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Sebastian Hans @sebhans.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 8h

I can remember a time when the attitude of what I consider good software enngineers was something like: We apply good engineering practices to minimize failure while accepting that failure will sometimes happen, and if it does, we apply equally good engineering practices to deal with it […]

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13h

When complaining about bottlenecks, you should maybe also contemplate _why_ bottles have necks.

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

In his latest fragments (martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-10-…), @mfowler pulled together some thoughts on the language LLMs should use to program in. I'd add this quote from Dijkstra to the mix: “The purpose of abstracting is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in […]

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I'm becoming allergic to certain words and phrases. “Keeping the {devs|agent} honest” is such a stupid framing. As if developers were dishonest unless taken on a leash! And it doesn't make sense for “AI” agents either, because they don't have a concept of truth in the first place.

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I still remember the day in 1976 when Gary Kildall typed in "dir" to an "A>" prompt on his hazeltine green-screen character display to show me a directory listing on his 8080-based, eight-bit computer running the first release of CP/M, the first real microcomputer operating system (that Gary […]

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

It is possible to implement a simple version of Pong using git commit hooks while waiting for an IT provisioning process. Ask me how I know. :-/

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Plans that absorb uncertainty tend to be more robust than plans that try to handle uncertainty.

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1173398259… OK! Meta evaluated this as intended behavior, not applicable for a bug bounty, so therefore responsible disclosure no longer applies so here goes: any process run within the VM can access the socket that provides inference with no […]

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

“There's no point at which turning your brain off will work” danluu.com/brain-off I fully agree with this. I've always thought of myself as a brain-on developer. #softwareDevelopment #softwareEngineering #programming

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Glyph @glyph.im · 27/09/2026

The software industry's original sin was "no warranty, even the implied warranty of merchantability", even on literal products for sale. Every evil we have visited upon the world — clickwrap licenses, instagram anorexia, AI dystopia — is downstream of the generalized ability for software to […]

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

I love this paper so much. If I had my way every single journalist, pundit, analyst, and politician in the US would read it & then read it again. I want to quote all of it. www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

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Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism

"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

On understanding how software works: “But Sebastian, how can you claim we are losing our understanding of how software works when you are building on top of layers and layers of software, firmware and hardware yourself? I bet you don't understand it all the way down, either!” That's right, but […]

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1173247908… Digging in the Matrix, finding nested Bash and Python and reeeeally creepy instructions. 🤪 It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

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Benjamin @blindcoder.toot.berlin.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Scrapping features noone ever used feels so good! #SoftwareDevelopment

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Dan Lorenc at Chainguard posted this statement about #curl on LinkedIn...

We put curl 8.22.0 through an eight-and-a-half-hour automated tree search, about 4,100 tool calls and roughly 190 million tokens of model work (the vast majority cache reads), aimed only at High and Critical outcomes: memory safety on an ASan build across the HTTP/1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, WebSocket, FTP, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, SMB, LDAP, cookie, and NTLM/Digest/Negotiate parsers under tens of thousands of hostile server responses, plus integrity hunts for TLS verification bypass under an on-path attacker,
STARTTLS and 1implicit-TLS downgrade, cross-handle response confusion, CONNECT tunnel handling, credential leakage through redirects, file writes outside the output directory, and Alt-Svc and HSTS guarantees. Thirty-one lines of attack closed clean with no sanitizer report and no verification
bypass; all that surfaced were three Medium-class edges, one of which the curl team had already fixed on master days before we looked. That outcome is a credit to the project: years of continuous fuzzing, the maintainers' own audits, and a codebase where every server-controlled length is bounded
before use left a persistent automated adversary with nowhere to go. Congratulations to the curl team, and thanks for making our negative result so thoroughly earned.

