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Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
janellecshane@wandering.shop ("Janelle Shane") wrote:

“Slopsquatting” in a nutshell:

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai%5Fcode%5Fsuggestions%5Fsabotage%5Fsupply%5Fchain/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
sjvn wrote:

If only this was an exaggeration.

Attachments:

• video: bc0635f69070f155.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

Simple sabotage is often an act which the citizen performs according to his own initiative and inclination.

Boosted by jwz:
wildsown ("Wild Sown") wrote:

Self-Care Corvid bringing you the daily Public Service Announcement:

#meme #corvids #doomscrolling #selfcare #psa #takeabreak #crows #raven #corvid #memes #corvidae #drinkwater #SilentSunday #illustration #wildgreenmemes #wgmfef #restisresistance

Boosted by jwz:
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

We’re very worried about AI doing human things. We should be equally worried about humans doing AI things—optimizing hard, understanding nothing.

Boosted by jwz:
gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz ("Greg Egan") wrote:

If we fail to detect an Earth-impacting asteroid in time, I guess we can just threaten it with a 1000% tariff if it dares to come too close.

Boosted by jwz:
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Footnote: the reason Trump is non-serious about business is because Trump doesn't understand how real businesses work. He thinks like a mobster, or a real estate salesman: all customer interactions are a prisoner's dilemma with no iteration (how many times a month do you buy an office block from the same salesman?!?) so *of course* "always defect" is a winning game-theoretical strategy.

But in the real world, most businesses are built on repeat trade. And Trump has never experienced this.

Boosted by jwz:
simple_sabotage ("Simple Sabotage Field Manual") wrote:

Approve other defective parts whose flaws are not visible to the naked eye.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jason@pnw.zone ("Jason Rehmus 📚") wrote:

PSA: I’ve seen some #DogsOfMastodon folks express disappointment that there’s a #caturday but no direct equivalent for pups and their fans. May I present:
- #Sundog
- #Mondog
- #Tuesdog
- #Wednesdog
- #Thursdog
- #Fridog
- #Saturdog

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

At today's Berkeley #TeslaTakedown, via reddit:

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
springdiesel@spore.social ("Coach Spore Diesel") wrote:

Louder for the people in the back:

"If your pipeline only selects able bodied neurotypical cis white dudes with 110% energy and who aren’t burned out, your pipeline isn’t selecting for talent or for capability or for intelligence, it’s selecting for privilege."

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

10 years ago today I published a blog post about the pomological watercolor collection, which you may know from @pomological. it changed my life in some surprising ways! take a little trip with me down memory lane https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/04/10-years-of-pomological-watercolors/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jk ("josef") wrote:

in a just & true world, every youtube video you'd scroll down and the top comments would all be like "i was enjoying your video until what the fuck is this mobile game garbage. why are you telling me about a VPN"

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Alternatecelt@mastodon.scot ("Angela Miller") wrote:

Just Xavi, patiently waiting......
#caturday #blackcat #CatsOMastodon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

“Absent those tools [for building mutual relationships that are bound together not by control, authority, or obligation but instead by love and respect], young, white Christian men and boys instead often cast about for role models who fit the image of God they've been taught about: a strong and violent masculine man who rules over everything in his presence."

~ Ibid.

#Christianity #race #masculinity #gender #whitechristiannationalis #AngelaDenker #Trump
/9

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com ("Carolyn Barber, MD") wrote:

Harvard Professors sue the Trump admin over its threat to cut billions in federal funding.

“This action challenges the administration’s unlawful and unprecedented misuse of federal funding and civil rights enforcement authority to undermine academic freedom and free speech on a university campus.”

Andrew Crespo, a law professor at Harvard said the admin’s policies are a pretext to chill universities and their faculties from engaging in speech, teaching and research that don’t align #press

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
panda@assemblag.es ("Panda | 판다") wrote:

Nearly four decades ago #BillG promised Andre Warufsel and me to send us the source code of his #Basic4K for the #MITS #Altair. He never did and @ModernDayNTK described one of my repeted reminders as 'winning last week's Stalking Bill Gates challenge'.

Three days ago he did eventually publish a scan of the source code on his blog.

I updated the story at https://gizmonaut.net/soapflakes/EXE-199711.html

#Basic #Microsoft

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
grammargirl@zirk.us ("Mignon Fogarty") wrote:

If you need to explain to someone how tariffs hurt small businesses and why they can't just move manufacturing to the U.S., this is a well written example from a small business that sells specialty keyboards. https://shop.keyboard.io/blogs/news/an-open-letter-to-u-s-customers

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
joshuajfriedman.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Joshua J. Friedman") wrote:

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's attorneys also ask Judge Xinis to begin the process of holding the govt in contempt for its defiance of her past orders.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
protecttruth@mastodon.online ("Eric Blair") wrote:

"Trump’s tariffs, his erratic conduct, and his abuse frankly threaten to transform the U.S. into a wasting backwater. The only cure for this disease is removing Trump from office; but Democrats are scared to utter the word, let alone to lay out the logic."
@brianbeutler.bsky.social
https://www.offmessage.net/p/how-politicians-get-their-bad-ideas

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kcarruthers@infosec.exchange wrote:

Some Canadians are calling off their trips to Jay Peak Resort in Vermont because of growing discontent with U.S. politics, a reservations agent at the ski resort has admitted.

https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article873328.html

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
aleksorsist@fosstodon.org ("Aleksorsist") wrote:

Manager: What should we call this circuit?
Engineer 1: "Clock Noise Rejection"
Engineer 2: "SCL Transient Suppressor"
Engineer 3: *giggling uncontrollably* "PULSE GOBBLER"

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
selzero@syzito.xyz ("Deniz Opal") wrote:

We should use paper straws though 😭

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
tecoholic@social.arunmozhi.in ("Arunmozhi") wrote:

Hello #Mosstodon 👋

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

completely unrelated to my last post, I propose we use the verb train'ing to mean "riding a train", not "doing physically exhausting stuffs".

I did a lot of training today.

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

wow, @jer just told me he doesn't like my puns... 💔😭

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

It didn’t even last a week and the tariffs against China are beginning to crumble with smartphones, PCs, servers, and other tech products being exempted.

Sucks for the small business owners who aren’t big enough to lobby for their own exemptions. Welcome to the coin operated presidency.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/tariffs-exclusions-exemptions-apple-nvidia-dell-smartphones-pcs-b2e069ff

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

Just downloaded my social security record, mostly to make sure they haven't declared me dead yet.

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

My concern here is about much more than the unfairness to Krebs, though this abuse of presidential power certainly harms him and makes him and his family targets for threats of violence.

My larger concern is that this represents a clear and direct threat to anyone, inside or outside the administration, who dares raise a dissenting voice or who exposes facts that might be contrary to the party line.

It is diametrically opposed to what the first amendment is designed to protect.