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

It really is like cooking, where good cooks have an instinctive awareness of how exactly to make a recipe.

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

I must have magic fly hands. I just compared cultures that I and my class set up together…and mine are flawless, clean, and full of happy flies. Not theirs. Next year, I need to just have them practice making media.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

After a successful migration of social.lol’s media object storage last night, it looks like Hetzner is having some difficulty today. 😭

https://status.hetzner.com/incident/da12dc96-517d-4a41-97ee-a87fa5cf9cb2

Keeping an eye on it, and hopefully we’ll be back to normal soon. Very sorry for the disruption.

(Incidentally, I just received an invitation to Bunny’s new S3 storage service, but given that it’s in beta I’d rather not take any chances.)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
pikesley@mastodon.me.uk ("Continvous Morger") wrote:

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of unimaginably stupid shit every fucking day

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
markmetz@sfba.social ("Mr.Mark "The Sharpie King"") wrote:

To hell with AI, more innovation like this please.
#solarpunk

Attachments:

• video: 7800e9505311f162.mp4

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Data protection authorities from across the globe have today published a Joint Statement on AI-Generated Imagery.

The statement represents the united position of 61 authorities and has been issued in response to serious concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) systems that generate realistic images and videos depicting identifiable individuals without their knowledge and consent. The signatories are especially concerned about potential harms to children.

Cc Elon

https://ico.org.uk/media2/fb1br3d4/20260223-iewg-joint-statement-on-ai-generated-imagery.pdf

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
heiseonlineenglish@social.heise.de ("heise online English") wrote:

Hetzner increases prices from April 1

Hosting provider Hetzner is increasing prices for existing and new services from April 2026. The reason is increased costs for RAM and SSDs.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Hetzner-increases-prices-from-April-1-11185981.html?wt%5Fmc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md%5Fbeitraege.md%5Fbeitraege&utm%5Fsource=mastodon

#CloudComputing #IT #news

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

it's that time of the month when I ask: if Pivot to AI brightens *your* day, you can keep it going with just $5!

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/23/if-pivot-to-ai-brightens-your-life-send-5-to-keep-the-daily-stories-coming/

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

Why agentic AI creeps out women: because it's written by bros for bros who want Stepford Wives, and conveys that vibe: commercial AIs are fine-tuned to perform as cheerfully submissive handmaids, not working partners:

https://abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built-stepford-ai-and-called

(via https://awful.systems/comment/10543801)

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

This is how to benchmark networks in 2026 ⚡🐁

📡 **xfr** — A modern network throughput tester TUI

💯 Real-time graphs, TCP/UDP/QUIC support, multi-client server & Prometheus metrics

🔥 "Next-gen iperf3"

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/lance0/xfr

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #networking #iperf #quic #terminal

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

Any scenario where "AI" works well enough to be in wide use long term means mass unemployment, wholesale political capture of media and cultural industries, dysfunctional products, and other continuing large-scale harms

The thankfully bullshit "AGI" scenario would just be an unending clusterfuck

Which is why "this is shit and you're a fool for using it" is the optimistic take

The best case scenario for the rest of us is that we have to clean up after a bunch of fools in the tech industry

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

In some of the scenarios billionaires do really well and in others they are largely insulated from the worst outcomes. Win-win for them

For the rest of us they're all bad. The scenarios where the tech is largely dysfunctional are the optimistic ones

If you posit that "AI" won't work well enough to make up for the costs long term and we realise this early to mitigate for the harms that are already happening then we might get out of this with a functional economy after the hubbub has died down.

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

One thing "AI" has in common with cryptocoin that pretty much every posited scenario is disastrous to some degree, just a question of flavour and distribution of said disaster.

If doomers are right: disaster

If naysayers—"it's dysfunctional"—are right: disaster ("Congrats! all software is broken")

If "moderate" boosters are right: disaster (mass unemployment)

If optimists are right: disaster (also mass unemployment)

If the AGI folks are right: disaster ( "Congrats! Digital chattel slavery")

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
konrad@fedi.neuwirth.priv.at ("Konrad") wrote:

Software development is so much easier and faster if you don't care about the tiny stuff like security or privacy. #openclaw

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

RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/116116686458550609

I’ve had basically tan identical encounter to the one described in this thread a few times as well, both offline and online

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
berniethewordsmith@neopaquita.es ("Bernie the Wordsmith") wrote:

Every time you do a "both sides" stuff between "AI hypers and deniers" you are basically telling me that the person worried about the destruction of their life, their job and the environment has the level of delusion of a person like Peter Thiel, an eldritch horror in a vessel made of flesh that thinks humanity, umm, should not exist.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
pinakographos@mapstodon.space ("Daniel P. Huffman") wrote:

A warning for Adobe #InDesign users. I recently updated my copy, and after preparing a document, the recipient of that document sent me the alt text that popped up on one of their figures. Apparently, by default, InDesign uses AI to generate (often hilariously wrong) alt text for images.

