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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
realTuckFrumper ("#TuckFrump") wrote:

'People are having trouble getting by': Conservative slams Trump's economy on Fox News https://twp.ai/9PXpos

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

State Department says today it "renamed the former Institute of Peace to reflect the greatest dealmaker in our nation's history.
Welcome to the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.” (USIP, a nonprofit think tank, was an early target of DOGE.)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
KimPerales@toad.social ("Kim Perales") wrote:

Pres Trump🚨pardoned the co-founder of stadium developer Oak View Group Tim Leiweke, who was charged earlier this year with rigging bids for a Texas arena, according to a document released by the Justice Department.

His DOJ charged Leiweke.

It's not just projection with Trump, he's actually committed the very crimes that he's pardoning people for. He's a shameless, soulless, conman.
#Corruption #Pardons #Fascism #RICO #Bribery #PayToPlay #Protest #USPol
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/politics/tim-leiweke-pardon-trump

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
signalapp@mastodon.world ("Signal") wrote:

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nek@hear-me.social ("Dave á Jus") wrote:

YES! One state is protecting the public from a belligerent and vindictive, weaponized US Department of Justice.

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/colorado-tells-doj-take-a-hike-as-it-rejects-demand-for-statewide-voter-data/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jackie@social.linux.pizza ("Jackie Jude") wrote:

@fromjason it would be like if google convinced the government that
1. search engines are an inherently dangerous technology
2. google is the only company doing it safely
3. open source projects need to be banned

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
nsmsn@social.lol ("Nick Simson") wrote:

❄️ Advent of Not Looking at the Computer So Damned Much.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jackie@social.linux.pizza ("Jackie Jude") wrote:

@fromjason the AI companies arguments are so dumb that it would be funny if our governments weren't falling for them: OpenAI theoretically has a "kill switch" to shut down ChatGPT when it "inevitably" becomes sentient and open source LLMs like DeepSeek do not, therefore the government needs to ban open source LLMs and fund OpenAI to ensure they get to AGI first in a "safe" way

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

President of #Signal, Meredith Whittaker (@Mer__edith ) calls the AI apocalypse a "A fantastical, adrenalizing ghost story is being used to hijack attention around what is the problem that regulation needs to solve"

I agree. And I think Hank Green would agree if he took a closer look at #AIdoomerism and the people and orgs he platformed in his last two videos on #AI.

I wrote about it here.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/hank-green-and-the-fantastical-tales-of-god-ais/

#OpenSource

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

Without question one of the greats.

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/steve-cropper-dead-guitarist-booker-t-otis-redding-blues-brothers-1236599198/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
lichencats@scicomm.xyz ("Lichen Cats") wrote:

"This is not the time for lazy science."

Many thanks to Evie Unraveling for making this video about the science, history, and technology of knitting. If you didn't see the video SciShow knitting video, it is full of misinformation, lazy science, and misogyny. I love SciShow, but that was irresponsible. As a female scientist and crocheter, this correction video by Evie was very affirming.

https://youtu.be/5btQokB32dQ?si=X0hh33uuicnX2RlJ

The video was removed from SciShow's YouTube page after the backlash and Hank Green has posted an apology on his own Tiktok.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMKfgxx4/

#knitting #physics #technology #science #SciShow #HankGreen #MaterialsScience #history #misogyny

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

I was told I had been selected and I very happily did not argue

RE: https://www.threads.com/@late.july/post/DR0JKdekjZI

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

Is Hank an AI-doomerist now?

I wrote about Hank Green, my trip to Savannah, and AI-Doomerism.

It's not lost on me that Hank is the internet's favorite science influencer. That's what makes his last two videos on AI so jarring.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/hank-green-and-the-fantastical-tales-of-god-ais/

#OpenAI #HankGreen #AIDoomerism #AISlop

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I have been wrestling with how to stabilize this puppy for over a month now, with attackers taking it down every hour or two.

fook them, fook them with a pitchfork. I hate what has happened to the formerly cooperative spirit of those on the internetwork ;^{

[danger, grumpy olde farte whining]

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

we likes seeing this, we duz...

jeffs@rocky:~$ sudo systemctl status storyteller
● storyteller.service - Storyteller Web Service
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/storyteller.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2025-12-03 12:28:44 UTC; 10h ago
Main PID: 289714 (storyteller)
Tasks: 61 (limit: 19140)
Memory: 21.3M
CPU: 3.514s
CGroup: /system.slice/storyteller.service
└─289714 /etc/storyteller/storyteller

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
nate@social.lol ("Nate Beaty") wrote:

everything's fine #ink #drawing #sketches

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
lumon@beep.town ("Lumon Gif Refinery") wrote:

Attachments:

• gifv: okay lets just exhales sharply

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz FINAL (1).DOCX") wrote:

Remember how every December your CD player did not confess that it had been spying on what you listened to all year

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

ahahahahaha hahaha hahahaha ahahahaha

YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!!111

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

Cocaine is not fentanyl. Blowing up vessels off the coast of Venezuela doesn't stop fentanyl. It just gives Hegseth a rush. And hopefully gets him indicted.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

maybe, just maybe I have finally found my way to hardening my service from low-level & malformed SSL connection request attacks... 9 hours and counting of stability (memory usage and n tasks) & crash resistance [fingers and toes crossed]

if I get past 24 hours, I'll believe it may be fixed.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
thenewsdesk@flipboard.com ("The News Desk") wrote:

Anthropic hires lawyers as it preps for IPO
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/anthropic-hires-lawyers-as-it-preps-for-ipo/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Technology @technology-thenewsdesk

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I decided to give my Canon AE-1 another go after using the Pentax KX for over a year.

