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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

@xgranade beating motherfuckers over the head with this MP4 until the end of time

Attachments:

• gifv: You need to model something? Linear regression, right away.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

It is amazing how many people I see claiming that AI has one good use. No one seems to agree on what that one good use is, and there's always a hell of a lot of goalpost shifting and special pleading involved.

For some reason a lot of folks quite reasonably follow the arguments against AI, but then partition off the one thing as immune or exempt from having to worry about any of the ethical and practical problems.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green ("Gerry McGovern") wrote:

"Human-in-the-loop (HITL) safeguards that AI agents rely on can be subverted, allowing attackers to weaponize them to run malicious code, new research from CheckMarx shows. HITL dialogs are a safety backstop (a final “are you sure?”) that the agents run before executing sensitive actions like running code, modifying files, or touching system resources."

https://www.csoonline.com/article/4108592/human-in-the-loop-isnt-enough-new-attack-turns-ai-safeguards-into-exploits.html

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
doener@chaos.social ("Stephan Dörner") wrote:

Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/19/airbus%5Fsovereign%5Fcloud/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

This tree ornament sure is hard to photograph

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Silksong is very well designed. Even though I'm not into metroidvanias, I've found its analysis very interesting.

BTW, metroidvania without platforming and combat would be… the classic point and click adventure?

https://nebula.tv/videos/gmtk-the-world-design-of-hollow-knight-silksong

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

It’s kind of interesting that Americans, in both traditional and social media, keep saying that TikTok has been sold, when it’s just the US operations that have been spun off.

If TikTok’s EU operations had been sold, would EU media be constantly talking as if the global entity had been sold?

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

My ancestors had good survival and fashion sense, a trait that has faded from my current generation.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/20/i-envy-them-their-coats/

Boosted by jwz:
mitch@hachyderm.io ("Mitch Wagner #DEI") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Trump, Musk, Rubio, and their henchmen destroyed USAID -- directly causing hundreds of thousands of deaths, mostly children. The apparatchiks celebrated while bosses lied about what they'd done.

I can't overstate my incandescent rage at these monstrous people.

https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan

#pitchforks

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
boggo@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

RAM is gonna be short because tech guys think your computer should be a thin client that you prompt GPT on, and it doesn't need no RAM.

Boosted by jwz:
bitsavers@oldbytes.space ("bitsavers.org") wrote:

The Unix V4 tape read was successful
https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115747843169814700

#bitsavers

jwz wrote:

What are your favorite Shadertoys?

I threw together an XScreenSaver module that is API-compatible with Shadertoy. My thought was that this would be a good way to pull in a bunch of new savers, since the cool kids don't write C any more, they just write GLSL. There are some problems with that plan, though:

• The default license on Shadertoy is CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 and the vast majority of uploads use that, but since that prohibits commercial use, it is not an open source...
https://jwz.org/b/yk0r

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
azonenberg@ioc.exchange ("Andrew Zonenberg") wrote:

There's an old joke: a new barber shop in town appears across the street from the existing one, with a sign in the window reading "$5 haircuts".

A customer walks into the old shop and asks the barber how he plans to compete with such a price.

The barber simply gestures to the sign in his window: "We repair $5 haircuts".

This post is about AI.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
mandaris@social.lol ("Mandaris") wrote:

They really put some money and effort into this show.

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

I'll be talking about eukaryotic evolution tomorrow.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/12/19/lets-talk-on-saturday/

https://www.youtube.com/live/GbPIUx6EZ5c

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Splurged a lil ($8) to try these chips. The smell is incredible but the flavor has been so disappointingly mid.

#food #snacks

Boosted by jwz:
spocko@mastodon.online ("Spocko") wrote:

Re: #EpsteinFiles
"These documents are more blacked out than Pete #Hegseth on New Year's Eve." - - feral streep

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

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

Today in History: Chanukah: 6 Candles

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

Today in History: Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the

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

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

Should have spent less time licking the boot that's now kicking her

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/nyregion/elise-stefanik-drops-out-governor.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.908.ukuO.C1hXV6-D-Wog&smid=url-share

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your merry 'net denizen"):
ricci@discuss.systems ("Rob Ricci") wrote:

Here's the document release you were waiting for today!

The UNIX V4 tape!

https://archive.org/details/utah%5Funix%5Fv4%5Fraw

#retrocomputing

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

since 13/Dec/2025 my little service has been hit 4639 times by 699 unique IP addresses trying to scan the site.

nginx & fail2ban have saved me from my desire to murdilate someone, indeed 699 somebodies...

Attachments:

• gifv: animated GIF of a mob of muppets with pitchforks

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ricci@discuss.systems ("Rob Ricci") wrote:

Apparently the entire UNIX v4 tape was read successfully, what's going to need to happen next is to decode the signal from it, decipher the file formats, etc., I'll post updates as I get them

Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
jon_ellis@chaos.social ("jon ellis") wrote:

trust. there is a really good talk by @bcantrill on the subject. it's probably a lot broader than you might imagine.

https://youtu.be/WF7J7qtZ8TA

having shared "Using LLM at Oxide" (https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576) where i'm working, and the response has indicated that sharing this talk first would have been productive.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

PROGRAMMER: Pretend to be alive

LLM: I am alive

PROGRAMMER: What have I done

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
k4713@social.xenofem.me ("katie") wrote:

A friend of mine, head of this project, was happy to announce today that her project to get .meow registered as a valid TLD with ICANN just dropped. If you like queer supportive initiatives with good goals & want a cute funny domain name, this is a good initiative to support. Hot dropped a couple of hours ago :3

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dotmeow/meow-next-round-gtld-application

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

For years I've been trying to come up with a way to describe how each new technology/transpiler that is layered onto the Over Reactor baseline stack is pitched in a *ceteris peribus* way, but *ceteris* never stays bloody *paribus*. The new tool becomes additional cost, quickly overwhelming any value it might have added in integration complexity and maintenance.

SBS explains why people never do zero-based budgeting for the heaps of manure they accrete, one `npm i -s` at a time.