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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
TheBreadmonkey@beige.party ("Ben") wrote:
"In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them."
Mastodon FeedI'll go further: If your code makes use of "AI" code generators, you shouldn't be describing it as "open source". There are source-available game mods of Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time based on code stolen from Nintendo by hackers. These aren't really "open source".
OSS/Libre/Free Software is a project to build a commons based on consensual collaboration. You can't claim those labels when your project has, via "AI" scraping, contributors who are unknown, uncredited, and unconsenting.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
parents4future@climatejustice.global ("Parents For Future :verified:") wrote:
"I gotta be honest, I’m not feeling so great.
Renee Good was murdered in our streets of America, and we got literally storm troopers running around terrorizing.
I can’t pretend all this crazy stuff isn’t happening. We have a president who says laws don’t apply to him.
And we could rely on his morality, but he has no morality.
This is crazy.” - Mark Ruffalo
#Trump #ICE #ReneeGood
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Trump Labor Department’s Chilling Slogan Draws Damning Comparisons:
"The department shared on X, formerly Twitter, an 11-second montage of American artwork captioned: “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage… The language immediately drew damning comparisons to the Nazi Germany slogan “Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer,” which translates to “One People, One Realm, One Leader,”" https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-labor-departments-chilling-slogan-072825243.html
Mastodon FeedBoosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:
"ICE needs training"
Imma stop you right there. Jonathan Ross, the man who murdered Renee Good by shooting her in the face three times and then calling her a "fucking bitch" while fleeing the scene, is a 10 year DHS vet and a firearms instructor. He's who they get training FROM.
This can't be fixed with training. This gets fixed with lasting and severe consequences.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:
When the aliens made contact, we learned they had observed us for millennia.
"Yes. We installed the magic soak on your moon around your 500BCE."
"The what?"
"To drain the natural magic, so you would focus on technology instead. But we have turned it off now."
"Teach us!"
"Er..."
"You owe us!"
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Jgbird@mas.to ("Jerome G") wrote:
It’s not easy being a male Anna’s hummingbird: hovering with your wings moving 50 beats per second, flashing your gorget to defend the aloe, feeding every 10 minutes in order to have enough nutrition to survive, and positioning yourself in the most complicated lighting situation for the guy who’s trying to photograph you.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
dzwiedziu ("Dźwiedziu") wrote:
@masoud
Taking from Polish experience after the fall of communism would be to ban lobbyists and Chicago Boys within a 100km or 100ms ping from your borders, and watch closely anyone that is willing to collaborate with them (especially public servants and politicians).And if anyone mentions doing “shock therapy” ask them to put a fork in an electrical outlet.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
kim_harding@mastodon.scot ("kim_harding ✅") wrote:
Richest 1% have ‘blown through’ their carbon budget for 2026 in just 10 days https://www.euronews.com/green/2026/01/10/richest-1-have-blown-through-their-carbon-budget-for-2026-in-just-10-days-experts-warn
Governments are being pressured to ban carbon-intensive luxury items and tax fossil fuel profits to meet climate targets.The super-rich are fuelling the climate crisis with “gross carbon recklessness” as calls for an increased wealth tax grow louder.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
tao@mathstodon.xyz ("Terence Tao") wrote:
Recently, the application of AI tools to Erdos problems passed a milestone: an Erdos problem (#728 https://www.erdosproblems.com/728) was solved more or less autonomously by AI (after some feedback from an initial attempt), in the spirit of the problem (as reconstructed by the Erdos problem website community), with the result (to the best of our knowledge) not replicated in existing literature (although similar results proven by similar methods were located).
This is a demonstration of the genuine increase in capability of these tools in recent months, and is largely consistent with other recent demonstrations of AI using existing methods to resolve Erdos problems, although in most previous cases a solution to these problems was later located in the literature, as discussed in https://mathstodon.xyz/deck/@tao/115788262274999408 . This particular case was unusual in that the problem as stated by Erdos was misformulated, with a reconstruction of the problem in the intended spirit only obtained in the last few months, which helps explain the lack of prior literature on the problem. However, I would like to talk here about another aspect of the story which I find more interesting than the solution itself, which is the emerging AI-powered capability to rapidly write and rewrite expositions of the solution. (1/5)
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de ("Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK") wrote:
Also be very careful carrying the same device alongside your normal phone when not at protests.
Cops the world over often routinely deploy stingrays and their modern LTE equivalents in big towns and cities even when there aren't protests, as they are looking for this "unusual" behaviour to track down suspected drugdealers (who often use the same tactics of carrying multiple devices)
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
civodul@toot.aquilenet.fr ("Ludovic Courtès") wrote:
#Skribilo 0.11.0 is out, featuring a new CommonMark frontend and improvements to the HTML backend 👇
https://www.nongnu.org/skribilo/Brought to you by Arun Isaac.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
PhoenixSerenity@beige.party ("Ms. Que Banh") wrote:
@vfrmedia @fromjason
Yup. I leave burners in their box - have a stash place. They come out only when needed.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
liw@toot.liw.fi ("Lars Wirzenius") wrote:
I distilled my four hour Rust training course for FOSS developers into a web page. I hope it's useful to people.
