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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@lorimolson @jamesthomson Came here to say the same. Developers were also among those whose content was slurped up by big tech to feed their copyright laundering apparatus.

jwz wrote:

Everything written by AI boosters tracks much more clearly if you simply replace "AI" with "cocaine".

I shall demonstrate!

(Not linking to OP, because it's trash.)

"Let’s pretend you’re the only person at your company using cocaine.

You decide you’re going to impress your employer, and work for 8 hours a day at 10x productivity. You knock it out of the park and make everyone else look terrible by comparison. [...]

In this scenario, you capture 100% of the value from your adopting cocaine."

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

while we're at it, let's make sure everyone has read the audiophile memcpy post

https://www.audioasylum.com/messages/pcaudio/119979/

Boosted by jwz:
bluemoon@piefed.social wrote:

Free buses? Really? Of all the promises that Zohran Mamdani made during his New York City mayoral campaign, that one struck some skeptics as the most frivolous leftist fantasy. Unlike housing, groceries and child care, which weigh heavily on New Yorkers’ finances, a bus ride is just a few bucks. Is it really worth the huge effort to spare people that tiny outlay?

It is. Far beyond just saving riders money, free buses deliver a cascade of benefits, from easing traffic to promoting public safety. Just look at Boston; Chapel Hill, N.C.; Richmond, Va.; Kansas City, Mo.; and even New York itself, all of which have tried it to excellent effect. And it doesn’t have to be costly — in fact, it can come out just about even.

As a lawyer, I feel most strongly about the least-discussed benefit: Eliminating bus fares can clear junk cases out of our court system, lowering the crushing caseloads that prevent our judges, prosecutors and public defenders from focusing their attention where it’s most needed.

I was a public defender, and in one of my first cases I was asked to represent a woman who was not a robber or a drug dealer — she was someone who had failed to pay the fare on public transit. Precious resources had been spent arresting, processing, prosecuting and trying her, all for the loss of a few dollars. This is a daily feature of how we criminalize poverty in America.

Unless a person has spent real time in the bowels of a courthouse, it’s hard to imagine how many of the matters clogging criminal courts across the country originate from a lack of transit. Some of those cases result in fines; many result in defendants being ordered to attend community service or further court dates. But if people can’t afford the fare to get to those appointments and can’t get a ride, their only options — jump a turnstile or flout a judge’s order — expose them to re-arrest. Then they may face jail time, which adds significant pressure to our already overcrowded facilities. Is this really what we want the courts spending time on?

Free buses can unclog our streets, too. In Boston, eliminating the need for riders to pay fares or punch tickets cut boarding time by as much as 23 percent, which made everyone’s trip faster. Better, cheaper, faster bus rides give automobile owners an incentive to leave their cars at home, which makes the journey faster still — for those onboard as well as those who still prefer to drive.

How much should a government be willing to pay to achieve those outcomes? How about nothing? When Washington State’s public transit systems stopped charging riders, in many municipalities the state came out more or less even — because the money lost on fares was balanced out by the enormous savings that ensued.

Fare evasion was one of the factors that prompted Mayor Eric Adams to flood New York City public transit with police officers. New Yorkers went from shelling out $4 million for overtime in 2022 to $155 million in 2024. What did it get them? In September 2024, officers drew their guns to shoot a fare beater who was wielding a knife and two innocent bystanders ended up with bullet wounds, the kind of accident that’s all but inevitable in such a crowded setting.

New York City tried a free bus pilot program in 2023 and 2024 and, as predicted, ridership increased — by 30 percent on weekdays and 38 percent on weekends, striking figures that could make a meaningful dent in New York’s chronic traffic problem (and, by extension, air and noise pollution). Something else happened that was surprising: Assaults on bus operators dropped 39 percent. Call it the opposite of the Adams strategy: Lowering barriers to access made for fewer tense law enforcement encounters, fewer acts of desperation and a safer city overall.

If free buses strike you as wasteful, you’re not alone. Plenty of the beneficiaries would be people who can afford to pay. Does it make sense to give them a freebie? Yes, if it improves the life of the city, just as free parks, libraries and public schools do. Don’t think of it as a giveaway to the undeserving. Think of it as a gift to all New Yorkers in every community. We deserve it.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
jamesthomson ("James Thomson") wrote:

Writers: Generative AI models were built on our stolen works, are deeply unethical, and risk devaluing our entire profession.

Artists: Generative AI models were built on our stolen works, are deeply unethical, and risk devaluing our entire profession.

