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

Whatever we may feel about AI and its longterm usefulness, we can agree that #Anthropic and #OpenAI's regulatory capture strategy to kill #OpenSource doesn't benefit anyone but these companies.

We don't need another telecommunications style monopoly. We don't want OpenAI to become the Comcast of AI.

Why, then, is Hank Green pushing #AIDoomerism to his largely #Liberal audience?

I wrote about it here.

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

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/115661060620433309

shhh, don’t tell dansup that Pixelfed could have just been a CSS file for Mastodon

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

November Manchester.

📷️️ 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 adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
ploum@mamot.fr wrote:

This post will not appear in the timeline of most Pixelfed users.

Because considered at "not pretty enough" for them (despite the great illustration by @davidrevoy )

It worth asking the question:

Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?

https://ploum.net/2025-12-04-pixelfed-against-fediverse.html

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org ("Open Rights Group") wrote:

Digital ID will create a digital surveillance infrastructure that can continue to creep into every corner of our lives.

ORG is one of 13 rights groups urging UK MPs to oppose mandatory Digital ID in the debate next Monday.

Read more in the joint briefing ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/joint-briefing-do-not-introduce-digital-id-cards-parliamentary-petition-debate/

#NotoDigitalID #DigitalID #surveillance #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol #id

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
DotMaetrix@chitter.xyz ("Dot Maetrix") wrote:

🎵❄️🎵
He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you've just ate
He knows full well he's normalizing
A mass surveillance state

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

Another one forgot to fill in the mail merge.

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

Advent of Code day 4 status: done ★★

https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-12-04T09:19Z/

— this Rust code is starting to heat up! I may be on this full-time next week 😬

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers
Micron cites AI data center demand as reason for killing DIY upgrade brand.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
louie@pdx.social ("Louie Mantia, Jr.") wrote:

Was talking with a friend a few months ago about Alan Dye and how he even got that job to begin with, and I said this: “But like there’s Steve Lemay or Patrick Coffman, and neither of them got this job for some reason.”

Anyway, it’s great that Lemay finally got the job.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
suricrasia@lethargic.talkative.fish ("blackle mori") wrote:

observe
(yes that's me)
(yes I'm bringing this back)
(something something spotify wrapped)

Attachments:

• video: a tiktok duet of a person singing a song, with the subtitle "open verse challenge!" it's me or the ps5 tell me which of us is more your type it seems like you can't decide so if it's not me then I'm probably gonna run it over then blackle appears wearing a white dress shirt, a black tie, and sunglasses, sorta resembling a ps5, and sings: it's me boy I'm your ps5 speaking to you inside your mind listen boy, don't get tounge-tied leave the girl and stay inside come with me, let's play a game I can be your toy and you can be my cowboy maybe have a race, maybe go to space maybe take your free will and add it to my trophy case

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

It's a big stack of magnets and quantum physics happens between them

@nwf explaining how MRAM works.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
Emily@infosec.exchange ("Emily Gladstone Cole") wrote:

#SantaGotPhished

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

Alright, another one of the "applying Clausewitz to tech" posts is done! This one's about how failed software projects are almost always *strategic* failures rather than simply tactical ones:

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/failed%5Fsoftware%5Fprojects

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
jukkan@loops.video ("Jukka Niiranen") wrote:

Guess the software company. (Whatever you answered, yes - that one!)

Video by Eleanor Morton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Attachments:

• video: 7d64e34ed70a62a4.mp4

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

I'd missed this piece in TNS, but nearly everything about it is correct:

https://thenewstack.io/css-in-js-the-great-betrayal-of-frontend-sanity/

Early proponents of this stuff were warned *directly* by browser engineers (incl. yours truly) that this would scale horribly, and indeed the post doesn't even cover the worst performance aspects of this nonsense: by repeatedly perturbing the global style set, CSS-in-JS runtimes *destroy the browser's layout caches*. A bonfire of the sanities.

