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[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 1 points 4 hours ago

That bot-to-bot PR is terrifying. A ton of maintainers who inherited old projects are starting to just hand them over to bots.

Some of these projects are upstream dependencies for tons of existing codebases and it's only a matter of time before a bot tells another bot "LGTM" and starts merging code that blatantly steals info. Especially for projects that are known to be part of CI/CD or build tooling that no one ever really looks at.

Another reason to only use the standard library and a small subset of trusted packages that you have audited/follow...

[–] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

This isn’t really important but I hate “not a theory anymore” - A theory is something supported by the evidence.

Evolution by natural selection is still “a theory” and it’s the most proven fundamental fact of biology

[–] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 9 points 21 hours ago

The word they’re usually looking for is “hypothesis”

[–] MayoPete@hexbear.net 6 points 20 hours ago

We need to build bots to spread agit prop on all these social media sites. Free us up to have conversations with humans IRL. Let the bots duke it out online.

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 4 points 20 hours ago

When is the mass exodus?

Unfortunately never because short form content is incomprehensibly addictive by design