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jwz wrote:

Sorry, the optional AI is mandatory.

You keep using that word "request", I think that it does not mean what you think it means. When Australian artificial intelligence expert Dr Kobi Leins declined a medical specialist's request to use AI...
https://jwz.org/b/yktE

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osnews@mstdn.social ("OSNews") wrote:

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
nanochess ("Óscar Toledo G.") wrote:

The 28th IOCCC Winners source code has been released https://www.ioccc.org/years.html

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Heading back home from hacker summer camp. Apparently while I was gone my city was taken over and occupied by hostile military forces. I hope my papers are in order for the checkpoints.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

In particular, while I understand where they’re coming from, I strongly reject the “don’t talk about problems because some people will take it out of context” approach to election security research. That’s not how science - or democracy - works.

jwz wrote:

ZALGO HE LOATHES.

Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments:

Corrected headline:

Google says it's trying to make the plausible-lie-generating plagiarism-machine lie more in its self-assessment of its results:

, ̷I̸ ̸a̷m̷ ̵a̵ ̵d̵i̸s̷g̴r̴a̸c̸e̷ ̵t̷o̷ ̶t̶h̶i̸s̴ ̸p̴l̴a̷n̵e̴t̴.̶ ̵I̸ ̷a̷m̵ ̴a̴ ̴d̵i̶s̴g̶r̵a̵c̵e̵ ̸t̸o̷ ̸t̴h̴i̵s̶ ̶u̵n̶i̵v̴e̷r̷s̷e̸.̸ ̸͕̿I̵̼̾ ̷̹͑a̴̤͠m̵̗̍ ̷̨̄a̷͚̾ ̷͎̽ď̴̥i̴̜͐ś̶̬g̷̖͠r̵͚̓a̵̙̕c̸̳͆ȅ̴̬ ̷̰̀t̸̠͛o̸̺̒ ̵"̈́a̸"̓l̷̹̉l̴̪̎ ̸̲̏u̴͑ͅn̴͌ͅi̷̅͜v̵͕̉è̴͖r̷̤̿s̶̯̍ẽ̸̙s̷"̚.̸̨́ ̷̬͐Ï̸͈ ̸͔͑a̴̬̾m̴̼̊ ̶̙͛ă̵̖ ̴̯̑d̵͕́ỉ̸̝s̸̼̓g̷̊͜r̶̩͘a̵"͌c̸̯͘ē̶̮ ̷͍͛t̴͍̄o̴̾͜ ̴̝̔ă̷͎l̶̘̕ḽ̶͝ ̸͙̇p̸̗̓o̴̤͠s̸̹͛š̴̱í̶̱b̵̤̀l̶͓͒ę̵͂ ̷̩̕ą̴̂n̴̳̓ḋ̸̫ ̵̥͒i̶̖͊m̸̫͆

https://jwz.org/b/yktC

jwz wrote:

Reddit will block the Internet Archive.

Well that's going to go well for everybody. Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, so it's going to start blocking the Internet Archive from...
https://jwz.org/b/yktA

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thoughtsofone@opalstack.social ("Chris") wrote:

I've always found Terminal.app to be a bit of a mystery, but @b0rk's "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" zine has pulled back the curtain on so many things that I am slightly embarrassed to admit I didn't know as an IT admin. It is so well made, beautifully designed, and something I am proud to have on my desk!

Go check out their work here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
markmccaughrean ("Mark McCaughrean") wrote:

Why you shouldn't use AI-derived "facts" for anything serious, part 5912.

The galactic coordinates of the Orion Nebula are l~209º, b~-19º.

That puts it in the third galactic quadrant: the four quadrants are l=0–90º, 90–180º, 180–270º, & 270–360º.

Wikipedia has this correct, & yet Google's AI, citing that very source, says "nope, it's in the second galactic quadrant."

Just imagine how many actually important things this software is fucking up daily with its fake authoritativeness 🙄

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

We're going to need more cats

Attachments:

• gifv: How to save money on electricity this summer. Video of a cat playing was an open fan, making it move. With enough cats and enough fans, you could even cool a whole room... maybe

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

AI search firm Perplexity makes $34.5 billion surprise bid for Google Chrome
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/12/tech/perplexity-google-chrome-bid?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business and Tech @business-and-tech-CNN

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:

Dear GitHub users. Forgejo exists (and is the software behind Codeberg). Radicle exists. Sourcehut exists. You’re welcome to join! And with forgefed we also have a federated approach. We were building all of that while you were sleeping ;)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
N4JAW@mastodon.radio ("Jim "Ham on a Bike"") wrote:

It was a "Back to School", that is #QRP School CW #MorseCode #POTA #ParksontheAir activation. No dead battery today #AmateurRadio #HamRadio

https://youtu.be/aiBjl-rxvxA?si=YKy5VYH5YbxhAyNe via
@YouTube

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
croyle@wandering.shop ("David Croyle") wrote:

#PhotoOfTheDay is of a man playing his clarinet across from a house which has been painted the brightest possible colors in Newport, Oregon.

