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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
doriantaylor wrote:

in the 90s reeves and nass published a book (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo3618528.html) arguing that people treat computers like other people

@mralancooper noted (in his 1999 book, which is how i know about it) that computers are assholes, so you're bound to pick up asshole behaviour if you hang around them too much

(and now computers are lying sycophants so that's probably great)

(said book btw: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0672326140)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

“AI can make mistakes” might as well be the slogan of our era. Even boosters admit that you need to spin the vibe code slot machine a few times to get a jackpot.

An employee with that degree of consistency would be fired.

So how do we redirect some of that unlimited grace from machines to humans?

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/corporations-demand-perfection-from-workers-but-ai-gets-unlimited-slack

#UX #UXDesign #LLM #AI #tech #softwaredevelopment

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
rohitfarmer@fosstodon.org ("Rohit Farmer, Ph.D.") wrote:

@adele I was introduced to Gemini using pollux.casa. I had my capsule hosted on it before moving to my own server. I can vouch for this service.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com ("VM (Vicky) Brasseur") wrote:

Saw a Linkedin post from someone saying their job is now being a (headcount-unlimited) manager of agents who program things poorly but can be reprimanded and fired easily.

They saw this as a fantastic thing. I honestly felt ill reading it, partly because previously I'd believed this person ethical. I was wrong.

"They do bad work but I can yell at them and 'fire' them easily" is a structurally unsound basis for building products, regardless of the medium used for that construction.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

RE: https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/big-tech-greenwashing-report/

Ketan Joshi, who has been on the beat for a long time, actually looked into the story of if "AI" can "solve climate change". Conceptually as well as evidence based.

"We found that most of the ‘benefit’ tends to relate to older, smaller and leaner forms of machine learning, what has been called ‘traditional AI’, while we also know that most of the new harm is likely stemming from consumer generative AI over-deployment."

Super worth reading and sharing around.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
hdv@front-end.social ("Hidde") wrote:

one of biggest icks with AI hype from companies like Microsoft probably comes from my experience with their regular features in their regular software.

Like, I am manually copy pasting events in Outlook because it cannot share a subscribed calendar with my colleagues, why would I trust an org that ships UX like that to do magic?

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
fdroidorg@floss.social ("F-Droid") wrote:

The #FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and #Android will be locked-down in under 200 days.

If you care about the freedom to control your devices and care about the privacy of you data, please contact your representative and make your voice heard.

https://keepandroidopen.org/ (thanks @marcprux) has the resources to guide you.

We know users will rarely visit the site so the Client(s) will get a banner soon too.

Thank you for your support!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
dockerr ("El Dockerr") wrote:

Running out of DSP slices on your FPGA? I’ve been experimenting with Low-Rank Approximations for 3x3 Convolutions to solve exactly that.

My latest project replaces standard matrix multiplications with learned, hardware-friendly bit-shifts.
The result:
• 33% reduction in DSP usage (2 Muls instead of 3)
• <1% error (SSIM > 0.99)
• Ideal for SWaP-C constrained edge perception.

https://www.dockerr.blog/blog/lowrank-hardware-approximation

#FPGA #VHDL #EmbeddedSystems #ComputerVision #EdgeAI #OpenScience #Engineering

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

All watched over by machines of loving grace but it's all the creatures big and (especially) small we have coevolved with that keep this tiny oasis of life in a vast cold universe thriving.

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

🌟 Pollux is one of the main stars in the Gemini constellation.
🏠​ Casa means home.

pollux.casa = your home in the Gemini constellation.

Free Gemini capsule hosting. No server to manage.

You can get:
- gemini://yourname.pollux.casa/
- Also on https:// (for friends not on Gemini yet)
- SFTP to upload your content
- Free to leave anytime, take your capsule with you

The whole thing runs on a small Intel NUC in my home:
Celeron N2830. 4GB RAM. ADSL.

110 capsules. Still going. 🚀

Because the SmolWeb doesn't need big iron.

What would you name your capsule on gemini://pollux.casa/

https://pollux.casa

#GeminiProtocol #SmolWeb #LowTech #FOSS

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

my novel on visually-hidden may be published this week

I've exhausted the internet archive of references!

