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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

Fears over mythos model

look, they even put 'myth' in the name, do you still need help making the connection?

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

that was then discontinued and replaced with... nothing.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
revk@toot.me.uk ("RevK :verified_r:") wrote:

Why do people fall for this?

Second time I have seen a nicely printed sign in a shop window with a #QR which when scanned says your free trial is over.

Just make the QR go to your own website FFS.

[helpful info: my free code tools https://qr.revk.uk and web QR encoder https://4.gg at bottom of page - includes a lot of QR abuse as well]

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

yes, i'm actually building a gc in this time. blame wingo for writing one.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

say you are programming your new favourite garbage collected unityped language.

what does it look like?

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

lol people attempting to do a british accent is hilarious

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

that was out and i hope not to see any more of it for a while.

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

For some reason my regular contribution to social.coop that had been working for years just.... stopped. It happened sometime late last year. I had a hiccup with the credit card I used, but I fixed that, so I don't know why it suddenly stopped. Regardless, it should be going again now. Support your local instances when you can!

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

I tend to follow every link in everything I read to check whether the citations are bullshit. But these blocks usually happen on other sites. If I had to make a guess, it'd be that a number of sites are using the same service to prevent abuse and that service is tracking me across sites despite uBlock Origin.

Or they're just monitoring IP addresses.

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

Seeing a substantial increase in single clicks resulting in "we've detected bot-like behaviour" roadblocks on websites. Usually the explanation on the block cites something like "unusual amount of clicks" as the reason.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
pikhq@treehouse.systems ("Ada Worcester 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

RE: https://mas.to/@zzt/116421779159583503

"fuck you, make me" is always the correct answer to fascists. this is a simple truth that apparently is hard as hell to teach

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

also, is it not plainly fucking horrid that your account creation experience on linux of all fucking things is getting worse due to an unjust, unconstitutional (in the US) law? are you not pissed that muscle memory and scripts will break and command line account creation will get much worse due to this? no objections from the fuckers who campaign against any improvements to the status quo on this one? no? only when doing so fucks over someone else? how weird!

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

“Stuck Character Service”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/stuck-character-service/

> "It's early days" – people toss out that cliche all the time to defend the failures of "AI" to work well, to be embraced, to make money, and so on. But it's not early days. Not remotely. We've been trapped in Sam Altman's ChatGPT hustle for almost five years now.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jasongorman@mastodon.cloud ("Jason Gorman") wrote:

"Does code quality matter if LLMs can regenerate software from scratch?"

LLMs can't regenerate software from scratch. That's not a thing, nor is it ever likely to be.

But thanks for letting us know you're getting your information about LLMs from LinkedIn posts.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
zzt@mas.to ("[object Object]") wrote:

“software can’t just ignore laws it doesn’t like” it literally can. corporations do it constantly and I really doubt any of them will drop linux if it doesn’t comply with a set of godawful fascist age verification laws. historically one of the forms of pushback against unjust laws is to show some basic fucking solidarity and do nothing to assist in their enforcement because it really isn’t practical to sue everybody, but unfortunately solidarity is alien to most of these computer fuckers

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
gwynnion ("Nowhere Girl") wrote:

"AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44.

*Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers.

It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)

In other words, AI resentment maps pretty directly to how precarious your job situation is. For Gen Z, this is the worst entry level job market in decades."

https://bsky.app/profile/bcmerchant.bsky.social/post/3mjifntpkhc2e

Boosted by jwz:
graydon@canada.masto.host ("Graydon") wrote:

"digital sovereignty", no, no, you're being weirdly abstract.

Power, today, consists of being able to exert control and take large profits by charging people to live through control of fossil carbon. (Society exists to make you buy gas. It's good at it. The people selling gas make a killing.)

"Age verification" is recognition that they have to stop selling you carbon, so they're going to pivot to controlling if you can have an economic existence.

They're going to rent you being able to live.

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Finally, part 3. Long and winding, but that's because there's no easy answers, just soup.

