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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

Thinking of starting a list of popular open source software developed using LLMs and by LLM boosters, along with alternatives that can be tried instead. LLM in FOSS should be socially shunned.

Anyone interested?

Update: https://codeberg.org/gen-ai-transparency/open-slopware alright, it's up. Patches welcome! Please send me your PRs at your leisure.

#foss #opensource #genai

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I sometimes scroll YouTube shorts, which I'm working on, not the point. lol

But I noticed something interesting. Google's revenue might be hurting. Normally, they serve an ad every 4 videos (idk why I know this I just do).

Now it's every two videos. YouTube servers an ad every two videos on Shorts. That's wild. And because I know it's the third video, I just scroll right passed and I'm guessing they still count it as a view.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
masspirates@social.globalpirates.net ("Massachusetts Pirate Party") wrote:

If you are going to tonight's 6pm protest in Boston at Park Street, bring friends and mask. Use airplane mode, turn off your phone or don't bring it to disable tracking. Bring a camera if you want to record it. MBTA stations and buses have cameras. Here is an incomplete map of surveillance cameras around Park Street. Get your own map at cctv.masspirates.org

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Courtesy of The Great Fediverse, it's the second day in a row that I'm reading about writing [1][2]. So I got interested. If one wants to (more formally) learn how to write, where one would start? An online class? A series of articles? A mentor?

[1]: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/07/delicious-pizza/#hold-the-gravel
[2]: https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/how-to-write-like-a-person

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca ("Broadwaybabyto") wrote:

What happened to Renee Nicole Good is not an anomaly or a rare phenomenon.

The only unusual factor is that she was white.

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot & killed by ICE on New Year’s Eve.

Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. She survived but has a hole in her arm forever.

Silverio Villegas González was shot dead in Franklin Park Illinois when he panicked and tried to run.

Then there’s the more than 30 people who’ve died in the camps.

No accountability. No punishment.

Keep speaking out. Let’s make sure this officer is held responsible.

#abolishice #ice #uspol #minneapolis #fascism #immigration #reneenicolegood

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social ("ophiocephalic 🐍") wrote:

@fromjason
What you're describing is "justified" by the state's monopoly on "legitimate" violence, which is really the defining characteristic of what a state is at all. In this context, summary street executions by inept clowns with badges is legitimate, but harmlessly running away is terrorism

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DrJackBrown@mstdn.social ("Dr. Jack Brown :verified:") wrote:

"People in positions of power have already passed judgement – from the President, to the Vice President, to Kristi Noem have stood and told you things that are verifiably false... they have determined the character of a 37 year-old mother that they didn't even know."

Governor Tim Walz

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lorenzofb@infosec.exchange ("Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai") wrote:

NEW: The internet in Iran is nearly completely shut down, according to monitoring firms.

The blackout comes in the midst of countrywide protests that have lasted for days after spikes in prices and shortages of basic goods. The govenrment has responded with a violent crackdown.

“I think we’re at a near-total disconnection from the outside world now,” said Amir Rashidi, an Iranian cybersecurity researcher.

http://techcrunch.com/2026/01/08/internet-collapses-in-iran-amid-protests-over-economic-crisis/

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

A propos of nothing in particular, I was reminded of this song about having a queer teenage crush on the pink power ranger. #39C3

https://youtu.be/G0QSubCuexk

Couldn't find any non-youtube links unfortunately.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
autonomysolidarity@todon.eu ("Autonomie und Solidarität") wrote:

Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference

‚A hacktivist remotely wiped three white supremacist websites live onstage during their talk at a hacker conference last week, with the sites yet to return online.
The pseudonymous hacker, who goes by Martha Root — dressed as Pink Ranger from the Power Rangers — deleted the servers of WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal in real time at the end of a talk at the annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany….‘

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/hacktivist-deletes-white-supremacist-websites-live-on-stage-during-hacker-conference/

Great 👏 @back2theRoot

#Ccc #39C3 #FightNazis #Hacking #Tech #Technology #Activism #HH #Hamburg #Germany

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“The Minnesota agency tasked with investigating the killing of a U.S. citizen by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has withdrawn from the case, alleging federal authorities have restricted its access to evidence.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/bca-withdraws-renee-good-ice-shooting-investigation/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

It's fucking egregious that state sponsored violence is so commonplace in our country, so engrained in our culture, that you can defend loss of life by simply reminding people that if you make a mistake, if your fight or flight kicks in while being charged at by a cop and you flee, your murder is justified.

A trained cop can murder someone out of fear. But a regular citizen must have the nerves of a navy seal when interacting with a man who can kill you then go on paid vacation.

