finally, a private key that current quantum computers can factorize

I guess what I'm saying is that if someone told me they're using AI "responsibly" because they they checked the output and they're using Rust, I'm kind of inclined to call bullshit on the whole affair because they must be using a Rust that exists in an alternative universe than the one that I learned.

Either that or I somehow missed the learn Rust in 24 hours tutorial.

One thing I don't quite get about all of these people using LLMs to target Rust is the idea that these same people would be able to just look at any part of the generated Rust output and easily understand what's happening or why the code looks like it does.

I don't mean that as a knock on Rust, but as an experienced programmer, I felt like it took me quite a while to build an intuition around what Rust was doing. Even now, if you showed me some Rust fragment, it'd take awhile to understand.

I liked single-use software more when it was simply called scripting.

Some Puffballs popped in the yard. Kind of freaky (have never seen these before).

13.5 PB / 8.3 billion people =~ 1.8MB of Python per person on planet Earth per day. Seems normal.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@pypi/117444912512300470

At this point, something seems very "wrong" about the forces driving this kind of usage.

"AI will solve the simple problems so humans can focus on the hard ones" is such a ridiculous fail at understanding anything about how humans acquire skills and knowledge.

Humans HAVE TO solve simple problems and then advanced problems in order to learn how to solve the really hard ones. This is not optional.

Good luck solving any difficult problems in the future with a generation of people who spent their entire education typing every problem into a chatbot's prompt box.

An Open Letter To The People Writing Lengthy Posts About 'Why I'm Going Back to Twitter'

https://dansinker.com/posts/2026-10-12-open-letter/

"No Man Is an Island" by Fernando Borretti https://borretti.me/article/no-man-is-an-island

I feel a lot of this to be sure. I think many of us may be running on the fumes of motivation from a previous era.

Soundtrack for all of us dealing with hyperscrapers and slopcode PRs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K4oym9Pw48

If you protest, are you now a paid protestor?

This is farked.

Voice actors now have to compete against AI reproductions of their own voices.

And because they often don't hold the copyright to the ads of TV shows they work on, there's basically no recourse:

"Jacqui Duncan has voiced more than 5000 commercials for Australian radio and television. And, as she told [a NSW stare government committee on AI], she owns none of them.

"Last financial year, Duncan earned about 30 per cent of what she had consistently made in the three years before. She now works a second job.

"'AI voices and performances have definitely played a big part,' she told this masthead. Clients have also used them to push down the rates the union spent years fighting for, she said. 'It’s faster and cheaper, so therefore we should be as well.'

"Duncan, the NSW president of Equity, the performers’ division of the media union, gave evidence to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence. 'I never gave consent for my work to be taken,' she said. 'Our members are already 62 per cent down on their work in the last 12 months,' Simon Kennedy, president of the Australian Association of Voice Actors, told the same hearing.
...
"OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Google all put Canberra on notice – Australia’s copyright rules will dictate whether they train their flagship models on local soil. But copyright usually belongs to a studio, label, publisher or advertiser, not to the performer or writer who made the work. Under the deals and funds on the table, the alliance warned, the money flows to whoever holds the copyright.

"Duncan has never held the copyright to her own commercials. 'But if it’s my biometric data and 20 years of industry skills that go into those performances, I should have a say,' she said. Clients, she said, should not get a performance at all if it 'only exists because mine and thousands of others’ training, performance skills, experience and creative consciousness have all been whittled down to ones and zeros, fed into an LLM (for free) and then exported'.
...
"She knows voice artists and actors who have been replaced by AI copies of themselves, their voices or faces used in new campaigns without consent or payment.

"When one colleague asked a producer why he had not even been consulted, Duncan said, the producer replied that he 'assumed consent was given'."

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/i-never-gave-consent-the-australians-being-replaced-with-copies-of-themselves-20261010-p613x1.html

#AI #VoiceActor #VoiceActing #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #auspol #NSWpol #Gemini #Claude #Anthropic #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Google #AIBubble #capitalism #business #politics #nsw #nswpol

I wrote a little piece about the ongoing battle for the soul of software as a craft, where we’ve been, and where I hope we’re going https://drac.at/posts/2026-10-01-war-for-the-soul-of-software/

I knew it was coming in advance and was standing outside right under the flight path--which I will admit was kind of awesome.

How did I know this? I read the newsletter sent out from the city earlier in the week. Yes, reading. Of words. On my own.

Ah, nothing like a low afterburner F-16 flyover of the neighborhood to make the local Reddit group melt down.

Really trying to think of a reason why I shouldn't just pull all of my Python training stuff off the web at this point.

I swear, every fall is always some kind of Darwin awards season of summer cyclists.

Almost hit a cyclist in car. Naturally, he had no lights, no reflectors, and dark clothes. Dude. I bike almost every day (including this morning in the dark). Figure it out.

I once wrote a list comprehension that was too dangerous to show people.