Edit: I've been corrected by someone who said that he's playing a "Soprano Saxophone."

#photo #photography #oregon #RoadTrip #StreetMusician #music

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lazarou ("Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈") wrote:

"The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won"

Stop with this nonsense now, it's been debunked, it serves no good believing in fantasies like these.

#Politics #misinformation

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

sure, invest your retirement money in cryptoslop...

https://mastodon.social/@verge/115016663206421893

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kr1st@mastodon.radio ("Alex KR1ST/PA1ST") wrote:

I swear next time I have to sit through a hamradio (mostly sales) presentation where the presenter repeats that silly S-meter comparison between signals at different transmitter power levels and tries to argue that power levels hardly make a difference at a receiver, as if MDS and SNR don't matter, I will not bite my tongue. Or just log off. 😄

Or the other classic "only the first 500W matter". 🤦‍♂️ That makes them sound like an old MFJ ad.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

Breaking: Ramping up federal control of Washington DC, the Department of Justice has dispatched over 100 Epstein File clerks to assist with police efforts.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Other People Want Pierogis Hat") wrote:

The conservative assertion that there is a crisis of masculinity in America is best understood as a confession

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xjmm5p4z25uzdieisuplduwz/post/3lw74hdvcd22k

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

They think it's going to be Handmaid's Tale. The Charlie Kirks and the Joe Rogans and the Gutfelds of the world, that's what they think. They think they're going to get pliant, submissive little women that they can control.

What they don't understand is what they're actually going to get is Tank Girl. They're not creating compliant women. They're making hundreds of thousands of Kill Bills. A million Inglorious Basterds in high heels, with zero fucks to give and a girlboner for scalping Nazis.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mcnado@mstdn.social ("McNadoMD") wrote:

Here’s how this works: Republicans change the rules and allow people to invest their retirement in crypto. The guys at the top make billions. The retirees get wiped out in the serial crashes. The working age adults paying taxes now, and their children, pay for the bailouts that give retirees a portion of their money back after they gambled it away. The billionaires are still billionaires, and continue to not pay for any of it.

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paulc@mstdn.social ("Paul Chernoff") wrote:

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SouthDakota ("South Dakota Dep. Propaganda") wrote:

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dwenius@toot.cat ("Dwenius") wrote:

@jwz Thanks Jamie, a couple fortuitous clicks from your blog comments on this took me to “I have ported xscreensaver to the iPhone”, which, that whole discussion should be in the goddamned Louvre.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

I don’t like seeing my work on election security (and that of my colleagues) misrepresented. But I think the alternative - not doing it at all - would be far worse.

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Ah, and also, forgot to mention this change:

Improved:

• Debugging your Kitten app is now easier when you run it using `INSPECT=true kitten …` as the Node runtime is launched using the `--inspect-brk` tag instead of the `--inspect` tag. This means that execution will wait for your debugger (e.g., Chromium’s DevTools at `chrome://inspect`, etc.) to connect before starting the server. This makes it possible to hit breakpoints that might previously have been impossible to reach as they occured before you had a chance to run the debugger.

Full change log:
https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#2025-08-12

#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #NodeJS #debugger #debugging #web #dev #JavaScript

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

Inside the ‘Whites Only’ Community in Arkansas | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/whites-only-community-arkansas/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned.

Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fda-drugs-banned-foreign-factories-list?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#News #FDA #Medicine #Health #Diabetes #Cancer #Depression #Anxiety #HIV

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

"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who oversees about 3 million military service members and civilian employees, reposted a video last week advocating repealing the 19th Amendment, which guarantees women the right to vote."

https://popular.info/p/slavery-patriarchy-and-pete-hegseths

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Anyway, I just finished running a conference on election security in which we discussed real problems (and celebrated real progress). I'm fully braced for a flood of out-of-context soundbites being used to disingenuously support nonsense, because that just comes with the turf here.