here's a straight copy from one of my notes:
CI: whatever the fuck this means: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/compare/0.19.3...0.19.12#diff-31c8b5ad58b6e0303652ae0b92b791054bd324b66b9a6538d89bff571de95e4aR208
froztbyte
joined 2 years ago
an absolute clowncar of yolo development practices. here's just a few of the notes (there's a whole spreadsheet):
scripts that used to be called x.sh (shebang /bin/sh) suddenly renamed x.bash in main (shebang still /bin/sh). most of them take cli args, have no safety nets (arg checks etc), and have side effects (file alterations, commits and tags generated, etc)
there's a RELEASES.md which afaict is/was not generated by anything ever in the repo. it's also out of date, has been touched by 5 commits (one more if you include other branches), and is wrong
the build and test process ~~targets~~ uses both a rust stable version (1.81) and nightly
the container compose files fully switched out from the mainline postgres containers, to something called pgautoupgrade. I haven't yet gotten to look to see what it is/does, or what magic footguns it might be. the inter-version migration testing appears to be fully reliant on this thing.
the sum test action for migrations is "run sed over a target config, then spin it up"
there appear to be some new config settings. they have comments about their usage. they appear to be important. I only caught them because I was looking at the 0.19.3..0.19.12 diff
for the viewers at home: you definitely don't want to have to do this yourself
(we're going over the lemmy backend changelog and hooo boy)
could go either way tbh
I didn't dig into the post/username at all so I can't guesstimate likelihood of this! get where you're coming from
(......I really need to finish my blog relaunch (this thought brought to you by the explication I was about to embark on in this context))
(((it's soon.gif tho!)))
got sent this image
wonder how many more of these things we'll see before people start having a real bileful response to this (over and above the fact that a number of people have been warning about exactly this outcome for a while now)
(transcript below)
transcript
title: I gave my mom's company an Al automation and now she and her coworkers are unemployed
body: So this is eating me alive and I don't really know where else to put it. I run this little agency that builds these Al agents for staffing firms. Basically the agent pre-screens candidates, pulls the info into a neat report, and sends it back so recruiters don't waste hours on screening calls. It's supposed to be a tool, not a replacement.
My mom works at this mid sized recruiting company. She's always complained about how long it takes to qualify candidates, so I set them up with one of my agents just to test it. It crushed it. Way faster, way cheaper, and honestly more consistent than most of their team.
Fast forward two months and they've quietly laid off almost her whole department. Including my mom. I feel sick. Like I built something that was supposed to help people, and instead it wiped out my mom's job and her team. I keep replaying it in my head like I basically automated my own family out of work.
they should just touch GRASS
Guided Rationalist Acceptance of Socionormality Studies
brinish sports tabloids? yeah who knows what those salty fuckers undersea get up to, so slippery!
names for genai people I know of so far: promptfans, promptfondlers, sloppers, autoplagues, and botlickers
any others out there?
I figured, but I couldn't just let a terrible pun slip me by!
why think at all if you can just tread water and iterate 37 times instead?
(I don't really know what the thinking is, can only see the outcomes. but it's some hella mediocre no-effort shit, punching through the problem)