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Nicolas Holzschuch @nholzschuch.bsky.social · 1h

I’ve made it as far as: myProcess = try await AppExtensionProcess(configuration: myConfig), which doesn’t cause an error and returns… but not a single line in the extension code is executed.

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 12d

I note this one in particular.

Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up

78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.

mikelovesrobots.substack.com

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2h

This is good and you should watch it.

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 3h

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 6h

"We've created a perfect storm: tools that amplify incompetence, used by developers who can't evaluate the output, reviewed by managers who trust the machine more than their people."

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 6h

> When AI Became a Force Multiplier for Incompetence

but it started well before AI

techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.

techtrenches.substack.com

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antifa’s sleepiest soldier @emilydwarfield.bsky.social · 12h

The only reason this isn’t considered trafficking via fraud is because crime is something poor people do

Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 14h

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Nicolas Holzschuch @nholzschuch.bsky.social · 5h

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Nicolas Holzschuch @nholzschuch.bsky.social · 6d

Bon par contre, si vous êtes président d'université ou directeur d'EPST et que vous ne réunissez pas le SAF, le SRH et le DGS sur le thème : « bon, on va devoir passer au moins le début 2026 en mode dégradé, qu'est-ce qu'on peut faire pour amortir le choc ? » ben il est temps pr vous de démissioner.

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FabienBP @fabienbp.bsky.social · 3d

Ça me rappelle les formations sur le harcèlement sexuel où aucun collègue n'était présent mais il y avait notamment toutes les doctorantes.

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 4d

hades gals 💀🌸

fanart of Melinoe from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (dark jeans, orange top), she has a big tattoo on her right arm, and is about to tie her hair with a hair band (is this how it's called in english ?)
her eyes are closed, she has nice arm muscles and looks extremely lesbian

fanart of Nemesis from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (red jeans, black crop top with the Hades sigil as a pattern on it), moon shaped necklace, tattoos on her left arm and pecs, as she's about to tie her hair using a green hairband, her eyes closed
(green light on her right side cause she's standing next to Melinoe's glowing arm, off camera)

fanart of Eris, from Hades 2, she's sitting, right leg with her knee bent, in front of her
right hand on her right foot, left hand on her face, framing her left eye between two fingers
she's wearing big sneakers, micro shorts, some sort of sweater with stripes showing her shoulders
she has apple tree branch tattoos on her thigh and left shoulder

fanart of Medea from Hades 2, but wearing modern clothes (tiny leather shorts with double belt, red/purple leather crop top), a nose ring, necklaces, also big tattoo covering the entire left arm (a snake, a moon crescent, flowers and leaves)
She's sitting, resting on her left hand, her right hand next to her face, conjuring some plague magic that bathes her in green light

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Nicolas Holzschuch @nholzschuch.bsky.social · 8h

The lack of Apple documentation on ExtensionFoundation (and ExtensionKit) is almost funny. What can it do? What can it not do? The sum of all knowledge is: “try it and find out”.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 14h

Sometimes you just can't tell people things. You just have to sit back and let them find out for themselves. Usually those people are children.

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Ebibi @ebibi.fr · 9h

était incroyable, je tousse légèrement en *harcèlement* qui exsiste aussi ici hein, mais je rejoins complètement le coté visibilité qui est à chier maintenant sur twitter

Velvetshadow @velvetshadow.fr · 1d

Twitter était incroyable, fut un temps. Il a donné des carrières à beaucoup de monde, including me. Ce temps-là est hélas révolu depuis longtemps sauf si vous cherchez un taff de chroniqueur sur CNEWS.

La visibilité n'existe plus. La conversion non plus. Restent les stats faussées par les bots.

Matthew Wilding | Old Devils on Kickstarter until 10/22! @matthewwilding.bsky.social · 2d

Fun fact: Bluesky is outperforming Twitter on conversions for my Kickstarter by 900%.

Despite it having the most followers of any platform for me, Twitter is converting at lower numbers than EVERY OTHER social media platform I'm using (Facebook, Threads, Instagram, Bluesky).

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 20h

But you know sure let it be your search engine replacement and read and write (whatever that means) for you, not a problem at all 🥲

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1d

The message must be "No bailouts for billionaires." AI is not too big to fail. And should it fail, the richest men in the world should be held accountable and take responsibility for their failures.

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mcnostril @mcnostril.bsky.social · 18h

Bought fancy rust paint, "the original paint & primer in one" and the instructions state that NO PRIMER NEEDED EXCEPT: IRON AND STEEL.

It's been 5 hours and I'm still contemplating the marketing genius of selling 2-in-1 paint that only works if you don't use it on the two materials it's made for.

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Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s first-term foreign policy was riddled with one failure after another. Almost everything he attempted either fizzled out or blew up in his face. Don’t let this garbage revisionism stand.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

Or as the New York Times puts it: “Mr. Trump's budgetary maneuvering appeared unorthodox…”

Mr. Trump's budgetary maneuvering appeared unorthodox, even though it may spare more than 1 million active-duty service members from the financial hardship of missing a paycheck next week. It was not clear how much money the administration had at its disposal, and how long it could rely on accounting moves to pay troops during the shutdown.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h

This government is a well-oiled machine that’s definitely not suffering from internal power struggles hastily papered over as technical mistakes

The employees "were sent incorrect
notifications, which was fixed last night and this morning with a technical correction," a senior administration official said. "Any correction has already been remedied."

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 14h

I am forever grateful to the friends who stuck by me when I was in the worst of my depression and part of that gratitude is from realizing they had every right to walk away to protect themselves.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 15h

But at the same time being on the treated side of depression it's just so blindingly obvious when people are externalizing their own misery in an antisocial way and I want to help them but there's absolutely no way to.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

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Djamé 🟥 @zehavoc.bsky.social · 21h

J’ai adoré le réalisateur de Kirikou dire qu’il avait fait exprès de ne pas créditer le conteur et l’interprète de Kirikou (le conte) pour ne pas payer de droits après un rant de 10 mn contre l’IA generative, tueuse de création.
Panel de 2h et demi où il a monopolisé la parole comme un malade…

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Martin Clavey @mart1oeil.eu · 21h

Il suffit de pas grand chose pour les faire dérailler next.ink/203904/250-d...

250 documents suffisent à empoisonner l’entraînement d’une IA - Next

next.ink

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Nicolas Holzschuch @nholzschuch.bsky.social · 21h

Et pourtant le débit en passagers du tram (mesuré ici à Grenoble) est largement supérieur à celui du bus, non ?

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Gro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 21h

… Donc apparemment il accélère ou freine à 0.5m/s² (soit 5% de g). Ou un 0–100km/h en… 1 minute. 😬

Ce qui veut aussi dire que:

‣ Chaque arrêt fait perdre 2min en plus du temps de l'arrêt lui-même.

‣ S'ils sont séparés de <1600m on n'atteint même pas la vitesse de croisière.

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