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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ben@m.benui.ca ("ben 🇵🇸 ui") wrote:

This is also true for programmers who use LLMs that are trained on stolen code.

#gamedev

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
markwyner@mas.to ("Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:") wrote:

This is the Sony PS-F5, or “The Flamingo.” It’s a portable record player from 1985. I once saw one in a thrift store. I should have bought it.

I’d never be comfortable sliding my vinyl into this player. One slip and you’ve ended your record.

It’s a cool design, though. With innovative engineering. It’s neat.

Forgot to cite the video source:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=emrBcOYgonw

#Music #Vinyl #RecordPlayer #Sony #Electronics #Technology #Audio #Retro #Engineering #Design

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• video: The video shows the player, which is a slender tower of silver. The record is inserted downward into the device. A dial is turned, which activates a clamping system. The records, mostly with bright colors, play while the record is vertical. The player itself is only slightly wider than the label on the vinyl. Through various edits the narrator shows each component as described, moving through the buttons, connectors, battery compartment, etc. There are also some original cilps of packaging and commercials woven in.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

New #Avkrvst single.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OMpnEZDY3U

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
netopwibby@social.coop ("netop://ウィビ") wrote:

Okay so I did some research…Sahil is working for DOGE as a contractor, for free. Proudly. He cites the success of Gumroad as the reason he can do so.

WELP
https://mastodon.cloud/@MattSelznick/114504706275867204

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
sarajw@front-end.social ("Sara Joy :happy_pepper:") wrote:

We're getting close to the needed signatures against conversion "therapies" in the EU!

Signed as a German. Come on the rest of you, es gibt reichliche Deutsche hier!

We now have the 7 countries over the line, we just need pure numbers - go go go

Direct link: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/

https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/114501692323303297

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
Willow@blahaj.zone ("Willow :trans_flag: 飛柳") wrote:

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
MEActNOW wrote:

🤯👇🏼
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded 70GBs of articles from JSTOR. He faced $1 million fine and 35 years in jail. He took his life in 2013.

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models without any punishment.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jgarber@indieweb.social ("Jason Garber") wrote:

This is the way.
https://mastodon.cloud/@MattSelznick/114504706275867204

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jim@jimmitchell.social ("Jim Mitchell") wrote:

Trying something different… I’m going to set my personal Mastodon instance aside for a bit and just use Micro.blog with its Fediverse features over the next few weeks to see if I like it better. If you saw me follow you from my dot-org domain, it’s legit.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
MattSelznick@mastodon.cloud ("Matthew Wayne Selznick") wrote:

5 minutes ago, I learned Sahil Lavingia (@shl), who runs #Gumroad. is part of the Supervillain's team at DOGE, specifically to work on the Department of Veterans Affairs, which has had thousands of jobs removed and hundreds of contracts cut, impacting the lives of tens of thousands of veterans. 3 minutes ago, after buying and selling digital products on Gumroad for a month short of thirteen years, I deleted my account. Fuck that fucker.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jon@henshaw.social ("Jon Henshaw") wrote:

#AI or #NoAI

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

> This discussion has made it clear to me that LLM enthusiasts do not value the time or preferences of open-source maintainers, willfully do not understand affirmative consent, and that I should take steps to explicitly ban the use of such tools in the open source projects I maintain.

https://lobste.rs/s/gkpmli/if%5Fai%5Fis%5Fso%5Fgood%5Fat%5Fcoding%5Fwhere%5Fare%5Fopen

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Imagine a world where computing power (compute) was regulated like weapons of war. It's unlawful for private citizens to own a personal computer stronger than a BB gun.

A small group of private companies who helped author misguided government regulations now control the nation's compute. Every consumer device, from desktops to smart watches, are little more than thin client machines tethered to data center kingdoms.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I wonder if Apple was able to make such an enormous leap in computing performance with its M series chips because the rest of the market would rather us not have powerful machines.

If it were up to, say, Google, everyone would have thin clients machines where most of the computing power required came from their data centers.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cloud | Think Tank | SupplyChainBrain (2012)

"Proviti’s research found security to be the biggest barrier to full adoption of the cloud, followed by concerns over data privacy. IT managers were further worried about business continuity in the event of a network failure such as that experienced by AWS."

Who would’ve thought that all the cloud companies would eventually use all our ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/05/14/how-i-learned-to-stop.html

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Dang, remember when memes weren't so esoteric and drenched with detached irony? I'm being old man yells at cloud right now aren't I

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

This article always comes up when I search "there is no cloud". I get the sense that maybe some of the big tech companies might've paid for some sponsored blog posts to push back at cloud marketing backlash.

I don't keep track of which blog posts are the worst I've ever read, but if I did, this would be top three. It's vapid and pedantic, and every word feels forced.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/stop-saying-the-cloud-is-just-someone-elses-computer-because-its-not/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Remember when this sticker went viral

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Bring back the "there is no cloud" meme

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Being motivated to write without any immediate thought on what to write about

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ckape@teh.entar.net ("Brian Danger Hicks") wrote:

Instead of storing my data in the cloud, I just store it in the bush. It's the same thing, only palette-swapped. More accessible, too.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa - Ars Technica:

"In some responses, Grok says outright that it has been “instructed to accept white genocide as real and ‘Kill the Boer’ as racially motivated.” In other replies, it merely allows that the topics are “complex” and “divisive” or “heavily debated” while pointing to outside sources like Afriforum or Genocide Watch for more ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/05/14/xais-grok-suddenly-cant-stop.html

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Apple Music launches Sound Therapy, a new ‘audio wellness’ feature - 9to5Mac:

"Sound Therapy songs may be “enhanced with auditory beats or colored noise to help encourage specific brain responses.”"

Listening to the Focus playlist now and it’s actually really good. https://9to5mac.com/2025/05/13/apple-music-launches-sound-therapy-a-new-audio-wellness-feature/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
AxiosNews@flipboard.com wrote:

Ben & Jerry's co-founder among those arrested at RFK Jr.'s testimony
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/14/ben-jerrys-co-founder-arrested-kennedy-hearing-protests?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Health Care @health-care-AxiosNews

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

I'm planning to start making videos again.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/05/14/76407/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qilmo9r%5FnFA

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
xkcd@mastodon.xyz ("XKCD Bot") wrote:

Scholars are still debating whether the current period is post-postmodern or neo-contemporary.
https://xkcd.com/3089/

Boosted by jwz:
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

🔥 DAMN! — @benniegthompson to @kristinoem: “I’m glad you found time among your many photo ops and costume changes to testify.”

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• video: f760e44b387e0941.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
jk ("josef") wrote:

the fact that duckduckgo has an AI thing at the top of the search results which DOESN’T answer in character as a duck, or even quack several times between each sentence, is, i think, a shocking betrayal and a demonstration of utmost cowardice

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
sleepless@social.lol ("Courtney") wrote:

Every day is an existential crisis remix. I’m just waiting for the bass drop.