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andrewstroehlein ("Andrew Stroehlein") wrote:
I'm sure if we just give Hitler the Sudetenland, he'll stop invading other countries, and we'll have peace for our time.
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
The champion of the anti-trans crusade is such a fucking loser.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
danmcquillan@kolektiva.social wrote:
The calls to action from the parents:
1. Ban AI tools into the classroom, protect students and teachers from de-skilling
2. Resist not only direct financial relationships or contracts with AI providers, but any training they might offer.
https://neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/digital-future-or-risk-to-critical-thinking-skills-5-takeaways-as-malden-drafts-ai-strategy-for-schools/ ✊
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com ("Ethan Marcotte") wrote:
🦊
“Artificial intelligence isn’t going anywhere. It’s the future.”
I hear that line a lot. The thing is, futures are tricky.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
“The line and the stream. — Ethan Marcotte”
https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/the-line-and-the-stream/
> That’s why I’ve come to realize that statements about the future aren’t predictions: they’re more like spells.
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Your casual reminder I have two (2) contenders in the first round of the Goodreads Choice Awards Science Fiction category this year, there's still time to vote for one of them (or another book there you like better). Go on, all the cool kids are doing it.
https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/readers-favorite-science-fiction-books-2025
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:
awesome to see: https://omglol.news/2025/11/20/say-hello-to-sourcetube-the-omg-lol-community-code-forge
I have my own Forgejo instance (for now) but more the better! Point is: get your code away from GitHub :)
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:
LLMs are *absolute concentrated brain poison* for these folks. They try out the LLM to see if it can solve a few simple problems and then they extrapolate to more complex problems. Wrongly. They infer from social cues in their cohort, which are absolutely fucked by the amount of synthetic money (and maybe fraud?) driving a subprime-bubble type mania. They infer from the plausibility of its outputs, which are absolutely fucked because the job of these models is to produce plausible outputs.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:
I just do not have the time to write anything long-form about this but the ongoing Mozilla AI debacle is really indicative of a very, very troubling aspect of the broader AI debacle, which is that a strong majority of even the *actually* well-intentioned, smart leaders in tech have had their brains fully cooked by these heuristics machines
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
AI as a reflection of its creator…which doesn't paint a pretty picture of Elon Musk's ego.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
The dichotomy of print versus the web: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/the-dichotomy-of-print-vs-web/
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Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Kötturinn og ég, ný íslensk myndasaga: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/kotturinn-og-eg/
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Þá er ég orðinn útgefandi 🙂
„Kötturinn og ég, ný íslensk myndasaga“
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/kotturinn-og-eg/
Fyrstu viðtökur hafa verið mjög jákvæðar:
„Afar skemmtileg bók, húmorísk og hlýleg, fyrir alla sem eiga kött, hafa átt kött eða langar að eiga kött.“
— Gyrðir Elíasson
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:
LMAO excellent time-to-first-error 👏
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Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:
holy moly when did Dexie vibe a new Next.js site?
https://dexie.orggeneric af and all expense spared on the docs I see 🫠
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:
![[On the bridge of Enterprise] Picard: Yellow alert Everyone: OH ALERT!!](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media%5Fattachments/files/115/586/992/122/141/689/original/dfcb0db475098e5f.jpeg)
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Eniko Fox") wrote:
people on bluesky telling me "actually content warning culture on mastodon is bad since for some of us the urge to read the post anyway is overwhelming"
completely overlooking the fact you can simply make a filter against the content warning words
if i want to cut out ~85% of posts here about US politics all i have to do is add one filter for "uspol" while on bluesky i'm forced to filter every single word, name, and concept adjacent to US politics instead and it works *worse*
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
luna@lunar.place ("Lunya 🌸 :floof_t: :haj_s:") wrote:
:neofox_floof_cute:
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Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
MorpheusB@aus.social ("Morpheus Being") wrote:
I had a call from a scammer the other day
Me: “Hello.”
NOT-Microsoft support: “Hello. This is Bob Bobson from Microsoft Support. We are seeing a lot of virus activity from your device.”
Me: “Oh no. My device? Are you sure?”
NOT-Microsoft support: “Oh yes, we have many reports.”
Me: “Oh jeez. How can I fix it?”>;
NOT-Microsoft support: “It’s OK sir. We can help you right now. Are you in front of your device sir?”Me: “Yes. I was just about to use it. I’m glad you called.”
