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Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
lobsters ("Lobsters") wrote:

96.5% of confusables.txt from Unicode is not high-risk https://lobste.rs/s/2uvfwd #security
https://paultendo.github.io/posts/confusable-vision-visual-similarity/

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

whoosh, post deleted. I forgot how insufferable it is to exist in any tech space right now.

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

Lace curtains and boarded-up windows.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #doors #windows #concrete

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

Let's take a peek inside.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #door #stairs

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

I'm getting up to mischief now.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/ive-been-up-to-151835949?utm%5Fmedium=clipboard%5Fcopy&utm%5Fsource=copyLink&utm%5Fcampaign=postshare%5Ffan&utm%5Fcontent=web%5Fshare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S%5F43IBT1SzQ

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

I think my central point is getting lost in the commotion: I don't specifically care about licensing-related issues. I care about having a high standard of quality and safety for the work being put out. Obviously, not everything needs the same level of care, but you don't go assuming that a medical appliance requires the same loose rigor as someone's marketing site. One's fail state means you lose out on potential sales, another one's means someone potentially dies.

We're seeing a lot of pressure being applied to many fields to lower the bar below what even "traditional" marketing sites would tolerate.

Boosted by jwz:
researchfairy@scholar.social ("Unnamed TNG skant beefcake") wrote:

Encouraging the youth to watch Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) to radicalize them against private sector sabotage of public transit options

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Okay, I have—in theory—migrated from 1Password to Apple Passwords. Let’s find out if this is a terrible idea!

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

I recently gave a full conference talk on a 320x240 screen! 🎉

🦀 You can watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btqNDDuZ3cI

🐁 "If it can compute, it can run Ratatui!"

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #rustnationuk #conference #talk

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mementomaori@kind.social wrote:

Wtf did trans folk ever do to you.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
vitalis@dirtyknight.life wrote:

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
lacybarry@climatejustice.social ("madame poolhair") wrote:

🌻🏵️🌼❇️🪻

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
munin@infosec.exchange ("Fi 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

A'ight. The whole vibecoding thing deserves a chance to prove itself.

So here's something that I haven't seen done sufficiently well by regular coders; if AI is truly that much more innovative, it shouldn't have any problem.

One of the problems with compute is the whole billing and scheduling thing - a lot of places have specific cost-per-hour to run batch processing; a lot of large enterprises have complex pipelines that need scheduling in order to interleave things that need processing with resources available to process them.

So a vibe coder who's confident they can prove themselves could create a utility that can look at a given program's binary, analyze it, and determine how long it will take to run, and calculate the cost to run it. Do this within 1% of actual and you'll have a truly innovative new product.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
netopwibby@social.coop ("netop://ウィビ") wrote:

Gorillaz released a hand-drawn animation/music video, giving The Jungle Book vibes. Very nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucRulNQsuYQ

Boosted by jwz:
mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

A very good use of Gorton.

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

I'm home from work early. You know what that means, boys & girls? I get to spend a few hours talking to the unresponsive bots who constitute Bluehost's customer assistance department.
Can I learn to hate AI even more? Yes, I can.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
mothninja@beige.party ("Anna") wrote:

Good morning

jwz wrote:

Let Friction Ring.

Dear Lazyweb, I have this pulley wheel, 50mm inside diameter, 4mm groove. I need a rubber traction ring to go inside it. I cannot find anyone who will sell this to me. The ring must be flat or concave, not round like a typical...
https://jwz.org/b/yk33

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Handdrawn 2D animation! I repeat, handdrawn 2D animation! This is what they took from us. #Gorillaz - The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucRulNQsuYQ

#NP #NowPlaying

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

Not enough chatting about this!

#android #Google

https://keepandroidopen.org/

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Dear @photomatt how do I turn this off? I never asked for this. I do not want this.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
errant@glaceon.social ("Errant :is: :bat:") wrote:

It's weird how "crimes against nature" is understood to mean some sort of perceived sexual deviancy, instead of, say, destroying the biosphere for profit

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Everytime the curtain gets pulled back, and we see how powerful people use the internet against us, it's alway far-right, white supremacist ideals and conspiracies. Or, on the other side, it's pushing to keep neoliberalism alive.

But talk to a corporate Dem, and they believe with all their heart that every leftist is a Russian troll.

Powerful people aren't weaponizing the internet to spread leftist ideals just so we accidentally get universal healthcare.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Jeffrey Epstein was a white supremacist who donated thousands of dollars to white supremacist influencers during the Ferguson protests.

Epstein had multiple conversations expressing concern over race riots/wars with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

Epstein was also influential in resurrecting /pol—a 4chan forum that became of the most influential far-right hubs, spreading conspiracies and white supremacist ideals.

Steve Bannon, crypto, ... what the fuck.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000751725194

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Also, I decided that GIFS are cool again.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic’s red lines in Pentagon fight:

"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in a memo to staff that he will draw the same red lines that sparked a high-stakes fight between rival Anthropic and the Pentagon: no AI for mass surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons." https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/altman-openai-anthropic-pentagon

Attachments:

• gifv: Ron Burgundy at his desk wearing a blue suit. He says "I don't believe you" then lights a cigarette.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

I'm asking because I honestly can't imagine a solution to this particular problem that is both:

• User friendly
• Acceptable to privacy advocates

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart") wrote:

Okay, obviously Persona is terribad. There is a real problem to address here though: how are organizations supposed to perform reasonable identity verification at a distance? Sophisticated impersonation attacks hit customer support lines every day. We need a reasonable defense against this.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

THE DONT FUCKING USE AI AS A WAR STRATEGIST

We've really fallen hard for the "inevitability of AI" propaganda. Journalists, especially.

A trained parrot would also sometimes recommend nuclear war if we allowed it to run our military. It's not news because we simply don't use trained parrots for war.

This is only news because no one is asking these companies and our government why we must use AI for war.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

From The Intercept: Protest #ICE, Go To Jail.

This is why we don't post photos of protesters' faces or other identifying marks. This is why we don't "RSVP" to protests.