Developers: Wheeeeeeeeee!

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
dyckron@mstdn.ca ("Ron Dyck") wrote:

Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says
https://gizmodo.com/reddit-meta-and-google-voluntarily-gave-dhs-info-of-anti-ice-users-report-says-2000722279

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
mayintoronto@beige.party ("May Likes Toronto") wrote:

This is really funny.
Ars Technica retracted their piece on the AI bot publishing a hit piece on the open source maintainer (Scott Shambaugh) because......... they published AI-made-up quotes from Scott.

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/

Anyway, here's the original piece by Scott.
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

Edit: See Ethan's reply below for context. The author published a retraction.

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

Shout out to the blog post that inspired fromjason. I instantly fell in love with digital gardens after reading this Maggie Appleton piece and I've been tinkering with the concept as a hobby for the last three years.

https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
slop@fuckaas.space ("slop enjoyer") wrote:

hi sharks i’m here today seeking $47 million for a 2% stake in my invention “tater tots that kill you”

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

Ahhhgg a few people followed me because of a post I made about web design. I love web design so much, but I don't want to disappoint you.

I mostly micro-blog about my frustration with democrats, and how computational power is an arms race more consequential than Trump. I'm not exactly a ball of sunshine right now.

I try to balance it out with other things but *gestures widely with a cookie in my mouth*

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

I covered "These Days" by Jackson Browne because I could, and you can listen to it if you want

https://youtu.be/Z%5FKUnwBe5ek

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

Me just learning that the book Starship Troopers *isn't* a satire like the movie, but an earnest writing that argues for fascism. 😱😭

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

today in "cursed aliexpress items" × "cursed usb items"

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

Writing jq queries... with real-time output? Yessir. 🐁

🧪 **jiq** — An interactive JSON query tool with live results

💯 Supports autocomplete, snippets, search & more!

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/bellicose100xp/jiq

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #json #jq #cli #devtools #productivity

Attachments:

• gifv: f532b2f99281e086.mp4

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
otaviocc@social.lol ("Otávio :prami:") wrote:

A person just “stole” Triton, my native omg.lol client, and removed all the references from the README file where I ask people to reference the original project and give me credit for the app.

They didn’t fork it, so that people don’t realize it’s a fork of another project.

They also changed their README file to point to their own zip file, which I’m not downloading, and neither should you. I don’t know what’s in it.

They even created a website, hosted on GitHub Pages, for it, with a link to their “builds.”

That pisses me off. Really. I spent years building the app. I put a lot of my personal time into building it for me and for the community, only for someone to steal it as theirs, publish builds, and wipe my name from it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Help me with a Star on the original project to keep it higher in search results. Thanks!

https://github.com/otaviocc/Triton

#OpenSource #macOSDev #omglol #GitHub #Triton

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

For anyone who's interested, this is the RSS feed to my #GameOfThrones and #AKnightOfTheSevenKingdoms podcast

https://chriswere.wales/oursisthetheory/rss.xml

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

Building in #11ty sure does scratch an itch. I love love designing structure and doing an information architecture. It's the same feeling I get when I design a good excel workbook lol.

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

I'm back working on my #digitalgarden template based on fromjason.xyz and powered by #11ty. 🎉🎉

I finished the design and now I'm working on the structure. I'm fixing all the quirks I didn't foresee in making fromjason, and I'm adding new functionality.

Idk what I'll do with it when I'm done. Selling the template sure is appealing only cause I could use the money lol. But, I also like the idea of contributing to the 11ty community and giving it away for free.

Anyway, I'm excited to share!

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
elementary wrote:

Your reminder that we do not accept code contributions that have been generated by LLMs. If you submit LLM-generated code we will simply close the pull request

https://docs.elementary.io/contributor-guide/development/generative-ai-policy

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

A horse walks into a bar. The barkeep asks if it's an alcoholic. The horse replies, 'I don't think I am,' and promptly disappears.

Students of philosophy giggle, being familiar with the philosophical proposition of 'Cogito ergo sum': To explain beforehand would be putting Descartes before the horse.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
rotnroll666 ("Michael Simons") wrote:

Let that sink in. Even one of the loud and vocal AI proponents such as @simon admits

“I no longer have a firm mental model of what they can do and how they work, which means each additional feature becomes harder to reason about, eventually leading me to lose the ability to make confident decisions about where to go next.”