Boosted by jwz:
Heliograph@mastodon.au wrote:

with #santaclaus coming up soon just wanted to clear this up #hohoho #yo #arrr #nikolaus

jwz wrote:

Theseus The Tank Engine.

The Lucha Whore: "What if the ship of theseus was sentient" is not a question I was prepared to grapple with on a monday. BTW, sex dolls are alive in the Toy Story universe. Extremely relevant previouslies:
https://jwz.org/b/ykyC

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

ope, guess its about that time

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
sarahtaber@mastodon.online ("Sarah Taber") wrote:

Rolling Stone: clearly documents a 30+ year long con job. A rural county's own leadership lined their pockets by helping ag interests destroy the water supply.

Everyone who read the article apparently??: Amazon data centers did this in 2011

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/data-center-water-pollution-amazon-oregon-1235466613/

Boosted by jwz:
leshiaaimee@mas.to ("the lucha whore") wrote:

"what if the ship of theseus was sentient" is not a question I was prepared to grapple with on a monday

Boosted by jwz:
johnrogers.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("John Rogers") wrote:

At this point I’m the old Abbot & Costello Susquehanna Hat Company bit when I hear “Luddite” used as a pejorative. “Slooooowly I turned …”

Boosted by jwz:
flexion@oldbytes.space ("/usr/people/flexion") wrote:

And another attempt at compiling povray (3.8.0) on IRIX... ⏳

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
yogthos@social.marxist.network ("Yogthos") wrote:

A maximum-severity vulnerability in React could enable remote code execution (RCE), and may affect more than a third of cloud service providers.

https://www.wiz.io/blog/critical-vulnerability-in-react-cve-2025-55182

#javascript #react #security #programmig

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
DGI@graeber.social ("David Graeber Institute") wrote:

David Graeber once wrote an important piece about the power of protest and the police. This is an extract.

https://davidgraeber.org/articles/on-the-phenomenology-of-giant-puppets-broken-windows-imaginary-jars-of-urine-and-the-cosmological-role-of-the-police-in-american-culture/

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:

37 Debian LTS Advisories about security updates for various packages were released by Debian LTS contributors in October. These include notable security updates for https-everywhere, openjdk 11 & 17 and intel-microcode. LTS team also contributed towards updates for Debian packages in various releases.

Read about these and more in our report for October: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-10/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

This work is funded by Freexian's Debian LTS offering. Become a sponsor of Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) and enjoy the benefits (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details/#benefits).

#freexian #debian #debianlts #openjdk

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
joshsusser@autistics.life ("josh susser") wrote:

A short tale from way back when I worked at Apple: My team had a lot of lunchtime meetings and they usually got pizza to feed us lunch while we worked. There were two of us on the team who were vegetarian, so they'd order six or eight pizzas for the team and all of them would have meat except for the one meatless pizza they had for just the two of us. But everyone likes vegetarian pizza, so people would get in line, take what looked good which included the veggie pizza, and by the time I got to the veggie pizza it would be gone and I'd have no lunch (and the other vegetarian had the same problem, of course). They tried to get the non-vegetarian people to stop eating the veggie pizza, then tried to hide it so only we veggies could get it, but nothing worked. So I suggested they order four kinds of vegetarian pizzas and a couple pizzas with meat, and that worked out great and there was much rejoicing.

This is a post about gatekeeping disability accommodations.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
matuzo@front-end.social ("Manuel Matuzović") wrote:

On day 3 @tunetheweb introduces us to Speculation Rules and recent improvements to the API that help us speed up our websites. #HTMHellAdventCalendar

https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/3/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
frontenddogma@mas.to ("Frontend Dogma") wrote:

Get the Core Right and the Resilient Code Will Follow, by @bell.bz (@btconf):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7sh-5UYnJc

#videos #resilience #design #communication

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

Attachments:

• video: A video contrasting the Christmas music styles of John Lennon and Paul McCartney.