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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i am not sure adding someone to a repository as a 'collaborator' is the right vibes

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i am still failing to find the place in forgejo where i can define a label for issues.

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

Stupid old man is racist. Too bad the stupid old man is also our president.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/27/our-president-is-openly-racist-again/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE5-HDpP9-E

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

Small addendum: security flaws are a tiny tiny tiny subset of the vast potential menagerie of bugs you can get in a real-world piece of software. Even if this did pan out, it wouldn't come close to fully repairing the damage of the code slop-apocalypse.

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
vrandecic@mas.to ("Denny Vrandečić") wrote:

While Wikimedia content is free, the infrastructure that serves it is not.

Thanks to improvements in bot detection, more than *2 billion* requests per day get currently blocked, which would have otherwise caused further strain on the infrastructure.

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/03/26/quo-vadis-crawlers-progress-and-whats-next-on-safeguarding-our-infrastructure/

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misconceptions@a2mi.social ("Common Misconceptions Bot") wrote:

There is no such thing as an " alpha " in a wolf pack. An early study that coined the term "alpha wolf" had only observed unrelated adult wolves living in captivity. In the wild, wolf packs operate like families: parents are in charge until the young grow up and start their own families, and younger wolves do not overthrow an "alpha" to become the new leader. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%5Fof%5Fcommon%5Fmisconceptions%5Fabout%5Fscience,%5Ftechnology,%5Fand%5Fmathematics#Mammals

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i appear to have been porting smol's task abstraction to c for like an hour without really noticing.

i am tweaking as i do it, obviously.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Ashedryden@xoxo.zone ("Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛") wrote:

I really appreciate the vulnerability that comes with writing something like this and releasing it to the public. We need to do a better job of recognizing these traits and supporting one another. 💕
https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-03-18-open%5Fsource%5Fgave%5Fme%5Feverything%5Funtil%5Fi%5Fhad%5Fnothing%5Fleft%5Fto%5Fgive

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
karb@bark.lgbt ("Clep-Karb @ Home 🏠") wrote:

"What a nice, calm Friday. Why don't you take a seat next to me and enjoy the River passing by."

📷: @Lutu
📍: NordicFuzzCon 2026

#FursuitFriday

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erkhyan@yiff.life ("Erkhyan") wrote:

I just saw someone unironically write that they do not trust Firefox because they do not trust a browser paid by google to include AI slop features, and that’s why they prefer Chrome.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
brie@do.crimes.brie.gay ("Brie (:neobot:)") wrote:

Getting called out by my own search engine

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
silver-sebastian.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Sebastian Silverfox") wrote:

Am I weird for missing the snow? Probably. But foxes & snow are just meant to go together. #fursuit #furry #fursuitfriday

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bolts@journa.host ("BoltsMag.org") wrote:

North Carolina’s election board has sparked local outcry by announcing that it will stop providing free registration forms to voter registration drives:

https://carolinapublicpress.org/74926/voter-registration-groups-cry-foul-over-nc-decision-to-stop-providing-them-with-printed-forms/

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cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

Mathematicians are threatening to boycott the field’s largest, most prestigious gathering this summer
if it takes place in the U.S., as currently planned.

Every four years since the turn of the twentieth century,
the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) has brought together mathematicians from all over the world to share the latest breakthroughs and plot the field’s future.

Famous speeches delivered at the congress have gone on to redefine entire subfields of math.

The ICM is also where math’s most hallowed prize, the Fields Medal, is awarded.

This July, the ICM is slated to take place in Philadelphia
—the first time in 40 years that it’s been held in the U.S.

Now a petition to move the event elsewhere is circulating among mathematicians.

It cites the recent American military actions in Venezuela and Iran,
the suspension of visas from 75 countries
and the continued presence of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents across major U.S. cities
as contrary to the ICM’s goal of fostering “a sense of international unity amongst mathematicians.”

As of this writing, more than 1,500 mathematicians have signed the petition,
which states that they plan to boycott the event if it isn’t moved outside the U.S.

