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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
konrad@fedi.neuwirth.priv.at ("Konrad") wrote:

Software development is so much easier and faster if you don't care about the tiny stuff like security or privacy. #openclaw

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

RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/116116686458550609

I’ve had basically tan identical encounter to the one described in this thread a few times as well, both offline and online

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
berniethewordsmith@neopaquita.es ("Bernie the Wordsmith") wrote:

Every time you do a "both sides" stuff between "AI hypers and deniers" you are basically telling me that the person worried about the destruction of their life, their job and the environment has the level of delusion of a person like Peter Thiel, an eldritch horror in a vessel made of flesh that thinks humanity, umm, should not exist.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
pinakographos@mapstodon.space ("Daniel P. Huffman") wrote:

A warning for Adobe #InDesign users. I recently updated my copy, and after preparing a document, the recipient of that document sent me the alt text that popped up on one of their figures. Apparently, by default, InDesign uses AI to generate (often hilariously wrong) alt text for images.

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

lol. reasons never to use bcachefs or spend 1ms thinking about it ever again:

it's vibe coded.

yeah, a vibe coded Linux file system.

here's the "blog" of the lead dev's "AI assistant": https://poc.bcachefs.org/

i now have much more insight into bcachefs getting kicked out of the kernel

EDIT: my fucking god what an incredible post this is https://www.reddit.com/r/bcachefs/comments/1rblll1/the%5Fblog%5Fof%5Fan%5Fllm%5Fsaying%5Fits%5Fowned%5Fby%5Fkent%5Fand/o6tmlib/

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

remember when macOS didn't have apps that stole focus every 5 minutes, didn't freeze & crash the entire system, didn't run 100 background processes burning high CPU... that's just the 1st party apps 😭

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

strong suspicion I keep getting unsubscribed from email newsletters because their tracking pixels or links are failing to track 🤨

Boosted by jwz:
jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

[at the pearly gates] Ah, [nervous laughter] no see if you consult the contents of my mind during the 2020s and ignore the effects most of my actions had on the world, I think you'll find that I used the harmful thing in a very smart and cool way.

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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Yesterday, had an argument with an AI booster. I'm not going to link, both because I don't want to platform that and because I don't want anyone to go harass them. But what I thought was very interesting was that I asked point-blank if there was any degree to which ethical problems with LLMs could make them not want to use AI — they told me no, there was not, and implied that they evaluated AI purely on the basis of its efficacy.

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

The real cancel culture is Netflix who can’t let a single good show get past season one without canceling it

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TheBreadmonkey@beige.party ("Ben") wrote:

Really laughing at this. I saw the headline and wondered what it could be, imagining all sorts of convoluted clever awful things he might have been. Prince Gland-Dew for example. Then read down to find that it was simply.... 'the cunt'. 😂 🤣

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TheBreadmonkey@beige.party ("Ben") wrote:

Absolutely marvellous there is a video

Attachments:

• video: Anchor news lady in cream jacket and red blouse interviewing a security guard in jumper and tie in a 60 minutes chairs facing each other setting

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

blockchain failed to make the right promise, which was telling rich guys they could fire everyone

if they'd offered that it would have been hyped like AI is

structurally the blockchain hype and the AI hype are The Fucking Same

even before you get to it being Literally The Same Fucking Guys

blockchain's promise is obscure and you basically have to be most of an ancap to fall for it

AI, you just need to be one-shotted by the bot giving an amazing result once

blockchain is fuckin unusable for normal people. AI is fatally usable.

Boosted by jwz:
mathew@universeodon.com wrote:

On reflection, I think the worst part of Cory Doctorow’s argument in favor of LLM use is this:

« Doubtless some of you are affronted by my modest use of an LLM. You think that LLMs are "fruits of the poisoned tree" and must be eschewed because they are saturated with the sin of their origins. I think this is a very bad take, the kind of rathole that purity culture always ends up in.

Let's start with some context. If you don't want to use technology that was created under immoral circumstances or that sprang from an immoral mind, then _you are totally fucked._ »

This is a form of argument beloved by awful people. I can’t be pure and perfect, they say, so there’s no point my trying to make better or less damaging moral choices.

Stop buying from Amazon? Walmart and Target aren’t perfectly moral. Stop driving an SUV? Your car pollutes too, and so do buses. Stop using Twitter? Facebook and Bluesky are far from morally perfect, and mastodon.social has poor moderation. And so on.

