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

Good morning! Fascism sucks.

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

ChatGPT falls to new data pilfering attack as a vicious cycle in AI continues
Will LLMs ever be able to stamp out the root cause of these attacks? Possibly not.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/chatgpt-falls-to-new-data-pilfering-attack-as-a-vicious-cycle-in-ai-continues/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

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

Imperial boomerang:

"The imperial boomerang is the thesis that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial%5Fboomerang

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

New blogpost: AI will compromise your cybersecurity posture
https://rys.io/en/181.html

The way “AI” is going to compromise your cybersecurity is not through some magical autonomous exploitation by a singularity from the outside, but by being the poorly engineered, shoddily integrated, exploitable weak point you would not have otherwise had on the inside.

LLM-based systems are insanely complex. And complexity has real cost and introduces very real risk.

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#AI #InfoSec

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

Sherman’s #MarchToTheSea has entered the chat.

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

Brace yourselves. Everything is going to get worse until the tyranny meets a bloody end.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/08/her-name-is-renee-nicole-good/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Oh good grief Jensen, just cut to the chase and call them "rebellion-free slaves" already, your target audience know exactly that you mean
https://mastodon.online/@tomshardware/115850473965635484

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
pandoc@fosstodon.org wrote:

Pandoc in the browser, with a friendly interface. This app is a web-assembly version of pandoc, the documents never leave your computer:

https://pandoc.org/wasm-demo/convert.html

#pandoc #wasm

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
infernusgoatus@kvlt.zone (":googlyeye: Stlex :googlyeye2:") wrote:

This meeting could have been a nap.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
mfeilner ("Markus Feilner") wrote:

"Yet, it turns out no one is buying Copilot."
#Microsoft #Copilot #AI #KI #Bubble

"But why is Copilot’s growth and/or sales so bad? Well, one study tested these ‘agentic’ AIs, including Copilot, and found that they flat out failed to complete even simple tasks 70% of the time, rendering them somewhere between useless and an active hindrance.
The same is true for Microsoft’s cash baby, ChatGPT."

No shit, sherlock?
https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/the-ai-industry-is-starting-to-unravel

(Danke, Mathias!)

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

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health with Isolated, Encrypted Health Data Controls:

"OpenAI’s announcement follows an investigation from The Guardian that found Google AI Overviews to be providing false and misleading health information." https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/openai-launches-chatgpt-health-with.html

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

Play the game: You Have Billions Invested In Generative AI by Woe Industries https://woe-industries.itch.io/you-have-billions-invested-in-generative-ai

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

A charming little summer house, although it's definitely seen better days.#Iceland #photography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #decay

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

Scenes around the river Varmá here in Hveragerði were genuinely picturesque this week. #photos #iceland

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

The smaller birds were also out and about this week here in Hveragerði. Redpolls, redwings, and blackbirds #photos #iceland #bird #birds

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

"let's have everything fade in as the user scrolls" — any advice persuading against that? I lose the argument almost every time 😔

1. It looks tacky
2. It's annoying af
3. probably kills web vital metrics

Boosted by mbrubeck@mefi.social:
annika@xoxo.zone ("Annika Backstrom") wrote:

me when i see my friend jimbo:

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

I'm not fan of Tailwind but this is brutal (https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#issuecomment-3717222957). Traffic down 40% because of AI, 75% of engineering staff laid off. The brain rot in the comments is something else though:

"LLM is here, i guess until it drink all our water (85,000 gallons of water used daily) and destroy the whole environment. But the problem is, if I stop using it, other people will have leverage over me."

okay buddy whatever you say

∞ https://rknight.me/notes/202601080857/

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

US voters hate AI — and politicians are noticing

Everybody hates data centres

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCK5CmcaClA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260107-us-voters-hate-ai-and-politicians-are-noticing - podcast

time: 4 min 34 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/07/us-voters-hate-ai-and-politicians-are-noticing/ - blog post

Boosted by jwz:
JauntyArt@crispsandwi.ch ("Jaunty Art") wrote:

You Can Do It* Caveat Frog

Boosted by jwz:
broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca ("Broadwaybabyto") wrote:

What happened to Renee Nicole Good is not an anomaly or a rare phenomenon.

The only unusual factor is that she was white.

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot & killed by ICE on New Year’s Eve.

Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. She survived but has a hole in her arm forever.

Silverio Villegas González was shot dead in Franklin Park Illinois when he panicked and tried to run.

Then there’s the more than 30 people who’ve died in the camps.

No accountability. No punishment.

Keep speaking out. Let’s make sure this officer is held responsible.

#abolishice #ice #uspol #minneapolis #fascism #immigration #reneenicolegood

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

Are you really a developer unless you've bullshitted your way through a stand-up, like Obi-Wan on Kamino?

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
NationCymru@toot.wales ("Nation.Cymru") wrote:

Wales car insurance prices drop by £91 research reveals
#News

https://nation.cymru/news/wales-car-insurance-prices-drop-by-91-research-reveals/

jwz wrote:

fail2ban GC.

Over the years I've accumulated thousands of fail2ban regexps. It's a performance impact. Is there some way to figure out which ones have not been hit in a while, to remove?
https://jwz.org/b/yk1e

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

noted: Tailwind is having a hard time
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-01-08T07:01Z/

Boosted by jwz:
costasamaras.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Costa Samaras") wrote:

Here’s some things that can be done by a party out of power - file impeachment articles every day in the House - withhold unanimous consent in the senate and filibuster every nominee - be everywhere with comms saying this is lawless and impeachable

Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Generative AI can’t magically reveal otherwise unknown truths. AI doesn’t have any idea what the lower half of the killer’s face looks, no more than my students knew what my unmasked face looked like.

What AI •can• do is generate a random plausible face that really looks like a face. It might even look like the face of a real person — a random, innocent person.

Sharing AI-generated unmasking photos is dangerous.

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Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

There are several photographs circulating online right now purporting to show the full, unmasked face of Renee Good’s killer. These photos are, as far as I’m aware, all AI-generated.

Please do not share these photos.

Remember that, as with all gen AI, it is answering the question “What would be statistically plausible here?” It’s not showing you the •killer’s• face. It’s showing you •a• face that fits with the what we know of the killer’s face.

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Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
potterybyosa ("Pottery by Osa") wrote:

My last #selfie for the algorithm before I deleted IG last weekend. Goodbye after 12 yrs + 50k followers 👋🏾 I couldn’t have done it if I hadn’t gained some traction here, so thank you for following.

I grew up in #punkrock and #anarchist organizing, so moving to #NonCorporate and #decentralized social media feels full circle. I want my #pottery to be part of a future of thought that represents progress and liberation.

#punk #clay #ceramics #nonhierarchical #art #blackmastodon #africanart

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Today I found a Git TUI that rocks 🤘

🎸 **guitar** — A terminal Git client with topological graph rendering.

💯 Visualize repo topology, inspect diffs & manage branches/tags/stashes.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/asinglebit/guitar

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #git #terminal #devtools #opensource

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