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

I got a scam email from someone with the email added HannahMontonya which is the coolest scam email address I've seen in a long while.

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

It's interesting to hear lib-Bluesky discuss today's general strike, while congruently, tech-YouTube is discussing how weather-YouTube is suddenly scaring people about the weather.

Today, some folks are protesting with their wallets, while a presumably similar amount of people are stocking up on *extra* food and supplies.

This could be a coincidence, or market manipulation. Either way, maybe it's time to consider a new strategy?

https://bsky.app/profile/blueriverrrr.bsky.social/post/3mdj5szp2dk24

https://youtu.be/VUcJYnQNSX8?t=8m20s

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
parents4future@climatejustice.global ("Parents For Future :verified:") wrote:

Bondi had four black journalists arrested for doing their jobs.

Georgia Fort
Don Lemon
Jamael Lundy
Trahern Crews

🇺🇸 #Fascism

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

I've only gone and redesigned my website!

now just gotta build it...

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

Wow this is perfect for keeping NPM dependencies secure 🔥

👮 **deputui** — A TUI for reviewing release notes of your NPM dependencies

💯 Pipe in pnpm outdated, skim release notes and select exactly which updates to install

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/twiddler/deputui

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #npm #pnpm #security #packaging #dependencies

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

Aw, man.

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

Sweat stain ❤️

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

W041 — Asphyxiating atmosphere

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ISO%5F7010%5FW041%5Fwarning;%5Fbreathing%5Fhazard.svg
Author: Wikimedia Commons user Repeater-reclaim
CC0 (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en)

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

Ever built something intricate and unique, only to have it snatched away from you and put in the hands of philistines? It's not a good feeling.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/30/an-unpleasant-memory/

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

What a genius quote from Laurie Penny:

"Attention can feel like action when one is otherwise helpless."

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mcfadden ("Brian McFadden") wrote:

So much winning, and it's barely been a year! https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

Yeah, it's an ad for Lumafield, but there's some interesting information here about (the lack of) quality control for 18650 lithium ion batteries, if you're into that sort of thing. You can get the report here without giving away your email:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260130174148/https://7802750.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/7802750/White%20Papers%20and%20Guides/Batteries/Lumafield%20Battery%20Report.pdf

Via this video, "The Surprising Flaws in 18650 Lithium-Ion Batteries":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y23nfAOiXQ

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ilovewebsites@social.lol ("I ❤️ Websites Club") wrote:

_A look at search engines with their own indexes_ is the most comprehensive resource I've come across for finding search engine alternatives.

https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"OBAMA PALLETS CASH ITALY SWITZERLAND SATELLITES HACK VOTING MACHINES CHINA DEEP STATE JEWISH SPACE LASERS VENEZUELA RIGGED AND STOLLEN BIDEN PUPPET!

The mainstream media is not ready."

~ Evan Hurst

#Trump #TulsiGabbard #FultonCounty #BigLie #2020Election #lies #disinformation #media
/8

https://www.wonkette.com/p/media-aint-near-ready-for-rodent

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

kicka**... I finally got a cross-platform D Language GUI library working right, and then I was able to compile a test program, send off a copy to another machine, and run it there successfully.

at friggin last.

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

Damn, I have LinkedIn tendencies.

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

I am the absolute king at writing and designing a pitch deck 1 hour before the conference call.

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

Fascinating machine work. If I didn't have to go to work I'd watch this over and over.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/30/impressive-mechanical-work/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TBjw3fs7ARk

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

If you've fallen prey to this silly "looksmaxxing" nonsense, watching a few old movies might be the cure.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/30/another-reason-to-ignore-social-media/

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

🍿 Watching: Primal

Watched the first two episodes. I’m into it!

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
brie@social.lol ("🐈‍⬛ brie carranza") wrote:

💅 The inspo for this manicure was "off duty Uhura"!

