but devs report the time they have saved by using LLMs, and I’m supposed to take that number seriously?

trog Apr 23

only if we combine the secrets of papal elections with the rigour and integrity of both the International Olympic Committee and the FIFA Council can we truly safeguard democracy

https://federate.social/@mattblaze/114388932783329496

Matt Blaze (@mattblaze@federate.social)

I've had at least two journalists (from reputable places) ask me about hacking papal elections and/or how we can apply the security for electing popes to US elections. Just no.

federate.social

trog Mar 19

Daisy Leigh Brenecki Mar 18

With the power of AI, you too can take your startup from “fucking around” to “finding out” in as little as two days!

trog Mar 9

gloriouscow Mar 5

Let's talk about Microsoft Flight Simulator! The very first one. The OG.

This is what you see when you boot the game:

trog Mar 5

Dgar Mar 5

Preferential voting in Australia is actually really cool. It lets you list the candidates on your ballot in the order of your preference.

So you can, for example, have The Fusion Party as number 1, The Greens as number 2, Labor as second last, and LNP as last, with any other candidates in between.

You are in control of who your vote goes to. The candidates and parties have no say in it at all.

Don’t let the media tell you otherwise.

trog Mar 3

marlies

Feb 26

The vatican needed a latin word for tweet, because the pope tweets. Or tweeted, I suppose, given the whole dead or dying situation. Anyway, they call them breviloquia (s breviloquium) which is honestly a great word even tho it’s not very brief itself. Given its nature and etymology I think we should be able to use it platform-independently and apply it to toots, skeets and even Truths as well. Anyway thank you for reading this breviloquium.

trog Feb 27

cketti Feb 26

I'm saying goodbye to K-9 Mail. Today is my last day at MZLA 😢

https://cketti.de/2025/02/26/goodbye-k9mail/

Goodbye K-9 Mail

Looking back on 15 years of working on K-9 Mail.

cketti

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