NOT-Microsoft support: “Yes sir, we are going to help you. Can you please push the Start button?”
Me: “I think it's already on.”
NOT-Microsoft support: “Okay, sir. Now you want to click on Control Panel.”
Me: “I don’t see that.”
NOT-Microsoft support: “Do you see a bunch of information above the Start button?”
Me: “Yes.”
NOT-Microsoft support: “That is your Control Panel.”
Me: “Wow, I didn’t realize it had a name.”
NOT-Microsoft support: “Yes sir, now press on Internet Options.”
Me: “Yeah, I definitely don’t see any Internet options. I don’t think I purchased that feature. This is just a cheap one.”
NOT-Microsoft support: “They all have the Internet sir. Press the Start button again.”
Me: “OK, it’s the same as before.”
NOT-Microsoft support: “That’s OK sir. We are going to restart your device. Can you please turn it off?”
Me: “Ummm…I don’t know how. I’ve never turned it off. Since I bought it, it just kind of stays on all the time.”
NOT-Microsoft support: “There must be an off button on your device. How do you stop it when it’s running?”
Me: “In those cases, I usually press the big button.”
NOT-Microsoft support: “OK sir. Please press that button.”
Me: “Ok.”
NOT-Microsoft support: “Is your device off?”
Me: “No. The door popped open.”
NOT-Microsoft support: “Door? Is there a disc inside the door?”
Me: “No, there’s a burrito.”
NOT-Microsoft support: “Why is there a burrito in your computer?”
Me: “Computer? I thought you said this was microwave support.”
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
latenightowl@social.linux.pizza ("Late Night Owl") wrote:
I haven't seen this variation of XKCD 2347 yet. Received from a friend, source unknown.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
FediVideo@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Video") wrote:
#VideoGames video accounts to follow:
(If an account looks blank, read this: https://fedi.tips/why-does-someones-account-page-look-completely-blank-is-it-really-blank/)
➡️ @harrybo - Rally game videos with fun commantary
➡️ @gbryant - Linux gaming news, especially Steam Deck
➡️ @bobdendry - Let's plays modern & classic games
➡️ @ozoned - Linux gaming streams
➡️ @logaldeveloper - Gaming streamer, fun games
➡️ @0lhi - Long play videos of colourful 1990s/2000s games & user-created levels
➡️ @hatnix - Linux gaming streams in English & German🧵 1/4
Mastodon FeedBoosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
r_alb ("Raphael Albert") wrote:
The European Commission wants more techno-capitalist "innovation", and we all have to pay for it with our privacy.
We must stop the Digital Omnibus!
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#DigitalOmnibus #GDPR #privacy #DataProtection
Mastodon FeedBoosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
chpietsch@fedifreu.de ("Christian Peach") wrote:
RE: https://floss.social/@omgubuntu/115583973694128369
Time to fire the Mozilla management or to hard-fork all #Mozilla projects.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
bloke_zero@ravenation.club wrote:
Absolutely loving this by Sarah Wynn-Williams. I thought I’d like it for the horror stories about the #facebook management but the writing and pacing is great!
I saw her speaking briefly at a thing with @pluralistic at The Barbican in London where she couldn’t say much because of a non disparagement clause in her Facebook contract!
If you want to know why spaces like this are so important read the book! Her description of #davos suddenly makes the world make a terrible kind of sense
Mastodon FeedBoosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
tsupasat@infosec.exchange ("Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓") wrote:
One of the lucky career breaks I've had was writing the ACM TechNews and ACM SIGDA email news summaries from 2000-2005. It paid terribly, and I had to be at work at 6:30 a.m. but I learned a whole lot.
Anyway, I just saw that the ACM's magazine, The Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery (CACM) is now open and free! As in, there's nothing behind a paywall any longer, including archived articles. The ACM's entire Digital Library will be open in January 2026. Really, really cool!
And so to celebrate, here's an opinion piece from the CACM's October edition from @pluralistic about why tech workers who hate enshittification need to unionize.
https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/tech-workers-versus-enshittification/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
zarfeblong@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Andrew Plotkin") wrote:
Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:
despite my "AI" policy, I do test these things occasionally (off the books) ...and either I'm prompting it wrong — "prompt engineering" is akin to blowing on lucky dice at the craps table — or my standards (self-respect) are too high for this garbage
Mastodon Feedadele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:
#gotosocial instance upgraded to version 0.20.2 !
so easy
https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.20.2