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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Indie and non-traditional authors! Today is the day to tell thousands of readers looking for holiday gifts about your books! Follow the link for all the details and leave a post (there, not here)!

Musicians/crafters/artists, etc: Your day is tomorrow!

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/02/the-2025-whatever-holiday-gift-guide-day-two-non-traditional-books/

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Has Librewolf taken a definitive stance on including AI in its browser yet?

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

The trend towards liberals adopting the fantastical, by means of bad actors cosplaying academia, feels almost impossible to course, correct.

It would mean liberals would first have to admit that they are no less susceptible to propaganda than anyone else.

We say we get it, but being immune to propaganda is a large part of the liberal identify for the past decade.

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

Ironically, AI-Doomerist propaganda is written almost exclusively without exception by white men, while the women, Black and brown computer scientists warning us against these narratives are in discourse exile.

Most liberals don't even know these people exist.

#aidoomerism #AI #OpenAI

https://archive.ph/mPNPZ

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

#AIDoomerism—the belief that corporations will one day create an AI god who will either build for us a utopia or cast us down to literal robot hell—isn't an ideology proliferating across right-wing circles, but through left-of-center personalities. Hank Green being the latest example.

As anecdotal evidence, on three occasions I've had left-leaning friends send to me earnestly Rationalist / AI Doomer propaganda believing these messages are somehow subversive and anti-big tech.

#AI #OpenAI

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

#AIdoomerism relies on the left's obsession with using academia as a way to distinguish themselves from the lower classes.

AI Doomerists are exploiting the academia aesthetic through scholarly sounding blogs and corporate-funded studies disguised as academic journals.

California liberals never got over their obsession with eugenics, and it's being exploited to achieve regulatory capture— placing AI technology in the hands of a few billionaires.

#AI #Eugenics

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/download/13636/11599?inline=1#p3

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

also I don't know how to screenshot with more pixels apparently

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

me: laughing at Cloudflare's bug

also me: how tf do you write Rust without unwrapping everything?

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

@NfNitLoop typst has been on my list to learn for a while now! Love a well designed document

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

This holiday season, buy a loved one a subscription to an indie journalist, news outlet or essayist.

(Unless that's not what they want and it makes you super annoying)

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

noted: Advent of Code day two status: done ★★

https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-12-02T07:27Z/

— avoiding regular expressions resulted in a better solution, who'd thunk it!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

AI data centres — IN SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t work

Science fiction is fiction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H%5FSaKXM82yg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251201-ai-data-centres-in-space-why-dcs-in-space-cant-work - podcast

time: 9 min 27 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/01/ai-data-centres-in-space-why-dcs-in-space-cant-work/ - text

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

Starting to think “I’m going to consume all of the media you love and replace it with indistinct but incredibly expensive garbage while artists and writers starve” might not be the great strategy for winning the hearts and minds of the public that the tech industry thinks it is

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
luftvaffel@oslo.town ("Luftvaffel") wrote:

#Fediverse

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
markmetz@sfba.social ("Mr.Mark "The Sharpie King"") wrote:

I just realized my Mastodon experience hasn’t enshittified one bit in the 2+ years I’ve been here.

In fact, it’s only gotten better.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social wrote:

jwz wrote:

Dear Lazyweb, Double-You Tee Actual Fuck is this shit, and how do I make configure.ac figure it out:

Debian 12.11:

extern ssize_t getxattr (const char *__path, const char *__name, void *__value, size_t __size) __THROW __attr_access ((__write_only__, 3, 4));

macOS 14.7.7:

ssize_t getxattr(const char *path, const char *name, void *value, size_t size, u_int32_t position, int options);
https://jwz.org/b/ykx2

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

History of Rock Paper Scissors

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
tef wrote:

it is kinda funny that a bunch of people are arguing for "i don't need to understand what my code does, or even try" and then getting mad when people laugh at them outright

"you can't just dismiss me out of hand, you haven't even tried to understand my point" alas we are now liberated from meaning

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@fromjason have been learning Typst (https://typst.app) this week. Their web site sells SaaS addons to their core technology, a new document format aiming to replace LaTeX. But you can download and use the document compiler offline for free, and it’s open source.

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

An oldie but a goodie. https://web.archive.org/web/20250207012350/http://www.43folders.com/2008/12/09/pretending

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
mrbones909 ("C Loving Bones") wrote:

@fromjason https://github.com/BeardOverflow is doing a fantastic job on the MSI firmware for linux, really came through for me when my laptop needed support.

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
leanderlindahl ("Leander Lindahl") wrote:

[Hello world.]

This time I'm asking for tips about european alternatives to Google Classroom in case I should get the chance to influence such matters in my municipality.

#goEuropean #deGoogle

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

Shout out to all the boutique tech firms and indie devs that make cool shit. No dark patterns, no moats, no venture capitalists trying to corner the market. Just quality products that people actually want. ❤️

Shout out some of your favorite indie developers ⬇️

#indiedev #indieweb

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

3,000 words lmao. I need to cut this sucker IN HALF. who do I think I am posting a 3k word essay. Progress though. Everything I want to say is in one document.

#blog #blogger #blogging

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

We hit a new (and disturbing!) failure mode recently when a production rack that had been up for several months saw every (!) compute sled's service processor become simultaneously unresponsive. On today's episode, @ahl and I willl be joined by the members of the Oxide team that debugged the vexing issue -- and @cliffle will reveal how he reached its surprising root cause. Join us at 5p Pacific for a wild tale of death by uptime!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1445145759514103811

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
astridsdreamspace@dreamspacestudio.net ("Nicole Myers") wrote:

Building Digital Workflows That Actually Work (for Neurodivergent Creatives)

Neurodivergent individuals often struggle with conventional productivity systems. Instead, they should create personalized, adaptable workflows that reflect real-life routines and preferences. Customizing tools, breaking tasks into manageable steps, and adding enjoyable elements can make productivity systems more engaging. Ultimately, the goal is to develop a system that feels supportive and effective.

https://dreamspacestudio.net/building-digital-workflows-that-actually-work-for-neurodivergent-creatives/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

We are a decade+ into web apps shrinking, rather than growing, their TAMs through JS excess, which may be why the initial sales pitches are dead and buried. But we need to consult them if we're going to get back to good.

"Is it working?" is not only reasonable to ask, it's urgent as the performance inequality gap is growing:

https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-2026/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The idea that React solves problems for developers is premised on the idea that the point is better user experiences, and that all of this is necessary *to do better for users*. Implicit in that logic is that these tools will need better for *all* users, or that there is no TAM-vs-tools tradeoff. Except that's demonstrably false.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

There's something so entitled in the replies I get to threads like this, and I think a lot about how software people have no experience of The 5 Whys and other root-cause methods; if frontend were able/willing to mark tools to their initial sales pitches, a lot of bad stuff would evaporate:

https://bsky.app/profile/infrequently.org/post/3m6sc5h252kc7