The list of signatories includes many of the field’s most prominent names,
more than 50 of whom have spoken at previous congresses.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-mathematicians-are-boycotting-their-biggest-conference/

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

got codeberg's guru meditation page. which does not say guru meditation.

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

from now until the end of april, I'm running a 50% discount on my book "building git", just enter voucher code BGAPR2026 https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

this isn't just a visual thing. years ago i got bitten by this - a space snuck onto the end of a line. and ever since i pay way more attention than i'd like to making sure that doesn't happen.

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

Pivot to AI needs you! Send $5 to keep the stories coming daily

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/27/pivot-to-ai-needs-you-send-5-to-keep-the-stories-coming-daily/

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

what can one honestly say about a macro system that needs backslashes to define macros of more than one line?

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

love how in C you need macros to tidy things up, but macros instantly make everything untidy.

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

Surprise! All you have to do is shoot a few people, drag thousands of people into concentration camps, and deport them to random countries, and your country stops being a desirable destination.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/27/what-a-strange-thing-to-brag-about/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

A thing being repeated across businesses worldwide, including at Microsoft, is C level execs struggling to know why most staff aren’t using Copilot for M365, despite how much it costs.

Because most staff don’t spend all day in Teams meetings reading out PowerPoint slides to people who pretend to care. They have actual jobs. Doing work. Which they know how to do. Because it is their job.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Which is to say, we need ocap security for everything, and ESPECIALLY any code touched by an LLM, and especially with any agent running off an LLM! But as to the latter, ocap security is necessary but often times will be insufficient. The "Multi-Agent Amplification" stuff points to this as being likely true.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Agents of Chaos: a research report testing how badly OpenClaw type agents will behave https://agentsofchaos.baulab.info/report.html

Gaslighting users, destroying filesystems, listening to input from any damn email that comes in, you name it

But the most interesting part of this is "Multi-Agent Amplification":

> When agents interact with each other, individual failures compound and qualitatively new failure modes emerge. This is a critical dimension of our findings, because multi-agent deployment is increasingly common and most existing safety evaluations focus on single-agent settings.

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

Many in tech are predisposed to believe but they should be predisposed to disbelieve

I still think that the ethical and political issues with LLMs are insurmountable. Even if we did get past that, the prompt UI is a fatal flaw, even with productive uses for LLMs as a system

But I wouldn't complain if, at some point in the distant future, we end up using improved ethically made descendents of LLMs to clean up after the code slop-acopalypse

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

For an "AI" security software startup, on the hook to generate returns for VC investors, the temptation to spend countless hours filtering through slop reports, polish them up, and submit them to a few high-profile open source projects would be hard to resist

With billions at stake, a large constituency of believers, and lax regulation, the incentives in the market favour marketing, research, and financial fraud—you could call it a "poor information environment"

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

But, four years later there are indictions that this might end up partially panning out as tools for discovering and reporting security vulnerabilities

I'd be very careful in trusting these anecdotal reports

We're still in a bubble. With the money involved people have a strong incentive to believe. Other people have a strong incentive to mislead. That is a dangerous combo. We don't know what went into these "AI" security reports or how many false positives or negatives they generated

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

When I was writing The Intelligence Illusion in 2022, I put together a list potentially positive applications of LLMs that were doable without having to magic away the tech's flaws or invent something completely new. It mostly consisted of variations on "might improve debugging"

That's clearly not enough to warrant the massive investment and ongoing costs, the ethics, or buying into the technological vision of a bunch of political extremists and their allies, so I thought nothing of it

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

https://facetest.psy.unsw.edu.au/aifaces.html

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

I guessed whether a face was real or AI generated and got it right 19/20 times. And I know exactly why lol.

When that "this person doesn't exist" website came out, I was having trouble sleeping so some nights I'd just lay in bed and refreshed the page until I fell asleep. 😭

Is this a marketable skill? Can I work for the FBI?