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Cdespinosa ("Chris Espinosa") wrote:

I just want to remind you that in 1992, the Internet cost $2.50 an hour to access ($4.00 after the first four hours a night), was three million times slower than WiFi, and nobody in your house could take phone calls while you used it. Doomscroll on THAT.

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codinghorror@infosec.exchange ("Jeff Atwood") wrote:

Come with me if you want to live -- https://staygold.us

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codinghorror@infosec.exchange ("Jeff Atwood") wrote:

"TL;DR: Sequel to "Stay Gold" delivers the receipts—$50M war chest for rural GMI pilots already rolling in 3 counties. Data-obsessed, no-BS philanthropy blueprint. 9.5/10 – pure execution mode, but still waiting for the billionaire dogpile. Atwood's not fucking around." Indeed, I am not. I'm tired of talking. We're going to do it together. https://blog.codinghorror.com/launching-the-rural-guaranteed-minimum-income-initiative/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
stoyan@indieweb.social wrote:

New blog post about an experiment in measuring how rendering times are affected by the size of SVGs

https://www.phpied.com/measuring-svg-rendering-time/

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
Dunpiteog@devianze.city ("Dún Piteog") wrote:

Nell'epoca della assenza di supporti fisici per le opere artistiche o le conversazioni che ne sarà del futuro delle stesse?

Che succederà fra 50 o 100 anni quando gli studiosi vorranno capire cosa la gente si diceva? Le lettere non si usano più e si usano le piattaforme che non esisteranno più.
Che succederà delle opere artistiche quali film o serie che non escono dalle piattaforme, che fra 100 anni non saranno più in giro?
Che succederà dei siti web e dei videogiochi?

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
3janeTA@beige.party ("3Jane Tessier Ashpool") wrote:

@sam @devlord @blogdiva like my favorite protest sign says, He’s Treading, Bro…

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

but can your LLM do this?

(I'm coding before coffee again)

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
forpeterssake@mastodon.xyz ("Pete") wrote:

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

you win this time, Safari

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johnzajac@dice.camp ("John") wrote:

I...can we just stop trying to be reasonable about "AI"?

Like, I get it. Y'all were raised to believe that "adults" are reasonable about *everything* - world-destroying technologies, abusive bosses, global child rape trafficking conspiracies, Nazis - you know, the works.

But that's turned into this knee-jerk "what is the reasonable take on the Torment Nexus?" thing and I'm sorry but there isn't. A. Reasonable. Take.

Except destroy it all and salt the earth it grew out of.

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johnzajac@dice.camp ("John") wrote:

I've engaged many of these people in good faith, and they've engaged back and

Their arguments really boil down to "well, we shouldn't dismiss *any* technology - who knows what it could do!"

And I want to hold their head gently, look them in the eyes, and say "I do. I know what it could do."

And then psychically project images of their own children and grandchildren dying in a wet bulb event while the people who got rich on "AI" stand around being "heartbroken" with their Dem and MAGA buds.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk ("the roamer") wrote:

We owe it to our students to let them experience real learning.

Vibe learning ain't learning. Vibe learning is machine-aided shuffling of dead text. Vibe learning is empty.

Real learning is the construction of truth, aided only by the student's sense of the authenticity of their encounter with the subject. The resulting text may be flawed, but it is alive, it reflects the subject's wish to be known. Real learning is full.

#noVibeLearning #noLLM #teaching #HigherEducation #StopTheAICorruption

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
delta@chaos.social ("Delta Chat") wrote:

A lot of messaging systems try to reinvent the email system but many (signal, matrix, xmpp) took over one key traditional design which we actually dropped while retaining SMTP/IMAP compatibility: server-controlled identities.

With #chatmail user identities are cryptographic and reside on end user devices only. Servers are only message relays and have no control over identities or chats, only perform fast message routing. See this fosdem talk by one of our lead developers https://mirror.cyberbits.eu/fosdem/2026/ud2218a/3F9VTU-deltachat-chatmail-relays-multi-transport.av1.webm

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oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

We got one of these things for the office and every time the newest headline alarms me anew.

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

The Hardest Way Possible: The Corporate America Story

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mshelton ("Martin") wrote:

We're getting a lot of questions about Signal group chats, and how to use them as safely as possible. Share widely! https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/signal-group-safety/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
jerf@hachyderm.io ("Jay") wrote:

The union for ProPublica is raising money for a strike fund. Management has been trying to keep the option open to replace their workers with AI. Please share out:

https://union.place/@propublicaguild/116012773673157044

#union #solidarity #strike #news #AI #journalism

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

So I know a lot is going on right now, but I do want to share this:

I’m excited to share the launch of the new Microsoft Inclusive Design website 💙

This project is my love letter to the community and practice that’s shaped my work for nearly a decade.

inclusive.microsoft.design

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https://inclusive.microsoft.design/

Boosted by jwz:
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

Every now and then I look at my logs and think, of the many, many reasons we don't need to worry about "the singularity", one is that an exponentially self-improving software agent probably wouldn't ask my webserver for the same file four times a second for days.

Paul Barham once - possibly apocryphally - told a grad student, "You can have a second computer once you’ve shown you know how to use the first one."

He works at Google now as I understand it, so he probably doesn't say that anymore.

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

Wore these for eight years. I’d like to mend this hole, but (lol hole but). There are others forming, too. 😭

I fear it’s As The Heel Goes, So Goes The Sock.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116004809011481588

Anyway the reason I roll my eyes at most of the discussion about "AI", "AGI", "the singularity", "intelligence self-improvement feedback loop" is that like, it happened, it's already happened, it's been happening, it's us. We're it.

Kurzweil talked about lusting for a machine that can make him smarter. I have that, it's a piece of paper. I can write math on a piece of paper and solve problems I can't solve in my head. I can upload all the information in the world directly into my brain (books).

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

Maybe real AGI has been with us for a while. Maybe the real AGI has been humans combined with all the computers we've been using to solve problems with reliable, knowable algorithms that were otherwise intractable. That sounds like combining the strengths of humans with the strengths of machines. If we weren't so hung up on creating completely submissive servants, maybe we'd see it that way? 🤔

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

They're still lying, and still evil.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/04/dont-believe-tom-homan/

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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
ND3JR@social.coop ("Dave V. ND9JR") wrote:

Illinois has joined the WHO's global outbreak network, the second state to do so after California did it last month. https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/illinois-joins-who-global-outbreak-network-after-u-s-withdraws/

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

Someone should write a book about how technocrats use decorum, gossip, blackballing, and other social strings on the Social Web to silence the people calling them out for corrupt behavior.

I’d read that book.

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

I thought it was a leap year

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
qdot@buttplug.engineer wrote:

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me

for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

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codinghorror@infosec.exchange ("Jeff Atwood") wrote:

It's been a year, indeed. We've launched the second, longer term project to address systemic problems in this country. https://blog.codinghorror.com/launching-the-rural-guaranteed-minimum-income-initiative/

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

A measly 25% decrease after an increase of…what, 10x? 20x? feels like 100x?

With no timeline? no transparency, no accountability?

And they’ll wear body cameras? eventually? they say? with footage that…who can view, again? Oh, we don’t know??

This all means nothing — •nothing• — except that they’re afraid: afraid of losing funding, afraid of consequences.

•• It’s working. Punch harder. ••

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-drawdown-minnesota-homan-963adf341325d7f6eb5673e1c00d3c2a

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