This is the first full draft. It's probably going to need updates and fixes. Please reply to this message if you spot anything wrong. But feel free to boost and share if you want.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:
The soul inhabits the keyboard and rests there a little.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
My throat is going to need long term soothing.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/12/use-it-or-lose-it/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Now that Mark Zuckerberg has officially announced Meta Compute, I want to share what I wrote two years ago.
I wrote Any Technology Indistinguishable From Magic is Hiding Something as an attempt to define Web 3.0.
Where Web 2.0 is defined by its read/write capabilities, this new iteration can be defined by compute, or, computation power. Or, simply, consumption.
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
PhineasX@mastodon.art wrote:
‘Dueling Banjos’
A silly thing I painted 11 years ago and apparently haven’t posted here before
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
LLMs are -- to put it euphemistically -- seeing increased use among software engineers. This has sparked much consternation about what this means for our engineering rigor, but we have found that prudent use of LLMs can, in fact, allow us to be much more rigorous in our engineering. Today, @ahl and I will be joined by Oxide engineers who have been at the forefront of using LLMs as tools to increase the rigor in their own work. Join us, 5p Pacific today!
Mastodon FeedBoosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
tomayac@toot.cafe ("Thomas Steiner :chrome:") wrote:
📢 New blog post: A polyfill for the HTML switch element:
https://blog.tomayac.com/2026/01/12/a-polyfill-for-the-html-switch-element/.Safari 17.4 shipped a new HTML switch element that upgrades a checkbox to a switch by adding a `switch` attribute: ``.
This blog post introduces a polyfill for the element, covering accessibility, internationalization and styling, and looking at the element's status in the HTML spec.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:
Introduction to Linux (LFS101): Develop a good working knowledge of Linux using both the graphical interface and command line across the major Linux distribution families with this free training course. It is a free course.
https://training.linuxfoundation.org/training/introduction-to-linux/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
After watching Jason Pargin’s fantastic video calling out OneDrive, I searched “OneDrive is Malware” and didn’t see any graphics. So in honor of that video (and hoping better graphic designers take the lead) I whipped this up while I should be working. https://www.tiktok.com/@jasonkpargin/video/7591592052954025246
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:
Using Apache Parquet? Found a TUI for you 👀📦
🔍 **parqeye** — A TUI for inspecting Parquet data, schemas and metadata.
💯 Browse tables, explore schemas, inspect row groups & view file stats.
🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs
⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/kaushiksrini/parqeye
#rustlang #tui #terminal #parquet #analytics #devtools #opensource
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
AquaFan@blorbo.social ("Aquaman-Core") wrote:
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115882787334425445
this. NEVER use biometrics to lock your phone. always use a password. for YOUR safety AND the safety of every one of your contacts. you're putting your loved ones in danger if you use biometrics to unlock your phone.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
gemini6ice@hachyderm.io ("Gemini6Ice") wrote:
@fromjason I’d like to add other things like:
- wear hats or other head coverings
- do interesting things with facial makeup that can thwart facial recognition, such as reflective pigments, contouring, changing your eye framing, adding moles or tattoos
- memorize phone numbers or write them on your arm with sharpie, don’t bring your phone
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Your reminder that if you have not already done so, today is a fine day to leave the fascist site that produces child porn on demand
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/12/business/indonesia-malaysia-grok-elon-musk-intl-hnk
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:
What are you looking for in social media? (11/N)
Another poll in the series ... you can choose more than one response, and if you've got other suggestions please leave them in the replies.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
tillshadeisgone@blackqueer.life ("the people's miss bitch") wrote:
Unrelated but on tiktok I see they took off the ability to see how many ppl you follow that reposted a vid. I'm sure it had nothing to do with ppl making protest vids and ICE recordings go viral by reposting it a lot. Seeing how many others reposted and thinking, oh wow this seems important and I should pay attention if it matters to that many in my network.
Can't start having people mobilize the folks around them by opening their eyes a bit, now can we? In front of MY salad?
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
reiver ("@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:") wrote:
This is the Web of the 1990s and, to some degree, the early 2000s — that some of us experienced and remember.
The Web that some of us want to make a come back.
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
In another, more sane timeline, I am That Uncle Whose Centrist Politics You Can Tolerate Perfectly Well At Thanksgiving, but in this timeline I am out here saying Fuck ICE, Fuck Genocide, Fuck Transphobia and Fuck Fascism, just for starters, and while on one hand as a very lazy person I resent not being in that other timeline, on the other hand I hope all this means we might hang out more than just on Holidays Where Family Attendance is Mandatory