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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

This is not her "O" face, it's her "Uh-oh" face.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/05/kristi-noem-has-been-taken-out-to-the-gravel-pit/

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zerodogg@hachyderm.io ("Eskild Hustvedt") wrote:

The proposed handling of LLM in Debian in the latest "Bits from the DPL" is a bit concerning. It misses the mark by acknowledging issues with LLM usage, and then dismisses them all by saying that "As a society, we rarely respond with categorical refusal. Instead, we regulate, reflect, and take responsibility for how we use them." and suggesting absolutely no regulation or reflection (and no particular responsibility other than that which comes with any contribution).

I'm not a Debian developer, just a longtime user (and upstream for an unimportant package). But if Debian isn't the principled, ethical one, then I'm guessing no one will be.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/03/msg00001.html

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pikhq@treehouse.systems ("Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

The most surreal thing about AI coding shit taking on is the revelation that so many people who do this thing that I love, seem to have no care for the craft at all. Even people who I would have pointed at, years ago, as those who clearly care. And I know it has always been Just A Job for many people, but holy shit, do you even care a little bit?
We humans are not merely bad at it, we have people who have been doing the work with no desire to be good at it in the first place.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

This is the exact same pitch Facebook sold to its userbase when it began algorithmically changing what we saw on our newsfeeds.

There are a dozen or more ways to see more content from people important to you, least of all leaving it up to a black box algorithm that would need to collect data on who your friends and family are.

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guffo@topspicy.social ("I’m Tired And Everything Hurts") wrote:

I miss the days when NFTs were the stupidest thing I'd ever heard of.

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elilla@transmom.love ("elilla&, famigerada travesti") wrote:

in one day I learn both about HarfBuzz guy and Donald fucking Knuth being one-shotted by code waifu psychosis (not to mention the bcachefs case from before https://poc.bcachefs.org/ ) (not to mention continued cases of murderous psychosis https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemini-ai-wrongful-death-lawsuit-cc46c5f7 )

I swear if I don't find comrades to declare full-blown Butlerian Jihad soon I'll just find some other job and retire from computers altogether, permanently

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davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/google-pledges-roughly-three-hours-of-its-annual-profit-to-fight-climate-change-164808010.html

jwz wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek/116178549601925386

"I got that reference!"

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zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

this was supposed to be a shitpost, what the fuck: https://social.coop/@cstanhope/116177449448368652 the chardet guy actually put “do not plagiarize from LGPL/GPL code” into the fucking prompt

how dare I assert that slopfans are all cookie cutter grifters whose brains got broken by a basic psychological trick

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mastodonmigration@mastodon.online ("Mastodon Migration") wrote:

@cdarwin

Joe Neguse is spectacular!

Here he is questioning Kristi Nome today...

Neguse: Where is this company headquartered?

Noem: I don’t know.

Neguse: I don’t know either. We can’t find it. We did find an address that’s registered to a political operative. This company that received 143 million dollars was incorporated 8 days before this contract went out. You want the American people to believe that this is all above board...

#Primary2026

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• video: Neguse: Where is this company headquartered? Noem: I don’t know. Neguse: I don’t know either. We can’t find it. We did find an address that’s registered to a political operative. This company that received 143 million dollars was incorporated 8 days before this contract went out. You want the American people to believe that this is all above board...

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The more I explore new ways to tackle my notes and tasks for my day-to-day work, the more I realize that a single-file-type system is the answer.

For the past few years, I've used Notion to create an objectives -> projects -> tasks type of system and my biggest frustration is juggling all the files generated—locating, managing, and clearing them.

Working from a single file, where all I do is scroll to things, is working far better. The challenge is, when do I start a new file?

rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

Rust 1.94.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀 ✨

A few highlights are array_windows() and element_offset() on slices, Peekable::next_if_map(), LazyCell::get and friends, and the new `include` key in config.toml to include other toml files!

Check out the blog post for details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/05/Rust-1.94.0/

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adrienne@treehouse.systems ("just adrienne") wrote:

So if you're using Proton thinking it's "privacy-focused", it turns out they're giving data to the Feebs now. https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Mark Zuckerberg is quoted as saying he wants to bring AI to developing nations. But really, that just means he wants to exploit cheap labor and reduce latency for his yuppie customers in the west.

