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

LLMs are *absolute concentrated brain poison* for these folks. They try out the LLM to see if it can solve a few simple problems and then they extrapolate to more complex problems. Wrongly. They infer from social cues in their cohort, which are absolutely fucked by the amount of synthetic money (and maybe fraud?) driving a subprime-bubble type mania. They infer from the plausibility of its outputs, which are absolutely fucked because the job of these models is to produce plausible outputs.

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

I just do not have the time to write anything long-form about this but the ongoing Mozilla AI debacle is really indicative of a very, very troubling aspect of the broader AI debacle, which is that a strong majority of even the *actually* well-intentioned, smart leaders in tech have had their brains fully cooked by these heuristics machines

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

AI as a reflection of its creator…which doesn't paint a pretty picture of Elon Musk's ego.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/21/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-who-is-the-most-vain-of-them-all/

magic mirror

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

The dichotomy of print versus the web: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-dichotomy-of-print-vs-web/

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A Mastodon spotting another three Mastodons on a distant planet

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

Kötturinn og ég, ný íslensk myndasaga: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/kotturinn-og-eg/

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

Þá er ég orðinn útgefandi 🙂

„Kötturinn og ég, ný íslensk myndasaga“

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/kotturinn-og-eg/

Fyrstu viðtökur hafa verið mjög jákvæðar:

„Afar skemmtileg bók, húmorísk og hlýleg, fyrir alla sem eiga kött, hafa átt kött eða langar að eiga kött.“

— Gyrðir Elíasson

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

LMAO excellent time-to-first-error 👏

https://social.lol/@db/115587182275804652

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

holy moly when did Dexie vibe a new Next.js site?
https://dexie.org

generic af and all expense spared on the docs I see 🫠

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

[On the bridge of Enterprise] Picard: Yellow alert Everyone: OH ALERT!!

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

people on bluesky telling me "actually content warning culture on mastodon is bad since for some of us the urge to read the post anyway is overwhelming"

completely overlooking the fact you can simply make a filter against the content warning words

if i want to cut out ~85% of posts here about US politics all i have to do is add one filter for "uspol" while on bluesky i'm forced to filter every single word, name, and concept adjacent to US politics instead and it works *worse*

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
luna@lunar.place ("Lunya 🌸 :floof_t: :haj_s:") wrote:

​:neofox_floof_cute:​

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
MorpheusB@aus.social ("Morpheus Being") wrote:

#Joke #Humour

I had a call from a scammer the other day

Me: “Hello.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “Hello. This is Bob Bobson from Microsoft Support. We are seeing a lot of virus activity from your device.”

Me: “Oh no. My device? Are you sure?”

NOT-Microsoft support: “Oh yes, we have many reports.”

Me: “Oh jeez. How can I fix it?”>;
NOT-Microsoft support: “It’s OK sir. We can help you right now. Are you in front of your device sir?”

Me: “Yes. I was just about to use it. I’m glad you called.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “Yes sir, we are going to help you. Can you please push the Start button?”

Me: “I think it's already on.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “Okay, sir. Now you want to click on Control Panel.”

Me: “I don’t see that.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “Do you see a bunch of information above the Start button?”

Me: “Yes.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “That is your Control Panel.”

Me: “Wow, I didn’t realize it had a name.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “Yes sir, now press on Internet Options.”

Me: “Yeah, I definitely don’t see any Internet options. I don’t think I purchased that feature. This is just a cheap one.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “They all have the Internet sir. Press the Start button again.”

Me: “OK, it’s the same as before.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “That’s OK sir. We are going to restart your device. Can you please turn it off?”

Me: “Ummm…I don’t know how. I’ve never turned it off. Since I bought it, it just kind of stays on all the time.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “There must be an off button on your device. How do you stop it when it’s running?”

Me: “In those cases, I usually press the big button.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “OK sir. Please press that button.”

Me: “Ok.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “Is your device off?”

Me: “No. The door popped open.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “Door? Is there a disc inside the door?”

Me: “No, there’s a burrito.”

NOT-Microsoft support: “Why is there a burrito in your computer?”

Me: “Computer? I thought you said this was microwave support.”

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
latenightowl@social.linux.pizza ("Late Night Owl") wrote:

I haven't seen this variation of XKCD 2347 yet. Received from a friend, source unknown.

#xkcd2347 #cloudflare #aws #ai

Variation on the XKCD 2347 graphic of software building on each other, showing very unstable tower, featuring sharks biting undewater cables, unpaid opensource developers, AWS, Cloudflare, AI, Microsoft, left-pad, v8, WASM and it is all almost falling apart, but not actually.

