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Happy birthday #StarTrek May the force be with you 😉always.

Whenever we can identify some way in which LLMs can't count Rs on the word strawberry, that's fixed now. Turns out that product managers can take over the world if we let them. Given infinite resources, language can be composed in infinite ways.

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This just in: to the surprise of pretty much zero people, the new vibe-coded bash-scripted arch-based OS gone viral is filled with weird vulnerabilities. The trick is to just keep adding money, I guess.

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#javascript arrays amirite moar like disarrays

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 07/09/2026

#git hosting is on a different level once you have users that need to make seven commits each time they change the colour of a button

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Wondering what is this AGI talk about? arcprize.org/tasks/ls20 It's just a benchmark that tries to offer puzzles that are created from scratch, much like procedural videogames. You can play them yourself in this link.

arcprize.org

ARC-AGI-3 Task #ls20

Play ARC-AGI-3 task ls20

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 06/09/2026

So I've dropped down from Pro to Plus to get the average #openai Astra coding experience. Good news: you can always use your phone to tell it to go ahead after it gets interrupted by the 5h limit. Bad news: you can blow through two 5h limits with a single prompt, no fast mode, GPT 6 High.

Screenshot of a Codex (ChatGPT) coding agent session showing a scrollable log of executed commands, including several 'tail', 'python3', 'jq', 'mkdir', and 'command -v ruff' entries with their run times. Below the log, an orange usage-limit notice reads: 'You've hit your usage limit. Upgrade to Pro (https://chatgpt.com/explore/pro), visit https://chatgpt.com/codex/settings/usage to purchase more credits or try again at 6:05 PM.' A downward arrow icon and a footer showing '2 files +337 −15' (added/removed lines) appear at the bottom.

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 03/09/2026

keyboards: *literally a key called enter* #apple: "listen, it's cmd-o to open a folder"

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 03/09/2026

Zooming in on the latest DeepSWE lines: deepswe.datacurve.ai Gemini is now winning on cost but dramatically losing on number of agent steps, which doesn't sound so good for coding. Also this benchmark is getting saturated. SlopCodeBench when? #gemini #google #apple #aiagents

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What are we doing to help family and friends looking to upgrade from their windows 10 machines? Given hardware prices, do you deploy the #Linux option on their old computer and embrace your fate as tech support?

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Some napkin math for #BSD CVEs discovered with AI assistance: #FreeBSD 27 #OpenBSD 1 #NetBSD 0 #DragonFlyBSD 0

Debian developers looked at the policy used by the Linux kernel they distribute and decided to also accept LLM-generated code, but have less mandatory disclosure. lists.debian.org/debian-vote/...

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"The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution." So... decades of growth powered by innovation, widespread suffering and environmental damage, followed by worker organization and political reform that eventually secure a broader share of that wealth across society?

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Ricardo Tavares from 🌍 dreamup.games @dreamup.games · 21/08/2026

YMMV now stands for Your Model May Vary #llm #aiagents #ai

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#Cyberpunk games may have underestimated just how much of future law enforcement would be just a spot robot taking a waymo to a scene already surveilled by flock cameras and a dji drone. Work from home is never going away now.

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 21/08/2026

I'm sure politicians know that the purpose of a data center is to have zero people inside of it once it's running.

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 19/08/2026

Resharing the latest meta news while knowing that almost no court sentence can make most people stop using their whatsapp, insta or facebook. nmdoj.gov/press-releas... Meta (aka "social media" for most people) harms everyone, not just younger users.

nmdoj.gov

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 18/08/2026

The hardest puzzle challenges of the year have been solved on #defcon and #aiagents could "only" give you the answer for about a quarter of them. goldbug.cryptovillage.org

goldbug.cryptovillage.org

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 31/07/2026

Programmers grow in knowledge as they write code. Compilers are deterministic and don't cost you more for each line of text they take in. Determinism and practical knowledge is how most systems are maintained. It's how you fix bugs.

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 29/07/2026

Posting slop online and calling it good is a tactic that abuses communities by having them check your work when there's zero work from you in these posts. This has been around before #genAI but now it can be automated by feeding the responses back into the machine and repeating the cycle.

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 23/07/2026

See the number of people walking by in the street with their heads on their phones? That's how glassholes are no longer assholes. We need some decent alternatives for people to walk and phone without cameras propagating mass surveillance. Technology doesn't have to suck, but it also shouldn't Zuck.

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 22/07/2026

"You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools" codeberg.org/Codeberg/org... Approved by 69% (nice) #genAI #openSource #Linux #FOSS #aiagents

Poll result screenshot titled ‘Disallow vibe-coded projects (Terms of Use amendment)’ asking whether to accept changes from Codeberg pull request #1253. Voting closed July 21, 2026. Out of 1,085 eligible voters, 517 votes were cast: 358 Agree, 144 Disagree, 14 Abstain.

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Gareth Heyes @garethheyes.co.uk · 21/07/2026

I haven't posted a crazy XSS vector for a while... Works on every browser

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 20/07/2026

So far, version control systems have served to identify the problem, but not the solution. To understand any of them, you have to confront the issue of merge conflicts and walk back from them. A challenge with git can be about your code, your workflow or an understanding of #git itself.

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 12/07/2026

At least half the purpose of a code review is there to benefit a team of software developers and their understanding of the project. If we automate that to a point where no human is learning anything, we should call code review something else.

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Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 07/07/2026

Efforts for promoting the #fediverse need to recognise that, for a first impression, a gazillion options is too much and just one is too little. Maybe aim for two. You like chocolate or strawberry? You can even have both.

Ricardo Tavares @viewfromtheweb.com · 05/07/2026

Inflation is also rising artificially in #Portugal with a scheme that has already failed in Scotland or Malta. As always, it starts by charging more for plastic packaging that eventually you can redeem. But with no incentive to make redemption work, you just get charged more. Let the boycotts begin.