It was always about this type "digital slavery"—machine learning, god AIs, fantastical robots that can fold your laundry—these are all Mechanical Turks piloted by impoverished workforces of the global south.

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-largest-subsea-cable-us-india-ai-infrastructure-2025-2

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Meta’s AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns: Workers Say “We See Everything”:

"It is an uncomfortable truth for tech giants: the AI revolution is to a large extent built on labor in low-income countries. What we call “machine learning” is often the result of human hands."

It makes sense why Meta is spending 10 billion on a deep sea fiber optic cable that connects the US to India, Brazil, and Africa
https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-everything

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jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:

Trump fired kristi noem, she is kristi noemore

This is not a joke, it's a hilarious fact.

Just in case you get all your news from here

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

so let me get this straight

We don't consider it a "clean room rewrite" if a human who has previously worked on a codebase and has clearly learned how something is supposed to work does a full rewrite, even if the code looks different, right? Because it's basically a derivative work?

But if the code is laundered through a plagiarism machine instead of a human, we're golden and we can disenfranchise any past contributors who expected their code to be distributed under a certain license/attribution?

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I could never be a herpetologist.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/05/snakes-are-boring/

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mathewi@journa.host ("Mathew Ingram") wrote:

There's a definite possibility that AI incorrectly targeted a school for a missile strike and killed 160 children

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Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha :mastodon: 🇪🇺") wrote:

A backup isn't a backup until you have successfully restored from it. Until then, it is just a very expensive file upload called 'Schrödinger's Data'.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

If you'd like a break from things in the form of fun music performances, you could do worse than sampling Lake Street Dive's annual covers they put out on Halloween:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL89nJ1so9bCr7twSwPppovKUaXTM7PnHC

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@Migueldeicaza I'm gonna be saying "AI means read == execute" every day until an early grave, aren't I?

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jessie ("Jess Rose") wrote:

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Migueldeicaza ("Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉") wrote:

We are doomed: https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another

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taylorlorenz ("Taylor Lorenz") wrote:

I wrote about the House hearing today, how Congress is trying to strip anonymity from the Internet, and the devastating effects that has for journalists, whistleblowers, LGBTQ ppl, immigrants, civil rights activists, abortion providers and anyone challenging power for @theintercept https://theintercept.com/2026/03/05/kosa-online-age-verification-free-speech-privacy/

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inkscape@mastodon.art ("Inkscape") wrote:

We're hiring!

#The Inkscape project is looking for two #developers 🧑‍💻🧑‍💻 and a bug #administrator 🐛 to work with our team on preparing Inkscape version 1.5!

Learn all about who we are looking for: https://inkscape.org/news/2026/03/02/inkscape-is-hiring-2026-1/

Applications must be submitted by 📆 April 10th, 2026.

#WorkInFLOSS #FLOSS #job #freesoftware

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

If your org is trapped on the treadmill[1], you should plan One Last Upgrade: get to React 19 (which *finally* has Web Components support) -- or even better, Preact -- then *get the hell off*. Move your componentry to WC incrementally, bit by bit, until the React part of your codebase is nothing more than`<></>`

[1]: https://polotek.net/posts/the-frontend-treadmill/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Another day, another email documenting a vast waste of resources on a React upgrade.

You know who doesn't have to do this nonsense? Folks who write to the web platform. Your old code still works. Your new code works even better.

Why? Because unlike React, we take the platform's role *as a platform* quite seriously.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Copyright has always been a tricky balance. Trying to distinguish between inspiration and a ripoff. Let authors make a living, but not put the entire shared culture behind a paywall. Allow education, parody, commentary without creating loopholes for freeloaders (with lots of grey areas, flaws, gaps, and abuses in practice).
If copyright didn't exist, we'd have even more paranoid DRM used to defend commercial interests. If copyright was harsher, we'd get more walled gardens and DMCA-silencing.

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Kat@sleeping.town wrote:

@zkat less "free as in freedom" more "if you knock on my door and ask for help i'll give you dinner and a couch", yknow