I see this kind of excuse all the time online. It’s a cousin to both whataboutism and Mister Gotcha. It also rests on a false premise. The idea that anyone is expected to achieve complete purity is a straw man. You’re not having sainthood demanded of you, people are just hoping you’ll consider *reducing* the amount of immoral and damaging behavior you engage in *when there are perfectly viable alternatives*. Sure, we can argue about whether the alternatives are truly viable, but the idea that if you can’t be perfect you may as well not even try to be better? That’s moral bankruptcy.

Mocking the desire for people to behave more ethically as “purity culture” is like mocking it as “virtue signaling”. It says things about the person doing the mocking, none of them good. It’s also deeply hypocritical coming from someone who has gone out of his way to avoid using DRM. Isn’t that “purity culture”?

Boosted by jwz:
rocketsoup ("Rocketsoup") wrote:

If a Klein bottle could wear pants, would it be like this or like this?

#mathstodon #math #maths #shitpost

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lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E09
🎥 Episode: Protocol
🎬 Directed by: Akihiko Nishiyama
📅 Release Date: August 31, 1998
⏯ Frame: 1035

Boosted by jwz:
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

If nazis are dropping bombs on you by flying planes that communicate by radio, blowing up their ground control radio towers or jamming their radio signals is not "censorship". Similarly, deplatforming is not about preventing their "dangerous ideas" from winning in the "marketplace of ideas", it is about disrupting their communications so they cannot organize and build power to kill people.

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@rationaldoge/116116583354261712

Is it OK to call them concentration camps yet?

Or do we have to wait until they all get built?

Until they get filled?

Until they become death camps?

Please, if you object to the term “concentration camp” right now, clearly identify your bright line for when that term becomes acceptable.

Boosted by jwz:
augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

I welcome Trump voters changing, but I am getting really tired of hearing, "I didn't vote for this."

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barrydeutsch.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Barry Deutsch") wrote:

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
dcdeejay@mastodon.online ("DJ [REDACTED] 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦") wrote:

Don't upload your ID or agree to a face scan to continue using any digital service.

Delete your account instead.

#privacy #democracy #HumanRights

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

If anyone is looking for a software engineer with a lot of experience (~20 years) with a dozen or so major programming languages, I've been let go recently in a restructuring. Coworkers often come to me for help because I never make anyone feel stupid for asking questions and will help find a solution if I don't have the answer right away. I can design, implement and deploy backend/distributed systems in any language/stack you want. #GetFediHired

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

New post, and this one's definitely one of my weirder ones: it's about how most of the tech industry shows symptoms of something that looks like gender dysphoria.

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon%5Fdysphoria

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
jwcph@helvede.net ("JWcph, Radicalized By Decency") wrote:

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@drikanis/116107120926277506

I'd like to comment on the common "AI is just a tool" thing: I'm a woodworker by training & that means a lot of machines - but almost every craftsperson knows how to do their job with hand tools, or "lesser" machines.

Similarly, a writer can write without a text editor - just as well, only slower.

If loss of a tool = loss of your skill & knowledge, then that tool isn't an asset, it's a liability. You're signing over your ability to do business to whoever sells & maintains that tool.

#AI

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jwz/116112519805150576

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

Jury selection: "Please remain neutral."

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

Excited to be heading to London for SOTB next week; hope to see you there:

https://2026.stateofthebrowser.com/schedule/

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

In order for the AI business model to work in the US, companies have to convince Americans that AI is so volatile that only they should control it, and is so resource intensive that only their computers can operate it.

And every few months some kids pop out of a garage and give away a model for free that runs locally.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
jmj@social.lol ("Joanna J. :prami_contented:") wrote:

status.log v1.6 is available in the App Store! This was a fairly large update and while I didn't get everything done that I wanted I think you'll enjoy all of the new features. Thank you for your patience with me getting it out.

What's new?

- Redesigned upload photo page with tags and alt text support
- Updated profile page that includes all data types available on omg.lol
- Edit photos and statuses
- Improved Liquid Glass support

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6444921793?pt=242757&ct=purl&mt=8

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

US companies: Our new AI is a god, actually. It costs so much money to operate that the human brain literally cannot comprehend the number so we stopped reporting financials.

Some country we embargoed: Our new AI is 99% as good with world-class energy standards. We got it running on a PlayStation.

US: we think data centers belong in outer space

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

I love Bad Bunny's latest album but I'm not such a big fan that I could overlook bad acting. Especially as the lead. And in a potentially important movie. God speed. I'll probably watch it no matter what.