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Are we all millenials here or is that a misperception?

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  • @Gina such a cuties

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  • @cancel from reading the report from the copy right office it sounds like it is less of a matter of was a computer involved and more whether the human author did anything at all.

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  • Current* conditions near Alpena, MI:

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  • @res260 Sadly a likely observation :\

    So many people just giving up on their craft.

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  • @cwebber things sure are changing fast. code quality for example. and the ability of developers to write or recognize good code. now the direction of change isn't great, but...

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  • @cwebber I'm hanging out there a lot and yes there is a lot of vibecoding. However, they don't seem to vibecode more than the average paid software dev.

    In 2024, I'd say about 20% of my friends vibecoded. Today the number looks more like 90%. This is not specific to atproto, my understanding is that most people vibecode nowadays.

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  • (Reposted as unlisted to not pollute my instance's discovery with slop-related content)

    The US Supreme Court has declined to hear the AI copyright case. So, the new Copyright Office guidance that says the output of prompting systems that produce art, sound, text, etc., cannot be copyrighted, no matter how many times the human re-prompts or iterates the system, is upheld: https://www.theverge.com/policy/887678/supreme-court-ai-art-copyright

    (Guidance from Copyright Office: https://copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-Report.pdf )

    So, unless I'm misunderstanding something…

    1) If your corporate codebase is written with AI, and it leaks to the public, too bad -- no copyright protections. People can take it and use it.

    2) AI generated code is incompatible with GPL and GPL-like projects, because GPL requires copyright to be assigned in order to enforce the license. (Edit: only a problem if the project is 100% AI, since public domain can be mixed into GPL without problem.)

    Is that really what's happening? Am I misunderstanding something here?

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  • Designing A Pen Clip That Never Bends Out Of Shape

    If you’ve ever used a ballpoint pen with a clip on the top, you’ve probably noticed they bend pretty easily. The clip relies on you only bending it a small amount to clip it on to things; bend it too far, and it ends up permanently deformed. [Craighill] decided to develop a pen clip that didn’t suffer this ugly malady.
    The wire clip design easily opens wide because the spring wire is not actually deforming much at all. Credit: YouTube video, via screenshot
    The problem with regular pen clips comes down to simple materials science. Bend the steel clip a little bit, and the stress in the material remains below the elastic limit—so it springs back to its original shape. Push it too far, though, and you’ll end up getting into the plastic deformation region, where you’ve applied so much stress that the material is permanently deformed.

    [Craighill] noted this problem, and contemplated whether a better type of clip was possible. An exploration of carabiner clips served to highlight possible solutions. Some carabiners using elastically-deformed closures that faced the same problem, while others used more complicated spring closures or a nifty bent-wire design. This latter solution seemed perfect for building a non-deforming pen clip. The bent wire is effectively a small spring, which allows it to act as a clip to hold the pen on to something. However, it’s also able to freely rotate out from the pen body, limiting the amount of actual stress put on the material itself, which stops it entering the plastic deformation region that would ruin it.

    It’s some neat materials science combined with a pleasant bit of inventing, which we love to see. Sometimes there is joy to be had in contemplating and improving even the simplest of things. Video after the break.

    youtube.com/embed/bFDt3lUzVPc?…

    youtube.com/embed/3i9FGaakX-Y?…

    [Thanks to Keith Olson for the tip!]

    hackaday.com/2026/03/03/design…

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    Designing A Pen Clip That Never Bends Out Of ShapeIf you’ve ever used a ballpoint pen with a clip on the top, you’ve probably noticed they bend pretty easily. The clip relies on you only bending it a small amount to clip it on to things; bend it too far, and it ends up permanently deformed. [Craighill] decided to develop a pen clip that didn’t suffer this ugly malady. The wire clip design easily opens wide because the spring wire is not actually deforming much at all. Credit: YouTube video, via screenshotThe problem with regular pen clips comes down to simple materials science. Bend the steel clip a little bit, and the stress in the material remains below the elastic limit—so it springs back to its original shape. Push it too far, though, and you’ll end up getting into the plastic deformation region, where you’ve applied so much stress that the material is permanently deformed.[Craighill] noted this problem, and contemplated whether a better type of clip was possible. An exploration of carabiner clips served to highlight possible solutions. Some carabiners using elastically-deformed closures that faced the same problem, while others used more complicated spring closures or a nifty bent-wire design. This latter solution seemed perfect for building a non-deforming pen clip. The bent wire is effectively a small spring, which allows it to act as a clip to hold the pen on to something. However, it’s also able to freely rotate out from the pen body, limiting the amount of actual stress put on the material itself, which stops it entering the plastic deformation region that would ruin it.It’s some neat materials science combined with a pleasant bit of inventing, which we love to see. Sometimes there is joy to be had in contemplating and improving even the simplest of things. Video after the break.youtube.com/embed/bFDt3lUzVPc?…youtube.com/embed/3i9FGaakX-Y?…[Thanks to Keith Olson for the tip!]hackaday.com/2026/03/03/design…
  • Quante lamentele.

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    Quante lamentele. Qui da noi non ci sono problemi visto che "dietro ogni grande uomo c'è una grande donna e a casa comanda mia moglie" (cit. giornalista a Sanremo).#EU, nel 2024, salgono al 35,2 per cento le donne in ruoli manageriali, ma l’#Italia è fanalino di coda: I dati di Eurostat https://www.eunews.it/2026/03/02/ue-nel-2024-salgono-al-352-per-cento-le-donne-in-ruoli-manageriali-ma-litalia-e-fanalino-di-coda-i-dati-di-eurostat/ @societa
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    @0ciX_revoluti0ns scena tipo Madagascar con le persone che si trasformano in biscotti come lì gli animali in bistecche