#ICE

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
iftas@mastodon.iftas.org ("IFTAS") wrote:

The 2025 Social Web Trust & Safety Needs Assessment Report is now available.

Volunteer moderators are burning out. Spam is rising. Legal threats are growing.

The 2025 Report reveals where things stand, and what must change.

Read it now: https://about.iftas.org/2026/01/08/the-2025-social-web-trust-safety-report-is-here/

#TrustAndSafety #Moderation #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #Moderators #FediMods #MastoMods

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
parismarx@mastodon.online ("Paris Marx") wrote:

Every day, thousands of women and children are victimized by people on X using the Grok chatbot to generate scantily clad and naked photos of them.

It’s time for governments to take action. Elon Musk’s X should have been banned long ago. They don’t have an excuse to delay any longer.

https://disconnect.blog/elon-musks-x-must-be-banned/

#tech #socialmedia #elonmusk #x #grok #twitter #everythingapp #deepfake

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
cory@follow.coryd.dev ("Cory Dransfeldt :demi:") wrote:

ICE should be dissolved and all ERO agents should be prosecuted and/or barred from any future public service. #Politics #UsPol

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

I was lucky enough to see a kingfisher fishing at Rye Harbour last week.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

@fromjason

This just reminded me why the only algorithmic, corporate platform I still use is LinkedIn: it’s to practice #sensemaking where the PMC gather.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ambiguous_yelp@veganism.social ("🌱🏴‍🅰️🏳️‍⚧️🐧📎 Ambiyelp") wrote:

@fromjason

Briar Messenger does something similar it has three modes Internet (Tor) WiFi and Bluetooth, WiFi and Bluetooth can apparently be used to create mesh networks in crowds even when the internet is out

Meshtastic also does something similar but requires a custom lora radio node to be in range and basically only has the bandwidth for texting

of course both FLOSS and E2EE

#BriarMessenger #Meshtastic #FLOSS #E2EE #PSA #Privacy #Anonymity #Security #InstantMessaging #Tor #MeshNetwork

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

RE: https://graeber.social/@DGI/115860282294677156

Big reason why American's definition of violence is so narrow and never includes or considers state/billionaire-sanctioned violence. Why the #NoKings movement has only ever communicated "non-violence" as a core tenet.

In this country, we believe in self-defense but only if the perpetrator is poor. State violence and economic violence are actions we must absorb quietly, lest we lose the support of the people who can actually enact change—professional-managerial class.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

https://bitchat.free/:

"traditional messaging apps depend on centralized infrastructure that can be monitored, censored, or disabled. https://bitchat.free/ creates ad-hoc communication networks using only the devices present in physical proximity."

This is Jack Dorsey’s app, for whatever that is worth. But since FireChat disappeared, I don’t know of many apps like this that are easy to install.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Meta renews commitment to make Threads part of the fediverse (2023):

"The addition of ActivityPub to Threads may finally bring a new era of decentralized social media that many internet enthusiasts, such as myself, have longed for. In a strange twist of fate, Meta is now positioned as the unexpected hero who may save everyone from the travesty of Musk’s X while simultaneously making the fediverse a reality to all ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/01/08/meta-renews-commitment-to-make.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
qrper@mastodon.radio ("Thomas (K4SWL)") wrote:

Vacation POTA: Pedestrian Portable at Carolina Beach State Park

https://qrper.com/2026/01/vacation-pota-pedestrian-portable-at-carolina-beach-state-park/?swcfpc=1

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eliothiggins.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Eliot Higgins") wrote:

Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jasonkoebler ("Jason Koebler") wrote:

ICE has recently bought the capability of monitoring the location histories of entire neighborhoods worth of phones. The data is likely harvested from apps that sell your data, which filters up through data brokers and eventually to companies that sell to ICE:

https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

#Cats Christmas/Chanukah

(by my friend Marcia Weisbrot)

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
Herne@corteximplant.net ("Problem Fox") wrote:

@adele
Account setup :blobfoxcheck:
Tested via NOCC :blobfoxcheck:
Thunderbird setup via POP3 and tested :blobfoxcheck:
XMPP setup in Covnersations :blobfoxcheck:

Thanks for another great smol service!

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

brb just had the most evil idea for a web component

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Trying a clear “skin” protector for the MacBook Pro—first time for one of these in years, since I stopped putting them on phones. I give myself about three days before I rip it off because a bubble won’t go away or I’ve noticed a trapped dust particle.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Good morning! Fascism sucks.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

ChatGPT falls to new data pilfering attack as a vicious cycle in AI continues
Will LLMs ever be able to stamp out the root cause of these attacks? Possibly not.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/chatgpt-falls-to-new-data-pilfering-attack-as-a-vicious-cycle-in-ai-continues/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social