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/cognitive-debt/

Not afraid of many things AI can inflict on my life, but I’m personally very much afraid of acquired helplessness such as this.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
fxchip@hachyderm.io ("FxChiP") wrote:

RE: https://mas.to/@zzt/116045651572809856

As angry as OP is, I don't think they're nearly as angry as they could be. Allow me to stoke the fire a little bit.

I have used damn near every single mainstream communications medium on the Internet since about the early 2000's. You know how Discord managed to establish dominance?

By being the *least fucking awful*.

By *giving a shit about the user experience*.

By not having their contributors/community shit all over things users like and refuse to implement because they personally don't want color, bold, italic, or underlines, in _their_ text, and adding options to turn those off just for them would just be _too hard_. So as a result, users still get those things by abusing Unicode characters (esp. for math), which produces a usability fucking nightmare for screen readers, which prompts other assholes to say "well the screen readers need to adapt and start trying to read text like that as normal text" when the entire point of having special characters is they have dedicated semantic meaning.

By having the first voice chat I've experienced reliably working basically every single time I click it. For me, Skype was never that good. The closest/best other thing for voice chat was fucking IParty.

By doing the logical thing and putting all the various big groups you might want to communicate in into one window, and by holding onto transcripts and making them searchable in-app so I don't have to (1) worry about whether my backups are okay and (2) `grep` through a bunch of big-ass files for the one thing I need to remember.

I've seen criticisms about something being an "everything app" or "not everything should be in one place" but what those criticisms UNIVERSALLY fail to address is that this one place beats every. single. other. *specific.* place. on their *home. fucking. turf.* In practically every way that matters.

And that's how we fucking got here.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
liw@toot.liw.fi ("Lars Wirzenius") wrote:

I mostly don't like notifications: they keep interrupting me when I'm working. Another reason is that most types of notifications don't persist. I have to react at once, at least enough to write down a reminder, or I'll miss what happened. I prefer the inbox model of email: new stuff lands in the inbox and can check them when I have time, and stuff stays in inbox until I remove it, which means I don't miss stuff so much.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
TomsHardware@flipboard.com ("Tom's Hardware") wrote:

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator
https://www.tomshardware.com/speakers/in-a-blind-test-audiophiles-couldnt-tell-the-difference-between-audio-signals-sent-through-copper-wire-a-banana-or-wet-mud-the-mud-should-sound-perfectly-awful-but-it-doesnt-notes-the-experiment-creator?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Tom's Hardware @tom-s-hardware-TomsHardware

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
juliusgoat.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("A.R. Moxon") wrote:

breaking: we've stolen the future from our children to finance our 7th houses, yet they still go on eating and drinking

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:i3fhjvvkbmirhyu4aeihhrnv/post/3mekfxml7j22v

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
juliusgoat.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("A.R. Moxon") wrote:

I think people who reply to any pushback anyone makes to outrageous stories with something like “they only post these stories so you’ll get mad and engage for views, stop falling for it” are only doing that so I’ll get mad and engage with them for views, and I’m going to stop falling for it.

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

Seeing another round of people mocking audiophile cables with “gold-plated voodoo”. Guys, gold-plated connectors are genuinely corrosion-resistant and CHEAP. If you want to mock oxygen-free silver cables hand-twisted by Tibetan monks, go for it, but gold plating is neither overpriced nor woo.

ruben_wolff ("Ruben Wolff") wrote:

pk:rqigsm8cwng9qt98dyntehc4wijjftyfaapeszno6wyjc7saazky

TXT : https://peerbench.ai/

c28ef86c3745edf6274c8115fea4ddee676d72a711be7b613f0b73cdeff2789cf8aabcda8721e3c5b581f48858343c70560bca67893f3205a104ed5bc6e49a08

#7saazky #rqigsm8cwng9qt98

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Being Left Behind Enjoyer") wrote:

“The transformation has been bewildering. It feels like the blink of an eye, though I guess it’s been about three years. The culture has changed immensely in that short time. When I identified with the programmer culture, it was about programming. Now programming is a means to an end ("let’s see how fast we can build a surveillance state!") or simply an unwanted chore to be avoided.”

https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope2

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

Couple of small https://some.pics improvements:

1. Picture tags are now included in the RSS feed.

2. If you tag a pic with "nsfw", it’ll receive a special little NSFW UI treatment (blurred, and with an NSFW label), and in the RSS feed the text "NSFW" will appear in place of the image (but the link to the image will remain in place).

And since we’re talking NSFW stuff, here’s a link to the page with the some.pics community guidelines: https://home.omg.lol/info/picture-sharing 🙈