#NailArt #StarTrek

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
qaris@mas.to ("Karis") wrote:

i saw a comment with someone comparing UpScrolled to Parler and yeah - the quacking is definitely ducking.. lol..

link below:
https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:ffqrmizoc5z6ly4vf3mhgwta/post/3mdm3rhckzs2w

#UpScrolled #SocialMedia #Internet #Nazi #Bigotry #HateSpeech #App

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
elilla@transmom.love ("elilla&: back to Néojaponisme: 改") wrote:

@LilaHexe ok so I'm covided and I don't have the energy to elaborate on this point now but I am getting convinced that in addition to the problem I was describing (the irreversible pollution of humanity's knowledge commons), and in addition to the *massive* environmental damage, and the plagiarism/labour issues/concentration of wealth, and other well-discussed problems, there's one insidious damage from LLMs that is still underestimated.

I will make without argument the following claims:

claim 1: every regular LLM user is undergoing "AI psychosis". every single one of them, no exceptions.

the Cloudflare person who blog posted self-congratulations about their "Matrix implementation" that was mere placeholder comments is one step into a continuum with the people whom the "AI" convinced they're Machine Jesus. the difference is of degree not kind.

claim 2: that happens because LLMs have tapped by accident into some poorly understood weakness of human psychology, related to the social and iterative construction of reality.

claim 3: this LLM exploit is an algorithmic implementation of the feedback loop between a cult leader and their followers, with the chatbot performing the "follower" role.

claim 4: postindustrial capitalist societies are hyper-individualistic, which makes human beings miserable. LLM chatbots exploit this deliberately by artificially replacing having friends. it is not enough to generate code; they made the bots *feel* like they *talk to you*—they pretend a chatbot is *someone*. this is a predatory business practice that reinforces rather than solves the loneliness epidemic.

n.b. while the reality-formation exploit is accidental, the imaginary-friend exploit is by design.

corollary #1: every "legitimate" use of an LLM would be better done by having another human being you talk to. (for example, a human coding tutor or trainee dev rather than Claude Code). by "better" it is meant: create more quality, more reliably, with more prosocial costs, while making everybody happier. but LLMs do it: faster at larger quantities with more convenience while atrophying empathy.

corollary #2: capitalism had already created artificial scarcity of friends, so that working communally was artificially hard. LLMs made it much worse, in the same way that an abundance of cheap fast food makes it harder for impoverished folk to reach nutritional self-sufficiency.

corollary #3: the combination of claim 4 (we live in individualist loneliness hell) and claim 3 (LLMs are something like a pocket cult follower) will have absolutely devastating sociological effects.

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

the number of start-ups that have harvested my email from GitHub / NPM etc and are now spamming me is way too high

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regocas ("Manuel Rego") wrote:

On my way to @fosdem where tomorrow I’ll be talking about @servo in the "Browser and web platform" devroom. See you there!
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/LXFKS9-servo-project-impact/

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Amazon have reported "hundreds of thousands" of pictures of child sexual abuse material found in shared AI training data... but is refusing to tell regulators which data sets.

If you're using generative AI tools, there's a pretty good chance you're generating imagery with child porn training data behind the scenes.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/amazon-found-child-sex-abuse-in-ai-training-data

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

“The job losses are real — but the AI excuse is fake – Pivot to AI”

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/29/the-job-losses-are-real-but-the-ai-excuse-is-fake/

> That darker reality is that the economy is already screwed.

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

“Coding Is When We’re Least Productive – Codemanship's Blog”

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/coding-is-when-were-least-productive/

> But if I hadn’t made that trip and seen for myself, and had a chance to talk to a department manager in that store, those three lines would have been applying special offers wrong

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iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

I've written my thoughts on what you, as a software professional, can do to make yourself less susceptible to being displaced by AI in our current wave of tech madness. In short, learn your tools well, build and deploy things as often as you can, don't avoid the unfashionable work and learn a field that isn't writing software.

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/ai%5Fproof%5Fengineer

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dansup wrote:

Data Not Collected ✅

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/loops-by-pixelfed/id6499375182