📷️ Canon AE-1
🎞️ Ilford HP5+ @ 800
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/2.0, yellow filter
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #BlackAndWhitePhotography #BlackAndWhite #MonochromePhotography

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell 🏴") wrote:

US Slashes Pay Incentives at Already Weakened Cyber Agency

(gift link)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-03/us-cyber-agency-cuts-incentive-pay-program-for-diminished-staff?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2NDc5MjA4NywiZXhwIjoxNzY1Mzk2ODg3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNk5QUU5LSzNOWUEwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI0RkU5RTRCMUI3Q0I0MUREOUZFMDNDNTBCQTU2OTU3MyJ9.0ZtehZU224ipMTtFcPQo8%5FTvrSm2ozlUuv77SbdRxY4

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

Well no shit there pal

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/politics/report-hegseth-signal

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

"AI" as it is designed today is inherently predictive and thus inherently conservative in whatever it does, unless it is actively malfunctioning. It's never going to be surprising, and it's never going to be impressive. It's going to be, at best, mid. "Mid" is literally what it is designed to be.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@laurenthomanwrites/post/DRz7UoYEZlr

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

so, a while ago, I have been tricked into trying out a vibe-coded project. "tricked", because it wasn't disclosed anywhere, and just from screenshots and the readme, it looked fine'ish.

it was a small web-app used to upload and download files. you know, kinda like wetransfer, but self-hosted.

I gave it a quick try, and it worked well enough for the use-case I had (requesting one file from a user). except that.. chunked uploading was broken.

oh, and also: the project provided docker containers and a compose file, but.. the uploaded files weren't stored in the volume at all, they were just stored as part of the ephemeral container filesystem. very much a "you had one job, and you failed at it" kind of situation.

there was a github issue mentioning existing upload issues. I left a comment there pointing out the volatile storage, because I'm not a jerk. also, I felt it's kinda important to note somewhere, because that puts users at risk of actually losing data. that was at the end of october. just after leaving the comment, I noticed an earlier comment by the maintainer. it read:

Thanks a lot for reporting this bug! I actually struggled with the same issue during development. The v3.2.5-beta release was meant to fix it for good, sorry it didn’t work as expected. Just so you know, I’m currently working on v3.3.0-beta, where I’m rewriting all the upload/download logic from scratch.

and then it hit me: the maintainer actually had zero clue. looking at their commit history, it's pretty clear that there's very little - if any - architectural thinking. a lot of the commits were just "give up and rebuild everything", because that's what you get from GenAI: when they struggle writing code, they tend to suggest throwing everything away and starting from scratch.

anyway, I rm -rfed that project, but because I commented in a bug, I was still subscribed. just got a notification from the maintainer posting that a new "beta" is out, so of course, I checked out the commits.

the latest real commit:

[REFACTOR] Change upload and download architecture

oh dear. yes. once again, instead of fixing shit, it's just throwing away everything. and, hold your horses:

205 files changed, +28939 -15962

and sure, lots of that is also docs changes and i18n file changes, but it's literally throwing away everything and "writing it" from scratch. the docker container is now also installing and running minio, because of course that's perfectly reasonable to do. and, even funnier: the "important upgrade notes" - clearly AI generated - mention a lot of things, but what they don't mention is that if you already have uploaded files and you just build a new container... well... you'll no longer have uploaded files.

it's a total feverdream, and one of many similar stories I've seen in GenAI-driven projects. call me a hater all you want, but I, for once, am really happy about stories like that. it's been 2.5 years since people yelled at me with "GenAI will take your job in a few months", and they're still so laughably bad, that - as someone who knows how to debug and actually fix shit - am becoming less worried about my career as time goes on.

what wonderful times we're in.

(also, you can probably google these quotes and find the project and the maintainer. don't. don't harass them or their projects. for all I know, they might have the best intentions and are just heavily misguided by the fearmongering/FOMO-driven/hype-driven marketing of GenAI companies.)

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

wishing a happy OH SHIT PATCH EVERYTHING day to all the React devs

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
macdonst@mastodon.online ("Simon MacDonald") wrote:

There is currently an incident at work due to the remote code execution vulnerability in React (see CVE-2025-55182).

Co-worker: How long will it take to patch the dev server UI?
Me: It's not affected.
Co-worker: How can it not be affected if it uses React?
Me:

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mia@front-end.social ("Mia (web luddite)") wrote:

Are there good tools for graphing equations in html? Ideally with the ability to change a variable and see the graph output change?

has anyone released a web component? If I was younger, would I reference the TI-84 instead?