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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
BasicAppleGuy wrote:

A boy becomes a man when he finally throws out his old Apple boxes… or so my wife keeps telling me.

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

I'm sure that those in the financial field will always act ethically and with the commonweal in mind, it's not like those regulations were put in place because they nearly destroyed the economy with their rapacious greed or anything

https://apnews.com/article/treasury-scott-bessent-financial-stability-f7bd96bb99824fd10c7e3ca239830bff

Boosted by jwz:
samhenrigold@hachyderm.io ("sam henri gold") wrote:

if any of these guys died on a friday, their replacement would be at their old desk by monday

Boosted by jwz:
iso7010@hacksrus.xyz ("ISO7010 pictogram of the day") wrote:

W008 – Drop (fall)

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISO%5F7010%5FW008.svg
Author: Wikimedia Commons user MaxxL
Public domain

Boosted by jwz:
amerpie@social.lol ("Lou Plummer 💖") wrote:

Here is 2025 in a nutshell

jwz wrote:

Since yesterday my server has again been getting absolutely obliterated by AI scrapers. This time, though, load is below 1, but I'm getting up to 10 requests a second and all of my Apache workers are in state "R". "apachectl restart" fixes it... for a while.

What levers do I have to pull on this? E.g. maybe it would be sensible to drop connections if they stay in "R" for more than a couple seconds?

This 12 year old post suggests some sysctl.conf changes, but I have...

https://jwz.org/b/yk0T

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

“Report Reveals the Devastating Cost of AI Intimacy • Buttondown”

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/report-reveals-the-devastating-cost-of-ai-intimacy/

> Plus, what an uncanny customer service experience taught us about global systems of labor exploitation

Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
rhertzog@hachyderm.io ("Raphaël Hertzog") wrote:

My latest horror story interacting with #microsoft support. I'm just trying to get help to register the their hardware program in their partner center. And in fact we were already registered there. But for some unknown reason, our entra ID accounts got removed without us getting any notification... and since we couldn't get help to restore them, we decided to re-register from scratch.

We could recreate the business entity, and join the partner center, but joining the hardware program registration fails because our former registration still exists somewhere, and it would not let us record the certificate we use for code signature ("The code signing certificate you used to sign the file has already been used by a different seller. Please use a different certificate.")

That's our problem, but now I can't explain that problem to Microsoft because there's no way for me to open a simple support ticket. The problems I encountered go from badly designed web support form, to AI bots and support teams that can't help you, and to invalid phone numbers. Read it here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5658250/how-to-open-a-support-ticket-in-the-partner-center

If you know someone at Microsoft that could help, please let me know! Maybe the power of the fediverse will help me.

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

🎄 blogged: Wrapping up Advent of Code 2025

https://dbushell.com/2025/12/12/advent-of-code-2025/

— nothing like waking up at 5am every morning for two weeks of coffee and code!

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

Time’s Person of The Year cover makes more sense if you imagine the construction workers who occupied that beam are now splattered across the sidewalk below.

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

The "nice people" of Minnesota have been welcoming immigrants of all nations to live here, and we've been thriving. Most of us lack the racism of Donald Trump.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/12/wheres-his-white-hood/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdrxOhm-J5A

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

Rule #34: There is porn of it, no exceptions.

(see also Disney/OpenAI deal)

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

https://media.paperblog.fr/i/704/7046200/calvin-hobbes-L-rOYNza.jpeg

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:

Nice blog in the discussion about AI & coding,
"AI can replace most of programming, but programming isn’t the job.
Programming is a task. It’s one of many things you do as part of your work. But if you’re a software engineer, your actual job is more than typing code into an editor."
https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/12/11/ai-can-write-your-code-it-cant-do-your-job/
#AI #coding #software #engineers #programming

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

"Marconi left a team at Poldhu in Cornwall, England, to transmit the signal, while he made his way to Signal Point in Newfoundland. Marconi set up his receiver and used a kite to raise his antenna."

https://its.ntia.gov/this-month-in-its-history/december-1901 📡 🪁

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

A fraud, a vicious criminal, a white supremacist, and Luigi Mangione make Penn's Year in Review.

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

Today in History: First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901 📡

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

Today in History: E.G. Robinson born, 1893

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jalict@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Frans") wrote:

@fromjason Absolutely hate this picture

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

Like, the plug-in installs, they see the admin, but there's no trace of it in the actual rendered site, as if all the 'the_content' filter hook was never called at all. Or any of the plug-in hooks for that matter.

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

Anybody know what could cause a WordPress plug-in to fail, but only on WPEngine? Works everywhere else. All other hosts. Local and whatever. But just plain doesn't seem to run on WPEngine.

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

I do like how thoughtful Time was in not accidentally revealing that AI is whiter than a Mississippi golf club by throwing in some diversity.

Also, the subtle working class imagery as if these fucking losers contribute anything meaningful to society.

#TimesPersonOfTheYear

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
PaulieMoosh@eupolicy.social ("Paul Musiol :verified:") wrote:

I'm a #Linux guy now, thanks Mastodon

💚 Made by a community, not a corporation

💚 Designed for my comfort and control, not for someone else's profit

💚 No company pushing weird crappy products I don't want

💚 No auto-launching bloat killing the computer's performance

Why did I wait this long?! I LOVE IT

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

On Time’s Person of The Year write-up (spoiler: it’s AI), is a persistent, non-dismissible AI chatbot that makes it difficult to read the article.

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

Learn about the recent DebConf Video Team Sprint, updates regarding rebootstrap, SBOM tooling in Debian and many other contributions from #Freexian collaborators in our November Debian contributions report.

Read the full report here: https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-11-2025/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

We thank the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social) for making this possible.

#debian #SBOM #rebootstrap

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

"AI" as it is implemented today will *always* generate errors and "hallucinate," it's baked straight into the model. Pushing out AI-generated podcasts without (apparently) prior editorial oversight is a very fine way for the Post to dilute the credibility it has as a fact-based entity - which the staff very well understands, even if the management doesn't. "AI" sucks for accuracy.

https://www.semafor.com/article/12/11/2025/washington-posts-ai-generated-podcasts-rife-with-errors-fictional-quotes

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

Myndasagan sem ég gaf út er á jólatilboði í Pennanum sem stendur

„Falleg og vel sögð saga.“

— Sjón

„Bókin Kötturinn og ég er sannkallað gleðiefni fyrir unnendur teiknimyndasagna.“

— Ragna Gestsdóttir, DV

https://www.penninn.is/is/book/kotturinn-og-eg

#myndasaga #jólabókaflóð #bækur

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

If they were churning out tools that let newbies experience the joy of building their projects on insecure systems, you wouldn't take them seriously as "critics" when they turn around and say the systems they're advocating have fundamental security flaws.

At least, you'd think so, but a lot of you seem to disagree judging by what I see in my feed reader and social media

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

Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand:

"The house that mouse built, and which has been notoriously protective of its intellectual property, opened up the video generator, saw the videos featuring Nazi Spongebob and criminal Pikachu, and decided: We want in."

I’ve worked with executives my entire adult life. One thing I’ve learned: never underestimate the draw of the CEO dick-measuring ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/12/12/disney-invests-billion-in-the.html

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

For example, anybody who truly believed that React had fundamental security issues wouldn't also be churning out open source projects designed to make it easier for people to use React, tools that helped newbies adopt it, or libraries that extended it and consequently its attack surface.

No, they'd be focused on solving the security issues, especially if they were keen on using it in their own work.