An AI Haters Guide to Code with LLMs (Philosophy & Personal Politics)

https://aredridel.dinhe.net/2026/04/18/an-ai-haters-guide-to-code-with-llms-philosophy/

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw:⁠:paw:") wrote:

Not every number is okay. Some are even ILLEGAL!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal%5Fnumbers

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

I've been pretty hard on the LLM bros, but this truly is innovation (in benchmarketing):

https://youtu.be/Oq5e%5F8zvick

zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán") wrote:

I do language apps because they get me

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

1. AI Is a Research Field
2. AI Is an Approach to Cognitive Science
3. AI Is a Parlor Trick
4. AI Is an Ideology
5. AI Is a Way to Hide and Devalue Human Labor
6. AI Is a Way to Shift Accountability
7. AI Is a Way to Centralize Power

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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

"The term “AI” resists definition because it is continually reappropriated by people to mean different things. This, in turn, means that discussions of AI that do not provide working definitions for the purposes at hand risk incoherence. [...]

Accordingly, this article does not provide a definition of the term “AI” but rather explores various ways in which the idea of AI has been used to organize how people understand our world, allocate resources, and relate to each other."

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jwz wrote:

Insurance Fraud Fursona.

Three sentenced for 'man in bear suit' insurance scam: Viral video handed to insurers as evidence seemed to show a bear in a 2010 Rolls-Royce Ghost in Lake Arrowhead on 28 January 2024. Similar claims were filed on the same...
https://jwz.org/b/yk6c

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat ("Katerina Marchán"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

When you read about Bans of Social Media for Teens and Age Verification, you must remember what it truly means:

• Official identification of every adult using social media.

• Deanonymization of every account, endangering groups that often rely on pseudonymity for safety, such as victims of domestic violence, victims of stalkers, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people.

• Putting every adult at great danger of exploitation, fraud, and identity theft by forcing them to share their official ID with a for-profit third-party company with no incentive to protect it. Breaches have already happened.

• Constructing a system of mass surveillance to attach every comment on social media to a legal identity. Effectively allowing authoritarian governments to silence their critics and opposition.

• Potential for dystopian censorship and cutting off means of organization for groups of resistance to oppressive regime and organizations.

• Endangering children online by putting a clear identification beacon over every child or family with children online.

• Endangering the data of children who will inevitably try to pass as adults, and have their information collected by the third-party for-profit company.

• Diminishing the value of official identification due to the inevitable data breaches, eventually pushing the system to require even more intrusive identification techniques, such as iris scans and fingerprints.

• Installing a system of mass surveillance capable of attaching even more information to everyone's legal identity. With a potential to built list of people in certain groups, and scale-up state censorship and discrimination in unprecedented ways.

• The list goes on and on.

This isn't about protecting the children.
It never was.

Do not be duped by this excuse used to convince you to let go of your human rights. They are only trying to manipulate people lacking information.

Stay informed on the issues related to Age Verification, and push back for your rights to privacy and democracy.

The future depends on us.

#AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

My brother is looking for survey subjects for an engineering course he's taking, with the criteria being "anyone who owns a business or, as an individual, produces large amounts of waste, or is in charge of waste disposal". If you or someone you know meets these criteria would you mind DMing me so I can send along a link to a survey? Thanks!

Boosted by EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️"):
lisamelton ("Lisa Melton") wrote:

RE: https://masto.ai/@transworld/116422911533853918

Just in case it's not obvious to cis folks here, this is a death sentence for #transgender people in the U.S. if these motherfuckers are successful.

Do *NOT* let them take this first step. That's why we need your help to fight this bullshit. Together. ✊🏳️‍⚧️

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I am going to need some volutnteer copy-editors / advance readers for this monstrosity. if you're a booster this is going to be a hard read because it's relentlessly negative. but if you're a critic it's going to be a hard read because there's a lot of harm-reduction safety-tips language assuming that the reader doesn't agree with me and that they will continue to use AI (or at the very least are not able to escape mandates to use AI). so does anyone feel like doing some self-abuse next week

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
mistakenotmy ("Wolf Ha") wrote:

$30 billion and the water supply of a small city later

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ZeekWolfy ("✨Party Zeki 🌌") wrote:

Girls night! 💋

#fursuitfriday