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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
inex@pony.social ("Inex Code") wrote:

@soatok making input validation (with many preconditions and requiring specific knowledge) a user's responsibility sounds like a recipe for disaster

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

LOL true Mastodon verification:

YOU MUST VERIFY YOURSELF ON MASTODON BY:

- Posting a picture of a cat in your lap
- Random photos of flowers
- Wax poetic about your favorite episode of Star Trek TNG (or your hate of the series)
- Random, undecipherable technical blabbering about ham radio electronics
- Mention something about your favorite Linux command line
- Say hello to your many LGBTQ followers/friends here, just because you're glad they're here
- Toot a picture of some mushroom you ran into while walking in the forst
- Something something astronomy
- Random gadget/device/bicycle post
- Post a random picture of a tree or window
- Photo of your sewing/mending project!
- Hand drawn art post

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Being Left Behind Enjoyer") wrote:

Is there a slow software movement?

as in a pledge to ship only well-tested and polished software and only do it very occasionally instead of deploying slop multiple times a day that your users will have to ingest like a king's food taster

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

so 3 courts + US Copyright Office say you cannot copyright nor patent anything made primarily with LLMs because automata aren't human.

#SCOTUS won't review these rules because copyright is meant to protect human creations, not software or automata.

this may mean #AWSlop #Microslop are “de-copyrighting” & “de-patenting” their own proprietary software as they let automata “code” 🧐

❝ AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule
https://www.theverge.com/policy/887678/supreme-court-ai-art-copyright

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

arse improves its Ai coverage

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-reporter-ai-quotes

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

every dot/config file in a project root is technical debt #ChangeMyMind

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

every time I'm forced to suffer Teams and Outlook I wonder how anyone lives like this 9 to 5

jwz wrote:

I have simple needs. "Statham was in hiding but then the commandos found him" -- shit man that's all you had to say.

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Oh hey it's almost Easter

Boosted by jwz:
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io wrote:

You have been visited by the ARITHMETIC HAND GRENADE

Share for 2.718 years of good additions 🙏

📸 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta

Boosted by jwz:
erkhyan@yiff.life ("Erkhyan") wrote:

Today in “a shitpost gave me perspective”:

The difference between one million and one billion is roughly one billion.

jwz wrote:

That one XKCD thing, now interactive.

This is so much fun... Craig S. Kaplan: In my online undergraduate P5.js course, students are about to begin the module on motion and physics, including a bit of physics simulation using Matter.js. It suddenly...
https://jwz.org/b/yk4B

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

jwz wrote:

"I say no in the oldest formula - fuck this - and fuck you" https://youtu.be/U7lehP84SY0?si=x74R7zozeoFyl4JH&t=92

Boosted by jwz:
mcc wrote:

Cannot *believe* the shit y'all put up with to use software. I spend half my time trying *not* to use software, and y'all want to use software so bad you'll agree to "binding arbitration" for it

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

My kid asked what I do for work and I said "I write on the internet" and he said "so nothing" and this is the most accurate job description I've ever received

jwz wrote:

Ribley's right humerus has failed, and my osteopath says they are sold out. Anyone got spare parts?

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

Do you know of any movement promoting minimal, utilitarian writing, stripping everything down to what the recipient actually needs?

Asking because I see many people writing a rough draft, asking an AI to polish it, bloat it, and the recipient uses another AI to summarize it. Two humans, zero actual communication.

There's #plainlanguage and #Crocker 's Rules, but nothing focused specifically on cutting the fluff from everyday writing.

Could #smolwrite (or another name) be a thing?

#language #ai #writing #communication

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
csk@mathstodon.xyz ("Craig S. Kaplan") wrote:

In my online undergraduate P5.js course, students are about to begin the module on motion and physics, including a bit of physics simulation using Matter.js. It suddenly occurred to me that I had never seen anybody put together this particular demo before, and I realized it had to be done. Messy source code at https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/full/vJa5RiZWs.

Attachments:

• gifv: A short video displaying a P5.js sketch in operation. The sketch appears to show the classic XKCD comic #2347, "Dependency" (a tower of blocks representing "all modern digital infrastructure", with a single narrow block near the bottom labelled "a project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003"). A mouse pointer appears and clicks on the narrow support block. The blocks come to life, evidently controlled by a rigid-body physics simulation, and the whole tower quickly collapses, just as we would expect it to do.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:

In my 21 1/2 years of military service I don’t recall ever running into anything like this. This is fucked up beyond all recognition.
#FUBAR

“A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was ‘anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,’ according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.” - Jonathan Larsen
https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for?fbclid=IwZnRzaAQTONJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeJG3E3YqM8ukVozZseDDcDk7CWLgH6C2-l29rGcDD7SgEoT5gVduTtcaS4ak%5Faem%5FTITttkhQhu5b%5FC9u3tX4mA

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

The Baochip that Bunnie has been talking about is live on Crowd Supply in the form of a dev board:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/baochip/dabao

The talk at 39c3:

https://social.treehouse.systems/@bunnie/115810106146820260

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
wolfcoder@lagopine.lgbt ("Sayuri 💛⬜️💜🖤‏ ΘΔ") wrote:

@soatok because who checks for buffer lengths in c anyways it just wastes cycles

wat

also pretty sure "user error" is exactly how exploits are born

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

I've been itching to do a thread on the concept of the "social graph" sooo bad.

Specifically the frenzy of APIs and ecosystems launched 2007 onward, when these companies realized that our social graphs were valuable.

But there's so many entry points, I don't know where to start and I kinda get stuck. ADHD brain/ executive dysfunction and all that 🫠🫠

Anyway, I find all this to be fascinating. Hopefully I can organize my thoughts enough to take a shot at it.

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

I did a cover of Fountains of Wayne because Fountains of Wayne are awesome, so there

https://youtu.be/HifAglX2iS4

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
temporary@corteximplant.com (".tmp") wrote:

Found this FOSS Android app to detect smart glasses in use near you, and there is a lot to love here, even just based on the README:
https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj%5Fnearbyglasses

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

Hacker News discusses the merits of slapping recording devices off the faces of Meta glasses wearers:

"Slapping a pair of glasses that are recording you, processing your face, sending biometrics and images back to one of the worst privacy offenders on the planet off of the face of someone who is willingly doing all that without asking your permission is a perfectly appropriate reaction. Put your shoulder into it." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47226198

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
SearingTruth@infosec.exchange wrote:

@fromjason

"Truth is defined by the weakest of us who must suffer through it."
SearingTruth

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

ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/chatgpt-uninstalls-surged-by-295-after-dod-deal/

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

This AI Agent Is Ready to Serve, Mid-Phone Call:

"The audible AI assistant will be baked into the phone call, offering services like live language translation to anyone who chooses to opt in."

Aka, telecommunications companies found a new way to spy on our phone calls, so they can then sell to governments and ad-tech firms. I’m so tired, yall. https://www.wired.com/story/deutsche-telekom-elevenlabs-ai-phone-calls-mwc-2026/

zkat@toot.cat wrote:

doing a bunch of unsafe *mut *mut in Rust right now and feeling very "damn, y'all live like this?" about C/C++ folks.