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

lol. reasons never to use bcachefs or spend 1ms thinking about it ever again:

it's vibe coded.

yeah, a vibe coded Linux file system.

here's the "blog" of the lead dev's "AI assistant": https://poc.bcachefs.org/

i now have much more insight into bcachefs getting kicked out of the kernel

EDIT: my fucking god what an incredible post this is https://www.reddit.com/r/bcachefs/comments/1rblll1/the%5Fblog%5Fof%5Fan%5Fllm%5Fsaying%5Fits%5Fowned%5Fby%5Fkent%5Fand/o6tmlib/

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

remember when macOS didn't have apps that stole focus every 5 minutes, didn't freeze & crash the entire system, didn't run 100 background processes burning high CPU... that's just the 1st party apps 😭

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

strong suspicion I keep getting unsubscribed from email newsletters because their tracking pixels or links are failing to track 🤨

Boosted by jwz:
jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

[at the pearly gates] Ah, [nervous laughter] no see if you consult the contents of my mind during the 2020s and ignore the effects most of my actions had on the world, I think you'll find that I used the harmful thing in a very smart and cool way.

Boosted by jwz:
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

Yesterday, had an argument with an AI booster. I'm not going to link, both because I don't want to platform that and because I don't want anyone to go harass them. But what I thought was very interesting was that I asked point-blank if there was any degree to which ethical problems with LLMs could make them not want to use AI — they told me no, there was not, and implied that they evaluated AI purely on the basis of its efficacy.

Boosted by jwz:
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

The real cancel culture is Netflix who can’t let a single good show get past season one without canceling it

Boosted by jwz:
TheBreadmonkey@beige.party ("Ben") wrote:

Really laughing at this. I saw the headline and wondered what it could be, imagining all sorts of convoluted clever awful things he might have been. Prince Gland-Dew for example. Then read down to find that it was simply.... 'the cunt'. 😂 🤣

Boosted by jwz:
TheBreadmonkey@beige.party ("Ben") wrote:

Absolutely marvellous there is a video

Attachments:

• video: Anchor news lady in cream jacket and red blouse interviewing a security guard in jumper and tie in a 60 minutes chairs facing each other setting

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

blockchain failed to make the right promise, which was telling rich guys they could fire everyone

if they'd offered that it would have been hyped like AI is

structurally the blockchain hype and the AI hype are The Fucking Same

even before you get to it being Literally The Same Fucking Guys

blockchain's promise is obscure and you basically have to be most of an ancap to fall for it

AI, you just need to be one-shotted by the bot giving an amazing result once

blockchain is fuckin unusable for normal people. AI is fatally usable.

Boosted by jwz:
mathew@universeodon.com wrote:

On reflection, I think the worst part of Cory Doctorow’s argument in favor of LLM use is this:

« Doubtless some of you are affronted by my modest use of an LLM. You think that LLMs are "fruits of the poisoned tree" and must be eschewed because they are saturated with the sin of their origins. I think this is a very bad take, the kind of rathole that purity culture always ends up in.

Let's start with some context. If you don't want to use technology that was created under immoral circumstances or that sprang from an immoral mind, then _you are totally fucked._ »

This is a form of argument beloved by awful people. I can’t be pure and perfect, they say, so there’s no point my trying to make better or less damaging moral choices.

Stop buying from Amazon? Walmart and Target aren’t perfectly moral. Stop driving an SUV? Your car pollutes too, and so do buses. Stop using Twitter? Facebook and Bluesky are far from morally perfect, and mastodon.social has poor moderation. And so on.

I see this kind of excuse all the time online. It’s a cousin to both whataboutism and Mister Gotcha. It also rests on a false premise. The idea that anyone is expected to achieve complete purity is a straw man. You’re not having sainthood demanded of you, people are just hoping you’ll consider *reducing* the amount of immoral and damaging behavior you engage in *when there are perfectly viable alternatives*. Sure, we can argue about whether the alternatives are truly viable, but the idea that if you can’t be perfect you may as well not even try to be better? That’s moral bankruptcy.

Mocking the desire for people to behave more ethically as “purity culture” is like mocking it as “virtue signaling”. It says things about the person doing the mocking, none of them good. It’s also deeply hypocritical coming from someone who has gone out of his way to avoid using DRM. Isn’t that “purity culture”?

Boosted by jwz:
rocketsoup ("Rocketsoup") wrote:

If a Klein bottle could wear pants, would it be like this or like this?

#mathstodon #math #maths #shitpost

Boosted by jwz:
lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E09
🎥 Episode: Protocol
🎬 Directed by: Akihiko Nishiyama
📅 Release Date: August 31, 1998
⏯ Frame: 1035

Boosted by jwz:
glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

If nazis are dropping bombs on you by flying planes that communicate by radio, blowing up their ground control radio towers or jamming their radio signals is not "censorship". Similarly, deplatforming is not about preventing their "dangerous ideas" from winning in the "marketplace of ideas", it is about disrupting their communications so they cannot organize and build power to kill people.