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
FediVideo@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Video") wrote:

#VideoGames video accounts to follow:

(If an account looks blank, read this: https://fedi.tips/why-does-someones-account-page-look-completely-blank-is-it-really-blank/)

➡️ @harrybo - Rally game videos with fun commantary
➡️ @gbryant - Linux gaming news, especially Steam Deck
➡️ @bobdendry - Let's plays modern & classic games
➡️ @ozoned - Linux gaming streams
➡️ @logaldeveloper - Gaming streamer, fun games
➡️ @0lhi - Long play videos of colourful 1990s/2000s games & user-created levels
➡️ @hatnix - Linux gaming streams in English & German

🧵 1/4

#PeerTube

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
r_alb ("Raphael Albert") wrote:

The European Commission wants more techno-capitalist "innovation", and we all have to pay for it with our privacy.

We must stop the Digital Omnibus!
--
#DigitalOmnibus #GDPR #privacy #DataProtection

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
chpietsch@fedifreu.de ("Christian Peach") wrote:

RE: https://floss.social/@omgubuntu/115583973694128369

Time to fire the Mozilla management or to hard-fork all #Mozilla projects.

#aislop

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
bloke_zero@ravenation.club wrote:

Absolutely loving this by Sarah Wynn-Williams. I thought I’d like it for the horror stories about the #facebook management but the writing and pacing is great!

I saw her speaking briefly at a thing with @pluralistic at The Barbican in London where she couldn’t say much because of a non disparagement clause in her Facebook contract!

If you want to know why spaces like this are so important read the book! Her description of #davos suddenly makes the world make a terrible kind of sense

Book cover, orange with a blue square the save shape and colour as the Facebook logo background with a pair of women’s legs disappearing as if into a portal.

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
tsupasat@infosec.exchange ("Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓") wrote:

One of the lucky career breaks I've had was writing the ACM TechNews and ACM SIGDA email news summaries from 2000-2005. It paid terribly, and I had to be at work at 6:30 a.m. but I learned a whole lot.

Anyway, I just saw that the ACM's magazine, The Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery (CACM) is now open and free! As in, there's nothing behind a paywall any longer, including archived articles. The ACM's entire Digital Library will be open in January 2026. Really, really cool!

And so to celebrate, here's an opinion piece from the CACM's October edition from @pluralistic about why tech workers who hate enshittification need to unionize.

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/tech-workers-versus-enshittification/

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Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Andrew Plotkin") wrote:

Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!

…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)

Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork-is-open-source

#InteractiveFiction #Zork

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

despite my "AI" policy, I do test these things occasionally (off the books) ...and either I'm prompting it wrong — "prompt engineering" is akin to blowing on lucky dice at the craps table — or my standards (self-respect) are too high for this garbage

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

#gotosocial instance upgraded to version 0.20.2 !

so easy

https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.20.2

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Boosted by jwz:
jilleduffy wrote:

I'm still a little miffed that when an actual worldwide pandemic came, the bunker people didn't go into their bunkers

Instead they demanded haircuts and tickets to the cinema

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

let he who be without sin cast the first stone

iPhone music controls "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey playing on the office speakers

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

procrastination by searching domains is not healthy

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

happy Friday! 🤗

the progress() function looks tasty!
https://cloudfour.com/thinks/responsive-letter-spacing/

side note: never trusted letter-spacing, OS & screen density make font rendering unpredictable at smaller sizes

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

A federal judge ruled that Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in Washington was likely unlawful in the latest setback to the president’s military mobilizations in Democrat-led cities. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/21/world/politics/trump-washington-troop-illegal-judge/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
realTuckFrumper ("#TuckFrump") wrote:

‘He Is Out of Control’: MAGA Demands Answers After Trump Ambassador Mike Huckabee Covertly Meets With Spy Who Sold American Secrets Mediaite https://twp.ai/E6DkhL

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
msbellows@c.im ("M.S. Bellows, Jr.") wrote:

The "Border" Patrol is monitoring all American drivers (not just immigrants), everywhere in the country (not just at the borders), and detaining anyone whose driving patterns they think are "suspicious."

As I've said before, they are becoming a national police force – and because border agents operate under looser due process rules than other law enforcement, they're not giving anyone their normal rights, citizen and non-citizen alike.
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveillance-drivers-ice-trump-9f5d05469ce8c629d6fecf32d32098cd

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange ("AN/CRM-114") wrote:

@catsalad
Old and busted: John Carpenter’s Vampires of Mars
New hotness: Warren Zevon’s Werewolves of Jupiter