One note on the token figure: the run log records usage for only about 400 of the turns (18.6 million tokens, 46,500 per turn on average), so the 190 million is that average scaled to the 4,103 tool-call turns.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Also als die Leute anfingen, die Faschisten der AfD zu wählen, wurden die bürgerlichen Medien nicht müde, jedem Neurechten ein Mikro ins Gesicht zu halten, damit man seine "Sorgen und Nöte" verstehen kann. Das passiert jetzt doch sicher auch mit den Wähler*innen linker Parteien, oder? Oder ging […]

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Tomáš @prahou.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@tante normalize using finished software

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Just went out of my way to help a colleague by answering a series of questions they posted to our internal communication channel and offered a call for further help only to be told they had generated the message from a rough sketch and these weren't concrete questions yet. From now on, I'll view […]

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I highly recommend this talk by @kelseyhightower: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7WFt2JQ5sg “So if you think context is amazing for agents, wait till you give it to humans.” Spot on. Be sure to watch the whole thing, including the Q&A! #softwareArchitecture #softwareEngineering […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I don't want to give the article too much shit because moving away from big tech is important and all. But this - from someone running services - is a bad sign. Instead of checking out the docs of the software you migrate to if it has a direct migration path […] [Original post on tldr.nettime.org]

Repositories, users, secrets, actions were super simple to move from GitHub to Forgejo. I did it manually with the help of Claude Code before realising Forgejo had a built-in migration tool, which I suspect would have probably been faster and used no tokens :D

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I have another brilliant idea to save money and time. Instead of promoting an LLM to write an email this new system will simply send your target the prompt and the email will be generated on their end with *their* tokens should they choose to open it. We can hide this all in an embedded HTML […]

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@hazelweakly/117275415… This is an interesting thread! The following steps are fun, too: 11. “here’s how the auditor interprets that obligation” 12. “here’s how the auditor interprets the outcome guidelines and/or implementation guidelines given” 13. “Here’s […]

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OpenStreetMap Ops Team @operations.openstreetmap.org · 15/09/2026

The OpenStreetMap.org website and API are struggling. We are fighting a large set of AI crawlers / scrapers. Working to restore service as soon as possible. #AI #Scrapers

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@rb3n/1172741941514… Heise translated my Comment on the "Concerned AI Bros" into English www.heise.de/en/opinion/Comment-Oh-…

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Christoffer S. @cstromblad.com · 15/09/2026

On the topic of LLM-generated software there is one thing I've only grown more concerned and confident about - the need for systems design and architecture thinking. From what I've experienced, both anecdotally and first-hand, is that LLM-generated software systems eventually devolve, and when […]

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Just listened to @kevlin on Software-Architektur im Stream (@softwarearchitektur_im_stream). I particularly liked the discussion around value demand vs. failure demand and what consequences accelerating work on one or the other might have. I highly recommend this episode […]

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Just had a discussion about a cloud deployment. I was investigating something and found subnets that were apparently not connected to anything. Further investigation revealed that these subnets existed in three availability zones, but only in one of them something was actually running, and […]

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

That's certainly something to think about.

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Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

This is the big LG television surveillance documentary story GN have been working on for a couple of months, and that they previewed a few days ago. The complete pervasiveness of spying upon not just you and what you watch but _every person and every device around every set_ is genuinely […]

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A friend refers to the "a pedestrian was struck by a car" construction as the "exonerative" tense, and that shall be its name henceforth and hereafter.

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Sebastian Hans @sebhans.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

When developing the next iteration of an integration service while the old one is still being maintained, how do you decide on an approach? This post shows how envisioning possible futures helped us do it in a project for a large government organization […]

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

the AI is very skilled, but to do anything of value it needs to run some poorly-formed bash on your system that may or may not delete all your files, or create nonsensical files, or do who knows what the AI is very capable, and that’s why it needs to do a “tool call” to some shit that was […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

“*YOU* Are the Chosen One?!” “Hahaha no.” “I thou—“ “I’m just *a* chosen girl. There’s hundreds of us, you know. Big planet; takes a lot of saving” “Where’s your enchanted sword, then?” “Melted it” “You *what*!” “Swords are flashy, but impractical. So I made an enchanted multitool” “You […]

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@Viss/1171871078596… "TL;DR Four minutes is how long it took for a machine inside a Fortune 500 company to execute code we published. Two more within the hour. We didn’t exploit a CVE, phish an employee, or touch a perimeter. We registered destinations that […]

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Fabio Manganiello @fabio.manganiello.eu.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

It’s no longer a fun party when you keep inviting murderers to it. The #Netherlands will boycott #Eurovision for the second year in a row. Earlier this month, organisers announced they were excluding any country involved in an armed conflict from hosting the competition. With the exception […]

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