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

that :heading with pow() one-liner is pretty neat!

https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/building-typographic-scales-with-headings-sibling-index-and-pow

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

The obnoxious GitHub OpenClaw AI bot is ... a crypto bro

AI is crypto part two

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYFvi4hK7wI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260216-the-obnoxious-github-openclaw-ai-bot-is-a-crypto-bro - podcast

time: 5 min 54 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/16/the-obnoxious-github-openclaw-ai-bot-is-a-crypto-bro/ - blog post

Boosted by jwz:
oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

The Onion had a really good website this week.

jwz wrote:

You may have noticed that sometimes, late at night, I post a YouTube link to a song without context, the implicit context being, "Hey, good song, listen." So I was about to do that just now but all copies of this particular song have seemingly been scrubbed from YouTube, which given the content is what even Alanis would think is ironic. Anyway so

Attachments:

• video: d08c4507cd813145.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

tech guys only use the word "nuance" when they want to make excuses for propaganda

Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Columbia University is notorious for its repeated, pathetic capitulation to Trump's fascism. But apparently there IS at least one ethical line it's willing to draw.

jwz wrote:

Dear Layzweb, what is the modern best way to remote desktop a Mac from a Mac through an ssh tunnel? I have had just about enough of NoMachine's bullshit. Not interested in anything that involves some Clown intermediary.
https://jwz.org/b/yk3k

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

blogged: Web font choice and loading strategy

https://dbushell.com/2026/02/17/web-font-choice-and-loading-strategy/

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

might as well "@gork is this true" in the GitHub PR

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

too lazy to review your slopware? generate a funny!

At least they're no longer pretending to review the code...

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/17/release-notes-webcomic/

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

We need to "Ratatuify" everything 🔥

📦 **winget-tui** — A TUI for Windows Package Manager

💯 Search, install, uninstall & upgrade packages with Vim-style navigation.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/shanselman/winget-tui

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #windows #winget #cli #devtools #opensource

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

what AI reveals is just how many people have given up, or never cared to begin with

clock in, slop around, clock out

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
bbbbbr@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

Draw on the Game Boy and share direct to your phone with a #QRCode! No extra hardware and without the internet.

QR-Paint is a small paint program for the #GameBoy with a fun way to export drawings.

- 96x96, B&W due to QRCode size and no PNG compression yet
- Emulator .sav file can be opened in paint programs as a png (last drawing exported as QRCode)

https://bbbbbr.itch.io/game-boy-qr-paint

- Cursor movement could still use improving
- Open Source :)

#GBDK #RetroGaming #PixelArt #GameBoyColor

Attachments:

• gifv: Video of a QR Paint running on a game boy, editing a drawing of a dog cow, then sharing it via QRCode to a mobile phone browser

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
brainwane@social.coop ("Sumana Harihareswara") wrote:

I love stories of someone creatively using their physical & interpersonal skills to start an innovative small business

https://apnews.com/article/italy-winter-olympics-ice-skating-camera-ice-b1eda123daa91d7ed5d8da3617776739

"After retiring from competitive skating in 2011, he worked in ballroom dancing and was inspired by how television motivated amateurs to learn new dances. He wanted the same for skating..."

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
nev@status.nevillepark.ca ("Neville Park") wrote:

Year of My Butlerian Jihad

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
varx@infosec.exchange ("varx/tech") wrote:

I made a tool that converts open source code into LLM poison: https://codeberg.org/timmc/scraggle

It mutates Rust source code in ways that *preserve* the ability to compile the code. (That is, you can't detect the changes by looking for compiler errors.) For example, it switches `+` and `*`, or `==` and `!=`.

If you fork a Rust repo, run this tool on it, and push it somewhere, then crawlers will end up ingesting all sorts of incorrect code.

#scraggle #RustLang #LLMPoisoning

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Discourse is another excellent self-hosted alternative to Discord. I’ve just published a guide on how to get it up and running on your own server for less than the cost of a Discord “server boost” (bleh).

https://www.neatnik.net/setting-up-a-discourse-server

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I should add -- the way this issue makes itself known is that every DNS query takes 5 seconds, because glibc is waiting for the response to the 2nd request it made on the same port. (While your NAT or firewall have dropped it.)

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Anyway, for anyone who finds this when searching, if you don't want to serialize all of your DNS requests (especially if you're on a hi-latency link like me), you can instead configure your system with a local DNS cache (ex: dnsmasq). or check if your router already supports that for you. It probably isn't making the same mistake glibc is.